Leeds Rhinos • Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4

Sorry but that's just the usual stuff from the usual source trying to construct a pseudo intellectual argument about why a team is losing on the field. It takes me back to when Brian Mac used to death stare Caplan in press conferences when he'd talk that sort of ******.

Warrington's problems start and largely end right there, on the field with the players and coaches - their player management, their game management, their recruitment, their young talent pathways, their 'Leeds in the '90s' approach to building a team.

Off field the management strike me as doing everything reasonable to facilitate success. They provide everything that is needed: full salary cap plus marquees, a good owned stadium and the income that flows from it, top class training facilities. They back their coaches with money and don't appear to interfere in who is signed and who is let go.

It should have been no surprise to any Leeds fans that Tony Smith led them to a period of sustained competitiveness and success, even if they came up just short of the prize they really wanted. What they need again is a coach like that who will build up a team and an identity for that team. But to pretend there is some meta problem at Warrington stretching from the back office through to the team which neatly explains all their on field problems? It's a simplistic argument pretending to be a clever one, wrapped up in b0llocks.