Sadly we seem to have the latter!

I think the trouble McDermott finds himself with is that when coaches appear to be head to head with players, public opinion can be a bit dependent on the parties' credibility. If we were flying and the world was singing the coach'e praises, then you can do more or less whatever you want. People would be more likely to say "hmm, seems a strange thing to do, but I guess he knows what he's doing" with a coach who was delivering the goods and winning things.



Unfortunately, there is a fairly large proportion of the population of Leeds fans who have yet to be convinced that the current coach knows what he's doing. Thus this starts to look like the latest in a long line of questionable decisions....

Luke Burgess is straight in to make his NRL debut this weekend. On the bench apparently. What does that say about Leeds and McDermott?

Deluded? Also the same about quite a few of the posters on here also who questioned whether he was good enough. He was clearly one of our two best props for the last couple of seasons.

As to what it might say, that depends on what the A-G-E-N-D-A is.



It might say something about Leeds and McDermott.



It might say something about 'Luca Brasi' - [i'Either your brains or your signature will be on the contract, you've got 3 days!'[/i.



It might say something about SL being way ahead of the NRL when a player of Luke Burgess's ability can walk straight into a first grade spot down under.



It might say something about Souths current lack of manpower available in their pack due to the absences of Roy Asotasi, Sam Burgess, Dave Taylor, Scott Geddes, Luke Stuart and Fetuli Talanoa.





Good luck to Burgess this weekend. At least he won't be facing Paul Gallen who is on Origin duties.

How do you lot think Cross will go in our team then??

The same as Coley. He is that type of player. Nothing great, but does the work.

Agree with Gotcha.

X2

Be surprised if he got in it, unless you've other props on the treatment table.

Think cross will go well under a decent coach and will play like we know he is capable of, you dont play origin if your crap,

That's a blow. I was still hoping I might get a call-up.