A good win this evening for Leeds against potential Super League Champions Castleford. I ask the question, would any of you begrudge him success at Leeds?

Castleford as potential SL Champions??? Sarcasm surely



And no, I would not begrudge him success, tried his best down here.
He just wasn't as good as he thought he was, tactically or managerially!!!

He seems to get badmouthed all the time though. I quite liked the bloke and felt he was passionate about Rugby League in London. He just lacked the tools to be able to achieve anything, like our hero RP is at the moment.

Er YES!! But then I'm a spiteful bugger!

Personally I just think he had delusions of adequacy!

I watched Mac coach a number of sessions and I thought he was good at his job. I have also heard him speak on a number of occasions and spoke highly of RL in London, the problems, growth and the future tasks. The problem he had a QRL was lack of quality not only with personal but the whole set up and wider support of a nomad club looking to put down roots. To give you some idea of personal, I watched a couple of training session where he was running through attacking moves and the players kept dropping the ball! Unbelievable given there was no opposition or pressure other then trying out move, Mac was going nuts every time the move broke down. At Leeds he has found himself with a team in transition and can only be a challenge, out with the old and in with new. Good luck to him in his present job.

Couldn't put it any better myself, good post.

I never realised you'd played under him.

Fair call.

I wouldn't begrudge him anything. I felt he did a lot for our club up to about the halfway point of the 2009 season, then it somehow all went pear-shaped. I got the impression he was a typically uncompromising military individual; not the type to run a team by committee - but probably "the sort of bloke you'd want alongside you in the trenches". (Horrible phrase really, but one worth pondering I feel.)

NO

I do agree with the Prince of Denmark where the wheels started falling off in terms of results during 2009. Yes perhaps he was not the best person for the job of coaching a SL first team side.

However, when I was living in TW2 during 2006, I will always remember my friend who had a son playing junior Rugby League for Elmbridge. I went down with my mate to watch his son play and I met Mac at the game as his boy was playing for the same team. I remember at the end of the game both coaches got their teams together and Mac gave them a talk. This followed by him going through some skills training with them which last an hour. Now consider the boys had just played a match and were tired, Mac kept their attention and enthusiasm for another hour afterwards and all the kids went home absolutely pumped!!!

The Monday after the game on the quins website there was a press release where sessions were offered to all the junior coaches for FREE, whereby Mac would personally take the course with the aim to improve coaching at the junior level.

Mac then took a very close interest in the junior leagues around London and even attended many Junior RL games.

I have never bagged Mac, I think what will happen in the next 5 years with all the juniors he oversaw will reap huge benefits for us. In my opinion, better then any silverware. Like Mac or not, he has most definitely left a legacy in junior development.