It’s fair to say 2022 has not gone the way which Leeds Rhinos duly expected it would.
After a big off-season recruitment drive, the West Yorkshire club signed David Fusitu’a, Aidan Sezer, Blake Austin and James Bentley.
But, the new halfback pairing of Sezer and Austin has not yet got going, with Austin even being substituted by former head coach Richard Agar in the latter stages of the Rhinos’ defeat to Salford Red Devils a week ago.
And, for former Sky Sports pundit Eddie Hemmings, the duo have more than disappointed him, too.
“They have been a major disappointment, I know they have had injuries,” Hemmings said on the Last Tackle podcast.
“They look like they’ve only ever exchanged Christmas cards never mind played together.”
That defeat to Salford ultimately cost Agar his job and the task for chief executive Gary Hetherington is to find someone suitable to get them out of the current hole they are in.
Interestingly, the Rhinos take on Castleford Tigers in the Challenge Cup Sixth Round tomorrow in what is being hailed as the tie of the round – a tie which will be Jamie Jones-Buchanan’s first as Leeds interim boss.
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James
March 25, 2022 at 6:39 pm
It’s a sad fact that with all the natural and some questionable advantages that the story of RL is always about the big clubs when they win and even more so when they’re losing. This is the ultimate insult to those clubs who live every year in disadvantaged world.