Gary Hetherington should probably skip the flight to Australia and do his interviews on Zoom because on this evidence, Leeds Rhinos don't have 24 hours to waste in their search for a new head coach.
The scary thing is that there was a begrudging acceptance of a 28-0 score line among some supporters because they feared it would have been much worse. Truthfully, it could have been had Saints not become uncharacteristically error-prone and ill-disciplined. They gifted Leeds set after set in their half and yet the Rhinos rarely, if at all, looked like scoring.
The Rhinos now have one win from eight matches and their season is hanging by a thread. The season is only a quarter of the way through but even now, it's going to take a pretty drastic upturn in results for Leeds to sort this mess out. To sort the score lines out they need an enormous change in the level of their performances that simply will not happen overnight.
