Thanks Elland. I'm posting from a mountain hut at 3000m in Austria with a snow storm raging outside and virtually zero visibility. Might take me a while to get down from here but hopefully there will be a bar in the village with Eurosport.
Hey'up Ell, you got any telly links lined up yet... So basically the whole team has weak positions all round. I reckon Berardi can still be our right back for another season, maybe 2. Thing is, if Berardi is to be replaced, we need to replace him with someone who's better than him, and as committed as him, and that's a hard find. Leeds fans are arguably the best in world, but they can also be the worst at times. A player can play 4 or 5 good games, then on 6th game have a bad one, and some fans start calling for him to be dropped, unfair in my opinion. Right now it's happening to De Bock, when he first arrived fans were saying he's the real deal, one bad game and he's useless, even Heckythump has turned against him. We don't need coaches turning against players for personal reasons, we saw it with TC and Klich, we saw it with Redders with Adryan and Antenucci, yet keep playing players like Phillips, O'Kane and Grot. We keep finding'em, and they're not doing sod all for team or our football performances. The question that needs to be asked is, since we were sitting at top of Championship, then began to slide backwards, why is it the players don't seem invigorated, confident, enthused, excited or play with pride under certain coaches, like TC and Heckythump?........there's got to be a common denominator. We can continue to blame the players, hardly does their confidence any good; if we got rid of the players, we're still stuck with the same coach who couldn't breath confidence, pride and enthusiasm into them..........so how's he going to do it to other incoming players?
Leeds vs bolton matchday thread, All the talk is about the wall, I thought Bucks said we have to be on topic? Just saying
I notice a lot on here are saying we have nothing to play for. Wrong, we need a good performance to give the whole setup credibility and to show we have at least a bit of fight in the team. No problem with blooding young players but only for positive reasons not just giving players a run out. Anything less than a clear win by 2 will show how rubbish we have become.
good afternoon from central Wakefield.i'm just in from work and hoping for a link.happy easter to all out there and let's see what team heckythump puts out today.it is not raining or snowing and no wind.so should be ideal conditions to play hoofball.
Looks like a straight 442 with Dallas starting at left back - Pearce unlucky to be relegated to the bench imo
Pilot recalls Leeds United emergency landing please log in to view this image Image copyrightPA Image captionCaptain John Hackett said: "Our first thoughts were it was a bomb" The pilot of a plane carrying a top-flight football team has recalled how his emergency landing saved his passengers. Captain John Hackett prevented disaster in 1998, landing his plane safely at Stansted Airport after an engine exploded with Leeds United on board. He defied protocol and brought the aircraft down at the end of the runway immediately after taking off. Mr Hackett said: "Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind." More stories from Yorkshire The Leeds team was flying home at about 23:30 BST on 30 March 1998, after losing 3-0 to West Ham United in the Premiership. Mr Hackett, now 81, said: "The whole night sky lit up. Our first thoughts were it was a bomb." He said he made an "instant decision" to land the HS748 turbo-prop back on the runway. Bryn Law, who was aboard after commentating on the match for the BBC, remembered: "The engine was fully ablaze. There was a major problem. "We hit the ground and bounced and just caught the edge of the runway." please log in to view this image Image please log in to view this image Image cDavid O'Leary, then Leeds assistant manager, said at the time: "We're just glad to be out alive" The Emerald Airlines plane came to a stop "within feet" of the M11 motorway, he said. The commentator, who was sitting next to former Leeds United player Norman Hunter, said: "We both got out of the front door and legged it." As flames spread, all 40 passengers including 18 Leeds players and four crew, evacuated. Only two people were slightly injured. Mr Law said once a headcount had been carried out "we realised everybody had got off it." In 2001 an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found "the commander's decision to land the aircraft immediately on the runway remaining was sensible in the circumstances". Mr Hackett retired three years after the landing at Stansted. He said it had been "outside the normal training we do for emergencies" and in three similar previous incidents "everybody perished".
yeah agree about the young fella he did ok game we saw.Ekuban to play a blinder and we destroy Bowton.
