You were s*** today and won with a long distance shot. You got hammered 5-0 in the week. You are not promotion quality no matter how much you try to kid yourselves.
Schmeichel on the bench. Wellens is **** compared to Clayton and Howson. As for Nugent, not going to take a striker from a team who can't hit a cows arse with a banjo. As for us being ****? We weren't at our best today, but still better than you... Kidding ourselves about promotion quality? Pot... kettle... black.
Nugent - used to be pretty good but has lost his way. Nowhere near as good as Keogh, Beckford or McCormack. Wellens - Clayton is class and easily gets ahead of wellens and howson also shows fantastic composure and breaks down teams well. Not mentioning the off the ball work both of them do. I was considering putting him on the bench ahead of Johnson tbh but picked johnson as he provides more for the team Kasper - Lonergan has a far better alround game than kasper. Absolute quality goalkeeper and we have missed him so much since his injury. He is better than kasper in almost all areas of his game including shot stopping. However he is good enough to get on the bench like he woulda been if he had stayed at leeds like he was told he was. So is it laughable or is it accurate. I would say quite accurate.
Nugent pisses over Beckford. Wellens is one of the best midfield players I have seen at this level. And you KNOW that Kasper is better than Lonergan! You weren't better than us, we were equally poor. And I certainly agree that at the moment we're nowhere near promotion quality. But it's a long season and things can change. And we have the backing to change. At the end of the day, you should be pleased with your team. They're an average lot overachieving. We have a quality squad that is MASSIVELY underachieving. I'm not proud of them at the moment but there's plenty of time for improvement.
Schmeichel is not better than Lonergan, for the 1000th time. Keep in mind you're commenting on a keeper you've probably NEVER SEEN PLAY, and comparing him to another keeper who you've seen less of than us. One of these days you'll actually consider that instead of spouting off bullshit. We're a good squad that is achieveing about in the right place - pushing for a playoff spot. You have individual players who are quality enough to get a team into the playoffs, but you're lacking in so many areas and the position balance is so bad that you actually end up with an average squad that is performing at the level that you should really expect. We have some of the best attacking players in the league, or do you keep forgetting that? You've got a Jermaine Beckford who can't be assed and **** all else. It's laughable that you still think Schmeichel is the best thing since sliced bread... I saw him today and he looked exactly as average as he always was at Leeds. Still the same frustrated manchild as well.
You lost your credibility (if you had any - I don't think you had) when you tried to argue the toss about 2 goalkeepers, one of which you've never seen play.
Nugent does not piss all over beckford. Beckford has not got into the rhythm of your woeful team yet and nugent's shooting is poor to say the least. Lonergan is probably the best keeper i have seen at this level and is one of the best things grayson has ever done. He is far better than kasper, he really is, hes bloody got a massive throw on him as well. Wellens isnt as good as either howson or clayton, probably edging below johnson. He would get in the squad if that makes you feel better.
Joking aside, do you really believe what you're saying or are you being a WUM? Just wondering because I've seen you use the word deluded about a lot of other people.
He's being genuinely serious. We have some of the best players in the league and are let down in other areas by issues similar to some of your own. Complacency, lack of consistency, lack of desire at times, unwillingness to go after lost causes and fight for absolutely everything. Lonergan, Clayton and Snodgrass all come under the classification of some of the best players in the league, easily. Snodgrass was at his worst today and was still pretty good. At his best he's untouchable. Clayton runs midfields, battles for everything, has a brilliant tackle, brilliant passing ability and vision and a top quality finish as well. Howson is a similar player to Clayton but has lost some of his flair recently, he can lack focus and determination on occasion too. Lonergan is without a doubt one of the best, most composed goalkeepers I've ever seen. And he's agile to boot - amazing shot stopper, towers above forwards with his 6ft 4 stature and ridiculously long arms, and has a habit of plucking the ball out of the air. Schmeichel often flaps at crosses if he's at all hindred, and can be prone to falling over in the box at times. And just for the record, all this "he's been great for us" stuff about Schmeichel - he looked like the exact same player he was for us today. Frustrated easily and in being danger of being caught out. If your defense hadn't been so ****ing unbreakable he'd have been caught out a lot - he nearly had a clanger coming out to clear the ball, miskicking it and if it had fallen more kindly for Keogh we might have had a cheeky lob.
I am not WUMing Lesta Gangsta, i am being serious. That is the team i would choose if our clubs were combined. If McCormack was at his best i would probably pick him as well. I have been saying for ages, the players Leicester have bought have not been worth there price tag.
Of course, the judging a team's promotion credentials using the one time the played your team trick. I don't think there's a single Leeds fan who would strongly disagree with me saying that we've deserved to pick up more points this season than we actually have, at points our luck has been horrendous. We were both average yesterday yet, despite all the money you've spent, it was us who had the extra quality to win. Blackpool was a blip and nothing more, I'd go as far to say it was a freak result; you never expect your GK to arse up so badly.
At the start of the season I didn't expect Leeds to get promoted, we did not invest any money, we have Keough, Pugh and O'Dea on loan, we have a new keeper and Clayton and Lees playing who were out on loan the previous season. We had lengthy injuries to our two top scorers, Somma and Becchio, I expected little. Leicester on the other hand have spent big, surely much more should be expected of them? I also don't buy into this not gelling garbage, Leeds started the season with only 4 of the team that were regulars the previous season, McCormack making a 5th who was a back up striker the previous and was only playing because of injuries to Somma and Becchio. The Blackpool game was awful, but to bounce back away from home and restrict a big spending team to look average at best was pretty good. If you have seen the first three Blackpool goals and the error made by the RESERVE Keeper that got Lees sent off then you will know it was the keeper that cost us the scoreline. YES I believe we would have still got beat but not by five. I read another comment that a Leicester fan made saying Leeds played with 8 defensive players and two strikers, terrible sour grapes, we have kept two clean sheets before this all season. I am well chuffed with where Leeds are in terms of league position and in performance this season, we have spent nothing and we are holding our own, the team are exceeding my expectations, if I were a Leicester fan I would be gutted at what an expensive bunch of players were churning out.
You can tell Schmeichel and his defence don't get on (as usual). All the predictable angry gesticulations, red-faced abuse and poor communication were on display yesterday. Bamba had a great game as well. Must have been pretty pissed off with his ingrate of a goalkeeper spewing vitriol at him for 90 minutes.
There was no difference between the sides yesterday. The only thing that separated the sides was one quality strike from Clayton.
The back 5 get on really well. If Bamba didnt like what he heard from Schmeichel he would of told him to **** off The only problem we had with players fighting was Bamba having a go at Beckford at West Ham Bamba was forever having a go at Yakubu last season for being a lazy bastard
Yeah if i was the yak id' have told bamba to fk rayte off! the player has nearly 100 goals in the best league in the world and nearly 30 international goals for nigeria! Being lazy is what he's good at! But becks - Well.... yeah deserves it
He had a go at the Yak for not tracking his man when defending a corner. Yak let Hoolahan get away from him and score a free header. We gave him the smallest bloke to mark and he was too lazy to stop him
