If nothing is done, the likely outcome for this season will be 1 mid table finish at best 2 Snoddy, McCormack and whyte bye bye 3 younger fans turning their backs on Leeds maybe forever Now is the time for action. Our season is over now so please, please boycott all home games, force bates the bastard out. An empty Elland road won't affect the team cos they're crap at home anyway. We've got three months to pile on the pressure. Bates decided to take us on cos he thinks he's the boss. Let's now show him who the real owners of Leeds united are, it's us
Yea and then this way we won't be able to afford to keep snoddy, mccormack and white even if we wanted to. Good thinking
What's more important, the long-term future of our club or three players who won't get us promoted anyway?
If Elland road was full for rest of season bates won't keep them anyway. Same as Becks, max Delph Johnson Kilkenny. Wake up fool or at least stop posting nonsense
How you haven't seen through bates lies yet is absolutely astonishing. Every time promises are made and broken yet you still believe he's the man to run the club? Seriously?
Hull City fan in peace. Why don't you organise a scheme where season ticket holders share their passes with fans who pay on the gate, so fans miss alternate games and when a non-season ticket holder uses another fan's pass he pays him for the game. That way you will have quite a few supporters in the stadium but none of the matchday cash will go to Bates. Just a daft idea really but you never know.
Well to me your the fool, is your opinion right just because its yours? You need to realise the actual role of someone's job before you criticise it. I dont think he is the perfect chairman to run the club but the fact is this is ****ing ridiculous now and has gone too far. I now genuinely believe the fans are holding the club back just as much as bates if not more. And before you criticise me for that comment just think, all this ****ing protesting to remove the 'cancer' from our club. It takes money out of the club, it brings the whole mood of the club down, it makes players not want to play for leeds and existing players think twice about staying. You all think that bates is causing the problem so you go on this mission to try to remove him and forget what the **** your fighting for and end up destroying it. What pisses me off more is that I havn't been on here for a couple of days and I come on and every ****ing thread is about the exact same thing, even threads that are about other things turn into an anti-bates thread. ****ing change the tune will ya
How can you still not be on board with it? What kind of chairman takes control of a club, makes all the decisions no matter how ****ty they are and then makes himself accountable for nothing? He can't accept criticism no matter how trivial it is. He is incapable of comprehending that he might be wrong. No one who is physically incapable of admitting fault should be in charge of anything. He is a vain, greedy bastard with a messiah complex that is going to do nothing to help this club. The fact we are in a worse position than we were when he took over should be proof enough. What more proof do you need that he's not taking the club forward and never has been?
So every tread ends up as an anti Bates one. If someone can point out an alternative topic to write about, I gladly will. Maybe Josh can point out the positives at the moment. The only one I can see is that Bates isn't a young man thankfully. Outside of that, the only transfers worth talking about are outgoing, poor attendances, no manager and a poor team. So what the hell is there to write about?
The only positive I can think of is that the sale of Jonny Howson was a good bit of business for the club, very profitable.
Please describe to me how leeds united football club is worse now than it was when he took over. We were in massive debt from the ridsdale era. I'll give you its on a par in the football league but as a club its in a far better position. Don't give me the crap about not having a manager either because it was the right decision. You can't just say every decision he makes is wrong regardless of what it is. If he keeps grayson, its the wrong decision he should sack him, if he does sack grayson its the worse decision ever, we are in a far worse position. Everything is negative, just stop whinging and try to see it how it is. Im not happy about a lot of things but then I also believe fans are making this whole scenario far more suffering than what it needs to be. Delph - Wanted to go Beckford - Wanted Prem football Kilkenny - Wanted too much money and is **** Johnson - Wanted more money than he is worth Gradel - Wanted to go Howson - Wanted prem football and was not willing to sign a contract unless leeds got it How you can blame Bates for any of that is beyond me, maybe the Johnson situation but all the others no. It was Grayson's decision to sell Howson anyway. Attendances hugely down for the whole season, do you think that affects home performance. Try and tell me it doesn't because really at that point you are lying. And why are they down, because people think that it hurts bates, it hurts the club and the team more. Protests continually going on during games and often scheduled before games and even a march, that definitely makes players want to stay at leeds united and even more so bring players in. It makes the whole club look really attractive to outside investors too, keep it up And you tell me to look at long term future and say goodbye to our best assets for the 'long term future'. Maybe you should look at yourselves and look at the long term future of the club, the money that is being spent on the club and not the team, I mean admittedly I'd much prefer to build the team and get to the prem and then go through these steps but either way they are happening and the club needs to be built but all this is being set back years because fans think that by not going to games they are helping the club when in actual fact they are depriving the club of money which means it takes longer Just stop bringing down the whole mood of the club and actually support the team. And then I get ****ing abuse because I actually try to support the team and not get on the whole anti-bates ****
Josh, players leave because our club won't pay them. Quality players don't come in because we don't pay transfer fees. Bates knows what he's doing, and as it stands it looks as if he is only doing things that benefit him. I am now firmly against him when a couple of months ago I may actually have defended him. Sorry mate, unless he hires a quality manager now and backs him financially he is going to take flak because the way he is behaving just doesn't make sense. Imagine what would happen if the CEO of Tesco called his customers morons because they complained? Bates is indefensible right now, and he is starting to tear our club apart, knowingly or not. His arrogance seems to prevent him from thinking clearly, he has surrounded himself with nodding dogs (Harvey, Lorimer, Fry) and he makes decisions unilaterally. This man will bring Leeds United to its knees eventually, and its time to protest and get him out. No money into the club and he will chuck it in. Where are all the millions going to each season? Why are we not seriously going after promotion? Where is the intent to make this club a top five challenger in the Prem? Bates has never shown us a five year plan with a clearly defined goal that he wants to achieve. For me something is not quite right.
