please log in to view this image Leeds Utd v Sheffield Utd Friday 27th October [email protected] Streaming links to follow Good Morning Everyone, Its fair to say that Leeds got what they deserved from the Walkers Stadium last night - Nothing, and the reason being..... Leeds against the Blunts.... Lets review last nights performance first. i) Absolutely disheartening how we could not keep the lead for more than a couple of minutes. ii) 1st LC goal. Felix is a wimp. He went in feet first to try to clear the ball rather then be brave and grab it. Am I being too harsh? iii) The Leeds defenders (and Felix) should have regrouped quicker to stop the rebound leading to their first goal. iv) Before Hernandez scored, Grot had a great chance, if we had someone following in the rebound, we could have taken the lead sooner. v) Apart from flashes of Brilliance, does anyone see Hernandez as first team material? vi) I was quite impressed with Borthwick-Jackson. Thoughts? vii) Grot, Cibicki, Klitch. Hit or miss? Back to Friday night. Our Yorkshire foes sit just above us in the league table, just as Bristol City did last weekend, albeit a win for the Whites will bring us within a point of them. So far this season, they have beaten the Wendies, Tractor boys, Wolves, Sunderland, Bolton, Derby, Barnsley, Brentford and Reading. They are not going to be a pushover. Guess who the Blunt's leading scorer is? Yes, its Billy Sharp, 5 goals. I'm not even going to say it. Then Leon Clarke with 4, Donaldson on 2, then there are nine players who all have a goal! Are we going to see 10 changes back to the team that beat Bristol City last week?
Morning all Very tasty game coming up on Friday. Last nights game no great surprise. I forecast LC by 2 I don't always like being right. Let's hope last nights sacrifice was worth it. I don't expect Leeds to win everything unlike some who seem to have a very immature attitude to every Leeds performance. Unfortunately I don't go to games anymore so tend not to criticise what I haven't seen with my own eyes.
Good morning Matt and co from a dull Bardsey Disappointed with 4 players yesterday Grot should be busling and hassling the centre backs instead of being a wimp Cibiccki needs to improve a great deal Felix needs to go in next window and get a proper keeper Alex Macarthy for me at Southampton played for us on loan so knows all about us and what has happened to Jansen he his a shadow of the player of last season I still don't understand why we didn.t go after Stockdale last summer the boy begged us to take him We need a striker Dwight Gale comes to mind if we are to get out of this league we have the money spend it! On the bright side it would appear that BJ decided to get his head into gear for once I would play the 10 from last Sat plus Anita
I get that some aren’t happy about fielding weakened teams in the league cup. I see it a bit differently. Our first 11 is arguably weaker player for player than last year but our squad is stronger. The league cup has given us a chance to blood fringe players, see how they hack it, give them a chance to prove themselves and in many cases get them a chance to taste English football lest they need to be called upon. Yes i’d Like to have won, but we move in and our first 11 have fresh legs for Friday, and we haven’t handed an advantage to the blunts. We’re we as bad as Elland suggested? Sounds like we were well in the game against a Prem side making fewer changes than we did.
Grot is 19 and will get better, especially if he realises that running gets him somewhere quicker, Cibicki looked good but needs more game time (FA Cup) to get to grips with English football, Klitch will be OK when we are in the premiership and not being hassled and ankle tapped, pushed around, less optimistic unless he speeds up
The one thing that struck me about Grot last night was that he doesn't seem to be able to judge the flight of the ball in the air. I know he is still young, but even as a schoolboy I could tell where a ball was going to land. Time and again he was either under the ball or not getting to it, making it easy for his marker to get an easy head in.
i) Very disheartening, but when the team are playing slow build from back again, opposite to the BC game what can we expect. Somebody's shackling Pontus, he's not playing like everyone knows he can, and did. Our defence were pretty much all fingers and thumbs, which can happen when the players don't normally play together. ii) Yes he is and no you aren't. Soon as I saw Felix in goal I knew we'd lose, I think TC did as well. In all honesty, I don't think TC has an eye for a player. iii) Like I said, all fingers and thumbs, no sync or radars between'em. Felix seems to have a thing about letting in 3 goals. iv) Regarding crosses, corners and passing, passing was halfhearted and not so accurate. Corners and crosses more often than not didn't find their man, and at times went into open spaces near the goal; the nearest player to the big spaces didn't think to run into those spaces, Dallas does. v) Answer is yes. He played back in the middle behind the striker, and scored, also made some good through ball passes that Grot didn't seem to want to chase (he's a lazy player) and neither did some others, or they were not in sync with Pablo. This season we need Pablos foresight when it comes to passing, the likes of Saiz, Alioski, and even Lasogga at times are in sync with him. I'm not saying Pablo plays great every game, but his head is ahead of most. vi) I'm not that impressed with BJ, he obviously did a bit better than the last game he played, which makes me wonder why TC picked him. Not overly impressed with Anita either at LB, he lacks pace and players get round him and leave him for dead, when he gets too far forward sometimes he's not in a hurry to get back, he watches the action. In all honesty, they both have a hell of a lot of work to do to get any where near Berardis standard. I'd have Anita over BJ though. v) Grot, lazy player, lacks pace off the mark, very slow and lumbersome. Cibicki's got football in him, not sure the 2nd eleven is best place for him to create an impact, he needs 1st team game time and mentally experienced players around him. Klich, he too has got football in him, and I say the same for Klich that I said for Cibicki. Leicester were picking up way to many balls in midfield, looked to me they had time too. Don't know why TC keeps picking Phillips, but he does, Phillips for me brings no impact, he's another Cook or Mowatt. Who gives a toss about Sharp, our defenders, if playing on form are more than capable of taking care of him. We have Saiz on 8, Roofe on 6, Lasogga and Phillips on 4, Pablo on 3, Dallas on 2 and 5 others on 1 goal apeice, we're sharing the goals around which is beneficial to team. Going to be a tough game this one, but, if we are on form I'll say we win by 2. I wouldn't be surprised if Saiz becomes our top goal scorer in double figures.
We have a major problem at LB, and the Blunts boss will have been at Festa and watched this, their 3rd goal was poor on our account, Anita should of been a lot closer to him on the touchline and discouraged the pass, when the raghead got the ball he had 15/20 yd to run at him which was a non contest, cut inside on his favoured foot and slotted it home, Kraut is very poor in goal and should be sent packing, we need a GK and a LB immediately. Pontus body language does not look right, there second goal he was 2 yd too slow and was left for dead, our back 4 and Keeper situation needs sorting quickly or we shall face defeats. Hernandez is carried for 70% of a game, maybe fitness levels or his age is catching him up, this needs to be looked at by TC and addressed accordingly. Viera, its being stated he has tendonitus? if this is correct why was he brought on last night, this lad is going to be a key player for us this year, look after him ffs. Friday is very important, if we loose there shall be a gap of 7pts!!! and remember it is only October, we need a Burton/Bristol performance with the right team selected, TC is now going under the spotlight IMO and lets see if he is learning, just hope so. MOT
Still at least we know where we are with felix,if we score three or four every game we will never lose
I used to play left back. I may be a few lbs heavier these days but could certainly do a job until January
Rock Pioneer Fats Domino Dies at 89 Rock and roll has lost one of its most iconic architects. Antoine "Fats" Domino passed away in New Orleans on Wednesday (Oct. 25) at the age of 89, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The boogie-woogie piano legend brought some of his home city's signature jazz and R&B flair to the emerging genre in the early 1950s on such genre building block hits as "Ain't That a Shame," "Blueberry Hill" and "I'm Walkin'." He reportedly sold more records than any other '50s-era rockers outside of Elvis and hit Billboard pop and R&B charts from the mid-1950s through the late 1960's, notching more hits than such fellow rock godfathers as Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Little Richard. Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. was born on Feb. 26, 1928, in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward into a large musical family and began playing in local bars at age 14 after dropping out of high school, working factory jobs and hauling ice to make enough to support his musical pursuits. The portly piano-pounder received his iconic stage name in 1946 when he started sitting in with local bass player and band leader Billy Diamond. Arranger Dave Bartholomew discovered the budding star in 1949 and helped him release his first single, "The Fat Man," on Imperial Records -- his recording home until 1963. The track is credited with being the first rock record to sell over one million copies and some consider it to be the first rock single. please log in to view this image READ MORE Chuck Berry Didn't Invent Rock n' Roll, But He Turned It Into an Attitude That Changed the World By 1955, Domino released the first in a string of gold and multi-platinum singles, "Ain't It a Shame," (later covered by Pat Boone as "Ain't That A Shame," a No. 1 hit on the pop charts, while Domino's peaked at No. 10) followed the next year by one of Domino's biggest hits, a cover of the 1940s Glenn Miller Orchestra track "Blueberry Hill," at No. 2 on the pop charts his highest charting hit. The hits kept coming, with such songs as "If You I Love," "Valley of Tears," "The Big Beat," "Whole Lotta Loving," "I'm Ready" and "Walking to New Orleans," which all highlighted Domino's signature Dixieland-inspired rhythmic piano playing. Paving the way for future stars such as Elvis, Domino became a teen icon thanks to his appearance in a pair of youth-focused films, 1956's music comedy Shake, Rattle & Roll and that same year's Jayne Mansfield comedy The Girl Can't Help It. Though Domino was hugely popular and appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1957, Biography notes that he and his band were still denied lodging and forced to use segregated facilities while touring in the 1950s. The singer continued to crank out popular songs into the late 1950s such as "Whole Lotta Loving," "I'm Ready" and "I Want To Walk You Home," leaving Imperial in 1963 after scoring 37 top 40 hits for the label. His influence reverberated throughout the next decade as British Invasion acts including the Beatles and Rolling Stones employed some of his building blocks to make rock a global phenomenon. One of Domino's last charting singles was a 1968 cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna," a track that was notably influenced by his percussion piano playing. After leaving Imperial, Domino recorded albums for labels including Mercury, Warner Bros., Atlantic and Broadmoor, releasing his final major-label album, Christmas is a Speical Day, in 1993. The singer toured the world into the early 1990s, but mostly stayed in New Orleans with his eight children and wife after a health scare took him off the road in 1991. His legendarily stately home was destroyed in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina when floodwaters swamped the Lower Ninth Ward, wiping out most of his possession and forcing a helicopter evacuation by the Coast Guard. He was one of the initial inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 alongside such fellow icons as Elvis, James Brown, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. He received the National Medal of Arts from former Pres. Bill Clinton in 1998 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.
