http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...-bar-at-walsall-fc-is-trashed-at-leeds-game/? Pre-season "FRIENDLY"
Morning all I was wondering if you had read my take on the rush to get promotion with my take on what the future holds for all the clubs no doubt it will cause some of you to quote me at the end of the season but its what I feel ' Was thinking having recalled Trautman playing 56 years ago if I should write about other things that have happened to me and what I have seen in my 62 years of supporting not only Leeds but other matches
It's not the defeat that annoys me, it's how the team played that's a worry. I've no problems losing so long as the performance and effort is there.
Exactly and was a trend in many of our matches last season when Colin couldn't put his finger on why we seemed to lack effort or energy. Has anyone considered the possibility most of our lads may be ****e
Bloody hell thats a bit of radical thinking, does anyone think there may be something in it? For a while I have been trying hard not to point out how the trend of "getting beat in the last half hour of the game" (copyright N Warnock 2012-13) seems to continue in Slovenia. In that sense, having Walsall score their winner so early was almost a plus .
To be fair we defended as if our lives depended on it in that last half an hour against Walsall's reserves, trialists and 16 year olds to keep the score at 1-0, so fair play to our lads. They did us proud
Yeah, but like I said in another thread, the energy was there against Everton and a few other premiership teams in the cup games. It just seemed to go missing in the more mundane league games. That's an 'I couldn't give a fcuk' attitude in my book. So the performance against Walsall is what I expected from the usual suspects. A miracle is not going to happen and McD just needs to shift what he can when the opportunity presents itself and slowly build his own team.
If its that bad (and I only say if, I know we area bit in "react to a result" mode here) I would expect BM to do more than "slowly build". There's always young keen players ready to replace any older ones who can't be arsed. However, I suspect its partly that when you have an unbalanced team, it all starts to get difficult, then all but the bravest players start to wilt. I was watching some videos of the first great Leeds team (I needed to remind myslef we did have great teams in the past) and what I noticed was how every player on the ball always seemed to have 10 options to pass to, as well as going on a run themselves. Notably, those options included a winger or advanced FB on the wing, something we are struggling with.
Players who probably can't be arsed and are happy to go through the motions whilst picking up their nice, healthy pay cheque: Kenny, Brown, Norris, Tonge, Drury, Diouf Players who aren't good enough: Peltier, Pearce, Hall, White, Austin Eleven players who offer nothing whatsoever to the team, and yet probably earn £100,000 per month between them, and we're stuck with them. McDermott's certainly got his work cut out
Diouf was one of the few bright sparks last year, think you're being harsh on him. And Drury barely played because Warnock was insistent on playing Peltier at LB...so I think that's a harsh assumption on his part too. Peltier is good enough, just not as a LB, and Austin might improve with a bit of a break. Otherwise, depressing as it is, I have to agree...
