Good Morning Everyone Disciplinary staff at the FA have written to Leeds following reports that Leeds fans were throwing coins at Wigan players during the second half. The Whites are already under investigation for the same offence in late March when Leeds fans in the South Stand were throwing coins at the Millwall players! Have you seen this happen before at ER? If you did, would you say or do something? Is it acceptable? Who remembers Lasogga? The big German was on loan at ER scoring 10 goals in 33 appearances. Leeds shied away from signing him due to his £50,000 wages, the same as Casilla and Harrison. This season (for Hamburg) the 27yo has scored 19 goals in 27 appearances. Bearing in mind Leeds have created more chances than any other Championship club, who would you rather have as a no 9? Roofe Bamford Lasogga Leeds trio Liam Cooper, Pablo Hernandez and Pontus Jansson have all been named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year. Let us hope that they will all be with us next season! Should we not go up next season, which players (if any) would you expect to lose in the Summer?
Morning all.. No coin throwing is not acceptable but the FA should start disciplining opposition players celebrating goals in front of the opposition fans, not making excuses though, it really is giving ammunition to the FA and I don’t condone it. Lasogga wouldn’t work in a Bielsa team, our first half a dozen games I had to keep pinching myself we were that good, Roofe was in those games so him easily out the three. Next season, should Bielsa remain I can see him cashing in on Phillips and bringing in three players, the rest I can see remaining here. I personally feel we need to move Bamford on. We’ve loads out on loan, it’s time for those loan players to step up to the first team or be moved on. The Saiz situation needs sorting, why we never played a waiting game with him and got a £6m fee for him is still a mystery.
Morning all Lassoga: Been saying it since last season that we should have kept him. The reasons are as follows; Lassoga cannot play as a lone striker yet 2 managers last season shoved him up alone. Every goal except 2 were scored from his own skills, which means he got fk all service. Feed him and he scores for fun and lastly he stayed and played rather than go home for his kids birth and compare that to Saiz. His frame means defenders cannot shove him off the ball and compare to Bamford who looks frail I think Lassoga scores when Bamford is on his arse. I think he can play Bielsaball and when you look at strikers Bielsa has had and tell me the difference in the way Crespo, Llorente' and Batistuta play you will see they seem not to be that mobile and big units.... Our loan players should mean a huge clear out this Summer I'm afraid. You look at them listed in the loan watch sticky above and think you can see no way back for Saiz, Grot, LDB and Anita. Wilks would be competing with Clarke, Dalby, Edmondson, Kun, Bamford, Roofe. Will he bring back Pearce or move him on? Coyle needs moving on as will be 24 and not broken through. Machuca will be gone but Oriol Rey is a baller, Kitching, O'Connor and Nessy will be competing with Pontus, Cooper, Berardi, Halme, Struijk and Diaz so although O'Connor is wanted by Bradford he would be in L2 next season, Nessy not playing every game for hearts? Kitching now not playing every game for Harrogate so for me gone. anotyher 10 players out on loan so mass clear out coming
Some games a Lassoga type would have been useful this season but he never looked as quick as he needed to be to do all the other things Bielsa needs a forward to do.
Coin throwing The South Stand were booed by the Kop at the Wigan game for throwing objects, some of those idiots need banning. No I wouldn't approach them as I've witnessed too many Leeds on Leeds incidents during heated moments Lasogga No we need a mobile, powerful, prolific No.9 in our ranks, if we had one we'd have gone up as champions Players leaving our club There's already a bid on the table for Phillips so if we fail to go up Kalvin will go Lower prem clubs could be looking at Pontus & Cooper Don't be surprised if a premiership or a ambitious championship club offers Pablo a nice contract too good to refuse so we could easily lose our best player Players I wouldn't bat an eyelid if they left Leeds. Many championship players I've seen this season have more quality than these seven Berardi Forshaw Alioski Douglas Dallas Bamford Roofe Sadly I do think all seven will remain at Leeds next season Harrison & Brown are not our players so hopefully we'll shut the ER doors on these two
Berardi Forshaw Alioski Douglas Dallas Bamford Roofe There are 7 there so do you think Roofe should stay ?
No Eric, it was Douglas, one of our most disappointing signings when expectations were so high after his fine season at Wolves
Yes I don't think Douglas had the heart for another promotion push. How do you think the prospect of being kept or sold as not good enough for a premiership team potentially impacts on players as the season comes to a close?
Morning all. Not been contributing much and wont be. Was pointed out to me in recent days that my Leeds obsession was having a detrimental effect on other areas of my normal day life. After thinking about it and reading some tweets from others feeling similar, Im going to take a step back on all forums, social media etc as couldnt be bothered about who comes or goes anymore, never makes any difference. Its summer and time to take the golf clubs out of retirement. Anyway, Ill still pop in here daily to stay in contact. Itll all work out some day
Coin throwing is totally unacceptable, as Chris Brunt of West Brom found out when hit just below the eye by one of their own fans, could have lost his eye if it was 1 inch higher, idiotic behaviour, anyone caught should be banned for life. Roofe out the 3 for me, nothing wrong with the other 2 but neither really suit our style, our form and scoring suffered with the Roofe injury. I'm pretty sure Cooper and Pablo will be here next season regardless of what division we're in. Jansson is a different one, no evidence but just have a feeling Bielsa doesn't want/rate him, I expect he'll be gone either way. If we do go up we'd need at least 6 signings, whether we use the extra finance from the PL or player sales to finance them is the question . We need CB LB DM AM LW CF Actuary if we don't go up, we will still need them. Again regardless of what division we're in, I don't expect any of the players out on loan to feature in the first team, so a mass exodus there. Bring in a few quid and save a good amount of wages.
Eire, I feel your pain and agree with your comments apart from golf! Football is a way of life and not necessarily good for mental health at times particularly in light of the way we have imploded. Conversely if we win our next two games and Sheffield by some sort of miracle stuff it up we will all be in seventh heaven. Such fine lines between ecstasy and agony.
Feeling everyones pain myself simply because in the words of Phil Haye we all knew this was a fantastic season with some fantastic football and a coach/manager who is at the top of his game. We just never believed we would not go up automatically. Yes we knew we were having best season since 99/00 and play off were a possibility, but never gave them a thought. The start of the season we would have snapped someones hand off for a top 6 position, but this now feels flat and we will come 3rd with a team that is top 10 because we haven't added the winger, the striker and the No10 we desperately needed
That's a shame Eire, your opinions matter & your slant on Leeds is very similar to mine Never usually let defeats get to me but I was really down last weekend. Tbh it's not the end of the world & it's pointless allowing LUFC dictate ones happiness. Anyway I have my holidays, outdoor bowls, Yorkshire Cricket & the summer to look forward to so sod Leeds United for three months
Yep me to,i can never remember being so deflated in a season,even when we were doing cr** in seasons past,& even last year,i guess it's because i didn't expect to much so was never realy let down,however this season was different,got the manager i wanted,players played as if they were barcelona at times,then looked like auto's for a very long time,so expectations & excitement wen't through the roof,then nothing, crappy performances against weak teams,then before we knew it it's dream over,sure their is still the play offs,but i don't if i'm honest hold out any hope at all for them.Christ i need to pick myself up because i know exactly how Eire feels.
It's ok the club have sent a massage back to the FA our fans weren't throwing at the Wigan player,we were giving the club donations to buy someone who can score. or it was a Doctor who threw the money,and it worked,Wigan player was soon up and running like there had never been anything wrong.
Had a message from Leeds United on my answer phone this morning promoting LUFC's centenary year. Surely they should have concentrated their efforts on promotion to the premiership rather than fleecing us loyal fans for more money out of our bank accounts please log in to view this image Message deleted please log in to view this image
That's one of the problems,if they had put the effort into getting to the prem,before planing what they are doing when we get there.
