Leeds Banter Archive August 16 2012

 

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16 Aug 2012 22:09:08
Piquonne? Piquonne?..I thought this must be a joke at first.surely it is.here we are dreaming of beckford,Maynard ,cm smith and fuller.sorry Neil but this one is your first wrong signing for me,if true.
I'm still praying for top winger and striker before wolves,Blackpool and Blackburn...prayers not gonna be answered..shrew leeds

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Didnt think much of him signing Grey either to be honest

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Gray i can accept as squad player at best.but we have been waititng and promised the icing of a quality striker.where is he?,,cert not here

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16 Aug 2012 21:49:41
Neil Warnock was on the radio earlier and said ' we'll be having this conversation around christmas, then around march, and by the end of the season it might be sorted' he was talking about the takeover obviously. And obviously he was being sarcastic. Hope bates hears this and wakes up from la la land and puts pen to paper.

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16 Aug 2012 21:47:10
Can't wait to see what that pee'narse Hammersfan 'the games gone crazy' guy has to say about the Frederic Piquionne signing.

TeejLUFC

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I can wait

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Hes prob laughing evenmore at us.this has to be a sick joke

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He carn't laugh when there odds on to go down and we are odds on to go up. We are the bigger club. Just because he struggled to get a game at west ham, doesn't mean he carn't do a job for us. Age is sometimes not a factor. Look at Mr Philips, still goin strong and you wouldn't be crying on that signing. So get a grip you lot and lets judge him on the pitch.
mot4life

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16 Aug 2012 21:03:17
Ed.. Been all over SSN on line i.e. championship news and transfer pages plus OS and I cannot find any news about this Freddie Piquionne. Can you confirm that we have actually signed a player who has scored 22 goals in 106 appearences. Wiki is showing that he is a Leeds player but that doesn't mean anything.
docsmith {Ed013's Note - On the tv apparently}

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It was on SSN at seven pal

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Yep just seen it on Ssn. Don't no how I feel. Some marquee player?

Sy BsE Leeds

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Nothing on Hammers site either,hope its not true,he is not the icing on the cake signing we were hoping for.

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We carn't blame Warnock for no iceing on the cake. When the club doesn't know if its coming or goin. Until some of these players move on, that are sat on the transfer list. They will be no iceing. Pugh signed for 500, bought by Grayson and what a waste of money that was. Let see how fast people are wanting him.
Warnock is trying his best with what he's got and trying to put a few mixstures togeather, to make some iceing on the cheap.
Footballs a funny game and these could end up being just the tonic at a new club.
SGT WARNOCKS BARMY ARMY!!
mot4life

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16 Aug 2012 20:29:13
Wy sign piquionne he's crap scored 19 in 94 games dnt understand this signin we've now got three target men at the club so wy waste money on this signing

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He can play wing aswell, that might be his thinking.
mot4life

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16 Aug 2012 20:18:07
Freddie piquionne is definitely icing d cake, now for d cherry om top plz, mot

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16 Aug 2012 20:16:27
Alright Ed, any league codes for the official championship fantasy footy - cheers! AB {Ed013's Note - There is one at top of rumours page, if it has gone have a look through my tweets @LeedsEditors}

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16 Aug 2012 20:11:22
We've signed freddie piquionne. Source BRAMLEY whites. Were rid of ken bates were rid of ken bates no more chelsea bxxxxxds at Leeds were rid of ken bates

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16 Aug 2012 20:00:27
Piquionne has signed! dark horse in this signing. I feel he has a point to prove still and could well be an instrumental signing! thoughts guys?

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I'm same as you mate. I think Warnock will give this lad a new leese of life. People are forgetting which manager we've got.
mot4life

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16 Aug 2012 19:54:53
im going to wolves game on sat after a long absense can you tell me if programmes are still sixpence {Ed013's Note - Haha you need to re-mortgage your house to get one mate}

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Mate gone up loads now a shilling been a while since last at ER eh ? Lol
Wingy mk

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16 Aug 2012 19:42:15
Freddie piquinose, on the fence about him. SSN say deal agreed

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16 Aug 2012 19:29:23
'Sky sources: Leeds agreed deal to sign Frederic Piquionne.'
Hopefully we can sign buzsacky too. Possible automatic team then. On on on!
Jezza92

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16 Aug 2012 19:19:38
come on here regular. In fact i love coming on here to here the rumours circulating. It was on here many moons ago that i first heard about the take over and when i told lads at work they all slated me only for them to be proven wrong. Am getting fed up that nothing seems to happen at Leeds and that the rumours on here don't seems to come ture well most of them. I also getting annoyed at lust i think they do more damage. Am not slaughtering the website because i do enjoy coming on here just getting fed up

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16 Aug 2012 17:07:06
Nice to see that takeover Thursday has happened
JTTL

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Lets get its all off friday out of the way then we can go and enjoy the match on nothings happening saterday

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You are mistaken my son. Nothing happening Saturday, is actually Wolves get thrashed Saturday and we all go f=cking mental,mental,chicken oriental.
mot4life

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16 Aug 2012 17:02:49
Interview with Warnock he says the take over wont be sorted until the end of the season. No worries though, get Fuller in and a decret RM and get Diouf signed up properly and we'll be sound. MOT

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I feel that was a rather tongue in cheek dig at the time it has taken, don't you!

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16 Aug 2012 16:18:40
Ed? why is half the lower east stand unavailable. {Ed013's Note - Not sure, I have tickets in the lower east stand as I have moved my season ticket for one game to take my son. We are at the lower bit towards the Kop end}

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I must be near you ED i go up through the tunnel bit opposite the toilets (when you enter the east stand and turn right its the last one) :) wish i was in kop though for atmosphere. {Ed013's Note - I am not sure mate as it is a one off for me. I stand in N9 usually, but they moved me to L29 for this game}

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Because its family area

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Ah right ed i think mine is L28 not too sure though just know im row R and thats about it :) and to all the other fans that see this lets just get behind the team 100% and get ER rocking no negativity! MOT {Ed013's Note - Agreed, get behind the team and make ER a fortress again}

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16 Aug 2012 16:15:45
I see Steve Morison has become available from Norwich, now I know we have been on the unfortunate end of some dealings with Norwich but I feel we should go back and grab the striker that clearly has the ability for Championship football, it is understood a number of other clubs are interested but NW wanted a goalscorer, I think I found him one. MOT SussexLeeds

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16 Aug 2012 16:04:05
Just read a rumour on here that there is a press conference today? Surely it would have been done by now, or at latest 5pm? But my mate on has just posted that he saw Ken Bates outside Elland Road... His comment was something like.. "Just seen Ken Bates outside Elland Road, quick Leeds fans go get him" (He's a fan) Maybe there is a press conference, maybe there isn't!

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16 Aug 2012 15:38:18
Out of the available dreamteam mini-leagues, which one is the 'eds' ?

Paul - Isle of Man white

(ps. my dreamteam name - Yorkshire Terriers) {Ed013's Note - I am in the very first one on top of rumours page as ed13. I havn't had time to do any more teams yet}

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Cheers ed, that's the one I'll join then. Prepared to be humiliated :-) lol

Paul - Isle of Man white

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16 Aug 2012 14:44:44
There's no doubting that the Leeds United rumours
and banter pages are top notch and that the fans are as passionate as ever. It does however appear
that a large number of you are totally obsessed with a takeover that never seems to happen. It makes you wonder if any of you sleep at night so stop fretting and make the most of what you've got,
including Ross who we generously let you have.

Redbird

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16 Aug 2012 13:57:45
If its true that Buszacky and Fuller are two of the trialists I think they would both be good additions to the squad. Don't really know who this Gomez guy guy is but seems to be rated by some.

Jamo MOT

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16 Aug 2012 12:52:22
NW: "I've got genuine players here and I also know that teams will have to be really good to beat us. Really good."

How great it is to hear that, confidence from the top!

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He also said we wouldn't get automatic promotion great confidence not....kevlufc

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16 Aug 2012 12:35:41
At last ! on the OS.
Flamingo Land Reveal New Ride

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Alleluia! rejoice! Etc! A new ride at Flamingo Land!! This would appear to be top story on the OS. Says it all really .... More seriously, how to decode Warnock's remarks about takeover?

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16 Aug 2012 11:28:19
Who gives a flying F%#K if flamingo land has a new ride..

WE WANT TAKEOVER/PLAYER NEWS

Paul - Isle of Man white

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Me I'm going on Monday and I now know I can get half price tickets. sdlufc

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I think it's meant to be tongue in cheak chap

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16 Aug 2012 11:11:34
We could be in for another crock ! Robin Van Persie is looking for a different team now that he has failed his medical at Man Utd, back is ****ed..(after carrying the Arsenal squad for a whole year) ba dum...tissshhh

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16 Aug 2012 10:54:52
Ed013 - I've just set up a fantasy football league on Barclays premier league site.... Free to join code for league is

1388887-319019

Join private league after an account has been set up

Cheers martyn1789 {Ed013's Note - Thanks mate}

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16 Aug 2012 11:08:43
I've allways survived well on my natural instinct - my natural instinct is Neil Kilkenny, Bradley Johnson, Johnny Howson, Jermaine Beckford & Robert Snodgrass will feel sick in the pits of their stomach come 5 'o' clock on the last day of this season - There is another side to this that nobody seems to mention - apart from Robert Snodgrass, I think all the others knew they were never gonna be good enough to play in the Premier League in a Leeds side, Kilkenny purely for the money, didn't care - but Howson & Johnson - course you're gonna get a first team place in the Premiership....you play for Norwich....Becks I believe knows his talent and is making the most of a short career...

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16 Aug 2012 10:28:49
With Lees back fit, who will miss out on the starting lineup against Wolves? Lees, Pearce, Peltier or Byram? I think Byram will sit out, despite his fantastic performance last Saturday.

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I rate all of those players of a higher Quality than Tom Lees

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Lees is the future!

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Hi, bar injuries, Mr warnock is not one for changing a winning team, although given the opposition, I would not be surprised to see Drury in for White, it is Wolves this time, no disrespect to Shrewsbury.

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Lees is slow and prone to make mistakes. We need a new centre back

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16 Aug 2012 10:09:50
Everyone playing guessing games about the 4 trialist, it is interesting seeing which names keep popping up.

My prediction for the 4 would be as follows:

Tommy Smith
Akos Busaky
Lewis McGugan
Kevin Gomez

some of the names people keep throwing up are way off in my opinion.

Lawerence has just signed for foreign club PAOK
Ask yourself this would we really need to give trials to players like Klasnic and Fuller?? they have already done it in the Premier League, nothing to prove really. Just my opinion.

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Macgugan far too good to trial;
if one is fuller as reported get him signed immediately.i wanted beckford but i actually think if fit he would be better.especially in championship..shrew leeds

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Mcgugan is still under contract at forest so it wont be him

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You wouldn't give a trial to Klasnic or Fuller but you would to Lewis McGugan..... A pint of whatever your drinking please!

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Maybe the players are trialing the club not the otherway round, also would get them selfs some game time if they have not had a full pre season with a club. We have two weeks to see if some funds become available, fingers crossed.

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Yes you would give trial to McGugan as everyone knows he has had alot of injuries and would be a gamble throwing a contract at him if he was going to sit in the treatment room for 8 months and earning high wages....

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I think Fuller would be excellent as an impact substitute and often conjured up goals out of nothing for Stoke. There are issues with him but then again we have Diouf so he wouldn't seem that bad! Of course he is also ex Portsmouth.

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Fuller an impact sub are you joking. Away from home Fuller is like Mark Hughes without the goal threat fantastic and holding up the play and does everything right that Bechio does wrong in this position

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16 Aug 2012 09:17:55
Someone put that one of the trialists at TP was Heskey. Please stop telling bad rumours, i nearly had a heart attack. I thought we was looking for a pacey striker, not a wastey striker.
BARMY ARMY!!
mot4life

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TP? Thorpe Park? xD

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16 Aug 2012 09:08:57
sorry if this has been posted already ,thought it was funny.on doncaster fc site they said on the signing of billy paynter"we needed a proven goal scorer"think it should have been followed with "but........"
TS (no offence to billy)

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See what i mean, Blackpool missed out because they was looking for a proven Donkey.
mot4life

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Yeah but donney r in league 1 remember how well he did in league 1

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If you can claim Paynter isnt a proven goalscorer in League one then Beckford isnt proven at any level of professional football either then. Remember Billy outscored Beckford in league one before beckford went to Everton.

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What you on. Are you trying to imply Paynter is in the same bracket as Beckfords. He should not be allowed to be mentioned in the same breath as Beckford

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16 Aug 2012 09:08:28
Think about it lads! These trialists could end up being the iceing on the cake we've been looking for. I know some are goin to say, how can they be iceing on the cake when knowone wants them.
A very good point! Now i will put my side across. Do people remember a lad called Marlon King, who came on trial but didn't look up to it. So he moved on, still a trialist to a club called Watford, made an impression, got in the team and became top scorer that season. Watford went on towards the premier league.
Now tell me this! Do you think Watford fans would say, King was there iceing on the cake for that season and not a penny spent in transfers.
I say, out of the 4 trialists on show, just maybe theres a little iceing there for us. So lets keep positive because its happened before and will do so again. THATS FOOTBALL AND WHY WE LOVE IT!
SGT WARNOCKS BARMY ARMY!!
mot4life

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Really dont need to say all the disgrace surrounding a dispicable person called marlon king
get your point though
TS

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We signed king on loan, he scored and then got injured (not sure if he didn't break his leg) don't think he was there for a trial but had he not got injured it might have turned out differently for us.

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If the fuller on trial is ricardo fuller from stoke then he could be a good signing.very much a handful for stoke even though i know hes a nightmare for a manager.got fined loads for stoke for lateness.not sure about any of the others.get in fuller,maynard and templeton then ill start to believe...shrew leeds

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16 Aug 2012 09:05:42
Thought i would repost the two fantasy football leagues as it's the last chance to join before the season kicks off. Got about 50 in each so far.

1) The First is the knewly named "Phones 4u Fantasy Football" which is the championships fantasy football.

League Pin is: 8805

2) The Second is the official Barclays Premier League one:

League Pin : 985486-271167

cheers lads,

TeejLUFC

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16 Aug 2012 07:39:46
ED - do you have anymore info on the trialists yet? Names that I'm hearing are Gomez, Buzasky, Fuller and Heskey. Also someone said Klasnic.
Can you confirm any of these?
Luke MOT {Ed013's Note - I cannot confirm, Neil has tuned his squad in not to release names after Si released the name of Diouf! I told him to go easy on the young lad, but he wasn't happy! They are all the names that you have said that are flying round}

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16 Aug 2012 00:08:33
Not a rumour but just want to say how good it is that our boy McCormack scored for his country tonight, its very encouraging that we have a player that is able to get goals internationally and at club level, fingers crossed he'll sign that contract! Secondly as much as I was sad to see him go I'm very happy for snodgrass getting a starting place for Scotland tonight and from watching the game he was actually one of the best players on the pitch, he clearly hasn't learnt that at Norwich as he hasn't been there long enough, all down to Leeds!
LouisLeeds

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What a terrific goal it was too, the cheeky nutmeg as he cut in side and precise finish in the corner.

TeejLUFC

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Yep...
he still didnt get much of a mention for it though
spoilt by the limited knowledge of talk sport presenters who stick to the players they have heard of
TS

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15 Aug 2012 23:31:00
Good to see LUFC flags at England game, show the country how we march on!'! MOT warby white

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Leeds flag in crowd at Serbia v Ireland game in Belgrade last night. Darren O'Dea was outstanding by the way !

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15 Aug 2012 22:39:58
Do you know who the trialists were against Bradford tonight ed? {Ed013's Note - I heard Buzachy, Fuller and Gomez. Unsure on 4th}

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Wow what a signing Ricardo Fuller would be if we could get him on the right wages!

TeejLUFC

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Fuller is a great talent but can't do 90 minutes to save his life. He also is another bad egg and caused Pulis no end of problems.

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Fuller, flair and aggression, Buszaky shots and set pieces in midfield. both yes please!

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True but Tony Pulis has hardly won awards for dressing room morale. Well whether you classify head-butting James Beattie as such lol

TeejLUFC

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