Leeds Banter Archive February 18 2017

 

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18 Feb 2017 22:43:21
Can we get the 20 - 23 points which are hopefully enough for the playoffs? Here's to our 'hiccup ' ending soon and back to business.

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18 Feb 2017 21:21:58
We know we are a team. We know we can play. Just hit a slight bad patch. We can again win 8 out of 10 and start to believe again! MOT

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18 Feb 2017 19:14:57
Did we just see confirmation of our lack of plan B. Our substitutions seemed like for like, even down to replacing a tightly marked, isolated CF with another CF who could equally be marked and isolated. Substitutions to affect a difference must also accompany a different way of playing. Does anyone think the least we should have done was to play two attackers and go for it. At this point of the season the extra 2 points are invaluable.

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18 Feb 2017 21:24:53
Plan B? Take a striker off and replace with a striker. Same as any other position. Let Monk manage as he's done alright so far!

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18 Feb 2017 21:37:59
Bit worrying that we never seem to change shape, Play two DMs even when we are chasing the game. Think we need to play with one at times and push one further upfield. that's our problem at moment we don't score enough. If opposition score its hard work for us to score 2. Pablo needs help at times and pushing Viera up with him would benefit him. I know we are more solid at the back but can't expect Wood to score all the goals. Teams will soon stifle Wood and Pablo, especially top teams and they are the ones we will have to beat to stay in top 6. Norwich did us a favour today losing but we won't get many.

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18 Feb 2017 18:44:17
To be fair I'd have took a point at improving Ipswich but we needed a win really, we can't afford to lose to wendies next week which will be our 5th 30,000 plus crowd just hope we aren't running out of steam and ideas at the wrong time as we only seem to have one game plan but where still hard to beat Monk as done tremendous with the squad we have keep the faith MOT.

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18 Feb 2017 18:27:49
Time to bring back Phillips? We were playing our best football with him in the team and he'd add strength we're currently lacking.

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18 Feb 2017 18:59:39
I can't remember us playing our best football with Phillips playing. We sometimes look at games with rose tinted spectacles when one of our academy players is playing or believe an academy player not playing at present- is the answer. Phillips is ok but not great and well below our other three defensive mid fielders. He will bring nothing new to our game and might even worsen the situation. We are what we are and doing better than predicted. This is the best we are going to be until we bring in more quality or the present players have time to improve.

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18 Feb 2017 19:23:37
I'm not biased to academy players, if they have poor games I say it. We were playing well in Nov/Dec/ up to Derby and Phillips played a lot of those games. He is physical, not afraid to get stuck in and always looks for the wingers. Last 4 games have seen far too much sideways passing and we need to take control of CM again.

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19 Feb 2017 03:27:31
Hi guys. I'm new to posting. But regarding Phillips He is a liability. Maybe has potential. But gives the ball away too much and gets yellows too often. And over the last few months reading the posts about Dallas I think if we had more like him and roofe who work their socks off we would be in a better position. No one can criticise lads who work their ⚽s off. ! I think if we get and finish top 6 this season then it will be a fantastic year and not expected. TBH. And let's be real. I would happily be competing for a play position in September. so let's just come together and give the guys a marching on together every match. We deserve to be in the perm. But let's just make it happen. 👍😃🙏🏻

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18 Feb 2017 18:04:41
This is yet another game where we haven't played well but have come away with something. McCarthy will be fuming that he didn't get the three points. We managed one shot on target the whole game. Remembering what it was like at the start of the season when we were losing and Monk was trying to play his preferred formation we have been transformed into a team that with limited quality is able to get results - playing a more defensive nd cautious system. We have a very strong back four, two/three decent defensive mid fielders, a solid defensive orientated winger in Dallas who can support the defence and occasionally get far enough forward to score or provide an assist, A player in Roofe who, at the moment falls between a number of stools-he is busy but not scoring or providing assists - although he looks like he could - nor is he that solid defensively although he does work hard. He could have the makings but not yet. Sacko is quick and provides assists although he does waste a lot of opportunities by making poor decisions or going too far with the ball and losing it. He can look very good or equally very bad. That makes the position of Wood very difficult to assess. He has scored a lot of goals without which we would be struggling. However he does look limited in other areas. It could be that he doesn't possess the ability or that because he is always tightly marked because he is isolated due to lack of support from midfield. Until we can improve going forward we will never know. Hernandez has quality but can get frozen out of games. Tight, ugly games show him at his worst. On a good pitch with our passing game working he is excellent. When things are not going to plan he is not a player to help grind out a win and he goes missing or doesn't contribute enough. Monk has done a great job getting us to where we are but we are not real promotion candidates yet. He has got us to punch above our weight and it's much better than before but not good enough to put us above two or three of our rivals. I think we will have to wait a bit longer. Fans might say we are good enough - look at how we played against Derby. Yes, we looked good had lots of possession and passed the ball accurately, but we still didn't create much and we could have dropped points in that game on the balance of chances. Cardiff - we had 70% possession and lost 2-0 and didn't create much. We are getting results but it's always hard work with no real creative dominance. I'm glad we are where we are and I am looking forward to when we move up a level. Maybe it will be next season or sooner if our two new loanees make a serious impact but I'm not holding my breath for the moment.

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18 Feb 2017 19:20:52
Agree, we are work in progress, can give anyone a game but over 46 game season we cannot be at our best every week, a few injuries or tired players and we have no depth. How we recruit over the summer will tell . We could still make the play offs then 3 games with draw one win one and win the final on penalties

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18 Feb 2017 17:08:39
Think we are become a very predictable team to play against. Same formation every week win lose or draw. Easy for teams to study us and learn to play against us. Time for a change to a plan b. In the current formation we rely on our number 10 being the creator of chances. Hernandez can be amazing one game and the next can't get into to and when that happen we look desperate. Why not play a 442 diamond. Bridcutt in front of the back four, Hernandez sat just behind wood and roofe. I start barrow too and the Spanish guy. See what they have got. Hmmm

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18 Feb 2017 17:35:14
Agree. We don't need to play 2 defensive midfielders when we are strong at the back, we've not enough attacking threat going forward. The only time we've looked lethal away from home was when Wood was out, yet the players seem to afraid to have a go and want Wood to score all the time.

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19 Feb 2017 09:07:09
I agree plum good post. At home especially this would scare the life out of teams!

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18 Feb 2017 16:58:21
1 shot on target!

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18 Feb 2017 18:40:24
that chance got us a point. bet Norwich would swap their result for ours?

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18 Feb 2017 09:33:59
3 points again today. A tight game but we will just edge it

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18 Feb 2017 12:25:30
Score draw I reckon

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18 Feb 2017 13:42:50
Am hearing wood is injured! Can't confirm at the moment tho

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18 Feb 2017 14:15:36
It was tosh, he's in the starting lineup ;)

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