Leeds Banter Archive August 24 2014

24 Aug 2014 21:38:08
It's time for the Cellino lovers to admit they were wrong to put blind faith in the president. Firstly, he sells Cagliari and tells us he will buy the ground. Then he sells Ross and says he will use that money to buy the ground. We have being linked with quality players, Vivianni, Soranson, Adryan, plus Agard, who would have given us much needed pace. If we could have added Assombalonga alongside Sharp and Banini, I would have been happy. Instead, we end up with 10 players who have not improved us. He gets a chance to rectify his biggest mistake but changes his mind. Bermondsy is right we need to sack the coach before anymore harm is done. Lose on Wednesday and we will never here the last of itfrom City fans. If we do lose Mr president the honeymoon will be over. Then you can ask your new friend Mr bates, just what it's like to be an unpopular owner of this club.

24 Aug 2014 22:57:49
I am in favour of Cellino and will continue to support him. The ground will be bought by November. The squad will come good given time and already showing improvement. Had it not been for the sending off yesterday we could well have got a result. I have never agreed with the Hockaday appointment and still don't but if things don't improve he will be gone anyway. I think the comment about Cellino's new friend in Bates is a little childish as anyone who follows Leeds knows that he met with Bates in an attempt to avoid another costly court case. Anyone who wants to knock Cellino is entitled to their opinion but equally so are the one's who wish to support him.

24 Aug 2014 23:07:10
At least we still have a club. If MC had not done what he has so far then we would be in a far worse place! I believe he wants us to be successful so he still has my vote. Every day is a school day! Just hope he can learn that the championship is a tough place to be and a tougher place to get out of - unless you want to go down of course!

It may have escaped your notice but it does not make any difference whatsoever if people blindly have faith in MC or not, he owns the club & bought it with money not with peoples faith, support or good wishes, it didn't 6 months ago & it does'nt now! MC is the Owner he does things his way whether we like it or not. Why do you have a go at fans who have a different opinion than yours, an opinion to which they are entitled to!

Thank you. I think Bermondsey is always right. MC saved club and I think he will bring good times back (his ego will not allow him to fail). also like to point out hockaday said he was pleased with our 4-1 loss. Also MC was poised to fire hock and almost admmitted he was wrong to hire him. keeping him is another mistake two wrongs don't make a right. People of leeds go and boo and chant get on hocks back let MC know Hock can not be manager of leeds make his post untenerable. Force MC's already posied hand. cheering leeds on will not help get points. forceing Hockada out might help turn things around sooner rather than later. True leeds fans will be making banners and chanting against the Hock. either you think he is good enough or you don't either way you have to now let your voices be heard. we don't get a vote but we can still let our feelings be known. If hock is there agaisnt bradford let him know he shouldn't be please

Well said LufcRoDz, we can't all agree on everything as long as we all agree WE ARE LUFC regardless of results.

Deda Land
So you want bates/GFH back yeh?

24 Aug 2014 20:19:44
Cant beleive doodledoo is staying. Prepare to get knocked out of the capital one by bradford, my prediction bradford 3 leeds 1. What does anyone else think. When will he finally go, when were in league 1. Doodledoo will proberly walk himself then and blame the salt and pepper pots he dicusses tatics with when he chats to cellino. I for one won't go to a game while that joke is at our club

24 Aug 2014 20:44:52
Perhaps MC has given the ten games that the rest of us seemed to think was reasonable - given the introduction of so many new players!?! If we lose against Bradford then I reckon that will be it for me! Illness followed by two reds, he will not be able to keep coming up with excuses. I would have liked to see NR given job until we found a replacement. It's getting embarrassing. Just hope we can pull it together.

Hock will go when leeds fans let mc know they have had enough. last year millwall fans got lomas sacked I was at the game and it was very clear lomas had to go. the fans of millwall went to the game with one incentive to chant so much lomas couldn't stay. when will leeds fans do the same. after the millwall game all the fans were saying. we lost again but at least lomas will be sacked in the morning. last year lomas made a load of signings still wall lost every game (or most of them) and the fans of millwall let chairman know they had enough. 10 games is not resonable. say give hock 10 games to someone who has paid a lot of money for season ticket. you basiclly saying give hock 10 games ruin the season. put us out of any chance of being decent and give the next guy a hard job to keep us up. 10 games is 9 games to long to anyone who has seen hocks team play live. for whatever reasons it is not good enough not by long shot, but as I may of said before, hock was never good was he?

24 Aug 2014 19:58:08
We must have the WORST website in football history. Leedsunited.com todays player profile Paddy Kenny WTF?

I agree Andy, its dire. But let's be honest it is the last of our worries!

True CORK very true but you look for a little bit of news and come across player profile PK FFS ;(

24 Aug 2014 17:30:01
has jokeaday been sacked. my neighbour told me he had (and trust him) but uncle and mates all saying its false (dont trust them) can't find anything official on line. almost hope he stays for bit longer otherwise my jokes will be wasted if we get a proper guy in who knows what he is doing. Maybe we will get glen hoddle or malky mackay they would be good for team and for banter. hodel is a nut case and malky seems to be racist ageist sexist and just about any kind of -ist there is

24 Aug 2014 18:17:54
Not yet but now the media circus has taken over it is only a matter of time.

Sorry BW, looks like he's staying :/, need to try and rediscover my optimism for him again

I think you need to look up what 'optimism' means then.

. or are you hoping we can throw more points away than any other team?

B
Surprisingly looks like he's had a reprieve AMAZING ;(

Optimism means I hope he can get the players playing attractive football which they have showed signs of doing and the players gel. This would lead to good results and a good motivational atmosphere for the players which we have been missing for a long time.

And by the way if you need educating, optimism means hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something. Therefore I am trying to be optimistic about our future under hockaday.

{Ed013's Note - Now now children ;-)

Ok, clearly MC is a clever man, self made, has the money to purchase our club, buy the ground? (Hopefully). I really cannot see him risking all this by playing in league 1 next season. So if Hock is going to be given time then we should support our team. The squad is big, new, and is being added to daily, this should have been done pre-season to give the coach time to try out players and pick his best 11. I have no idea what that may be as most off these new signings are from leagues abroad. I actually saw progress yesterday in patches before we went down to 10 men. It's early days and to be honest I have seen nothing to make me think Hock is the man, he actually sounded like a school boy inventing an excuse on the radio yesterday. But hey I have not made millions so clearly MC can see something. I am reserving judgement until end of September when some of these new players are in the team and hopefully things are looking up.

24 Aug 2014 14:41:53
Think Cellino will go Italian for Hock's replacement. Zola for me but part of me would like to see Di Canio, would be box office.

Zola would be a really good option. We need to play more attractive stylish football and I think he would be a really good fit. However to repeat what most people to seem to say why would he join to work under such a dictator like cellino and we wouldn't pay his wage demands either I imagine

Reports has Festa top of Cellinos list, not another guy with no pedigree or knowledge of the English game, surely he's learned from his mistake of Hockaday, c'mon Massimo, get someone in who knows what they're doing before were sucked into a dogfight.

I couldn't imagine Zola working with Cellino either tbh the more I think about it.

24 Aug 2014 17:08:18
Di Matteo or Vialli would be good options

Di Canio. I'm guessing that's a wind up. If not, get a grip. The last thing we need is another arrogant, egotistical Italian at the club.

"Reports has Festa top of Cellinos list, not another guy with no pedigree or knowledge of the English game, "

So what sort of 'Pedigree' does Festa have, exactly then?

Playing football in England hardly gives anyone a 'right' to become a manager?

Think you misread that Longtime - that's exactly what Rhino is saying, that he doesn't have any pedigree or knowledge.

24 Aug 2014 13:20:07
What's happened to Doukara?

Injured month out

Out for 4 weeks. Ankle I think.

Thanks marc

24 Aug 2014 12:14:32
I'm no coach or anything so just wondering why at 3-1 down you would take your best striker off and replace him with a defender?

{Ed013's Note - Its called Hockavision, "To you, To me"}

Sharp is very average

The game was over. Better to try stop the rot and try preserve goal difference which could be crucial in our relegation battle!

ED
Chucklevision would be more appropriate ;)

The score was actually 2-1 when Sharp was substituted for Cooper. The main reason for the change was because our other central defender was having an early bath. Other than the cross that resulted in the OG, Sharp hardly had a kick.
MOT

"The game was over. Better to try stop the rot and try preserve goal difference"

yeah, like that worked then?

2-1 down when it happened and we lose 4-1?

24 Aug 2014 11:42:20
Why don't we go for Neil Lennon, at least he shows some passion! What do you think?

24 Aug 2014 10:24:45
For those callin for Grayson back remember why he went. Too many indiscretions and a defence that was shambolic. We had 7 centre halves none of which were any good.

Preston at home sticks in my mind.
We were defensively shocking under him.

He also had the highest points per pound spent of any manager in any division in the league. You seem to forget he had no budget, had all his best players sold from under him and still took us to 7th. Some people have very selective memories.

He lost the dressing room because of his indiscretions irrespective of his points tally.Thats when he left home. The defence was also shambolic. He was good in league one but Bates eventually got fed up with him buying players deciding they were not good enough and asking for new ones so he stopped. Then came the abuse.That's when Bates turned. People have selective memories.

The statistics speak for themselves. He's the best manager we've had since O'Leary and we've gone rapidly downhill since he went.

Sam odajobe (i can't remember his name but it was sam something) was good, richard naylor was good, not saying we were great under grayson saying we were a lot better than now and remember every good player he got he had to sell. best example brought in shcimle who was amazing sold him and had no money so had to get lonergarn who was average. this happened with poor Larry all the time, everyone opinion is vaild and can see points for both sides but I really rated grayson and think he did very well under bates had hands tied and still did good job, we were not great defensively but then no one else has fixed that either at least with him there was always belife we would score. Grayson with decent backing would of kept all our good players and we would be a prem league team by now in my opinion as lots of our players under grayson went on to better and did well

24 Aug 2014 07:34:50
It's a sad state of affairs that every time we lose the next result I'm looking for is Fulham's! How sad is that?

{Ed013's Note - Sad Biro}

24 Aug 2014 00:40:00
We've had our ups and downs (ups and downs)
Now stand up and sing for leeds united cause were the greatest in the land

C'mon lads it looks kinda tom tit now, but we'll be back were we belong soon, so keep believing, and every day sing your hearts out for the team u love!!

As Delboy says "he who dares wins".

23 Aug 2014 23:42:06
only form of pace and width ( byram looking at three game ban we need to chapionship experieced wingers in before deadline day or were down how can cellino n who ever else picking team see wee lack width and pace

24 Aug 2014 00:00:51
Well to Bermondsey and the rest of the lads. First off. the recent run has had me drinking so much that Hock looks like me missus when I first met her.

Second off. poor ol' Hock. handed a Rolls Royce job to a Austin mini driver and told him the replacement parts are coming and will be installed as he's driving down the M1. folkin' tough job.

That said. us need an Audi S4 to be built. Someat good enough to get out Championship and with 0 to Champions league in 3 years. and a driver to do it.

Soz David bud. but it's not lookin' on mate.

Still. tomorrow is another day. and we'll all live and learn.

And as Leeds fans. we'll always be MOT

Here here. mot