Leeds Banter Archive January 26 2015

26 Jan 2015 21:08:25
Evening guys

I posted just before Christmas regarding a contact on another forum who stated out of the blue, that he is involved in a new kit deal which will be announced in Jan, I have an update.

The person who made this claim was questioned on a different forum and he said that an announcement should have been made by now but they are still working on it. It is belived that Southampton are switching their manufacturers in the same deal and are getting the same as us. They seem to think its Addidas.

I am just a messenger, and if anyone remembers my post back in December, feel free to add

Hope it's Nike or puma Adidas are to the same with all their kits especially training wear.

26 Jan 2015 18:27:21
A joke for you lads and lassies. A man is sitting at home alone when he hears a knock on the front door.he opens it to find two policemen standing there. one policeman asks if he is married?.he says yes I am. the policeman then says I am sorry sir . But it looks like your wife's been hit by a truck. The guy replies I know, but she has a great personality and is an excellent cook,!

Paddy
Get your CV off to The Sun soon as mate

Funny
If it was about my wife. Outside mate!

I'll be outside soon as mate! Send the flight ticket first class!Ta

26 Jan 2015 14:16:27
According to reports, Sassuolo will decide on deadline day wether Pavoletti can go. That's cutting in fine by our standards, i'd look elsewhere and see if we can bring in a striker that has bags of potential.

Same here, the same player did the similar thing last window.move on.

Spot on Smitch - we shouldn't view ourselves as hostages to fortune for any player, let alone a mediocre one.

Quite clear he (or his agent) is after the most financially beneficial move possible. Doubt MC would like this type of tactis, but he is Italian so who knows.

Time to drop our interest move on to another unproven foreigner.

Yes D.s like Antenucci ;)

I guess when you sign 7 or 8, 1 will come good. Hedging your bets a little.

Although I am excited about Bamba.

We only signed 3 center towards and 2 of them scored 15 goals between them

26 Jan 2015 12:26:25
Wish we had kept matt smith as an alternative option rather than chasing unproven cani think smith would of had few goals by now mot

Yep and we a few points I imagine

Matt Smith always looked liked he cared too, without him we've been no threat in the air whatsoever at corners and set pieces.

Sorry lads but I am going to play Devil's advocate here. I was disappointed to see Matt Smith go because of the reasons already mentioned however due to the style of football we planning to play it was difficult to see how Smith would fit in and therefore I understood the reason for selling him. However, we have now started to change our style of play and are looking for 6ft (plus) strikers therefore it distorts the logic for letting him go in the first place. I still feel that we would not be able to utilise his talents because we still do not have natural width that can deliver crosses that Smith feeds off. He is a developing talent and despite the fact that the MOT pundits were drooling over his aerial ability I would point out that out of the 4 excellent chances he had, 2 were headed off target and the other two were cleared off the line because Smith did not connect strong enough to make them impossible to clear. This is the conundrum with Smith, at 6ft 6in he is a threat in the air but does not he could and should score more if he perfects his heading technique

26 Jan 2015 14:59:15
Excellent reply Notts. I'd have kept him. Good wingers at this level in short supply.

Well argued comment Notts, but have to agree with George - in fact I did post at the time that it was a big mistake to sell Smith, especially for a paltry £500k. Take your point on wingers and style of play, but there are more than just wingers who can put headable balls into the box, without adopting any hoffball approach. free kicks, corners etc. Smith's size alone is intimidating to defenders, and I expressed the view that if he was well coached along the lines you suggest re directing headers with power etc, he would turn into an asset. We should have kept him.

I have a feeling Redders would have liked him to stay at the club. He offers the alternative option up front. We would still need a more technically gifted player, but e just would add something we don't have.

Plus I don't think he was earning that much and £500k just doesn't seem worth it, especially in comparison to what we paid for Doukara