Leeds Banter Archive January 27 2012

27 Jan 2012 23:05:27
Alan Smith to Mk Dons....
Hopefully put that to bed once and for all..

27 Jan 2012 22:59:37
Former United, Newcastle and Leeds striker Smith set to sign for MK Dons

Gj

Hate when people call scum united,

Yes sorry so do I but i copied and pasted I appologidse, Only 1 UNITED and thats LEEDS Gj

27 Jan 2012 22:48:53
West Ham United has released former Doncaster Rovers loan player Herita Ilunga after terminating his contract by mutual consent.

any good for Leeds ?? Gj

27 Jan 2012 21:51:03
This is a comment left on Peter Lorimers collumn and the guy has totally nailed it!

Peter, some questions for you as a member of the board... Do you agree with the way LUFC is being run at the moment ? Do you think ticket prices are fair ? Do you think that casual attendees, lads and Dads have to pay full whack if they want to watch a match at Elland Road ? Thats how I first came to watch you in a Leeds shirt, I doubt that would ever have happened under current cicumstances. Do you think that it is fair that members have to pay £40 just for the priviledge of being able to purchase tickets ? Do you think it was a good move to ban the BBC from Elland Road ? Do you think it is a good idea to cut down on your catchment by taking all radio broadcasting in house and losing £700,000 per year for the right to do this, whilst turning down income from prospective broadcasters ? Do you want your club (I'm assuming LUFC are your club) to continue to be run by someone who threatened to destroy it unless he gained financially ? Do you agree that the fans inside Elland Road are policed by cheap hired bouncers who relish confrontation ? Do you like the fact that our chief executive once referred to Leeds as 'White S***e' ? Do you like the fact that we were repeatedly lied to that we were selling Fabien Delph in order to re-purchase Thorp Arch ? Do you like having a chairman who , for 7 years has spoken of investors and has not managed to attract any at all in all of that time ? ( Think about how long that is, My lad was 17 years old, he's now 24 ! We are still waiting) Do you like the fact that throughout West Yorkshire, young kids do not see Leeds United gear in shops to even give them a chance of choosing us over Manchester United or Chelsea ? Do you like the fact that our money is being spent on serial court cases and legal fees to satisfy our litigious cantankerous 80 year old chairman ? Do you like the fact that many members of the Supporters club, who were the lifeblood of the club, never missing a game , have been given pariah status by a chairman who countenances no dissenting voices? Do you think it is right that I have a season ticket renewal sitting on my table asking me to pay up front SEVEN months before the start of the next season, with no clue as to what I will be paying for ? Do you like the fact that we, as fans have to pay prices equating to a champions league side , yet our club serially sell their talented players for peanuts and we continue to turn up and watch mediocrity? Do you like the way that the club fails to negotiate new contracts with our talent and allow the situation to reach the stage where we are over a barrel ? Do you like the fact that, since our relegation in 2004 we have have over SIXTY loan players representing us ? Do you like the fact that our matchday programme is the most expensive in Britain ? Our club is rotten from the top down. If you, or anyone else, can't see that after 7 years of this s**t, then you never will. And you say we are making progress ? Don't be daft lad. No doubt there will be someone else along in a moment to defend the indefensible.
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You speak for many a true Leeds fan! I foe one will not be renewing my season ticket & my son's under the current circumstances. I'd rather plough my money into grass roots football & to be honest watch my sons play for their respective sides at semi-pro level.
How it's all changed! As a 10 year old lad I occasionally washed Lorimer's car for 6/8d when he lived in a semi in Alwoodley . This game has gone mental & is starting to be controlled by crazy people! Bring back integrity, honour & loyalty!

Spot on 100%agree

What a great post. Take a bow!

VERY SADLY TRUE - AFTER 40 YEARS OF AS A SEASON TICKET HOLDER I AM ALSO GONE!!

Brilliant piece of work, well thought out. You just underlined every point why I don't go any more but alas I have to admit how much i miss the place.

You get my vote, i also will not be renewing my season ticket or my lads, i have simply had enough of the lies !

What a fantastic post - people who disagree with this are not true PASSIONATE supporters of our club

I've renewed mine after agonising long and hard over the decision. Agree 100% with this excellent post though.

What a fantastic post; it says it all. The saddest thing is that it captures the anguish of a true fan who loves the club.
It is not the rantings of a dissident.

I've been on this site for about a year reading all the bs day in and out for amusement but i have to say the post above is probably the best i've came across to be honest! hard to top that one you have a great perspective and it seems most of the fans specially the younger are totally oblivious to how our club is run! once again great post! irish leeds fan!

27 Jan 2012 21:20:32
I think from my posts I am a little disallusioned at the min,like a lot of people.if snoddy goes,which we have to accept is a possibility I worry about where the next generation of fans are coming from.a lot of fans like me are not local,I grew up when Leeds were a very good side and that's why there are thousands of us around the uk.when I go to Leeds it's 200.00 for me and my little boy,a little boy who gets stick at school for been a Leeds fan.bates you have a duty to keep attracting kids that will want to keep coming like me for the next 50 years.my lad had a hero in how son and snoddy,how son gone and more to follow.you'll be long gone when the kids now are adults,do Leeds a Cavour,invest,get us up and keep the kids attraction to Leeds.shrew leeds {Ed013's Note - Write him a letter mate, I am local and cant afford to buy my son a season ticket as well as my own so I feel for you. I am in the process of generating a letter with suggestions of discounts for kids with paying adults etc. Its worth a try}

27 Jan 2012 21:04:08
Haha Grayson and bates,your a classic.4 days left in transfer window.Grayson says one or 2 may happen after fa cup games so that's Monday,48 hrs left to agree terms etc.if they were good players we were buying the fa cup would not matter,so basically he means low in pecking order squad players on loan,these are ones normally involved in fa cup.personally I think it will be a case of,we couldn't quite make it happen,they went somewhere else or there clubs decided to hold on to them.prepare to be very disappointed.my source is that yes couple of things on boil but literally 20% chance of happening.expect another poor loanee like odea who isn't good enough for spl or Ipswich.get season ticket renewal in on promises then sit back and watch the fireworks...shrew leeds

Bit negative - terms will already have been discussed with potential targets - their clubs will want to wait until after the FA cup before deciding whether they're needed for the rest of the season. Not expecting any illustrious signings though....

27 Jan 2012 18:05:39
Chelsea defender Sam Hutchinson is set to go on loan to a Championship club...could it be Leeds?

Simple answer NO

Chelsea crock retired 2010 due to bad knee injury

27 Jan 2012 18:04:52
there we go another week no signings
was it last week sg said we are close
to getting 2 player
i think i can rember last
transfer window he kept saying that

and we got no one
here we go again
no we come in

SG has stated that players he has enquired about are playing for pl clubs in the fa cup this wk end,once these games are done and dusted there will be movement on transfers throughout the championship,admittedly mainly loan deals

I do not believe anything grayson says nothing

27 Jan 2012 15:59:32
heard the latest crap from peter puppet?,god that guy has sold his sole to the devil[bates]

Next it will be another Peter selling his Haddock to the devil! :)

Bring back Peter Haddock, not heard his name banded about on here yet! Haha :)

Something fishy about that

27 Jan 2012 15:28:39
Matty Pattison's agent demanded his "client" have parity with the top earners at the club. Grayson rightly refused.

If that's true then the club was right to refuse. Not sure why you felt the need to use speech marks around the word client though...

Matey pattison was not good enough, they didn't even get round to discussing terms of a contract. Another post abut wages with no foundation.

27 Jan 2012 13:56:57
Grayson " Keeping cards close to his chest this transfer window". (OS). Same story as every other window, in other words nobody available for free or to play on minimum wages. As I keep saying we might pick up whats left over on the last day. Where's the Howson money going ? Into Bates Investments no doubt. Sick of Grayson not standing up to Bates. Club is going nowhere at present. Please prove me wrong !!

He's got irons in the fire!!

27 Jan 2012 13:15:36
I just wish we could get honesty, if we are selling tell us who, if we are getting players in who are they ?? We are the ones who are paying the money but for some reason get to hear nothing. This transfer window will be like the rest lose some and gain non.

Ridiculous post - you don't conduct your business, selling or buying, in public. It just alerts other clubs and gives agents the opportunity to push up wages. Would I tell my competitors my plans for my business over the next 12 months - of course not.

27 Jan 2012 11:01:50
Welcome to Simon Grayson’s nightmare. He is a slave to Leeds United’s heritage, and supposed status as a big club. He is employed by an 80-year-old with the instincts and vocabulary of a schoolyard bully. His best players are being sold, and his job depends on winning promotion to the Premier League.

Good luck with that. Managing Leeds these days is more Mission Impossible than Damned United. The fans – or “morons”, to use chairman Ken Bates’ term of endearment – are in revolt. Their sympathy for the manager is balanced by an understandable resentment at the casual exploitation of their loyalty.

Anyone who has followed Bates’ 45-year career in football will be unsurprised by his strategy at Leeds, where he has positioned himself as the mirror image of the unlamented Peter Ridsdale. The dreamer with the goldfish has been replaced by a despot with piranha-like tendencies.

Ticket prices are the highest in the Championship, more expensive than the majority of clubs in the Premier League. A children’s season ticket to watch former Leeds captain Jonny Howson play for Norwich next season will cost £80.50. The same season ticket at Elland Road will set a doting Dad back £201.

Howson’s departure on Tuesday, apparently for a lot less than the £2million quoted, is a sign of turbulent times. Bates appeared to position Grayson as a scapegoat when he revealed that the wage budget, £9.5million, is being exceeded by 23%. The inference, that players are overpaid under-performers, will doubtlessly be used as a pretext for more cost cutting.

The club have been forced to deny reports that Scotland international Robert Snodgrass will be the next disillusioned star to leave. It may, instead, be Adam Clayton, the midfield player who has rebuilt his career at Leeds after being prematurely released by Manchester City.

It’s a self-defeating strategy. Kasper Schmeichel did not want to leave Leeds in the summer but his £1million-a-year contract dictated his sale to Leicester City. Grayson has tried three cheaper goalkeepers this season, with a conspicuous lack of success, but has kept Leeds on the fringes of the play-off places.

His reward has been to see everyone from Neil Warnock to Steve Bruce linked with his job. Gates are down by an average of 3,500, and there is talk of a fans boycott of the televised home game against Southampton in March. By that time, it may be too late
{ this is from lifes a pitch} dont belive go read 4ur s self

NICE READ....DEAKKO10

Hes right though, Bates has put WAY too much pressure on Grayson

Good honest post - eyes wide open to the facts and truth

Brilliant piece, well done. Ever fancied becoming the chief executioner. On a serious note you are totally right in my view.

Almost agree - but you're wrong about the keeper situation. Scheimechel's a 'Sky Sports' keeper - a great shot stopper but very poor positionally and organisationally. We were right to offload him irrespective of his salary. Lonergan is way better as is McCarthy. Can't disagree with much else here though.

Some valid points,but the part about schmiechel is rubbish. We have a better keeper now in Lonergan, with a profit on the deal of about half a million. It's strange how no one mentions this deal when talking about grayson's signings?

Yes, but where as the profits gone, certainly not on players or is this a undisclosed point of view.

27 Jan 2012 10:49:33
guys come on, were not Leicester, we wont sign every player that becomes available

27 Jan 2012 10:45:48
Ed, any news on Somma's recovery or any word on when he'll return to action? Cheers {Ed001's Note - the date I was initially given when he went out injured was February to return to action. Obviously he could be a slow healer or a quick one, he can have setbacks etc, but I would think the date would be fairly accurate.}

27 Jan 2012 09:52:00
There is so much negativity ...... stop moaning and support you team by tuning up at ER against the Blues, let’s get behind the lads !

Players will come and players will go as will mangers and even the board and directors ..... but one thing that will remain true is the fans, were the best t in the county.

The group of overpaid men that run our club only care about their yearly bonus .... make a difference on match day and support the boys against Birmingham.

Just buy your ticket dont spend money in the ground .... we all want KB out and believe me , when we get to the PL he will cash in, so we need to do out bit and raise the roof

We sing marching on together every week ...... but when you get to ER its quite ..... stop moaning and get behind your team , we can make a difference !

27 Jan 2012 06:55:33
SIYAVUMA Sports Agency managing director Paul Mitchell, whose company manages Matthew Pattison, yesterday refused to discuss the chances of the Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder at Leeds United.

This is despite impressive form displayed by the 26-year-old in two friendly matches against Newcastle and Glasgow Celtic.

Pattison scored a goal in each game.

The player, who has not been a regular at Sundowns recently, is on trials at the English Championship club and indications are he might join the Yorkshire club.

Mitchell said: "Yes, Pattison did well. but nothing has happened in terms of him joining the club. He went there with the blessings of Sundowns, who I'm currently in talks with regarding his future. I expect to hear from Leeds United next week."

If signed, Pattison - who also played for Newcastle United and Norwich City - will join compatriot Davide Somma at Elland Road.

Not being signed on the os site!