Leeds Banter Archive July 31 2013

31 Jul 2013 22:42:49
The Leeds youth will take us further than people think this year Dawson who IMO will play against Brighton, On the right side off the diamond is going to be a top player Zac looks a good player Alex m looks a v good player he will come though this year give them a chance. Instead off buy this buy that player It always been our way why change, and now it looks like we won't sell the young lads to the first club who offers a pearl diver.

I'll be quite happy to see us play more of the youngsters and give them the experience they need to play at this level.

31 Jul 2013 21:03:54
I'm not one for moaning and been negative but I'm a bit frustrated that we've only signed 3 players when you look at what players have been available and where they have gone, I get the fact money is tight apparently and the wage structure etc etc but surely we could have competed. Some examples: Lewis mcgugan (Watford, free) Eric lichaj (forest, free), Scott McDonald (millwall, free) James Vaughan (Huddersfield 1m) Harry forrester (donny) Alex baptiste (Bolton, free) matt killgallon (Blackburn, free) just to name a few, there loads more. I have faith in McDermott and will always be behind the lads starting Saturday, just my opinion. JIM_LUFC

Fans need to realise no player is for free they always want a signing on fee and of course want there wages and don't forget the agents always something in it for them in brian we trust

Ppl also forget leeds ain't no longer a team to want to join. our team is a mess everywhere and good players want other good team mates and i'm sorry but all we have is mccormack, murphy, byram and lees the rest r a joke in particular austin and his constant non teamplay

31 Jul 2013 20:02:06
I have been to most of the preseason games and unless we buy 2 wingers ad a centre back we will be fighting relegation. 28,000 for the first game, watch the numbers fall away. GFH are not back BMD, but they want us to invest. The chair as interview on LUTV is totall crap and if they are keen about getting in touch with the fans. It's easy, strengthen the squad. I'm sure you understand how to run a business, but you know nothing about football. There is no transpeancy between club and fans, look back at the promises you have made, in my option your have purchased leeds but have no money to take us to the next level. You believe we can move forward using assets we have on the field. Wake up!. The squad value is low, excluding SB. By Christmas their value be decress. The truth is Leeds are a mid to low table table side. This is going to be a very long season and as much as I love my club, I am very worried for the forth coming season

Mid Table mediocrity at very best. Relegation struggle a distinct possibility. Anyone know where Papa Smurf is these days while he's still counting our money. I feel for BMcD. Like Warnock last season he will never have encountered such a devious old you know what. BMcD, unfortunately will be gone before the end of the season. Hope I'm wrong but I won't be!

Agree to an extent. No way we will get relegated but need 3 or 4 bits of quality to stand any chance of going up.
I am worried though like yourself that if we don't get a decent start the good work of getting 30k plus fans back in the ground would def drop away.
I know people coming back again for a fresh start but only buying tickets game to game.
They will def stop if the football is decent and we get some good results and gfh try to get us up. shrew leeds

I agree that more signings are needed but I feel confident we have good people with sensible business sense now finally taking the club forward

Hang on, on what basis are you claiming we are going to fight for relegation?

We weren't fighting for relegation last year (we just ran out of steam at the end of the season) and in fact were 2 wins away from a playoff spot for most of it, we only ended up 7 points off at the end. To that I add, that we have added to the squad. Apart from Becchio leaving this team looks better than last years and all we need is for someone to step up and score some goals. or 2 to share the spoils.

So how are we going to be figthing for relegation? I do agree that we are a mid table team, but mid to playoff not bottom.

And I don't care about the transparancy. What do we want, a board that wil say "we have 6mil in the bank, and pushing for more investment, so all the teams out there that we are buying from, please up your fees. "

We have no money, clear and trasparent. BMD has to move people on before signing more clear and transparent. We are looking at more in vestment, clear and transparanmet. Wait, this sounds like most teams in the prem and cc.

Don't think we will be in a relegation battle. Brian McD will get us playing football and hopefully the new signings can push us on a little. As for promotion, Hmmm. Play offs at the very best, but remember it's McD's first season.

OP, take a happy pill

31 Jul 2013 19:42:19
Heard some very entertaining info today! Jet 247, an aircraft leasing company based in the southeast have had several high court injunctions placed against them and are also heavily involved in suspicious/illegal activities!

Why is that anything to us? You'll never guess which company ol' papa smurf was sacked for doing business with.

:D

MOT

Kentish White

U was watching tv earlier and made up a total lie bates dint use that company

31 Jul 2013 19:09:50
Now that season tickets are sold the truth comes out we are in an relegation battle next season great stuff thank u GFH

31 Jul 2013 20:39:25
well we have a slightly better squad from last season and a better manager and last season it was a play-off battle!

Relegation battle?

Oh what joy, not a single ball kicked and YOU have written us off already!

What do you do us all a favour, and go do one.

Sounds like a LUST member, always negative

31 Jul 2013 16:42:20
new chairman on lutv

What a ridiculous uneducated rant that first post was.

GFH have removed Bates completely as all fans wanted : Not enough for you!
Paid 1 Mill for a player and brought 2 more in on free : Not enough for you!
Rengaged with the 2 fan groups, reduced pricing : Not enough for you!
BBC back - Strongbow Heineken back on board : Not enough for you!
Pumped money in to cover cost of Bates mortgaging off ticket sales: Not enough for you.
Christ they have turned us around in 8 months and are restoring pride day on day everything they have said they would do they have.

You would only be too happy for us to do another Ridsdale and buy success on no foundation of course you would because you again would have genuine reason to whine and stay away again, please don't include me your typical fan comment.

East Meath White a true fan.

Who is this reply to?

31 Jul 2013 11:51:26
West Ham bid for Snodgrass - £5m. Although Hughton says he is not for sale, I don't suppose our old Board were able to secure a sell-on clause? That would be too much to hope.

Knowing our luck mate it wouldn't have even sprang to mind, even a 5-10% sell on would have been handy

31 Jul 2013 00:31:13
I know boycotting the games is usually portrayed as a bad thing and not something should be doing now. But if we would have had 27,000 every game since league 1 would bates have gone. Would all this change take place. Would bates have sold up? Sometimes boycotting works as we will hopefully see the results of but now we mustn't boycott. We should all stick together and get down to elland road as much as we can.
All I wanted to say is boycotting doesn't always have a negative impact when times are tough, and in the long run could make times better.

Utter Rubish you are just trying to justify not going. There a thousands of great Leeds fans all over the country that would have loved to go but financially couldnt. Bates went because he was made an offer he liked END OF.

The OP has a reasonable post here, I for one EVENTUALLYy refused to go while Bates was milking/killing the club, like thousands of others.

Maybe you would consider the fact that Bates sold because he HAD to, due to reduced income at the gates?

Sometimes you can vote with your feet, and sometimes it DOES get results.

A huge amount of people stayed away and we now have NEW owners, NEW players coming in, Reduced prices, NO radio Ken, No Shaun Harvey.

You going to tell me any of that would have happened with a packed Elland Road each game?

Whatever you feel or think, we all have a right to act in whatever way we see fit.

I could not justify continuing to pay the £100 plus it cost me to watch a home game with the smurf lining his pockets and killing the club off.

He WAS made an offer that he accepted, whether he actually LIKED it or not, or had any choice is a different matter.

Or. Investors were put off and we ended up having to sell Snoddy, max et al.

The point I'm making is that you can't categorically say whether it helped or hindered. You do have to accept though that we're at a low point because or it and getting back where we belong will take some time. I do feel we are heading in the right direction though. MOT

In my opinion if you chose 2 boycott then you should b ashamed of yourself, true fans stick with there team in good and bad times. its crazy how you think a small minority boycotting has made bates leave. all its done is show how plastic your "support" is and now things are changing you think your support is needed well sorry but all you are is an embarrassment. stay away from leeds as your not wanted fake fans.

If we had had 30,000 every game we may be in the Premiership by now.

To the people that say he wouldn't have left if we got 30,000 every week I say would you have boycotted if we were winning every week, I bet your 100 pound cost wouldn't have mattered then. The main reason the gates dropped wasnt boycotts, it was we were s***.
Cost is a big thing to people, but its funny when big games like Arsenal ect come around they can always find the money, the ground is full and Bates was still there.

Boycotting helped him sell our best players so he didn't lose out, so I don't understand how its a good thing ever.

What aload of tosh if you live close to elland road then get yourself down to the ground saturday and help fill the ground let's all sing for leeds united

True Leeds fans wouldn't even consider boycotting. If you have the ability to get to & pay for the game, you go. Simple. Leeds is in my blood and I couldn't bring myself to stay away from the ground while my beloved Whites were playing. I have to support them!

Original poster is right. Tough love. Bates would still be here if it didn't seem like people were refusing to go to games because of his actions and cottoning on to his ways. You weren't lining the clubs pockets by attending, you were lining his. Supporting the club (and hence getting rid of Bates) and its future meant staying away. Ironic but true. We are at the bottom of a hill right now but with him gone, it WILL get better.

The thing that so called fans who boycotted games are forgetting is that fan is short for fanatic as in would attend no matter what and supporter means to support. The lack of support has cost Leeds badly. More people there, easier to keep better players and sell club surely. So the boycott may have meant Bates stayed for longer. Just move on and stop trying to justify not going. I have seen worse teams than Bates tenure believe me.

"Cost is a big thing to people, but its funny when big games like Arsenal ect come around they can always find the money, the ground is full and Bates was still there. "

Well I wasn't, because Bates WAS still here, Arsenal or not.