Leeds Banter Archive October 04 2015

04 Oct 2015 22:16:53
Dnt see who if anyone we could bring in apart from big sam but money talks and he wouldn't work with cellino dnt bother mentioning rogers or anyone in that league as we dnt have and won't have the star pull for them to come here just have to hope that rosler sorts out the blatent priblems we can all see!

05 Oct 2015 13:24:43
rogers is not a very good manager IMO and would not do a good job with us and as you say we would never get him. again I would bang the steve clarke drum (although not as hard as I would of a while back) big sam would almost grantee promotion and keeping us up, yes I think he is that good.

if I was mc I would do anything and everything to get him but don't think he is looking for work atm. either way their must be a few that can improve the way we are playing and our results

04 Oct 2015 20:27:12
If Uwe doesn't get better results, I hear this small team called Liverpool just fired their manager, a Mr Brendan Rodgers I believe. Apparently he nearly won the league last year.

04 Oct 2015 21:49:17
Hope this is a Leeds joke
Liverpool are massive

04 Oct 2015 21:58:41
Agree but wages and would he work with the Italian?

04 Oct 2015 22:26:35
Does anyone know what Wage Uwe is on compared to Brendan Rogers

{Ed003's Note - A damn sight less lol}

04 Oct 2015 18:52:26
Responding to the great posts below. Totally agree that at least some members of the team are just not up to it but also correct the Uwe is quickly running out of time. Not saying it's what I want. But if we don't win in next couple of games maximum, I think MC will send him packing

04 Oct 2015 19:41:55
Could not agree more speedyg

05 Oct 2015 01:52:12
Sadly, I also see us definitely losing the next 2 games.

05 Oct 2015 11:43:56
Which players are not up to it?

04 Oct 2015 16:53:17
Cellino will not have the patience for this kind of performance, I give your 3 more games to see if he can change things, no excuse for saturday.
Where to begin??
The whole team bar the last 20 mins when MA JB came on lacked urgency, looked completely half @rsed really annoyed me.
Flaky at the back, not sure what adyemi has done wrong, better him in dmf and push murphy higher up the pitch where he is better deployed, he also offers a goal threat, unlike mowatt who was a passenger the whole game, did nothing, needs a stint on the bench for me. TA provides good cover for the 2 cb's who are ok but do lack pace, too many times exposed to counter attack with murphy not able to do anything about it.
Buckley doesn't look match fit which begs the? why him before botaka who caused them problems, defenders backing off all the time.
Its all well and good having wingers but going to be pointless if they have no one to cross to, not enough mf's gambling and getting in the box.
Set pieces are a joke, the amount of times we went backwards from promising positions got me pulling my hair out.
No urgency on the break, we break at a snails pace, we were stroking the ball across the defence like we were 4-0 up, completely the wrong approach for the c'chip.

Need pressure and tempo, we were doing this earlier in season seems we are going backwards.

Need plan B when we go behind (442 anyone?)

Your running out of time uwe.

04 Oct 2015 15:14:31
Maybe it is written in the stars that Rosler was a bad appointment. The only sensible anagram of his last name is loser.

Food for thought.

04 Oct 2015 20:19:49
A good coach will come in immediately see the problems and set about eradicating them and formulating a plan. Remember Wilkinson,could not believe the difference in the players,all looked leaner and sharper. All the talk of high tempo football was just that,talk. We don't close down fast enough,we don't support players on the ball fast enough. Our players don't look as if they have the engine to get through 90 mins hard pressing football. Is Rosler working the players hard enough in training?

04 Oct 2015 12:25:06
Obviously we concede too many goals, we don't create enough chances and we don't score as many goals from the chances we do make. We have a major problem at the centre of defence. The combination that conceded the least number of goals was Bamba and Belusci(Forget the Middleborough game for a moment). Bamba and Cooper usually concede 2 goals game sometimes more. Wooten I don't rate at all. Belusci has his mad moments but that didn't prevent the defence, when he was playing, keeping the goals against down.

I know people don't like him but on a level playing field he is a far better footballer than Cooper. However, whatever has happened at the club Belusci now now doesn't seem to care and his overall performance, at Middlesborough, was woeful.I've haven't seen him play like that before. He was expecting to be transferred, he was benched and then there was the sick note episode last season. His heart doesn't seem to be in it. He clearly can't continue to be selected. That leaves Bamba with either Wooten or Cooper. Whichever way you look at it they are going to concede. Cooper is ok, and Bamba for that matter, when they are dealing with high balls pumped forward. Any skilful play on the the ground and the opposition carve us up. We need another options there.

In the mid field we are too predictable and ponderous going forward. We play the ball about the back and when the opposition has sorted themselves into a decent defensive position we move forward. It looks like a drill that they have learned. On one occasion against Birmingham when Bamba had pushed forward they cleared the ball up field. We collected it but instead of pushing forward straight away the man in possession waited for Bamba to get all the way back before giving it to him to start us off. That was taking safety first to an extreme.

The young mid fielders are certainly talented but lack guile and a bit of steel. We play pretty football at times but no real penetration.
Up front Antenucci is the only genuine finisher. Wood at the moment doesn't look as good as Morison and in many respects Morison did a better job of leading the line. He just couldn't score. Wood isn't setting the world alight on either score. Dallas is not really going to frighten many defences. He rarely runs at any opposition. Neither did Buckley (Hope he gets better). Botaka at least tried to do the wingers job of running at the defence and some of his touches were quite good. Antenucci and Botakas arrival on the pitch gave us a bit of hope but not much.
At best we won't be relegated but a lot of improvement is required.

04 Oct 2015 13:30:13
Can't disagree with any of that, not nice to read but a cracking post.

04 Oct 2015 14:16:17
Agree above
Is it that hard to fix?
Common sense really
A good coach should be able to see where he is making mistakes and fix it straight away. Not 4 weeks later!

04 Oct 2015 15:06:52
I'm with degsy. My new best post on this page for the year.

04 Oct 2015 08:11:01
It's ok lads, we're a massive 3 points off the drop zone, and the top spot only has twice as many points as us. Brilliant. MOT

04 Oct 2015 12:43:39
See how good Middlesbrough are too!?