Leeds Banter Archive January 07 2016

07 Jan 2016 22:45:47
Welcome Stan always good to hear from a new fellow leeds Sufferer! Tell us a bit about how you came to join the Leeds family mate! 😂 myself was 1973 FA cup final team in white against team in red and white stripes, glad I didn't go for the team in red and white stripes ha ha 😎 as Madius Mickius would say downus the pintius and upus tha whitius regards dj the Thames Valley Whites Sufferer 😂.

08 Jan 2016 09:06:40
Welcome Stan and all newbies. As DJ Talent (above) pointed out, make sure you down plenty of pints for the good of the team!

As Vidmeister (the Obi Wan Kenobi) of alcoholism says "Up the Whites, down the pints"!

MM.

08 Jan 2016 11:50:23
Welcome aboard Stan. Don't know much about our new signing. But another loanee, so not to expensive. Still think we need to balance the squad more. We have way too many midfielders. So expect quite a few to depart soon.

08 Jan 2016 12:19:03
Welcome Stan, I became a fan as both my older brothers are Arsenal fans and I wanted to cheer for the other side!

07 Jan 2016 21:58:24
Welcome Stan to the mad house! Anyway topic tonight? Are we going to get stuffed by reddens again? After last sat I wouldn't be surprised but hey ho! On wards and upwards lol mot!

07 Jan 2016 23:33:33
No we can't get stuffed by the tin pot Miller's again. 2 0 To the Mighty Whites.

07 jan 2016 18:14:34
cockupaday sack . you kidder minster me.

07 Jan 2016 17:06:08
Robbie Keane played 45+ games for Leeds scoring just 13. He missed every one of dozens of chances when one on one with the keeper. Was infinitely better when playing in the Green shirt. Lafferty is a bit like that but not as good. Flatters to deceive. Wasn't keen on Keane but that was playing in the higher tier. Definitely not happy with players playing significantly better for national team than for their club.

07 Jan 2016 21:23:30
All depends on many factors. The systems they play in for their respective teams, how happy they are at the club team, players are often prouder to play for their national teams, how regularly they play for their club teams and also what level of opposition they play agaisnt. ROI often play 'championship' level or below opposition so his stats will be skewed.
From what I remember Keane was often deployed on the wing, not a first team regular, a few subs in his appearance tally so can't really see what your point is and why you used Keane as an example.

07 Jan 2016 15:58:40
A certain Argentine is back in training with Rotherham and I don't mean Messi.

(Watch how a few posters will now reel off every name from the current Argentina side except for Lucky Luciano)

07 Jan 2016 17:13:14
Just a guess, but is it Eva Peron?

07 Jan 2016 18:20:24
Tough thing to do when you're not a man speedyg. No women players yet in the FL. It's even tougher though when you've been dead 64 years.

07 Jan 2016 18:25:32
Had a feeling it probably wasn't correct.

07 Jan 2016 21:08:43
I think you'll find she was Argentinian though George, so not a million miles away imo.

07 Jan 2016 22:01:51
She did have lots of nice shoes by all accounts, not that I think she had any footie boots mind and could hold a decent tune or was that just the ladies who sung about her?

We can do better than beck as he cannot be up to speed as ain't played for ages, good luck NR with that one, seems mad risk to me.

08 Jan 2016 00:06:32
Always love to hear when players who have left keep supporting us and want to come back. And loved Luciano when he played for us. But that's in my heart not my head. And my head says it extremely unlikely he'd be worth the risk. I'd take a punt if it was James Milner mind you.

07 Jan 2016 13:44:49
It looks like Bianchi might get a run out on Saturday which would be great to get him back. Has anyone seen anything of him (BIGE) since he's been back in the under 21s?

MM.

07 Jan 2016 14:50:20
Hes looking ok MM, would not say he was fit enough yet, still keeps possession well and he just looks comfortable on the ball. Only seen him in one match though. Sloth is playing really well, thought he would have been in frame for sat. We got a decent striker at last, a lad named Wilks looks handy, be rady for when we in premiership.

07 Jan 2016 16:40:11
MM -I have got to be honest when Bianchi played all those games I didn't really see what he did/ added to us. No good going forward, wasn't a great passer of defense splitting balls, not quick, no dribbling skills, no goal threat, OK with short passes but wasn't a great tackler either so what was the point?

Would hope Sloth got a go cause jury still out on him (another one who when I saw play added very little but fair to say has not played many games but I don't really see his value, like Bianchi compared to our other midfield types we have got) .

Point is Bridcott made a difference right away and you could see what value he would add and he made a difference I just think Bianchi doesn't so we should sell back to Italy esp as he is a high earner by all accounts.

07 Jan 2016 11:05:11
It's a New Day and a New Year but life at ER never changes.
A wealthy man decides to spend his cash to make lots of money by taking a former great club and drag it back off the floor and to get it back where it belongs in the EPL.
Easy for a genius to achieve.
So he throws money in to pay the outstanding wages and bills before he's even concluded the deal as administration was only days away.
Not even time to carry out the DD which is crazy to say the least.
He finds there are court cases going back years and it's a mess.
Eventually after making loads of mistakes he needs investment for shares and he struggles as we have been so badly run before his arrival that every institution is now aware plus he fights with the FL and now even the fans.
Because of his convictions even willing investors walk away as they cannot be tarred by his messy brush.
So now it's desperation times and that's where his genius will come into play.
He must sell to buy and to survive.
Like I said
Nothing ever really changes ER.
It's going to be another newsworthy year at ER for sure.

07 Jan 2016 12:28:08
I disagree, when has there been a headline that says we are near financial ruin, or a story about us starting with the phase cash strapped?
Because after the big bang and we went to league 1 that seemed to be how the media termed us .
M C brought Leeds and with-in 6 months we announced a massive lose, which we can't blame him for .
Not that agree or have agreed with his decisions all times and I wish we still had Pearson running the club, but as big as we are no one else came up with the cash .
Thought Woods was going to be much better but not all signing work and Leeds are not alone in this .
Survivor think of your glass half full rather than half empty .

07 Jan 2016 12:39:58
Jeff (Survivor) has been pro-Cellino for yonks and even pretended to be a confidante! Now he has turned on his (cough) mate and is saying he is skint. I think that despite his rants and raves, he's the best we've had for many years. At least he got a good fee for McBadgekisser and it was good business in anybody's book. Bates would have sold for an undisclosed fee and trousered the money for himself. No doubt if Byram, Cook, Fonzie etc do leave it will be for a sizeable fee. These, to me, aren't the actions of someone who is skint. If he was skint, he'd be snapping their hands off.
For the first time in years we are paying decent money (£3m for Wood) although the jury's still out on that one. Byram is going because he wants to go. It makes sense to cash in now and re-invest.
Talks of having to sell to survive (see original post) are, as always, ridiculous.
MM.

{Ed013's Note - Dear Lord not this again ;-)

07 Jan 2016 13:09:46
Mr Survivor, as I'm quite new to this site I could be wrong but are you just depressed? Never any good news all bad, we're doomed according to your posts. Last week Mowatt was off to Newcastle, this week Cooks going to Bournmouth, Cellino has run out of money etc etc
Clearly all fans realise it's tough financially for any large club which is outside the Premier league as expectation of the fans and overheads all have to be met.
So as its a new year can you use your connections for some happy news, like who were going to sign, who's going to buy out MC or just participate in some light hearted banter and irrelevance which make this site fun and a daily read.
Happy new year.

07 Jan 2016 13:22:06
If the jury is still on out on woods. Find the jury guilty and execute them jeez I mean c'mon wow like know where I'm coming from innit!?

07 Jan 2016 16:44:53
Aussie. We don't have executions over here any more in the civilised world. Didn't realise you still had them in the outback 😃. And just to be clear, are you saying Wood has been a good signing, or quite the opposite?