Leeds banter 2

27 Apr 2024 03:05:50
Wow, tough watch and frustrating that we are in a terrible slump, has been like this since international break, really affected us.
Last 7 games since break and only 8 points out of 21, with 3 losses.
Very unfortunate as others around faulted but not as bad as us and now looks like extended season and dreaded playoffs.
Think DF done very well to get us soooo close but start of season hurt us, first 10 games and only 16 points out of poss 30, have been playing catch up all season.
We were fantastic from start of new year and need that form over next couple weeks.
Have a few issues with DF but on a whole would want him to stay for next season, which ever league we in, think he will bring good times.
We deserved to get tonked today, QPR were on it from start and too many of our players off it big time.
Our forwards today were poor, not holding ball and as a result, put pressure on MF and defense. Even gruev and Roden were off and they have been class.
Piroe is terrible and next season need 2 new strikers ( get rid piroe/ bamford) , still feel Joseph decent and he should start remaining games imo?
Can we step up and get up via playoffs, maybe we'll score winning promotion final goal from a CORNER!
If in championship, we'll lose Meslier, Roberts, Roden, summerville, Gnoto and rutter and a rebuild needed.
Trying to stay positive, maybe Ipswich will lose next 2 then onto final day.
How long is James and Roberts out for, back for playoffs?
MoT.

27 Apr 2024 08:07:35
Good post MW…Ipswich only have to fail to win both their next games and it will go down to the last game…so still a small chance of autos.

…. maybe we can do it via the playoffs. What a way to do it, that would be!

I also want DF to stay as well as many of the players as possible. If we don’t make it, he deserves the chance to try again and I think, aside from getting over the obvious “hangover, ” hopefully we can get a better start next time and the “49’s” put their hand in their pockets; they never really had a chance to do it last summer with all the turmoil of who was in the “loan” fiasco.

Bielsa’s failure was more painful for me; we had led the way most of the season before crumbling and we hadn’t been in the EPL for a generation …he got the chance and did it next time.

27 Apr 2024 08:52:48
Agree with both I said mid table promotion or not frake has done amazing!

27 Apr 2024 00:44:20
I haven't seen the game yet and, from the comments here, I am not sure that I want to put myself through the additional pain of actually watching it.

I have seen various theories to explain why the team has gone from unbeatable to also-rans, none of which can be totally discounted.

I have a question from left field that may explain everything.

I have a vague recollection of seeing a reference to a curse being placed on Leeds many years ago.

Is this true or just an urban myth?

If true, can someone please organise an exorcism (or whatever you do for curses) during the week.

I am happy to pay for a sacrificial chicken if that is required, but cannot help if the ritual requires the involvement of a virgin.

27 Apr 2024 01:28:52
Urban myth.

27 Apr 2024 02:03:25
No myth. Just crap.

27 Apr 2024 02:43:01
Well this team just not good enough will next season be any better can’t see it as half will be replaced with what we will have to see never mind we got 90 points seems to me that points is better than promotion for some still only another 15 years to go.

27 Apr 2024 06:57:54
Beg to differ on it being a myth. I recall a rare interview with the Don who said there was a curse and either he or someone else in that era enacted the bizarre ritual the adviser recommended.

27 Apr 2024 07:27:08
Just found a rare article which confirms I am correct. Don believed there was a curse and the adviser he hired was a gypsy.

27 Apr 2024 09:31:20
Good for you. You must be pleased. We don’t give a shit.

27 Apr 2024 15:15:03
Lol Aus! Well said. I bet he is so very pleased to be proved correct on some flouncy nonsense, again!

27 Apr 2024 00:12:51
WhaT l learned tonite

Alf likes a Chinese meal

Baz is partial to biryanis

Prime enjoys jalapeño pizza

2 sheds is on a diet

Oh yes, and we lost 4-0 at QPR. Oh well atleast everyone in the chat room on this site was well fed ( apart from 2 sheds of course )

27 Apr 2024 00:27:02
Yes 1970

Despite the woeful performance and result,

the Leeds live chat is lively and entertaining.

27 Apr 2024 00:34:00
What I learned.

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☝️ Was our formation.

Managed by a 🇩🇪 who is 👖.

27 Apr 2024 02:04:22
Agree George. Non existent management.

27 Apr 2024 07:29:05
What's perhaps worse Aus is all those bottle emojis just so happen to be in full Leeds colours.

26 Apr 2024 23:28:43
Sad to see tonight. A fortunate deflection for their first and we crumbled. Lack of experience showed and the same happened tonus as happened to Saints the other day. At the end of the day our heroes are only human and that's what can happen when disappointment and shock set in. Anyone saying the players don't have the talent or desire, or that Farke doesn't know what he is doing are ludicrous. We are still 2nd, we have got a huge points haul and we have broken countless records. The season isn't over and even if it was we will be back bigger and stronger than before. I know it's disappointing but take a deep breath and try to see it in perspective. We march on, together.

26 Apr 2024 23:59:22
Naive post.

27 Apr 2024 00:15:57
Agree alf. Like bielsa's first season the team have lost form right at the death and are looking like they're running on empty.
Personally I would have liked kamara in the middle for his experience as grays inexperience showed. He was a bit anonymous in the first half.
Our defence was too passive and blocks were too late.
It is going be hard to in the playoffs if that our fate.
A bridge too far for an inexperienced side.

27 Apr 2024 00:25:00
Not naive Baz, purely Alfs opinion and reasoned take on the situation. Its a hell of a battle for 46 matches, no player or team can perform at their pinnacle game in game out or even for 90 minutes at a time. We have to take the achievements of the season in context and to have 90 points is phenomenal. What Alf has to say is very viable I believe but that's also just my opinion!

27 Apr 2024 00:28:18
What Baz said.

27 Apr 2024 00:30:05
agree baz. Not naive at all
Big gulf.
In between optimism and negativity is realism.
Alf and vid etc missed the middle.

27 Apr 2024 00:43:50
Speaking of realism Aus.

Vid its more than a tad hyperbole to refer to 90 points as " phenomenal " when Leicester have potentially 7 points more

AND even more pertinently Ipswich a team that was 2 leagues below Leeds last season will also have more points!

27 Apr 2024 00:58:55
Imo Bielsa's Leeds ( with a midfield of Pablo, Klich, KP, Dallas) etc beat this Farke's Leeds.

As for Farke 's "coaching" evident all season that Farke's main/ only tactics is for team to just give ball to Summerville and Rutter and rely on their ability.

Buendua and Pukki carried Farke and Norwich to EPL

SF49ers have a tough call to make.

27 Apr 2024 01:08:52
Well Baz I would suggest that for 3 teams to achieve 90+ points in the same season in such a competitive league is unheard of, so yes, the achievements of all 3 is indeed phenomenal and I doubt will ever be seen again.

27 Apr 2024 01:37:31
Vid ; Leeds finishing on 90 points ( or 93 at best) counts for nowt if they don't get promoted.

Farke has also considerably underachieved with a front line of £130 million ( Rutter, Gnonto, Summerville, DJ, Bamford, Piroe . to be topped by Ipswich fgs!

And as for " phenomenonal " 90 points, just last season Burnley finished on 101 points ( 11 points more ) and Sheff Utd on 91 points . and one has seen how woeful this season they have been .

Realism.

{Ed001's Note - it must be being so happy that gets you through the day!}

27 Apr 2024 01:51:56
It was a disappointing night, that’s for sure. However, if Ipswich fail to win either of the next two games, then it goes to the last game, irrespective. …most fans, even those who supposedly deal in realism, would have taken our position even a few weeks ago, nevermind at the start of the season.

Overall we have had a great season, far better than anyone might have hoped and certainly better than most predicted. As for 90 points, well, we have only ever done it once before, so an amazing achievement. I’m for one appreciative of what the lads have done in the name of Leeds United this season, and if it turns out, that they fall short, then so be it.

27 Apr 2024 02:05:37
Shame still not enough vid.

27 Apr 2024 02:32:13
Ani ' a few weeks ago ' Leeds were 1st with auto promotion in our hands

But yes what will be will be.

27 Apr 2024 15:18:10
Vid; yes, it is an amazing achievement for all 3 teams at the top of the league to have gained 90+ points before the season has finished! And two of those teams have done so without flouting financial regulations too!

26 Apr 2024 23:18:03
Wow, we were so poor we couldn't afford a packet of spangles, my word. But the fat lady is still in the dressing room, there is time. Worst case scenario we go up at a White Wembley late in May. Keep the faith siblings UTWDTP.

27 Apr 2024 00:03:11
Well not over . but you have evidently in your posts considerably overestimated the team spirit in this team.

27 Apr 2024 01:40:15
Curious to know Vid what were the causes for Leeds United woeful performance in your opinion?

27 Apr 2024 07:39:01
Totally disjointed performance Baz. We never got to grip with their high intensity, we had no press, awful passing and no speed of play, too stop start backwards sideways then give it to Cree to try and create. Too many players off their game no invention and we must be the worst team in the league when it comes to corners at both ends of the pitch. Should have been changes at half time, I would have moved Archie to rb and bought Kamara in, replaced Piroe with Joseph.

27 Apr 2024 15:19:24
A very good insight Vid, that can’t sanely be argued against! 👍🏻.

26 Apr 2024 23:01:34
Tonight was like flash backs to the end of last season.
Atleast we won't be getting relagted.

27 Apr 2024 00:03:35
Bingo Leeroy.

26 Apr 2024 22:49:15
Brother Bazadamus Now Ani's Gonners officially not gone! Promoted automatically no less. Very good Davis. What a howler on both counts.

26 Apr 2024 23:03:43
Not yet.

26 Apr 2024 23:14:03
Still think Hull will beat Ipswich narrowly

But one thing imo is that Ipswich have a far better team spirit than Leeds United. for various reasons

Meslier, Summervile, Gnonto, Rutter self before side players . never revered any of those pretenders

Meslier will no doubt do a Kiko in playoffs

And passionless clueless stubborn DF ugh.

27 Apr 2024 00:31:56
Agree annoyingly ba.

27 Apr 2024 15:20:11
Rutter definitely not in that category Baz.

26 Apr 2024 22:40:59
I think this question was previously asked.
Will Rodon, Anthony etc be available for the playoffs, or do they return to their parent teams.

26 Apr 2024 23:03:58
Available.

26 Apr 2024 23:15:31
I think they will be available. Likely, not that if will matter.

26 Apr 2024 22:33:02
Dreadful result and performance, however. it's really not that unthinkable that Ipswich win, lose and draw their remaining 3 (in some order) and we beat Southampton.

It's not quite over yet! I'll keep believing until it's mathematically impossible!

26 Apr 2024 23:15:59
Feasible but very unlikely.

26 Apr 2024 22:29:20
After 5 mins I knew we were not winning that game
When it was 1-0 down me and my dad said this will be 4 or 5-0
We looked lethargic
We were out played with and without the ball QPR shape was better they had players all over the park chasing everything down
Meslier looked awful, Piroe was a waste of space . It almost felt like we threw the game but that's an injustice to qpr . Much much the better team .

26 Apr 2024 23:17:21
Threw the game indeed . they never once wanted it.

26 Apr 2024 23:17:26
Totally agree Mighty, body language and attitude looked all wrong.

27 Apr 2024 00:05:42
Spot on LUFCfeath.