Leeds Banter Archive June 19 2012

19 Jun 2012 21:59:26
To the guy who posted definitely signing Kenny 19 June no sign of him pal. Think it proves no one knows although must admit would like Paddy to join sooner the better Philbramley

19 Jun 2012 19:20:50
why is it the new thing to look at the forbes rich list and say they buying leeds out then go into wikipedia to back up there rumour get real folks wikipedia is easily manipulated the same thing has been done for foarnoult and a guy called forrest tomorrow we will probably be taken over by bill gates people think why would guys worth 4 billion be interested in leeds they could buy any football club they choose DONT BELIEVE WIKIPEDIA leeds club site ansd ssn will get the scoop long before wiki does

19 Jun 2012 19:00:52
Warnock has always stated he would pick up a few freebies as well as those with a signing on fee. He also said he was looking to bring in experience and some for the future to get a blend. Well Drury is experienced. When was the last time we had a decent defensive left back. Let me think; Lowry, Dickinson, Mcartney, Sheehan? JD

Think we have to go back to Dorigo for our last great left back. Harte was good but often exposed for pace as Wilko found to his cost when he was sacked.

19 Jun 2012 18:21:55
Just hope any new player coming into the club doesn't read this site, because with all the negativity and being slatted off before they even kick a ball if I were them I'd be having second thoughts. If you would rather be in Portsmouths or Rangers shoes then you'd have something to man about. Or am I wrong and when they step out on to the pitch I guess you moaners won't get behind them or will you? MOT in Warnock we trust. Phil Bramley

The moan and groan club wont be happy choose who we sign,or who buys or invests in the club,they aint happy unless theyre stirring it,if we signed Messi theyd say we should have got Ronaldo,if they dont like it they should do one.

These same moaners were probably the Grayson-Out lobby aswell, cant please them

19 Jun 2012 18:17:54
paddy kenny is an animal just what we want to command the area great signing neil

When did we sign him then? Oh yes, tommorrow - dow!!

19 Jun 2012 18:02:45
at last we have signed someone from norwich rather than them stealing ours! Well done Colin!

Hmm, happy with the sentiment, not with the use of C...n !
He's our manager, give him some respect.

I don't even know what it stands for? :L i just put it up there because i saw loads of others using it....

19 Jun 2012 17:29:59
ok weve not signed Messi, here come the moaners about one signing! wish you lot would all shut up about the negatives and get behind the club and whoevers running it and whoevers in charge of the first team! our team is called UNITED, we dont seem to be at present! its a disgrace!

I'm behind every player on the pitch and the manager, whoever that is and even if they wouldn't be my first choice, as Warnock wasn't, but I find it impossible to get behind Bates and object to being told I should - being a grown up and all.

Anyone who has wasted 4m+ of our money on losing libel cases because of his offensive, and in the view of the Levi case judge 'potentially criminal', programme notes is hard to back, not to mention the constant bad publicity over dodgy ownership issues, the loss of decent players like Howson, Johnson, Gradel, Beckford, White (in a few days), Kilkenny and others, the constant lies, money wasted on radio stations and corporate facilities...I could go on...

I've renewed my season ticket for 2012/13 but 3 of the 4 other people I go with each week haven't done just because they feel Bates is taking us for a ride. One of those people is my son and that really upsets me. Another season like last year and I'll be seriously thinking about whether I can take any more. I've been going since February 1970 and am lucky enough not to have to think about the cost so if people like me are considering not renewing then things are really bad.

You can lecture us all you like about being united but it isn't going to happen while Bates is at the helm. He's a cancer and the sooner we're cured of him the better.

Im OP, i understand how you feel about it mate and i was frustrated with losing players like that for nothing, but i feel that its all in the past now, i feel its always what we 'were' or what we 'did' in the past so i think we should try n look forward, im not a Bates fan and never have been but i hope hes trying to find us some investment, i cant afford season ticket and nice that you have done credit to ya, but i still try go when i can afford to go to a game

2nd poster here - despite having been brought up watching the Revie team I'm realistic about being what we are. Unlike some on here I realise that the Champions League won't be happening in 2 years and was very happy with 7th last year. I always thought it would take 3-4 years to get out of this league.

It's 'what we are' that bothers me. Not so much on the pitch, I can live with that, and I'm not one to whine about the free signing of Drury - he looks a decent signing to me. What bothers me is the money being wasted on non-football things, all of which are losing money.

Yorkshire Radio alone made a £1.5 million loss last year and that money came out of the football club. Bates created that radio station just because he has a beef with the BBC - he calls it the 'Biased Bloated Corporation' in his programme notes - and wanted our home commentary off BBC Radio Leeds. He turned down 600k for the radio rights so his vanity is actually costing us over £2 million pounds per season just in radio related expenditure and, as a businessman myself, I don't see how YR can ever make a profit. That's a lot of money in our league and could be used to hold on to players like McCormack, White and Clayton, all of whom are good players at this level and they are here now, not in the past.

19 Jun 2012 17:24:47
dont understand what people want on here.were you expecting ashley cole perhaps,enrique?.look we have signed an experienced premier player who is very consistent.warnock says on o/s just how much he wanted him before.he isnt just a player off the scrapheap whom he didnt really want.we need alot of players so of course theres going to be a copule out of contract who will help us.so you dont think drury will be better than parker?.or better defensively than white.come on proof is in the pudding,stop knocking it already.when and if i see a full squad of his age and free then i might moan to but lets see whom we end up with...shrew leeds

19 Jun 2012 16:36:00
Dont know anything about Drury, only that he's free, 33yrs old and been at Norwich for 10+yrs. Hope he's better than the quality we've brought in in recent years.

There's a chap playing in the Leeds Sunday League who is better than what we have had over the last 3 years. JD

19 Jun 2012 16:12:41
I just posted about hoping my day wouldn't be ruined by signing Paddy Kenny and of course I spoke too soon instead we sign Adam Drury almost 34 and way past his best. If this is the standard of player we're signing then this takeover/investment talk looks like it's all a cover. Please let me be wrong and give us Leeds fans something to look forward to.

For goodness sake! What a ridiculous comment.

We sign a full-back who played knocking on half of last season in the PREMIERSHIP, and we still have people moaning!

Get real and get behind Warnock. It's years since we've had a left back who can defend. And if we're going to be obsessed by age, how old was Gordon Strachan when we signed him?

Strewth!

It's official! Bates is now firmly wedging one up Warnock's derriere. This must now scupper all the rumours about Bates being in ill-health, because he ain't got problems with flaccidity......

Hes a good player!

My comment is ridiculous?? I think you'll find the only ridiculous comment made is your bewildering one about Gordan Starchan (barely 32 at the time by the way not almost 34 like Drury), to use a plyer like him to compare players ages. He came from the scum when he was one of their best players not like Drury who only made appearances last season due to injuries for Norwich (huge club).


I only stated facts, Drury is a barely an average Championship player on his best day and you're happy with a signing like that.

Crikey!

Perhaps you would be able to manage Leeds better than NW??? How come you aren't in the job then?
Chris

Yes I think your comment was completely ridiculous!

Warnock has admired him for a number of years. I'd rather trust the judgement of a manager who has achieved promotion on numerous occasions than you, if you don't mind! I don't care if you've won the Champions League on a computer game, I'm only interested in the real world.

My comment about Strachan was pertaining to the fact that some people always complain about signing players the other side of thirty, regardless of their quality.

If you'd rather stick to the players in our joke of a team last season, so be it. Personally I'd rather go with Warnock's team and judgement.

19 Jun 2012 16:09:13
Wow we've signed someone else!! What does everyone think of the drury signing? All under control down at ER. No need to panic

I like it, good experienced player, decent full back

19 Jun 2012 15:53:00
sign of things to come if we're replacing young promising players like Aidy White with old never-has-beens like Adam Drury. ominous.

So when did White leave leeds then, exactly?

Coz aidy whites crap! no end product and hes weak

Who is to say that he is replacing Aidy White? last time i saw NW played white on the wing. We need some experience in our defence to sort out the shambles. in NW we trust!
Leeds4LIFE MOT!

Hope so,solid player at this level,still quick and will do a good job,Id back NWs judgement above yours,always summat to moan about some folk.

White is not signing a new contract so warnock needs to replace him

Aidy white is about as promising as a Conservative government policy

19 Jun 2012 14:53:25
Just wanted to point out someone has been playing silly beggers with the current leeds squad on wikipedia stating players such as jack butland,ched evans and alan smith are in the current squad which we all know isnt true or maybe the likes of ched evans has a key to the prison hes in right now!! lol

I just seen it! very funny jem

19 Jun 2012 14:09:38
Desperately want the Berard Arnault rumour to be true. However as stated by our wise ED wikedia surely is carrying the information he has purchased the club BUT that site can be edited. If someone is playing a practical joke or just mischief making then it's not funny when so many Leeds supporters like myself are desperate for information on our beloved club. Phil Bramley

It is a big fat lie. And its been removed. No news in this case is good news. Wait for an official announcement. Everything else is merely superfluous drivel.Especially on wickers world.

19 Jun 2012 11:18:27
Hi ed and fellow leeds fans, just wanted to point one thing out, In this day and age of accessibility to media coverage through various social and interweb sites it is quite astonishing how nobody actually knows anything about the takeover or investment at Leeds and I for one look at this as a positive step as the people involved are keeping things very close to their chest which in my eyes could mean a lot of money involved,

The jyg

I have to say I'm astonished that there as been nothing not a thing nada come out of ER
If this was any other club I would say the only reason there has been no word of a Takeover is because there is no takeover ie nothing to be said

As it is with Bates been involved in any negotiations I would imagine there's plenty he doesn't want to come out
plenty in there he wants to keep quiet

Plus it will not be straight forward with Bates of shour accounts who owns this who owns that
It will be very dificult to get to the bottom of the financial structure of the club
Even more so when your dealing with Bates it must be like climbing into a bag of snakes

19 Jun 2012 09:33:49
If paddy kenny comes give the bloke a chance.whether he's better than lonegran I don't know but I have seen both make mistakes.one thing for sure is that warnock trusts him,he helped qpr up with some great performances and for me decent keeper.it's the outfield that the interesting part.are we going to have fillet steak or spam type signings.soon we will know.shrew Leeds

He is the best keeper out there at this level!

Mark14

I hope whoever comes in gets the fans backing! That was part of the problem last year
I see good things to come MOT

Chorley white

Give him a chance?! I for one think it is a great signing if we get him.

Hmm not sure I think rachubka should be given another chance, haha joke

19 Jun 2012 07:33:50
if things dont start happening soon ie takeover signings we will be in deep s**t and be battling religation not a cat in hells hope of a top 6 finish as we are at the morment comon leeds let us fans whats going on and its not just crap coming out of er to bump up season ticket sales by bates and co

Bit too soon to worry.I mean not too many people have moved yet.if no investment or takeover then yes worry but time yet.things will hot up first or second week of July when euros hav fin and contracts run out.if we stay quiet then def worry away.shrew leeds

18 Jun 2012 23:27:35
Posted a reply earlier, but have been thinking about our situation, and I have come to the conclusion that all is not what it seems.... Personally, I think The talk of takeover is a bit far fetched... Naming rights to the ground is an obvious way of generating income to fund Neil's promotion.. Bates is a businessman, not a fan of Leeds.. Put yourself in his shoes - next season every club can basically only spend what it generates, AND has to balance its books accordingly.. Now that will include player wages, as well as transfer fees. In principle that means that all of a sudden even a modestly well off person can run a football club and be successful, especially when you have the level of income that we have. bates has the chance to invest very little, and because of the new rules still be able to compete for the title, and the 70-80 million windfall that comes with promotion... That's when, in my view he sells... Just after transferring our promotion winnings into the Pricipality of Monaco...

18 Jun 2012 23:10:26
on a positive note, the minging ads appear to have been replaced.