Leeds Banter Archive January 22 2018

22 Jan 2018 21:38:27
Wow! Rarely have I witnessed such despondency on this site. Can’t believe everyone is giving up on the season already after a bit of a bad run. Yes things need to get better but goodness me weee only half way through and haven’t even played our new chap yet. We still might make another signing and we could yet click with the players we have and go on a run. It’s not the end of the world just yet and I for one have not given up on the lads or TC just yet. I’m fighting until the end.

22 Jan 2018 23:24:34
Alfupper, T C said himself that the season over and he’s the bloody manager, that’s despondency for mate can’t get much worse then that,

23 Jan 2018 04:33:39
Think the two signings we got in first team will be good and balance the team out better. But we still need a striker. And for tc to go. It is possible with new signings, saiz back and a striker we could still make playoffs. The players in general are good enough. But as others say. We have blown it this year. Its an easy champ to get auto promotion out of it but tc was not up to it! We will lose saiz, pontus and poss viera come the summer and then its another 3 quality signings. For the most part. We have not been capable of a few quality signings. We prefer buying 10-15 cheap ones and hoping 2-3 come good. The season isn't over but there is so much wrong with leeds at the moment. As somebody said below. The balls in your court radz. You wanna go for it this year? You know what yiou got to do!

23 Jan 2018 07:47:35
Tc has made too many mistakes now Aus, doesn't seem to be able to motivate the players on a regular basis, makes poor subs regularly, baffles me with his after game interviews of positivity when I'm done games we have clearly been awful, I do think radz will stick with him till the end of the season though. would be time for a change for me personally, who would we realistically get though, bare in mind you are the 'head coach' not s manager, you have no real say on transfers as that's Ortas bag, not really going to attract a top manager unless that changes

23 Jan 2018 08:23:26
agree alf its not over yet still all to play for, like the look of new bloke however things have to improve and i have to say i have zero faith in manager

23 Jan 2018 13:27:38
Bit of a bad run alf? Your posts are normally spot on mate but i reckon you taken too many happy pills!

23 Jan 2018 13:47:16
Personally I blame the recruitment - we haven't signed enough of the type of players that we need in this league and we have signed too many duds who have not come good. I think a lot of managers would struggle with the resources available as we just don't have a big, strong spice to the team which is essential in this league.

23 Jan 2018 15:07:13
agree Alf think and hope Forshaw just might be the answer to that

22 Jan 2018 20:15:12
Poor Pep Clotet got the sack today from Oxford! Should have him back at Leeds as TC’s Number 2! Fell sorry for him.

22 Jan 2018 21:49:42
Didn’t he have the option to stay on with us at the time?

23 Jan 2018 09:03:09
Exactly alf Although glad he went.

23 Jan 2018 11:17:00
I agree with Mike, get him back. I think he's one of those that will always be a good assistant but never a good manager . a bit like Brian Kidd.

23 Jan 2018 13:32:16
was he a good assistant for us? think we underachieved last year and had no plan b. i liked pep but wouldn't want him back

22 Jan 2018 18:56:43
Grot starting for the U23's tonight. might be worth watching. should've been there all season really.

22 Jan 2018 18:15:37
Jimmy Armfield RIP.

22 Jan 2018 15:23:58
Well Klich didn’t last long, he’s gone out on loan, I’m surprised anyone was that desperate! It looks like a couple of Prem teams are sniffing around Pontus and a couple of non league teams are sniffing around Cooper! Hopefully we say no to Pontus going! 😂😂

22 Jan 2018 16:55:11
Mikewoody let’s sale the lot no point, buy new next season, play the under 21 that’s are future

22 Jan 2018 20:13:52
At this rate pal the under 12’s will be the future! If you know what I mean! Anyway who knows anymore, at least TC has come out and told it like it is, he can’t hide anymore and he can’t justify the red cards, he got it wrong tactics wise when we went 3-2 up, fair enough Roofe wanted to come off but he should of kept the attacking threat on because after that Millwall had no threat to their back line! This is a really tough league and I hope he proves me wrong but I think he is out of his depth, he doesn’t seem to learn from his mistakes! What do you think mate? MOT

22 Jan 2018 20:22:31
If you were Pontus would you stay? .

22 Jan 2018 21:07:57
A lot of players we’ve had have left because of our lack of direction and false promises! So in answer to you’re question mate, no I wouldn’t! But saying that many have left and found that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence or electric gates as McBadgekisser found! I hope he stays and Radz has said no more selling as we are building and if I was TC I would make him Captain, that would give him fresh impetus, Cooper should bench sitting. MOT

22 Jan 2018 23:26:52
Mikewoody great post mate agree 100% with both

22 Jan 2018 13:42:46
Ok I’m throwing this name out to you guys! Michael O’Neill turns down Scotland, I’d like him at Elland Road as Manager! Thoughts peoples?

22 Jan 2018 13:59:37
Isn't there an offer on the table from the Irish too? Think he's turned Scotland down, not his current employer. That aside, with what he has achieved, anyone would be interested at this level, though quite prices, having turned down a 4mill deal from the scots.

22 Jan 2018 18:16:23
maybe defo better than what we have

22 Jan 2018 12:58:23
Interesting isn't it, at half time we were 2-0 down, and we go in at half time, come backl out and score 3 in 15 minutes, with 10 men. either that team talk worked or they just didn't listen at kick off. Burton the same, 1-0 at half time, win the game 2-1. This is big for us and can prove to be a positive in the future, but why does it take us to concede first and get a headache from some spanish bloke kicking off to then go and score goals. This team should be hungry for goals, and are slowly losing that ambition. There is ability there no question, but its about ego boosting and proving to them that they can win games, as they can see from the start of the year.

22 Jan 2018 20:28:45
There is a great saying. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. TC has failed. watch the slide unless Radz grows a pair!

22 Jan 2018 11:49:33
Abysmal really wasnt it the weekend, at 3-2 you think it can't be this great surely against a disgusting milwall side. Then again they had the better of us at 2-0, and it probably should have been 3/4 at the break. It appears that when we cry out for a left back, we sign one and the defence gets all rocky and uneasy, then we cry out for a striker and our number 1 striker scores a brace? TC shows no consistency, he thinks he has 18 players capable of a starting 11 place, when in reality he has about 10. ayling (injured) , berardi, jansson, cooper, de bock, vieira, forshaw, saiz, hernandez, arguably dallas. To say that this on paper is a core of a leeds team is pretty disgusting. On their day this 10 players will play well and will compete in the championship but there's probably 3/4 of them that will cut it at the next level. Jansson may love leeds united and be passionate, but what's to stop him signing for southampton and saying he loves it there even more because they can offer double what leeds can. You will soon find that this fairytale project that Radz has going on will crumble, if it hasn't already. This team, and the amount we have spent, would 3 years ago see you to the premier league, but when you have clubs like wolves throwing 30 million at strikers, and villa, derby, etc throwing about 20m on players in each window, then actual good teams like fulham, and bristol, leeds have no chance. Wehave good players, great, but it takes a true manager and a full 18 committed players to make something of a season. The reality is, there are teams like brentford, fulham, preston, bristol, who deserve to be where they are. At the start of the season i'd have said leeds did too, but the cracks are showing and leeds are crumbling. I am a huge leeds fan and always will be, but the way that TC is running this team is poor. marco sila the answer? possibly, he knows how to field a squad, has good tactics, and with investment and a license to sign players, would get an average leeds squad to a top 6 spot. I am now writing TC off until proven wrong, bu i see no way back for us. Who knows, we may go and win the next 5 games, and be right up there, but there is a serious lack of talent in our team in comparison to those around us. If they're serious about promotion, TC will get his act together, or radz will hand him a p45 and bye bye. but 1 point from 15, following 16 points from 21, a total 16 points from 12 games, says a lot about leeds this season. If you can't turn draws into wins and losses into draws in the next 4 months, fans will turn and youll be gone mr TC. By this record, i for one won't miss him, his substitutions are off, his starting line up is never the same, usually because there's an injury or suspension, discipline and fitness issues not so much genuine injuries are they. Roofe being tired, sorry that's poor. The team for me that will see this season out with real fight and anything about them is: wied, bera, jansson, penns, de bock, vieira, forshaw, dallas, hernandez, saiz, lassoga. But to be having cibicki, sacko, grot, and anita on the bench is awful and shameful. phillips the only player that should be competing in that team, and that's when he's not 6 inches off the ground studs showing. Poor leeds get your acts together

22 Jan 2018 12:58:41
good post, let's be honest TC is a joke. Our players are playoffs our team is good enough, I am certain of this. Again look at millwall fans unbaised veiws. they said that 30 minutes leeds were as good as any team they have seen. They Thought Aloiski was best player they have seen, which let's be honest he can be class, he has pace, works back, can finish and pass, he was the reason we come back he single handldy tore wall a new one. Then we have Saiz for me the best player in the league, Jansson, Aling (my fav player) and his back Beridi is decent cover. Keeper no better or worse than most at this level. Our midfeild is a worry but the new bloke should fix that and loassoger showed when you play to his strenghts he is maybe one of the best in the league. For me our squad is good enough but as wall fans said Leeds are a weak soft touch, that's the manager, Leeds are cluess one leeds fan said maybe worse leeds manager since Hockaday. after seeing last few games I am starting to agree. I don't mind a rubbish leeds team I will get behind them but a under achiveing one really stings let's be honest Niel Harris is great manager if we had same sqauds but swapped managers leeds would win by at least 4 goals every time

22 Jan 2018 13:47:54
not convinced there BW - the Wall squad are very different physically than the Leeds team and that's the type of player that Harris seems comfortable working with. I would be surprised if he would be much good with our current crop as apart from a few we don't have the physical side. at the end of the day I agree with you when you say that we do have quality in our team but maybe they are the wrong type of players for this league. we need to bolster the squad with more physical players imo so that we can do the dirty side and the physical side when needed. Lasogga has no excuse - he should be bossing defences and pushing them around much more I think and when he does that he causes much more trouble and gives opposing defenders something to worry about. all too often he is quiet and doesn't use his attributes to his advantage.

22 Jan 2018 15:10:12
can see what your saying alf but wall fans think (and I agree) this is there least physical side in years, not saying harris would be the one for us (as he is wall man and knows club well he might struggle anywhere else) but he gets best from his men, look at there wingers jed wallace and the other bloke, got them playing like stanley matthews, my point is more about a manager who gets best from team but yes do agree he might not get best from our team, but we need someone who will, i don't expect us to beat man city but i expect us to beat the average teams in our league and more often than not we dont

22 Jan 2018 10:55:45
RIP Jimmy Armfield, a proper gent of the game.

22 Jan 2018 11:00:20
I loved listening to his Co commentary on the radio. always sounded like a kind hearted man

22 Jan 2018 11:59:44
old school