Leeds Banter Archive July 23 2013

 

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23 Jul 2013 23:27:38
Varney in England squad please

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Why? Just because he has one reasonable game against a lower league club?

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Poster 2 - you still recovering from your sense-of-humour bypass operation?

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Glad you think we have something to joke about, then.

. from where I am sitting it looks like we aren't going to have much to smile about this season unless something drastic changes soon.

I have faith, but a comedy show this isn't!

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Poster 3 - chill dude that post was from his mum, she never thought he was any good either.

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23 Jul 2013 22:56:25
Tonight just proves to all you doubters why we needs Varney in our team good on you mate.

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Totally agree if we are going to play the likes of Stevenage all season.

. unfortunately we aren't though!

He needs to do a lot more than that to convince me.

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23 Jul 2013 22:19:42
so all you doubters what do you think of Luke Varney now?

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23 Jul 2013 22:42:49
Tonite he found his level- tiring bottom end div 1

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Haha good reply fair play to him but its stevenage dont. know why everyones going mad?:s

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23 Jul 2013 22:04:22
I have a feeling Pearce was omitted from squad tonight as we are on verge off getting rid, Eddie didn't ask Brian about new players coming in. I'd put cash on us having at least one new player by Saturday. Got to be a winger and a centre half in that order. I still think it will be Rowe,

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23 Jul 2013 21:02:06
Not made a post for a while, but come on lads 0-0 against Stevenage and no shot on goal for the first 29 mins, We are going to struggle this year again, and no I am not all doom and gloom, I thought things had turned a corner when we got Murphy, but now its one step forward and 6 back!
Ps Ed 013 what is this about red Bull? I have spoken to David O'Leary, and he is unsure about these rumours

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23 Jul 2013 21:01:53
Kenny doing ok
Thomson done nothing yet
Lees Dominating when he needs to
Pugh done nothing
Drury done nothing
Norris shown in spells but nothing much
Brown just giving away fouls
Green not in game
White one good run and pass poleon missed sitter
Varney just giving away fouls and getting off side a lot
Poleon poor finishing and poor distribution.

Just coming on Austin and McCormack
Paul Green off with Norris off too.
coming up to 60 mins played

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LOL you and your great support you.

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23 Jul 2013 20:19:54
listening to the game at stevenage we are getting a lesson at the moment, how we are not at least one down I will never know, 33 mins gone and we have not had an effort on goal yet, I hope we turn things around in this game at the moment it's not looking good.

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Looking good for what? the game? the season? its largely irrelevant and to be honest a friendly.

As long as we don't concede I am happy, let's not forget the 90s team was built on a foundation of a solid defense.

And realsitically we only conceded one against Walsall and which meant we were defensivley OK for the rest of the game. And I think the other games were the same in Slovenia.

And of course let's not forget this team beat Watford in game they had to win to get promoted. Arguably the 2nd best team in the championship last year.

Not panicing, just want a couple of signings

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We are not 1 down because the defnse are holding

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Matches are played over 90 minutes, not 33. Nor 78, so another 12 to go.

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Perhaps I was wrong about varney. Maybe he will benefit from the new playing style brian has implemented. To be honest for all of last season he was my pet hate. But he has shown not just tonight but against Wednesday and charlton he knows where the goal is. I also think the reason why he was bad was because of his confidence issues. If he can keep this up his confidence will be sky high and hopfully that will continue throughout the actual season.
I hope I'm right

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Doesn't matter if it's 0-0 at 33 mins if it's 3-0 at full time

Matches are played over time give the team a chance mate

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24 Jul 2013 11:42:00
90 mins Stevenage 0 - 3 Leeds
On top of that a Varney Hat trick
So stop the winging and get behind BMD and the team

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23 Jul 2013 19:16:09
It's obvious Leeds United have to clear deadwood before any new faces arrive at Elland Road; David Norris & Danny Pugh were both heavily linked with Sheffield Wednesday last week, however more recently Bournemouth & Preston respectively. Sam Byram is continually linked with big PL teams, however any deal without a loan-back clause would be poor business for Leeds, as he was by far the stand-out player last season (however a Wabara + Cash I would take). This would be a deal that would only take place if the RedBull supposed deal falls through however.

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23 Jul 2013 18:59:28
Loads of players we have never heard of before all coming to leeds united.
Got it from a good source of mine whose mate's dads nephews friends cats sister who works at Elland Road and knows all the gossip.
Watch the space DONE DEAL FACT!

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I heard the same thing last week, from my sisters, bestmates, baby sisters, babysistters dad who drives past Thorpe Arch every week.

He has a cat too, maybe they know your mates, dadas, nephews, friends cats sister.

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23 Jul 2013 17:33:25
Ok so per season is not happening the way some fans want it but its not the end of the world these things happen lost 2out of 3 so far but there not moaning end give mcd a chance heis doing what he can with what he has if red bull come with cash for him am sure he'll make us happy again and transfer dead line is over a month away anything can happen

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23 Jul 2013 13:48:01
all the doom and gloom merchants out there are getting a tad annoying. I posted this earlier and ask that you just let the boys get on with the job in hand. We can start getting on the teams and managers case next year (we were still in it for a play off place with 10 games to go)

Leeds won 3 and lost 2 under BMD last season, that's a 60% win rate - if that would have been the stat all season, that would have meant 82 (approx) poinst last year and promotion.

I know its unrealistic and all hypothetical, but I will rate him on his league performances and not his pre-season friendlies. I recall we did a lot better last year in pre-saeson and where did we end up?

At least he is really learning about the team, his players and the tactics employed.

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I obviously mean "we were still in it for a play off place with 10 games to go" in relation to last year.

Only god knows what would have happened if BMD was brough in earlier.

My point is, just give the guys a chance.

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23 Jul 2013 13:47:57
Can any1 tell me a app for iPhone 5 so I can listen to Leeds on a digital radio station been trying for ages help please?

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You have to listen through a DAB radio on yorkshire radio or radio leeds but upto now as soon as match comes on they play music instead sorry you need to buy a DAB radio. Or you can stream match through LUTV but that's a fiver a month!

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Thanx but can't I get a dab radio on iPhone 5?

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You have to buy one mate you can get em as small as you want I have a (pure 1500 DAB) had it years its brill well worth the money I take it to the match for comentary.

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Can u watch the actual games if u describe to lutv? {Ed013's Note - Only highlights}

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Ur jokin ed serious? I thought I would be able to watch the boys! Gutted r u sure? {Ed013's Note - If they did that then less people would go to the games}

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True ed cheers son

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I thought Yorkshire radio had an iPhone app! Plus arn't they back with the beeb now?

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23 Jul 2013 12:33:29
i cannot believe luke varney is still here surely someone from league 1/2 would take him? not championship quality.

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Varney is a good backup player for this league. We need to keep him for when we have suspensions / injuries.

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At this moment in time we can't afford to get rid of varney personally I think he will used as a impact player coming of the bench

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What are you saying he was one of our best players last season. he gives it everything in every game and works hard in the team and in this moment of time we need him.

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23 Jul 2013 14:30:35
Watched him at Walsall. He was the best leeds player on the pitch! Only one to put any effort in!

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He was good when he came on against Walsall and played well for McDermott last season.

Btw Paul green was the best player on the pitch for us against Walsall :)

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Gzzzz talk about slagging off your own. What's this world coming too. In fact disgraceful, i'm shocked.

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I actually like Luke varney, he is a bit of a joker which is good to have around but he also caused teams hassle last season when running at them

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Well at least we have a joker in the team. That should get us up
He's completely useless. He constantly gets yellow carded, dives, misses easy chances, makes readiculous mistakes, laughs about those mistakes and just runs around having no clue what he is doing. Also he refuses to clap the fans. Against sheffield Wednesday he did that

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Well if you worked in an office and it was all pressure 100% of the time how would your morale be? pretty poor. while it doesn't get a team promoted, it keeps the dressing room in good spirits. you might need to take off your blinkers to see that. he's not useless, I 100% disagree with that. if he was useless he'd be sitting at home talking trash on a web forum

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Varney had a decent last season. Got better once fans got off his back. Unless we bring ina couple of strikers we going to need him as both a squad player and a starter. MOT

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Poor guy was played outta position near all season, which meant he started badly and persons got on his back. He is great in the air and has reasonable pace. If we play to his strengths then he will have a better season-I thought he played well 2nd half of last season to be fair.

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If only his goalscoringrecord was as good as his yellow card record. Even then he should have got more.

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I may have said he's a joker in the dressing room and keeps the morale high but he's scored three today too. I won't get carried away because of the opposition but I told you he's good going at players and is a decent player

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A hat trick for him tonight.

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Behave paul green was the best player on the pitch! never known a player to be so tactically inept. only knows hows to pass back or diagonally back.

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Think fans like the last reply should stick to yorkshire radio and there armchair and let the fans that want to get behind the team go to games because by the looks of your post you have never seen green play once

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Paul green 4 me last season was our best midfielder by a clear mile. every game iv watched he's the 1 who gives his all, austin however does nothing but shoot. h8 him please leeds dnt let him drag u down

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23 Jul 2013 12:11:37
Ask yourself, how many of the most common 15 players we have would you take into the prem?
Byram? murphy? Warnock? Anybody else? Bit of a worry! Think the club is slowly being turned round and gfh doing a methodical job, think mcd is the man to take us to the prem. just think grayson, bates and warnock especially, have dropped us a long long way in the s****. Apart from our youth who deserve time to grow and prove themselves, everybody else should be available. If qpr offered 3. 5 for ross ( I can run and pass but not score ) mcc we should have snapped there hands off. We shoukd be willing to take a hit on some of tve deadwood just to get them off the wage bill. Poor mcd, fancy having a team that didn't try and lose against wallsall, he said they were nit running into space! It is not acceptable to play for leeds and not try your best and do the basics. We should not struggle to beat lower league teams or part time fireign teams pre season or not. Trouble is, a lot of the players playing now prob realise their days are numbered and will be gone by january. Good luck mcd. Get your act together team!

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How can you possibly slag off Grayson?!

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Since we've been back in the championship Grayson got us our highest finish of 7th? He had his team sold from underneath him, Kasper, Delph, Gradel, Beckford (free) to name a few. These 4 were our best players at that time and he still managed to get us in 7th, I never understand why he gets a hard time

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Yeah I agree, Grayson done a great job sure he made a couple of bad signings but we scored goals. And I remover we were linked to gorkks whilst under him and we didn't have the finances! Honestly think that team he had in that yr would of taken us up if only we added at the back and gave longer contracts to the likes of snoddy max howson and co. Rather than replacing them with the likes of tonge and Pugh who earn more than the others did an we paid a transfer fee for! Bad business! Not Grayson but bates!

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Can run and pass but not score? he got 19 league goals the last season where he was consistently played upfront. I don't know what you're on but you won't get 20+ goals from a striker if you play him on the wing.

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Grayson did a lot for us. But let's face facts, he's a League 1 manager. He knows how to get teams out of League 1. Same pattern with Warnock, only he's a Championship manager at best, not premier league. He knows how to get teams out of the championship and that's about it.

Chin up Leeds, we're in a better state than we were this time last year!

In Brian I Trust!

Roundhay White

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23 Jul 2013 10:41:00
would prefer to be positive about posting but byram injury taking it's time to clear up, making me concerned, hope its not another ben parker type injury.
or worse still just keeping him safe for the rumoured sale,

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Or worse? I think we be better off selling than the lads career going like poor Parkers!

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Parker was nowhere near the level of Byram

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23 Jul 2013 10:10:32
I'm going to repeat myself because, well, I can.

Once again we showed we have no real goalscorer in our team against Walsall, whilst I'm not one to be negative about the whole situation the fact of the matter is it is POINTLESS creating chances if you don't have a goalscorer to put them away.

People can moan all they like that supporters of our club go on about former players at the club, but at the end of the day at least them former players knew how to put the ball in the back of the net.

It's all well and good me moaning about it, but in all honesty a solution needs to be found, personally Adam Le Fondre would be my solution, although he looks as though he will now be staying at Reading, which leaves us in a bit of a situation, Charlie Austin is to expensive, and everyone else who scores goals at this level are either too expensive or have just been signed by another club. I agree that some players from lower leagues should be given a chance but if we are to be mounting a 'serious' promotion charge this season then we need a proven goalscorer at this level now!

While I'm at it, we still need a solid CB, I'd be happy to put a winger/midfielder on hold for an out and out goalscorer and a CB, I see we have been linked with Kaspar Gorkss, personally not my first, second or third choice, but they have been signed by other clubs now so that's another story, but he would be an improvement on what we have, having won promotion twice to the premier league he clearly has to have been doing something right, although worryingly he was on loan at Wolves last season and well we all know what happened to them!

MOT SussexLeeds

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We could afford this much needed striker by offloading ross mccormack. I'm not hating on ross but we need to wheel and deal to get our striker. Qpr offered us 3.5 million for the striker. I think that sort of money is good for a player who although works hard and has a lot of quality only scored 8 goals and missed an awful lot of chances. Even though he is a top player there are better strikers out there who are worth the same as him
Charlie Austin
Kevin Doyle and a winger - chris Burke
Marvin emnes and a winger- chris Burke
Marvin sordell and a winger
Nahki wells a winger and a centre back
Cameron jerome and a winger
Dexter blackstock a winger and a centre back
Billy sharp and a winger

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If you can't get in the Scotland team your not a top player. he is one of the best of a bad bunch, I would let him go for 3.5m but only if we had at least one quality player lined up to buy with the money we got for him.

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£3.5m? Who the hell made that figure up?

No way, as much as I like Ross, is someone willing to pay that much money for him, personally I don't see him being our problem, as many have said before on here there are too many Warnockesque type players that need to go, I am not blaming Warnock for bringing them in though as he had F-all to spend in terms of transfer funds and done the best he could, but they are no good if we are meant to be targeting promotion.

To be sold:

Tonge
Brown
Norris
Varney

These would be the four players I'd look to ship out before even thinking about getting rid of anyone else. I know this won't generate a hell of a lot of money but we got to remember its also the wages it will save too, I'd imagine over the course of a year in contract these players between them earn approx. £1m (Estimating that each of them is on £5k per week, could be more could be less). This money along with any possible transfer revenue generated from the sales of them, maybe £500k max. would be enough to surely fund a move for say Le Fondre.

The above are all estimations, and the fact is there aren't going to be many teams out there willing to take these 'past their best' players on.

MOT SussexLeeds

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Would you chose any player to replace him from that list?

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Stop getting on his back will you is it any wonder players always end up leaving this club when fans like you give them stick constantly

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Nope I would not replace mccormack for any of them players ross has stuck with leeds even when he was getting pissed about by warnock playing him out of position and just leaving are best player on the bench

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Ross is better than all those strikers mentioned.

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No he isn't.
Charlie Austin best in the league
Kevin Doyle better goalscorer
Marvin emnes a lot more potential and powerful
Marvin sordell much more potential
Nahki wells ross is probably better than him
Cameron jerome premier league striker
Dexter blackstock about the same
Billy sharp better goalscorer

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Yeah but can we afford them no we can't so its pointless you mentioning these players because where not signing any fans need to start been realistic

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23 Jul 2013 19:58:24
I like ross but there are better strikers than him. Last season he missed a lot of chances. He works hard yes but is not an out and out striker who will poach for goals. The reason why he has stuck with leeds is because there has been no offers for him.
The whole season he was moaning on twitter instead of scoring goals to prove himself. It's just blind loyalty.

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23 Jul 2013 10:06:53
Chelsea are loaning out a load of there youngsters get in there first Brian especially chabaloah class player cumon it's only a couple of loans could make a huge difference in our season mot!

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I do think we need to take advantage of the loan market properly this season. Instead of getting players fitness back then sending them back we need to keep them for the season to improve our squad.
Nathaniel chalobah would be brilliant

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23 Jul 2013 08:50:10
Why did we ever release Lloyd Sam
A pacey winger who was under utilised on the left wing but was fantastic on the right just what we could do with now and we refused to renew his contract

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I can see your point. However I think we need chris Burke. He's fast, hardworking, cheap. In January birmingham wanted 300,000 for him surely GFH would pay that now if we offload one player.

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In January Birmingham turned down 500K for Burke they wanted another 300k on top of the 500K

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No warnock said in his book gfh would give him 300k for Burke.

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He also said on tv & radio interview that we & Forest had offered 500k & birmingham had turned it down they wanted 800K there is a lot of s*** in his book that is their to deflect the fact that he failed & blames everyone but himself he spent approx 3 million

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"warnock said in his book gfh would give him 300k for Burke"

Must be true then if Warnock said so.

. don't think I'll ever be reading the book to find out what else he said though!

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Can't believe you have even read it, I wouldn't be seen dead supporting that person in any way shape or form, let alone lining his pockets by buying his bloody fairytale book!

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23 Jul 2013 07:56:26
All will be forgiven if we beat stevenage

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And all hell will break loose if we can't.

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