Leeds Banter Archive May 23 2016

 

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23 May 2016 23:32:57
Why are people so negative. We're ahead of Bradford Park Avenue. So what if Robinson turns us down. There's the Bristol Rovers manager and if he doesn't want it then we can always go back to the non League, just because we got Hock does not mean there all bad.

Cellino is a great businessman and knows what he's doing. Why don't people be positive rush out and buy a season ticket. So what if we don't have a decent coach, players, backroom staff, head of recruitment. Why can't everyone just be happy and have blind optimism in Massimo's "plan". I predict we're going to win the league by 20 points. Come on everyone cheer up.

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23 May 2016 23:49:18
Deda

Nice one. Perfect.

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23 May 2016 23:51:23
deda you miss my point, things are not going well, we will not win league, squad and manager are not good. we might even go down. so if we do lose and go down do we stop supporting or loving our club? are we glory hunters, do we only love leeds if leeds are worth loving and successful.

times have chanegd we are no longer super leeds we are avaerage leeds at best. but we was nearly no leeds that is time to be sad and negitive. while there is leeds I am happy, while I have a team to support I will support them win lose or draw if good or bad point in our history.

if we was league two club for rest of my life so what they are my league two club. let's worry about bad when it happens and be happy for good while it is here. that is my point a point some people miss, it is not about the winning it is about being leeds and being proud.

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24 May 2016 00:05:31
Deda,

Your post actually superb because Cellino's antics are very similar to an early episode of Red Dwarf called Confidence and Paranoia. In it Mr Confidence encourages the main character to remove his oxygen mask in deep space because he thinks he's so amazing he just plain old doesn't need it. It's like Cellino.

It's all about his ego and him trying to cock a snook at English society. I swear if he could Cellino would employ a virus as head coach, deadly bacteria as Assistant, head of recruitment a dead dog. The guy is insane. He's trying to prove what no-one cares about proving. He is trying to show you can turn water into wine.

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24 May 2016 00:30:19
This is the happy house. We're happy here in the happy house. We're all quite sane sane sane. Are we supposed to be cheating on the team to relegation, just to prove how loyal we are. Don't see Blackpool fans laughing too much. Don't want to be drawn against Alfreton Town in 5 years time hoping to pull off a giant killing in the FA trophy.

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24 May 2016 02:47:35
Agree BW to a certain extent. I'm not happy if we go down! But will support Leeds still. Maybe I'm missing a lot that is happening but I'm optimistic still. Better year next year. You can't go into a season expecting to be relegated. My boys soccer team get thumped most weeks but I still expect a win next week
As for you George. You are getting a bit obsessive with this in my opinion. A trip to doctors might be called for. It's begining to sound like a manic rant to me.

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24 May 2016 07:22:47
You're right BW at least if we get relegated it will be more interesting than the mid table mediocrity of the last FIVE seasons.
But for me, I'd rather have promotion please.

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24 May 2016 08:28:30
we all would danum but not every team can get that can they. why should we expect. I chose a team down to my step dad, I have been lucky enough to see my team win the league play in champs league and also get religated twice promoted once and all the fun inbetween.

most team have no where near this much success as leeds. so what do they not deserve support? should fans turn back if team is not successful? very few teams would have support if that was the case.

I am not saying I don't want success I am saying it might not be possible ever again we are different club now then so be it. if we are destin to be in league 1/ 2 forever then that is our lot that is where the club is, I chose to support them anyhow. For me it is not about winning that is a bonus when being a support. Think of all the welsh people who support millwall they never have anything to cheer about but still support there club.

The fact george is the only one supporting you must suggest something? the poision on this site is worse than at far less successful clubs than leeds at the moment. I suggest doing what I have done. I accpect leeds are no longer big rich or good. I support a really rubbish team but they are my team any 3 points is a bonus as we are S"""T I still love leeds I am a true supporter not a glory huinter or someone who moans when things get bad, bad times are when the club really neeeds us.

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24 May 2016 09:56:44
So BW, are you saying we should just accept mediocrity and not expect better? Well not all supporters are as accepting as you . I imagine Mr Cellino would be very happy if we just accepted everything he did with a smile on our face . Wether he has the money or doesn't have the money. Some fans want better . Us fans voiced our disappointment with Bates, GFH and now Cellino, all 3 didn't do this club any favours . You seem to forget conveniently that AFC Wimbledon disliked what happened at THERE club and they still exist, so in one breath you say we shoild be happy we still have a club and it could be worse, how exactly . There will always be a Leeds United as AFC have shown us, WE true fans through our love for our club will make sure we do . So NO we are not happy with what Mr Cellino is doing . He has taken and is tai get the p, with the club and fans and his ego and ignorance thinks he is above any responsibility to us fans, the law and the football league . We've had some bad owners, Bates, GFH and now Cellino .

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23 May 2016 22:54:50
One more thing. Cellino literally has made me almost embarrassed to be a Leeds fan. The man is a joke. Any geezer that hires David Hockaday has to be a total joke.
MOT.

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23 May 2016 22:58:03
cant argue about the hock it is the one thing that makes me angry.

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23 May 2016 23:07:24
I'm mega embarrassed Cork.

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{Ed003's Note - he also turned up an hour late for his meeting with robinson apparently.}

23 May 2016 18:38:05
Eds

Where my avatar disappear to?

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{Ed033's Note - It's a tricky one to catch, i think we've got it now though. That damned elusive purple 17 Pimpernel!

23 May 2016 22:57:42
You'll forgive me for thinking you were taking orders from a Cellino representative.

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23 May 2016 23:05:59
i reckon that is the case, mc reads this site and his people are bothered by a tiny avatar and the neutral eds on this site bow this his whims. thank god i'm deluded.

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23 May 2016 23:23:21
Berm

It's happened 3 times now. All and only to the purple 17.

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23 May 2016 23:32:46
no I agree it is very important i'm sure mc's men are on it.

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23 May 2016 23:50:02
Berm

Did mc men just get off of you then?

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24 May 2016 06:23:47
Mamaybe its unlucky george.

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24 May 2016 08:29:51
no george I am a grown man and true fan, I take good with bad on the chin and realise my team are no good but I love them. I do not mind losing bettr to get religatied a leeds fan than win champs league with man utd.

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23 May 2016 22:38:49
Is it me, but is Cellino trying to get a coach/ manager on the cheap again?
Im not saying Robinson or whoever are rubbish but again the man is trying his best to save a few bob.
Says a lot really.
Maybe he will get lucky and our next coach will do a great job. But that will be more by luck than design, because I believe that he really hasn't got a clue.

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23 May 2016 22:38:40
I'm with u BW! All the way I've followed Leeds for many years to anyone who understands Leeds, listen to the words of our fantastic song!

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23 May 2016 22:47:15
love it pete we got me you speedy and wex, our ganag may be small but we would have fun in a pub. better to be deulded that like some I reckon?

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23 May 2016 23:02:09
Ok berm let's get aus on board so we can have our annual happy days in the sun as there's a dark shadow looming over our banter site!

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23 May 2016 23:19:07
yes let's get aus then we can have a long distance jolly boys outing.

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24 May 2016 02:50:37
I'm in. But I'm not a loose chap. I expect to be treated well if you want my body. Fine wine and dine!

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24 May 2016 08:30:41
deal done, do you think we will get george, his wit banter and positivey will really brighten up the group.

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24 May 2016 08:45:28
Let's leave George until he gets out!

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23 May 2016 21:58:00
right lots of negitiviy on here and starting to expect no less from some people which I find dissapointing.

so like blazing sqaud I'm going to flip reverse it (nice referance for people of a certain age)

Imagine a life without football, now imgaine football with out leeds utd.

What a sad empty place, what do we do follow another team, but we don't love that team, that team is not our team?

so we watch football without being passionate about a club, bit sad ain't it.

WE NEARLY LOST LEEDS TWICE!

no MC ain't perfect, no leeds ain't great, maybe managers are turning us down, maybe our squad is weak. maybe we will go down to league one again

so what do we stop loving leeds, at what point do we stop following them?

now like the song I shall follow leeds until the world stops turning. Thanks to MC that world is still turning and I am grateful to still have a club MY CLUB

things could be better but they could be so much worse and my life without leeds is empty so I shall smile and cheer on leeds better to lose as crappy leeds than win as someone else.

until things are confirmed and the reality turns out to be bad can we please get a grip and be positive positive that we are leeds and that is all that matters.

really getting fed up with the bitching and moaning, I thought we were better than that as least I feel I am

So fans of leeds who is with me and wants to join my happy club? it is a great place to be honest.

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23 May 2016 22:07:13
Yeah ok.

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23 May 2016 22:11:41
Berm

Your opinion is demented.

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23 May 2016 22:23:04
Berm, you on the sauce mate? i'm a happy geezer but you must be on the mushrooms! Positivity is great though. Power to the people!

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23 May 2016 22:33:18
no i'm sober honest which is rare for me, was watching cantona euro advert, life without sport is a mistake, which made me think life without leeds, honestly try and picture it. it is really empty and sad. it makes the current situation so much brighter.

George what is demented about it, or is this another one of your fine statements which you fail to back up and then leave the thread like so many before when called out then ignored. this has been pointed out by me before and acknolegde by many. so come on then back up my demented view of life with s""t leeds is better than life with no leeds

unless your one of these sad act types that can't handle losing, children I think they are called?

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23 May 2016 23:34:17
lots of replys all over the shop george but nothing here, unlike you to have a comment you can't back up. never seen this before from you? I must be deluded to expect an answer.

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23 May 2016 23:52:35
I posted my reply. Didn't make it past the censors. The thrust of it was there are some things in life which have no positive element to them. The tragic comedy which is Cellino and lufc is one of them. Nothing positive about existence if your existence is pitiful. If our club was a dog he'd been put to sleep by now.

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{Ed033's Note - Is MC censoring your posts, George?

24 May 2016 01:27:18
Ed033

Wouldn't put it past him. He censors Evans and any who utter the truth.

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24 May 2016 08:35:42
what a childish and offensive post. if you feel leeds are pityful and no point in exsisting then support Arsenal. If our club was a dog i'd nbe figthing stopping people like you from kicking him while he was down.

As for exsistance what about diabled people or people dealt a bad hand in life are they lesser people? my cousin had cerbal palsy and never walked or talked don't make her life (she died aged 15) less worth while, it don't make her pointless.

you need to have a long hard look in the mirror about your views on life and what is and ain't worthwhile.

After this post I am certain you are not a leeds fan just on here to wind us up. no fan would say leeds need to be put to sleep and no balanced person would be so offensive about life and exsistance.

DONT BE LIKE GEORGE.

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24 May 2016 17:24:34
Don't be like Berm. He's a fry short of a happy meal.

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23 May 2016 20:33:12
Going nowhere (yet again)

It would appear that nobody in their right mind wants to manage Leeds United any more, and who can blame them?

Whilst I did feel Cellino had his heart in the right place and has sorted out some of our debts it seems glaringly obvious that he doesn't have a clue about anything football.

I seriously cannot believe some of the poor names being associated with the coach position, but at the end of the day anyone who would employ Hockaday has obviously got a sense of humour if nothing else?

Having supported Leeds United for almost 50 years now I will never walk away.

But I really hope Cellino does, and soon with it.

We don't want or need you here unless you are going to put up some serious cash for an experienced head coach and some world class experienced players.

We will all be here after you have long gone, it is OUR club, not yours!

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23 May 2016 21:26:32
It's Cellino's model. Coach driven. Managerial stuff left to directors and owners. It's all wrong. Said so at the beginning. It's a model never employed in our history and not only is there no evidence it works in England, there's hard evidence now that the model fails.

Ditch the model Cellino before we return to League One.

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23 May 2016 22:34:53
no hard evdience it fails until we go down geogre as of yet we have not failed. if anything we have slightly improved under mc results wise. not by much but then if every team moves forward progress is slow by the nature of it.

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23 May 2016 23:04:43
Berm

Hard evidence is aplenty. By way of example, didn't you say every league one coach and below would kill and give buck teeth to "manage" Leeds? Two names for ya. Karl is the first. Robinson second.

We couldn't even attract a Hockaday now.

Dude, our players wanna leave this circus and madness. Wake up!

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23 May 2016 23:20:24
hard evidence is going down, results game george results when we are down it is not working until that point it is all speculation.

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23 May 2016 23:54:34
That's where we headed Berm. Or do you think Evans will perform another rescue? Where will he be working in August again? Probably not for us because he is a manager who can't shut his mouth.

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23 May 2016 20:24:38
Have to agree with the other posters firstly we are treating Steve Evans terribly, I know we don't know for sure what is happening but if true then speaking to other managers before he is told what is happening is disgraceful, why is football so different to real life most employers would never treat senior members of staff this way.

If MC does not want Steve Evans then tell him first and then look for a new manager, this is the reason so many people want rid he just messes up every thing with employees how many more are to be mistreated.

Secondly if true why are we looking at unproven managers, Robinson sent a team down and then talk is about the manager of Bristol Rovers, will he never learn spend a bit of money on the most important employee the manager, and then support him with a decent budget, he comes up with a great idea around the season tickets and then fails to get the full support for it because of the manager business and nobody knowing what is happening, players left in the lurch learning by texts what is happening with pre season etc. For what it is worth I believe Steve Evans should get a go, announce it now and then start signing quality and those season tickets will fly off the shelf.

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23 May 2016 21:29:36
Markdavo

You're right about SE but also wrong. We are not looking for a manager. We are looking for a coach. We shouldn't be but are. Cellino's model is why we fail and are the laughing stock. Cellino don't realize how good he has it with Evans.

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23 May 2016 21:51:00
very backward post in some ways. every one even SE himself understands leeds comes first.

I think all agree Se has done a decent job and could do a decent job, so why fire him before lining up a replacement? surely you get the better man then let him go or if you fail in landing better you keep SE, this looks like what he is doing. It makes sense and is best for the club,

if he sacked Se people would say why sack before having a replacement

i don't agree with everything but let's not moan for the sake of monaing hey?

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23 May 2016 22:36:57
George no english manager has won anything since sir howard and no real manager apart from fergison. It would seem coach is the done thing. maybe why foreginers do well in england and why england underachive in national toulements. I hate to think it as I like old fashioned managers but maybe they are dying breed and backwards concept in modern football?

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23 May 2016 23:06:21
Berm

Name me all the English clubs who prospered under the coach/ owner super hands-on approach model?

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23 May 2016 23:19:30
Why agree with and accept everything Cellino does badly as owner of Leeds just for the sake of giving up caring about what happens to our football club.

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23 May 2016 23:21:43
we never know how much an owner does or doesn't get involved so let me think?

man city, chealeas, watford, lesciter, need more?

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23 May 2016 23:57:56
Berm

Your view is warped. What's 2 plus 2 on your planet?

Except for Watford those clubs have managers not coaches. As for their owners, please tell me how they are constantly in the news meddling with club and team affairs.

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23 May 2016 20:15:56
We have reached a new low when Karl Robinson turns us down. It is hard to believe our stock has fallen so low and M Cellino gets turned down by him?

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23 May 2016 18:29:55
i would give Evans another crack at it. he seems the only one who really wants the job.

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23 May 2016 19:16:26
we don't know this, has anyone turned job down, has anyone been appraoched? how keen are people, all paper talk we do not know anything at this point, I think a fair few people would quite like to be manager/ head coach of leeds united.

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23 May 2016 19:56:29
If this story is true and it is backed up by staff from ER who believed the meeting would not go ahead because Robinson turned us down. This is the biggest slap in the face yet. A league 1 manager doesn't want to come to us. Is it our biggest weakness, our mad owner. Our mad owner not wanting to pay a salary that would attract a league 1 manager. If it's true it also smashes your thesis BW, that anyone below championship would come running to us managing Leeds United must be better than managing MK Dons. Why can't Cellino just go for Flores, won't he pay the salary? Think I need to join George in theropy?

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23 May 2016 20:36:52
need theropy for being positive, as an actor and leeds fan if I lose that I will hang myself. Again big words are if true. Some times managers do turn down bigger clubs but agree it is not great.

I would argue our biggest weakness is the finaitical mess we have been in for 15 years and our low league status. Again I will always suggest we would be a weaker club had mc never joined. mind you iwould aruge if mc never joined there would be no club to manage so every cloud has siliver lining and always look on the bright side of life I guess.

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23 May 2016 21:34:04
Deda

No more therapy. It's not me who belongs in rehab. It's Cellino and all of his supporters whom are plagued with Stockholm Syndrome which ought to be renamed Elland Road Syndrome.

Cellino out hashtag dot org don't renew your season ticket vote with feet.

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23 May 2016 22:40:20
George you know very little but like to think your smart. Stockholm syndrome is where someone is captured and tourtutred and then fall in love with the person who abuses them with violience and often sexually, it is a very sad and sick thing so shall we leave the big words to people who understand them.

leeds fans don't not support leeds, buy a ticket put money in how can we moan at MC when he puts money in if we are not prepared to put less money in ourselves.

hastage support leeds hashtag don't be like george.

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23 May 2016 18:04:33
I'm telling you, get your money on Evans!
No coach wants to work for a chairman/ president who has made it perfectly clear he wants to get rid of the club.
If we can't even attract the manager of MK Dons then where are we going?

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23 May 2016 18:33:00
well said plus he really wants to be the leeds boss give him another go with the players he wants with no interference from Cellino I think we will do well.

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23 May 2016 18:44:43
Danum

League One.

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23 May 2016 19:18:50
George

you're boring

Danum unless in the room when this 'meeting happened what do we really know? did he get offer, did he turn us down. it is all negivtive paper talk and filling coloums as leeds fans we owe it to other fans and the badge not to get caught up in this.

We must hold ourselves in better account than jurnalists I think.

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23 May 2016 21:35:28
Bermo

I am boring and consistent. Rather that than live in lala land.

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23 May 2016 22:15:45
BW

Staff at ER have told the YEP that there was a meeting between Cellino and Robinson in a London hotel and Robinson turned us down. Why do people think this is. Is the problem, Cellino, the salary he is paying. The money any coach would be given and asked to get top 6 or negative posts on here.

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23 May 2016 22:42:24
what staff? what meeting? how do they know? any names given or more jorno tosh? he was bookies favorite which suggest this might not be true.

George if my choice is la la land or your world sign me up to la la land honestly could not think of a worse place to live than your world just reading it depresses me and makes me feel genuinely sad for you.

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23 May 2016 14:55:01
Confused, What does Karl Robinson have that Steve Evans doesn't?

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23 May 2016 16:49:28
give him a chance most people on here were bitching when SE took over (I was possibly the only one who backed him before he got the job) so now Karl must be given same chance. He is young, been at one club long time, won promotion (although in different league but still the same as what SE has ever done) .

I liked Se but we had some awful results under him, we could not beat smaller teams, he got worst out of team when expecting to win and is a point nicker rather than point winner which is not what promotion team needs. He made same mistakes time and again and failed to get best out of players and squad.

I don't mind Se staying but glad he has gone and back Karl to do even better than SE and I seem to have knack for pointing out future managers.

Finally all mk dons fans are gutted he has left, that says a lot in my book.

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23 May 2016 17:03:12
For me Bermondsey this is a sideways move at best. A bigger gamble than sticking with Steve . Giving cellino record would now be having a bet on whose manager for October.

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23 May 2016 17:04:07
Errrr well he has turned us down by all accounts, which when you are rejected by Milton K you kinda know things are not right.

I could not see that much difference in SE/ this Karl bloke as their win% was almost the same, both got promotion to championship but was by no means outstanding so sort of the same in many ways if you are just looking at it on the surface.

Anyway made me laugh that the MK manager had turned us down (if that is indeed the case because so much bulls~~~ goes around in media) but for me, sorry but no great loss. Just hope we don't go someone worse in, if SE is going or maybe he is the only one who will work for us ha ha.

Marching all together, well apart from Karl clearly.

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23 May 2016 17:10:44
Now Robinson has turned down job. We are all getting sucked into the media stuff. Is cellino even in the UK.

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23 May 2016 19:26:17
Why on earth do we get rid of Steve Evans and take on Karl Robinson who can't even keep a team in the Championship?

I live in MK and ended up with the Dons fans, I did point out that all you had to do was cross a ball in front of Silvestri to score. Eventually they did so, and scored. whoopi do?

Why didn't Robinson do his homework and beat the hell out of us?

Why do we want to employ someone who can't even work out our weaknesses, let alone how to stop them?

I am up for keeping Evans on unless we find someone significantly better.

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23 May 2016 14:13:39
Stop b****ing people! SE will be in charge next season. Until it is confirmed otherwise. But big Evans is in charge at this moment!

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23 May 2016 13:07:06
Can't believe we're going to replace Slim Steve with Smiffy off Gavin and Stacey!

Backward step imo.

MM.

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23 May 2016 14:15:53
I see this as positive, all fans of current club are gutted to see him go, Se did well and I like him but too many mistakes and bad performances (charlton, brighton, huddeslfield etc) also he did not get the best out of squad (killed mowatt and cook) failed to get best from wood and ant (who I am gutted has gone) . So if true I will be happy for a change.

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23 May 2016 12:49:58
Assuming it's not the usual newspaper bull, who knows anything that Karl Robnson would bring more than SE does?

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23 May 2016 12:07:54
Let's take our minds off of the whole manager fiasco, what would your all time Leeds 11 be, who would the manager be and what would your kit be, this is mine :
GK: Nigel Martyn
RB: Paul Reaney
CB: Lucas Radebe
CB: Norman Hunter
LB: Ian Harte
RM: Peter Lorimer
CM: Billy Bremner (c)
CM: David Batty
LM: Eddie Gray
ST: John Charles
ST: Tony Yeboah
Manager: Don Revie
Kit: 1972 FA Cup centenary final

This team would be unstoppable, please share your favoured team.

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23 May 2016 13:07:55
No Johnny Giles! No Allan Clarke! No Terry Cooper!

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23 May 2016 13:08:37
nice post and good change of pace

GK- John lukic
Rb paul reeney
cb- Hunter
cb- woodgate
LB - tony Dorigio
LM- Eddie Grey
CM- Bremner
CM- Gary Mac
RM- Peter Lorminer
NO 10 Viduka
striker- ALAn clarke

Manager howard Wilknson
kit Home Yeboha funny next LUFC 1996?
AWAY- Blue yellow Halves 1998?
Third Blue and plae blue macron 2008?

Bench
RObinson, Firaclough, Kelly, Batty, Strachan, Yeboha, Champman.

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23 May 2016 16:16:11
Wot about Brolin?

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23 May 2016 16:50:05
brolin would make the team too good, no fun in winning every week.

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23 May 2016 18:33:42
Bowyer anyone?

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23 May 2016 19:09:39
1. schmeichel
2. Byram
3. Tayor
4. Cook
5. Radebe
6. Ferdinand
7. Cantona
8. Barkley
9. Viduka
10. hasslebaink
11. Gradel

Manager:Billy Bremner Kit: 2001/ 02 stronbow/ nike

SUBS . Martyn .

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23 May 2016 19:20:07
great shout Bowyer would be on my bench not sure who for, really great player, class, engine could do the lot shame he was a prat off feild but that is besides the point.

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23 May 2016 08:25:05
Frustration release:

Noel Whelan: "Let’s start pushing forwards and getting into that Premiership where everyone wants to be but where Leeds United should be.
We need to be up there playing against the Chelseas and the Man Uniteds and the Man Citys.
We have got the fan base, home and away, and the club’s history is all there to be seen.
We need to start making more history."

Yes, yes. I until this day can't uderstand how it can be that nonstory clubs like Stoke, Swansea, Chealsea or Aston Villa are playing in PL or are given great owners while the greatest ENGLISH club is stagnating in this second division. The club which have many fans even in God's forgotten places like Poland (my place. ) and in many much more forgotten places. How it can be! You ask why this is the greatest English club? Because when it last played in the PL it was single one succesfull English/British club which does not changed into foreign mercenary company like the rest of your clubs. For me it is English Barcelona, club identified with great academy, its own ethos, production of its own talents with the minds made to love this club (look at the faces of Alan Smith and James Milner after Bolton game. ) . Look at Leeds squad in 2000/2001 there were only TWO PLAYERS who did not speak English NATIVELY, Bakke and Dacourt. Why Leeds still is the last club with which English manager won league title? that's why so many people in the world loved and still love your club, same like Barcelona. Because it constitutes every positive aspect of your football philosophy. English/British way is Leeds United way, not M********* United or City. BTW look at "English Champion" Man City from 13/14 and how they were smashed by Barcelona in this same season in CL, Barca was playing like against Granada or other nonstory club. Its really sad, the way in which this famous club is run, but on the other hand it in some way represents a state of English game dominated by hollow money which replaced philosophy, English football culture, player's respect for a shirt, who should respect them? foreigners? or homegrown players who are treatet like rubbish by their own clubs and are cast away? It is in your own interest of the whole British Isles, not only of England and the rest of United Kingdom, to return this club to healthy state in order to again represent that your football tradition is not dead.

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{Ed001's Note - disrespectful post. Swansea have a great back story, from almost going out of the bottom of the Football League to competing in the Premier League in just a few years. Stoke have a great history, with Matthews etc. Even Chelsea have a history, just not of winning trophies in the past. Villa have plenty of history. Cut out the swearing, I don't want to sit and edit half a post like that, stop being so disrespectful to clubs who are in a far better position than Leeds, and try learning from their examples.}

23 May 2016 11:58:28
Have to agree with Ed, seems almost a crazy post

Villa have far better hitory than us (won far more including european cup) . Leeds are my team and I love them as much as anyone. but we are far from the best english team, many teams have better history. let's be honest in our greatest era we were often nearly men who did not fullfil potential. As for our sqaud being mainly british back in the day, not sure this is quite correct either or what this has to do with anything.

We do have great academy and always have from revie, to wilko, to recent age and even since religation but then so have so many other look at man utd west ham and saints, everton and liverpool for example

finally I so hate this leeds fan entitled rubbish. history counts for nothing and we as a club as entitled to nothing and should not be a prem club as a given. we were badly run and almost went out of business, 70's so what right now we are not a big or successful club. let's just enjoy being leeds and not upset that we are not what leeds were.

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23 May 2016 13:13:54
Well, I'm writing from a position of a foreigner and I can assure you that in Poland no one ever heard about Stoke and Swansea before they reached the Premier League recently, and no one considered Chelsea as a big club before Abramovich bought them. As for Aston Villa, no one thinks that they are greater club than Leeds even now.

As for Leeds they were always widely popular before relegation alongside Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, so it is sad for me that this fame is disappearing due to the club's problems. Of course Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd have more trophies, fame, money etc. it is my personal opinion that Leeds is the greatest in England (I think that for you too) but it had something unique which decided on its popularity (which I tried to explain).

You may disagree with me but the level of popularity abroad is in some way an indicator of the club's fame and greatness. It is frustrating for me as a Leeds fan that Swansea is playing in Premier League, while Leeds United, which have so many fans in your country and abroad, is stagnating in second division.

I remember times from yearly 2000s when so many children were wearing Leeds shirts in Poland (Chinese imitations of course) , now, many of them still follow Leeds and of course many more forgotten about it. I simply wish for Leeds to be successful and popular again.

btw. I have never seen anyone in a Villa shirt or other dress in Poland, while people in Leeds shirts or jackets can be seen, not as common as 15 years ago, but still.

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23 May 2016 14:02:55
Can't help but think; in the 2000's that if a lot more Polish kids and others across the world were wearing genuine Leeds club shirts, we might have had a bit more cash, a softer landing and an easier sale to an interested party.
Sorry but, I fail to see how this post is anything other than stirring for the sake of it. When the Premier League started Norwich were battling against Villa for supremacy. I feel for the Villa fans. I really do. They might be some of the most dull, silent fans (try singing, boys, it can help) in the country but they don't deserve the asset stripping and board disinterest they've been subjected to the last 10 years.
Villa is a proud club with a proud history.
With the state of the current squad and the disdain of their current chairman, who knows when they'll be back in the top flight.
In our case. we have a chairman who is bit too interested in all the wrong ways. I've defended Cellino in the past but, I concede, if he screws up this transfer window, he really needs to go.

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23 May 2016 17:09:49
I was in ibiza about seven years ago and all the kids said it was man u, leeds and Liverpool. They were the most famous English clubs . Coming from spaniards not me .

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23 May 2016 08:18:34
My top 6 for 2016/ 17
1. Newcastle United
2. Brighton
3. Norwich City
4. Sheff wed/ Hull City
5. Derby County
6. Leeds United

Bring it on people 😎
Looking forward to away days at St James Park and Villa Park already! 😂.

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23 May 2016 09:56:50
My top 6

1. Newcastle United
2. Leeds United
3. Wolves
4. Derby County
5. Cardiff City
6. Norwich City

Looking forward to awaydays at Burton and all the other midlands clubs (there are a lot of 'em)

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23 May 2016 15:06:18
DJ
You lost the plot.

Stafford
You just plain kray kray.

At this current moment, I have us in one of the relegation spots.

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23 May 2016 05:40:30
Inspired
My top 6 for next season

1. Brighton
2. Newcastle
3. Derby
4. Norwich
5. Leeds
6. Hull/ shef

Take it to the bank mm.

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23 May 2016 15:06:59
Ausman

We are going down.

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23 May 2016 16:51:59
george george george how do you know we are going down, we might have huge investment and go up as champs. based on what we saw last year we are not going up or down. leeds fans like to be optomistic which is why we are in top 6 with no knowledge of summer you put us down. says a lot about you and possibly your view on our club and life in general.

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