Leeds Banter Archive September 24 2011

24 Sep 2011 23:22:11
Bring back O'Leary

24 Sep 2011 22:29:24
Kasper and effectively blamed him for the amount of goals we conceded last year.I cant believe we have only brought O Dea in as our only defensive signing its quite apparent that no matter the quality of the keeper we will concede far more goals than we should because our entire back four is week, Lees and White are fantastic prospects for the future but we need new full backs.O Dea seems to be our only COMPETENT center half i think most people would agree with me on this site we all love Leeds and want to see the team were we belong but until Simon addresses our defensive problems i think we will be struggling to get a playoff spot at best

Floyd The Barber

24 Sep 2011 20:37:42
Kasper and effectively blamed him for the amount of goals we conceded last year.I cant believe we have only brought O Dea in as our only defensive signing its quite apparent that no matter the quality of the keeper we will concede far more goals than we should because our entire back four is week, Lees and White are fantastic prospects for the future but we need new full backs.O Dea seems to be our only COMPETENT center half i think most people would agree with me on this site we all love Leeds and want to see the team were we belong but until Simon addresses our defensive problems i think we will be struggling to get a playoff spot at best

Floyd The Barber

24 Sep 2011 20:34:34
despite our shaky all round form, Ross Mac is still banging them in like nobody's business. doesn't mean he is that good, just that we are one dimensional.

Nope, means hes good

He is good but he's no super striker. he reminds me so much of David Healy.

24 Sep 2011 19:31:36
Now Grayson has committed public suicide, can we finally move on and get either a new manager or a wiser head (e.g."George Graham") to help Grayson out. If he admits he's tried everything and run out of ideas then he is obviously out of his depth and needs replacing or helped back on to the right track.
As fans we all have run out of ideas too on what should happen, however were now a joke and an embarrassment, especially when on the TV and were made to look like dummies.
On my christmas list all i want is a stronger Leeds time and i can go to the pub happy

Its not rocket science is it,ALL the fans know,and have known for the past 2 years at least,that is to spend some money and get some quality defenders in,hes tried every permutation there is with his defenders and none has worked,admit defeat SG,get shut of the dead wood and some proven defenders in,strikeforce is as good as any in this league,get a defence to match and were on the up.

24 Sep 2011 16:58:16
Class is always relative. Hartlepool sign Solano a top player for that league and look where they ate. It would only take two good defensive signings to turn our team into genuine promotion candidates.

This has been said since the middle of last season about defenders!! How many more times do we need to re-itterate this point! Even Grayson is aware of it, but still nothing is done!

Its down right incompetence from Grayson.

24 Sep 2011 14:45:54
I say this with a very heavy heart but we are going absolutely nowhere with the defence we have and I mean every single one of them.

Paul Connoly - Slow, rash and no defensive awareness.

Patrick Kisnorbo - Old, leggy and doesn't seem to be himself [in fariness could just be match fitness hopefully]

Alex Bruce - Tunnel vision never sees what's happening around him and also slow

Andy O'Brien - Time is up, in his prime at best he was an average centre half

Ben Parker - Never fit be lucky to get 5 games a season [sadly should be released]

Tom Lees - Way out of his depth, gets turned inside out on a regular basis [perhaps just a lack of experience]

Leigh Bromby - Awkward , slow and tries too hard [can be a good thing if used in a good way but not his way unfortunately]

Aidan White - Not a left back, simply can't defend [could be potentially a very good winger]

Darren O'Dea - Last and certainly by means the least. Clumsy, slow, headless thug no ability on a football pitch whatsoever. [Any centre half who can't get into he Celtic defence with Daniel Majstorovic ahead of them says it all]

Grayson just needs to admit he's made mistakes when it comes to the defence and start over and I'll respect him a lot more rather than keep defending them. When does he stop defending them?, when were fighting for survival in a league we shouldn't even be in with a solid defence we would be sitting pretty on top of table.

Absolutely spot on.odea is terrible.and yes white on left wing may be good and he has sped to get back to help out.it was keystone cop stuff.forget play offs ,it's making sure we don't go down with that lot

Someone sensible at last

24 Sep 2011 13:23:23
It seems to me that if clayton plays well then howson won't and vice Vera , if we get them too both playing well on a regular basis then our team will be much stronger,

Either that or they can't play together, get Vyranen in, he looked quite sharp when he came on last night.

24 Sep 2011 10:12:45
Please sign some defenders, no good scoring 3 or 4 knowing your going to let the same in. No good for the heart.

Ross said on Sky Sports we need to score 3 to get a point sums up our defence. Lees will be ruined if we keep playing him RB as he is too slow, Aidy is LM not LB and although O'Dea had a decent game last night none of our CB instill confidence,maybe we should try Lees in his best position

24 Sep 2011 09:16:58
For me last night first half on top for all but 10 minutes in the middle, those who say Howson and Snoddy not playing well they were excellent!
We defended as a team and looked solid and attacked brilliant as usual! And we looked like a team that could have gone unbeaten rest of the season, however the players just let off the gas second half, the fault either lies in player mentality, as Grayson said or what Grayson and his staff said in the 10 minutes in the changing room.
I'm unsure, I do feel Grayson is the man for the job, stability in a manager is the way forward, not sacking them when they have a hiccup, I think SG needs to look at his back room staff as I do feel we now have the right squad to move forward, any addition now will be a bonus and someone will have to leave for the addition!

What game were u watching?

At what stage did you manage to extract your head from your arse? Or did you just dream you saw the game? Brighton dominated totally from just after Ross got his first up to the point where the ref blew his whistle to end the game. We were very lucky to come away with a point. Just to help you in future Snodgrass is the fat, slow one with 23 on his back and Howson is the thin one in the middle of the pitch that runs round like a headless chicken after the ball and has a 14 on his back!

From the time Ross scored our second up until half time Snodgrass showed more interest than I have seen this season. Unfortunately the world and his dog knew Gus would come out all guns blazing but we had put a sedative in the halftime tea and got caught cold. Snod was anonymous and Bromby had a 45 min disaster. I thought Howson played well but Clayton was subdued in a holding role. Pugh had a quit game and I would like to see Vayrenan given a start

24 Sep 2011 08:58:40
Grayson talks about player's mental approach in conceding goals and that it might mean us missing out on play-offs. How about grayson's mental approach? Has he give up on automatic promotion already?! Norwich bouncing right back to prem. Brighton and Southampton pushing for the same. Only keep hearing Grayson talking of over achieving last year etc...

How can Grayson smile after the game last night ,we just let a 2 goal lead go and were lucky to get a draw he should be livid,after brighton levelled he just stood there staring into space instead of giving someone a rocket or shouting or something

Brighton and So'ton have WAY more money than us t strengthen, we all no KB wont put funds in, which is why the increasing amount of 'Bates Out' chants happen

24 Sep 2011 02:35:51
after reading these posts can I just remind our fellow Leeds fans we are only 7 points from top with 38 games left, and if you look back to last season we didn't start playing until after we lost 4-0 to cardiff and that was November . so we are doing better at this stage than last season. chin up people we are Leeds it will come.

Craig

Well said! MOT

Too right, nice to see some realistic views

23 Sep 2011 23:56:52
McCormack = class act, great performance tonight and looking forward to Becchio being fit and having those 2 upfront soon

Keough's done really well for me but i suppose its the old addage "strikers get judged on goals"