Leeds Banter Archive February 04 2020

 

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04 Feb 2020 20:52:51
My Mum and Dad were Dwarves

All their lives they struggled to put food on the table.

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04 Feb 2020 23:38:48
this really made me laugh

thanks mate just used it on the wife as shes 4'10.

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05 Feb 2020 01:49:04
You can’t lie to a X-ray technician, they will see right through ya.

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05 Feb 2020 08:27:39
Radz a success for Leeds United?
Radz is a businessman making money from player sales etc and saving money
If his gamble of getting promotion by bringing in a good coach in Bielsa on a threadbare squad pays off then yes a success
But if no promotion again this season . we will be back to where Radz started next season. mid table.

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05 Feb 2020 09:18:43
I drove into the back of a car last night. Caused quite a bit of damage to the rear. The driver got out and to my surprise it was a dwarf.

"I'm not happy" said the disgruntled driver.

"oh really? " said I

"which one are you then? "

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05 Feb 2020 11:21:47
. and here we go.
What do you call a Hippies wife?


Missis ippi.

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04 Feb 2020 20:43:07
Quick question to the unbelievers.
If Leeds United were to get promoted would you boys take back your stuff about Rad and Orta and Bielsa? Or would you skirt around the issue and say we were lucky?

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04 Feb 2020 20:56:29
😂😂😂😂 Corky if. leeds Utd don't win the league are you going to give me that £50? because you have us going up as champs.

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04 Feb 2020 20:57:47
What would you say if we did not win promotion?

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04 Feb 2020 21:01:35
On a serious note for. me personally I would sincerely hope that would be Radz swansong . He's frugal in the championship can't even contemplate what he might be like in the big time . If we do go up I will be as happy as the next man, can't take back an opinion corky because that just looks pathetic, Equally apply the same question to the believers if we crumble again this season where will your head be at?

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04 Feb 2020 21:04:26
Chris I made it a monkey. No offense but I don’t skirt about with fifty quid bets. Let me know by tomorrow if your in.

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04 Feb 2020 21:05:21
Nothin Notts.

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04 Feb 2020 21:21:37
I actually thought it was a fair enough question but I’m not surprised by the answers.

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04 Feb 2020 21:38:53
Chris spot on.
Was a big fan of Bielsa, less so since the past months as he is making crucial mistakes in continuing with Kiko, the lack of striker options

Not a fan of Radz The Chancer and Orta is more miss than. hit

If we get promotion this season it will be through the playoffs and some ( overdue) good fortune in those playoffs . Bielsa will deserve all the credit and Orta credit for suggesting to bring in Bielsa.

Promotion or not I really hope Radz sells up this summer. If we don't go up, Bielsa leaves and Radz doesn't sell up we will at best be a mid table team again.

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04 Feb 2020 22:26:00
Just because we win promotion doesn’t mean everything is rosey in the garden.
Biesla radz and Orta will all need to learn lessons and quickly if we go up.
We all be happy though.

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04 Feb 2020 23:18:38
Woo hoo, listen to Corky laying down the del boys . I am not a gambler never have / never will i suppose. But surely you will accept a easy £100 so from me that Leeds won't WIN this league .

I say win now, not promo as win was your prediction about 2 week back.

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04 Feb 2020 23:20:36
And by the way I gave you a fair answer but you never answered your own question applied back at yourself?

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04 Feb 2020 23:41:31
cork I am by far the biggest doubter on this site

I do think we should go up so anything less is a massive failure

i also think we ain't going up as belisa is the most overrated manager in the world (cant think of a more over rated manager)

I think KP is the most over rateed leeds player since alan smith

i think copper is mid table at best and beradi should not be anywhere near a leeds top

all this said I pray they prove me wrong. i can't wait for you all to salughter me and for me to eat the biggest slice of humble pie.

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05 Feb 2020 06:48:49
So you would skirt around the issue then Cork? I think that is contradictory.

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05 Feb 2020 07:35:35
Unbelievers? More like realistic!
And based on recent events and experience. if i am driving my car down the road and the oil warning light comes on do I just ignore it and believe it's going to be ok, but then be surprised when my car breaks down!
I truly admire your faith in team corkwhite, given the events from last season and the near similarities with this one. More than anything I guess most on this site hope you are proven right, I would love to be wrong because Leeds United will be promoted. And yes I will celebrate like hell. Does that make me wrong or a bad fan!

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05 Feb 2020 08:56:38
absolutely. If we go up it proves they were right and the ways they went about achieving it were the right ones. I hope 100% this is what happens and Radz and Orta turn out to be geniuses.

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05 Feb 2020 14:54:31
Chris, if we blow it again, personally my head will be in tatters again. Last year took over a month to recover from, as my missus will testify. For me tho, the blame will lay at the feet of everyone involved at the club, responsible directly for the first team. I can’t point the finger singularly at one or two people. Hope we don’t have to face the same situation again!

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05 Feb 2020 17:24:47
Do you think Radz would look to off -load us if he fails Bright ? I know the 5 year plan rubbish was his mantra but if it goes wrong this time I think the non believers ranks will swell massively . Would he be prepared for another go at it? I suppose he will in reality . F.

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05 Feb 2020 20:23:37
Honestly don’t know Chris! I think without the likes of Bielsa at the helm, he’s done for! I’m hoping, like everyone else, that there’s an agreement in place with QSI.

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04 Feb 2020 18:46:57
I rang the council and asked if I could have a skip outside my house.

They said ‘you can cartwheel down the street for all we care’.

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04 Feb 2020 20:07:02
Quality, Alf! 😂😂.

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05 Feb 2020 11:33:42
Alf this this sharp intellectual wit has been missing for too long. Unfortunately I see here are determined to spoil it by arguing about football - shame on them!

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04 Feb 2020 16:12:20
I said when we signed Augustin Bielsa wouldn't play him till March. I thought I was joking!

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04 Feb 2020 18:32:19
I was not joking. Expect him on bench soon though if Bubs has any sense.

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05 Feb 2020 08:58:54
Hes not fit - I think he will enuinely take the best part of a month to get up to speed. I thik he will make some camneos from the bench in that time (particularly late on to use his speed against tired legs) but certainly no starts. that's one reason i was frustrated that we didn't do our business in week 1 of the window as I knew it would take time before a new player was introduced.

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04 Feb 2020 14:18:23
Interesting quote from Pep regarding their inability to finish chance of late;

Pep Guardiola:

"My job is taking you to the final 3rd and your job is to finish. ".

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04 Feb 2020 13:05:39
Just a thought.
If big Kev is not going to be fit for a while, maybe Bielsa could ask Bamford to play striker? 🤔😜😂.

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04 Feb 2020 13:20:16
Even an unfit big kev beats bamford for me former psg player hardly a millions miles away from being good for enough to fill he's shoes no disrespect to bam bam loves his worth ethic just not a good enough goal scorer for Leeds imo MOT.

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04 Feb 2020 13:40:18
Maybe I missed the official anouncement but I do think JKA will be missing for weeks thro injury nor thro being overweight (though that may be a possibility) . If he does not play soon then it is MB getting a new boy up to speed with his style.

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04 Feb 2020 13:46:24
Leodis there are six games in February by that reckoning JKA will be available for just. the final ten games . £200,000 a game.

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04 Feb 2020 14:09:41
Still the cheapest option for our great leader, ye wanted a striker I gave ye a striker, no pleasing ye

Let that be his. tweet followed by a not so smarmy gif.

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04 Feb 2020 18:45:54
I don't care if he's overweight!
If it was a choice between a slim Bamford or a tubby Harry Kane I know which one I would rather play upfront. 🤯.

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04 Feb 2020 19:11:53
Is the brother of Brolin.

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And Finally

04 Feb 2020 12:10:48
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new podcast entitled, And Finally

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04 Feb 2020 10:05:55
well saying kev won't be fit till end of feb . so why is he here . it could be over by then . stupid sometimes one as to take a chance . he's here so play him . or he will be another eddie .

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04 Feb 2020 12:23:09
Yeah.
Surely they saw at medical how fat he was. He better score two a game when he plays to repay the Monet we surely have wasted on him.
Another 4 weeks with Bamford. 👍.

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04 Feb 2020 13:04:42
Omg where did you hear that about KPA? If that's true VO should be sacked for gross malpractice.
I really hope it's not true.

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04 Feb 2020 13:17:02
This is why any competent professionsl club has 3 or 4 strikers init's first team squad

. to be reliant on just a misfiring striker in Bamford and an unfit loan in JKA is indeed incompetency of the highest. order

Bielsa has some serious faults but without him this squad would be mid table . hope Radz sells this summer and takes Orta with him.

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04 Feb 2020 13:23:23
Chris I said on this forum a month or two ago that .
Radz was a chancer and Orta was incompetent. they indeed are.

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04 Feb 2020 14:11:13
Bazooks I am on that page since September2018 .

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04 Feb 2020 17:30:51
oh chris chris it's on other leeds site der.

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04 Feb 2020 17:54:36
If Andrea was as good with the Team Leeds Utd as he is with the Brand Leeds Utd you would have to believe that we would be. in the premiership now.

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04 Feb 2020 09:54:53
on bamford . the manager said he plays how i want . runs around like headless chicken, but i know he won't score so end of story . means he won't get dropped or score apart from the odd tap in.

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04 Feb 2020 09:49:52
Great article in the YEP (😳😳😳) by Dan Chapman on the situation right now re playing staff, systems, Bamford and Bielsa. Worth a read, as is most of his stuff.

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04 Feb 2020 13:30:01
Thanks Brighty, read the article, quite good but I slightly take issue with his thoughts on loyalty. If a strikers job is to score goals, take chances and half chances and yours regularilyfluffs his when does loyalty become blind loyalty or even blind intransigence? Marcello must also know that there are never any guarantees in football. As we have seen too often Plan A is not guaranteed to work. vital players have off days or more importantly the opposition suss out Plan A and set up successfully to counter it. Even sometimes grabbing the first goal and merely parking the bus for 80mins. I am also a bit surprised that he infers that Sgt Wilko had no Plan B. I do not remember that he never changed tactics to save a losing game or that he twaeked a lineup to counter an opposition threat. I never heard Wilko being labelled as stubborn. No for all the love I have for what Marcello has done I am not blinkered to his failings and to me his stubborn character has led to him being unreasonably loyal to some who, for their own benefit as well as ours, should be rested.

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04 Feb 2020 19:29:43
Just say for arguments sake bright that bubs signed a 5 year deal, so Chaps reckons it would be ok that the current modus operandi would reap the same results over the duration of his contract, where each season is a carbon copy of the last, small squad, huge amount of stats in our favour, tiny goal conversion rate, mediocre players moved all around the team plugging gaps of the injured, and purchasing low key players to wait +see what happens in future,

So that continues with no success, , bubs sticks to his principles, and anyone who suggests change is voiced down and told bubs doesn't have to change because he has beliefs .

But meanwhile back in the real sporting world belief alone sadly wins no silver . Yes the man knows how to turn the talent on but it appears he can't readjust when the the other managers have found the means to nullify bubs tactics . This it appears is the flaw to our genius . And I don't mean genius in a disparaging way neither .

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04 Feb 2020 09:42:05
If 'big Kev' gets injured or is struggling to get going in this league what are our options?
Do we terminate the loan? Can we? Do we have the option for emergency loan of ST?
Who would we get? Vydra from Burnley, Gray of Watford?

Just sharing thoughts, don't think we would terminate lan IMO!

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04 Feb 2020 12:07:53
Emergency loans for outfield players no longer exist.

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04 Feb 2020 09:24:01
LUFC under 11s beat man utd in the final of the 10 team competition, The Manchester Utd Cup. Now that's made my week better.

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04 Feb 2020 10:02:24
Can we have the striker on the bench.
Maybe he can run between their legs!

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04 Feb 2020 08:59:02
If we remember we have a similar squad to that which was floundering mid table a couple of seasons ago. We've added a keeper, White (who is having an excellent season although it is unclear how dominant he is in either box) , Harrison (who has taken a season to get going) , Costa (who hasn't got going yet) and Douglas who is injured for the most part. We have Cooper (who makes one or two howlers every game and who is not dominant in either box) , Dallas playing in all sorts of positions (currently mid field -average at best) Hernandez (who is getting on a bit) and Bamford (who is inconsistent to say the least in front of goal) Given all that it's remarkable to see us second in the division. It can be argued that we have shortcomings in all parts of the team. Unfortunately because of that we tend to be in a constant loop. Do well- have bad patches come back for a while then slip up at the final fence. If we can hit one of our good patches for the last ten games or so we might still get promoted but it's definitely not a given and with our injury record it will be remarkable if we do it automatically.

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04 Feb 2020 09:17:00
yeah possibly. I do think Bielsa is getting performances collectively well above the individual abilities of the team.

The fixtures do get arguably 'easier' after the next 3 games with a lot of winnable matches. I think the fixtures may well favour our run in compared with some of our rivals so we have a golden opportunity, especially if the new recruits can get fit and make a difference. Dig in, draw or win the next 3 and then see if we can get back to a run of positive results.

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Review Of The Day 4th February 2020

04 Feb 2020 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 4th February 2020

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03 Feb 2020 23:23:29
See a lot of us are trying to defend Bamford and i admit i have in the past but to brutally honest he is our major problem. Saying he does a good job running the channels and hold up play when he only has two assists is like being great at foreplay and still being a virgin.

Agree he has had little help from midfield this season but he has had enough good chances to be top scorer in this division. Woody would have been in the thirties by now.

Agree Bubs has to take some of the responsibility for it. Last season my catch phrase as BIGE was same old same old and guess i will be dusting it off and using again soon. He held Costa back at beginning of season with the same excuse heis using with JKA, yet when Costa got in its still took him time to gel with our play. Think instead of sticking with the same old same old things need shaking up a bit. Would it hurt to put Augustin on for twenty minutes. Shacks has been fit a while and conspicuous by his absence after impressing previously.

Couple of hard games coming up that i do not expect to get much from but end of this month and next month think we have a chance of getting some breathing space if Bubs has it in him to throw a few surprises out there as teams will be happy seeing the same old players. Show us a plan Bubs.

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04 Feb 2020 08:43:51
Would definitely give Kev the last 10 or 15, but tbf, he was really blowing at times yesterday. Fitness is way off.

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04 Feb 2020 09:33:29
Yes noticed that too Bright which is a bit worrying to say he came from a team like Monaco who you would think would keep players fit. As a professional you would think he could keep himself fit. Was not happy with that at all.

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