Leeds Banter

01 Mar 2026 16:18:23
2-1 to the home team a very popular score-at least for us whites fans! MOT.

01 Mar 2026 15:26:43
Watching man poo game today talk about inconsistency with match officials, Maguire run up to the referee was told many times to go way and gets nothing the game is corrupt and VAR give the red card.
Or is that just a dis granted old Leeds fan.

01 Mar 2026 13:52:24
Speaking with a Burnley fan, he was very complimentary about us, and very pragmatic in terms of their most likely return to the Championship.

We noted Sunderland (perversely) were actually in the best position going into the epl based upon promotion from the playoffs, and having the lowest spend in terms of squad and wages of the three.

This meant under PSR they had significantly more headroom for signings than ourselves and Burnley.

He said, on all the Burnley forums expectations were not high after losing Trafford, Brownhill and Egan in close season, but interestingly he thought clubs the size of Burnley and their board (as a business model) would not be distraught to yo yo if it was always quick return based upon parachute payments and epl tv rights.

Oh his season ticket £312.00!

Think it shows the divide is increasing every year and neither Boro nor Coventry will likely
pose a risk to changing the norm of relegation for newly promoted teams.

Not sure if this will ever change, I fear like F1 the top six teams in the epl wield so much influence and power that making the leap to an established epl side is so difficult, fair play to the likes of Brentford who show it can be done without spending billions, but it's getting more difficult every season.

01 Mar 2026 14:23:28
Good post, Class. It makes you wonder if things would be better if the so called big boys had gone off to form their European Super League.

01 Mar 2026 16:42:34
When Burnley was sold in 2020 by the Garlick family, who owned local electrical shops, the club had £45m in the bank. The last accounts show a debt of £113m. The view amongst many fans is that, as often happens, the US consortium, led by Pace, is doing very well out of their ownership.

01 Mar 2026 17:08:39
Top post, Class.

01 Mar 2026 20:16:39
Spoke to my Burnley mate tonight re season ticket prices. The £312 is for under 21s. The regular price is £525, which is very good value compared to most other PL teams. However, concessions for seniors have jumped from £300 two years ago to £450 this season. Still good value, but a big jump and has annoyed some supporters.

I remember when Burnley went down and season ticket prices went up. ☹️ Different scenario, and maybe demand, but Bradford City season tickets for under 12s are £35. Catch them young. That's why my sons are City supporters, but we amicably disagree on football matters.

01 Mar 2026 09:45:02
This always reminds me of how games usually turn out when teams around the top of the table play against play against ones near the bottom in the Premiership.

It's the defining moments in a game that the team with the quality players like Man City will always make their moment count.
However we did play very well against them but in our defining moments the ball does not go in the net because we lack, and obviously so as a newly promoted team, that extra quality the will bury at least one of those chances we had, in the net.

It is also not a surprise and this might sound like sour grapes, but referee decisions will always go against the team struggling at the bottom than those reaching for glory at the top. It's always been like that and I accept it as part of the game.

Long before this game was played out I have had no doubt in my head that under Farke and these players we have, we will survive this season and survive is at best, was all we could do in this first season up in the Prem.

I'm the kind of fan the doesn't want to see his team punch above it's weight like Forest did last season and Sunderland have in this season. A slow and progressive building of our team in the Premiership is what I prefer without the unrealistic great expectations that are forced onto some teams in these sometimes over fortunate and over elevated positions that some recently promoted teams might find themselves in.

Well done to all the lads playing yesterday, they gave their max as they have all season and I truly believe they will be rewarded for their hard working efforts. Same goes for the coaching staff and especially Daniel Farke who has surprised many with his adaptability in the most competitive league in the world.
Never doubt his commitment to succeed with our club, picking up that red card for remonstrating with a ref who is rubbish at his job shows his passion and his emotion that some seem to think he does not posses.

01 Mar 2026 12:13:04
Excellent post, Opti.

01 Mar 2026 09:32:32
Firstly, a defeat which should have produced at least a point. We are good enough to stay up, but a worry is the return of the misfiring DCL. Semanyo shouldn't have been allowed to tap that in, it could and should have been cut out. The foul not given on Aaronson before the goal was a terrible decision, as were many others that the ultra incompetent Bankes made or didn't make.

On to Tuesday and a must win game to get confidence levels back up to get another 12 points to make us safe.