Leeds Banter

27 Apr 2024 16:18:43
Baggies losing, if it stays that way Tigers should come out really pumped up. Let's hope tractors take a drubbing tonite.

27 Apr 2024 17:03:36
Shame Huddersfield lost.

27 Apr 2024 17:08:47
Ipswich are now as good as up . already . imo

They may lose tonight against Hull

But they will very likely beat a dispirited nowt to play for Coventry

And Ipswich crucially now have a home banker of all home bankers against confirmed relegated Huddersfield who guaranteed will roll over to ensure Leeds don't go up.

I also would not trust this Leeds United team to beat Southampton.

27 Apr 2024 16:15:01
West Brom currently getting beat. Hull must smell blood if that stays the case.

27 Apr 2024 15:10:46
Further to the "mini rebuild" The more I read, the more I worry, with the need to find 73mill by June severely curtailing our ability to afford a marquee signing this summer. As in other windows I fear that our recruitment will be looking at freebies and lower leagues. Bargain basement will be the norm whilst hoping and praying that on the other side of the coin we are scraping every penny from the exit door.
If best laid plans, at all, go awry then we could be carrying a minus through next season.

27 Apr 2024 15:25:32
Lots of dead meat to clip off the bones still Leodis, though I agree with what you’re saying in principle, and it is worrying, should we not go up. I do doubt the figures bandied about, and take them with a spoon of salt. We should all be used to it now tho; been here, done that etc etc. 😬😫.

27 Apr 2024 15:36:08
Luton demonstrated last season that promotion can be achieved by a team ( emphasis team ) of good honest pros with a good coach.

Ipswich too.

27 Apr 2024 16:22:01
Trouble is they are likely to come straight back down. As are Ipswich. And as we possibly would without significant additions to the squad. A club needs to be ready to go up. The structure needs to be right. I’d rather stay in the championship than be a yoyo club.

27 Apr 2024 17:10:44
What does that essentially even mean Manston " a club needs to be ready to go up "?

27 Apr 2024 17:12:20
Luke Ayling had another good game with Middlesbrough today.
We let him go because he didn't have the legs to keep up with play
Michael Carrick found a way to accommodate Luke
If we are playing Championship football again next season, I think we should be trying to keep him.

27 Apr 2024 11:03:22
There were some out there playing to their own agenda? There were some who clearly were struggling? There were even some who, after a long season, were clearly just off the boil. Last night showed that there are a number of issues which Farke needs to address in the summer, whichever league we are in. There are a few who will depart with a fond farewell and some who sadly it will be the best for all (just get top dollar) they just do not want to be here and some, who do not fall into either camp but stand with a mighty question mark above them. After last summer, this summer will be just as hard with a mini rebuild required but looming in the wings the shadow of our outstanding debts somewhat hampering our decisions. Still such is the life of a football manager for all it's woes we would all, too a man, kill for the job. In fact some of us think we are doing it already. Just (regretfully) nobody listens to our sage advice. I have no sympathy for myself (or any of you for that matter) we all knew when we started that, We Are Leeds and this is what we do! Give us a smooth straight path and somehow we will contrive to dig it up, divert it and cover it with broken glass. The football God watches us crawl along towards the end and to not make it too easy will give us a kicking every now and then in the sure knowledge that it doesn't matter what he does these fools will be back at the start of the path, every year full of hope and blind faith.
So, no matter what happens in the coming few weeks WE are the fans, with licence to criticise and praise, to threaten and cajole but above all else To Support our great team. As Saint Vivienne once said "Oh well, tomorrow is another day".

27 Apr 2024 11:55:06
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

27 Apr 2024 13:30:55
Hear hear Leo.

27 Apr 2024 14:33:55
Well said Leodis! And I’m still looking forward to taking my eldest lad - who’s just turned 18 - in The Scarborough Taps straight after a game when I next take him up. The door man on match day is good at his job! I Love Leeds. We are Leeds. On On On!

27 Apr 2024 15:36:59
First sentence says it all Leo.

27 Apr 2024 09:07:12
Is the reality a bit more simple in respect of last night? We were playing a team fighting to avoid the drop at a known compact ground. They started the season badly but then brought in a new coach that has turned them round. They would be up for it. Why was Kamara on the bench and only brought on after 87 minutes? Is he injured? Rutter is big and skilful but everyone knows he's a big softie and easily dispossessed. Archie is still only 18. They ran through us in midfield all night. No wonder there was no link between defence and attack. And why wasn't Piroe hooked when it was clear he was having no impact on the game? We failed to do our homework. Perhaps also a lack of respect for the opposition?

27 Apr 2024 09:27:07
Indeed 56. Manager useless or on a payroll. That was the worst team performance I’ve seen all season inc Ipswich.

27 Apr 2024 11:33:10
Well thought through post Manston! Makes sense in many ways.

27 Apr 2024 08:55:46
Controversial opinion
Cooper needs to play last game
Think we need leadership on the pitch
Simple change
Move Ampadu to centre mid and gray back to rb and I'd also bring Kamara back to midfield
I'm not sure why he has been dropped but he gets time space and composure in midfield .
Piroe needs to never play in a Leeds shirt again.

27 Apr 2024 09:28:10
Too late mighty mate.
No diff team. Just a miracle needed b.

27 Apr 2024 09:44:07
No never… coppers played over 250 games for leeds and in that time been consistently inconsistent and always good for a mistake. Remember, in the derby play off game when he cost us a place in the final.

Sell cooper it’s the only way to make sure they don’t get tempted to play him.

27 Apr 2024 11:42:34
So Bermo, the current team sans Cooper has been immaculate and no one has made any mistakes costing us goals?

Cooper wouldn't have allowed the lethargic play out from the back and he wouldn't have let their heads drop. Likewise Ayling wouldn't have been so inert up our right hand side for the last half dozen games; still the fans got their wish.

27 Apr 2024 11:58:38
I agree there Ani.
We will need a true leader signature this summer; a character, a shouter and motivator. An extension onto the pitch of the coaching team.

27 Apr 2024 15:31:36
We have conceded the fewest goals all season in the leauge. One swallow don’t make a simmer and one bad game don’t make a good defence bad.

250 games of inconsistent play and bad mistakes does make me not want to play him.

27 Apr 2024 15:40:09
Difficult to take Berm seriously. he is half right about Cooper though

P. S. Cooper is out of contract next month Berma .

27 Apr 2024 08:22:29
Been to every playoff game since 1987 but that's it for me till August after next week fed up of watching this club 99/ 100 fail ever since the Revie days only 1% of the time something goes for us you can write the script us older Leeds fans knew we'd be the club to collapse as much as I love Leeds United I also hate them for destroying my health.

27 Apr 2024 09:45:08
I get it mate and I’m with you. When we lost to derby in playoffs, I genuinely think I went into depression for about three months.

But deep down we are Leeds and would rather lose as Leeds than win as anyone else!

27 Apr 2024 11:34:14
Wot Bermo said!

27 Apr 2024 11:47:49
GA. these "near death" experiences is what keeps you alive!

Bielsa's collapse was far more distressing for me; we had been the front runners most of the season. This time, we have been chasing for the most part and we have seen how the miserable the actual prize is!

Whatever happens, come the first week of August, all is forgotten and forgiven, and all that new season optimism comes rushing back. It is the cycle of a football fan. Would we really have it any other way?

27 Apr 2024 13:35:04
Following any other team would be dull as dishwater. Is there any other club that has ad many ups and downs as we do? The lows are bad yes but they only serve to make the highs higher and boy are there highs! Wouldn't have it any other way personally. Suck up the bad because the good is only around the corner.

27 Apr 2024 08:22:10
Well pick the bones out of that one. I certainly wasn't expecting a capitulation like that last night, not the leeds team i have watched all season. To a man they looked tired, disjointed and clueless, only Firpo who I have berated frequently was verbally trying to drive the team on.
So glass half full time, Ipswich lose 2, or draw one of the 2 it's down to last game, they win one draw one, still last game, but out of our hands. But in all honesty it's looking more like at least 2 more games on sky and hopfully a winning visit to Wembley.
Whatever happens curse or no curse i am Leeds till I die, and when i do leave this mortal coil i will come back down and have a full blown scrap in the middle of Elland Road with the naughty spirit that has been put there to cause so much stress on my fellow supporters . MOT.

27 Apr 2024 08:50:54
Love it mate and said the same.

I’m our awful summer of wed of bern offered 3rd 99% of us would of taken it. I expected mid table.

Monday night Friday night games are difficult and made no sense other than for poxy sky sports!

When we go up in the playoff final it will be best day of my life and better than the day my daughters were born. If not we got next year!

27 Apr 2024 09:29:58
You feritile berm?

27 Apr 2024 11:49:38
Thing is guys, Ipswich lose one of the next two, they have to win the next two to guarantee promotion. A draw and we win and they can't beat us because of GD.

27 Apr 2024 12:00:47
Will laugh my pants off if Sipsvitch get walloped tonight too!

27 Apr 2024 07:51:35
This is the only match of the season I haven’t seen. So have been sitting reading all the comments and reports for the last couple of hours. After getting down to the final comments of the first page, mighty says after 5 minutes knew we were going to lose. How could that be in such a massive game for the club? How could we not get ourselves up for such an important game? What’s happened to the team spirit? The bottle went? I read most of the reports saying meslier was poor again, piroe was terrible. As a team, we are far too nice. We can’t score from set pieces and always look like we will concede goals from set pieces. It doesn’t augur well for the last game of the season against saints, and more importantly the play offs. As always it’s easier to spout off once the horse has bolted, but lack of desire and fight is unacceptable
Maybe too many self before side players in our team right enough.

27 Apr 2024 09:36:15
Start with farkeless.

27 Apr 2024 10:24:32
Explain ausman. We won 13 and drew 2. How can we go from that form to the current debacle? I think Daniel is sometimes too nice and too loyal, but it always comes down to the players. Without doubt Joseph should have been brought in a while ago, but piroe has been a 20 goal a season player the last couple of seasons, and frankly the game against boro when he came on, he looked as though he’d just came on from running the London marathon, and also didn’t look like he was trying a leg. I also think, had we had a better keeper, would have won a few more games. He was better when he was 19-20 years old.
Good shot stopper maybe, but his positional sense and distribution are woeful.
And we essentially have 2 old style sweepers that sit in front of the defence. They never drive forward and pass the ball sideways or backwards.
And practically no goals from defenders or midfielders, compared to other teams in the championship, have cost us. When you are backs against the wall you sometimes need someone other than the forwards to come up with the goods. It never happens.

27 Apr 2024 07:47:39
Let's be realistic yes we lost were we totally outplayed the stats don't show that, we had more shots both had 5 on target their goalie made a couple of good saves ours didn't yes we have played better but it is not the end of the world.

27 Apr 2024 09:37:50
U b realistic. Hilarious. We got trounced, mate. Plate and simple. By relegation fodder.