28 Jan 2024 15:28:27
Chelsea away if we win replay, how do you like them apples?
28 Jan 2024 15:35:38
Glad to see normal order restored. An away game against a top 10 prem team. Send the under 12s down for the Plymouth reply and focus on the league ?.
28 Jan 2024 15:44:04
Potentially away again
Chelsea at home would have been far better
#Unnecessary distractions FACup.
28 Jan 2024 15:47:19
Or Villa.
28 Jan 2024 15:55:01
Be nice to get big allocation might actuaaly get a ticket to an away game, it's like a willy wonka golden ticket these days.
28 Jan 2024 16:01:34
Could still be away to Vile.
28 Jan 2024 16:04:43
Meanwhile Ambrosia get a tough draw.
28 Jan 2024 16:39:57
Yes Richie and George. Vile or Chelsea away
Send the u16s to Plymouth.
28 Jan 2024 18:39:31
You won’t be saying #Unnecessary distractions FA Cup if somehow we made the final Baz.
Here’s a question for you, however unlikely it would appear but would you prefer promotion or an FA cup trophy?
I know what I’d prefer.
28 Jan 2024 18:53:52
If wid shaped ourselves yesterday we wouldn't need replay not looking after ball in final third ether bad choice of pass or bad pass costing us especially sat and we still had anough chances win game mot.
28 Jan 2024 21:44:08
That's quite a good question from you OP.
It's quite a tough one . but
I would choose promotion in 2024 over winning FACup in 2024.
Three reasons:
1) Promotion this season is extremely important for the club to progress ; no guarantees Leeds go up next seasons and financial implications issues if they don't
2) I have already seen Leeds win 9 trophies. if I hadn't seen Leeds win leagues, cups etc before then maybe, just maybe my answer would differ
3) the FACup in 60s, 70s even 80s was a very prestigious competition and trophy to win . arguably more high profile than winning league . but it has definitely lost that prestige a lot in past 35 years imo
And what about you OP?
28 Jan 2024 22:27:56
Promotion every time, but a cup run would do for me as well, aka the blunts last season.
28 Jan 2024 23:18:51
Baz Don't forget your proud moment as a teenager seeing LUFC formed from the ruins of Leeds City.
29 Jan 2024 01:41:02
A proud day George. next you be saying I was born before Industrial Revolution ?.
29 Jan 2024 07:59:54
As implausible as it might seem, this season I would take an FA cup win.
European football, our best players would stay, big income uptick (not as much as promo but still) . Even runner-up could get European football. We would also miss out those miserable early EFL Cup games!
Probably a better chance than our playoff Wembley trip!
Hey, let's hope for both!
29 Jan 2024 08:22:46
We’ll let me put it this way, imagine the scenario and you’re going to have entertain me on this. We have put aside Plymouth, then away at Stamford bridge which we win. Next, Quarter final against Newcastle at Elland rd, emphatic win against the barcodes.
Semi final is Liverpool, we win in a very intense penalty shoot out.
The Final is against Man United.
In the league we are on joint points with Southampton and it is our last game of the season against Southampton for that second spot auto.
We can only win one game, which one is it?
29 Jan 2024 11:20:00
Cup. remembered for ever. 2nd forgotten by August.
29 Jan 2024 11:28:31
Err so Leeds win all 5 games Plymouth away Chelsea away . Saudi Barcodes, Liverpool and Man U
Yet more reasoms why you be known as "Fantasy OP' ??
Err its more appealing now certainly
I always knew your answer OP.
29 Jan 2024 12:19:54
I think you are slightly missing the point Baz!
29 Jan 2024 12:49:15
Ani I can name all. winners of Cups from 1960 to 1990 but especially in mullenium. I couldn't. i haven't even watched some of them . meh.
29 Jan 2024 13:25:57
Baz, what self respecting football fan can’t name all the finalist and winners for basically their whole life?
OP’s conundrum was a sensationally implausible cup win or a 2nd place promotion; you just saw it as another opportunity to have another dig.
29 Jan 2024 14:17:48
Ani IF you seriously believe that the FACup now has the same standing and prestige as it had in 60s and 70s then you truly don't have a scooby doo.
The FA cup hasn't interested me for decades . its meh
OP conundrum was pointless fantasy .
and no team outside of top division has won the FA Cup for 45 years .
As I correctly stated above the FA cup is an unnecessary distraction. we will be out in this round or next.
29 Jan 2024 18:41:48
I’d rather have my, as you call pointless fantasy, than your continual misery of the football team I love.
29 Jan 2024 19:40:08
Pointless fantasies are never achieved .
Realism, striving for better far more useful.
29 Jan 2024 19:45:33
Well Baz, technically the FA Cup has the same prestige as it always has…the 2nd most important trophy in England; still attracts a European place, a charity (community) shield game and a trip to (at least 3) Wembley.
The issue is these days, virtually anyone gets to play at Wembley, so many games are played there. Far more European places available and the real apathy these days is it is no longer the one live game we get to watch. It’s wall-to-wall live games these days. Back in the day, teams released music to celebrate their visit there; they even made TV programs (dramas! ) about the day. “Our” apathy towards it is probably compounded by our team’s meagre excursions into the latter round over the last 30 (50?) years or more.
Still, I will happily state I would love to win it and so would 99% of fans (hence why everyone still decries their managers for fielding weakened teams) . And yes, if winning the cup was at the cost of being in the EPL a little later, fair price I’d say. The sell out at Elland Rd last weekend suggest to me that fans (especially Leeds fans) like the cup (s)
29 Jan 2024 20:08:31
Ani your 2nd paragraph is spot on.
30 Jan 2024 05:24:28
I understand nostalgia and that it was all so much better in the old days, but that’s life, adapt and move on.
To be constantly moaning like Baz is pointless, you may as well change your sport if you are forever miserable and continually complaining about everything.
By the way Baz if you can’t understand that my little FA cup fictitious scenario then I would be wasting my time with you. Which I seem to do anyhow.