The season is over Dave - it's yet another wasted year. I haven't felt positive about us since we had Larry and two premiership class wingers tearing it up. I know I'm something of a broken record on this but Bates destroyed us when we had a chance at promotion to the promised land. Now we have nothing. Cellino is not going to get approved, clearly. I don't know much about Italian law but I do know this much - there will be no finality when his case is heard hence the league will not approve him. What does this mean for us in a takeover sense?
Depressed of Perth. MOT Ian Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2014, at 18:40, "nat...@sky.com" <nat...@sky.com> wrote: > > Well what a night - incredible - the scoreline does not do this topsy turvy > game justice. > As the team was announced fans were happy to see the back of Kebe, Stewart, > Peltier and Warnock and welcomed back Pugh, Marius Pearce and Byram. They > were less impressed with the realisation that we were going 5 at the back but > to be fair we had had some success with that earlier in the season. So the > game kicked off (30mins late) and the crowd put aside the disgust they felt > from Saturday and got behind the team. The team largely responded and were > snapping into tackles and closing them down. Rudy pulled a shot wide and then > Wickham had a decent shot that was easily saved and then it all changed. A > poor backpass led to Pearce and Butland both waving their hands and leaving > the ball to the other letting a Reading player sneak in and walked it into an > empty net. The players confidence disappeared as the ball crossed the line > and the patience of the crowd snapped. Suddenly Reading were first to every > ball and our challenges were weak and ineffective, > players forgot how to do the simple things and Tom Lees became the butt of > the fans ire as 3 times his passes went into touch or to an opponent when > under no pressure. On the stroke of half time it was nearly game over as > their foward got the ball in the six yard box under no pressure but took too > long and Butland smothered the shot. Halt time was met by a few boos. > Then came the incredible second half - within a minute they got a free kick > on the edge of the box and put it in the top corner. As our players trooped > back to the re-start we could see all fight had gone out of them , the lad in > front of me nearly had a heart attack laying into them for their lack of > emotion. So it was no suprrise that within 5 minutes they cut us open twice > more and the scoreboard read 0 4 . That was enough for some fans and at least > 20 from the bottom of the Kop left the ground. The rest of us stood in > stunned silence and then the vitriol started "we're shit and we're sick of > it" "what the f is going on" and even worse "you're not fit to wear the > shirt". The fans having vented their spleen chose sarcasm instead of venom > and began to 'Ole' ever Leeds pass - this showed them up even more as it went > ole ole oh dear, ole ole oh dear as we could not string more than 2 passes > together. A weak shot from Murphy brought huge cheers and > pretend goal celebrations as we took the piss even more. Then a miracle > happened in the shape of Matt Smith. He lumbered on as Marius was jeered off. > Within a minute a long cross was bundled home by 'Freak Boy' - he might not > look elegant but he knows where the goals are. The crowd cheered, then > seconds later Rudy ran through and unleashed one of his thunderbolts - > amazingly instead of it hitting Row Z it hit the back of the net 2 4. We > could'nt , could we. The crowd got behind the team as only Leeds fans can and > the players responded in kind. Rudy turned into Rudy the Beast as he was > everywhere with crunching tackles and long passes. Smith was unplayable in > the air and these 2 rubbed off on the rest as Reading were like rabbits in > the headlights in front of a baying mob.It was real gung-ho go for it stuff, > not the prettiest but effective. We even managed with Byram and Mowatt to > play some football but mainly it was hit it to the big lad. It was always > too big an ask but we could have done it, a cross came in that Smith missed > by inches, then his header glanced the post and later a shot hit the defender > and bounced at 100mph into Ross, on another day it would have ricocheted in, > this time it went wide. We peppered them with shots and for about 10minutes > we genuinely thought we would get a draw at the very least. OK on the odd > occasion they broke it was scary and would have ended our resistance but it > was enthralling and exhilarating stuff. As the clock wind down we realised > that the impossible come back was just that impossible but it had been great > while it lasted. Why o why could we not have played with that effort and > tempo at 0 0 or for the rest of the season ? > At 0 4 and all expecting 0 7 Brian was out of a job, will that 20mins have > saved him (or at least delayed what looks inevitable) who knows but it was a > great 20mins - very similar to the Liverpool 4 5 game when we were also 4 > down and Chapman got a hat-trick and another wrongly denied - I have said > before that Smith is the new sub standard Chappy and last night proved it > Chappy got 3, Smithy only 1. > It was almost a pleasure to be there BUT at the end of the day we lost 2 4 > and have conceded 9 in two home games we expected to win, so despite the fun > of last night it was only when it was all over that we did anything and even > then we only papered over the cracks. We are a very poor side, can the > players take anything from that 20mins into the game on Saturday who knows, > we had similar bright moments v Watford (again when it was almost game over) > and Huddersfield but as last night I think it is all too little too late > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
