I find it interesting that so few Listers, not to mention the Sky commentators, have identified Warnock's early departure as a major factor in yesterday's game. When your captain and best defender have to leave the field after ten minutes, that is bound to have an effect. (In fact, it has at least three: creates a void of on-field leadership, disrupts an already unsteady defence, and reduces by a third the ability of the manager - sorry, "head coach" - to use substitutions to change things later in the game.)
Happy New Year to all Listers. Cheers! Sean -----Original Message----- From: leedssongs.com <p...@leedssongs.com> To: 'Leeds List' <leedslist@gn.apc.org> Sent: Wed, Dec 31, 2014 4:01 am Subject: [LU] Derby Woke up today and realized it was not a dream. The worst game of football I can ever remember having watched on TV. Credit (again, and as always) to our travelling supporters, amazing to be sing like that for 90 minutes plus extra time! On the pitch we are clueless. Two main problems: we dont have a defence. And we dont create attempts on target. We are in fact nowhere near creating attempts on target. Add to this a non-existing midfield... Oh well. We lack on-field man management. The extended arm for the manager. The man able to shout around. The man that can conduct a bit out there. Motivate (even when everything is more grey than the London rain). Gordon Strachan springs to mind. We need this kind of midfielder. A former premier league general, that might be willing to a season or two with us before he retires for the sofa... We also need to play our talents. I see no point whatsoever to bring in the likes of Adryan, and put on the bench. Such players should be the first names on the team note, and if they are not good enough for that, send them back home. We can fill the bench with players from our own academy... Derby looked almost as bad as us, until they scored. Eh, that is, until we scored for them. That sort of changed the game. The little air that was in the Leeds balloon, went out. Typical for a team in our situation. Both that we scored for them, and that our performance dropped to below zero when it happened. Here comes man management into the picture. My question is if our caretaking manager (yes, that was the official title on the telly screen, caretaking...) is good enough in this area. There is no doubt about his skills in terms of growing talent and developing players, but to manage a team, is needed something more. I think we need a manager. A person with experience from English football. A person with experience from English championship. It is about two thigns, basically: the mind games before the game (motivation, tactics, what have you, make the players wanting to bleed for the shirt and each other, making them know what to do etc), and the ability to change things around during games dependent on game development. We looked completely lost. Like we did not want to be there. Like we just had to walk around and then take the bus back home. Very sad. Not long ago, we would say Derby were there for the taking. And I mean it. They were actually very bad. The only thing they did all game, was the free kick and header leading to second goal. Oh yes, that is right, they actually tested our goalkeeper once in addition. TV was showing highlights from other games after. And even considering they were only highlights, it looked like they were games in another league. So much more speed, effort, attacking, running, trying, working, what have you... Thank you for 2014, folks! Øystein _______________________________________________ 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
