Fully agree. Every team in every season has a 'high water mark' performance. For us that will probably turn out to be the Derby match. There seems to have become a tendency since that match to compare all subsequent performances to that one. The fact is we were outstanding that day. There probably won't be another match this season where all the various moving parts click together so well. But that shouldn't be a cause of gnashing of teeth. We'll have another run of good form before the season ends - timing will be everything.
Hernandez, for example, is a lovely player. But we picked him up for next to nothing from the Middle East because his form has always tended to be patchy. If he was consistently excellent for 46 games we would never have been able to sign him. Better then to revel in his good moments and roll with his dips. Though we've seen very little of him so far, Pedroza strikes me as the wild card we still have to play before now and the end of the season. A genuinely different kind of player. I suspect Monk is working on the defensive side of his match currently. Being an optimist I also think this little spell out of the team will have helped refresh Roofe and I think he will come back strongly before the season is out. In the meantime 61 points from 34 games is phenomenal stuff - if you take out the first 6 games where Monk was still to work out his team, it's 57 points from 28 games. Promotion stuff. By contrast Sheff Weds have thrown ridiculous money they don't have on assembling that team. And they looked average and lacking pace in key areas,with their big money attacking subs really bringing astonishingly little variety on to the pitch. I'd take them as an opponent in the play offs every day of the week. We're still going up! Original Message From: Nick Sent: Sunday, 26 February 2017 12:09 To: Leeds List Subject: [LU] Wednesday Can’t believe the people who were “down-hearted” after this one. Before the match, everyone I knew “would have been happy with a point”. We got 3. It was a local derby, they had clawed a lot of points back against us in recent weeks until they had drawn level, the weather was bad - high wind and rain - an almost full Elland Road making a hell of a noise (some of the young’uns with us hadn’t heard noise like it)…apart from the penalty, they didn’t have a shot on goal…it was tight, we maybe got lucky…it was a sweet pass from Breradi to Wood…if you didn’t come out of that punching the air shouting “get in ya bastard” then you’re dead or a SW fan. There were difficulties…Pontus really needs to stop fucking about at the back…Sacko is “fast and to the pointless”…Doukara was much the same but with less speed…Hernandez was isolated…and I lost count of our bookings… The good stuff included some inspirational last ditch defending…thank you all the back four…great save from the penalty by Green…and Wood looking accomplished for 45 minutes. Win dirty if you have to, but win... _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org 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 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
