I think we are getting a bit hung up on one poorish result . Apart from games
against actual rivals ( and we have beaten Leicester and Ipswich away - albeit
hammered by Southampton) we need to look more at groups of games Dropping 2 pts
was bad but will look much better as long as we win the 2 home games this week
- 7pts ftom 3 games is generally promotion form.
Personally i think the first half v rotherham was just too easy and we dropped
our levels and could not get them back once we fell for the sucker punch which
gave them hope and a bit of belief
Many games hinge on fine margins - lino misses Bamfords foot being offside and
we win, ref sees the foul on James- penalty and a red card , we probably win.
Cooper doesn't get back to clear - we probably lose.
Like most i think our front 4 are so much better than the opposition ( though
not 100% convinced by Piroe - a hat trick v his formerckub would be nice ) and
agree we need to get on the front foot more often and much quicker to give them
chances. However this also means we are better playing on the break and have
to entice them onto us a bit hence the " fannying about" at the back at times
A long way to go and we are reasonably well set to put pressure on the top two
and hunt them down. Ipswich will struggle to keep up their pace and Leicester,
whilst very good , have shown they are not invincible, and i have read they
will lose 3 or 4 players to the African cup in January
So keep the faith and put Swansea and boro to the sword
I missec Plymouth so can't wait to get back to ER Dave
On Sunday, 26 November 2023 at 10:18:10 GMT, Simon McNally via Leedslist
<leedslist@gn.apc.org> wrote:
I notice this week that sky bet have us second favourite for automatic
promotion behind Leicester, having previously had us third.
I know odds are also dependent on how much money has been bet but I’m taking it
as a positive!
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Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 10:06:05 AM
To: n...@6haroldplace.co.uk <n...@6haroldplace.co.uk>
Cc: Leeds List 2010 <leedslist@gn.apc.org>
Subject: Re: [LU] Fwd: Rotherham Game
Indeed Nick - looking at the league there are probably 12 teams in with a shout
of the top 6 - it’s nice to be near the top of the pile! That said, the
defensive ‘passing/set-up’ bores me to tears at times - in an ideal world we’d
play on the front foot 80% of the time - watching Meslier and co play square
passes over and over is as dull as it gets imho. We should, and could, be
whupping these teams like Rotherham, Plymouth etc, instead we’re hanging on!
Very bored with that :-)
Sent from my iPad
> On 26 Nov 2023, at 09:34, n...@6haroldplace.co.uk wrote:
>
>
> …and still, we gained a point on Ipswich. And it isn’t yet December.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Paul Cundell <p...@cundell.com>
>> Date: 26 November 2023 at 00:24:54 GMT
>> To: John Lee <bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk>
>> Cc: Leeds List 2010 <leedslist@gn.apc.org>
>> Subject: Re: [LU] Rotherham Game
>>
>> Tbf, again, they are mostly the same players - hence, I assume, Farke's
>> safety first approach, but what do I know.
>> Personally, I blame Sky comms for telling us that we'd always won when
>> scoring first.
>>
>>
>>>> On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, 22:43 , <bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that’s a fair point Paul, although there was plenty of evidence to
>>> suggest the tide might turn yesterday? I don’t think I was alone in not
>>> being exactly gushing about some of our defender’s ‘abilities’ - all the
>>> old doubts came back to worry me :-(
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 25 Nov 2023, at 22:06, Paul Cundell <p...@cundell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I think we're in danger of very quickly forgetting how badly we were
>>> shipping goals pre-Farke.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, 21:46 Nicholas Armit via Leedslist, <
>>> leedslist@gn.apc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Totally agree! It is very frustrating.
>>>> Nick
>>>> On Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 10:55:15 AM EST, John Lee via
>>>> Leedslist <leedslist@gn.apc.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think this insistence on re-setting the entire team every time we get
>>>> possession, by playing it back to Cooper/Rodon/Meslier cripples one of our
>>>> key strengths - our attacking speed. I would definitely have Gray in the
>>>> middle, and I hope Farke is beginning to see that this ultra- cautious
>>>> defensive set up is costing us points? There’s zero point in having 80%
>>>> possession if 90% of that is within 30 yards of our goal!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>>> On 25 Nov 2023, at 13:09, Kevin Lewis via Leedslist <
>>>> leedslist@gn.apc.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Last night showed to me how much we need the creative midfield player
>>>> to
>>>>> turn promising positions into the type of chances that even our strikers
>>>>> can’t miss. Then pick whichever of Rutter, Piroe and Bamford looks like
>>>>> they may eventually score a goal. None of them does at the moment.
>>>> Bamford
>>>>> in particular has missed the ball, missed a penalty and wandered
>>>> offside in
>>>>> his last 3 significant contributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was looking forward to seeing Firpo last night to give the team an
>>>>> overlapping option down the left. Sadly it looks like his attacking,
>>>>> defending, desire and reliability to keep possession are lacking even at
>>>>> this level.
>>>>>
>>>>> Despite that Leeds are still probably 5 points ahead of where I expected
>>>>> them
>>>>> to be, considering the state of the squad when Farke came in, and at the
>>>>> end of the transfer window.
>>>>>
>>>>> KOT
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