Not going into any real detail of today's game, but the following things
came to my mind (and that of others around me) witnessing our lowest ebb of
recent years.
1. To beat a bunch of cloggers on a freezing, wet November day you have to
adapt. Trying to pass it around won't work (especially if the pitch is as
sodden as it was at the beginning of the match). 2. Delph's game is suited
best to passing/moving/beating his man. Today wasn't the day/weather for it
(see 1). Kilkenny or Howson from the start would have made more sense. 3.
Why does the manager persist with 4-5-1 away from home? How many games has
he started this way only for us to go 1 down, revert to 4-4-2 (as today
with Showunmi) and chase the game to no avail. 4. Would a non-Leeds hero
manager be allowed to get away with serving up this dross? I admit a P38
W22 D7 L9 (lifted from Wikipedia) looks pretty good, but it can't hide the
mediocre couple of months that have just passed (especially away from home,
see 3) and the slide down the table. 5. The apathy amongst the fans (I can
only speak for the recent Peterborough, Southend and Histon games I have
been to) is astounding. A couple of years ago the pitch invasion by the
joyous Histon fans would have probably been met by a counter-invasion (or a
least a chorus of "We are Leeds"). Today, nothing. Just sodden, dejected
apathy. 6. "We're not famous anymore" sums it up well. We are a well
supported, mediocre League One side with a squad that, by all accounts
should go straight up. Oh, that requires decent management (see 4). 7. Now
that the emergency loan market is closed, we are up a certain creek without
a paddle. By the time the January window comes around, the top clubs could
be long gone. 8. McAllister out anyone?
Dave
Cambridge White (8.8 miles from Histon)
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is Michel Kitabdjian dead yet?
