Its an embarrassment to lose to Histon but in terms of the desirablility of progressing in a competition we were never going to win, its meaningless.
As far as Macca's future is concerned, I don't think there should even be a question. We're playing the best football I've seen from a Leeds team for several years (making the necessary allowances for the difference in standard and opposition). We are apparently, the leading goalscorers in all 4 divisions, so some ITV gonk said yesterday. What needs sorting is the defence...and in reality what that means is either some proper work on the training ground or one of Marques/Huntington/Telfer to rediscover some form to play alongside Lubo - who did a good job with good attitude yesterday - or to bring in a new CHalf. Because what is lacking is a proper authoratative CHalf to boss the defence - the full backs are as good as most in this league and wouldn't be such a weak point if the centre of defence was solid. Finally, even given the conditions, the approach of some of the players was naïve yesterday - the attempts to run and dribble the ball or to pass it along the ground were always doomed to failure. They should know that it has to be clipped or even just hoofed, sometimes. Thought Becchio's control was dreadful, Robinson continually headed up blind alleys and lost the ball, and I can't remember Hughes making a pass that didn't go either into touch or to one of theirs. At least Enoch gave their defence some work to do. That said Lubo was unlucky twice and their fullback Gwillam made two blinding last ditch tackles. Good luck to them. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Walker Sent: 01 December 2008 08:44 To: Leeds List; Matt Anderson Subject: Re: [LU] Histon. Given the draw it's definitely a blessing in disguise that we're out. I can't be arsed to go into an in depth analysis. The whole program was absolute torture to watch - how many times did the bloke mention the Histon ducks, pubs, post office and lake - sickening, and then we started going on about Montgomery and Poterfield I just had to turn the sound off. Shame really 'cos Beglin was dying for us to get an equaliser. Few points: Hughes - you put him in the side to battle in conditions like this but he's incapable. You won't win anything with Hughes and Douglas in midfield. I'm surprised noone has mentioned Bechhio. Was that the worse performance ever by a Leeds player. He was shocking. Even in those conditions I expect our players to be able to pass and control a ball. THis was a step too far for Bechhio. He had two very good chances and failed to make the keeper make a save. He was also outmuscled and outhought by a postman. I don't care how many goals he will score in this league (Kandol proved that in this league in a decent team you don't have to have ability to that) he's poor and I can't stand watching players without basic ability. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist is Michel Kitabdjian dead yet? _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist is Michel Kitabdjian dead yet?
