Why do people keep looking for that magic reason why we aren't winning games? Did any of you go to the games early in the season. For most we were second best but won (Norwich being the prime example). Now we're not getting the breaks and the luck which reduces confidence. Reducing confidence by 10-20% in this league can easily result in a wiining team transforming into a losing team week in week out.
----- Original Message ---- From: Dr Michael Benjamin <[email protected]> To: Sam Gibbard <[email protected]> Cc: LEEDS LIST <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 24 March, 2010 4:11:16 Subject: Re: [LU] Beckford: reason for the rot? I think that you are right that something has happened but it is not Beckford. He might have gone walkabout but that is a symptom and not a cause. What I mean is this. SG has a shown that there are some people that no matter what will not play. Grella,who I thought was injured, Michaelic, there was Pruton, Robinson, Rui --- people who just fell of the radar. That must have a hell of a deleterious effect on the atmosphere. Add to that the guys coming in. More than once it is due to a friend in the 'favoured pool'. I have a feeling that there are factions. And this makes for negativity and tension. Look at it another way. How many guys are sure to be there next year and why? I think that after ManU SG made this more obvious. We got hit by the rivals renewed 'cup final' against us. We went on a slide & this made the latent discontent overt, more wide spread. This was re-enforced all the time by shitty results. It looks similar to the 'Watford Final'. remember that SG has never managed a large squad. I don't know how true this is but it sure is an explanation and explanations are sorely needed. If it is true then we are out of any promotion prospects. So I hope that I am wrong. Michael Dr Michael Benjamin, Community Psychiatrist ------------------------------- myRay: On-line Self-Help CBT http://www.myRay.com ------------------------------ Mental Health: http//www.MyDoctorExplains.com -------------------------------- Auditing || Quality Control http://www.MyDoctorExplains.com/alamo/ -------------------------------- Blog: http://www.DrMichaelBenjamin.com On 24 March 2010 04:41, Sam Gibbard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will start by saying that I defended Beckford all through his petulant > career at Leeds, and was staunchly against him leaving in January. > > But after 24 hours thought, a few things have started to dawn on me. You > know, in hindsight, that moment when you can go back to when you see the > start of something bad. You can always trace things back to a pivitol > moment. > > FA Cup loss to Cardiff for example, and more recently, losing Poyet. > > But what has changed Leeds from the certs for the League One title to fast > becoming play-off fodder? Well, I go back to the few days after we knocked > off the champions of England in the FA Cup and stood miles in front of every > other team in League One. Then Jermaine "What Shirt am I wearing Bruv?" > Beckford hands in a transfer request. > > From that moment, we have lost that togetherness in the dressing room. That > "Us against the league", the sence in the team that they were all in it > together. Suddenly, we have a player who openly says he doesn't want to be a > part of the squad anymore, that he is better than this level, that he is > better than his teammates. > > We fight tooth and nail to keep him, even going as far as to risk losing > almost 2 million, just to keep him around till promotion was secured. It was > a gamble, in hindsight, and one I was happy to take. And so were the > management at Leeds. But looking back, I really have to say I think Grayson > might have gotten this wrong. If we had instead sold Beckford, and replaced > him with a Billy Sharp or other player of this ilk, I do not think we would > be worse off. In fact, I think we would now be laughing happilly, as Norwich > are, carefree, and already planning our Championship season for next year. > Add to that, we would also have a player for next season, whereas Beckford > is leaving us for nothing now. > > As we are now, we have a player who is already thinking to next season with > a new team, bigger wages, and does not care what happens to Leeds. He wanted > to go in January, and the only reason he is still here, is we forced him to > stay. Now is this really the type of player we need in the team? For all his > goals since that day, well, I should say a few of his goals, could we not > have invested in a player that wanted to be here, that is fighting tooth and > nail for promotion, rather than a player that is clearly not fighting 100% > for the cause? I cannot help think that he is not wanting to give his all > because why would you risk injury, when a lucrative contract is on the > horizon? > > Rumours are floating around (on Waccoe) that Beckford missed a training > session on Saturday to head up to Everton for "talks" and a bust up with > Grayson, not an injury, was the reason for his absence on Monday night. How > true these are, I don't know, but look back to before the transfer request, > and look again now. Is Beckford the same player? So much of our play and > spirit of the team flows through Beckford, and it is really no surprise that > since he has decieded he no longer wants to be a part of Leeds United, we > have looked a shadow of our former selves. > > Beckford was the reason we got to where we were in January. Make no > mistake. But is it also possible now, that the position we find ourselves > in, is also down to Beckford? Our morale, our spirit, our desire, all seem > shattered. I am not playing the blame game, I am just trying to find the > reason for this. I just can't help but think that Beckford and his transfer > request are really coming home to haunt us now, in this last crucial phase > of the season. > > Think back to Billy Bremner and his "Side before self. Everytime." maxim, > and then ask yourself, is Beckford putting his team's best interests first? > Or his own? > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850552/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away > > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. 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