Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Jim Moran
He still seems to follow Man Utd, and watches them in The Regent in chapel allerton. On 21 Sep 2011, at 21:21, DAVID NATTAN wrote: > Yeah Lee Sharpe loves Leeds - he still lives in the city/ > Dave > > --- On Wed, 21/9/11, Nicholas Armit wrote: > > From: Nicholas Armit > Subject: Re: [LU] The

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread DAVID NATTAN
Yeah Lee Sharpe loves Leeds - he still lives in the city/ Dave --- On Wed, 21/9/11, Nicholas Armit wrote: From: Nicholas Armit Subject: Re: [LU] The Bates Effect? To: "ni...@sykesonline.com" , "leedslist@gn.apc.org" Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 17:56 He did say that, I heard it too!

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Nicholas Armit
He did say that, I heard it too! From: Nigel Sykes To: leedslist@gn.apc.org Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [LU] The Bates Effect? > The Rev noted: > Anyway, Friday night TV - Rhinos and LUFC both on I believe. And a bit of a quandary

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>As I said why are others managing their debts. Put another way would Bates have gone under or bluffed cum bull shitted his way through? << Bates nearly did go under at Chelsea. But he had the value of Stamford Bridge to fall back on as security against his debts, and was able to locat

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>What I cannot fathom I'd how our debt was unmanageable yet smaller than most teams on the PL today. << Firstly, Ridsdale borrowed under very bad terms - punitive interest rates. Most clubs borrow long-term at low rates. Ridsdale effectively bought players at worse ratehs than your cre

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
Can he be the messiahs donkey? :-) Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin. Community Psychiatrist. On 21 Sep 2011, at 14:54, Richard Walker wrote: > Bollocks , he was rubbish. Did fuck all > > > From: Richard Naef > To: 'Leeds United E-Mail List' > Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
As I said why are others managing their debts. Put another way would Bates have gone under or bluffed cum bull shitted his way through? Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin. Community Psychiatrist. On 21 Sep 2011, at 15:37, markbu...@aol.com wrote: > >>> The day out at Majestyk was

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
What I cannot fathom I'd how our debt was unmanageable yet smaller than most teams on the PL today. Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin. Community Psychiatrist. On 21 Sep 2011, at 15:35, markbu...@aol.com wrote: > > > >>> I agree, Tim, and the Ridsdale 'gamble', whilst foolish in

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>Didnt O'Neill formally turn us down? I seem to remember him having a press conference at Leicester saying he was staying there.<< Yes, because Ridsdale wanted to make an appointment straight away. O'Neill wanted to come to Leeds - but wanted to leave Leicester in a dignified and profe

Re: [LU] my Dream

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
My dream is much simpler. Not to have the present nightmare. I won't be vindictive by describing what I'd love to see next time we get a close up of MS next time we are pn the box. Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin. Community Psychiatrist. On 21 Sep 2011, at 16:29, Eric B wrote:

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
Great. We have deteriorated enough to ensure a second coming of Pugh. Nice to know that we are rehabilitating more than Malignant Stoats. Where would MS be without us to play with and hide behind? Behind bars Good to know our anguish is not in vain Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Nigel Sykes
> The Rev noted: > Anyway, Friday night TV - Rhinos and LUFC both on I believe. And a bit of a quandary for me. Putting aside the fact that the kids will have to teach themselves karate that night now(!), which one will I chose to watch? My heart is always truly with LUFC, but really... a sem

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread John Lee
I reckon most 'part-timers' don't go because of the cost, which you can link to Bates. The gentrification of footie has priced out large chunks of us, and maybe we'll never go again? If Sky TV ever go under then the Premiership is bugg**ed. Part of me hopes I see it happen.   I know some said th

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread Malcolm Dunn
Again I will ask, what has happened to Alex Bruce? He wasn't even on the bench last night. Is he long term injured? Him and Kisnorbo (or Lees) would make a great centre back pairing IMHO. - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [LU] Ta

Re: [LU] my Dream

2011-09-21 Thread Eric B
your dream might not be too far away. Platini wants to install the french system I ve heard: no club can run with a deficit. This is to get away with "financial doping" with the likes of chelski and man shitty. Its apparently only 2 years away. Furthermore, I strongly disagree with any "league" th

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Ian Murray
Didnt O'Neill formally turn us down? I seem to remember him having a press conference at Leicester saying he was staying there. Sent from my iPhone On 21 Sep 2011, at 13:18, markbu...@aol.com wrote: > > O'Neill was lined up to replace Graham. He asked for more time to consider > the offer. M

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>The day out at Majestyk was the point that buffeted us followed by the 3-4 loss to barcodes. Both DO'L fault. That lit the blue touch paper. Ridsdale put the gun powder down<< More comfort blanket stuff, Mike. Look at the accounts. It was a business failure, not a football failure.

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>I agree, Tim, and the Ridsdale 'gamble', whilst foolish in hindsight, was founded on the naming rights of the 'new' stadium, which had 9/11 and the subsequent advertising recession, which killed ITV Digital, not happened would have led to us playing at the XBox stadium. << IIRC the

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Dr. Michael Benjamin.
The day out at Majestyk was the point that buffeted us followed by the 3-4 loss to barcodes. Both DO'L fault. That lit the blue touch paper. Ridsdale put the gun powder down Sent from my iPhone. D"r Michael Benjamin. Community Psychiatrist. On 21 Sep 2011, at 14:59, "Tim Leslie" wrote:

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Cundell
> the Ridsdale gamble was/is the only way to break the mould. I agree, Tim, and the Ridsdale 'gamble', whilst foolish in hindsight, was founded on the naming rights of the 'new' stadium, which had 9/11 and the subsequent advertising recession, which killed ITV Digital, not happened would have l

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
O'Neill was lined up to replace Graham. He asked for more time to consider the offer. Meanwhile DOL did well as caretaker and Ridsdale decided to give him the job instead. MON would have come, but Ridsdale panicked. There was no replacement lined up for DOL. In fact Ridsdale gave him an u

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
Tim, you need to get it into your head that Ridsdale's gamble could NEVER have worked!!! It's nothing to do with football - it's all to do with the economics of running a business. 95% of our turnover was accounted for by the wage bill. That leaves 5% to cover all other costs, inclu

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Robert Heath
> > Risdales' "guilt" is, in order: > > 1. Not sacking O'Dreary approx one year earlier than he did > 2. Not having a real replacement lined up (and maybe that's why O'Dreary > wasn't sacked earlier) > 3. Poor financial management > > I did not mean to rehash the tired old Who Killed Leeds United ?

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>Talking of signings, Pugh is coming in on emergency loan today apparently.<< Pugh at LB and White on the wing might work pretty well on the left side. Pugh looks a better player than when he was last here. ___ Leedslist mailing list In

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Leslie
First of all Mark, I need to stress I'm not picking on you today!! ;-) BUT ... I do think there is a lot of credence in what Damien says. Looking back at that whole saga and the current state of clubs 'chasing the dream', the Ridsdale gamble was/is the only way to break the mould. Teams come and go

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread Andy Clayton
Talking of signings, Pugh is coming in on emergency loan today apparently. Sent from my iPhone. On 21 Sep 2011, at 12:42, Lee Jones wrote: > I'm of exactly the same opinion. Every time Grayson gets something right, > he's hamstrung by KBs mismanagement, selling anything of worth and not > sorti

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Walker
Bollocks , he was rubbish. Did fuck all From: Richard Naef To: 'Leeds United E-Mail List' Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 10:52 Subject: Re: [LU] Positive things about last night. > >Oh and Becchio, he's not the Messiah, he's more your run of the mill >carthorse - >didn't seem to cause th

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread Lee Jones
I'm of exactly the same opinion. Every time Grayson gets something right, he's hamstrung by KBs mismanagement, selling anything of worth and not sorting out contracts for players we may want to keep. Grayson has done a terriffic job IMO. I've no doubt if he were able to sign the calibre of defender

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Lee Jones
What was the official attendance last night? Looked pretty full on TV apart from one corner. Arsenal were quotes as saying they were expecting 'a record crowd for the Carling Cup' but ended up 15k short of that figure too. Empty seats everywhere! On Sep 21, 2011 10:57 AM, "Richard Naef" wrote: >>I

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
Damian, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd cloned Don Revie from a fragment of bone and appointed him, with Alf Ramsey as his assistant and Alex Fergusion as tea boy. Ridsdale's ONLY crime is financial mismanagement verging on criminal. Our demise was NOTHING to do with the players, the m

[LU] empty seats -scum

2011-09-21 Thread DAVID DOWDEN
Another reason empty seats is cost of tickets , paying £30 plus mid week, when on TV is hard on some folk who have had pay cuts ,short time working, Ken needs to know we are all in this together.mind you I wonder if we had lost 8 nil if next match would have been free //joke , 3 nil can live wit

[LU] Match report

2011-09-21 Thread DAVID NATTAN
Not much to report really - we got totally outclassed by a good side (even if it is their 2nd / 3rd best eleven)To beat a much better team you need to play out of your skin (which we didn't), you need them to be below par (which they weren't) and you need luck at the right times (which we didn't

Re: [LU] Tactics

2011-09-21 Thread Nigel Barber
Given we have albatross Bates as owner, Grayson is a fucking genius in my eyes. Nigel. On Tuesday, 20 September 2011, John Boocock IFA < john.booc...@internetfootball.org.uk> wrote: > On 20/09/2011 22:34, Richard Naef wrote: >> >> The >> difference between today and Jan 2010 was that then we wer

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread Damian Walsh
For me, because of his poor buying decisions (irrespective of how much they cost us) and his poor man-management. We had a very large - but very lopsided - talent pool, that all of a sudden stopped performing and I for one think that O'Dreary is entirely responsible for that. Risdales' "guilt" is

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
I'm not dreaming. This is the reality of the championship. Put together a decent run in February-March and a team can come from nowhere to make the playoffs. Like Reading last season, or Blackpool the season before, or Palace under Dowie a few years ago, who were in a relegation place on J

[LU] Jan 2010/Sept 2011

2011-09-21 Thread RM Goodair
Message: 7 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:57:43 +0100 From: "Richard Naef" To: Subject: Re: [LU] The Bates Effect? Message-ID: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Leslie
Dream on Mark! We've undeniably gone backwards from last season. We've lost our player of the season and second top scorer (and only useful pace player), lost 3 decent(ish) midfielders - one of which (despite me thinking he's a cart horse!) is now holding down a starting role in the Premier League,

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>I have serious reservations about White & Nunez. The former has speed and guts, but I fear lacks quality on the ball. << I'm more convinced than ever that White is a left winger, not a full-back. But until we sign another decent left-back, he'll be doing the job he's doing, as he's

[LU] my Dream

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Naef
My Dream is that the multibillionaire owners of the top 5 English teams will form a breakaway with some European teams and devise a world or euro league with no promotion or relegation unless the owner stumps up £100M. the premier League could then settle back with rules in place against unreasona

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Naef
>If I had have gone, it would probably have ended up being the first time >ever that I left before the end and went to the pub. As it was, I >suddenly >found myself pottering around in the kitchen and realised 'oh, the match >is >still on'. > >As others have said - I can't believe anyone thought t

Re: [LU] The most depressing thing about last night......

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>Leeds needed to get themselves on the rich side of that gap, and Ridsdale saw that and gambled. But O Leary scuppered the plan, and the rest is tragic history.<< Eh How is O'Leary to blame for Ridsdale's financial idiocy? He didn't agree the ludicrous salaries that bankrupted the

Re: [LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread Nigel Sykes
> DRB asked: > Is it that people just think it's a fixture full of potential trouble and keep away? > Or was it the Bates effect? Speaking for myself, it would have been a combination of the following: a) I didn't think we had any chance whatsoever of winning this game, b) I didn't want to endu

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Naef
> >Oh and Becchio, he's not the Messiah, he's more your run of the mill >carthorse - >didn't seem to cause their defence too much bother last night - for >christ sake >they played with Berbatov at CHalf for the last 20 minutes. No he's not the Messiah, but he's not a carthorse and is about as good

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread MarkBursa
>>Write this season off now. We're not going up, << Not sure if you've looked at the table recently, but we're only two points off the playoffs. I wouldn't start writing off any championship season until the end of February at the earliest. Better to peak later than earlier. Teams in the

[LU] The Bates Effect?

2011-09-21 Thread David Brennan
I thought the saddest thing about last night was the empty seats. That's got to be the first time in a long time when a game against Man U hasn't sold out. Is it that people just think it's a fixture full of potential trouble and keep away? Or was it the Bates effect? DRB

[LU] View From the Captain's Corner

2011-09-21 Thread RM Goodair
Can't believe all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on this list - what did everyone expect last night?!! I divvied up my £31 to that KFC guy and saw the following from the Captain's Corner: First half: Lots of possession, effort and endeavour (apart from Snodgrass who was a disgrace), but little

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Damian Walsh
>From my optimistic perspective I have to believe that SG didn't want to "give it a go".because he has bigger fish to fry. So "don't push it lads, I don't want any injuries, any daft bookings and no sendings off. We've nothing to win as well as nothing to lose" Onwards and upwards at Brighton any

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread McWilliams, Brendan, VF-Group (bmcwill)
We should put a wager at our favourite online or local bookies that SG will not make Christmas and someone like Dave Jones will be in. I didn't even watch the game i.e. didn't even look for an internet feed such is my disillusionment with LUFC and on the whole football in general. Honest. --

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Leslie
What really saddened me yesterday was this, 2 years ago we were a Legue 1 team and went to Old Trafford ancd really 'gave it a go', we were organised, lively and up for a scrap. Yesterday, we LOOKED like a League 1 side. An average League 1 side at that. No pace, no urgency, no ideas. Snoddy needs

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread n...@6haroldplace.co.uk
last night was simply a difference in class - you can your last dollar that this lot had been wound up by Fergie (he wasn't going to have another defeat at our hands)and that they knew their jobs - their finishing was class (how good was Giggs' goal - even accepting that the defending was poor.   S

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Walker
Sorry - the whole game was poor for me. I was bored , pissed off and wish I hadn't spent £31. Once I heard Becchio was in the team I nearly went home.   He's not a good target man. From: Kevin Lewis (RCUK SSC Ltd) To: "'leedslist@gn.apc.org'" Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 8:58 Subject:

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Kevin Lewis (RCUK SSC Ltd)
Rich, I'm amazed you didn't have at least one more observation :) NO PACE in the team at all now that Gradel has gone. In fact the 4-3-3 (4-2-3-1, 4-5-1) or whatever it was disguised the fact that Gradel was the only player with pace, as he was always a threat when the ball was played in behind

Re: [LU] Positive things about last night.

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Walker
I thought we were poor for 60 minutes but then slightly improved with the introduction of the subs.   Our defence was bad throughout - Owen and Giggs with a combined age of 103 just took the piss.   I thought the game emphasised that Becchio is not an option - we had no link up play and no con