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16 Aug 2014 16:28:22
Great result today. Not the greatest performance in the world but doesn't matter when you get three points especially against a team fancied as dark horses for promotion.
Almost all of our new signings seem to have a bit about them.
Silvestri seems to command his area well and looks very confident but wasn't tested today but really like the look of him.
Cooper looks like a ball playing centre half very composed and looks for a pass but I think he took too many touches today at times but done very well.
Bianchi love the way this guy plays I think he's better than the Championship was quite enough today but you can see his glimpses of quality and when he settles in I think he'll be a major player for us.
Ajose didn't think he was good enough before we signed him and showed nothing to change my mind but hope to be wrong.
Sharp pure and simple will get plenty of goals can see him being a fans favourite despite a lot of criticism he was getting here before we signed him (Chris Wood Who) :)
Doukara very impressed and surprised with this guy some very tidy touches today he could be a real surprise in the Championship.
The biggest disappointment today for me was Poleon getting a game despite being a product of the youth system and it's great seeing the youth getting a chance I honestly for the life of me just don't see what he brings to us he wouldn't get into my local Aitricity team and that's no word of a lie.
The most pleasing thing for me today was when Hockaday brought on Tonge for the injured Doukara he could have easily brought on Smith which is what I thought he was going to do and just pump every ball into the box but he didn't he kept calm and kept the team trying to play football (I know there wasn't much but at least there's an attempt to play).
Overall delighted and Swansea beat the if Brook wins tonight it'll be the perfect day :)
1.) Agree with your analysis JIM, would like to see Cook and Tonge start in place of Austin and Murphy.
2.) I like cook but he is too young to start. he will burn out also great player but not a proper man yet and will get kicked to bits if playing full 90 week in week out. prefer to see him play 10 minutes here 30 minutes there then think next year we will really see him kick on. remember we also got benadic who is yet to play he might be tastey
13 Aug 2014 15:31:12
Would people really not be happy with Sharp signing but are excited about the prospect about Wood (only a glimmer of a rumour) signing?
I'll be over the moon if we signed Sharp and not remotely excited about the Wood rumour and my reasons are simple:
Sharp 211 Championship appearances - 73 Goals
Wood 132 Championship appearances - 37 Goals
Sharp 3 times reached double figures in Championship
Wood 1 time reached double figures in Championship
Sharp Goals To Games Ratio In Championship - 2.89
Wood Goals To Games Ratio In Championship - 3.56
I know stats can be made to look favourable on whichever side your arguing for but the goals Sharp scored can't be changed and almost all of them came with very poor teams struggling at the bottom of the table and if he linked up with Doukara I could see one of them challenging for top scorer this year.
Despite a horrendous result and performance against Millwall I can actually still see us having a good season and surprising a lot of people.
1.) I would welcome either or both as they are both great strikers at this level and better than any striker we've signed in years.
Latest rumour though is that we're in for anecutti as well!
2.) I agree JBM. Its official we have signed Billy Sharp and I am really pleased. I believe he is as good as anyone in the Championship and believe we will now play some good attacking football along the floor, which will result in him scoring more goals for us than RMc will for Fulham.
We still have players to sign and really gel as a team, but I am hopeful we will have a happier season than previous ones!
3.) 13 Aug 2014 16:59:18
All (and I do mean all) of us Leeds fans should be impressed by how quickly MC has reacted to the poor performance on Saturday. 3 good signings today for sure, will make a difference to us as long as we don't play Mr *unt as that is like playing with 10.
I see most people reckon for 2nd/3rd fav for relegation! no chance with MC backing us the way he has, under previous management this would not have happened for sure!
Rome not built in a day but onwards and upwards for us even if (when) we do have the odd pants performance, can't understand why any Leeds fan would be feeling negative at the moment.
4.) Cant disagree with you DG vor, feeling more confident with these signings and talk of possibly more quality coming in. Our abysmal showing at Millwall had me believing little had changed on the pitch.
Looking forward to Boro game.
MOT
5.) Hopefully you are all right, just a shame it took the rude awakening last saturday to get some serious action going.?
6.) DG
I personally don't think it was anything to do with milwall game, we were in for cooper 3 weeks ago and a few more.
It's down to MC/Salerno being shrewed tacticians and I think we will see 3 or 4 more moves in the coming weeks.
PATIENCE will keep the negative-worms quiet ;)
19 Jun 2014 18:05:45
A lot of negativity regarding the new appointment, obviously I like most people would have preferred a higher profile man but to be honest after having Warnock and McDermott in charge for the last couple of seasons I can't see us playing any worse.
I think Cellino is going to bring in the players he feels can do the job and from reading the little bits of information I can find about Hockaday he likes to play good passing football and that for me alone is a step in the right direction considering the way we've been playing the last couple of years.
I wasn't a bit happy when McDemott got the job and was completely disgusted when Warnock had it before him but I gave them a chance and still supported them until their position became untenable.
Hockaday could be gone in 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or even 1 year but I think no matter what we will be preparing to play in the Premiership this time next year. Can't wait for the season to begin now.
1.) Well said 'it is what it is' let's just support the team and The Hock and gl to all of them next season. I for one would love to see us do so much better than some want us to do.
2.) Agree with all the above, we haven't got anywhere since we got out of League 1, so let's just wait and see.
17 Jun 2014 22:46:02
I can understand a lot of people are hugely disappointed with the anticipated appointment of Dave Hockaday. I myself am a little disappointed considering the amount of potentially good managers available however no matter how good a manager has been in their career there's always the possibility of them flopping with us or any team for that matter.
The more I see the way Cellino handles himself and his business dealings I'm 100% confident he knows what he's doing in relation to bringing in Hockaday and I believe he feels the squad is more important than the manager and he'll put the squad together he believes has the ability to get us back to the Premiership.
This is why I think he has the reputation for firing so many managers and to be honest if me or you weren't fulfilling the tasks we were supposed to achieve as an employee would you not expect the axe? I know a number of people will go on about stability with managers an all that but the average lifespan of a Championship manager is under 2 years so why not pull the trigger if they're not doing their job.
Even players have a short lifespan with us these days not a single player in our squad who's done 5 years with us that's unbelievable when you think about it but then again not really because when a club in a higher division comes looking and offers more money there's usually only one outcome.
Roll on Cellino he could become our biggest legend of the last 10 years if he gets us promoted in his own unique way and I think if we do get promoted he'll not be thinking about relegation it'll be Europe :).
Times are changing one United on the way up and another United on the way down!
1.) Totally agree JBM. Mc has run a club for over 20 years. I think he knows what he is doing. Hockaday will be coach only. Training duties only. Let's wait and see what happens.
2.) I don't want to go on an anti-Cellino rant but your statement that the squad is more important than the manager is just wrong. The manager determines the whole ethos of the team with his tactics, selections, coaching programme and so on.
Loads of teams full of good players have underachieved because of a poor manager and there have been many cases of teams over achieving with a good manager, Pulis is a good recent example of a manager who has been able to assess his squad and play either long ball or passing football depending on the players available to him and make the team more than the sum of its parts.
In short, the coach/manager is critical to the success of any team.
I'm giving Cellino a chance but I think your slavish, totally non-critical stance is pretty naive to be honest. We have a right to be concerned and to express our opinion.
3.) 18 Jun 2014 16:25:57
No disrespect Axeman but your statement is full of contradictions.
Firstly you say you don't want to be anti-Cellino but then you go on to say your concerned when he's only been in the job for a very short time.
Secondly you mention Tony Pulis and passing football in the same sentence.
Thirdly you say the manger is critical to the success of a team because he picks the team and tactics etc. Would that then not imply that the chairman is even more important because he's the one who hires the coach/manager?
Finally you say that I'm being pretty naive and you have a right to be concerned and express your opinion which I don't argue with but then surely I'm entitled to express my optimism for the coming season.
4.) I disagree JBM - no contradictions that I can see.
First of all, I'm not anti-Cellino but that doesn't mean to say I don't have concerns. Those two positions are not mutually exclusive.
As for Pulis, I think you should go watch Palace play. He has played a very different type of football with Palace than he did with Stoke because he inherited a different set of circumstances. In both cases he has been successful.
Pulis isn't really the point though. My point is that the manager is at least as important as the squad if not more so. I think that you're very wrong on that score and that unless we appoint the right head coach/manager we will be in trouble regardless of who is on the pitch.
I'm not even saying that Hockaday isn't the man for the job. I know nothing about him, although his record at Forest Green doesn't fill me with optimism.
02 Feb 2014 11:40:48
Not posted in a long while but thought I'd throw in my two cents.
Personally I think the way McDermott has been treated has been a total shambles. However if he was actually sacked in a dignified way I wouldn't argue either way as there's a reasonable case to keep him but also a very reasonable case to sack him with our recent form.
A lot of people are giving out quite a lot about if Festa was given the job I for one hope he doesn't get it if McDermott goes but the reason most people are giving out is because of his lack of experience at this level, I think you'll find McDermott came from Woking manager to Reading Chief Scout hardly vasts amounts of experience there and that turned out alright for Reading didn't it.
Any new manager should be giving the backing of the fans no matter what, I myself who detested the appointment of Warnock but still backed the club in their decision because he's only one man the club will always be the club.
From reading things about the new owner to be perfectly honest I'm kind of excited about it the man has over 20 years of experience in Serie A & Serie B (way more than GFH), didn't need to finance the deal with a consortium (GFH we don't even know everyone who shares a slice), wants to buy back Elland Road (GFH never even tried), has links with a club who we could potentially loan players from (GFH no links to no anyone) and wants to invest proper money into players.
For those reasons they outweigh the cons of him having a fraud conviction to me and assuming he passes the fit and proper test despite all the turmoil I'm feeling good about about our future.
Sorry Shm but he is foreign he's Irish and seen him play many times live underage for Ireland where he stood out quite a lot but never reached the heights that was expected of him.
Having said that he's been quality in the Airtricty league (I know it's a very low standard) but he still has potential and would get for next to nothing and would accept relatively low wages.
21 Sep 2014 16:18:41
Ed001 - You've amazingly done it agian you've managed to contradict yourself within another statement.
You say Suarez didn't do it in the big games yet he managed 5 goals against teams who finished in the top 6 last season whereas the prolific Sturridge managed a whopping 2, not much of a return from such an integral part of a team.
But I think your probably right Sturridge was far more important than Suarez to Liverpool last season that's why he won the Liverpool fans player of the year and the Liverpool players player of the year. oh wait no that was Suarez.
Guess your on your own there lad with your opinion your own fans and your own players disagree with you (not to mention probably every pundit on the planet), but hey never mind everyone else could be wrong and you still have Henderson.
{Ed001's Note - being important is not the same as being the best player, can you not read, or are you just a bit simple? How is it differing when I have said Suarez was the better player? That doesn't make him the most important. The goalkeeper position is vital, but that doesn't mean it is the best player on the team does it? Sorry is this a little difficult for you to follow? Obviously I am wasting my time trying to explain, you are clearly incapable of understanding this simple concept. Please just give up, you are just wasting my time with your ridiculous replies. This is just idiocy now. It is pointless wasting my time discussing something with someone who is incapable of understanding anything said to them. You may as well just make up in your head what you think I have said in reply in future, as you pretty much do that anyway, as you clearly are not reading my replies. This is just boring now, move on, because it is pointless.}
21 Sep 2014 13:57:54
Ed001 You contradict yourself in almost everything you say you seem to be one of those typical Liverpool fans who knows better than the whole world despite not being able to back any argument up and resort to throwing out abuse rather than an intelligent well reasoned though out response.
If it's a team game why do you bang on about missing Sturridge surely with it being a team game you have plenty of other quality players to come in and step up to the plate.
Yes football is a team game but made up of individuals and almost every single team in the entire world has certain players which are incredibly difficult to replace but your sheer stubbornness or possibly lack of football knowledge won't allow you to understand that Sturridge isn't anywhere near on the same level as Suarez.
If it was Sturridge you had sold to Barcelona you'd be shouting about he wasn't that good and you have still Suarez.
It's unfortunate but your mentality will never change your never wrong and everything you say is gospel.
Thank god our Ed has the capacity to have an intelligent debate and realises we all can make mistakes.
{Ed001's Note - seriously? How am I contradicting myself? Perhaps you would care to explain how? I have said all along Suarez is the better player, but again you are far too obsessed with your own intelligence to be able to read what I have said and understand it. The difference is that Sturridge is far more integral to the style of play, as is Henderson. It is not my fault you fail to grasp a simple concept and resort to idiotic comments which don't even have anything to do with the discussion in hand anyway. We all know Suarez scored and assisted more, but you fail to mention that they came against weaker sides and that they were normally in a heavy win, with little actual overall difference to the result. Whereas Sturridge was often scoring the odd goal that made a draw become a win. His pace also allows the midfield to have the space to work. Difficult to see that kind of thing on MOTD though I am sure. There is a reason most opposition fans were calling Suarez a flat track bully last season, despite his impressive stats, he wasn't doing it in the big games.}
21 Sep 2014 11:46:48
I apologise in advance for length of comment but needed to get my point across.
Ed001 I thought your earlier comment was ludicrous but you've exceeded yourself.
You want to use stats no problem since stats can be used to prove almost anything, 40% of people know that but seriously.
2013/2014 Suarez v Sturridge
Suarez - 33 league games 31 league goals
Sturridge - 29 league games 21 league goals
Suarez - 12 assists
Sturridge - 7 assists
Suarez - 87 chances created
Sturridge - 29 chances created
Suarez - 4 times Liverpool player of the month
Sturridge - 2 times Liverpool player of the month
(Voted by your own fans who I'm sure watch every minute of every game and as many open training sessions they can get to)
Suarez - Almost every individual honour possible from numerous player of year awards to top scorer awards
Sturridge - No individual awards
A strikers job is to score goals and when possible help others to score goals. I think those stats shows who was more important to Liverpool last year.
You abuse Rodgers for poor management yet 2nd is the highest you have ever finished in the Premiership under any manager and is the closest you have ever being (or will be) to winning the premiership.
Lastly why is alright for you to use abusive language yet when anyone else does it gets edited I won't lower myself to that because I'm a LEEDS fan not a Liverpool one.
{Ed001's Note - so you still don't understand that football is a team game? That says it all and shows why you are still not able to understand a simple point. As for abusive language, grow up, you want to see the crap your foul mouthed fans constantly try and post on here that we editors have to wade through each day, if you think that is abuse. Sensitive little souls on here when it is given back though aren't you? Pathetic how much you lot want to be mollycoddled, when you are happy to give it out all day long. Now give it a rest, you haven't a clue. Those stats showed nothing. Well other than how little you actually understand the reality of a team sport.}
20 Sep 2014 23:40:51
Ed001 you think Sturridge is more important to a team than Suarez??
Ludacrious statement.
But far more importantly 3 points today and some great football played. I think Bianchi & Doukara will have very good careers and hope they spend the best part of it with us.
Almost forgot Cook will 100% be a full international within 2 years but obviously not as good or influential as Henderson lol.
{Ed001's Note - how it is ludicrous? Check the respective records of the team with and without Sturridge, then check it with and without Suarez. Amazing how people who don't even watch the team think they know more about it than someone who watches their every game! Stick to MOTD and the bull they spout, because it is clearly where you got your ignorant opinion from. It is easy to look good in highlights, and Suarez was a sensational highlight reel, but there is more to the game than that. Suarez had little in the way of pace to force opposing defences to drop deep, Sturridge is lightning and so they have to drop off, creating space for the midfield to work. Also meaning there is less support for opposing attackers as the midfield have to drop off to keep in touch with the defence. That gives time for Gerrard, who is not a DM by any stretch of the imagination, to pick a pass. It was shown against West Ham how much he struggles without that, as that was the main issue, he was marked out of the game, left no space to operate in and it resulted in a terrible performance and defeat.
One day, when you know something about football, you might be able to stop being a knob and learn to read. Maybe then you will understand the difference between being a vital cog and being a great player, as never once did I say Hendo was great. Sammy Lee was vital to Liverpool for years, he was barely even a good player, but he was vital to the way we played back then. Modern day fans only know the game through numbers on FM or FIFA, that is why you are all so clueless about the actual game and what being vital to a team actually is. Sad trying to have a convo with people whose opinions are so ill informed they are obviously garnered from a few pundits on MOTD or in the papers.}
01 Sep 2014 23:23:02
Cellino is worth something in the region of £750 million so despite our ridiculous debts I find it incredibly doubtful that buying Leeds nearly bankrupt him he's just a very astute business man by the looks of things.
My personal opinion on selling Smith is because Cellino wants us to (TRY - may not happen but hopefully) and play attractive football and with a player like Smith in the squad is far too easy to resort to hoofball.
I'm delighted Smith is gone always felt he was a very poor player and if not for his height would struggle at League 1 or 2 level.
Also can't believe Poleon gone permanently sad to see a youth team player leave us but I always felt he was awful and that's my polite opinion on him.
Best transfer window in years am feeling incredibly confident of a great season ahead now just get us a coach who can make us click and you never know could be a trip to Wembley with a bit of luck.