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03 Apr 2026 09:20:25
Following the thread about the England football kit being so expensive, have you seen the World Cup tickets?
Now the dynamic pricing has taken a final ticket to over £10000?
I mean, there is no way I would travel to America for any reason at the moment, but people are actually willing to pay this?
Each year the standard of the games is decreasing.
I literally can't remember the last edge of your seat international game I've seen.
But the price to watch is going up and up.
Where will this end?
1.) 03 Apr 2026 10:59:43
When more fans act like you and I and act in a defiant "stick your tickets up Uranus", and leave huge swathes of empty seats that TV cams can't hide.
Then and only then would pricing be addressed.
It's gone mad now, a day away especially.
My next game is Wolves, but it's getting so hard now to follow lads around the country with costs always only going up up up.
2.) 03 Apr 2026 11:43:58
Totally agree, Chris. Be interesting to see if Spuds fans are willing to pay massive ticket prices for championship football. Many away fans won't be prepared to do so, I'm sure.
Sadly, we're all addicts at heart, and it's a tough habit to break when it's in your blood, but that's club football.
International football has been dire for years. Sadly, the biggest games will always be sold out, especially in the US, with their corporate behemoths hoovering up every ticket for corporate bribes.
25 Mar 2026 17:37:56
What to with Farke?
Last season coming out of the championship was very much as it is now.
Stick to the plan, get results and don't deviate from the plan.
Even when we were dominating teams.
I can sort of get it this end part of the season as we are not in good run so staying tight and grinding results out is probably as much as we can hope for.
But there has been a bit of change from Farke this season. A few tweaks to formation and tactics. At times we have looked a decent prem team and dominated prem teams. We have struggled at times with the extra quality of the Premiership, but apart from the very top teams we have not looked out of place.
One thing that Farke and his team has done well, and I don't think it's given credit it deserves, is the recruitment.
Bijol. Stach. Gabbi. Nmecha. Dcl and keeping him fit. And a few from last season. All have proved solid players and could develop into real Leeds legends.
I think right from day one with the signing of amps, his pick of player has been spot on. Maybe just an extra striker would have been nice.
I have never really been a great fan of Farke. I have found some of his tactics frustrating over his time. He is always holding back and doesn't react to what is going on in the game. But I think he has got better this season and his choice of player has almost been spot on every time.
It's not the Leeds way to play negative football.
Farke has got us in the prem and we have a good chance of staying here and with good recruitment for next season which he's proved he can do then he probably should be given the opportunity to continue. We are a good championship team transitioning into a Premier League team we need a steady hand.
Farke definitely is steady.
1.) 25 Mar 2026 18:20:39
Top post, WB.
2.) 25 Mar 2026 19:13:31
Yes Ben, he is definitely steady. But what really bothers me about him is his own words after the City game, when he was asked about changing the formation and style of play. He replied, basically, and I'm paraphrasing, that he didn't like this style of play, and that to win the PL you need to be more pragmatic and keep possession of the ball, which is all fine and dandy.
But if that possession is always amongst the back 4 or 5 and you get one or two shots on goal a game, you will never win the PL and you may just stay up.
Even with the recruitment this year being much better, if we added forwards that are better than the ones we have, they will still only get one or two chances a game if we play in the same safe, pragmatic style.
3.) 26 Mar 2026 08:51:41
CA, I know where you are coming from, but I would rather keep hold of the ball and have one or two chances than have none of the ball.
At least, if you have the ball, the opposition cannot have chances.
Hopefully, with a few additions and a bit more quality next season, we can improve those stats.
And sometimes in the prem one or two chances is all you get. It's about being clinical and putting those chances away.
Farke, I think, has learnt from his time at Norwich. You have to defend and be hard to beat in the prem first and then build from there.
4.) 26 Mar 2026 12:52:04
To retain the ball for sustained length of time requires technically adept footballers, which come at a premium, a few seasons beyond our current budgets, I fear.
I also think 2-3 players of better quality is both acceptable and understandable; we have a financial chasm to cross and need the new stadium to bridge that gap.
We were excellent at Newcastle and Villa away.
Admittedly, we only returned 1 point from both, but we showed we have the nucleus of a team. Add a top keeper, 10 and striker, and we win both those games.
It's as much tactical and mindset, and I suspect Farke is a pragmatist and considers a point is success first and foremost. He's risk averse, not a criticism, just my take of our manager.
5.) 26 Mar 2026 17:26:41
Like that one, Class.
23 Mar 2026 10:32:29
Here is my thoughts on our dip in for and inability to score. Dcl hasn't suddenly changed but the service has. He has become our only outlet were as we had two or three. Dcl is not going to create goals by himself. It's not his talent. Getting good balls into the box for him to challenge for is. Look at Saturday. I remember one decent cross and Dcl got his head to it with a good firm header, maybe just a bit too far out. All rest of the service to him was poor.
The last two against us were only interested in stopping us playing. Palace did anything and everything to disturb play. With Gabbi sent off, we did well to draw.
Brentford massively raised their game from the Wolves game against us. Really made an effort to stop us building out from the back. Bogle again had poor game and with Justin on his wrong side we had no penetration.
Lastly an Arsenal side won the prem with a load of one nils. All we are missing is that odd goal. We are defending well and keeping teams to very few chances.
Maybe change up the long throws a bit.
Try a James for Aaronson. Brendan does seem a yard slower than a couple of months ago. And Okafor will be a good outlet if he can stay fit for the run in.
As I said before if we can match or better the teams below us then we will stay up. And we still have 3 teams below us.
We all new this season would be a slog.
And we were right. I did think we would be where West Ham are fighting to get out. So it's in our hands. Burnley and Wolves games are looking our best for a win but who knows.
1.) 23 Mar 2026 11:11:45
We seem to be playing scared - we are way too deep and not taking any risks. Looking at the form of Sunderland, they have lost 2, won 3, and drawn 1 of their last 6 - surely it's better to risk a loss or 2 to win games than just play to not get beat all the time.
It's really exposing DFs weaknesses as a manager, imo.
2.) 23 Mar 2026 11:27:12
Very good post, Ben.
I 100% concur. ?
BA needs to be benched, imo.
For the crucial home matches vs Wolves and Burnley, I would go for it, play 442 and start:
Darlow
Justin
Rodon
Bijol
Gudmunsson
Ampadu
Stach
DJ
DCL
Piroe
Okafor
2 wingers
More crosses
More potential goalscoring
We must win those 2 matches; if we win them, we definitely would accumulate enough points (with a draw here and there in 1 or 2 other matches to stay up!) .
3.) 23 Mar 2026 12:09:30
Well said, Alf. Poor manager. Puts a team that can't function together. Defence is coping. Fairly solid. But no decent strikers. How long since DCL scored, Ben? A hero when he scores, but no service when he doesn't. ? ?
We have not got a creative midfielder or a decent striker. Simple as that.
4.) 23 Mar 2026 16:58:50
When we signed DCL aus I wasn't concerned that he was talented enough, or if he would have the ability to score goals. Or even his injury record. It was that after him it's Lucas who is untried in this league and then nothing.
DCL hasn't changed. He needs service. He is not a Suarez who could conjure a goal from nothing. He needs to be in the box, with balls being fired into him.
Look where most of his goals were scored from.
6 yard box, right in front of the goal.
Sunderland played to frustrate, so did Palace and Brentford. We need to have more quality into the box, a bit more drive and penetration. We missed Gabby last game, and Okafor and James.
Just need that bit of luck as well. A deflection or a fluked goal would get us going again. Our form is not just down to us, it's how the last few teams have stifled our game.
5.) 23 Mar 2026 17:14:03
Cracking post, Ben!
I was there Saturday, & you're right, there's no service to DCL. Nmecha was playing out on the wing!
Only Dan James got at em, but was a little too late.
Brentford feigning injury as well every time we showed some momentum!
Lads in Kop gave Kellerher it big style!
6.) 23 Mar 2026 18:14:32
Excellent post, WB.
7.) 23 Mar 2026 19:26:47
Alf has it bang on.
The FBs, especially Bogle, aren't getting forward as much as they used to. In fact, nobody is. Aaronson has not been supporting DCL either.
As Alf said, it's scared football.
8.) 23 Mar 2026 19:49:45
Completely agree, scared football - that comes from one place.
BA and Amps should be sat down for a while.
17 Mar 2026 10:26:38
Having watched Brentford v Wolves last night, I don't think we will be far off getting a result on Saturday night.
If we can remain solid against them and press them, they will give chances.
Plus Damsgaard went off injured.
We are having a dip at the moment. Dcl not scoring. Aaronson hasn't got the same zip to his play as of late. Gabby is missing someone else on the left to link with.
We are staying solid with no end product.
Even the long throws and our resurgence at corners has gone flat.
But better a slight dip now than one in the last few games.
We need some goals!
If we had scored 1 v Palace we would have probably won.
And if Johnson had got the 3 yellows he deserved we should have won.
1.) 17 Mar 2026 14:01:57
We badly need a win of any description this Saturday, but to score 2, 3, or more goals and avoid another nerve shredding 90 mins would be absolutely brilliant.
2.) 17 Mar 2026 14:45:04
We need to better or equal the points of one of the 3 teams under us.
But a comfortable end to the season with some good wins would be nice.
07 Feb 2026 21:34:27
Lief giving the Derby fans the binoculars after scoring. Spot on!
1.) 07 Feb 2026 21:56:04
Lol! Brilliant!
2.) 08 Feb 2026 07:11:51
Very good, Davis.
3.) 08 Feb 2026 12:19:37
Nice one Leif!
14 Oct 2023 16:15:56
He said we would be looking at loans primarily.
If the loans are as good as jadon, rodon and spence we should be golden.
03 May 2026 17:59:38
A small groin has never stopped me bringing.
Anyway, it's what you do with it!
22 Apr 2026 13:34:09
I agree, Vid. Nothing at his previous jobs would have prepared him for Chelsea. Like a lot of promising players and managers who make the leap to a big club too early or without proper thought.
Especially Chelsea. Too many problems for an experienced manager to cope with.
22 Apr 2026 09:36:57
I saw quite a lot of Rosenior at Hull, Baz, and he got them playing attractive football. All that stopped them from the playoffs that year was Delap getting injured.
Then he did a good job over in France with Strasbourg.
I think his style of touchy feely management is not what Chelsea need.
I hope he comes out of this with his reputation unharmed, because he is a good guy and we need English managers to succeed.
22 Apr 2026 08:30:43
Yes, I'd go for 2-3 changes. Nmecha, Gnonto and Rodon.
For DCL, Okafor and Justin.
DCL has played a lot of full games recently, so has Justin. And Okafor looked done after his goal at the weekend.
22 Apr 2026 08:26:51
It's a shame, as Rosenior is a promising young manager, and this Chelsea situation could halt his career.
There are a few jobs at the moment that are not worth taking, it seems. Chelsea have financial difficulties and a squad that's not gelling.
Tottenham, who look dead and buried, whoever tries to manage them. And Man U, who have gone through a heap of managers.
Poison chalice anyone.