Leeds United - v - Cardiff City ***Matchday Thread***

[BelfastAndy]

Perhaps you should start with ten men?

Yup. Bring em on as we need em.....Lol

[OldWhiteTaff]

Fkn depressing, pub time (again......), being driven to drink by this fkn sh!te

[dogcopmarchingon]

This lot have had it no bottle no ideas, time to think about next season blood the 23s the ones we got in at the window.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Berardi and jansson now out of the next game. A move for Steven caulker should be on the cards because we now have 1 centre back available. He should be better than what we have anyway and is out of contract.

Believe Caulker may be sadly battling personal demons so not sure that is an option.

[Rev72]

Expected us to lose but thought the players may actually show us they really care and maybe lose 1-0 but be able to hold their heads high knowing they had a go.

But they didn't..another bottle job..thank f*ck we have got 44 points on the table cos make no mistake about it this is relegation form.

Just 16 more to go.....

[Jezleeds]

Expected us to lose but thought the players may actually show us they really care and maybe lose 1-0 but be able to hold their heads high knowing they had a go.

But they didn't..another bottle job..thank f*ck we have got 44 points on the table cos make no mistake about it this is relegation form.

Just 16 more to go.....

Usually agree and am equally pi ssed off about what happened today, and how SOME bottled it, but have to say that Allioski was really on it and tried to make things happen all the way through. Thought Hernandez wasn't his usual self but was definitely trying, Roofe worked hard. Much credit to Forshaw - he was tidy throughout and when he went to full-back did a decent job overall; Dallas worked hard all over when he came on.

Others not so impressive - Christiansen generally; Berardi idiotic; Lasogga for that miss (although he did work harder than usual); Viera is just not fit since his injury and has played because we haven't anyone else; Janssen seemed off even before the injury; Wiedwald flapped around at various times again and could've done better with at least one goal; De Bock was ok but probably at fault for at least one goal - he must wonder what the h ell he has got into with English football - 7 goals conceded in 3 games he's played.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

moving onto the next game though, who do we have to play defence? id recall coyle, then theres him, denton, debock, pennington, pearce has been on the bench, that's about it!

the centrebacks in the u23s, normally diaz and oconnor, neither are good enough

I'm worried now

[WTF11]

The issue is one we have all known about for a LONG time, we simply don't have an organisation that is staffed, on and off the field, with sufficient quality to ensure that we are and remain competitive. The decisions around much of what took place in the latter part of the 2016/17 season were both understandable and to be welcomed, but they related to matters largely not on the pitch. The decisions since the close season onwards have been flawed in just about every area, culminating in the debacle of the badge re-design which was entirely unnecessary and a self-inflicted wound piled on top of the bizarre decision to take the 1st team on a break in the sun to "relax and chill out" (as well as training very hard, of course!).

We have an owner seemingly incapable of admitting (to anyone), that his decisions on the matters that relate to performance on the pitch have been woeful, that the appointment of Bravo, Orta and Christiansen are amongst the worst ever made in terms of damaging the LONG TERM interests of Leeds United, leading as they have to a totally misguided allocation of what are clearly limited funds in an attempt to scoop up as many players (young and not so young) and foist them on any club willing to take them, to "improve" them, and the leadership of the 1st team by a man who is about as out of his depth as that poor b4stard Hockaday.

Radrizzani needs to wake up, take some decisions that would imply failure of one strategy and realisation that another is required, getting rid of a whole layer of incompetence and failure, reducing the expenditure on the playthings of failed recruitment consultants and ensuring that the investment in 1st team quality is the absolute priority. Or not.

[norfolk white]

Get shot of orta, get a manager in who can pick his own players, now perhaps we can all see why monk left as he could see what was coming.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

don't bring monk into this!

if TC had had a fully fit or mostly fully fit squad this season we would be doing better than we are

I do believe however though that a manager should choose the players he wants, none of this stuff orta has been brought in to do

I actually think some of ortas players are decent, but not all by any stretch