Leeds United - v - Arsenal ***Matchday Thread***

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Marsch is as stubborn as Bielsa was. While Bielsa continued his Roberts lunacy costing us time and time again, Marsch continues this costly trait with his bizarre substitutions giving just a few minutes maximum to the youngsters and costing points. While everyone says we gave Arsenal a fright, I think a flat dire performance is in store in mid week.

Apart from the shocker of a pen Bambi played alright - we looked much more fluid and cohesive with him in the side

[WTF11]

Silence isn't golden. All this sh1t about "Lord Bamford" is about as skIn-crawling as it gets.

Is he perfect? No. Is he more "delicate" than in the season when HIS goals were the difference between promotion to the PL and yet more disappointment? Yes.

Does he make Rodrigo, one of our most expensive acquisitions, look like a complete and utter waste of space, you f00king betcha.

If he can, start him and sub if he runs out of gas with Gelhardt, or Gnonto, anyone but Rod-waste-of-space-rigo.

You'll all be glad I'll not be responding to any replies.

[WTF11]

"Any positives?" asks our resident guru.

That Marsch decided to replace the biggest waste of LUFC funds we have ever expended at half time, yes.

That for what seems a lifetime of wasted opportunity, have we given the young players who are supposedly our future a scant few minutes within which to show their true worth, the hell NO!

On balance, we substantially worse than at this point last season, simply because we have lost any sense of squad cohesion and despite the improvement brought abiut by the inclusion of the likes of Rocan andd

[WTF11]

and Adams, we are.damned by the clubs inability to address gaps in areas WE all know are there (Struijk is not a full back and Rodrigo won't be an out and out striker as long as he has a hole in his a55)

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Silence isn't golden. All this sh1t about "Lord Bamford" is about as skIn-crawling as it gets.

Is he perfect? No. Is he more "delicate" than in the season when HIS goals were the difference between promotion to the PL and yet more disappointment? Yes.

Does he make Rodrigo, one of our most expensive acquisitions, look like a complete and utter waste of space, you f00king betcha.

If he can, start him and sub if he runs out of gas with Gelhardt, or Gnonto, anyone but Rod-waste-of-space-rigo.

You'll all be glad I'll not be responding to any replies.

What happened to the "permanent exit"?

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

It’s a bit like Brexit - it takes time and the parties never do what they say they will😆

[Tichi1]

Silence isn't golden. All this sh1t about "Lord Bamford" is about as skIn-crawling as it gets.

Is he perfect? No. Is he more "delicate" than in the season when HIS goals were the difference between promotion to the PL and yet more disappointment? Yes.

Does he make Rodrigo, one of our most expensive acquisitions, look like a complete and utter waste of space, you f00king betcha.

If he can, start him and sub if he runs out of gas with Gelhardt, or Gnonto, anyone but Rod-waste-of-space-rigo.

You'll all be glad I'll not be responding to any replies.

If Carling did F uckwitts.......

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Seem to recall someone saying Adams and Roca weren’t good enough when we signed them too 😎

[spaldy]

pulled this from another thread. it sums all 2 years of frustration. of course, we'll never have a breakout story like Rooney or Smith since they would have just sat the bench if they had Ted as the coach. 2 or 3 more games with bamrigo as our striker I'll be rooting his firing. Yank or not I'd rather him fail that Leeds fail. that's where we are heading. You don't win games if you don't score.


A striker that doesn't score is a lot like a keeper that doesn't stop shots. They may be great on distribution and goal kicks but in the end their primary, and really only, job is to keep the ball out of the net. For a striker the job is to put the ball in the net. Neither him or Rodrigo are good enough putting the ball in the net.

Making it worse is the fact we have an Italian National striker, A player that West Ham wanted to keep but couldn't get in the game enough because they have Antonio and Joffy who's shown the ability to step up big when game/season on the line.

I will never understand why Leeds gets these coaches that think that game time is given on salary or seniority rather than what they've done on the pitch. Neither bamford or rodrigo have earned the starting striker role based on goals. Sit them and give someone else a chance.

[spaldy]

I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal on Haaland. It referenced how little he does on the pitch. His touches are very low. His "persoanl goal" is to have 5 touches/5 Goals. He's not done it yet but that's what he's working toward.

Perhaps we could have bamrigo lay down somewhere in the box and just blast it off him hoping for a goal. The odds of it going in aren't much less than when they are actively trying. PK's would be a little tricky. Maybe have them lie just outside the box and have the PK taker blast it off them. Again, probably a higher chance than them taking it.

Perhaps we could get permission from the FA to place a rubbish bin or piece of furniture in the box and use it in lieu of a striker and use the salary savings to fund longer term contracts for Meslier or our Midfielders?