Bambi

[Monaco_Totty]

Bamford has now deleted his Twitter account.
Not surprised after some comments made & this 'doing the rounds" - sad state of affairs all round ER. 🙄

https://twitter.com/Richard20719342/...533174273?s=20

[WTF11]

Bamford has now deleted his Twitter account.
Not surprised after some comments made & this 'doing the rounds" - sad state of affairs all round ER. ��

https://twitter.com/Richard20719342/...533174273?s=20

Not surprising at all, there is NO such thing as "social media", especially when it relates to comments from football supporters. I've said harsh things about many players, but nothing that comes close to the disgusting vitriol levelled at player(s) who have made significant contributions to our promotion, and just like the supporters of the club, have been let down by those who should have known what was required to make sure we prospered, not just survived.

As a reminder of what we have had to tolerate in the past, from players who have been raised to footballing sainthood......

http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/matches...%20to%20pieces.

A particular comment rings as true now as then, "'The only consolation for United was that they were too bad to be true. There was so much wrong with them that only Cooper got good marks, and Charlton, Hunter and Madeley just scraped a pass. Sprake was right off form" - 19 October 1968 - Burnley 5 Leeds United 1.

My first game, 12 years old, travelled to Turf Moor on my own (Dad was a cricket/rugby man), for some reason it didn't put me off!

God help us had there been Facebook, Tw4tter, Instaf00k or any other "platform" back in the 60's - 70's

[WTF11]

On the subject of the "montage", I suspect if you were sad enough and had enough time on your clearly unemployed hands, you could put something similar together featuring Kane, Son, Shearer, Toni, Mane, Vardy etc etc etc, but why would anyone who claims to be a Leeds supporter (if it was such a person) put this together?

ALAW....I don't think I've actually seen any "motto" where the sentiment embodied in the acronym is less appropriate. Individual players have been crucified, insulted, described in the most inhuman and degrading terms whilst (until quite recently) those who bore the true responsibility were able to isolate themselves from criticism (at least from most, I claim an honourable exception, and have been lambasted by many for my pains, again, ALAW?) and "carry on regardless " of the mayhem resulting from the incompetence they exhibited, clearly evidenced for all those willing to see.

We have a proud record of support to the team on match days, the crowds (both home and away) have shown others how to support the players (almost) irrespective of the results on the field. I've been called a "keyboard warrior" as my attendance at games has been limited of late, but never in all my posts have I descended to the levels of sheer evil that I have seen of late from supposed LUFC supporters when commenting not just about Bamford, but Cooper, Ayling, Meslier, amongst others, For shame.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

On the subject of the "montage", I suspect if you were sad enough and had enough time on your clearly unemployed hands, you could put something similar together featuring Kane, Son, Shearer, Toni, Mane, Vardy etc etc etc, but why would anyone who claims to be a Leeds supporter (if it was such a person) put this together?

ALAW....I don't think I've actually seen any "motto" where the sentiment embodied in the acronym is less appropriate. Individual players have been crucified, insulted, described in the most inhuman and degrading terms whilst (until quite recently) those who bore the true responsibility were able to isolate themselves from criticism (at least from most, I claim an honourable exception, and have been lambasted by many for my pains, again, ALAW?) and "carry on regardless " of the mayhem resulting from the incompetence they exhibited, clearly evidenced for all those willing to see.

We have a proud record of support to the team on match days, the crowds (both home and away) have shown others how to support the players (almost) irrespective of the results on the field. I've been called a "keyboard warrior" as my attendance at games has been limited of late, but never in all my posts have I descended to the levels of sheer evil that I have seen of late from supposed LUFC supporters when commenting not just about Bamford, but Cooper, Ayling, Meslier, amongst others, For shame.

I think there is world of difference between ‘abusing’ a player at a game or on social media and expressing on opinion on a forum such as this.

I get to anywhere between 3 and 12 games per season and never express anything other than support for the players and would never show dissent or abuse anyone at a game.

This however is a forum and Bambi just isn’t good or fit enough - yes he has had games where he has done well but all too often when it really really matters he doesn’t do what he is mainly there to do - score. The chance at the end of the Leicester game being a case in point. He was poor v Fulham and poor v City - his touch and hold up play which are supposed to be strengths were appalling at times.

He has been unavailable for about half our games since he signed.

I will always support the team but as with LB, RB and midfield this is an area where we need better. I want him to do well and perform but there is enough evidence before us that like Mr Marsch he isn’t the one.

[WTF11]

I think there is world of difference between ‘abusing’ a player at a game or on social media and expressing on opinion on a forum such as this.

I get to anywhere between 3 and 12 games per season and never express anything other than support for the players and would never show dissent or abuse anyone at a game.

This however is a forum and Bambi just isn’t good or fit enough - yes he has had games where he has done well but all too often when it really really matters he doesn’t do what he is mainly there to do - score. The chance at the end of the Leicester game being a case in point. He was poor v Fulham and poor v City - his touch and hold up play which are supposed to be strengths were appalling at times.

He has been unavailable for about half our games since he signed.

I will always support the team but as with LB, RB and midfield this is an area where we need better. I want him to do well and perform but there is enough evidence before us that like Mr Marsch he isn’t the one.

Wouldn't disagree with a word of that post. The contributors here might be harsh, but not even close to the kind of stuff I have seen on Tw4tter and not in the least surprised that Bamford has departed from that particular platform.

My observations about "social media" (there is no such thing, not in the current "environment anyway), were aimed at those other paragons of virtue and good taste, f00kbook, Tw4tter, Istaf00k, and others like them.

I'm sure the player knows that he (amongst a number of others) hasn't performed as he can (acknowledging all his frailties and faults), but as I said previously, the team wins as a team and loses the same way. For one player to be singled out as responsible for this that or the other over the length of an entire season makes a nonsense of the game.

I doubt we will see him next season, not at Leeds anyway, much like many others, departing for a variety of reasons, some to get back to PL competition, some to ensure they get game time whichever division they play in, some simply to get away from one of the worst run clubs in any division in the country.

It will be interesting (in an objective, outsider-looking-in kind of way) to see what happens at LUFC. One things for sure, we carry on like this and it's non-league football in a few seasons time.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Wouldn't disagree with a word of that post. The contributors here might be harsh, but not even close to the kind of stuff I have seen on Tw4tter and not in the least surprised that Bamford has departed from that particular platform.

My observations about "social media" (there is no such thing, not in the current "environment anyway), were aimed at those other paragons of virtue and good taste, f00kbook, Tw4tter, Istaf00k, and others like them.

I'm sure the player knows that he (amongst a number of others) hasn't performed as he can (acknowledging all his frailties and faults), but as I said previously, the team wins as a team and loses the same way. For one player to be singled out as responsible for this that or the other over the length of an entire season makes a nonsense of the game.

I doubt we will see him next season, not at Leeds anyway, much like many others, departing for a variety of reasons, some to get back to PL competition, some to ensure they get game time whichever division they play in, some simply to get away from one of the worst run clubs in any division in the country.

It will be interesting (in an objective, outsider-looking-in kind of way) to see what happens at LUFC. One things for sure, we carry on like this and it's non-league football in a few seasons time.

Famous last words but if the worst happens it shouldn’t be like last time when the club was financially crippled and we ended up in the clutches of Captain Birdseye.

Might make those in charge and those looking to buy out take a more realistic look at what is required and perhaps study the models which seem to work and be built on solid foundations - Brentford, Brighton and Fulham.

If we go down enough talent should remain to have a good go at bouncing straight back up - hope they look at the fact that ‘footballing teams’ have tended to get promoted.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Yet again big moment, big chance and he doesn’t deliver