Quote Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
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.