WTF,

respectfully disagree... seriously. You are correct that Bates kept us in existence. However, it was a long term purgatory. Leeds has a huge and active following. After that first wave of saving the club it would have been very easy for him to find some more investors or take a little less out of the kitty. Even in the darkest days we drew 20K+ and sold marketing and merchandise. After that period we literally became the Amazon of other teams. Any time we found and developed a player that had a little value he sold them... even if we were in the mix for promotion. We were pretty close on a couple of teams but he'd sell before we could get to the next level.

Really feel we should have been pushing for promotion after 2010. Football had not gotten as expensive as it is today to sign top flight players. we also seemed to have some pretty good scouts back then. we had some really good players for the limited budget.

we also did beat scum at OT in the FA cup!!! Beckford's best goal ever. Screamed myself silly.