Sunderland - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread***

[Billyni]

Piroe needs to be played and fed with the ball as he was at Swansea.
Why buy someone who scores goals and then not play him in that position.

[BelfastAndy]

Sunderland were better - end of. We (again) were neither joined up nor fluent.

[Billyni]

Just no plan B. We looked a mess, trying to run through a mass of players to score rarely pays off. Chuffin L

Well that’s basically it. When it works its a brilliant slick goal.
Against a disciplined side, it doesn’t.

[cherrypie7]

Sunderland were better - end of. We (again) were neither joined up nor fluent.

Agreed. This season we have lost to Stoke, Southampton, and Sunderland. All play in red and white stripes. At least we don't have to play Brentford.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

We perform like we did tonight then you can kiss the playoffs goodbye.

Oh how you delight in our losses

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

We have played a lot of games in the last few weeks with little squad rotation. A few players looked slow and off it today and maybe that has something to do with it. Ampadu and Kamara were both below their usual very good levels.

Rutter and Piroe also looked slow today.

[Tichi1]

We perform like we did tonight then you can kiss the playoffs goodbye.

What a typically ridiculous overreaction ffs!
Won 4 and drawn 1 of our previous 5 games, sat on 41 points from 21 games - normally easily good enough for top spot, 4 points better off than Burnley where his time last season - and they finished at a canter, and youre doubting we will even make the play offs despite only losing bye the odd goal to a decent team playing at home in front of a rowdy 40,000+ crowd...

The lads had an off day ffs - others will too. and still over half the season to go

what a misserable Leeds utd follower you are, havent had a chance to moan for a while - just waiting for this defeat.


You are the reason I and many others dont post much anymore, and wont do until you finally flounce for good.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

What a typically ridiculous overreaction ffs!
Won 4 and drawn 1 of our previous 5 games, sat on 41 points from 21 games - normally easily good enough for top spot, 4 points better off than Burnley where his time last season - and they finished at a canter, and youre doubting we will even make the play offs despite only losing bye the odd goal to a decent team playing at home in front of a rowdy 40,000+ crowd...

The lads had an off day ffs - others will too. and still over half the season to go

what a misserable Leeds utd follower you are, havent had a chance to moan for a while - just waiting for this defeat.


You are the reason I and many others dont post much anymore, and wont do until you finally flounce for good.

Spot on - not sure what the dig at Spence and his hair style was either other than yet another example of little Englander syndrome

[WTF11]

What a typically ridiculous overreaction ffs!
Won 4 and drawn 1 of our previous 5 games, sat on 41 points from 21 games - normally easily good enough for top spot, 4 points better off than Burnley where his time last season - and they finished at a canter, and youre doubting we will even make the play offs despite only losing bye the odd goal to a decent team playing at home in front of a rowdy 40,000+ crowd...

The lads had an off day ffs - others will too. and still over half the season to go

what a misserable Leeds utd follower you are, havent had a chance to moan for a while - just waiting for this defeat.


You are the reason I and many others dont post much anymore, and wont do until you finally flounce for good.

And a typically ridiculous response from you and others of a similar ilk.

"We perform like we did tonight then you can kiss the playoffs goodbye." LIKE WE DID TONIGHT, got that????

I have praised our performances where praise was deserved, look back a little with slightly lifted blinkers and you will find posts that substantiate that statement, but unlike you and some others, I don't accept "off nights" with your equanimity, particularly when they are experienced when playing against teams who we could and should beat, and with players and a squad that IS capable of much, MUCH better.

I say again, some of the wins of late have lulled both some of the supporters and it would seem some of the players into a false sense of security that we can not only maintain our position, but somehow overhaul Ipswich and even Leicester. I doubt that is possible if the pedestrian, negative, lack-lustre performance we saw tonight is repeated. You presumably think it was a "flash in the pan", and all will be well when we play Coventry, Ipswich, Preston etc. We will see.

As to why you and others don't post, quite pathetic to blame your intellectual laziness and a reluctance to engage in genuine debate about LUFC performances on my willingness to challenge the received wisdom that God is in his heaven and all is right with LUFC, when it clearly isn't. I'm one poster, and you are seriously suggesting that one poster is capable to facing down a group of (supposedly) intelligent, committed LUFC supporters?

Or maybe you would suggest we all just slap each other on the back and smile, no matter what?

[BelfastAndy]

With the inconsistencies, I wouldn't bet on play-offs.