And of course Nick, despite a couple of ropey games, I wouldn’t have dropped him either, despite saying it! Just frustration talking!
Me and DRB had a chat about the perils of expecting our players to be top-quality, rather than Championship/League 1 level - I need to remind myself of that at times! > On 23 Apr 2024, at 16:58, n...@6haroldplace.co.uk wrote: > > > I think it is at least some of the story, John. > > He’s the outstanding player in the league, closing in on 20 goals (at 1 in > every 2 games) plus another 10 or so assists, that is a season of consistent > returns. The fact that he has had a couple of bad games - at the same time as > the team is struggling - doesn’t change that. > > I suppose where my tetchiness comes from is listening to knuckle-heads on the > Kop berating Summerville, Rutter and Rodon for being “lazy”, “not fit to wear > the shirt” etc in the last couple of games. > > At this point all that matters is winning, and if you got to win ugly > (Gnonto’s offside goal!) so be it. To do that you don’t drop a guy with a > hand in nigh on 30 goals. He might well not have been our best player > yesterday, but there is an argument that he was the most effective. > > Anyway, on to London… which is always easy! > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 23 Apr 2024, at 11:31, bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >> That’s hardly the story though is it Nick? But to humour you, if he’d >> played like his last match then yes, but he didn’t - for most of the game he >> turned up, scored 2 vital goals, still gave some cheap ball away, but not as >> much as others, and if we hadn’t adopted the 11 men behind the ball tactic >> he may have scored more? Or not? Who knows? >> >> The story is we got 3 points, are now 2nd in the table, and have given >> ourselves a chance of going up automatically. >> >> There are any number of words to describe a game like that - hugely >> entertaining, defensively awful, defensively strong, clinical in front of >> goal, some really sh*te lost balls (2 of which cost us goals), wasteful >> going forward, tactically perverse, frustrating as hell - in short, the >> story of our season. >> >> That we held out, and scored an offside winner, was amazing. Often, it >> seems, we never get breaks like that? I’d have liked to see Bamford’s >> ‘offside’ goal again though - maybe we were robbed of that one? >> >> Lots of chatter about tonights game - seems simple to me - Leicester need to >> lose - Southampton may come to the last game on a roll, but that is for >> another day - if we beat QPR and Leicester lose then some remarkable >> variants are possible? >> >> All Leeds Arn’t We :-) >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>>> On 23 Apr 2024, at 09:57, n...@6haroldplace.co.uk wrote: >>> >>> We should have dropped Summerville, yeah? >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leedslist mailing list >>> Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >>> To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org >>> >>> Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ >>> >>> Dave Dowden, a legend, a Totty Twin, a pie man! R.I.P. > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > Dave Dowden, a legend, a Totty Twin, a pie man! R.I.P. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ Dave Dowden, a legend, a Totty Twin, a pie man! R.I.P.
