What a great day! I would normally say the highlight was the goal from Macca - however the highlight for me was my lovely wife playing at half time, despite her wearing her best Ugg boots! ;-)
I Sent from my iPhone On 2 Jan 2012, at 20:47, DAVID NATTAN <david.nat...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Wow - that was fantastic - left ER still singing and buzzing all the way back > to the station.No doubt Rich will come and give his views which will include > giving all the team (bar Townsend) a hard time for their performances - and > to be fair he will be right , and no doubt I will agree with 99% of his > comments because he will be right BUT we got 3 points and even better we got > 3 points from being a goal down on 85 mins !If ever a game showed that > football is not about possession or shots on target or fouls or corners or > any of the other stats that Sky bombard us with in an attempt to make us like > American football - it is about one thing and one thing only - sticking the > ball in the net, and we did it one more time than they did - so job doneIn > the pub pre game we all agreed that a defeat in a poor performance could see > the end of SG - we were in less agreement as to whether that would be a good > or bad thing - of the 6 of us 2, inc myself were still > pro Grayson, 2 were anti and the other 2 abstained / were undecided.To anyone > who says that SG has lost the dressing room / players, the fact that we > turned a 0 1 into a 2 -1 in the last few minutes after 3 straight defeats > including a hammering last time out , to me, proves them wrong. The players > gave it their all and refused to be beaten - thinking , like us, that a > defeat would see him sacked. > As for the game , Connolly, Brown, Varynen,and Keogh all found themselves > left out (and may never play for us again ?) and Zac Thompson came in with > Townsend and the recalled Clayton and Bruce (albeit at right back)Of the rest > Kisnorbo could probably count himself the luckiest to keep his place, and our > and his start to the game showed just how lucky he was, as Burnley took the > game to us and should have gone ahead. Then we got lucky and Kisnorbo was > injured and had to go off - this meant moving Thompson back to right back > where he looked decent and Bruce to his proper place in the centre. Even > better it meant that Sam came on on the right wing and led to Townsend moving > to the left - his true position. We started to look better and began to get a > foothold in the game. We ave the ball to the very impressive Townsend - very > similar in many ways to the departed Max Gradel, very direct, very quick and > very greedy. This gave us a number of free kicks > , which were mainly wasted an a couple of bookings. Townsend then went on > another run and 'won' a free kick, going over the defenders leg - clever, if > not 100% fair and above board, even better the ref went for his yellow again > and off went the defender.Surely,even Leeds in our present predicament could > beat 10 men ?Well for the remainder of the half we tried, but a Nunez long > range effort , and a coupe of great crosses apart we had nothing to show for > it. So onto the second half (after some daft bint in Ugg boots did the worse > halt time score on the bounce competition) - we came out fired up and spent > the next 20mins or so in the most one sided game I have seen for ages. We > huffed and we puffed and we came close on occasion - a lovely run and pull > back from Townsend deserved to have someone on the end of it. Thompson fired > just wide, O'Dea had one tipped over etc. To be fair to Burnley they defended > like they were determined not to concede and gave > it their all - a great defensive perfomance whilst under the cosh, couple > with lots of time wasting.Surely we would get the goal we deserved and the > flood gates would open? Then in their first and only foray into our half, the > lad turned and hit a great shot accross Lonergan - a good finish but 100% > against the run of play.Was this the end of Grayson ?After a bit of a wobble > in front of a stunned crowd, SG took his last gamble. off went Becchio and > Nunez and on came Forsell and McCormack.We continued to control the game and > pressed and pressed but they dfefended like their lives depended on it and > the clock ticked on.Surely we could not lose thisThen we got a corner and a > poor ball into the box was turned into the net by a Burnley player - a total > fluke- undeserved from their point of view but maybe the bit of luck Grayson > and we merited ?Just as the celebrations died down the board went up - 5 > minutes to penalise them for all the time wasting > (especailly the keeper), we kept on going and a run from Townsend followed by > a shot, that the keeper, Rchubka-esque managed to spill and Ross showing the > predatory instincts of earlier in the season was first to the ball and > prodded it homeNot sure what happened after that as we went, literally > beserk, what an end to a game, what a way to start the New Year, what a way > to end the 3 match losing runWow - like I say, fantastic - undeserved in some > ways, totally deserved in others - the last 10minutes makes the £516 renewal > price seem like a snip !This is what football is all aboutDaveNow waiting for > a dour, sensible, reasoned report from RIch in which Becchio and Pugh should > never pull on a Leeds shirt again - and in fairness to RIch, whose reports I > always look forward to, probably a more realistic one than mine (even he will > have been impressed by Townsend, the pace and drectness we have been lacking > - the new Max?) > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
