Well yet again we follow up a committed and impressive away performance with total capitulation at home. This was as bad as Watford and that was pretty much as bad as it gets. Right from the off we were second best and were totally devoid of ideas or passion. Within the first minute they had a free header just over the bar and they continued to dominate. Any chance we may have had of getting into the game disappeared with a red card for Brown, I have not seen it yet on TV so it is hard to comment other than to say not one single Derby player re-acted to the tackle - compare that to Reading with the Thompson foul - and that is very unusual in any game. Also when the red went up there was total disbelief amongst those around me , no-one knew what he had done, we all thought that the ref was trying to make up for him not being sent off on Friday. Shortly after, whilst Derby continued to dominate and create half chances, we fell to the usual opposition goal - an absolute pearler from outside the box. I doubt if anyone inside the ground believed at that stage that we could get anything out of the game, and apart from a couple of long range efforts from Nunez (he seems to be a one trick pony, run at them and fire a shot in) we never looked like equalising. If we created any chances then I have forgotten about them. Then with 20 or so minutes to go Derby put the final nail in the coffin - a shot was well blocked by O'Dea but their man re-acted quickest to the rebound and hit it home.
Would we collapse and end up letting in another 4 or 5.? Thankfully 'no', Derby took their foot off the pedal and the game rumbled on with not much happening. Billy came on to sarcastic chants from the Leeds crowd (I hate to hear that stuff) and managed to win a couple of headers - more than Becchio had done- but the flick ons went to nobody. Then about the only touch of class from us all game - a lovely ball over the top from Snoddy fell beautifully into the path of Webber whose first touch was good and got him ahead of the defender BUT his second touch was a very poor attempt at a shot that rolled harmlessly (very) wide. It just about summed us up - a chance for Webber to open his account and he failed miserably. I don't really get Colin and his subs- he makes a big thing of not having a keeper so that he can have an extra attacker but then seems reluctant to bring any sub on - despite the fact that we were awful and getting out played he made his first sub with only 20mins left, and then only gave Webber 7 minutes to show what he can do. In fact I thought Colin got it wrong from the start with his team selection. The season is over, we all know it, so why not give Rogers and Paynter a start to see if they can cut it at this level, why not let Webber start and see if he can look as good over 90mins as he sometimes does with his cameo performances. During the second half we were discussing amongst ourselves who we should keep and it was not a good discussion. We all pretty much agreed that we should keep Snoddy but that he would be crazy to stay. That McCormack deserved to keep his place was also pretty unanimous, After that some of us stuck up for Lees and Clayton, though both need to do it every week, and one lad said he thought Lonergan and O'Dea were OK but that was it ! Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
