Not a report, I wasn't there, just an opinion.
I recall reading an article a few months ago (can't remember where or by
whom) taking all the Championship teams one by one. By this time we had
dropped from our higher league position earlier in the season and the
thinking was that this was no great surprise as many of our games had been
on a knife edge and a single goal decided it. Nothing really wrong with that
except that we sail so close to the wind all the time and can't really look
back at games we've won with style. I would so much prefer to be drawing or
even losing games having played well as this usually shows a great future.
As the clichés say "If you keep doing the right things it will eventually
pay you back" or something like that. Problem is, we don't! It's the huff
and puff and long ball stuff we seem to hear about all the time. 2 wins out
of 2 would normally be a good omen (and it may still be) but when a team is
disjointed and lacks direction, that will also find you out.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Walker" <[email protected]>
To: "Sutton / Smail" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "Leeds List (Post to list)"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [LU] Slightly less abject shite than usual
Thanks for the report. Now if I'd have written that I would get deluged by
folk saying 'come in we're not Barcelona' and that's 2 wins in 2. Can't ask
anymore than that can you?
On 19 Jan 2013, at 19:20, "Sutton / Smail" <[email protected]> wrote:
I was hoping for a good 4-0 win to help our appalling goal difference. I
would have taken a draw or even a home defeat if the comments from those
at the game were saying we played some great stuff
and nobody could quite believe how we didn't score or win - that would
bode well for the future. Early reports suggest though we beat the bottom
club with a hoof and hope based game. This must give rise to an even
greater salute and acknowledgement to those faithful who attend to watch
such depressing rubbish week in week out. And to think our reward for
beating Birmingham is the prospect of a home mauling by Spurs (a la
Chelsea) - will it be a full house again based on the "You never know"
principle? Perhaps not, based on the "Oh yes you do" theory.
A manager can shape how a team plays - does Warnock ask his defenders to
whack it up there in the hope that our strikers will make something of it.
He could forbid this tactic but obviously doesn't.
Perhaps though he does and his posse of poor players have neither the
brain, skill or presence of mind to to do anything else. Does he bollock
them afterwards for this play before doing his post match interview when
he makes a generic comment about it being a great game and anyone can beat
anyone in this league twaddle with his rye smile. I'd like him so say
something controversial for once and try and show passion rather than just
a comment you'd expect from a neutral fan who had nothing better to do on
the day.
Looks like Warnock is not going to make his record breaking promotion this
season at least. Will our new owners give him more time I wonder? Based on
the muppets he's brought in so far (apart from Diouf and Kenny for
example) I fear (hope) not. He would defend this saying Bates held the
money back and that's all he could get at he time with the funds. Who
knows the truth? For me, we've been stuck nowhere for too long and our
current league position is very flattering with the inevitable, and
meaningless, Spurs home defeat just round the corner.
I wonder if the squad is out of the bath after today's victory or are they
still all sitting there (water now tepid) contemplating in silence how
rubbish you have to be to beat the bottom club by a margin of 1 goal?
Dave
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