Cheers Rich Sounds like it was bloody awful!! Thanks for your reports throughout the year - enjoy your Chateauneuf-Du-Pape mate! Happy Christmas
Ossie > Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:39:11 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LU] Barnsley > > There’s nothing like a poor Leeds perfrormance to put you in a bad mood > pre-Christmas. I was looking forward to my bottle of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape > tonight after a great win over our bogey team Barnsley. What I actually feel > is completely pissed off with a performance that was so poor I really found > myself questioning the manager and a lot of the team. > > How many managers do you know would play a 5-3-3 wing back system with Danny > fecking Pugh and Lee fecking Peltier as wing backs ? > > First Peltier. Worse captain ever (even worse than Butler and Aizlewood) and > now is being reinvented as some sort of rampaging wing back. He’s so limited > in his play its untrue and when it comes to defending he’s not right good at > that either. Waste of space. > > Second Pugh. I really have to question the sanity of a manager who not only > pick him in a team pushing for promotion but actually play him as a wing > back. The guy can’t defend, has no pace and no skill. Granted he has a half > decent left foot but the amount of times he got into great positions and just > floated over an aimless cross was beyond frustration. He adds stability > apparently !? Give it a rest, he adds bugga all and BMD should hang his head > in shame if he thinks that this is the answer to our left sided crises. > > The 5 at the back is so blatantly not working, nobody knows who is marking > who ? There are massive gaps all over the shop. Barnsley carved us apart in > the first 30 minutes, not through creative, inventive play but through the > massive holes and space that appeared on the left side of our defence. Jason > Pearce is playing as a left back, Tom Lees as a right back and our Lithuanian > (sorry still don’t know his name) is isolated as our only cenre back. The > amount of times he was left one on one at the back was criminal. I like the > look of the lad but in this system its all or nothing and he had to put in a > load of reckless challenges , most of which to his credit he got away with. > On other occasions he didn’t and Barnsley really should have taken the lead > on more than one occasion. > > In midfield we look lightweight especially with 3 players. Mowatt, a player > who I think has done ok in the games I’ve seen, didn’t look right from the > start. He really looked all at sea and maybe he was injured ‘cos BMD dragged > him off at half-time. With Mowatt having an off day it lies with Murphy and > Austin to drag us along. That ain’t gonna happen is it ? > > and up front, the slowest combination of strikers in the country - Macca and > Smith. What a partnership ? Yes they’ve scored goals but on this performance > the partnership has no future whatsoever. > > Back to the first half .... yes we had chances. Actually, I should say Matt > Smith had chances. Two very straight forward finishes. The first a Danny Pugh > ball (his best and only decent cross of the game) fell kindly and Smith > looked in control. He shot directly at the advancing keeper who made a good > save (according to people sat near me in the NE Upper). I’d say it was a bad > miss. > > then he was put through again by a great intelligent ball from Macca, he was > weak and scraped the ball into the keeper’s arms. Today, Smith made some of > Becchio’s performances look sharp. He is flat footed, tall but actually > pretty shit in the air and in terms of ability he looks like a centre half. > Actually that’s being unkind to most centre halves. John Pearson is the > nearest comparison I can make, again emphasing my point that you can be shit > but still score goals in this league. It really means feck all. Becchio is > the ultimate example of this point. > > In that first half, it has to be said that Barnsley were the better side. > They played football, they passed the ball, they had a bit of pace and skill > up front. We were hopeless and most of the time despite playing on paper what > looks like a progressive 5-3-3, what we actually did most of the time is punt > it long to the hapless Smith in the hope of a knock down. You have to ask > serious questions about that first half performance. We made Barnsley look > good and they are not. Their no 11 - a 4ft player with blonde hair looked > like Lionel Messi next to Austin, Murphy and Mowatt. We really lack the > basics at times. > > We did have other chances. In fact the best chance should have been handed to > Macca. A decent bit of play from us, ended with Murphy only having to play a > simple one-two type ball in to Macca and he was in, Murphy pathetically over > cooked the pass and it went astray. Macca just looked at Murphy, arms in the > air and head shaking. I’m not surprised, it was a pass that anyone with any > level of ball control should have made, however 1 million pounds of shit was > unable. > > The only compliment I can play BMD today is that he made changes at half-time > and didn’t do the Simon Grayson 51 minute, programmed change. Peltier (awful) > and Mowat (even worse) were replaced by Byram and Tonge. > > Barnsley stopped playing second half which meant we had more possession but > ironically that actually made us look even worse. We didn’t have a clue, no > idea. Tonge, who was obviously not match fit actually did do ok, managing to > make their keeper make a save and distribute the ball effectively. Ok, not a > match changing contribution but compared to the other midfielders around him > this was a vast improvement. > > Pugh and a decent shot parried over by their keeper and we had a few moments > whoch really resembled panic or their part in their area. They were lucky > with a lot of clearances and the ref did his best to really ruin the game. > The ref must have been 3ft tall and was one of the worse I’ve seen for a > while. > > Smith was knackered, Macca was sick of running down blind alleys and Byram, > who has come on, despite getting forward more, put a couple of Row Z crosses. > > Pugh then treated us to one of the worse corners in history. He trickled it > into the side netting, I’d be surprised if it even came into play. Why is he > taking corners ? > > Barnsley had a man sent off for a bad challenge on our Lithuanian but it > didn’t matter ‘cos that just meant they got more men behind the ball and made > it even harder for us. We were struggling anyway. > > So listening to BMD’s post match interview he said all the right things > again. Poor match, these things happen, we moved up a place, let’s take that > and let’s move on. > > Sorry Brian, I can’t. That was £31 of pure shite. Your tactics are a disgrace > and the players you have brought in are not good enough to get us promotion. > Sort it out. > > Scores: > > Kenny - 7. Didn’t do anything wrong. Kept a clean sheet despite some poor > defending in front of him. > > Peltier - 2. All of the shop from the start and showed nothing going forward > as a wing back. Come on Peltier as a wing back ? > > Pugh - 3. One good cross, one good shot then just your typical Danny Pugh > performance. Pure shite. Come on , Danny Pugh as a wing back ? > > Lithuanian - 6. I think this guy has talent but he needs another defender > close to him. He was exposed badly but actually came through most situations. > Come on Brian ! > > Lees - 6. Sensible defending most of the time. > > Pearce - 5. Don’t think he knows where he is playing in this formation. His > he at left back ? cos Pugh ain’t helping him ? Sort it out Brian ? > > Austin - 4. Distribution poor, worked hard as always but as usual just showed > his limitations which are many. > > Murphy - 3. He is getting involved more, he put himself around a bit andput > in 1 or 2 decent tackles but how many times does he give the ball away and > how many times when in a great position does he fail to make the final pass. > I’m hoping he’ll turn into Steven Gerard but actually we have to face reality > he really isn’t that good. > > Mowatt - 2. Really poor showing. I don’t think he was right. > > Smith - 4. Donkey. > > Macca - 5. Some good moments but can’t do it on his own due to lack of pace. > > Subs: > > Tonge - 5. Was probably the best midfielder on show. That’s how bad we were. > > Byram - 4. Very rusty. I’d drop Murphy and play Byram in this position. > > Poleon - 5. Also looked rusty, not surprising. > > BMD - sort it out Brian. Terrible tactics for that team and those players. > > Crowd - 31k - robbed and loud boos at the end. > > What a great start for Christmas. > > Bottle of CNP should sort it. > > Happy Christmas, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
