Being away from my home base - and actually in Leeds for the last five days for a family bereavement - I have not had chance to keep up with the daily Yorkshire weather forecasts, never mind how the Leeds team were travelling, but now that I am back in my chosen place that I call home, I can only pass on sincere gratitude and thanks to Dave Nattan for the excellent and totally informed reports he provides us all via this list. If it wasn't for Dave's selfless commentary, I would have to resort to tabloid reports. Thanks Dave, please keep up the fantastic work that you do, for as long as you feel inclined to do so; for as long as you can and; for as long as you still have the passion for our club and email list. I salute you. Even if the results lately are shit....
Pete C -----Original Message----- From: Leedslist [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 08 January 2018 22:21 To: David Smail <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LU] LU Newport I have been getting a lot of stick today based on the performance / result yesterday - as I told them all I am used to it - Histon, Sutton over the last few years. I think it is different from last year v Sutton when Monk , to try and prove a point, picked a load of no-hope kids etc, TC has picked a team full of squad players, albeit very few actual "first teamers" TC has explained the selection stating that is is very much the same thinking that got us 5 1 results v Newport & Port Vale and a winning draw v Burnley and a decent performance at Leicester. There is some truth in this and if we had won I think most fans would have been OK with it. When I saw the team I was content with it - I did worry and in fact pointed out on here- that the bench only had Saiz who could come on and change things if the scoreline was going against us (I did not think Saiz would manage to not touch the ball when he came on) It is just how things are these days - the League is all important and all teams in the top two Divisions load their team with squad playersWe should have had enough quality to overcome 4th division opponents and enough players should have been trying to impress and force their way into the first team to have a high degree of commitment. It all depends now on how we re-act - last time under Monk his plan backfired, he was not given more money to strenghten the squad and the defeat seemed to knock some of the stuffing out of the first team players, even though they did not play, and led a lot of fans to fall out with Monk Hopefully the performance of Lassogga and Grot will mean that TC (and Orta) change their minds about the need for another striker - Lassogga is lazy and Grot needs to go out on loan or play for the u23s for a bit to see if there is an actual player in there or not - he is nowhere near first team level at this point. It should confirm the decision to get rid of Brothwick Jackson if we can - and bring in the Belgian left back. It also shows that Anita is not a left back - he was given a torrid time from Nouble(sp)I have no idea why Pennington did not play - Everton are out of the cup so having him cup tied does not seem to be a problem. It should stop fans asking why Klitch is not getting a game etc For me, I was content when I saw the team and in my ideal scenario we would get two or three up with goals from Lassogga and 2 from Grot (to get their confidence up) and then Clarke could come on a get a 4th (laid on by Rey !) and things would look great - this is far from what happened and with Saiz looking at a 6 week ban we have a lot of problems It is still much too soon to sack TC but it does increase the pressure on him, and a win at Ipswich will assign yesterday to the history books - a defeat there and a bad result v Millwall and the whole season will collapse Dave From: David Smail <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: 'Rob Gillard' <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 8 January 2018, 2:48 Subject: [LU] LU Newport I am ashamed of Leeds United today - and that's strong words. Is that TC's undiplomatic way of saying were not interested in the FA Cup? Perhaps he was pleased in some demented way with how it all panned out and today's result is a secret success in his book although he'd never admit it. Our passing was awful and embarrassing and we couldn't contain Newport. I saw this result coming a mile away but not the way it happened. All our supporters making the trip and paying their money - what an insult to them, our club and the competition itself. I'm waiting for an apology TC - why have you kept so quiet after the game? Have you no thoughts, opinions or comments? At least the likes of Villa went out to lower league competition with some style and grace and looked like they were bothered. As already mentioned, if we scrape the play offs all this will be forgotten and forgiven....only to a point, but as also mentioned, defeats like this can have a dramatic effect on form and confidence. Grot and Lasogga truly awful - who brought them in? Ahem! Fine move bringing on Saiz TC whose only contribution was to get sent off for spitting ( I read) Did he touch the ball? Now a 3 match ban for a proven game changer. Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ FLAME WARS 'R US _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ FLAME WARS 'R US _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ FLAME WARS 'R US
