I like this buying players for the youth team. Shows a bit of long term vision and chance to give us strength in depth in the future without spending loads of cash
Having said that anyone that shows any promise will be off to Bournemouth on £30k a week Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jan 2018, at 21:10, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > to be fair he did quite wellWe won 1 0 and he scored, he also got brought > down for a penatly taken by our no9 which was saved.He started fairly slowly > - this may seem odd , but to me his boots make him seem even more ponderous > than he is , big orange boots with ankle covers (remind me of Mick Jones and > his rugby boots) Then he won a couple of headers and laid the ball off well a > few timesJust before half time he had our only on target shot of the half > (they also had only one) when he turned sharply inside the box and hit a > decent shot that was right at the keeperThis seemed to give him the > confidence that is so sadly lacking in the first team, and he got more and > more involved, linking play quite well on a few occasions. His next > contribution was a mazy run in the box when he was quite clearly tripped and > the ref quite rightly pointed to the spot. Our no9 stepped up and shot weakly > towards the corner of the net but the keeper saved easily.Grot then proved > that, in time, he may have s > omething to offer when he got the ball inside the box , right in the middle > of the area, 2 yards further out than the penatly spot and fired home with > enough power and precision into the corner to make it unstoppableHe continued > to do some good stuff, mixed with some blind alley football, and we nearly > went two up when no 9 beat the offside trap rounded the keeper who had come > miles out of the area and his shot as he was being pushed very wide did not > have the power to beat the covering defendersSo a 1-0 win against a > Premiership team (OK Huddersfield) and a deserved one at that- they committed > god knows how many fouls against usSo, at last, TC and the coaches have done > what many of us have been asking for all season and given Grot (who is only > 19 don't forget) a run in a lower standard of football but one in which he > can hopefully impress and then kick on, or show that he is a waste of space > and get jettisonedVery early days but he did enough today - winning a > penalty, a shot saved > and a well taken goal- to indicate that whilst he is not yet ready for the > first team he may still have a future at LeedsDavePS I see we are supposedly > giving a medical tomorrow to Sam Dalby a striker aged 18 from Orient - > another one for the future who is going to join all the others in the u23 > squad > > > From: Matt Anderson <[email protected]> > To: Leeds List <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 22 January 2018, 20:22 > Subject: [LU] Grot scores..... > > Amazing > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE _______________________________________________ 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/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
