Personally I think most Leeds fans are as thick as fuck. The Kop sing "Luciano Becchio, Luciano Becchio ... " yet the bloke can't play the simplest of passes and continues to miss chance after chance whislt maintaining his 1 in 4 goal ratio under Grayson. I actually sat in the Kop for the Huddersfield game and was sat next to a Luciano Becchio chanter, so I asked him if he really rated him. Reply was 'Nah, but he's a trier'. Great ! We all like a trier don't we. For my money Beckford has worked as hard as anyone in most of the games I've seen this season and you just can't argue with his goalscoring record. Does he not produce in the big games ? Maybe sometimes but what's the biggest game of the season for us to date ? I'd say against Norwich 'cos they're our biggest and best rivals in my opinion. We all know what happened there ? Also, what happened last season when we didn't have Beckford in the team ? We struggled like fuck ? Becchio suddenly had no space and we all realised what a shite, limited player he is ?
So the fuckwits can continue to sing for Becchio, whilst I will continue to support Beckford, our only striker with true pace. You can't replace that at this level. ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Tim Leslie <[email protected]>; list leedslist <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 22 December, 2009 9:22:08 Subject: Re: [LU] Soton. Tim, I've been doing reasoned arguments on here for years and its got me nowhere. So I thought, for once why bother...the end result would be the same. If Beckford scores at OT the Beckford-haters will all just queue up to say "he's only doing it cos he's in the shop window", and if he doesn't score then it'll be all the usual "never shows in big games"...makes you wonder why he'd bother at all really doesn't it? So no I won't take your bet. But I still reckon that if we keep him (and currently the only reason he'd go is cos half the numpties "supporting" the team he plays for, think that a goal ratio of 2 in 3 is not good enough...does not prove that he works hard enough "for the team") then he will score more league goals this season than all of his forward line colleagues added together. Just a point about reasoned argument Tim, you can't say "we can't use the stats, the history" to judge a footballer. On that basis I propose our forward line for OT is Caspar and Hughesie because judging everything on what might happen and not taking any history into account, its about their turn to bag a few. Beckford's in a lean spell - the team hasn't been firing all around - missing Kisnorbo, Naylor, Higgs and Johnson - the midfield, not quite sure whether to play Kilkenny, Howson, Doyle - that doesn't make him a bad striker (at this level) Not every footballer has to charge around like a headless chicken to be effective (Tony Currie, Gary Lineker, Mark Viduka, christ even the blessed Lord Lucas of Radebe looked somewhat less than switched on sometimes). Sure every team needs workers, but not every player in the team has to be that kind of player. That doesn't mean that I don't think Beckford earns his goals, I think that forwards earn goals in different ways - Beckford makes the runs he thinks are worth making - not always for his own benefit, see the late header recently when he went up against the keeper to set up Gradel. It's just not appreciated. If it is "so easy" playing up front in the current Leeds Utd team that anyone could get the goals why don't they? Why is it only Beckford who does? I'll give you a list - Vokes, Kandol, Showunmi, Grella, Trundell, Becchio - why can't any of them match his strike rate? That header from 6 yards that Becchio missed on Saturday...Jesus if that had been Beckford half the crowd would have been after him. But because Lucciano runs himself into the ground he's somehow thought "easier to forgive". None of the above means Beckford is perfect, far from it, but I want to see Leeds Utd out of the third division and moving up and it strikes me that we have a much better chance of achieving that with a guy who is a proven goalscorer (and who puts the shit up the other team's defenders). We've only got one of those and its Jermaine. If he played for anyone else in this league we'd be coveting him something rotten. As far as speculation goes - I think he could probably do OK in the Championship and I hope that he does that with us next year. I don't think he has the temperament or touch to make it in the Premiership. On 21 December 2009 at 17:28 Tim Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing like reading a reasoned argument ... then ignoring it and harping > on about a statistic eh Nick? > Let's take a good look at his record this season. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist Volame vsechny Cechy _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist Volame vsechny Cechy
