Come on Dave - I know you're a glass half full kind of guy but it was shocking. Yes there was spates of nice tippy tappy midfield play, but we're not looking at Iniesta, Xavi etc here. There were also gaping holes through the middle of our defence (step forward Collins and Bromby) time and time again - a fella next to me used the phrase "hot knife through butter". Bessone was dreadful - defensively - frequently only 3 or 4 yards from "his" CHalf Collins while the Bury winger skipped merrily down the line. However, he did look to have nice touch on the ball. The midfield was leaden - Snodgrass utterly uninterested - Johnson utterly incapable (except for heading)- why is one of our tactics still to launch the ball out to the left for Johnson to nod on? Kilkenny invisible for the second half - after a decent first. Howson some nice touches and tackles and some bloody awful ones. Up front - Becchio and Grella - no movement, no control, not a header won - hopeless. Oh how we missed some pace and movement. When we had the ball in midfield, there was nowhere for them to go. Eventually Gradel, White and Somma came on and injected some pace and passion. In truth we know more or less what we'll get with the first 2 of these, Somma, looked interesting enough to persevere with although whether he's a long term answer - time will tell. I don't know whether Paynter's got any pace, but assuming we'll start with him vs Derby then I'd suggest we'd need Gradel or perhaps Somma alongside him...whilst being resigned to the knowledge that we will start with Becchio. Oh...and their pies are rank. Tidy little ground though. Bury? - chuffing weird place. 3 weeks to go and the pre-season hope buried? -------
On 21 July 2010 at 12:47 DAVID NATTAN <david.nat...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Well that was a waste of time and effort for the 1700+ Leeds fans who turned > up in dreadful conditions to watch a performance that was equally dreadful (a > lot of our fans actually left after the second went in!) > The highlights for me were the two songs - first to Kasper "your'e Dads a > c*unt but we quite like you" and the amendment to the Jan 3rd song so it now > goes "Jan the 3rd remember the date, we beat the team that we f*cking hate, > ater that we had a blip but still went up to the Championship". > I like to go to at least one pre season game to get a sneak preview of the new > players - well I was disappointed in many ways. First neither Sam nor Paynter > got on the pitch and Connolly only had the last half hour. As for the other > two Bessone was a liability , being regulary beaten by their winger which led > to the first two goals. As for Schmicheal whilst he has blond hair like his > Dad he has none of his Dads prescence and looks very small for a keeper. His > kicking was good but he was out of position for th first goal, had no chance > with the next two and got nowhere near to saving the last minute penalty. So > the early signs are not good but I do accept it is too soon to judge them. > Somma who is almost a new sigining did look half decent as did both White and > Gradel who both came on late and caused problems with their pace and trickery. > The scoreline could have been vastly different - we hit the woodwork twice > (Snoddy and Johnson) and the keeper made a few good saves, one in particular > was as good a save as he will make all season. Having said that we had a few > narrow escapes in addition to the four goals conceded. > Overall very disappointing and we will need to improve big time if we are to > make any sort of impression in the League > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away _______________________________________________ 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 Leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away
