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Du1point8 said:
Bamford was disappointing with that dive, although I do want to check it again on a replay as first time through I thought there was a slight clip and he overplayed it massively.
If you watch it back, you can see Bamford actually thinks he's going to be booked for diving. The problem is the ref blew for a foul on Bamford rather than the dive. So here you have a situation where the Ref and his assistants have made the wrong decision. Now you can argue that Bamford should have told the ref there were no contact and he lost his footing but then is that really on Bamford to do? The ref and the assistants should have seen there wasn't contact and shouldn't be up to the players to say there were no contact. How many times in the past has a player dived or made a deliberate contact to get a penalty? It is up to the match officials to notice that.
The main thing is that no goal came from it and the match result was correct. QPR offered nothing and didn't deserve a point.
Edited by Ankh87 on Thursday 5th October 15:51
Ankh87 said:
If you watch it back, you can see Bamford actually thinks he's going to be booked for diving. The problem is the ref blew for a foul on Bamford rather than the dive.
So here you have a situation where the Ref and his assistants have made the wrong decision. Now you can argue that Bamford should have told the ref there were no contact and he lost his footing but then is that really on Bamford to do? The ref and the assistants should have seen there wasn't contact and shouldn't be up to the players to say there were no contact. How many times in the past has a player dived or made a deliberate contact to get a penalty? It is up to the match officials to notice that.
The main thing is that no goal came from it and the match result was correct. QPA offered nothing and didn't deserve a point.
To be fair, I think he aimed for the contact but missed!So here you have a situation where the Ref and his assistants have made the wrong decision. Now you can argue that Bamford should have told the ref there were no contact and he lost his footing but then is that really on Bamford to do? The ref and the assistants should have seen there wasn't contact and shouldn't be up to the players to say there were no contact. How many times in the past has a player dived or made a deliberate contact to get a penalty? It is up to the match officials to notice that.
The main thing is that no goal came from it and the match result was correct. QPA offered nothing and didn't deserve a point.
Up to 5th (joint 4th on points). From 12th before the midweek game and looking to be slightly adrift in mid table. yeah, I'll take that. At this point in the year it is going to be close, so any advantage you can get is worth the effort. Maybe Leeds will have a bit more confidence and can build on their experience now.
Only saw the last half hour yesterday (so the best bit from our point of view!) but we looked easily the better team and showed character to come back from 2-0 down. I also thought Farke showed a lot of class after the game in the way he acknowledged the Norwich support as well as that from the Leeds fans; the more I see of him the more I think we made a good choice!
Pieman68 said:
You know for a fact that the dog botherers will be up for their cup final next week!
As always but at ER I can only envisage one result. Same tomorrow, I don't see Stoke causing us too many problems as long as we don't shoot ourselves in the foot again like we did in the first half vs Norwich.DaveyBoyWonder said:
Same tomorrow, I don't see Stoke causing us too many problems as long as we don't shoot ourselves in the foot again like we did in the first half vs Norwich.
Well we're making heavy weather of it - Stoke definitely had the better of that 1st half and so far we haven't really got going. Hopefully Farke's half-time talk will result in a better 2nd half performance....ETA: Not much improvement in the 2nd half and hence no points against a team that's likely to be no better than mid-table at best. And why oh why did we let Bamford to take another penalty? He never looked like he had the confidence to score and sure enough his effort wasn't even close....
Edited by JNW1 on Wednesday 25th October 21:58
edthefed said:
Of the 11 Leeds players on the pitch, Bamford would have been 14th choice of most Leeds fans to take a penalty
After Bamford had been brought down Rutter helped him to his feet and as he did you could see Rutter talking to him; wonder if that was along the lines of "do you want me to take the penalty" to which he got a reply of "no I've got this"?!Embarrassing from start to finish.
Bamford missed his last 3 from 4 penalty kicks.
Should never take another, there is far better and confident players in front of him. In fact, I'd rather the keeper take it and just put his laces through it.
Rondon's face when Bamford misses is like a man who could knock out his own team mate. Don't think there will be much in the way of support for Bamford after this.
Some of the mess around penalties should fall on Farke though. He should be screaming from the sideline and ensuring the right person takes it, not leaving it to the players to decide. There always should be some kind of order for takers.
Massive 3 point lost, Ipswich and Leicester continue to win and the rest of the pack is closing up with around 10 teams all pretty much level.
On to the weekend. Basically a 'not lose' game.
Bamford missed his last 3 from 4 penalty kicks.
Should never take another, there is far better and confident players in front of him. In fact, I'd rather the keeper take it and just put his laces through it.
Rondon's face when Bamford misses is like a man who could knock out his own team mate. Don't think there will be much in the way of support for Bamford after this.
Some of the mess around penalties should fall on Farke though. He should be screaming from the sideline and ensuring the right person takes it, not leaving it to the players to decide. There always should be some kind of order for takers.
Massive 3 point lost, Ipswich and Leicester continue to win and the rest of the pack is closing up with around 10 teams all pretty much level.
On to the weekend. Basically a 'not lose' game.
That first half was much more like it - some really good stuff going forward albeit Huddersfield have been dire so far.....
ETA: A comparatively disappointing second half but in fairness the game was over at the interval. Suspect Leicester will provide a much harder test on Friday!
ETA: A comparatively disappointing second half but in fairness the game was over at the interval. Suspect Leicester will provide a much harder test on Friday!
Edited by JNW1 on Saturday 28th October 15:58
From what I have heard and seen, we do at least have some potential now. Nowhere near good enough for automatic promotion perhaps, but moving in the right direction. Some players not performing well, but other players really gelling and moving up in skill. Fundamentally, it looks like we can actually score goals now. Third feels about right. If we can hang in there and continue to build, we may yet be there for the promotions.
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