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I only heard a few bits of the game on the radio, and I'll be honest, It didn't occur to me that Burnley were a premiership team (I follow Leeds, not the premiership). My brain's weird like that. Anyway, having heard how we dealt with the the game, particularly the penalties, it increasingly feels like Leeds have mentally moved onwards and upwards. If we can capitalise on this, then we really do have the potential to be a very strong team indeed. Last year, even at our best we didn't genuinely feel like we could survive a promotion. This year, we just seem to be a cohesive group, almost a different club. I guess that's what happens when players and fans aren't forever worrying about what bizarre thing the owner is going to do next!
Sounds like some really good bits with some meh too. Winning goal was a pure random fluke, goalie stopped a corner and then dropped it! Amazing how lucky you get when you work hard and try hard. In previous years we would have lost this match, never mind drawn it. I'll happily take that though!
Wakefield Trinity stuffed Wigan 32-0, bonus!
ETA: Attendance 34,002 , wonder what it would take to get the capacity back to >40,000
Wakefield Trinity stuffed Wigan 32-0, bonus!
ETA: Attendance 34,002 , wonder what it would take to get the capacity back to >40,000
Edited by Zad on Saturday 23 September 17:48
Odd game. We were all over them until we scored and then we backed off and let them get back into it. We stepped it up again after they equalised. When we made it 3-1 I thought we would go in for the kill but ended up conceding.
We missed Pontus and his aerial presence. Seems he was fit but was being rested for the Cardiff game on Tuesday. That’s the real test for us, annoyingly they won today and Wolves pulled out a winner in stoppage time so the top 3 are all on equal points.
Attendance was good once again. Home end was pretty much sold out. 40k + would require some expansion. The development under Bates resulted in the capacity dropping. Officially the seated capacity is 37,890.
In off the pitch developments it was the first supports advisory board meeting today. I applied and made it through so I sat down with the rest of the members and some of the top brass at the club. Some interesting points were raised and I’m excited to see what the future holds for the club and the fans. It’s nice to have an owner who actually cares what the fanbase think and it was good to meet the main man himself today.
We missed Pontus and his aerial presence. Seems he was fit but was being rested for the Cardiff game on Tuesday. That’s the real test for us, annoyingly they won today and Wolves pulled out a winner in stoppage time so the top 3 are all on equal points.
Attendance was good once again. Home end was pretty much sold out. 40k + would require some expansion. The development under Bates resulted in the capacity dropping. Officially the seated capacity is 37,890.
In off the pitch developments it was the first supports advisory board meeting today. I applied and made it through so I sat down with the rest of the members and some of the top brass at the club. Some interesting points were raised and I’m excited to see what the future holds for the club and the fans. It’s nice to have an owner who actually cares what the fanbase think and it was good to meet the main man himself today.
giblet said:
the Cardiff game on Tuesday. That’s the real test for us,
And disappointingly we came up short! Going down to ten men just on half time obviously didn't help but that's the second away game in a row where we've seemed to lack the intensity of the opposition; hopefully we'll see a positive reaction at Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.... JNW1 said:
giblet said:
the Cardiff game on Tuesday. That’s the real test for us,
And disappointingly we came up short! Going down to ten men just on half time obviously didn't help but that's the second away game in a row where we've seemed to lack the intensity of the opposition; hopefully we'll see a positive reaction at Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.... 
I'm feeling your frustration, I was at the match yesterday. We just seemed very flat, with far too much crossfield passing and back passing. It took us until 85 minutes to use the wings, far too narrow. I would have played Dallas and Alioski from the start with Roofe and Hernandez on the bench. Saiz and Lonegran were both good, the rest too flat. Onwards to the next game!!
MegaCat said:
I'm feeling your frustration, I was at the match yesterday. We just seemed very flat, with far too much crossfield passing and back passing. It took us until 85 minutes to use the wings, far too narrow. I would have played Dallas and Alioski from the start with Roofe and Hernandez on the bench. Saiz and Lonegran were both good, the rest too flat. Onwards to the next game!!
First little test for our manager as that's not just three defeats in a row it's three poor performances as well. Courtesy of our decent start we're still in touch at the right end of the table but it feels like a significant improvement is required, especially given our next couple of games (Bristol City and Sheffield United) are unlikely to be easy. Hopefully Christiansen will figure it out although slightly surprised he apparently said nothing to the team immediately after the Reading match.....
It was great to be at the game, never made it to ER before, so despite the loss (well dodgy goal, Hernandez was fouled - the ref had a mare of a game) it was a great day out. We will get it together again, the squad is good, we are only 4 points off the automatics despite the losses, so after 1/4 of the season we are doing pretty ok #MOT!
MegaCat said:
It was great to be at the game, never made it to ER before, so despite the loss (well dodgy goal, Hernandez was fouled - the ref had a mare of a game) it was a great day out. We will get it together again, the squad is good, we are only 4 points off the automatics despite the losses, so after 1/4 of the season we are doing pretty ok #MOT!
I have seen it where on several occasions when Leeds were f
king awesome for 1/2 a season and if they kept it up they would have broken all records, the team was big enough, etc... Then we imploded and had the worst 2nd half of the season ever.This is not just a one off, its like they get some type of complex that they are better than everyone else, they expect to win, take their foot off the gas and never go back to the form of the start of the season. The worst thing is that all the fans see this, but the players dont and cant understand.
Zad said:
...And breathe!
Phew. Leeds winning AND Man U getting stuffed by our neighbours down the road. Good weekend!
Looking forward to work on Monday. Colleague who's a Man U supporter from Bristol (City rather than a Rovers supporter too).Phew. Leeds winning AND Man U getting stuffed by our neighbours down the road. Good weekend!
Thought we'd started too early with a 4th minute goal but kept at it & got us back on track.
giblet said:
Utter ste tonight. No bottle whatsoever, never in it from the word go.
Yes, no question the better team won; we were a touch more competitive in the second half but on another day it would have been game over at half time. We were also very fortunate to finish the game with eleven players as IMO the challenge by Phillips should have been a straight red card.te tonight. No bottle whatsoever, never in it from the word go. After the evidence of 14 games my view is we'll probably finish top-half but will struggle to make the play-offs and have no chance of an automatic promotion spot.
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