Comments on: Leeds scrape draw at home to Brighton as slump continues

By: ramblinjohn

ramblinjohn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:06:10 +0000

says what Mike – spell it out.

I thought McSheffrey played up front that day? Wasn’t there so am I wrong?

By: ramblinjohn

ramblinjohn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:04:34 +0000

Too true, until the last few games Grayson had nearly a 70% win rate in the league which is not just good it effin brilliant by anyone’s standards. He has a bad patch and people are on his back. If we beat Oldham by a couple tonight they can turn things round…

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:36:23 +0000

I’m not sure Mike knows what he wants John. If he wants a manager who can engineer a win in every game even the greatest managers in history wouldn’t be good enough. My guess is that Mike has played too many Football Managers games on his X-box or PC – at least there you have the luxury of not saving the game and replaying each match with different combinations of players and tactics until you win 46 out of 46 – and probably a few cups as well.

By: ramblinjohn

ramblinjohn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:35:27 +0000

So do you want Grayson out then Mike? I thought I’d taken your remarks out of context before? Am I doing that again?

It IS Grayson’s biggest challenge but he turned it round after that Hereford debacle last time and needs to use his loaf to do it again.

I thought the Brighton line-up should have been good – apart from dropping Snod – and certainly good enough. it’s mainly the players: A for effort F for intelligence. That’s what SG needs to sort out.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:59:55 +0000

Shedwhite – I agree it was not a penalty, but it would have taken a very brave ref not to have given it. He doesn’t have the benefit of being able to see it from the stand behind Casper or on the TV. To him, it would have just looked like 2 Leeds defenders bullying and fouling a lone attacker, especially with Naylor’s hands being in the air.
Especially with the refs in this league, I think it’s just one of those where the player was waiting for an opportunity to go down. And you know for definite that if that was Beckford or Becchio, they’d have gone down too and also got a penalty.

Not morally right I guess, but that’s the modern game!

By: Chareose

Chareose — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:24:54 +0000

I think Lubo is very much a confidence player and thats down to the manager to inject into him. Against Spurs at elland road he had a torrid time against some fabulous movement but got a stubborn head on towards the end and for me ended up being our best performer.
He has the ability to be Championship level or even higher lvl defender thats whats so frustrating about him….

By: TheReaper08

TheReaper08 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:16:41 +0000

It isn’t a bizarre preference for Lubo, if you had read some of TSS and my own comments recently you would know this. What we have objected to is Lubo being singled out in games when Naylor has also been quite poor but isn’t subject to the same scrutiny as he is a good old Leeds boy. The fact remains that the defence as a whole has been very porous recently.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:13:25 +0000

How do you put a death wish on someone ‘in the nicest possible way’? Hoping he dies in his sleep rather than from an infectious disease? The mind boggles.

By: Keep This Shed White

Keep This Shed White — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:34:26 +0000

I disagree with Colin. I had a great view of that “penalty” and the bloke fell over his own feet. To blame Naylor, who had a very good game, and who was simply running alongside him is perverse and pandering to TSS’s bizarre preference for Lubo.

Grayson selected the wrong team but for an honest reason, Luciano and Snodgrass are knackered having run themselves into the ground all season.

One other point. McSheffrey is a massive disappointment and will never make a good strike partner for Becks. He’s too short and clearly hates the physical stuff whereas our hero needs a big guy to play off such as Tres or Luciano.

Back to 4 2 2 on Tuesday and three points.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:58:39 +0000

It is quite simple why he changed the team. We have had 6 games in 18 days; snoddy for some reason has an issue with playing back to back games at the moment and Mcsheffrey will have been promised football as part of his contract (Thats why becchio is out). But to put two players who can’t head the ball for shit up front and then play the long ball all game was absolutely ridiculous. Surely Grayson can’t be that stupid.
Mcsheffrey isn’t match fit yet; Beckford was just plain useless; Johnson played like a farm labourer; Kilkenny was one of the most innafectual players on the pitch; Naylor isn’t the player he was last season; Hughes tries hard and is definately better than crowe or bromby at right back, but he still has the turning circle of the Austrian navy and gets beaten almost every time; Kisnorbo, despite improving the defence, still had an off day with many of the headers he challenged for ending up on the chest of glenn murray; Lowry seems to have the ability but only shows it in glimpses. I thought Doyle and Howson were our best players today. Doyle has impressed me over the past few weeks with his largely consistent performances. If we don’t get promoted this season, it will be the first time i do not re purchase a season ticket in a long time. I feel Bates is partly to blame for taking the money we make and doing fuck all with it. People are saying we didn’t buy enough players in the transfer window, but don’t forget Bates still hasn’t forked out for Thorp Arch yet. He makes things as difficult as they possibly can be, and i really hope (i say this in the nicest possible way) he pops his clogs soon.
Sorry TSS for taking over your blog