Surely the only way you can play for a point is to adopt a defensive formation and drop the creative players? OK, sometimes Grayson rotates them or leaves one out for a rest but I’m not sure you could accuse him of being defensive. Take his substitutions for example – are they not far more often attackers than defenders?

Basically, it depends on the opposition, but Howson was a good choice for me. Gradel meanwhile is very tempremental and very hit and miss. He tries to do too much, too often and when played from the start, doesn’t seem to have the same impact. He’s done well for Leeds, but not sure he’s worthy of a regular first team spot just yet.

That fear has made the team reluctant dare I say it a bit prohibitive in it’s approach to games.

I don’t think any one, two or three players are to blame, you will always get your Championship Manager geeks suggesting so and so should be playing or the formations wrong etc. etc. The fact is our current squad should be good enough to get us out of this league. Whilst we can all have a preference over left midfield McSheffrey, White, Johnson or A.N.Other should all be able to do a good enough job.

He seems to be making out that the rest have to catch up Leeds and have to find points but if Leeds just stick to that game plan then we’ll be alright.

I guess it makes sense, with Norwich and Charlton not in ideal form, but I just think it’s a shift from the previous approach which was to win every game or keep a clean sheet at home. I think the clean sheet idea has gone out of the window.

A bit risky? Maybe? I’m not sure, but it seems that Leeds are more setup from the outset to get points rather than win games. Basically what I’m saying is that in the first game against HT, we were going for the win (but got a point) and this game we were going for a point and that’s what we got.

Hmmmm?

I think the McSheffrey nay-sayers are exactly the same ones who previously vented their frustration (wrongly) on Beckford.

McSheffrey will never get selected up front at the moment because no manager in their right mind can drop Becchio, who’s scoring freely at the moment and Beckford, who’s a proven class act at this level.

Choppers – you reckon Howson’s been poor, but he scored a great goal at the weekend and is your typical ‘fox in the box player’ – he’s good all round – he can head, he can score, he can pass, he can tackle, he can cross and he can do a job in a number of positions. I’d have him on the team sheet personally every week.

I have some sympathy with the comments about some of Snodgrass’ crosses, some of them aren’t always accurate, but the thing is that he’s never afraid to put another cross in even if his last one wasn’t great. I think some of the players would rather bottle it and pass to Snodders rather than take on a cross themselves and at this level, even if you haven’t put in a good cross, it makes a lot of 3rd division defenders poop their pants and that’s where a poacher/scrounger like Beckford gets his chances. For example, if you play route one against a defender like Sean Gregan, then he’ll lap it up all day. Whip a cross in against him (whether on target or not) and he’ll ruin a perfectly good pair of pants.