Wake up call...

[Corky]

We were going to lose at some point, and we deserved it today. Millwall weren't fantastic, but they were efficient. They got a good goal and then shut us out. We lacked ideas and our fluency that has been evident so far this season, and we never looked like equalising in the last 20 minutes.

Anyway, I won't get dejected. We weren't going to go through the season unbeaten, so let's see how we recover next week.

[Benji]

It was actually quite amusing listening to the reaction to any cock-ups today. Pronoiunced if Kingy made a misplaced pass ( he made about five), subdued if it was people like Dyer (lots), Oakley (lots), Gradel (lots of lost possession), Morrison (endless) etc.

You do show though what some of our young players are up against although a good many of the player raters I've read seem to have been to the match I watched.

Making him MOTM? no

[Thracian]

Making him MOTM? no

You could as easily have said giving him a basic 6.5 rating. Any MoM distinction was by default because I don't think anyone was above ordinary today. I was disappointed that he didn't get forward more but otherwise felt his game was marginally more solid than anyone else's. If you disagree I'm sure you'll say so.

[dog_4]

nothing to worry about though, we had no tempo and didn't seem up for it today. Also i think if you add gilbert supporting gradel on the right again because he was only on for 20 mins and mattock doing the same with dyer then you may of seen more chances and something happening.

[syston_fox]

It was actually quite amusing listening to the reaction to any cock-ups today. Pronounced if Kingy made a misplaced pass ( he made about five), subdued if it was people like Dyer (lots), Oakley (lots), Gradel (lots of lost possession), Morrison (endless) etc.

You do show though what some of our young players are up against although a good many of the player raters I've read seem to have been to the match I watched.

and the rest!! Im not saying that the others didn't but take off your rose tinted specs for a moment. King and Oakley both had a mare in centre midfield today. All players have bad days, even your favourites, its just a case of how they respond come next week.

[DanTheFox07]

and the rest!! Im not saying that the others didn't but take off your rose tinted specs for a moment. King and Oakley both had a mare in centre midfield today. All players have bad days, even your favourites, its just a case of how they respond come next week.

Is there anyone else who thinks Wesolowski can feel a little bit hard done by? Don`t get me wrong i rate King very highly but we have to choose the right players for the right games and king is a bit lightweight in compared to wesolowski. Think Pearson should have knew that it would have been a battle against millwall and put him in the centre yesterday that`s in my opinion though. I would like to see wesolowski play a bit more though as at one point this guy was being rated as our top prospect, obviously has had some bad injuries but can`t carry on wrapping him up in cotton wool and leaving him on the bench and also disappointed to see Worley not being involved, got to feel hard done by after already being at the club and then morrison starts every game.

[demon_dog]

We were going to lose at some point, and we deserved it today. Millwall weren't fantastic, but they were efficient. They got a good goal and then shut us out. We lacked ideas and our fluency that has been evident so far this season, and we never looked like equalising in the last 20 minutes.

Anyway, I won't get dejected. We weren't going to go through the season unbeaten, so let's see how we recover next week.

I said before the match that this would not be an easy game, how right I was.

Depends on what you mean by efficient.

Millwall, once they realised after about 15 - 20 mins that they were up against a side that could play good football reverted to, what I would call thuggish tactics. Hit our key players hard in the tackle and put the fear of God into them.

Our young players could not handle this type of game and basically started to bottle it.

Passes started going astray, players releasing the ball far to early for fear of getting clattered.

It didn't help us in the fact that the referee let them get away with these tactics.

Hopefully it's a lesson they have now learned, in future try to give as good as we get, show teams that if they try to bully us, we'll bully them back.

At least losing a game like this early in the season may work to our advantage as we now know what to expect from some teams and respond accordingly.

[hewittinspain]

Most of our fans needed one, now they've got it.

We were never going to walk this league and today's result proves that.

Likely to be out of a play-off place at 5pm and the table won't make pretty reading,

Stevosevic, you talk complete sense.!!!!

I came on here a couple of weeks ago to find that some Leicester fans think this season has been sewn up. Comments to suggest you will piss this league and even my team (Leeds) weren't looking as good. That's because we were in 15th at the time and you were joint top and now we are 4th and you are a couple of places below us.

This league isn't easy. No one has ever 'walked' this league and you found out yesterday that anybody can beat anybody in league one.

Ok it's one loss but you have also had a league draw too so results like this do not suggest to me that you will walk this league.

There is gonna be as few teams this year up there including an extremely strong Leeds now that we have finally settled down so you will need to join the queue if you want automatic promotion.

[Thracian]

and the rest!! Im not saying that the others didn't but take off your rose tinted specs for a moment. King and Oakley both had a mare in centre midfield today. All players have bad days, even your favourites, its just a case of how they respond come next week.

My ratings say nothing about King having a good game. Or anyone else. As someone else mentioned I think King played too deep when we need him to be getting forward.

But he was one of the few who kept trying to retain possession and pass the ball along the ground instead of reverting to wasteful hit and hope balls. If we're going to jump everything to Howard whenever we're under pressure then yesterday's kind of result won't be an isolated one. We have to pass the ball quickly and attack throuigh various chanels.

King is not "my favourite" nor anyone else in today's team. My "favourite" was Davie Gibson and all City's central midfielders put together wouldn't get close to being able to manipulate a ball like he could. Today's guys are just tradesmen rather than craftsmen by comparison.

[Number 6]

I thought we were outdone tactically. Millwall came, roughed us up, played to get a point and managed to put a chance away.

We look uncreative, way too many long balls to Howard, just didn't work. Millwall put two lines of 4 behind the ball and defended solidly. It will be a wake up for some, and it's good that it has come now before too many start thinking we will walk the league. However, I';m not complaining about our start. I would have taken this at the beginning. There is no reason why we can't learn from this and be better for it.

[Corky]

I said before the match that this would not be an easy game, how right I was.

Depends on what you mean by efficient.

Millwall, once they realised after about 15 - 20 mins that they were up against a side that could play good football reverted to, what I would call thuggish tactics. Hit our key players hard in the tackle and put the fear of God into them.

Our young players could not handle this type of game and basically started to bottle it.

Passes started going astray, players releasing the ball far to early for fear of getting clattered.

It didn't help us in the fact that the referee let them get away with these tactics.

Hopefully it's a lesson they have now learned, in future try to give as good as we get, show teams that if they try to bully us, we'll bully them back.

At least losing a game like this early in the season may work to our advantage as we now know what to expect from some teams and respond accordingly.

I meant they got the goal and then tried to stop us playing, hitting us hard and intimidating the younger players. The ref was soft I felt.

[Alexikokopops]

I wish someone had given me a wake up call before the match, that way I probably wouldn't have slept until half 1 and missed it.

[Manwell Pablo]

One loss?

Oh yeah, promotion is out of our reach. <_<

Shut up.

I don't think he ever said it was, I believe he pointed out that we aren't going to walk this league like alot of our fans/pundits/other league one clubs fans thought we would, and yesterdays result is evidence of that.

[Manwell Pablo]

My ratings say nothing about King having a good game. Or anyone else. As someone else mentioned I think King played too deep when we need him to be getting forward.

But he was one of the few who kept trying to retain possession and pass the ball along the ground instead of reverting to wasteful hit and hope balls. If we're going to jump everything to Howard whenever we're under pressure then yesterday's kind of result won't be an isolated one. We have to pass the ball quickly and attack throuigh various chanels.

King is not "my favourite" nor anyone else in today's team. My "favourite" was Davie Gibson Alan Sheehan and all City's central midfielders put together wouldn't get close to being able to manipulate a ball like he could. Today's guys are just tradesmen rather than craftsmen by comparison.

And it seems Leeds are better off with 10 men than with him on the pitch.

[GloverFox]

... I've had to wait until today to post as I was just so disappointed, try as the lads could they just didn't have the ability to deal with a tough hit-and-run team that when one-up simply shut the shop up.

What was most disappointing was I wanted to take my own frustration out on the team, when in hindsight of course they really just went out to lose didn't they? ... glad I delayed posting until now or else the full 'spleen-venting' tosser would have come out!

More importantly will I be at the next game? ... you'd better believe it ..... do I still love City? ... just as much

Lets hope, I'm sure they will; that the lads learn the lesson of the Millwall game, I have (again!) and next game we'll show some solidarity and spirit and grab that winning feeling back .... Come on City !

[hewittinspain]

And it seems Leeds are better off with 10 men than with him on the pitch.

Sheehan has shot himself in the foot cos McAllister's policy is when one door shuts another one opens. There is so much competition for places at Elland Road and he will be immediately replaced by Aiden White another left back who played when we beat Palace the other week. Sheehan will now have to wait until White puts a foot wrong before he gets back in the team. It's not the first time Sheehan has dived in with a two footed challenge and been sent off.

He couldve cost us the game.

[Thracian]

And it seems Leeds are better off with 10 men than with him on the pitch.

They didn't seem much good without him previously - and that includes the play-off final.

As for being a "favourite" far from it. His rash challenges are a serious weakness he has to overcome and Sheehan was only the best of a bunch of left -backs we've had to choose from, mostly because of his outstanding free-kicks which we've so obviously missed.

Going back to the Gibson era he wasn't in the same class as Richie Norman, apart from those free-kicks. Nor people like Peter Rodriques. And I wouldn't want to mention Sheehan in the same breath as Pontus Kaamark.

[hewittinspain]

They didn't seem much good without him previously - and that includes the play-off final.

As for being a "favourite" far from it. His rash challenges are a serious weakness he has to overcome and Sheehan was only the best of a bunch of left -backs we've had to choose from, mostly because of his outstanding free-kicks which we've so obviously missed.

Going back to the Gibson era he wasn't in the same class as Richie Norman, apart from those free-kicks. Nor people like Peter Rodriques. And I wouldn't want to mention Sheehan in the same breath as Pontus Kaamark.

You can gladly take Sheehan back. I know Gary Mac isn't happy with him. In a way im glad he is banned. In my opinion White is really good in that position and at only 16 years old it will be a big test for him. I wouldnt be surprised if we get a long loaner for L/B. Im not sure Gary wants to play him now going by his post match interview.

[The People's Hero]

Sheehan is an appalling defender. We're well shot of him.

[Corky]

You can gladly take Sheehan back. I know Gary Mac isn't happy with him. In a way im glad he is banned. In my opinion White is really good in that position and at only 16 years old it will be a big test for him. I wouldnt be surprised if we get a long loaner for L/B. Im not sure Gary wants to play him now going by his post match interview.

I'm not sure Thrac will listen to this

[lildave3]

You can gladly take Sheehan back. I know Gary Mac isn't happy with him. In a way im glad he is banned. In my opinion White is really good in that position and at only 16 years old it will be a big test for him. I wouldnt be surprised if we get a long loaner for L/B. Im not sure Gary wants to play him now going by his post match interview.

Whatever happened to Parker?

[Alexikokopops]

I'm not sure Thrac will listen to this

I imagine he'll pass it off as just an opinion, and then continue to use opinions to proove other points.

[Flynny]

They didn't seem much good without him previously - and that includes the play-off final.

As for being a "favourite" far from it. His rash challenges are a serious weakness he has to overcome and Sheehan was only the best of a bunch of left -backs we've had to choose from, mostly because of his outstanding free-kicks which we've so obviously missed.

Going back to the Gibson era he wasn't in the same class as Richie Norman, apart from those free-kicks. Nor people like Peter Rodriques. And I wouldn't want to mention Sheehan in the same breath as Pontus Kaamark.

I love that you remember Richie Norman Thrac. He takes recreational and 2nd team football at Wygeston & QE college and helps with the firsts as well. Brilliant, brilliant bloke.

[Ric Flair]

It's only a wake up call to deluded fans, there's no way Pearson will let the players think they'll piss this league and i'm also glad that Leeds have picked up their form. I really want a battle with them this season for promotion. Both teams look strong, but both also look like they are far from the finished article. We have a superior defence than them and i'd say our midfield is equally matched, but with Beckford up top they will always score goals. We have strikers who are scoring, but we also have strikers who have previous for being garbage when things don't go their way. I also think Pearson has a bit more about him than McCallister as a manager, but it's early days for both of them.

It's good to have some sort of rivalry in this league. As soon as the game has finished each week, I want to know exactly what Leeds have done and that's what it's all about.