Guest shearfox Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 **** taking a draw, leeds are shit and we're top of the cherry pile so say **** them and fist them Agreed! that's the spirit....
Harry - LCFC Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Score 1-1 Vardy Weather: Bright Attendance: 22,359 / 1,064 traveling Nige: Told where to sit by DOF (& enjoying some kumquats) Lead cut to two points. Doubts resurface. You're getting more optimistic. That's the most positive prediction you've made! Not beginning to change our minds are we?
davieG Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Brian McDermott and his United squad are looking firmly ahead towards Saturday’s televised Elland Road clash with table toppers Leicester City (12.15pm). The game represents a return to action for a United side who were on the wrong end of a 6-0 hiding at Sheffield Wednesday last weekend. It was the club’s biggest margin league defeat in over 50 years, and the boss called his players in for an open discussion on Sunday morning. “We were all shell-shocked after a performance and a result like what happened on Saturday,†said the boss. “After the game, we spoke in the dressing room and then brought all the players in for a meeting on Sunday morning. It was an open conversation and anyone could have their say. But after that, you have to move ahead. “You are shell-shocked but you can’t be for too long. You have to get on with your work and what needs to be done. And what the bigger picture is for Leeds United. “The meeting was very productive. I also spoke to the senior players as well. The players had their say, I have always been the same way - they can have their say. I then said what I felt. And I said how I saw things in the future and how things have got to be.†United head towards the weekend without a win in six games, but it’s only a month ago that a 3-0 success at Doncaster proved enough to secure a top-six spot ahead of the Christmas period. “Five or six games ago we were fifth in the league and enjoying form as good as anyone in the country,†said the boss. “Sometimes, football can go like this. “That is why you can never get too down and you can never get too carried away. That goes for now. If you want to, you can get as down as you possibly want. But that is not my character. The only thing we can do now is move on to the next game. “We need to be prepared and get back to basics, and we need to get back to what we have to do and work harder than the opposition." Having gone from being denied all three points by a late deflected goal at Blackpool on Boxing Day, United lurched to successive league defeats at the hands of Nottingham Forest and Blackburn before suffering embarrassing reverses at Rochdale and Sheffield Wednesday. “You never think you have all the answers,†said the boss. “You look and analyse everything. You can’t say you have the answers once you see what happens on the pitch. We can only speak about having the answers if we get the right result against Leicester. “Our home form has been really, really good. Every team coming to Elland Road have had a tough game. That can’t be any different on Saturday. Or in any of the 21 games we have got coming up because, obviously, what happened on Saturday can never happen again. “I am focused on what needs to be done.†- See more at: http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/m7w5om5ngev110d96m6yf7m1j/title/determined-boss-moves-on?#sthash.V1jLIbie.dpuf
One Legged Beaver Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Gut feeling as this is going to be a banana skin, and I have quite a large gut! Having said that I still wouldn't take the draw as we are top of the league and proved we are capable of beating anyone in this division.
MGLCFC Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 They were very difficult to break down at the beginning of the season and whilst they are at home, I think they'll deploy the same spoiling tactics they did in our first match together this season. I'm hoping a couple goals either side of half time will close the game.
AnotherShitSeason Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 You're getting more optimistic. That's the most positive prediction you've made! Not beginning to change our minds are we? Admin have me cable tied to a chair in Bert's basement. Davie G attaching electrodes to my gonads. I'm forced to communicate semi-positive thoughts only via one of Stephen Hawking's old cast off touch screen tablets. They're wearing me down Harry! It's like the shock therapy scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest here.
MC Prussian Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Admin have me cable tied to a chair in Bert's basement. Davie G attaching electrodes to my gonads. I'm forced to communicate semi-positive thoughts only via one of Stephen Hawking's old cast off touch screen tablets. They're wearing me down Harry! It's like the shock therapy scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest here. Hello, Daggers. How's life down in the cellar these days?
Fox92 Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 So they've had a meeting have they? Great. We all know what happens after a meeting on fm...
Finnaldo Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Admin have me cable tied to a chair in Bert's basement. Davie G attaching electrodes to my gonads. I'm forced to communicate semi-positive thoughts only via one of Stephen Hawking's old cast off touch screen tablets. They're wearing me down Harry! It's like the shock therapy scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest here. If there's such a thing as a good troll, it's you ASS. Good, controlled, well executed banter. 10/10 on the kingfox banter scale.
AnotherShitSeason Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 If there's such a thing as a good troll, it's you ASS. Good, controlled, well executed banter. 10/10 on the kingfox banter scale. Except I don't dance around the room singing along to Rebecca Ferguson CD's.
kingfox Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 If there's such a thing as a good troll, it's you ASS. Good, controlled, well executed banter. 10/10 on the kingfox banter scale. I'd give him a 9.8, but then I'm picky.
kingfox Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 Except I don't dance around the room singing along to Rebecca Ferguson CD's. Rebecca Ferguson isn't the type of music to Dance around to. 1D on the other hand...
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 I'm worried about this game, too much hype after the Derby game. Same thing happened after the Watford games and Milwall 3 nil win.
Russell sprout Posted 14 January 2014 Posted 14 January 2014 It's weird that as the form team most would take a draw,yet Leeds fans at best would take a draw and hope the don't lose by a ridiculous margin like last week!we should be feeling untouchable and with the confidence we have we can beat anyone anywhere in this league! For those of you saying you would takes a draw, Will you also be moaning come sat night that burnley are within 2 points and qpr 3 points of us if they both win and we draw,then will come the 'it's gonna be like last season' rant, Only time and are result will tell!
Crinklyfox Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 Leeds will be afraid of losing. They had their fans on their backs after the Rochdale defeat at those that watched the Wednesday thrashing weren't too impressed either. If we can get on top early on their supporters will give them stick and whatever confidence they've built up since last week will start to drain away. If that happens we've got a good chance of winning. This is a tough league, we have to take the points against the poorer teams, and that includes out-of-form decent sides. I'd be disappointed with a draw because I believe that we can win this one.
Langston Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 Is there anybody in the Leeds team we should fear? still can't find anyone! You're odd.
justfoxes Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 I'm going for a 1-3 Leicester dyer Vardy and would be great if mahrez gets a go he scores on his debut !!
Dan Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 To be fair they can try the same spoiling tactics all they want - if we pass and move as well as we did on Friday we'll hammer any defence in this league.
Guest Col city fan Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 To be fair they can try the same spoiling tactics all they want - if we pass and move as well as we did on Friday we'll hammer any defence in this league. I commend your optimism Dan but dont expect that level of performance week in week out. We were fantastic. However, as well as we played, so Derby played right into our hands. Their two young centre backs (yes, including fans favourite Keane) were woeful on the night. They both looked like kids in a mans game and were hugely out of their depth. Leeds, I think, will be more solid and harder to break down. I say with all sincerity, a draw should be seen as a good result on Saturday.
Dan Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 I commend your optimism Dan but dont expect that level of performance week in week out. We were fantastic. However, as well as we played, so Derby played right into our hands. Their two young centre backs (yes, including fans favourite Keane) were woeful on the night. They both looked like kids in a mans game and were hugely out of their depth. Leeds, I think, will be more solid and harder to break down. I say with all sincerity, a draw should be seen as a good result on Saturday. Keane proved again to me that he really isn't all that defensively. His 'efforts' for our second were awful and sort of re-iterated what I thought on him. I'm completely with you that we won't play like that every week. I think Derby are very much a poorer version of ourselves - they'll try and outplay you rather than stop you playing and they're simply not as good at it. I think that's why they flop here every season because it was the same under Clough (although I think we hit a totally new level on Friday). Leeds will try to stop us playing, I agree, but I still think if we really go at them (and I think we will) we're more than capable of winning the game. I wouldn't see a draw as a good result. Not a very bad one, but one I'd be very indifferent to - especially considering QPR & Burnley won there this year and they weren't in nearly the kind of disarray they're in at the minute. If he sets up with a 3-4-3 again (I doubt it) then we will hit our biggest away victory in years.
Sharpe's Fox Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 Leeds will just spoil and spoil and try to get a shitty goal from a set play. Worst thing is I think they will do it. 1-0 Leeds.
Socks Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 think well lose this one 2-1 just got this feeling
TrentFox Posted 15 January 2014 Posted 15 January 2014 Leeds will be afraid of losing. They had their fans on their backs after the Rochdale defeat at those that watched the Wednesday thrashing weren't too impressed either. If we can get on top early on their supporters will give them stick and whatever confidence they've built up since last week will start to drain away. If that happens we've got a good chance of winning. This is a tough league, we have to take the points against the poorer teams, and that includes out-of-form decent sides. I'd be disappointed with a draw because I believe that we can win this one. That could just as easily work the other way - early Leeds goal, confidence starts sapping through their veins, egged on by jubilant and vociferous support to 'do' the league-leaders ...... confidence is a fickle thing.
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