oxford blue Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26784548 Despite the assurances of the chairman, I can see them going into administration. Losing £1m a month and no-one to pay wages, seems quite likely. If that happens this season, they may not have sufficient cushion to stay in the Championship. And then players would leave. Can't say I'd be too disappointed to see them drop down a division or two.
Lamby Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 Need them to get minus 10 points asap, means they'll be catchable.
LCFC FOX Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 They will probably start on minus ten next season. They could easily be the next Plymouth/Portsmouth. I know not many people like Leeds but I don't mind them. One team who actually takes decent numbers to games.
Strokes Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 Need them to get minus 10 points asap, means they'll be catchable.You lot will go the same way.
Lamby Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 You lot will go the same way. I highly doubt that. And your reasoning behind that is?
Leicester1884Filbert Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 I highly doubt that. And your reasoning behind that is? now Charlton have sacked Chrissy P i have no reason to hope they stay up, some of their fans are right knobs as well.
Lamby Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 I'm not even fussed if we get relegated. We might win more games, cheaper tickets and some new grounds to visit.
Strokes Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 I highly doubt that. And your reasoning behind that is?You are just a feeder club, a poor little begging and borrowing outfit. Your owners don't care much about your fate and will cut losses leaving you in dire straights. I could be wrong, but I can't see it being a sucessful model and nor do I hope it is.
Donut Posted 28 March 2014 Posted 28 March 2014 Need them to get minus 10 points asap, means they'll be catchable. Hoping a team goes into administration as a way of staying up, how desperate I'm not even fussed if we get relegated. We might win more games, cheaper tickets and some new grounds to visit. Yeah right. Thats like having a kickabout with kids to make yourself look good. Youll be a league 1 club and whichever way up you look at it, thats crap.
LanguedocFox Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 How the fvck has a thread about Leeds turned into a kicking for Lamby? I'll save him pointing it out, but Charlton have been in the Premier League more recently than we have, and they also finished higher in the Premier League than we did. Just saying, in the interests of balance. On Leeds, part of me feels the same sense of smug satisfaction that I got last weekend when the Rams slapped Florist and wee Billy got the push. But, as with Portsmouth, there's a lesson there for every medium-sized football club that tries to buy the dream. Leeds don't own their own ground or (I think) training facilities, they lose millions, and they've had a succession of dodgy owners. It looks like we are fortunate with the Thais, and like every fan, I hope they stick around for the long term. But like Portsmouth and Leeds, there's nothing stopping them selling City to some dodgy outfit with more front than Sainsbury's, and more mouth than money. I can see Florist and (sorry Lamby) Charlton (among others) going that way, unless the useless pr1cks who run football in the UK do something about it - and soon.
Nick Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 ross will be going for cheap Crystal Palace, QPR and Fulham are considering summer moves for Leeds striker Ross McCormack. Full story: Daily Mail
Strokes Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 How the fvck has a thread about Leeds turned into a kicking for Lamby? I'll save him pointing it out, but Charlton have been in the Premier League more recently than we have, and they also finished higher in the Premier League than we did. Just saying, in the interests of balance. On Leeds, part of me feels the same sense of smug satisfaction that I got last weekend when the Rams slapped Florist and wee Billy got the push. But, as with Portsmouth, there's a lesson there for every medium-sized football club that tries to buy the dream. Leeds don't own their own ground or (I think) training facilities, they lose millions, and they've had a succession of dodgy owners. It looks like we are fortunate with the Thais, and like every fan, I hope they stick around for the long term. But like Portsmouth and Leeds, there's nothing stopping them selling City to some dodgy outfit with more front than Sainsbury's, and more mouth than money. I can see Florist and (sorry Lamby) Charlton (among others) going that way, unless the useless pr1cks who run football in the UK do something about it - and soon. I dont have a problem with lamby, in fact quite the opposite. I was just pointing out that charlton current situation isnt that disimilar. Im not a fan of theirs or watfords business models and i hope to god it doesnt catch on.
Stadt Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 Leeds aren't a medium size club, even if they were relegated they'd be back up soon enough.
LanguedocFox Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 Leeds aren't a medium size club, even if they were relegated they'd be back up soon enough. Last time they went down, they spent three seasons in League 1. And with a ground capacity of under 40K, they aren't a big club.
Stadt Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 Last time they went down, they spent three seasons in League 1. And with a ground capacity of under 40K, they aren't a big club.Their ground holds 39,000 and ground size isn't really a a good barometer of a clubs size, based on that logic Newcastle are bigger than Liverpool.I meant more that they wouldn't continue to fall like Pompey and that they'd be up within 3 seasons.
lavrentis Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 Leeds are a massive club. Bigger than Newcastle easily.
Mack Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 And Ken Bates was such a ****..........................?
johnny the fox Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 They have gone down hill since master bates cashed in his chips.. who would of thunk it? tragic for a mega club who lost at home to doncaster today.
Steven Posted 29 March 2014 Posted 29 March 2014 Crystal Palace, QPR and Fulham are considering summer moves for Leeds striker Ross McCormack. Full story: Daily Mail So he is staying in the Championship then?
LanguedocFox Posted 31 March 2014 Posted 31 March 2014 They have gone down hill since master bates cashed in his chips.. who would of thunk it? tragic for a mega club who lost at home to doncaster today. That's the problem, you see. They aren't a mega-club. They are a medium-sized club that's still trading on a purple period in their history that started in the mid-1960s and effectively ended about 30 years later. Try comparing them with for example, Wolves, who no-one would describe as anything other than medium-sized. Wolves were founder-members of the Football League (Leeds didn't exist until 1920), and in the 20 years or so after the Second World War, they were one of the leading clubs in Europe - possibly the world - and bigger, in the context of the time, than Leeds have ever been. Yet in the mid-80s, they were down in the depths of the fourth tier and struggling to survive. And that was before all the Sky money came in to distort the game. My point is that if Leeds don't get some serious money soon - and I mean within the next month or so - they could go into administration, and that could see them relegated. That would make their position even worse and, with no ground and no assets other than a bunch of over-paid players, they would still need serious money to turn it round. Again, compare them with Wolves, who own their own ground, and who are in turn owned by a seriously rich British businessman. I don't particularly like Leeds, but I do feel sorry for their supporters, who've been sold down the river by a succession of ar$eholes from Ridsdale onwards. But they are in trouble, and I don't see an easy way out.
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