Back Steve Evans

Evans has my 100% backing

Lets start with the common sense part.....there cannot be anyone out there who agrees that a policy of continually sacking managers is a good one. Not only is it costly in terms of severance pay it is also hugely disruptive in planning a team to move forwards. It is common sense that after going through managers in rapid succession it is time we stuck by a manager and gave him both time and resources. This is common sense. Nobody can disagree with this. The question remains why should it be Evans?

Football is a results industry. I am not going to talk about Evans interviews. To me they are largely irrelevant. I am interested in results. I think its fair to say after 12 years of hurt i am just grateful if someone can drive the club forwards. I dont agree with everything i hear but i didnt agree with a lot of things previous managers said and more importantly did......Its the "did" word that is important here because actions speak louder than words.

We are all in agreement that we have not had the right people running this club. However, this club HAS invested many millions into the side and has remained stagnant sitting in a lower mid-table position. Yes, we know we have sold players we would have liked to keep and we all want more players brought in but we have invested a lot more than other sides in our league.

Lets look at some of the idiots that have stagnated our club.

Warnock. Now Neil didnt get a lot of cash to spend because he was working under Bates. However, he paid 600k for Peltier!!! A man who swapped Becchio for Morison and said we had got a great deal. A man who sold our best midfielder Clayton for a pittance and who since transferred for £2.5m to Middlesboro. A man who couldnt fit Barkley into his side because he has a midfield duo of Brown and Tonge. He had to scrap around in the market but he was a HUGE FAIL.

Now onto nice guy McDermott. Oh what a nice man he is........well he paid £1m for Scott Wootton. £1m for Luke Murphy and brought us the delights of Noel Hunt and Zaliukas. If that wasnt bad enough he loaned in Cameron Stewart with a 4yr deal guaranteed (later cost 800k to cancel) and Kebe. Nice guy maybe but wasted the first real money we had invested in ages and a HUGE FAIL

Cellino /Salerno. This has been done so many times already. The conclusion is that £11m of McCormack sales was wasted on foreign rubbish. Expensive loans, long contracts for players who barely played. Only Silvestri, Doukara, Berardi, Bellusci, Antenucci and Sloth remain (the latter two sure to be released end of season) HUGE EPIC FAIL

With this policy failing Cellino backed a manager. Rosler spent the most of any manager for over a decade bringing in Wood £3m, Dallas £1.3m, Erwin 400k and loaning in Adeyemi. All the fans cried out for pace - this transfer policy was flawed from the start. Was there a plan? I couldnt see one and nor could Massimo. Results poor and sacked. £5m is an awful lot of money in the championship. Some clubs total teams are built on half of this or less. No improvement and going forwards these are not players to get us promoted. HUGE FAIL.

Now onto Steve Evans who has signed three players so far. General consensus of opinion is that fans like Bridcutt and Diagouraga 600k.Carylol has been injured but has looked a better loan than all other wingers we have loaned bar Gradel. He was also quick to discard Bianchi. So the players are liked but results have not progressed as quickly as one would hope. However there is a plan there. Much like George Graham in 1996, you can see there is a plan albeit a negative one to commence with. We all remember the 4s 5s 6s and even 7s we have conceded in recent years. Total embarrassing defeats. None of the managers mentioned before have really moved the club forwards. Did any of them sort out our defence - no. Did any of them bring in some pace - no. Same issues we have bleated on about for seasons - no penetration and a soft belly.


Leeds United championship points
2010/11 7th with 72 points (gd 81-70) +11
2011/12 14th with 61 points (65-68) -3
2012/13 13th with 61 points (57-66) -9
2013/14 15th with 57 points (59-67) -8
2014/15 15th with 56 points (50-61) -11

Evans record so far is

W6 D8 L6 19-19

Over a season this would average at 60pts 44-44 (0)

The rot has stopped but more importantly defensively we are beginning to look like a playoff side. Evans has a plan and phase one has already commenced. Close season will hopefully allow him the time to address the front-line and we will be ready to challenge the playoffs. Lets not forget Evans has not had our £3m striker for the majority of his time here now and has very limited options upfront. Note also that our only goalscoring midfielder Mowatt has been injured for some time also

Back Steve Evans, our first manager since Grayson to have a plan.