Including Bamford, despite the miss the other week, don't deserve abuse either on or offline. Don't personally go anywhere near twatter, so just read about it on here on another thread.
These guys brought us, under the coaching of MB, promotion back to the prem league. These were the mid-championship level players who worked damn hard to meet the standards required from Marcelo in order to get us up and keep us here, albeit by skin of our teeth last season. Week in week out in the Prem unfortunately I think they're being found out. But that's not there fault, it's more to do with the management of the club and more recent signings, with maybe a couple of exceptions. In some cases they're not getting any younger, so that's not helping either.
Not one of them, be it Bamford, Coops, Ilian, Luke or any others deserve abuse, they simply don't. None of them laces up there boots to play poorly for the club - they're just up against many of the best players in football, week in week out.
It's the management of the club that is at fault. Period.
Promotion winning players .......
posted on 10/5/23
Agreed. Like post above, we can talk about whether we think players are good enough and the quality of their performances but sending them actual abuse and tagging them in? That’s not being a Leeds supporter in any sense of the word.
I don’t rate Bamford anymore. But it’s not his fault the club have signed a genuine number 9 replacement or competition for him in 4 years. Literally since Kemar Roofe went, we haven’t signed anyone to compete with him.
These promotion heroes should have been phased out into squad players 3 seasons later but the quality of recruitment means we are still relying on them.
posted on 10/5/23
It is rare to find a thread that doesn't have spelling mistakes, typos or grammatical errors. They don't bother me unless they occur in a post that is having a go at me. People look so foolish when they foul-up when criticising others.
posted on 10/5/23
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 6 minutes ago
It is rare to find a thread that doesn't have spelling mistakes, typos or grammatical errors. They don't bother me unless they occur in a post that is having a go at me. People look so foolish when they foul-up when criticising others.
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Especially if they're criticising spelling mistakes.
Why bother? My spellcheck says we misspelt criticising.
posted on 10/5/23
comment by Cloggy (U1250)
posted 8 hours, 12 minutes ago
Can't for the life of me figure out why native English people write there instead of their.
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I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why you left out two vital commas.
posted on 11/5/23
Good post, and I try to be fair, but honestly, Bamford just does my fu©king head in. He brings a lot of criticism on himself with his pompous attitude and if he is getting a king's ransom to play like a twelve year old, he deserves everything he gets. Just once in his life, he could say, 'sorry' I messed up there'. That would take a lot of weight off his shoulders. It will be karma that his miss against Leicester sends us down.
posted on 11/5/23
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 22 hours, 30 minutes ago
comment by Cloggy (U1250)
posted 8 hours, 12 minutes ago
Can't for the life of me figure out why native English people write there instead of their.
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I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why you left out two vital commas.
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and an I?
posted on 11/5/23
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 1 day, 11 hours ago
If the effort is there I can't understand how fans can be so against one of their own.
Makes me cringe this seemingly bipolar behaviour.
Must admit there has been one player I didn't like since Ive been following Leeds and that's saiz. Just didn't like the guy.
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Sadly, the same happens on this forum and some of the insults are senseless.
Almost all of us are lifelong Leeds fans with diverse opinions about almost every topic.
To draw conclusions based in things we don’t know is nonsensical.
The same applies with the players; we don’t know what is happening behind the scenes, or at the club either.
Certainly, the messages that VOF refers to are not going to help the players to focus, leave alone improve,
Try to be in Bamford’s mind when he clicked ‘Delete’ on his account, and what he was thinking.
Mont, regarding Saiz; yes a valid point, but once again, we don’t really know what was going on in his personal life, which made him look like his was on the moon at times and not focussed on the pitch.
posted on 11/5/23
Saiz I suspect Mont disliked for his diving, spitting, card waving, feigning injury and berating of the youngsters if they passed the ball 2 inches away from where he wanted it.
posted on 11/5/23
Completely agree with the OP. All players contributing to promotion should be remembered with fondness. The only exception Casilla!
posted on 12/5/23
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 10 hours, 18 minutes ago
Completely agree with the OP. All players contributing to promotion should be remembered with fondness. The only exception Casilla!
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Aye maybe not Casilla ......