You pick yourself up and go again. Bad start, but missing three first teamers from the start today. Fell apart for a ten fifteen minute spell and it cost us.
Thought Klich was good in the first half, but the change in midfield was a poor one.
comment by Jaz63 (U8369)
posted 5 minutes ago
Very disappointing result after a pretty good first half. The quality of their play in the second just blew us away - we have been schooled yet again.
Yes we missed Llorente and Phillips, but several others who were on the pitch today went missing too.
Oh well, on to next week then...
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Agreed Jaz…we bounced back from 6-2 last season and we’ll bounce back again and win a fair few this season.
comment by Real Estate - Estemos Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by The Very Rev Wilko (U21072)
posted 18 minutes ago
Real were all behind the team but also realists - this 3 points is way over the hill
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I think we all gathered that part…simple question is, was there a better plan MB could or should have implemented?
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Signed some players within the last 6 weeks. Said it hundreds of times, this square pegging *****cks needs to stop. 3 out of position and players like Roberts and Costa as the best on the bench.
It’s how easy we made it for them that’s so dispiriting about this. They’re generally nervy at home and we just put it on a platter for them to fill them full of confidence.
Think if anyone had any doubts about whether we have cover for Phillips in the squad, they had it confirmed. Lasting image is of fernandes trotting free and untouched across the park with Koch casting a lonely figure in the distance.
Early days, though, we saw similar last season, no panic necessary.
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 3 minutes ago
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
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Kinnear even said there is money
Yes it is our first game and we were without two or three key regulars but today has certainly brought us all crashing down to earth.
If we repeat last season we will have done remarkably well. Very shocked by this result I did not expect another thrashing.
Everton has got to be where we get at least a point otherwise when you start badly in this league it's a long hard slog to keep out the bottom 6.
Who are these 3 players who would have made a difference? Wake up,we overachieved last season this season will be totally different.
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
At end of last season all the talk was 3 signings needed d. Quality left back, no 8 and a winger and we kick on. Hopefully we have got one of those sorted. The window has not closed but a gradual feeling of watering down and dampening expectations on that front and you watch today and feel those requirements are every bit still the same.
comment by 🎤Mike drop🎤 (U15513)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 3 minutes ago
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
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Kinnear even said there is money
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Pretty sure that Kinnear said we were not going to sign anybody else in midweek, money isn't an issue but it looks unlikely we are going to strengthen. https://www.thesquareball.net/blog/angus-kinnear-tsb-podcast-elland-road-60000/
I notice Lowfields is back. We only hear from him when we lose! He just relishes it!
We were outplayed today. We all know we’d have been better with Phillips in the team. I wonder why Maguire and Shaw were fit to play for MU but Phillips wasn’t fit to play for us? I was expecting Bielsa to bring him on for the second half. We may have had a better scoreline if that had happened. Ah, well, we will no doubt be bottom of the table tonight, so the only way is up (hopefully we won’t do a Sheff Utd),
Why the panic after one game against a team who’s squad cost £680m vs our £120m?
On paper we lose this game 9 times out of 10.
We know we are better than we showed today and we know Man U will be up the top end of the table in May next year.
It hurts but as long as we react we will soon forget these 3 points.
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 19 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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We can’t use what excuse? The fact they are better than us and most of Prem/Europe or the fact their 25 man squad cost £680m (pre Varanasi I think) and ours £120m?
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 6 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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Naturally they would be able to cover absentees better than us, when they have spent so much on their squad. James is the only player in their starting XI who wouldn't start for us imo
Absolutely Lubo. But add our 3 absentees and I bet
we'd still be on the end of a defeat. Probably. At best,
we could've scraped a point. I doubt that though.
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
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Thought that was going to be Rodrigo.
He's just not playing the same game as the rest of the team at the moment. He may as well not have been on the pitch today.
I wonder what the problem is with him? It's as though his head's gone as well as his energy levels.
If we had him at 100% we'd have our Hernandez replacement.
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
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Thought that was going to be Rodrigo.
He's just not playing the same game as the rest of the team at the moment. He may as well not have been on the pitch today.
I wonder what the problem is with him? It's as though his head's gone as well as his energy levels.
If we had him at 100% we'd have our Hernandez replacement.
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Who knows? Maybe just a bad day at the office?
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 6 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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Naturally they would be able to cover absentees better than us, when they have spent so much on their squad. James is the only player in their starting XI who wouldn't start for us imo
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And 50% of the Leeds fans I was with today want to sign James.
Count me in the other 50%. James is crap.
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Count me in the other 50%. James is crap.
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Bielsa would love him.
Not a James fan. Dodged a bullet there I think - but maybe MB would have made him a better player by now. I see no improvement in him really.
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posted on 14/8/21
You pick yourself up and go again. Bad start, but missing three first teamers from the start today. Fell apart for a ten fifteen minute spell and it cost us.
Thought Klich was good in the first half, but the change in midfield was a poor one.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Jaz63 (U8369)
posted 5 minutes ago
Very disappointing result after a pretty good first half. The quality of their play in the second just blew us away - we have been schooled yet again.
Yes we missed Llorente and Phillips, but several others who were on the pitch today went missing too.
Oh well, on to next week then...
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Agreed Jaz…we bounced back from 6-2 last season and we’ll bounce back again and win a fair few this season.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Real Estate - Estemos Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by The Very Rev Wilko (U21072)
posted 18 minutes ago
Real were all behind the team but also realists - this 3 points is way over the hill
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I think we all gathered that part…simple question is, was there a better plan MB could or should have implemented?
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Signed some players within the last 6 weeks. Said it hundreds of times, this square pegging *****cks needs to stop. 3 out of position and players like Roberts and Costa as the best on the bench.
posted on 14/8/21
It’s how easy we made it for them that’s so dispiriting about this. They’re generally nervy at home and we just put it on a platter for them to fill them full of confidence.
Think if anyone had any doubts about whether we have cover for Phillips in the squad, they had it confirmed. Lasting image is of fernandes trotting free and untouched across the park with Koch casting a lonely figure in the distance.
Early days, though, we saw similar last season, no panic necessary.
posted on 14/8/21
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 3 minutes ago
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
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Kinnear even said there is money
posted on 14/8/21
Yes it is our first game and we were without two or three key regulars but today has certainly brought us all crashing down to earth.
If we repeat last season we will have done remarkably well. Very shocked by this result I did not expect another thrashing.
Everton has got to be where we get at least a point otherwise when you start badly in this league it's a long hard slog to keep out the bottom 6.
posted on 14/8/21
Who are these 3 players who would have made a difference? Wake up,we overachieved last season this season will be totally different.
posted on 14/8/21
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
posted on 14/8/21
At end of last season all the talk was 3 signings needed d. Quality left back, no 8 and a winger and we kick on. Hopefully we have got one of those sorted. The window has not closed but a gradual feeling of watering down and dampening expectations on that front and you watch today and feel those requirements are every bit still the same.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by 🎤Mike drop🎤 (U15513)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 3 minutes ago
If the money isn't there to be spent then we can't spend it. Simple. If any fans should understand that it should be Leeds fans.
Would you want us to sell Raph or Phillips to fund us bringing in the new players you're crying for?
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Kinnear even said there is money
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Pretty sure that Kinnear said we were not going to sign anybody else in midweek, money isn't an issue but it looks unlikely we are going to strengthen. https://www.thesquareball.net/blog/angus-kinnear-tsb-podcast-elland-road-60000/
posted on 14/8/21
I notice Lowfields is back. We only hear from him when we lose! He just relishes it!
We were outplayed today. We all know we’d have been better with Phillips in the team. I wonder why Maguire and Shaw were fit to play for MU but Phillips wasn’t fit to play for us? I was expecting Bielsa to bring him on for the second half. We may have had a better scoreline if that had happened. Ah, well, we will no doubt be bottom of the table tonight, so the only way is up (hopefully we won’t do a Sheff Utd),
posted on 14/8/21
Why the panic after one game against a team who’s squad cost £680m vs our £120m?
On paper we lose this game 9 times out of 10.
We know we are better than we showed today and we know Man U will be up the top end of the table in May next year.
It hurts but as long as we react we will soon forget these 3 points.
posted on 14/8/21
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 19 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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We can’t use what excuse? The fact they are better than us and most of Prem/Europe or the fact their 25 man squad cost £680m (pre Varanasi I think) and ours £120m?
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 6 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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Naturally they would be able to cover absentees better than us, when they have spent so much on their squad. James is the only player in their starting XI who wouldn't start for us imo
posted on 14/8/21
Absolutely Lubo. But add our 3 absentees and I bet
we'd still be on the end of a defeat. Probably. At best,
we could've scraped a point. I doubt that though.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
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Thought that was going to be Rodrigo.
He's just not playing the same game as the rest of the team at the moment. He may as well not have been on the pitch today.
I wonder what the problem is with him? It's as though his head's gone as well as his energy levels.
If we had him at 100% we'd have our Hernandez replacement.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
One player would change this team
One quality cm player.
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Thought that was going to be Rodrigo.
He's just not playing the same game as the rest of the team at the moment. He may as well not have been on the pitch today.
I wonder what the problem is with him? It's as though his head's gone as well as his energy levels.
If we had him at 100% we'd have our Hernandez replacement.
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Who knows? Maybe just a bad day at the office?
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 6 minutes ago
I know we were down 3 players today.
But, they didn't have Varane yet, Sancho came off bench. And they had several other injuries to first
teamers. We can't really use that excuse. They are
better than us and the vast majority of the Prem/Europe.
No shame in this defeat.
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Naturally they would be able to cover absentees better than us, when they have spent so much on their squad. James is the only player in their starting XI who wouldn't start for us imo
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And 50% of the Leeds fans I was with today want to sign James.
posted on 14/8/21
Count me in the other 50%. James is crap.
posted on 14/8/21
comment by Kern (U4664)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Count me in the other 50%. James is crap.
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Bielsa would love him.
posted on 15/8/21
Not a James fan. Dodged a bullet there I think - but maybe MB would have made him a better player by now. I see no improvement in him really.
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