Does Kinnear need to re-evaluate his B+ transfer window grade

17 Sep 2024 08:01 am, by Ellandback1

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Does Kinnear need to re-evaluate his B+ transfer window grade

During his well rehearsed Summer transfer evaluation on the Square Ball earlier this month, Angus Kinnear awarded the Whites an impressive B+, a game later, we ask whether the ER Chief Executive needs to re-evaluate his grades?

We may have better strength in depth compared to our squad twelve months ago, but failure to replace the game changers, could very well come back to haunt us! Saturdays performance showcased this point brilliantly. The Whites dominated all the stats that mattered bar two - shots on target and goals!

Parking the bus, last minute blocks and goal-line clearances continue to frustrate Farke's men. Failure to land a Emiliano Buendía, Gustavo Hamer or player of that ilk, who can unlock defences could mean they miss out on a top two finish in what looks to be a very average Championship this season.

Most things right about the Burnley performance - Popey

BBC Radio Leeds journalist Adam Pope believes the fans negative reaction to the one-nil defeat to Burnley was not warranted. Speaking on his 'Don’t Go to Bed Just Yet' podcast Popey stated that Leeds performance deserved more, insinuating that the Whites were unlucky not to get anything from Saturday's game. Unfortunately for us long suffering supporters, dominating games, and not winning is nothing new. Whilst we were undoubtedly the better team, we lacked that killer pass or clinical finish. According to Popey.

The meltdown – don’t think is deserved in proportion to the performance, which people are going to hate to hear. “Most things right about that performance. “Things could have changed on a penalty or a missed chance early on and another chance for Gnonto was good too.

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pjm2019 wrote on 18 Sep 2024 09:25 am

BlackHillsPaul wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:25 pm What would your Plan B look like?

Against Burnley who had 3-4 forwards pressing leeds defence we needed to have both full backs 100% defencing and not to pass the half way line. This should of happened with 10 mins of the start. This may sound like a small change BUT it would of made a big difference in how we played and allow us to pick our passes much better. Lost count of how many misplaced passes we made

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John in Louisiana wrote on 18 Sep 2024 01:14 am

BlackHillsPaul wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:59 pm I was actually surprised at how dominating our performance was against Burnley. Coming off an international break with as many players that had traveled I really thought we would struggle. But the fact is we dominated them completely. An untimely slip led to their goal. And we missed a couple of clear cut chances and the referee missed an obvious penalty. Win the next two matches and we maintain our two points per game results. Which in my view will be plenty to get promoted this season. Bottom line it's WAY too early to be concerned.

This.

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Jammy 07 wrote on 17 Sep 2024 10:48 pm

weasel wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:35 pm If Solomon got injured I would imagine Largie would come into the team and then when James is back it might be him. If not then the option would likely be Aaronsen with one of Piroe, AO or Rothwell coming in as the 10. Sometimes results paper over the cracks and other times results aren't earnt from reasonable performances - I made a comparison elsewhere to our performance v Leicester last year at ER where after Leicester scored they really should have scored 2 or 3 more. We then had a magic few minutes and were on cloud 9. That could easily have happened if we'd got an equaliser against Burnley and Burnley were almost non-existent as a threat in the second half in contrast to Leicester.

Like BHP says results like that happen especially in this division. The important thing is to bounce back and win the next couple. Maintain a 2 point per game average and we won't be far away at the end of the season. I don't see any team doing what Leicester and Ipswich did in terms of establishing a big lead in the table - although if anyone was to do so I feel it would be us or Sheff U.

Keeping all, or nearly all our attacking players fit is key for me. In midfield and defensively we can probably get away with having a few missing but we'll need all out talent up top as refreshing the team from the bench in the latter stages of games will be crucial in some of the tighter games.

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Jammy 07 wrote on 17 Sep 2024 10:41 pm

BlackHillsPaul wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:32 pm And that's kind of my point jammy. We just don't know how this team will develop yet. But the first month was a hell of a lot better than last season. And we just manhandled one of our biggest competitors for promotion. We were unfortunate to lose the match. But I'm not unhappy with the way we played.

Once we get into October there's a couple of midweek games coming up as well as having to face Sheff Utd on the Friday evening after the international break so we'll get to see quite quickly how robust or otherwise our squad is.

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weasel wrote on 17 Sep 2024 10:35 pm

Jammy 07 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:20 pm Have to admit Paul that I am concerned and that's mainly because we've made so mnay changes to the squad and if Solomon for example was injured we'd start to look very light in the wide areas with Dan James currently out. However as you say if we can bounce back with a win this weekend I'l start to feel contented again. The odd defeat here and there is absolutely fine but we've yet to see if we're capable of winning consistently.

If Solomon got injured I would imagine Largie would come into the team and then when James is back it might be him. If not then the option would likely be Aaronsen with one of Piroe, AO or Rothwell coming in as the 10. Sometimes results paper over the cracks and other times results aren't earnt from reasonable performances - I made a comparison elsewhere to our performance v Leicester last year at ER where after Leicester scored they really should have scored 2 or 3 more. We then had a magic few minutes and were on cloud 9. That could easily have happened if we'd got an equaliser against Burnley and Burnley were almost non-existent as a threat in the second half in contrast to Leicester.

Like BHP says results like that happen especially in this division. The important thing is to bounce back and win the next couple. Maintain a 2 point per game average and we won't be far away at the end of the season. I don't see any team doing what Leicester and Ipswich did in terms of establishing a big lead in the table - although if anyone was to do so I feel it would be us or Sheff U.

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