Sean_Nile wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:18 pm
Read various Swansea forums and the prevailing mood is we will thrash them since we are the best team in the league.
The most optimistic are even cautious about thinking the result would be a draw.
Marvin the Paranoid Android in HGTG who is perpetually pessimistic and gloomy is more happy than these Swansea fans... they would give Leeds fans a good run for their money in the doom and gloom stakes
But they have a good reason to be gloomy/miserable -
They're Welsh
YES!! I'm living in SCARBADOS!! Underneath the palm trees!
If we don't win today then I'm sure we wont see the top of the table again before the end of the season. The blunts are just good at winning games regardless of form, and they are on a roll now.
Much as I try to be optimistic, I've been following the fortunes of the club for far too long to ever be complacent. The fact is that since that last minute loss in the 1987 playoff final ( from a winning position ) we have only ever twice got it together at the business end of the season when it comes to getting promotion to the top tier. And often we have not turned up when it really matters - the 2006 ( was it ? ) playoff final, the 2019 collapse against Derby, last season's fall off in form and then not turning up in the playoff final etc.
CHAPELALLMAN wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:31 pm
If we don't win today then I'm sure we wont see the top of the table again before the end of the season. The blunts are just good at winning games regardless of form, and they are on a roll now.
Much as I try to be optimistic, I've been following the fortunes of the club for far too long to ever be complacent. The fact is that since that last minute loss in the 1987 playoff final ( from a winning position ) we have only ever twice got it together at the business end of the season when it comes to getting promotion to the top tier. And often we have not turned up when it really matters - the 2006 ( was it ? ) playoff final, the 2019 collapse against Derby, last season's fall off in form and then not turning up in the playoff final etc.
Are you Welsh?
YES!! I'm living in SCARBADOS!! Underneath the palm trees!
whiteinfrance wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:36 pm
Are you Welsh?
Nope - born, bred and buttered in Leeds actually. I have followed this club since the height of the Revie era, and that includes the shock loss to Sunderland in the 1973 FA Cup and being robbed of the European Cup in Paris in 1975.....
And since the Revie era we have had the 1981 relegation, nearly being relegated the following season after winning the top tier title under Wilko, the club ending up in the third tier and going into administration just 6 years after having been in two European semis (including a Champion's League semi) and then getting relegated again just a couple of seasons after finishing 9th in our first season back in the top tier. Oh, and then 6 out of 6 failures in the playoffs is it ?
So that's why I refuse to ever get complacent - whenever things seem to be going really well things tend to happen to Leeds United....
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Ellandback1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:35 am
Looks like Bamford will be back on the bench today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant, losing him last season at this point cost us.
' "Football is about the people and the players,” he said. “Then there are those who will mingle in the middle: the coaches, executives and journalists. That last group represents the worst part about football" Marcelo Bielsa
CHAPELALLMAN wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:46 pm
Nope - born, bred and buttered in Leeds actually. I have followed this club since the height of the Revie era, and that includes the shock loss to Sunderland in the 1973 FA Cup and being robbed of the European Cup in Paris in 1975.....
And since the Revie era we have had the 1981 relegation, nearly being relegated the following season after winning the top tier title under Wilko, the club ending up in the third tier and going into administration just 6 years after having been in two European semis (including a Champion's League semi) and then getting relegated again just a couple of seasons after finishing 9th in our first season back in the top tier. Oh, and then 6 out of 6 failures in the playoffs is it ?
So that's why I refuse to ever get complacent - whenever things seem to be going really well things tend to happen to Leeds United....
You're a newby then
My first game was in 1958
YES!! I'm living in SCARBADOS!! Underneath the palm trees!
Charmed life starts and we have Amps back alongside Rothwell in the middle.
Gnonto on the bench, is that because we are bare bones or because he is playable??
' "Football is about the people and the players,” he said. “Then there are those who will mingle in the middle: the coaches, executives and journalists. That last group represents the worst part about football" Marcelo Bielsa
