Leeds Utd v Brighton Match Thread - Casilla starts in net as Meslier missing for Leeds

[hector]

I too was in the services, royal navy for me....and yes i was involved in battles, but our skill was in using radar and knowing how to defend the ship and use the guns, not trying to run marathans in 2 hours

Bit of a difference between a Jolly Jack sitting on his arse watching a screen, to running around and trying to dodge rounds flying at you...

A very good friend of mine was an RO on the Herpes during the Falklands and he told me.....

But you cannot over train in fitness.
In fact as has been said on here, a break in the fitness and/or match playing (ie too much time off) removes the edge of the fitness, and I think that is what we are experiencing here.

[1964white]

Tyler Roberts has done okay. Better than Rodrigo anyway

Best performance from Roberts in a long time

[1964white]

Embarrassed ourselves for what? The players haven't benefited from a break, they look worse.

We never do!

Every season our coaches carry out the same procedure.

Rest players
Go out of the cup
Players return lethargic
Lose momentum
We lose our next game or totally under-perform
Confidence is low as we go on a poor run

Why do our managers never learn?

Winning breeds confidence

Now our squad have another semi-holiday for ten days

[Velotrax]

You cannot replicate match fitness, no matter how hard you train

[1964white]

Brighton had 1 win in 10 before today and a ton of injuries.

We lack creativity we lack Prem quality and our system is far less useful at helping hide our lack of quality.

Brighton fully deserved the win and i am concerned.

We arent safe yet and today was dismal.

Even with a a ton of injuries I doubt Brighton played half their team out of their natural positions.

Fed up with all the meddling about, our players are not good enough to be totally effective out of their comfort zone

[1964white]

It may be a radical idea, but can we just sign players and actually play them in their natural positions?

[Velotrax]

Even with a a ton of injuries I doubt Brighton played half their team out of their natural positions.

Fed up with all the meddling about, our players are not good enough to be totally effective out of their comfort zone

Yep, you are right Leon, and who is to blame for that??

[1964white]

Problem is when you've got no creativity, you need players who can create something out of nothing and we took off Rodrigo and Raphinha.

Whom were both woeful

[1964white]

Is it January by any chance?

It is mate, we'll be busy working on signing a player for our star-studded U23's team

[1964white]

Why dont we sign players who suit the system? Isnt that Orta's job?

Costa didnt suit the system.

Llorente is a right cb when we need a left cb to replace Cooper

Rodders is a false 9 which we dont play being shoehorned into a 8/10 position which is the role we needed to sign a player for anyway.

Was excited about Rodrigo but he is definitely the wrong player, if it was a De Paul or a Rodrigoit had to be De Paul.

Why didnt we sign any full backs?

Why didnt we replace Forshaw?

Lack of forward thinking, that's why CJay

[1964white]

Because the club are stupid and delusional. It's obvious some players wouldn't be good enough, you can't be loyal forever.

Forshaw needs to do the decent thing and retire, rather than bleeding us dry. Radz will probably give him a new contract though.

Sentimentality wins you nothing at this level

[1964white]

Never been a good month for us, as it

Never will be mate

As usual I'm expecting nothing significant

[1964white]

A lot of wise words Sara and I agree with a lot of what you've said.

Apart from potential injuries, my biggest concern at the moment is that the state of our pitch is undermining our style of play. That pitch won't be relaid until the summer, so that's a huge concern.

Yes, there are limitations in this squad and unavailability that's hurting us. But I believe that pitch kills us.

Still think we'll be okay and at least we should have decent surfaces to play on away from ER.

I know the squad needs upgraded but that is gonna take time and big money.

Keep the faith folks.

Aways days are generally the best

Majority of the championship hoofers would beat us on that pitch as we only know one way to play

[1964white]

Yep, you are right Leon, and who is to blame for that??

Marcelo got it wrong last week & he's bettered it today with our most inept performance of the season imo!

I enjoyed watching Ben White again Velo, a proper premiership player.

[Peter in Blackpool]

Bit of a difference between a Jolly Jack sitting on his arse watching a screen, to running around and trying to dodge rounds flying at you...

Hector, I am sorry but that is terribly disresptful.

I served on HMS Hermes in the Falklands conflict and I can assure you that having enemy aircraft firing exocet missiles at you is no picnic

I have no idea what you did in the Army, but the RN is not called the Senior Service for nothing, please show some respect to my fallen comrades.

[Peter in Blackpool]

However the board and MB have to be careful, we arent safe yet and we have gone on long 5 6 7 8 9 10 game runs without winning under MB in both of his seasons in charge.

In the PL it will be much more difficult to get out of such a rut, and such a bad run from the bottom half of the table will be much more serious than a bad run starting from second in the championship.

I too am concerned.

I agree that the majority of our players are not PL standard, but it doesnt help with bad deals in the transfer market and playing your players out of position....thats just mismanagement

defeat at Newcastle now will be very serious.

we really do need to start winning games again

[hector]

Hector, I am sorry but that is terribly disresptful.

I served on HMS Hermes in the Falklands conflict and I can assure you that having enemy aircraft firing exocet missiles at you is no picnic

I have no idea what you did in the Army, but the RN is not called the Senior Service for nothing, please show some respect to my fallen comrades.

I have nothing but respect for every fallen member of the Military, and my comment was not disrespectful in any way.
You chose to take offence and take it out of context, and I will not appologise for that.
I was on about fitness and physical training involved during the operation of war, not the actual job or fear factor in the job. Having pulled many of the lads from Galahad out of the sea I know exactly how perilous exocet misiles are, so don't you dare preach to me about disrespect.

[Peter in Blackpool]

I have nothing but respect for every fallen member of the Military, and my comment was not disrespectful in any way.
You chose to take offence and take it out of context, and I will not appologise for that.
I was on about fitness and physical training involved during the operation of war, not the actual job or fear factor in the job. Having pulled many of the lads from Galahad out of the sea I know exactly how perilous exocet misiles are, so don't you dare preach to me about disrespect.

so you think calling my ex ship 'herpes' is respectful?

particularly as she is currently being broken up in an Indian scrapyard

[hector]

that is what my mate called it, so as it came from an ex rating on it, I don't see the harm.

[Peter in Blackpool]

that is what my mate called it, so as it came from an ex rating on it, I don't see the harm.

You dont think its disrespctful to change her name to a sexually transmitted disease?

Can hardly believe that an ex shipmate would use that term

what about changing leeds to weeds? would that not be disrespectful too?