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Early season report

2/9/2012

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By Rab Laverty

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So here I am again and I have deliberately waited for a week or so before doing another little report due to the end of the transfer window and until after the Blackburn game.

Firstly on the end of the transfer window, I have been left feeling distinctly under whelmed by the finish of the transfer window. As a club that apparently has premier league aspirations it is a disgrace that Master Bates has failed to back Neil Warnock in his efforts to achieve promotion. Let us not be fooled by the bearded parasites bleatings in the media that he has sanctioned the arrival of 10 or 11 new players to help the promotion effort. These players were signed by an astute manager that has seen what he had to work with, financially, and in my humble opinion for what it’s worth, I am reasonably happy with those dealings.

That being said the only money that old Ebenezer let him use was a small percentage of the money he has brought in by selling our best assets over the last few seasons. Bates will still leave with a very handsome profit from his illicit dealings and his dismemberment of our playing squad. I would imagine that the money brought in for Snodgrass has more than covered the new wages bill for this season. So the question  is, has the dismal end to the transfer window been Ebenezer’s parting gift to a support and a club that he seems to genuinely loathe,  all that remains is for him to pack up and f*#k off into the sunset and hopefully his yacht will sink off the coast of Monaco. I would now envisage, that, now the window has slammed shut that he will sign off whatever deal is on the table, pocket his alleged £50m and leave us to get on with it, leaving our new Arab owners trying to unravel the disaster that he has made of our club. Maybe, and only time will tell, foreign owners will be or maybe not be a good thing for our beloved club but I am convinced that it would not be any worse than the financial mess we will end up in again due to the asset stripping of Captain Birdseye Bates.

Now to our teams early season form. I have to admit to being concerned by our inability to hold onto a lead as in the Blackpool and Blackburn games. Admittedly against Blackpool we got a bit of a lesson on the night from a reasonable team however yesterday v Blackburn at 3-2 we should have been able to close out the game for a vital 3 points and like the past few seasons we may regret throwing away points at the end of games. In saying that I am delighted that we seem to have a front line that I believe, when they really gel, i.e Diouf, then we will blow some teams away in this division. As I said previously when a player pulls on that white shirt we should give them 100% backing and I think all our fans can now see that El Hadji is bringing a real quality to our team and his experience will be vital as long as he maintains his concentration on playing football.

Overall I am quietly satisfied with our start to the season, yes with a bit of better defending we could have been top but I am happy with us to sit in the top group of teams and hopefully Neil can work his apparent valuable footy contacts list and get us a couple of decent players in on loan signings which might give us the edge as the season progresses. There are some good players out there without a team at the minute so I would expect Neil to be in there signing a few up.

The good feeling I have is that we have rebuilt our team and we are sitting pretty in the league without being fully settled, so while saying we must do better I fully expect that in maybe a month or so we will have a pretty decent side playing good footy and scoring goals. Paddy Kenny looks like the best keeper we have had recently and I feel big Pearce, Austin and El Hadji Diouf give us a great backbone to the team which I felt we really lacked the past couple of seasons so onward and upward and I am getting a warm feeling about the next 9 months with my beloved Whites. Keep up the good work Neil. MOT


12 Comments
ron rover
2/9/2012 03:08:31 am

Lets face in the first 40 mins you were awful. No way will that team GET PROMOTION, and as for Warnock to sign Diouff after what he said about him when ever he got on the media 2 faced comes to mind.

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KWard
2/9/2012 03:13:10 am

first 40 mins yes we were awful but in the second half we made a £30million team look cack and dominated them and diouf is quality and dominated the come back he is a quality player and we got him for free should be chuffed obvs not.

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Niko147
2/9/2012 10:22:32 pm

Take that sand out of your fanny da do run ron Respect where its given your man Kean has pulled off some quality signings, we match excelled & beat you scored 4 good goals remember?! Dodgy ref. we stand by Warnock you want Kean out -wtf! Pathetic!! MOT & on & on

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Chas Rover
2/9/2012 03:16:37 am

Lets not forget the part the referee played - yes he was awful for both teams - but his mistakes basically allowed you to overturn a two goal deficit that didn't look likely at the time.

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mick walmsley
2/9/2012 03:37:24 am

leeds had 2 goals disallowed and 2 strong appeals for penalties turned down by a poor referee . i thought that using the elbow to foul a player was supposed to be a straight red card . 5 mins into the 2nd half the referee showed etuhu he had used his elbow to foul varney so he by the rules of the game should have been sent off . rovers got away with murder with pederson and formica throwing themselves on the floor at the slightest touch . if rovers dont get promoted this season with the wages they are paying they just might go into administration .

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Dave ratcliffe
2/9/2012 05:32:20 am

They've got 4years worth of parachute payments to keep them going

Planet Leeds
2/9/2012 04:04:25 am

Rab,

Great piece, I think you have captured the feelings of many white's fans.


Bates, please just take your money and go.

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Mac the White
2/9/2012 04:45:04 am

For the life of me, I can't understand why everyone is surprised that we haven'y bought anyone on the last day. The club has no money. The signings made so far are probably being funded from the bond put down by prospective owners and when the takeover was being reported as collapsed a few weeks ago, Danny Pugh & Robbie Rodgers were immediately put on the transfer list. Uncle Ken is gambling with the club but these middle eastern guys aren't blinking first. It will happen eventually cos KB can't afford for these guys to walk away.

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Bluesman link
3/9/2012 05:55:10 pm

Agreed!! KBis now trying to get some supporters back on the terraces so that he can fund his little projects outside football. Second tier football for first tier ticket prices- good business Ken if you can get it - BUT ticket receipts are down, down, down Ken!!!!

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Brian
2/9/2012 05:01:13 am

Worst ref I've seen for a long time, was our 4th goal offside? I could not see from where I sit

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William
2/9/2012 05:10:09 am

What has happened to Danny Pugh anybody?

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Bluesman link
3/9/2012 05:51:23 pm

Leeds performance should have won them the three points. Keane has no need to bleat about the refereeing. We were very, very unlucky. NW is a real mighty White. NW rules!!

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