 Although the news of Chris Wood's departure brings frustration with Leeds United, it just about brings the same frustration for the players decision.
'Side before self, every time' stands proudly on the East Stand now, an immortal phrase from a hero of our club. Once again the words ring true to fans but retrospectively fall on deaf ears when it comes to the players who claim to be 'proud' of wearing our white shirt. Chris Wood, another snake has found another pit to lie in for the next few seasons and by all means I wish him the best of luck while he sees his career fall down the pan with a club with a very little shelf life in the Premier League. Leeds have stated that they had offered the Kiwi forward fresh terms in line with a three year extension to his current deal prior to the move. It is reported that within the deal the club had agreed to allow Wood to leave on a fee nominal compared to £15million he has now left for. Wood was apparently somewhat unwilling to agree to new terms with Premier League interest hanging over his square head. My frustration doesn't just stand at the fact Leeds have lost their main forward, it stands at the fact that once again we have been the victim of our own success. We have lost another key player to a team no bigger than ours for the simple fact they are currently (but not for long) in a place that we should be in. Losing Wood does affect the club, no matter who states it does not. A striker who provides 30 goals is better in your squad than someone else's. Leeds will have a job on to replace the talisman in such a short time period and make the risk of being overcharged for players due to our recent windfall of cash. Whatever happens, a player who does not feel well equipped enough to pull on that beautiful shirt does not deserve our time of day and therefore the less said the better. Leeds march on as they always have and always will. Without a player who gave so much when it suited, but delivered so little when it came to pride. F*** you Chris Wood. We will pass you at the end of the season and until then, enjoy spending your time with a balding ginger and a left back that couldn't wipe the muck off Berardi's boots. We are Leeds and we are proud. By Ryan Ingham
67 Comments
Dave
21/8/2017 11:35:34 am
Short shelf life ???
John
21/8/2017 11:45:18 am
Couldn't even make play off with his goals.
Dan
21/8/2017 01:35:39 pm
You've signed a second rate striker for first class money, enjoy your underachieving lump of wood while you can, he's not premier material and neither are Burnley. His ambition was to start a premier league game, speaks volumes that.
Tom
23/8/2017 06:15:55 am
"His ambition was to start a premier league game, speaks volumes that."
Ryan Ingham......you are so out of order.
nigel Pearson
21/8/2017 02:29:34 pm
Fuck you prick
Mick
21/8/2017 03:14:52 pm
There not our best 2 players I liked wood but surely even Burnley fans must agree he isn't no top tier striker I would put money to n it he doesn't get into double figures and as for Taylor yep I'm gutted lol
Leedsandwhat
22/8/2017 10:34:33 am
Lol FFS, imagine being a tinpot club fan lurking in a LEEDS UNITED forum!!! I can say I have 100% never been on another clubs website/forum. Lol the salt pouring from you is hilarious, wood is meh, you'd see that from the majority who don't rate him, Taylor could turn out to be decent but if that's the case he'll be bought by a decent club. No offense but any half decent player choosing to play at Burnley atm is doing so for the money!! Such an irrelevant shithole of a club it's laughable. You won't be up there next season, you will be back to sub 10k crowds. Lol I can't get over sad little Burnley fans coming in a Leeds forum 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
joe smoo
21/8/2017 11:46:15 am
Cry me a river 21/8/2017 11:47:47 am
I have no words to express how I'm feeling right now... 21/8/2017 11:49:05 am
Hahahaha you Leeds fans really are funny. No wonder players leave when you show such a lack of class and grace.
MOTJON
21/8/2017 12:02:56 pm
I don't see Wood as a premier league striker, however he has the opportunity to prove me wrong. To Burnley and Huddersfield fans, spend more time supporting your own club and stop knocking Leeds. Savour the PL while you can, laughing at those below means you leave yourselves open to being laughed at when passing them on your way down.
Jb
21/8/2017 02:07:46 pm
Welcome to the biggest shithole in the country enjoy mister wood
David
21/8/2017 11:56:26 am
Typical bitter Leeds. Your 'huge club' has spent less years in the top flight than little old Burnley. You seem to believe that your club has a right to be in the top flight, it doesn't.
Chris Woods
21/8/2017 12:13:33 pm
Sorry to hear you feel this way guys..
chris
21/8/2017 12:22:36 pm
I bet you used his name but you don't know how his surname is spelt 21/8/2017 11:57:53 am
You're right. We shouldn't be in the Premier Leagu and you should. But we are and you aren't so make sure that £15 million is put to good use otherwise you'll be playing Blackburn next season if they avoid relegation.
Joe
21/8/2017 11:59:50 am
I don't know why everyone's moaning about Chris Wood leaving.
chris
21/8/2017 12:19:15 pm
I agree,we can do better now we won two games without him if you include the Port Vale game.we have now a far more creative defense and so Wood's replacement will probably only have to be a tap-in striker
chris
21/8/2017 12:24:50 pm
I meant,we have a far more creative midfield.Alioski,Saiz,Klich with Hernandez of course
bel1882
21/8/2017 03:22:59 pm
Danny Ings on loan!!! More chance of Danny Dyer. Why would anyone want to go to a club that goes through 2 managers every season and is the football equivalent of Fawlty Towers?
Paul
21/8/2017 12:01:55 pm
You lot really are deluded.
Michael
21/8/2017 12:11:28 pm
Victims of your own success? Past 13 years you have been a mid table Championship and League One team, yes.... enjoy that success!
Milksgonebad
21/8/2017 12:16:06 pm
Haha another bitter, sad, pathetic Leeds fan. Face it, Leeds are championship / league one fodder that will never get promoted to the Premier League. Mid table Championship at best for you lot
BB
21/8/2017 12:27:58 pm
Sorry, Leeds can draw 35k+ per week at home in the Prem and over 25k+ per week in the Championship, Burnley maybe 20k as an average in the Prem, far less in the Championship. Its not just past history but pulling power that counts too.
bel1882
21/8/2017 03:26:37 pm
Wow, 35k in the premier league (out of how many people in the city?)... and that is the pure reason it makes you a "bigger club"?
JDC
21/8/2017 12:30:21 pm
Just one question to all the Burnley fans on here ... what the f are you doing on here, other than to gloat and where the f will you be when Sean Dyche is poached, or decides to leave for bigger pickings, in layman's terms, more dosh? He's a good, astute manager who has got you where you are, and Rupert (Red Top) Murdoch's money is the only thing keeping you there.
Brent
21/8/2017 12:31:07 pm
Pathetic article suggesting Leeds deserve to be in the premier league also feeding your moronic fans the type of garbage they come out with when you talk to any of them, horrible club with horrible fans, also very poorly supported considering the size of city and catchment area, thanks for Chris wood, Burnley fan
WHITE4LIFE
21/8/2017 02:48:39 pm
Poorly supported for a city of our size are you blind or just deluded we sell out our away allocation every game. At home we probably pay more than you in prem an we don't get our season tickets off back of a cornflakes box 5 to 650 quid for championship football not prem an you still don't fill your ground. End of the day your clubs no ambition just happy with surviving in 17th place an getting sky's money where as if Leeds were in prem 1st season survival 2nd season mid table 3rd season thereafter challenging for European places an cups that's what our fans would expect not being happy with avoiding drop. We're a club that's won things worth winning an played on biggest stage in club football not some hillbilly town in hotpot land that played equivalent Sunday league football
Dan
21/8/2017 03:04:18 pm
I like the 3 year plan.
Jeff Kamara
21/8/2017 03:08:36 pm
You don't get it you dumb fucker. You've been in that division or below for 13 fucking years. How shit must you be if Sunday league Burnley can get out 3 times in that time. Dumb fucker.
bel1882
21/8/2017 03:28:38 pm
3rd season challenging in Europe!!! Can we book you for our xmas party? Wee need a laugh
WHITE4LIFE
22/8/2017 01:49:46 am
We're you get the 10000 empty seats from 29000 there midweek and over 32000 there for Preston whitout away teams selling anywhere near there allocations what was your average last year 20k ours was nearly 28k still 8k more than you for a team that's been on decline for last 13 year
Dave
22/8/2017 09:30:29 am
So... if you were in the premier league.... lots of big talk about what you expect yet you are still sat in the championship. Your fans expect success, that I understand, so does anyone else, but why, after 13 years of being shit are you not where the fans 'expect'. Surely by your logic you would have won the champions league 9 times in a row since your fans have expected success since your relegation from the prem the first time. Interesting to hear what would happen due to expectation if you got into the prem yet that expectation can't even get you into the championship playoffs and you still have the brass neck to slate the only player who got you even close to a sniff last year. Take his 30 goals away last season and you were relegation fodder! You have a massive city and can't sell out your ground, you charge fortunes to away fans and claim prestige yet if you look at the population to attendance record of Leeds:Leeds united it's pathetic. Yes you travel but surely you should deal with getting home fans in before you wank off over away attendances. Good luck giving it large about going past teams on their way down and chirping about money from sky. Let's not forget, your recent history was based on financial irregularity and I bet your council house that you won't get promoted in the next 5 seasons!
WHITE4LIFE
22/8/2017 12:06:16 pm
Let's put it this way if we were in prem I'd expect us to finish above you every year an wouldn't be happy with being a yoyo club. As for wood yeh he did score a lot of goals for us last season 90 percent of em Stephen hawking could of put away not as if they were neymar or messi like goals he's scored. If he's worth 15mil lee chapman would be worth 50 mil in today's money
Jeff Kamara
21/8/2017 12:36:28 pm
It doesn't matter if the big boys want you there, if sky want you there, or the fucking prime minister. You earn getting there, you earn where you are.
WHITE4LIFE
21/8/2017 02:13:26 pm
All this boils down to is money if Leeds was in prem along with Burnley would these players be going to Burnley to live in that dump I think not. Just two greedy C.U.N.T.S making a quick buck simple as that look at snodgrass an howson they did really well didn't the howson now playing back in championship snodgrass relegated with Norwich jumped ship to cod heads then West Ham an now looks like he's surplus. An his becchio still alive. The all think grass is greener what his he ever gonna win at Burnley f all but he could help Leeds back to prem an be written in Leeds united folklore an be part off the clubs history but I suppose that's the way football is now no loyalty only to the club offering most money
Jeff Kamara
21/8/2017 02:29:32 pm
Yeah, but they're fucking not, and haven't been for a long time. As for Burnley a dump - have you seen Gipton? Seacroft? Harehills? Bramley? Armley? Beeston? Hardly fucking palatial are they?
WHITE4LIFE
22/8/2017 03:04:00 am
Jesus pal not one off them places on there are half as bad as Burnley i.e. Shithole wise rough yes but always have been. Why are Burnley gonna do a Leicester an win prem or even get in Europe this season, ermmm no but there a good chance off Leeds getting promoted is what I'm getting at you thick Lancashire D.I.C.K
Dave
22/8/2017 09:35:31 am
All those players had a better career after jumping ship. Just like Ferdinand and Kewell won the champions league. Get relegated under a cloud of financial bollocks or win the biggest prize going? At least Seth Johnson was loyal to you!
WHITE4LIFE
22/8/2017 11:39:08 am
Yeh kewell was a real success at Liverpool want he never off treatment table another player that jumped ship an couldn't rekindle his form an potential he showed at Leeds turning some of the best teams in Europe inside out i.e. Barcelona milan Madrid an best team in Spain at the time deportivo have your boys ever graced the hallowed turf with some of the best players on planet at the time in Europes top comp? As for rio 30 mil he had to go an woodgate made him look good simple as that
John
21/8/2017 12:48:02 pm
Been a leeds fan since 1970 and have seen it all. I dont agree with the idea that we should slag C Wood off for leaving for a club who are in PL. He is a 25 year old lad who probably has an idea of his talent that is not borne out by the facts. If I were him I would have gone as I might think that the chance may never come again.
Matt
21/8/2017 01:02:12 pm
So basically this article is slagging off Wood because he refused to play for Leeds AFTER Burnley had a bid accepted, and this makes him have a 'Bad attitude'?
John
21/8/2017 01:23:18 pm
We are Leeds United and dont give a f..k.
Mark
21/8/2017 01:40:41 pm
Leeds fan here. What a truly embarrassing article.
Irving08
21/8/2017 02:03:23 pm
I have no criticism to make of Wood's departure: he is of an age when he needs to see for himself if he can cut it in the Premiership. He has been a good player for us and he goes with my (rueful) best wishes. Whether the transfer system should operate in this way is questionable however. As for his destination Burnley strike me as a good club to play for so I have no gripe so that front either. It is up to our owners to prevent the exit of our better players by providing the direction and intelligence needed to get us into the Premier Division.
Bel1882
21/8/2017 03:07:55 pm
There's always one... in your case, there's always one Leeds fan who actually speaks sense in amongst a group of bitter delusional fools. Thank you for actually understanding the way the game is and the ambition of a former player, rather than the usual boring old comments like 'Leeds are biggest club in the world and deserve to win anything' or 'why would anyone leave us'
Jb
21/8/2017 02:05:59 pm
Leeds have fans all over the world Burnley is just some shithole in Lancashire we've followed our team whatever league, where ever we play doesn't matter that's what make Leeds support the envy of the nation.
Dan
21/8/2017 03:06:42 pm
& yet still don't come close to filling your ground?
Bel1882
21/8/2017 03:08:50 pm
Envy of the nation!!!!!! What a tool
Dave
21/8/2017 02:20:14 pm
Burnley fans should stop crowing and keep the following in mind.
Colin
21/8/2017 02:31:07 pm
As a Leeds fan from the 1970's players come and go all the time. Let them go if they want as Leeds will be better off with players who want to play for the club.
Matt
21/8/2017 02:37:18 pm
I am pretty sure that even Chris Wood and the most optimistic Burnley fan does not think he will come anywhere near his 30 goal tally. This is the Premier League, you may remember it from Th'olden days when Leeds last did something of note, other than that is make the rest of the footballing world piss themselves laughing at your demise.
Stephen
21/8/2017 02:51:26 pm
If ur gonna comment be well informed. If not, dont expect any good feedback
AJ
21/8/2017 02:47:13 pm
Well, personally I wish Chris wood all success. Yes he did a good job for us last season. But ultimately that is all he did. HIS JOB. End of the day he's paid to do a job and to be fair to him. Like everyone of us alive. He was offered more money and took it. In the real world he could. Brake his legs tomorrow and his careers over. No income.
Stephen
21/8/2017 02:48:10 pm
Bitterness. As a leeds fan all my life ive seen the good and the bad. Going on about a lad that moves on like that is wrong. Who cares what he says. Its probably half money half playin in the prem. Hes a good championship player and i hope he does well up there. 15 mil? Serious money. Truth be told we coulda got 25. Go forth and conquer. Ill be backin him to score 7 headers a 100s. I certainly hope the money is put back in and ya never know, chris woods leeds legacy could be funding the players to get us back to the place we need to prove we deserve. MOT
Dan
21/8/2017 03:01:49 pm
Gipton? Seacroft? Harehills? All city's have their badlands shitholes that they're not proud of, Burnley is one of Manchesters:-) sheep worriers and hotpotters. Tossers to a man!
Rob the builder
21/8/2017 03:03:36 pm
If i was chris wood i would have been tempted to leave if theres a pl club interested but to leave for burnley will prob bite him in the arse in the next year or so. As for these sloth looking inbread burnley fans, what are you really? Bravo u got a draw against 9 men thats probably ur biggest pl achievement, the place stinks of crap, infested with rats and you eat each others toenails u r absolute morons and ive worked in burnley a few times but only for danger money incase i contract ebola, u have to get bleached and sanitised just to leave its like a constant foot and mouth area. Leeds was a massive club we never stopped showing support and loyalty (unlike u lads that were wearing man u shirts till they made it to prem) we got fucked about and had a bad time for years but we r on the up again, a manager who seems to be top and a chairman who is putting the club before his pocket, anyway back to my point BURNLEY IS A SHITHOLE, BURNLEY IS A SHITHOLE NAH NAH NAH NAH HEY! U scruffy c u n t s
Jeff Kamara
21/8/2017 03:10:34 pm
Get back to your Gipson ghetto. Grey tracky bottoms a guarantee.
Bel1882
21/8/2017 03:19:36 pm
"Leeds was a massive club"
zan
21/8/2017 03:39:02 pm
Burnley can fuck off, so can Chris Wood. Have fun with your bench warming.
Neil ls11
22/8/2017 04:48:48 am
Guys wtf, he's gone, now we can play as a team and radz has a bigger picture and we can and will get back to where we belong, stop your bitching about woods and let's move on.
Chrispy
22/8/2017 05:04:04 am
You Leeds fans are so deluded. Have a look at the PL table. Leeds are NOT in it. Understand? You are just not good enough. UTT.
Shack
22/8/2017 06:27:19 am
Shame Leeds didn't go up with Town last season, we'd have another 6pts guaranteed to add to our current 100% record.
Town fan here and just picked up on this thread. I'm sure the majority of Leeds fans are level headed (most of the ones I know are) but there are some of you who are just too thick to understand where you are now. Because you had a brief spell being a good team in the 1970's and again in the 90's you think you have a divine right to be in the Premier League and qualifying for Europe.
Kris dawson
23/8/2017 03:17:29 pm
Say what you want we are coming and you better watch out new staff new owner new players all the shit has left we are coming for you all Leave a Reply. |
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