Good Riddance to a Bad Attitude

21/8/2017

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

66 Comments

Dave

21/8/2017 11:35:34 am

Short shelf life ???
Distant memory -When were the mighty Leeds last in the Premier League?
Enjoy another season of underachieving after we have signed your best 2 players

John

21/8/2017 11:45:18 am

Couldn't even make play off with his goals.

Think you need Ridsdale back in to take you back to your glory years...

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."

Not an ambition he'd ever be able to fulfill at Leeds, to be fair

John link

21/8/2017 01:37:39 pm

Ryan Ingham......you are so out of order.
Get the f$&k over yourself.
We had a 1-dimensional system last season with CW as the apex. It worked up to a point.
R15 mill to spend on a squad that needs a more lateral dimension...yep, I'll take that.
The more I see of Radrizzani the more I like

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

Dick Dasterdly link

21/8/2017 11:47:47 am

I have no words to express how I'm feeling right now...

No actually I do. Burnley are Premier League, Leeds are not. Ah well...

James McDonough link

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.

Leeds bigger than Burnley? One more title and the same fa cups from one of the biggest cities in the uk and the biggest one city club in the world.

Both us and Huddersfield have as good a history as you cowboys.

The only thing you have more history than us is recent history outside the top two divisions.

Your stadium is nearly as big as our town. Yet youve won next to nothing.

Welcome to Burnley Chris Wood. Hope you have as much success as the many strikers we have had in our proud history.

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.

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.

Your lack of class as a club, portrayed perfectly in this jealous, bitter article, is akin to the sort of attitude expected of your 'rivals', Chelsea. At least currently, their self importance has a level of justification in terms of achievement, albeit galling.

Leeds has been a joke club for years, jumping from disaster to disaster, poor chairman to lunatic chairman and yet you're still such a 'huge club'.

Per capita, your support ain't all that so why not concentrate on offering your great support (and full credit to your fans for their support) accept, but not like, the position you are in. A modicum of humility would serve many of you well.

Chris Woods

21/8/2017 12:13:33 pm

Sorry to hear you feel this way guys..

Always tough when a good player leaves the club. I get it.. I really do.. You love leeds so much because it helps you forget about your fat wives and miserable lives.

The fans kind of remind me of those bloody Ozzies reckoning their rock is better than our mountains and thinking that their shielas are better than ours.. Fair dinkum is what I say to you all.

Good luck in trying to get into the play offs without me.. Hopefully the money you have had from Burnley will at least allow you to pay for another couple of managers to be sacked this year.

Don't cry into your yorkshire puddings... They are the only thing decent to come out of that county..

Lots of Love, Chris...

chris

21/8/2017 12:22:36 pm

I bet you used his name but you don't know how his surname is spelt

Imploding Turtle link

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.
Yeah he may have scored 30 goals last season,but good strikers create and score their own goals.
How many did Woody score with his own good play.
He dog slow,ok in the air and has an ok right foot.
Leeds will be a better team without him because we will actually start playing as a team instead of hoofing up to Wood to hold up.
We look like we have some really talented individuals Saiz,Alioski,Klich.
Bring in Viera who was class last season.
Defence looks organised with Pontus,Ayling,Beradi and even Cooper looks ok.
Calamity Green can sit on the Bench for a while until he learns how to kick the ball.
I feel sorry for Antonsson as he didn't get a look in.
Spend the money on a Proven Striker.
See if we can get Danny Ings on loan as he won't be playing.

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

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.

A short life in the Premier League it may be for Burnley, but Leeds have no right to be in the top division

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

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.

Ask the big boys, would they rather have Burnley or Leeds in the Prem? Ask Sky even? You might be close to Man U but ask their fans, Burnley or Leeds in the Prem?

Now that is what makes us far, far bigger.

PS I dont have time to troll Burnley sites and post inane comments.

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"?

Who said anything about bigger clubs? Pretty sad that's all you can go off in response to a completely unrelated article

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.

There's an old saying in business ... be careful who you call on your way up, you never know who you'll meet on your way back down.

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

21/8/2017 03:04:18 pm

I like the 3 year plan.
When are mighty Leeds going to plan to try & get out of the championship?

Still 10,000 empty seats?

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.

21/8/2017 03:28:38 pm

3rd season challenging in Europe!!! Can we book you for our xmas party? Wee need a laugh

You mean like your plan went last time you were in the Prem and you went down to league 1?

Fool

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

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!

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

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.

Oooh we get 35k - there's over a fucking million of you in your catchment areas. You've had parts of your ground closed for a decade cos you can't fill it.

Little old Burnley taking Leeds 2 best players........ maybe you should ask the players where they'd rather play, cos that seems more telling.

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

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?

Leeds fucking folklore? Winning the championship? Massive club. Burnley have won the Championship - 2 years ago - you've dossed about in it and below for the last 13 years - THIRTEEN YEARS. And what's he gonna win at Burnley? What's he gonna win at Leeds more likely. Fucking delusional the lot of you.

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

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!

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

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.

I think that Leeds will be a better team with a good alrounder in the front which allows others more involvement. I have seen more movement up front and much more presence in the box these last few games than for years. Monk set the team up to play for Wood and we suffered when that plan fell apart at the end of last season.

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'?
Get over yourselves. How many players would risk a broken leg and jeopardise a move by playing? Also how many Championship players would resist a large pay rise and the chance to play against the best players in some of the best stadiums in the world (Burnley are at Wembley on Sunday)?
Face facts, Burnley are a considerable step up from Leeds on and off the park and your attitude and sense of entitlement is laughable.

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'

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.

21/8/2017 03:06:42 pm

& yet still don't come close to filling your ground?

21/8/2017 03:08:50 pm

Envy of the nation!!!!!! What a tool

21/8/2017 02:20:14 pm

Burnley fans should stop crowing and keep the following in mind.
July 2015, Wood joined Leeds on a 4 year contract - and left halfway through. He has joined Burnley on guess what, a 4 year contract.
He left Leeds because he "wanted to play in the Premiership" - NOT because he wanted to play for Burnley.
Put these two things together and what do you have? The sure knowledge that when Burnley lose the inevitable relegation fight, maybe even as soon as next May, he'll be off again but this time with reputation tarnished having come nowhere near his 30 goal season.
As for the guy who suggested Wood and Taylor were Leeds' best players, you have to surmise he also believes in Santa Claus, the Loch Ness monster, and the Earth being flat.

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.

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.
If Wood does decide to leave after however many seasons, I hope he's scored enough goals to move in an upward trajectory, as the likes of Trippier, Ings, Austin, Keane and countless others have, making us a huge profit in the meantime.
That's how a successful business operates. Maybe your mad as a box of frogs chairman should take note and you wouldn't be where you are (and have been for years).

Stephen

21/8/2017 02:51:26 pm

If ur gonna comment be well informed. If not, dont expect any good feedback

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.

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

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

21/8/2017 03:10:34 pm

Get back to your Gipson ghetto. Grey tracky bottoms a guarantee.

21/8/2017 03:19:36 pm

"Leeds was a massive club"

Exactly. Now march on together back to your mid-table championship sheep shagging utopia, you deluded fool.

p.s. (what's this inbread? Is it something you buy with your benefit money to soak up your Kestrel superstrength?)

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.

As for Wood - good luck to him and Burnley. Confidence player and a goal hanger, but a good one at that. Would not have suited our system of hard work, there was never a chance he'd join us despite the paper talk.

Next to go, Pontus ?

Juicy link

22/8/2017 06:56:46 am

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.

Lets face it, for the last 15 years you have been shit. Town have been shit for the last 45 years but we had a good season last year and earned our place in the PL. Burnley have also earned their place in the PL.

Stop whining about how big a club you are and deserve better. Chris Wood almost single-handedly got you into the playoffs last year but now you slag him off because he wants a shot at the PL! Whatever you say, Burnley at the moment are A BIGGER CLUB THAN YOU as are HTFC!! It may not last, it probably won't, but the shite spoken because a player wants to play at the highest level is unbelievable.

For the genuine Leeds fans, good luck. For the rest of you deluded w*nkers I hope you look forward to your trip to Burton Albion.

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

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