WALMOT Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Irish Leeds United fan praises player's 'lily' gesture A Leeds United player has laid flowers at the statue of Elland Road hero Billy Bremner in memory of a fan who died recently: Charlie Costelloe/Barry Douglas Defender Barry Douglas was contacted on social media by Charlie Costelloe, a Dublin-based Leeds fan whose dad, Cormac, had died a short time ago. Mr Costelloe had recently bought an engraved stone by the statue for his dad, and he asked Douglas if anyone from the club would lay a lily on the stone to remember him. Douglas told Mr Costelloe he would "see to it personally" and later in the day he kept to his word. Writing on Twitter, Mr Costelloe said the player was "an absolute credit to the club":https://twitter.com/1Charlie14/status/1 ... s-45208508 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
List_of_Jericho Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Bit concerned about the lack of decent centre backs. Ayling is needed at wing back and looked pretty dodgy in there on Tuesday night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALMOT Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Pontus back today and has been outstanding. Leeds 2-0 up at half time with goals from Klich and Alioski. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, G_Man1985 said: Another win. Douglas got promoted with wolves. Same again with Leeds? Very early days, long season in this league, lots of twists and turns to come. Edited August 25, 2018 by repeat_offender 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Just now, G_Man1985 said: 1 minute ago, repeat_offender said: Very early days, long season in this league lot's of twists and turns to come. Correct but looking awfy good Years of watching Leeds conditions us to expect the worse, playing some great football in the games so far no denying that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALMOT Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 MB post match press conference:- First question on how emphatic the win was We needed the individual performance of Alioski, Phillips and Douglas. The performance of Jansson was very positive. We should be satisfied about how we dominated the game. We suffered a little bit on the set-pieces against us. We could have conceded a goal that would have complicated the game, but generally speaking the development of the game was a satisfaction. Our team played always with the same style. We never conceded moments to the opponent. What the opponent got was not because we made concessions. Impressed with late desire to keep a clean sheet? To extend the way you play during the longest time possible is the goal of any team, is a goal for any team. How will he manage expectations? We’ll manage the expectations in the same way we did before. We only played 10 per cent of the Championship and it is not convenient to draw any conclusion. Response of Kalvin Phillips after early change on Tuesday It’s the first thing I said. The performances of Phillips and Alioski were among the best ones. Douglas is a necessary help for us. The performance of Jansson was good too. The other players could keep the level they already had. Could he enjoy the quality of the goals? Of course I’m happy about the results, but usually I don’t celebrate the goals. Delighted with the progress the team's making? It’s not about humility, it’s about respect for my colleague, the head coach, who is just 10 metres away from me. At the same time, if a head coach celebrates a goal it’s not a mistake either, I don’t think that. Is he seeing game-by-game improvement? Against Swansea the team didn’t have the same performance. The performance against Swansea decreased, but today it increased. Severity of Hernandez's injury? I couldn’t tell you. It’s obvious that Hernandez has been very important for our team. He is the player who has the best regularity and he’s the player with the biggest influence in the control of the games. He’s a very intelligent player. Importance of Hernandez's maturity It’s an expression of his experience. He’s a complete player from every point of view. There is a difference between experience and decisions. You have players with a lot of experience, but a lack of lucidity when it comes to making decisions. Pablo reads the needs of the team and he gives solutions to all the problems of the team and in each sector of the field. Can Hernandez improve under Bielsa? I think he can make me a better head coach because I see solutions in the decisions he is taking. That I only saw a very few times during my career. I maybe saw this in players who play in different positions, in the middle of the pitch, but to have such an influence when you play on the side and having an influence in the front, in the middle and in the back. His style is not something that wakens in the rival the desire to neutralise him because he always intervenes making the actions more fluid because he has an influence, he intervenes in very small spaces and he makes the action, the play of his team-mates a lot more easier. It’s really a player that improves his team-mates. He makes his team-mates better and he gives solutions to actions very complicated and he puts his team-mates in better situations. He is a real silent leader. He always takes the responsibility for the difficult things and he makes it easier for his team-mates to play. He does all of this without speaking. Pleased the goals are making the most of dominant play? It’s not necessary I give my point of view. I’d rather the fans, the analysts give their point of view. The content of the actions are accessible for anyone. Transfer window? I wouldn’t’ tell you because I’m not sure of anything in this moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALMOT Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United: a myth being assembled in real timePaul MacInnesArgentinian manager has taken Yorkshire side to the top of the Championship with thrilling football and eccentric methods There is no greater story in English football right now than Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United. You could argue there’s nothing better in British sport full stop. Other teams, other individuals – Jimmy Anderson, Dina Asher-Smith, Harry the Hornet – may be pushing the limits of their performance, creating headlines, drawing the eye, but the Argentinian has gone further. In West Yorkshire, there is the live sense of a myth being assembled in real time, of a period that will linger in collective memory. The myth is made of more than just good football, but could not exist without it. Leeds United sit top of the Championship table, leading by goal difference from Middlesbrough, their opponents this Friday night. The 14 goals Leeds have scored in five league games have, almost without exception, been corkers: from Kemar Roofe’s dribble and finish against Derby; to Pablo Hernández’s late equaliser on the break against Swansea; and even the scrambled opener against Rotherham, finished with a diving header by Luke Ayling. Leeds made rather light work of Norwich City at Carrow Road on Saturday. Brave on the ball, always looking to progress up the pitch and playing with their head coach’s trademark intensity, Bielsa’s Whites beat the Canaries 3-0. Ezgjan Alioski scored the pick of the goals, advancing on to a cute flick from Roofe to fire low inside the near post. Afterwards, the Macedonian winger revealed some of the gruelling work Bielsa had put the squad through in pre-season. He spoke of 12-hour shifts and players being prevented from returning home at night. Such demands can make a difference on the field (though they also raise the prospect of burnout at a later stage in the season) and Bielsa is not alone in making them. The extent to which his players comply with his demands is what’s unusual. Alioski went on to illustrate another aspect of his manager’s character that might help explain why this was the case. Before the match Norwich were revealed to have painted their away dressing room ‘deep pink’, a colour the club understood to lower testosterone levels. After the Canaries’ cunning plan became public everyone ventured an opinion on it, including Bielsa, whose response was to ruminate on the nature of desire (“Men can’t say that women are not a source of stimulation”), before dismissing the whole wheeze out of hand (“you don’t have any colour that has the capacity to weaken the desire for competition”). Saturday’s result bore Bielsa out but, according to Alioski, that was not the end of the matter. After the game the Leeds manager insisted his squad clean the pink dressing room from top to toe. “He wants to change this mentality – that we are clean,” Alioski said. “After the game you can see how clean it is inside the dressing room. And the coach helps also. It’s really a respect he wants. It’s not only football, it’s also how the person is outside. None of the players have ever worked like this before.”Mateusz Klich, left, celebrates with Kemar Roofe after giving Leeds the lead at Norwich. Not just a mark of respect but a sophisticated rebuke to sneaky hosts, this is the stuff of which myths are made. Bielsa’s eccentricity may never have been hidden. In his first job as manager of Newell’s Old Boys he signed a young Mauricio Pochettino after visiting his home to inspect his legs as he slept. But such moments seem to be coming thick and fast since Bielsa moved to Leeds. In his first remarks on joining, Bielsa declared them a better club than he deserved. Since then there has been the demands for cleanliness, the eight-minute digressions about the one time he disappointed Hernán Crespo, the selfies with fans at petrol stations and street corners; something new almost every day. And that’s without even mentioning the bucket. Bielsa has taken to sitting on a plastic tub during home matches. He claims it gives him a better vantage point, because the dugouts at Elland Road are below pitch level. Nobody quite believes him, though, and whenever Bielsa holds a press conference he is peppered with questions about the bucket. It has acquired such a totemic status that, before the last home match against Rotherham, fans crowded to get pictures of the bucket. The Millers’ manager, Paul Warne, even confessed it had got inside his head, leaving him uncertain as to whether to stand or sit himself. It’s almost like Bielsa is doing all this on purpose. That his idiosyncrasies are not accidental but part of a process that intrigues others, from players to fans, and slowly binds them towards him. Without the football this would not be very effective. But with the football, with Leeds playing better than they have for years, it all acquires a magical lustre. Some Leeds supporters are already tired of it – they feel the patronising gaze of the football hipster (and the media) descending on their team once more after a decade in the wilderness. But most are just happy and, yes, intrigued (and even the grumpiness has a wry quality to it). Bielsa is an eccentric and his methods rarely bring much in the way of silverware. But he knows how to build a myth. The ride won’t last forever, and it may fail to deliver on its promise, but Leeds fans seem unlikely to forget their time in the company of El Loco. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 A new Leeds fan eh ... -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 They'll finish 3rd and lose the play-off final. Absolute NAP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 51 minutes ago, TheScarf said: They'll finish 3rd and lose the play-off final. Absolute NAP. We can look forward to Walmot’s silence. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALMOT Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, TheScarf said: They'll finish 3rd and lose the play-off final. Absolute NAP. In true Leeds fashion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALMOT Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Here we go again:- Leeds United v Brentford Fixture date: Saturday 6th October 2018 New kick-off time: 12:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: Elland Road Leeds United v Nottingham Forest Fixture date: Saturday 27th October New kick-off time: 5:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: Elland Road Wigan Athletic v Leeds United New fixture date: Sunday 4th November New kick-off time: 1:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: DW Stadium West Bromwich Albion v Leeds United Fixture date: Saturday 10th November New kick-off time: 5:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: The Hawthorns 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 5 hours ago, WALMOT said: Here we go again:- Leeds United v Brentford Fixture date: Saturday 6th October 2018 New kick-off time: 12:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: Elland Road Leeds United v Nottingham Forest Fixture date: Saturday 27th October New kick-off time: 5:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: Elland Road Wigan Athletic v Leeds United New fixture date: Sunday 4th November New kick-off time: 1:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: DW Stadium West Bromwich Albion v Leeds United Fixture date: Saturday 10th November New kick-off time: 5:30pm, live on Sky Sports Venue: The Hawthorns Will let you see them Wilmot . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Rab has to be the biggest Leeds fan on here. The amount of posts on this thread is staggering. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 5 hours ago, JakeSAFC said: Rab has to be the biggest Leeds fan on here. The amount of posts on this thread is staggering. Right enough I’ve probably seen them the most ... -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 On 02/09/2018 at 09:02, Rab B Nesbit said: Right enough I’ve probably seen them the most ... If you're willing to place a bet on that I'm happy to oblige you, we can let one of the mods on the site adjudicate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 10 minutes ago, repeat_offender said: If you're willing to place a bet on that I'm happy to oblige you, we can let one of the mods on the site adjudicate. Fond of a trip to Elland Road offy ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 15 minutes ago, Rab B Nesbit said: Fond of a trip to Elland Road offy ? I've seen my share of ups and downs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 10 minutes ago, repeat_offender said: I've seen my share of ups and downs. This is the place for the ups ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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