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Relegation Battle?

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With a side lacking in Championship experience, an inability to string passes together that come to any sort of even half a chance on goal with no clear cut leader in the camp we're relegation fodder at the minute...

All the talent in the world doesn't make up for a lack of a leader with some physical presence on the field and a defence that looks like it's been cobbled together on the back of a fag packet...

I'm no Mystic Meg... but I can see Redder's subs coming a mile off.... He needs to have a serious reshuffle of the pack, and drop the Diamond that served Hockaday so well... :roll:
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Re: Relegation Battle?

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Regrettably I think so too mate.
Not good enough and looks aren't deceiving.
We don't seem be ,I don't know the correct words but we are average at best.
Why I say this is there's no steady stand out player really for me.At this rate any of last season's midfield could match this present one
Again I hate personalizing but three or four aren't just good enough.We are pies poor at the back and certainly very,very vulnerable.The clock is ticking and no one of course should whatever about thinking, but don't believe that we're too good for that to happen.
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We are in the mire and with no brains, fight or guile I fear it now. Didn't a couple of weeks back but do now for sure. Cellino said he was going to 'drive the bus', lets assume he knows the way to Shrewsbury and Burton.
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I doubt it will be a battle, We are going down
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There is no doubt we are playing very very poor but I still think we will be ok. We need some luck that's for sure. Plenty of time yet.
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A change of formation would do a world of good.
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Velotrax wrote:I doubt it will be a battle, We are going down
Very true. We don't have the fight to make a battle of it.
Bates, GFH, Cellino: Same s**t, different arseholes.
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relegated before the new year..must be some kind of record....
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faaip wrote:relegated before the new year..must be some kind of record....
Yeah faaip listening to some of this lot we may as well throw the towel in now and concede defeat :roll: :bear:
I'm going back to 505, I saw them at Sheffield and they were amazing.
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Come on. It's not like Leeds fans to lose faith halfway through a season?! :roll:
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MOTliam wrote:Come on. It's not like Leeds fans to lose faith halfway through a season?! :roll:
If there is one thing that is a constant, is some Leeds supporters throwing the club/managers/players/owners under the bus whenever they get a bit disgruntled.
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But it's not Redder's formation, is it?

Hockaday played the diamond
Redders Mk 1 played the diamond
Milanic played the diamond
Redders now plays the diamond


Only constant is the hand of MassiMing the Merciless. It's his formation, innit.
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Redders take note:
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,
while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

Austin has been studying the ancient art of war.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness.
Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.
Sun Tzu

Cellino ponders his next move:
Invincibility lies in the defence;
the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu

Silvestri takes a magic marker to his goal keepers gloves and writes
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands.
Sun Tzu

Redders and assistant have a drink at Thorpe Arch while the players loll about on the grass
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations
in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who
loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

Cellino makes players wear purple shirts which are numbered 17a 17b 17c 17d... etc
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts.
Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

Bellusci ponders where to position himself
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Adryan believes pace will solve all problems
Quickness is the essence of the war.
Sun Tzu

The whole teams wonders about who will pay their wages
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy,
they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu
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glory glory leeds united glory glory leeds united glory glory leeds united . as the whites go marching ON ON ON.on on on
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Re: Relegation Battle?

Post by Norm »

The one constant of this and other similar threads is that several posters are saying we're crap but some of those who say we're crap are now accusing others who agree of giving up and saying we're going down.
There has to be at least that possibility, but what are the possible alternatives (duh, like staying up - I get it, I get it!)?
So, I would like to ask the ones who think we really are crap yet don't think we're going to be relegated, what can or should be done to give us the best chance of remaining in the Championship or even blitzing our way up the table with 22 consecutive wins?
MC holds the key to not only the purse strings and the style of play, but also the players' choice for underwear, the national debt, immigration and gay marriage - maybe even the long-term weather forecast.
faaip is the only one who says we won't be relegated but I'd like to join him!
Blind faith maybe but that's my thought.

Happy New Year everyone.
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In Eddie we trust.

I still have faith.
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice...

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I was agreeing with faaip!! I'm in the glass half full camp and always optimistic - we are not going down so there :P :bear:
I'm going back to 505, I saw them at Sheffield and they were amazing.
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becchio bear wrote:I was agreeing with faaip!! I'm in the glass half full camp and always optimistic - we are not going down so there :P :bear:
:tup:
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Well said bb :P :bear:
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A coach out of his depth, players with little championship experience and an owner who apparently is the manager, picking the team and tactics, it's hard to believe, but Redders playing the diamond and still picking Doukara, Austin and Bianchi, it just might be true.

All this equals relegation, something has to change.
When the ball hits the goal, it's not Shearer or Cole, it's ...... Antenucci.
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