Boro please John.

There used to be a saying about strikers in football that you have to ' get in where out hurts '.

Well we currently now seem to rely on Bogle and Firpo doing that whilst our main striker hovers around the edge of the box waiting for the ball to fall kindly to him.

Tricky though cos as we saw with the cup performances we were disjointed with change. So if we'd made changes for the league matches and then maybe lost a few more matches then we might be in a better shape physically etc but looking up at our challengers and not down. I'm not against rotation and ...

I was convinced Willy would make this impact. I was thinking about Gnonto to play from the beginning. If Gruev had played, I may have done. Because we had two ballers in midfield I wanted Brenden Aaronson to run about. I was thinking though he didn't convince too much in no.10 , he is learning more ...

That was pleasant surprise But then he said he didn't think Willy did that well. "Didn't convince too much in 10" he said. Fully expect Aaronson back in Farke is quoted on BBC Sport as saying this about Gnonto " I was convinced Willy would make and impact " and " the feeling is he's playing more ...

Yes because at one point it looked like he had learned lessons. But recently he's gone backwards. Well he's learned another one today and that's that making changes earlier can help the team. Farke is human like all of us and makes plenty of mistakes as do the the players. Our job as fans is ...

Personally I'd give Farke credit today for realising that a half time substitution was necessary and then making the change. As far as I can remember he's not done that before in a league match.

Cjay wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 10:17 pm Had he used his squad better all the players would be match sharp and used to the system.

DF has caused this situation himself.

And yet if I'm not mistaken you praised him not that long ago for learning the lessons of last season and utilising the squad better.

Ellandback1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 7:17 pm We've got 10 first team players going out on Internationals. How can that be a good thing?

All our international players will get a break from Leeds United and the promotion push which is definitely a good thing with the pressure starting to build before the final run in.

Burnley are now just 2 points and a 10 goal difference away from the summit and the bookies reduce them to 7.5 as outright winners. Burnley look like they are ready for the Frankel finish. The Leeds front line had better take their chances sooner, rather than later and the defence needs to organise ...

With Ramazani always coming on to play on the left and Gnonto playing as a ten do we even have a replacement for Dan James at the moment ?

Oh and 2 more 12-30 KO's in our next 4 games.

We haven't even made it the 40 game mark yet though.

It's after then that the season really starts according to Farke.

The Subhuman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:41 pm I'm expecting around 100 points should be enough for both.

And now...

Are you still expecting a further 20 points from our 8 remaining games ?

Why do we do that? Meslier starts booting the ball upfield, which invariably comes back to us, as we rarely win a header up top. It's as if we lose all our composure. The only explanation is mentally succumbing to a pressurised situation. At the exact time we needed our calm methodical play we did ...

Burnley are the draw specialists in this league and they are sitting third... can you compute that with your statement. This season, they have recorded 15 draws in the Championship. That's the reason they were 3rd and 4 points behind us before KO today. More wins and they would have been top ...

Meslier 6
Bogle 7.5
Firpo 8
Rodon 6
Struijk 4
Tanaka 5
Rothwell 6
James 6
Aaronson 4
Solomon 7.5
Piroe 6

Gnonto 7.5
Ramazani 6

Firpo
Solomon
Bogle
Gnonto

Think that's it this week...

Rothwell
Piroe

If we have to name 6 but they don't deserve it as Piroe was fairly anonymous and Rothwell took terrible set pieces all game.

Have to agree with many that Dan James should have been subbed off instead of Solomon and 20 minutes earlier. Not sure why Farke couldn't see that it was a day for good technique on the ball, as showed by Solomon and Gnonto, whereas DJ struggled in that respect.

That is as knee jerk as those who assumed that we were definitely getting promoted after beating Sunderland and the blunts. We have only lost one of those games, home form is still very good. We rarely turn promotion into a parade. Personally I think it's a fair assessment given our points average ...