Eddie Howe + Gemmill's Gleaming Glee Club vs. Ted Lasso's Dirty Leeds

[Craig 6682]

Definitely feels like a loss. Man United will leapfrog us if they win their game in hand. 

[GrahamTaylor5 880]

1 minute ago, trophyshy said:

Howe out. 

It all started when he said Isak was like a new signing. You heard it here first.

[Kid Dynamite 7027]

Our squad isn't good enough to win the league. Liverpool and City's benches put them streets ahead of everyone else. We should be adding one or two first teamera in January and going all out for the league cup and 4th place though 

[wykikitoon 20139]

Like others have said. Feels like a loss. 

 

Longstaff gash and ASM is gone in the summer. 

[Dougle 3329]

[OTF 7295]

2 minutes ago, GrahamTaylor5 said:

That, to me, was down to poor reffing. We couldn't get a flow going. It feels like two points lost which again is a good sign as it shows the expectations we have now. It was also good to see the players react. Not perfect by a long stretch but Chelsea at home last year is still a very vivid memory so I will not be losing too much sleep tonight.

 

Reffing was worse than poor. Didn't even think or consult linesmen or VAR when Schar was brought down in the box, contact was not shoulder to shoulder. Throughout let them foul persistently by not punishing them for it with any first half yellow cards.

 

All that said we still should have had enough to win comfortably. Meslier made a couple of excellent saves for them, but was nowhere near on several chances that we blasted high and or wide.

[OTF 7295]

Just now, Dougle said:

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[RobElliott 1493]

So how did man city end up getting 13 mins extra time?

[Craig 6682]

11 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Our squad isn't good enough to win the league.

 

Does anyone genuinely think otherwise? I mean I know we've got Gloomy and CT being hysterical about it, I'm talking amongst the more sage of our contingent.

[wykikitoon 20139]

1 minute ago, Craig said:

 

Does anyone genuinely think otherwise? I mean I know we've got Gloomy and CT being hysterical about it, I'm talking amongst the more sage of our contingent.

Its going to be 3 seasons imo

[Craig 6682]

1 minute ago, RobElliott said:

So how did man city end up getting 13 mins extra time?

 

Assistant referee had radio-mic issues apparently.

[Craig 6682]

Just now, wykikitoon said:

Its going to be 3 seasons imo

 

Easily. It's a marathon, not a sprint - particularly if we want to sustain our place up at the top and not peak and crash. 

So long as we progress year on year, I'm happy. We are vastly outperforming where we should be and consequently some seem to have allowed their expectations run riot.

[wykikitoon 20139]

Absolutely agree. 

[Dougle 3329]

The Premier League and they can’t employ a referee who knows how to moderate his diet, let alone officiate a football match at the highest level.

What a cunt

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

Disappointing to lose ground when City drew and we had enough chances to win the game.

[trophyshy 7083]

Drop Gemmill tbh. 

[Rosco 759]

Sitting in pub now and slightly subdued atmosphere....... keeping a clean sheet when things dont go to plan is equally important.......Longstaff could have had a hatrick today 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Rosco

[ewerk 30610]

We’re going to have more games like this going forward. For 12 months now teams have underestimated us. Leeds came up to SJP knowing that a point was a good result and played accordingly. There’s more to come and at the moment we don’t have the quality to beat that sort of approach every time.

[RobElliott 1493]

As we get better I think we can expect to see a lot more of this approach from other teams.

 

I guess it's a good learning experience for the team that Eddie can latch onto and use against Arsenal next game.

 

Hopefully in windows to come when we strengthen we will have players who can cope with other teams being dirty beggars

[wykikitoon 20139]

Like commentary said. The mark of top clubs is to pinch winners in scrappy games like that. 

 

Longstaff final choices were poor. But he still grafted back and did the dirty work. But a better player in his place imo would have made a big difference. 

 

 

[Ayatollah Hermione 13866]

I’d pay healthy money to shit in that ref’s bait box. Also pretty sure I saw CT shuffling to his seat, 20 minutes after kick off with a pie. Who knows how many he ate in the concourse?

[ewerk 30610]

3 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I’d pay healthy money to shit in that ref’s bait box. Also pretty sure I saw CT shuffling to his seat, 20 minutes after kick off with a pie. Who knows how many he ate in the concourse?

You can count the evidence, I don’t have the time.

 

[ewerk 30610]

Reading through a Leeds forum match thread and they sound exactly like we used to after fluking a point away to the ‘big six’.

[Craig 6682]

Aside from woeful finishing from Longstaff and Wood doing absolutely nothing of note, my biggest disappointment today was seeing the likes of Bruno, Joe & Wilson biting when Leeds were on the wind up. As you say plenty more teams are going to try that with us.

[Rosco 759]

The sooner we get Izak back playing the better plus a Maddison/Tielemans