Millwall v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Post match reaction

[SG90]

Harrison at least delivers some good crosses, by their nature they;re never 100% guaranteed to come to anything..Thought he delivered two poor crosses today and there was the assist..Bamford has had zero end product for a while now and it doesn't look like changing

the 6-8 M on Bamford and 165 M for Costa, comfortably our two most expensive signings in year looks like money wasted. We're better bringing through the youth ranks and getting the best out of journeymen footballers. We should stick to what we know best.

Edmondson must be getting close to that first team squad

And comes down to Orta once again, add Barry Douglas too. That's what happens when you sign players because they "know the league" rather than ones who fit the style. We need a proper scouting department, not "Championship players".

Cellino got a lot of hate for his recruitment, yet players like Antenucci, Wood, Jansson would walk into the starting XI.

[Norm]

faaip wrote:

Maybe we should start Alio as the striker ..

Seems like we could do worse!

[BGwhite]

Haven't seen the game nor did I want to and I'm very pleased I didn't after reading everyone's comments. This season will be no different from last season, how can it be ? We have basically the same players bar 3, White who has been superb all season and 2 others - 1 who has just started playing from the start only because Pablo is injured and the other who keeps the bench warm most of the time. We play the same way every game with the same players....der.. i think I could put out a team to nullify Leeds . The players will not get better so why would we expect anything different, MB doesn't expect it , he said so after Charlton. Is Bamford in the team to score goals or to hold the ball up while the midfielders catch up, I've almost forgot as its been so long since he scored. The own goal against WBA only masked over some huge cracks in the team the main one being that there is a huge lack of goals in our squad and this will cost us promotion and possibly a play off place. PB has to give way to Eddie now to see if our fortune will change otherwise MB can stick to his tried and tested but the result will be just the same.

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[Norm]

I feel for guys like Leon and Rich who go to every game they can, only to be rewarded with refereeing errors.
I'd love to be over there going to every game, yet conversely I'm sometimes glad I'm 3 and a half thousand miles away.

[leedsalex]

Regardless of the poor ref's decision Berardi is an awful player and i wouldn't like to see him wearing a Leeds shirt again.
Never rated him and never will. He shold play any other sport (maybe Rugby ) but not football. Thats my opinion of course

[The Subhuman]

I liked Cellino, I think Orta is a very good scouter of potential, I'm glad we have him. As a football club we've never done well making big money signings, no idea why, maybe big money signings never see us as a place they'll end up but merely a stepping stone.

[Norm]

One of the tightest Championships I remember, only 4 points between the top 11

[Irish Ian]

who was it wrote last week Harrison would be a great defender?

I agree, some of the challenges he made were very good, his passing through the midfield in the second half when he moved to the right was good, but you know what I am going to say next.

So I dont need to say it really. We all know where he needs to improve..

But overall we were again victims of dodgy defending and even dodgier refereeing. WE looked awful beforethe pen and for the rest of the half were in disarray.

Barra should win his appeal but it doesn't change the fact it cost us a point. But one shot on target is relegation form.

Sorry guys Bielsaball isnt working in this highly physical league.

It is only October and we have lost three games.

[SG90]

One of the tightest Championships I remember, only 4 points between the top 11

It just shows how poor it is. And yet we still won't go up.

[Irish Ian]

I am dreading reading how the Millwall caretaker manager masterminded our downfall.

[BGwhite]

And never will...poor players, corrupt refs and efl will see that we don't.

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[White Riot]

I must admit that we put a shift in after a couple of awful ref decisions.

But I'm finding it bollocks watching this every week.

Its huffing and puffing and 90 minutes of foreplay, with no penetration, and then the milkman/plumber strolls in puts down his milk/spanners and shows us how its done.

I don't see us making the play-offs, never mind autos.

We needed a Dwight Gayle/Neil Maupay to convert the possesion into points, but Radz, Kinnear and Orta didn't wanna take the chance.

MB will walk when its obvious we've no chance of making the play-offs, we'll then see KP and White off to the prem and we'll be stuck with the guys on long contracts who have failed year in and year out: Casilla, Cooper, Bamford, Berardi, Ayling, Douglas, Dallas (even though he's done well so far this year) and the jewel in the crown Costa.

I sincerely hope I'm miles wide of the mark and will be happy to admit I've been talking rubbish if they get us promoted.

As I've said many times before - over to you MB and company, I'm all eyes and ears

[Irish Ian]

I must admit that we put a shift in after a couple of awful ref decisions.

But I'm finding it bollocks watching this every week.

Its huffing and puffing and 90 minutes of foreplay, with no penetration, and then the milkman/plumber strolls in puts down his milk/spanners and shows us how its done.

I don't see us making the play-offs, never mind autos.

We needed a Dwight Gayle/Neil Maupay to convert the possesion into points, but Radz, Kinnear and Orta didn't wanna take the chance.

MB will walk when its obvious we've no chance of making the play-offs, we'll then see KP and White off to the prem and we'll be stuck with the guys on long contracts who have failed year in and year out: Casilla, Cooper, Bamford, Berardi, Ayling, Douglas, Dallas (even though he's done well so far this year) and the jewel in the crown Costa.

I sincerely hope I'm miles wide of the mark and will be happy to admit I've been talking rubbish if they get us promoted.

As I've said many times before - over to you MB and company, I'm all eyes and ears

Interestingly Klichs nickname before he came to Leeds was the Penetrator.

Maybe he is suffering from performance anxiety.

[White Riot]

Interestingly Klichs nickname before he came to Leeds was the Penetrator.

Maybe he is suffering from performance anxiety.

Well he was when he missed that penalty against Derby

I can put up with us not getting a result in a match like todya's where the ref robbed us.

But we've had opportunities to take 3 points from every other match this season and didn't take them.

Not good enough. All these poor teams manage to take their one chance and stay resolute and focused in defence, we don't.

[SG90]

This club needs to shake off its loser mentality and get some winners in if we want to go up. I thought Bielsa was a winner, but I guess not. We reward players for failure. Last year we bottle promotion and instead of a clear out, it's lavish new contracts on much bigger wages for not doing anything to deserve it. At the end of the day we still failed and that isn't something to celebrate. If we think it is, then we will never get promoted.

[YorkshireSquare]

Different reasons each time though, which is why the negative generalisations don't really apply imo.

Same two reasons every time;

• Don't create enough quality chances
• Don't convert enough of the chances we get

We are move defensive this season Forshaw and Shack sitting deeper than Klich did and Klich less attacking than Saiz, Roberts and co. It's working in the sense that we are not giving the oposition many chances but it means we don't break forward through the middle in quite the same way as we did last season. With Roofe gone too we are relying on Bamford being clinical, he isn't.

[Ellandback1]

We need the services of a specialist set piece coach

Bielsa MUST have a plan B - a different formation - We have been found out.

The team needs rotating.

The opposition knows how we are going to set up shop

[whiteswan]

Sorry for this post. All the 'slate the negative posters' will be out in force. I said pre season when Bielsa signed on for this season that nothing had changed.....and it hasn't. We simply are not good enough. I've been reading all the posts from today.....most of you are spot on!

[whiteswan]

Haven't seen the game nor did I want to and I'm very pleased I didn't after reading everyone's comments. This season will be no different from last season, how can it be ? We have basically the same players bar 3, White who has been superb all season and 2 others - 1 who has just started playing from the start only because Pablo is injured and the other who keeps the bench warm most of the time. We play the same way every game with the same players....der.. i think I could put out a team to nullify Leeds . The players will not get better so why would we expect anything different, MB doesn't expect it , he said so after Charlton. Is Bamford in the team to score goals or to hold the ball up while the midfielders catch up, I've almost forgot as its been so long since he scored. The own goal against WBA only masked over some huge cracks in the team the main one being that there is a huge lack of goals in our squad and this will cost us promotion and possibly a play off place. PB has to give way to Eddie now to see if our fortune will change otherwise MB can stick to his tried and tested but the result will be just the same.

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Absolutely spot on BG

[whiteswan]

Down to our lowest matchday position ever under MB, 5th.

Most defeats out of the top 7.

Its not good enough, no excuses for it imo.

Indeed Cjay