Leeds Utd v Swansea City Match Thread

[JoeDenver]

Rothwell stood out like a sore thumb to me, he was head & shoulders above the rest.

Maybe I was watching a different game.

Reports from other Leeds related sites

Joe Rothwell – 7
Rothwell constantly kept things ticking over in midfield, was accurate with his passes, created several chances for his teammates, and was also brilliant defensively.

8 - Joe Rothwell
Got about a bit and tackled well. Played forward well, taking on a few players at times. Was the best midfielder, linking defence to attack professionally.

Second highest amount of votes on another forum.

Had him as our highest rated player in my rankings (outside of Gnonto). But you’re making me feel bad for not going higher than a 6.5. Maybe that’s me weighing him down because of the poor performances of others.

[JoeDenver]

Gabe on . Perfectly captures the many of us feel right now. Well worth the listen.

[1964white]

Gabe on . Perfectly captures the many of us feel right now. Well worth the listen.

I'm a fan of Brownie.

[1964white]

Had him as our highest rated player in my rankings (outside of Gnonto). But you’re making me feel bad for not going higher than a 6.5. Maybe that’s me weighing him down because of the poor performances of others.

Maybe Joe.

[DDB220]

I'm a fan of Brownie.

Agree, but Connor is click bait. He is the definition of bipolar analysis.

[1964white]

Agree, but Connor is click bait. He is the definition of bipolar analysis.

Without a shadow of doubt.

[DDB220]

Without a shadow of doubt.

Just watched a bit whilst drinking my coffee. Who is this Gabe fella (‘I thought it was Steven Merchant until he started talking). He talks about Swansea’s 2nd equaliser having a statistical chance of going in of 0.3. This is the problem with stats. It does not take into account the nature of the finish. It was rifled in hard and low. Was it saveable, yes. But with that kind of finish was it only going to go in 3 times out of a hundred ? Absolute rubbish.

Another stat merchant, was getting wound up listening to him. Stats are great in a game like baseball as it is very positional with far fewer variables. Not doubting the levels of skill, but football and stats has far more subjectivity.

I am going to move it on to Browny.

[1964white]

Just watched a bit whilst drinking my coffee. Who is this Gabe fella (‘I thought it was Steven Merchant until he started talking). He talks about Swansea’s 2nd equaliser having a statistical chance of going in of 0.3. This is the problem with stats. It does not take into account the nature of the finish. It was rifled in hard and low. Was it saveable, yes. But with that kind of finish was it only going to go in 3 times out of a hundred ? Absolute rubbish.

Another stat merchant, was getting wound up listening to him. Stats are great in a game like baseball as it is very positional with far fewer variables. Not doubting the levels of skill, but football and stats has far more subjectivity.

I am going to move it on to Browny.

Brownie is more of a philosophical Leeds fan.

Also, was on Leeds United books as a young lad. Coached & managed teams too!

[1964white]

This is funny, even though the language is blue.

[1964white]

For those who are not subscribed to LUTV.....

Swansea AFC have uploaded the full match of our game on YouTube.

Here it is folks, if you want to watch the game again.

[1964white]

Wtf was Piroe doing?

He never misses, according to some of our fans.

Thank god for his 16 goals though.

[CUSSIE01]

For those who are not subscribed to LUTV.....

Swansea AFC have uploaded the full match of our game on YouTube.

Here it is folks, if you want to watch the game again.

Excellent, just rewatched the full 35 seconds then turned it off.

[Tom the Cat]

The makings of a wonderful era!

Lots of runner-up medals too.

Never out of the top four, if memory serves me right.

We lost the 1st Division on goal average, as it was then, twice I believe largely as a result of murdering teams 1-0 instead of pushing on for more goals. The best thing that could happen as when we let in an early goal, which was rare, and then we let them have it !!!

[Tom the Cat]

If you consider the advances in modern sport they’ve really never had it so good so I am not prepared to entertain fatigue as an excuse that could easily be used by Burnley or SU. People will obviously point to international duty which is a factor of course but still its a poor excuse imo.

Fatigue !!! These guys do not travel "cattle class" they get the best of everything. Business class for them with fully reclining seats which turn into beds and first class cabin service.

[1964white]

We lost the 1st Division on goal average, as it was then, twice I believe largely as a result of murdering teams 1-0 instead of pushing on for more goals. The best thing that could happen as when we let in an early goal, which was rare, and then we let them have it !!!

Incredible achievement by a young team in our first season in Division One.

[andrewjohnsmith]

A couple of weeks ago he was moaning about players suffering from fatigue after a midweek game and 3 days later picks the same starting eleven, you have the squad to counteract that and do nothing about it then the you are creating the problem

My frustrations exactly. It was about a 60 hour turn around. And he still thinks Gnonto, Ramazani, Byram, Gruev, Joseph are not good enough to start. Contradicts what he said in January about believing his squad was good enough.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Just watched a bit whilst drinking my coffee. Who is this Gabe fella (‘I thought it was Steven Merchant until he started talking). He talks about Swansea’s 2nd equaliser having a statistical chance of going in of 0.3. This is the problem with stats. It does not take into account the nature of the finish. It was rifled in hard and low. Was it saveable, yes. But with that kind of finish was it only going to go in 3 times out of a hundred ? Absolute rubbish.

Another stat merchant, was getting wound up listening to him. Stats are great in a game like baseball as it is very positional with far fewer variables. Not doubting the levels of skill, but football and stats has far more subjectivity.

I am going to move it on to Browny.

3 times out of 10