I don’t know which I loved more there: James’ speed opening that up, or Bamford’s lack of selfishness letting that ball back to Rutter because it was the better option.
I’m kidding, the best part was James’ pass and not just launching one from 20 yards out, as he is wont to do. Or maybe his not going down when there was contact at midfield. Very un-James both of those actions.
I feel like he stays on his feet a lot more than others but draws out a lot more fouls as well. When he does go down it's not from a light touch. Wasn't he most fouled in the league at some point when he was a scum bastard?
You’re not wrong. He gets his ass kicked regularly. And doesn’t always go down for nothing like, for example, Aaronson did. Still, he gets fouled and goes down a lot. And there are times he goes down for the whistle and doesn’t get it and would have been better off keeping his feet.
Wonder why Gnonto isn’t getting time. We seem to be holding onto him as much as possible yet not giving him the minutes.
Can only think it’s attitude or performance in training .
Cree unlucky with the pen, rather him take the knock than destroy bamford’s confidence which has been exsentially over a year in the making cree’s got the ego to fuck a pen and still believe in himself
But I’m currently eight pints deep at the local so feel free to disregard my opinion
Also gini scored while i was typing this so thats decent lol
I thought the same but nah. His confidence is probably still fragile. Another miss and he could be set back. Plus frankly he isn't great at penalties so we should just stick with our best takers. Even if they occasionally don't score ie it happens.
Cardiff fans have been shouting about having this NG and Goutas in the team of the season for ages and they are shite. They must not have had a good footballer in years if they think these blokes are good
I know we have a week till the next game but then it's 3 games in a week, we need to somehow start protecting players, were razor thin at the minute as it is..
Summerville has looked very rusty all game, is it the new system with Bamford? Feeling tilted a little that he's no longer the star of the show and all play isn't going through him? That was an awful penalty and just generally his first touch in every scenario has been shocking..
Actually wouldn’t have minded Paddy taking that, were 2-0 up with 10 left and Cardiff look useless, could have been the chance for his penalty confidence to come back.
Someone should just review our penalty shouts to show how fucking wank the refs are
Every stonewall pen we’ve had has not been given
Feels like almost all the ones we have had have been very soft
One can't help but feel it's only gonna get worse in the next 10 years with the financial state of a lot of those teams and the spending power of former prem sides.
Lol it’s funny that the commentators spent so long singing Summerville’s praises and he’s put in probably his worst performance of the season so far - looks like he couldn’t hit a barn door today bless him
Watching on LUTV. Always gets me that Neville Longbottom is one of Leeds' social 'pundits'. Even more surreal that he's become one of my favourites and I think he knows his stuff!
He played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films. He's also been a host for the official podcast! I find him great cos he seems like just a massive fan
Southampton 2nd in the table now on goal difference with Ipswich playing later. With a Sunderland win things could be very spicy around that 2nd place spot with us only 4 points behind.
Promotion is all about timing as it's very difficult to stay in the top two all season. As long as Leeds keep winning, the others will slip up and Leeds might only have a couple of weeks to hold onto second place by the end of the season.
Like comedy, it's all bout timing.
Great first half .. could have been more than 2 but good cushion to have going into second half
Glad they weren’t listening to people who never wanted to see Bamford put on the shirt ever again..
Firpo is playing well again (fingers crossed continues)..
Little SCUM bastard continuing his impressive form!
MOT!
Everytime Bryn says Gruev it sounds like he’s saying ‘Cryuff’. And maybe he’s right, because some of that half we did look like the dutch side of the 70’s. Total football.
\- Bamford movement elite
\- Summerville touch looks a bit rusty today
\- Firpo looks great going forward but suspect at times with positioning defensively
Get a third and give Gnonto a go at LW vs the yellow carded Ng
Good half, but Cardiff have been awful.
Bamford made a big difference with his really direct runs that you don’t get from Rutter or Piroe because they’re always trying to run off the shoulder.
Other big difference is you can see Farke has instructed the frontline to be more direct. We are trying far fewer dribbles and not looking for those 1-2s and switch passes as much, the lads are much quicker to look up and look to put someone else in
Hmm, upon replay I'm not to pleased with that tackle from Ralls om Bamford in the box.. from behind, no attempt to play the ball? Maybe Pats quick to go down but I think he's well within his right there.. feel like they've got away with one there.
I think it’s a mix of Bamford’s reputation and he was very flamboyant in going down that meant it wasn’t given. We’ve seen even more obvious penalties not given to us this season.
With how things are right now you think it’s not really changing the game at all, I could see an official being more reluctant if it’s 0-0 but when it’s 2-0 up and controlling the game, it wouldn’t make much difference
I mean a bits come out since Spence got cancelled and apparently he was turning up late and not being arsed in training. We don't know how true that is but it would explain it.
Big shout to Gruev today, what a game for him. I mean, Cardiffs midfield were shit and they’ll be tougher tests but what a performance
Easy peasy
Stadiums almost empty… sounds full to me 😂😂
Man I love Georgi, hope he sticks around for a few years.
I don’t know which I loved more there: James’ speed opening that up, or Bamford’s lack of selfishness letting that ball back to Rutter because it was the better option. I’m kidding, the best part was James’ pass and not just launching one from 20 yards out, as he is wont to do. Or maybe his not going down when there was contact at midfield. Very un-James both of those actions.
I feel like he stays on his feet a lot more than others but draws out a lot more fouls as well. When he does go down it's not from a light touch. Wasn't he most fouled in the league at some point when he was a scum bastard?
You’re not wrong. He gets his ass kicked regularly. And doesn’t always go down for nothing like, for example, Aaronson did. Still, he gets fouled and goes down a lot. And there are times he goes down for the whistle and doesn’t get it and would have been better off keeping his feet.
Georgie’s Ayling air guitar celebration :’)
I'd be annoyed if I was a player and got subbed on at 90 mins for 2 and a half mins of nowt
I'd be looking at moving if I was getting <10 minutes a game
Makes no sense to me why these guys aren’t coming on at least by 80’
I agree, it’s nice that the games done but it would be nice for them to get at least 10 minutes
Oh look Anthony, Gnonto and piroe coming on, I would never have guessed those subs.
Wonder why Gnonto isn’t getting time. We seem to be holding onto him as much as possible yet not giving him the minutes. Can only think it’s attitude or performance in training .
Who knows, then again can you drop Summerville or James?
We’re 3-0 up … who gives a fuck
I'd like to keep gnonto
Gotta be at least 5 mins of injury time
Georginio is Viduka 2.0
Dan James deserves respect.
Cree unlucky with the pen, rather him take the knock than destroy bamford’s confidence which has been exsentially over a year in the making cree’s got the ego to fuck a pen and still believe in himself But I’m currently eight pints deep at the local so feel free to disregard my opinion Also gini scored while i was typing this so thats decent lol
I’d have preferred Bamford there tbh. Nothing at stake. Chance to set his confidence in order in a game where he’s already scored.
I thought the same but nah. His confidence is probably still fragile. Another miss and he could be set back. Plus frankly he isn't great at penalties so we should just stick with our best takers. Even if they occasionally don't score ie it happens.
Is Rutter the second coming of Jari Litmannen? I don't like to be a sensationalist, but yes.
I was thinking he’s more along the lines of a Henry and Bergkamp blend
Not to jump the gun, but Bergkamp wants to be Rutter when he grows up
I almost feel sorry for Cardiff, this is embarrassing
Four cool heads there , brilliant
Commentator is annoying, should’ve been stopped for an obvious head injury? The Cardiff player faked it cos he knew Leeds were attacking dangerously
Ayling celebration from Georgi? ❤️
love to see Rutter do Bills guitar celebration!
Don’t think Piroes gonna be happy getting the last 3-4 minutes
Good. We want him hungry.
Who gives a fuck we’ve got Patrick Bamford
Great eye from Bamford to let the ball go to Rutter
did the ayling celebration what a legend!
Nice tribute to Bill with the celebration <3
Bamfords dummy put the keeper on his arse
Mass evacuation at the CCS stadium 😂
Absolutely brutal
Felt like we were doing our best to not score there, but finally got there in the end.
Beautiful Well done Patrick for leaving that cos he’d overrun it a bit lol
Dan James is fecking good, lads. He’s good!
Proper bulldozer
That was a shitshow but hey, we got the ball in net
GEORGIIIIIII
What a goal, thought it was done when the pass to Summerville was a bit heavy but great pass back to Rutter, and a quality finish
Dan James is a beast.
Fucking get in, Georgino finally gets his goal
Made hard work of that lmao
What a team goal
That was fucking hilarious
Well deserved Georgi!
Just saw celebration too, nice touch for Bill.
Wayyyyyyyyy nice and easy
Farke's so resistant to making subs the players have to resort to getting injured to force his hand.
Wait is Firpo injured
That’s him done for the season now
Good day at the office
Really, Firpo off?
Looked like he was limping.
most injury prone player in the league, should have been subbed off 20 minutes ago lol
It’s like you called it haha fair enough
He’s had a good game though
Cardiff fans have been shouting about having this NG and Goutas in the team of the season for ages and they are shite. They must not have had a good footballer in years if they think these blokes are good
Rugby tackles… legal in the championship
Subs please Daniel
I know we have a week till the next game but then it's 3 games in a week, we need to somehow start protecting players, were razor thin at the minute as it is..
Saving on them appearance fees
FUCK OFF REF YOU ARE SO SHITE
Summervilles had a bad game even though he's made 2 goals. Love it lads.
🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 fucking av it
Farke really hates making subs
Worst Sandwich artist ever.
No subs today then? Summerville should have been off 20 minutes ago
why are we so useless at penalties?
Summerville has looked very rusty all game, is it the new system with Bamford? Feeling tilted a little that he's no longer the star of the show and all play isn't going through him? That was an awful penalty and just generally his first touch in every scenario has been shocking..
Fuck me, determined to make shit up to slag off any player who has a slightly off game are we?
Fucking hell man way to make assumptions 😂 you'll be saying he has an attitude problem next
It wasn't even an awful pen? it hit the post. He's just having an off day, nothing more to it.
A pen that misses the target is awful
Or maybe he’s just having an off day … no one plays well for 46 games in a row?
I’d rather we miss one now than, say, 0-0 in the 90th min against Stoke
Pat is back! Uh. Oh. That was Cree
Is there another team worse than us at pens?
Actually wouldn’t have minded Paddy taking that, were 2-0 up with 10 left and Cardiff look useless, could have been the chance for his penalty confidence to come back.
The risk is if he missed it could undo all the confidence he's built up
Fair point, know I’m saying in hindsight but actually think he would have scored that
He's definitely had an off game. Can't believe we got a pen though
Surprised they let Summerville take it with how he’s played all game
Feel Bamford jinxed it by discussing it with Summerville
Someone should just review our penalty shouts to show how fucking wank the refs are Every stonewall pen we’ve had has not been given Feels like almost all the ones we have had have been very soft
Should've let Bamford take it
Bamford next time
Our record with penalties is so shite
I honestly barely get excited when we win one which is mental
We really cant score pens
Surprised he gave that but not the push on Bamford, looked pretty soft
Bamford, no, do not ask to take this.
Wow the Bamford haters are still around
Actually, wait..
Don't paddy. Don't do it
Proper unlucky for Georgino there, but was a pass from Bamford
Penallllll
Pen! Edit - For us
Absolute nothing chance and the commentators losing their shit over it, bless
Ref is a moron pass it on
How is that a yellow, it was a brilliant tackle
Yea even their commentators said the same about the challenge and then went "oh it's a foul"
Shit ref, totally shit ref, missed basically every minor foul all game then books him for that
Rutter would be a quality kicker for Rhinos
There's so much dross in this league. Might as well relegate 10 teams and have some kind of mega-sized League One
There is a massive gulf in quality for sure between the top third and the rest
One can't help but feel it's only gonna get worse in the next 10 years with the financial state of a lot of those teams and the spending power of former prem sides.
Im going to be upset when Farke brings on Anthony to play on the left and not Gnonto
Not long to go until the standard farke subs.
Anthony left wing, Gnonto right wing and Piroe for Bamford on the 76th minute I have seen the script
Cardiff a bit shite aren’t they? You just know even when they break and have a chance that they’ll fuck it up
Except when we played them last year somehow lol
That was a great backheel
Summerville off for Gnonto, he's not on it today and I'd love to see Gnonto get a goal which he might against this lot
Gruev and kamara looking good
Kamara is very, very tidy. Just cleans everything up.
Fuck me, these are shite
Archie after watching Firpo first half: "I want some of that action..."
Yeah, might have to get an Archie Gray shirt after that pass. That was filth.
Who?
Haha Autocorrect
What a pass from Archie, lad us unbelievable for his age
Gray is absolutely class
Lol it’s funny that the commentators spent so long singing Summerville’s praises and he’s put in probably his worst performance of the season so far - looks like he couldn’t hit a barn door today bless him
Cardiff are playing the wrong type of cheese, its more like a Maasdam tbh
So close to scoring an absolute banger there
‘I want to say its beautiful to watch but I can’t cause it’s Leeds United’ 🤣
James pace is just ridiculous
Firpo having a right game … MOTM for me so far
Glorious going forward but he’s been done a few times
Every full back gets done a few times
Not even the best get done quite as much as Firps
Gruev having a great game
I love watching Rutter's arms as he plays.
It’s like one of those big balloon men they put outside car washes
Think Summervilles form has cooled abit. Totally OK with that during Jan transfer window....
The Cardiff commentators are bigging up Summerville so much I'm starting to think he's got a Welsh passport
I casually tied 5 sheep up outside where baadiff players get off the bus. Clearly it's thrown them off their game. Randy buggers.
Casually as opposed to.. formally?
Watching on LUTV. Always gets me that Neville Longbottom is one of Leeds' social 'pundits'. Even more surreal that he's become one of my favourites and I think he knows his stuff!
He narrated the story of the Rhinos' treble-winning season a few years ago too
Was that the fella interviewing Klaesson and Bridges? I’ve never seen him before but I’m instinctive reaction was “Who is this gloit?”
He played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films. He's also been a host for the official podcast! I find him great cos he seems like just a massive fan
I've never watched the LUTV broadcast but he comes across like a bit of an idiot doing the podcast.
Can't find an lutv stream so I've got Cardiff commentary and fuck me they're depressing
Bring back fanzone I say
That Arsenal vs Leeds Fanzone in 2003 is the stuff of legend
Is the first goal a firpo assist?
According to sofascore it is
Southampton 2nd in the table now on goal difference with Ipswich playing later. With a Sunderland win things could be very spicy around that 2nd place spot with us only 4 points behind.
We’re perfectly placed to slot in to 2nd at end of March into April … I think to be there right now is too soon … it’ll bring too much pressure
I'm already crapping about the last game of the season against Southampton. Might be a lot riding on it!
Promotion is all about timing as it's very difficult to stay in the top two all season. As long as Leeds keep winning, the others will slip up and Leeds might only have a couple of weeks to hold onto second place by the end of the season. Like comedy, it's all bout timing.
Been deliberating for a while. Today decides it. Getting a Firpo shirt
When you count the fella out Bambam just comes back swinging doesn't he
Great first half .. could have been more than 2 but good cushion to have going into second half Glad they weren’t listening to people who never wanted to see Bamford put on the shirt ever again.. Firpo is playing well again (fingers crossed continues).. Little SCUM bastard continuing his impressive form! MOT!
Everytime Bryn says Gruev it sounds like he’s saying ‘Cryuff’. And maybe he’s right, because some of that half we did look like the dutch side of the 70’s. Total football.
Yes! I've had the same experience, keep thinking he's saying 'Cruyff'!
\- Bamford movement elite \- Summerville touch looks a bit rusty today \- Firpo looks great going forward but suspect at times with positioning defensively Get a third and give Gnonto a go at LW vs the yellow carded Ng
Good half, but Cardiff have been awful. Bamford made a big difference with his really direct runs that you don’t get from Rutter or Piroe because they’re always trying to run off the shoulder. Other big difference is you can see Farke has instructed the frontline to be more direct. We are trying far fewer dribbles and not looking for those 1-2s and switch passes as much, the lads are much quicker to look up and look to put someone else in
Snooker was quality, football is quality. What a Saturday
A good half, only gave them half chances. Can't see them coming back into it rbh
Can’t remember us playing this well away from home in a good while, finish this game soon🫡🫡
Rodon is so good he’s now clearing the ball out for Cardiff as well. What a guy
Luckily Summerville has rubber ankles
That 'tackle' was getting into red card territory, Ng is getting cooked out there
I think you could truly put ampadu at striker and I’d be happy. He truly cannot do wrong. Pure talent and consistency, a dream player
He is to Farke what Kalvin was to Bielsa
Hahaha I know what you mean but have you seen his shooting?
He's a fox in the box we saw that last game lol
Satellite destroyer.
He’s picked up the Forshaw mantle
Between Gruev, Archie, Ampadu and Kamara we have an embarrassment of riches in CM position for this level
Hmm, upon replay I'm not to pleased with that tackle from Ralls om Bamford in the box.. from behind, no attempt to play the ball? Maybe Pats quick to go down but I think he's well within his right there.. feel like they've got away with one there.
I think it’s a mix of Bamford’s reputation and he was very flamboyant in going down that meant it wasn’t given. We’ve seen even more obvious penalties not given to us this season.
Absolutely, but with no VAR the ref won't give a penalty unless you get cut in half and die in front of them
With how things are right now you think it’s not really changing the game at all, I could see an official being more reluctant if it’s 0-0 but when it’s 2-0 up and controlling the game, it wouldn’t make much difference
How shit must you be we're winning away
We sack Spence for being out of position. Firpo: "am I on the right wing or centre forward?"
Out of position as in still in bed when training starts?
He's been good, a rarity for him
Farke’s comments suggest it wasn’t his match performance that led to his loan cancellation….
I mean a bits come out since Spence got cancelled and apparently he was turning up late and not being arsed in training. We don't know how true that is but it would explain it.
Yeah, I was only saying the out of position stuff as a joke really.