sorry fella....

Rest of the results went as well as we could have hoped today so not a disaster today but we need to get our sh!t together on Wednesday. Performance today exposed how vulnerable we still are in defence. Still incredulous that Farke thought Cooper was a better option than Rodon.

Cooper has had 13 managers at Leeds and everyone of them has played him first choice? My memory is hazy he has been at the club that long but his games per season is high in all but one (2016/17)

Today I feel was one of those off days when nothing really goes right

1 - the first goal looked marginally offside. If championship football was deemed as important as Premier it would have been reviewed.

2 - several players not quite on it. Piroe was really poor, with a lack of involvement and a poor first touch. Summerville happy to take on 6 players but not happy to track back, James making wrong decisions, Ampadu quiet, Kamara ineffective, Byram paying for his first mistake defensively, Meslier making himself smaller not bigger.
3 - Soton scored 3 with an xg of 0.76. Clinical finishing or a mixture of poor defending/goalkeeping not preventing the chances.

The league table is not pretty just now but we have a long way to go. We have only just sorted out a team to take forwards.

We are down 1-4 on key refereeing decisions this season.
For Amapdu foul in build up to goal versus Ipswich
Against Offside v soton / 2 harsh yellows for Rodon, penalty not given for Willy v Wednesday, handball for West Brom goal.

Plenty of games left. Lets hope we can win the 2 homes games in the next week and the table should look a lot healthier.

comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Still incredulous that Farke thought Cooper was a better option than Rodon.
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I thought that too because he has to move Struijk from a position he’s been doing well at.

Cooper has been an excellent servant and a great player but hes 32 and times catching up with him. Rodon starts ahead of him for me. I dont think we should be playing two left footed cbs together.

Hope that was an off day for Byram. Been excellent but looked poor today. Think I'd rather see Ayling at RB as well overs Shacks.

Todays defensive line up equal or worse than one that helped relegate us last season. Kamara as yet not adding anything to the team. Shacks as an attacking threat today = 0. Rutter all at sea. Dan James in the prem or div3 doesn't matter = He's not a footballer. Overall huffed and puffed a bit but shaky defence and clueless going forward. Positives, todays line up looked a bit bang average, experiment over hopefully. Move on to QPR.

Dan has spirit, commitment, and pace to burn. Useful lad to have in the squad, there are circumstances where he's the ideal sub to bring on.
I think Coops's days are numbered now, sad to say. If Rodon had started things might have gone differently.

Hopefully we go back to Rodon and Struijk at the back on Weds. Give Shacks another chance with Byram at lb.

I’d also start Gray even though Kamara has done nothing wrong really.

Two massive home games whilst I’m away. 6 points minimum please!

I'm hoping we haven't got another manager who's blind to his favourites. We all love Coops but he's too old and now only worthy to bring on as a sub – like Luke, he's too slow and is only one step away from disaster.

anthony will start before him for good reason