Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 25/26

It was actually a very poor piece of goalkeeping. His footwork was terrible, which meant he was out of position and made what should have been a straight forward save much more difficult than it should have been.

Thats pretty unfair. He managed to get a vicious swerve on the shot and Darlow started off moving in the direction it started on. I thought he did well to change direction so late.

A sad end for him. A model professional who never threw his toys out of the pram and always showed up even after a howler ready to go again. That breakthrough season he was great and I think the club did him a disservice by not signing a backup/competition to take the pressure off him and let him learn at his own pace.

As I said previously, I feel that goalkeeping can be a very instinctive player. I think that while a coach can fine tune aspects, you generally work off instincts.

For crosses, a keeper will either be a catcher or a puncher. For open play, they will either sweep out or stay in their box and close the angles. For shot stopping, they either try to stop and hold or commit and push around the post.

Meslier at times seemed to be between options, and therefore didn't do one thing or the other !!!

That picture is sad, but he regressed so badly in the Championship that his howlers nearly cost us promotion dropping points late in games against Sunderland and Hull in winning positions.

Joe Rodon was a whisker away from kicking his ass on a few occasions last season and the season before.

There was always a mistake in him. Bad positioning, butter fingers, too easily bullied off the ball, never commanding in the box on crosses, indecisive as whether to punch or to catch costing us on many occasions. Everything that Darlow is not.

He recalculated based on the curve of the ball which is hard to predict. If he didn't recalculate and stretch, it would have been a goal.

Outstanding save. The guys on Sky were raving about it. They weren't saying "He got away with that one".

Putting up three still photos ain't going to convince anybody of your argument. Bizarre point of view to say it was "a poor piece of goalkeeping". Keep digging.

Didn't even give a decent press conference😆

Joffy vs Bill in the Final, If Hull win I think the owe us money for Gyabi as well.

Was listening to Propaganda on TSB yesterday and one Saints fan said "do you think that the only 3 times we were caught were the only time we did it?"

If the club stands by their manager, then it smacks of their authorization / approval

Talks of a ban of between 6-18 months. The worst thing for Saints fans is that it's a second year in the Championship with a massive drop in parachute payments. As we found out the hard way you can get away with one year down there but year 2 means cutbacks.

Final day always throws up a few surprises, we could win 5-0 or lose 3-0 but if we do lose I hope it keeps the Hammers up. Everton are patchy but Spurs home record is bad also. If WHam stay up I can see them stay around the same places again next season whereas I could see Spurs rising the table. We need as many teams to be below us as possible next season as it's vital we start to establish ourselves in the PL. I'd snap your hand off for a comfortable 15th for the next few seasons and build fom there.

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Bogle, Struijk and Nmecha all start.

To tame and casual, holiday mode enabled.

Unfortunately it was the pessimistic of your predictions. Real end of season effort from us today, just a shame it sounds like it was the same from Everton.

I wouldn't be so sure that Spurs will be better next season, the club is a bit of a mess but anyway, 14th is an excellent finishing position for us and hopefully we can get some business done before the World Cup starts as most business will stop once that starts.