Sniffer wrote:If he can sort out the defence and the discipline, maybe make Forshaw captain and have a back-up plan for when games aren't going for us then I don't see why we couldn't make the play-offs. Having said that, I'm wildly optimistic and predict a 4-0 win every game.
bang on, make a statement make Forshaw captain, don't leave it to the players to choose their mates.
Hope the fans support him and the club support him with the defence. It will be a few weeks before we hopefully see the best eleven playing together, he just needs to find a quick fix to stop us getting beat by sunday morning lump it forward teams i.e Cardiff and millwall
Agree 100% with this.
Cooper's not a leader and shouldn't be captain as he wouldn't always be in the team if I was picking it.
Forshaw sounds a good pick to me, too.
It's gotta be someone 25+ who will play every game and he's got experience at this level.
I'm really hoping that the new manager bounce sees us through a couple of games where we won't have our strongest squad available too - that could be a big factor in where we end up and may well prove to be a (jammy) stroke of genius on AR's part.
There'll be some "reaction" to the changes but the inherent problems that undermined Thomas Christiansen remain.
I hope we won't continue to slide and end up looking over our shoulders. I would like to see us rally and try to get a play-off slot but this seems unlikely.
In truth I don't really know what to expect of this new management team or how they might work out at Leeds. I suppose after all the previous disappointments I've learned not to expect anything.
See how it goes and hope for the best, but I wouldn't expect anything significant to develop, not in the near future.
rigger wrote:
I'm really hoping that the new manager bounce sees us through a couple of games where we won't have our strongest squad available too - that could be a big factor in where we end up and may well prove to be a (jammy) stroke of genius on AR's part.
That's my hope too for the next few games against teams above us. Get a bit of a run (lucky or not) and maybe a bit of confidence will return.
Wouldnt have been my first choice, but he here now, and Im 100% behind him and the team, and he really cant be worse than quite a number of other managers we've had. He wants to be sucessful, we want him to be sucessful, so lets see what he can do.
Expectations - I dont see the playoffs as realistic this year now, and I feel we may be lucky to end up in the top half. I want to see pride and fight in the team (not that kind fight Messers Berardi, OKane, Cooper, Saiz), I want to see us take the game to perceived weaker opposition and not get bullied by the likes of Millwall & Cardiff, I want to see flexibility in formations, better substitutions, but most of all I want to see some evidence of improvement between now and the seasons end, something to build on, to give us hope that we can be contenders.
Set a solid foundation and become hard to beat again. With our plethora of creative players things won't always come off but if we're not shipping 3 or 4 at the other end we'll still pick up points with the odd 1-0 here and there.
We've got quality going forward but our discipline and defensive shape of late has been utterly dreadful.
