BS13 Robin Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 11 minutes ago, B1ackbird said: Rock on .... David Essex,isnt he a bit old to play up front? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarksRobin Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Not just us then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon bristol Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 This is a disaster, however, footballers will get injured, its part of the game… i do hope though that we haven’t over cooked them over the close season, not with the games, but with the austrian training etc? ivwonder if we can get palmer-houlden back as cover? Hes scored tonight and looks to have a bit of the x factor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 My pre season optimism, 4 days ago, has taken a rapid dive not felt since the Coppell fiasco. The difference is this time I’m confident it’ll climb again soon. Though If we lose tomorrow v Oxford and Pearson walks out it may tumble again 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 1 minute ago, WarksRobin said: Not just us then Not just us, probably 50 other sides in the EPL/EFL. At least we have a few coming back in the next week or so. People need to calm down a bit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityboy1954 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 31 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Are you referring to Tommy? If so, What press conference? Nige gave a,press conference said wages are nearly at the ceiling that was,accounted for although surely kallas wages must still be there.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityboy1954 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 20 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: Who is Weinman ? He's been here long enough for you to get his name right... Been missing in games i forgot . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 1 minute ago, Cityboy1954 said: Nige gave a,press conference said wages are nearly at the ceiling that was,accounted for although surely kallas wages must still be there.? What’s that got to do with Tommy saying he’s injured in a press conference , which is what you referenced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: Not just us, probably 50 other sides in the EPL/EFL. At least we have a few coming back in the next week or so. People need to calm down a bit. Leeds have been terrible for injuries for while, I checked the last season injury thread. 193 League games lost to injury for us. That's a starting point...that is about 4.2 per game plus the retirement of Baker which seemed not to have been factored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityboy1954 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said: What’s that got to do with Tommy saying he’s injured in a press conference , which is what you referenced Are you pissed you said earlier we,hadnt suffered with injuries i quoted five or six players that spent a while on the sidelines . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityboy1954 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Cityboy1954 said: Are you pissed you said earlier we,hadnt suffered with injuries i quoted five or six players that spent a while on the sidelines what i quoted was nige said we are at our wage limit for signing anymore players. Edited August 8, 2023 by Cityboy1954 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Leeds have been terrible for injuries for while, I checked the last season injury thread. 193 League games lost to injury for us. That's a starting point...that is about 4.2 per game plus the retirement of Baker which seemed not to have been factored. If you examine every EFL club over the "last few years" and come up with definitive facts that support your assertion, I will apologise. But you won't be able to do that will you.. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 20 minutes ago, bcfc01 said: Not just us, probably 50 other sides in the EPL/EFL. At least we have a few coming back in the next week or so. People need to calm down a bit. Got to get the injury excuses in early if we end up having a tough season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 There’s a few things I don’t understand about people’s reactions here. Pole vaulting to conclusions that Dave Rennie is the antichrist is one. The other is that Tommys injury somehow necessitates a signing. As at right now, we have 5 fit strikers for 3 positions. Weimann is clearly borderline fit so that’s nearly 6 for 3. People may not rate one or more of the 5 fit strikers, but if they are part of our squad (and 3 got in ahead of TC on Saturday) then why would we need to make another signing? Add into this, Scott is supposed to be fit for Saturday. Benarous on the way back. Weimann, as I said, was borderline Saturday. You’re then looking at 3 of the 7 back within 2-3 weeks. McCrorie we don’t know as yet, ditto Kal. But if you look at it reasonably, we have (confirmed) two players in Rob and Tommy who are out for a reasonable length. That doesn’t seem unusual in a squad of 26. Particularly when most injuries are different as opposed to, as stated, all hammies. Or we could all panic and just burn the witch. Your call. 17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Could Wells do a Weimann and pull a 20 goal season out the bag? He's been playing well for a good while now, albeit has never looked lethal. Goals flowed in pre-season. Let's hope he can roll back the years! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 26 minutes ago, Simon bristol said: This is a disaster, however, footballers will get injured, its part of the game… i do hope though that we haven’t over cooked them over the close season, not with the games, but with the austrian training etc? ivwonder if we can get palmer-houlden back as cover? Hes scored tonight and looks to have a bit of the x factor? Recall option in January, not before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finley_Smith10 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Just now, mozo said: Could Wells do a Weimann and pull a 20 goal season out the bag? He's been playing well for a good while now, albeit has never looked lethal. Goals flowed in pre-season. Let's hope he can roll back the years! Wells hasn’t scored a goal from open play since the Birmingham home game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: There’s a few things I don’t understand about people’s reactions here. Pole vaulting to conclusions that Dave Rennie is the antichrist is one. The other is that Tommys injury somehow necessitates a signing. As at right now, we have 5 fit strikers for 3 positions. Weimann is clearly borderline fit so that’s nearly 6 for 3. People may not rate one or more of the 5 fit strikers, but if they are part of our squad (and 3 got in ahead of TC on Saturday) then why would we need to make another signing? Add into this, Scott is supposed to be fit for Saturday. Benarous on the way back. Weimann, as I said, was borderline Saturday. You’re then looking at 3 of the 7 back within 2-3 weeks. McCrorie we don’t know as yet, ditto Kal. But if you look at it reasonably, we have (confirmed) two players in Rob and Tommy who are out for a reasonable length. That doesn’t seem unusual in a squad of 26. Particularly when most injuries are different as opposed to, as stated, all hammies. Or we could all panic and just burn the witch. Your call. Well Lance Corporal Jones would. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: There’s a few things I don’t understand about people’s reactions here. Pole vaulting to conclusions that Dave Rennie is the antichrist is one. The other is that Tommys injury somehow necessitates a signing. As at right now, we have 5 fit strikers for 3 positions. Weimann is clearly borderline fit so that’s nearly 6 for 3. People may not rate one or more of the 5 fit strikers, but if they are part of our squad (and 3 got in ahead of TC on Saturday) then why would we need to make another signing? Add into this, Scott is supposed to be fit for Saturday. Benarous on the way back. Weimann, as I said, was borderline Saturday. You’re then looking at 3 of the 7 back within 2-3 weeks. McCrorie we don’t know as yet, ditto Kal. But if you look at it reasonably, we have (confirmed) two players in Rob and Tommy who are out for a reasonable length. That doesn’t seem unusual in a squad of 26. Particularly when most injuries are different as opposed to, as stated, all hammies. Or we could all panic and just burn the witch. Your call. This is fair but the situation is suboptimal. Fault of Rennie or something else? Edited August 8, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 11 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: There’s a few things I don’t understand about people’s reactions here. Pole vaulting to conclusions that Dave Rennie is the antichrist is one. The other is that Tommys injury somehow necessitates a signing. As at right now, we have 5 fit strikers for 3 positions. Weimann is clearly borderline fit so that’s nearly 6 for 3. People may not rate one or more of the 5 fit strikers, but if they are part of our squad (and 3 got in ahead of TC on Saturday) then why would we need to make another signing? Add into this, Scott is supposed to be fit for Saturday. Benarous on the way back. Weimann, as I said, was borderline Saturday. You’re then looking at 3 of the 7 back within 2-3 weeks. McCrorie we don’t know as yet, ditto Kal. But if you look at it reasonably, we have (confirmed) two players in Rob and Tommy who are out for a reasonable length. That doesn’t seem unusual in a squad of 26. Particularly when most injuries are different as opposed to, as stated, all hammies. Or we could all panic and just burn the witch. Your call. Weimann currently covering Scott in midfield, so if/when he leaves we’ll need another body in midfield for Weimann to provide depth through the middle. We don’t have 6 strikers do we? Conway, Wells, Weimann and who? Can Bell play regularly in the championship as the striker and perform? I agree we don’t need another striker but this does exacerbate the need for one more player (minimum) in midfield otherwise we’re trying to cover multiple positions with the same player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, KegCity said: Weimann currently covering Scott in midfield, so if/when he leaves we’ll need another body in midfield for Weimann to provide depth through the middle. We don’t have 6 strikers do we? Conway, Wells, Weimann and who? Can Bell play regularly in the championship as the striker and perform? I agree we don’t need another striker but this does exacerbate the need for one more player (minimum) in midfield otherwise we’re trying to cover multiple positions with the same player. Striker probably the wrong term but we do play a front three - so that includes Sykes, Mehmeti, Cornick. I think it does show that if Scott goes we do need another body for the reason you state but it’s nowhere near the level of panic I’m seeing so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Just now, Silvio Dante said: Striker probably the wrong term but we do play a front three - so that includes Sykes, Mehmeti, Cornick. I think it does show that if Scott goes we do need another body for the reason you state but it’s nowhere near the level of panic I’m seeing so far That’s the point though, we don’t have lots of depth through the middle unless Weimann covers or we move Bell over. If Weimann moves over the midfield starts looking very thin. Not convinced Bell can do that job but I’d love him to prove me wrong. I don’t think we need to panic until the window closes and we know where we are as a squad. We really need one more for depth in midfield but we can cope barring complete disaster on the injury front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudgun Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 I give up, I really do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SydneyCity Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 23 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: Or we could all panic and just burn the witch. Your call. You’re right. There’s no need to panic. We should see if he floats first. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 40 minutes ago, Cityboy1954 said: Are you pissed you said earlier we,hadnt suffered with injuries i quoted five or six players that spent a while on the sidelines . I’d read back through your posts to see who’s pissed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Okie so where and who has confirm Tommy injured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgy Red Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 20 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: Striker probably the wrong term but we do play a front three - so that includes Sykes, Mehmeti, Cornick. I think it does show that if Scott goes we do need another body for the reason you state but it’s nowhere near the level of panic I’m seeing so far Whilst we still have a number of forward options if Tommy is missing, the worry is that they are not really up to Champ standards (yet). Mehmeti has yet to show anything near the required consistancy... the jury is massively out on Cornick and arguably Weimann and Wells are in the final throws of their career. If we lose Alex Scott the squad is suddenly looking very short of quality in my opinion. If others disagree then i applaud their optimism but sadly i can only see another bottom half finish awaiting us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redpole Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said: Okie so where and who has confirm Tommy injured Tommy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Just now, redpole said: Tommy! Where ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redpole Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said: Where ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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