Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:04 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/20100715/grayson-dismisses-scottish-speculation_2247585_2093046

possibly no more signings. grayson says he is happy with the squad. more than i am then if that is all the signings. can't see where the goals will come from or how we will keep a clean sheet for that matter.
a centre half,central midfielder and a good striker are vital signings for me.

Reads more like he's saying he's happy with the core of the squad IMO - definitely need to areas you mention though.

I'd be very surprised if we don't sign another striker and defender

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:55 am  

'That Damned United' is getting a terrestrial airing. It's on Sunday at 9 o'clock on BBC 2.

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:05 am  

LS24 Rhino wrote:

you just have to trust his judgement in the transfer market.

I hear this quite a lot. But which particularl signings that Grayson has made can you actually hang your hat on and say, yeah that was a good one?

In most cases he's been a disaster in the recruitment. Which you could say we have benefited from him getting loan signings. Because at least we got to hand them ones back.

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:48 am  

Gotcha wrote:

I hear this quite a lot. But which particularl signings that Grayson has made can you actually hang your hat on and say, yeah that was a good one?

That wasn't an endorsement of his ability in the transfer market btw, however, personally, i'd say Kisnorbo & Higgs were good signings based on the game time each had last season and Doyle did the job he was brought in to do. Other than that his record at Leeds has been questionable - Trundle, Capaldi, Ephraim, McSheffery all turned out to be gash. He's not on his own though, every Leeds manager i can recall since mid 70's have had success' & failures as far as transfers go.

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:04 pm  

I keep looking on here and waiting for someone to tell me we've signed Hooper and a snapping defensive midfielder. Then I will be happy. Thanks in advance guys.

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:05 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

'That Damned United' is getting a terrestrial airing. It's on Sunday at 9 o'clock on BBC 2.

T'book was a much better source of entertainment IMO.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:06 pm  

I thought it was a very good film. My dad couldnt believe just how Colm Meaney looked the spit of The Don.

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:08 pm  

LS24 Rhino wrote:

That wasn't an endorsement of his ability in the transfer market btw, however, personally, i'd say Kisnorbo & Higgs were good signings based on the game time each had last season and Doyle did the job he was brought in to do. Other than that his record at Leeds has been questionable - Trundle, Capaldi, Ephraim, McSheffery all turned out to be gash. He's not on his own though, every Leeds manager i can recall since mid 70's have had success' & failures as far as transfers go.

Just to add that Richard Naylor and Neil Collins haven't been bad signings either and Sanchez Watt looked decent despite limited game time.
Still think Dickov was a strange signing though

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:58 pm  

naylor was good in his first season. he was pish poor last season. cumbersome, slow and got dragged out of position far to easily

Re: OT - All New Leeds United thread : Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:00 pm  

Matt23 wrote:

I keep looking on here and waiting for someone to tell me we've signed Hooper and a snapping defensive midfielder. Then I will be happy. Thanks in advance guys.

You might be waiting a while fella.. hope not though