Leeds Vs Bolton: Match Thread

For the fans that have paid £38 plus costs travel and match day experience I hope we score. I am sick of the comments on BEN from fans that are still defending this 🤡 saying nobody could do better with these players do they not think it might just be the players who have had enough of Parky ?. Anyway today hope for a win, pray for a draw, but expect defeat COYWM

Well done for finding the enthusiasm to start the thread OM, obviously nobody else could. It sums it up I suppose that here we are one hour before kick off and only you and Chip have posted. Sad, but not surprising as like the crowds, the message boards are also dwindling. What to expect today then? Well same old for me but I do think it will be a close game as Parky will revert to type and frustrate Leeds with scrappy football. You never know though, we may get battered but still come out with a result because one thing Parky certainly has been since he's been here is lucky. Let's hope that holds today but I'm still going for 2-0 to Leeds.

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A far better performance than last week, though of course, that in itself doesn’t say much. Playing with Donaldson and Magennis, however limited they may be, meant that Leeds had something to think about the whole game.

There’s little doubt we had chances to heap pressure on them. Magennis should have done far better with a close range header early on and Olkowski gifted them a stonewall penalty. Rank amateurish defending. He’s deteriorated so quickly this season, I cannot imagine why Little hasn’t had a chance. Matthews made a couple of decent saves, but ones you’d expect him to make, before his appalling howler for the second goal. I hope Parky doesn’t banish him for one blunder.

I was very pleased with way we quickly hit back and got on level terms, Beevers doing his best to trip over the ball, but thankfully having the wit to prod it home. Leeds defensively were definitely no great shakes and creatively they promised much, but delivered little. Connolly made a decent fist of left back. Let’s hope that means Grounds is finished. The midfield tried hard all game, Noone aside, who I thought looked weak and uninterested. I must admit I also can do without Donaldson’s all too frequent throwing himself to the ground. He needs to man up and get stuck in.

A bit of handbags with twenty minutes to go almost got Leeds rattled and I think they were the happier team to hear the final whistle, especially after sub  Ameobi fizzed one just wide. A final thought, did we play better with Parky banished to the stands? An interesting discussion topic. A defeat, yes, but a bit of pride restored. Now to start picking up points from our notionally easier games to come.

I know where you're coming from Chip but other than Matthews blunder we could have had a point today which might have proved valuable in the long run. I really can't blame Parky for that, I think he put out as bold a team as he could excluding the obvious continuing omission of Oz and Hall, even as subs. A point today would have been great but at least neither Rotherham or Reading won so we're still well in touch. That's about where my positiveness ends though because I just can't see us beating anyone with Parky in charge. Why should we with only two wins in 23 games? All the teams we play now will be up for it, expecting to get three points against us. They know exactly how Parky plays, what team he'll play and how they'll line up and how to overcome it. In fact they will know absolutely that there will be no surprises so don't have to plan for any. We got out of jail today with other results but unless that takeover happens soon and we get somebody in who can shake it up, I fear we're lost.