Sorry Leon but .......

[derfblade.3]

.....times up i'm afraid. Surprised how uninterested he is looking. Wilder says the goals will come but first you need to put in a performance. Lacklustre is the best i can describe today's "effort".
How many more chances will Wilder give him?.The sooner we get a new guy up front the better we will be. He is missing so many chances it's unreal.

 

[bromtom]

.....times up i'm afraid. Surprised how uninterested he is looking. Wilder says the goals will come but first you need to put in a performance. Lacklustre is the best i can describe today's "effort".
How many more chances will Wilder give him?.The sooner we get a new guy up front the better we will be. He is missing so many chances it's unreal.

Thought he was great today.

 

[dc_blade]

Unfair, for me. Thought he was much better today, did some good things, most importantly got in the right positions. Unlucky not to score.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Thought Leon played well today, apart from his finishing but it’ll come.
Wilder has just been on the radio and he also commented at how well Leon played today.
Criticism was fair after the Swansea game but not today, thought Billy put in a decent shift too.

Did you go to the game?

 

[HermitageBlade]

Yep Clarke was unlucky today, thought both him and Billy had good games. It will come for him definitely.

 

[Good Pinch Of Snuff]

Leon was good today

 

[Houston_Blade]

Will never be good enough for some, note the posters who’ve slagged him off since the league 1 days and you’ll notice that despite 19 goals last season and a good job of leading the line at times this season they still won’t accept him.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

.....times up i'm afraid. Surprised how uninterested he is looking. Wilder says the goals will come but first you need to put in a performance. Lacklustre is the best i can describe today's "effort".
How many more chances will Wilder give him?.The sooner we get a new guy up front the better we will be. He is missing so many chances it's unreal.

And whoever said he and O'Connell
are overweight is definitely correct. Put on a couple of stone since May and he's playing like a cunt.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Leon played well today, its just not going for him at the minute, but it will change.

 

[bxb]

Worked his b*llocks off today. Did fine. Struggling to think of anything much that was below par today ?

 

[Bladesman]

Played okay today but we do need another striker. We can't afford to keep missing golden chances infront of goal at this level.

 

[blade too long]

has leon fucked your wife derf

you have an extraordinary hatred of him
got to be something serious

watched us on i follow and he ran his bollocks off for the cause

 

[Fanny magnet]

Thought Clarke did well just couldn't score ,didn't look like his confidence has suffered

 

[bromtom]

And whoever said he and O'Connell
are overweight is definitely correct. Put on a couple of stone since May and he's playing like a cunt.

And whoever thinks that you can put on a fifth of your previous weight and not be obviously fatter is posting like a cunt.

 

[Laney Blade]

Thought he was great today.

I thought he chased & harried & showed some really classy touches.

 

[YES Blade]

Unfair, for me. Thought he was much better today, did some good things, most importantly got in the right positions. Unlucky not to score.

How exactly was not putting chances away “unlucky”? Surely it’s just poor finishing?

It’s like saying Harry Kane is lucky because his shots hit the back of the net.

 

[Gavlar]

Sorry Leon................for not saying thanks earlier for laying the winner on a plate for Billy to score.

 

[Houso]

Amazing how eager some are to write him off given his role last season; not least at the Sty, against Wolves and against Hull.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Sorry Leon................for not saying thanks earlier for laying the winner on a plate for Billy to score.

Think that was mcgoldrick

 

[Grandmanasty]

.....times up i'm afraid. Surprised how uninterested he is looking. Wilder says the goals will come but first you need to put in a performance. Lacklustre is the best i can describe today's "effort".
How many more chances will Wilder give him?.The sooner we get a new guy up front the better we will be. He is missing so many chances it's unreal.

We must have watched different games I thought he played well and was very unlucky not to score.

 

[Gavlar]

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Fairy nuff. They look similar though!

 

[Foxy]

His card is marked by many.

Many give him some right abuse.

It's all about opinions, but many should watch what he does on and off the ball.

 

[Pinchy]

His card is marked by many.

Many give him some right abuse.

It's all about opinions, but many should watch what he does on and off the ball.

Many, including some on here, are not interested in watching. It just gets in the way of prejudice.

 

[KoppedOff]

I thought he actually got better as it went on where the Norwich defenders tired, which suggests his fitness isnt so much of an issue and that he (and Sharp) had run their defence ragged.

 

[Houso]

His card is marked by many.

It's been marked since well before he came in, and no matter what he does, it will never be any different.

 

[sitwell]

If it wasn't Leon it would be someone else, no matter if we won 5-0 some will always try and find some way to bitch about the club.

 

[Sheffsteel]

How exactly was not putting chances away “unlucky”? Surely it’s just poor finishing?

It’s like saying Harry Kane is lucky because his shots hit the back of the net.

True, you find that the best strikers tend to be lucky...they seem to blast the ball near the keeper and it goes in
Whereas poor strikers seem to be unlucky with the keeper making great saves.

You can legislate for odd games of good luck and poor luck but there’s a pattern of bad luck forming with Leon.

However Leon has 2 things in his favour.
His scoring record shows that he had spells where he doesn’t score, then he has little spells where he scores loads of goals. Wilder has even said tonight it’s only a matter of time before Leon goes on a scoring streak again.

Also Leon has much more to his game than scoring, he can play the target man, he can hold up the ball, he offers some physicality, he’s capable of odd moments of class scoring a goal from nothing and he’s also got decent awareness setting others up. He’s inconsistent though otherwise he’s have spent time in the Premier League.

That’s probably why Wilder is being patient with him.

 

[PokerBlade]

I think everyone knows we need a striker below the age of thirty and with a fair bit more pace than the ones we've got. I also think the Waghorn sale showed just how much you have to pay for a striker who didn't even outscore Leon last season.

He cost us fuck all from Bury. Everyone laughed at how we'd struggle with him up front in the Championship and instead we're disappointed that he probably won't take us into the play-offs.

What does "time's up" even mean? We haven't got a replacement. Barring a loan signing we aren't likely to get one. Leon will almost certainly start in our next match.

 

[essyoueffsee]

You’ve started 2 threads in the last half an hour and been totally off boil with both. I’d think about posting in existing threads for a while mate.

 

[YES Blade]

True, you find that the best strikers tend to be lucky...they seem to blast the ball near the keeper and it goes in
Whereas poor strikers seem to be unlucky with the keeper making great saves.

You can legislate for odd games of good luck and poor luck but there’s a pattern of bad luck forming with Leon.

However Leon has 2 things in his favour.
His scoring record shows that he had spells where he doesn’t score, then he has little spells where he scores loads of goals. Wilder has even said tonight it’s only a matter of time before Leon goes on a scoring streak again.

Also Leon has much more to his game than scoring, he can play the target man, he can hold up the ball, he offers some physicality, he’s capable of odd moments of class scoring a goal from nothing and he’s also got decent awareness setting others up. He’s inconsistent though otherwise he’s have spent time in the Premier League.

That’s probably why Wilder is being patient with him.

To me he’s not a terrible player, he’s just not good enough to be our number 1 striker that plays every minute.

I have no issue with him being in the squad and starting say half the matches this season and being used off the bench for the rest.

Before Norwood we looked a bottom half team, now we look a 8th to 12th team. A better striker would take us to play off contenders, if we go all season with Clarke as the main man we won’t improve on last season.