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Post by Skint Terriers on May 27, 2024 10:53:56 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one
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Post by Captainslapper on May 27, 2024 10:57:39 GMT 1
Leeds fans do have this attitude that they SHOULD be in the prem. thing is I’m mid 50s and been into football for 45 years and in that time they’ve spent more seasons out of the top flight than in it. That post Revie period is the same as the pre Revie period in that respect. They’re a second tier club who had a couple of decades where that changed , that’s all. Without looking it up I would be confident Southampton have been in the top tier much more than Leeds in my 45 years as a football fan. Thought id look it up. In the 46 seasons since and including 78/79 when I started going to football... Southampton..8 seasons out of top flight... 38 seasons in it. Leeds ...25 seasons out of top flight....21 seasons in it. But I guarantee almost every Leeds fan will consider themselves to be far more of a top flight club than Southampton... and indeed the top flight to be their 'rightful place'.
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Post by Mastercracker on May 27, 2024 11:11:31 GMT 1
Leeds fans do have this attitude that they SHOULD be in the prem. thing is I’m mid 50s and been into football for 45 years and in that time they’ve spent more seasons out of the top flight than in it. That post Revie period is the same as the pre Revie period in that respect. They’re a second tier club who had a couple of decades where that changed , that’s all. Without looking it up I would be confident Southampton have been in the top tier much more than Leeds in my 45 years as a football fan. Thought id look it up. In the 46 seasons since and including 78/79 when I started going to football... Southampton..8 seasons out of top flight... 38 seasons in it. Leeds ...25 seasons out of top flight....21 seasons in it. But I guarantee almost every Leeds fan will consider themselves to be far more of a top flight club than Southampton... and indeed the top flight to be their 'rightful place'. There's about 45 clubs in England who seem to think the top flight is "where we belong". Leeds probably top of that deluded list.
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Post by Captainslapper on May 27, 2024 11:31:38 GMT 1
Thought id look it up. In the 46 seasons since and including 78/79 when I started going to football... Southampton..8 seasons out of top flight... 38 seasons in it. Leeds ...25 seasons out of top flight....21 seasons in it. But I guarantee almost every Leeds fan will consider themselves to be far more of a top flight club than Southampton... and indeed the top flight to be their 'rightful place'. There's about 45 clubs in England who seem to think the top flight is "where we belong". Leeds probably top of that deluded list. If you take away the 15 or so years of the Revie era, then Leeds are traditionally a 2nd tier club more than anything else. They were before Revie and they have been since Revie.
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Post by rubicon on May 27, 2024 11:34:26 GMT 1
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Post by nnnlove on May 27, 2024 11:34:30 GMT 1
It's like that pointless (and slightly tedious) exercise where people define the "ideal" top flight. Penny to a pound, it'll be based on who was in it when they started watching football or were a teenager.
Nostalgia - it isn't what it used to be.
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Post by specialun on May 27, 2024 11:54:56 GMT 1
To not go up on the wage budget they had is dreadful
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on May 27, 2024 11:58:16 GMT 1
These days, I admit to it being different when I was younger, I really have no problem ignoring them down the road. I realised some time ago it was as tiresome as it was futile. There is another reality, which was brought home when I saw the Championship league table on Sky Sports News, they are still in the Championship and we aren't. I look forward to a time when we are competing with them on, at least, a level playing field. I don't have any energy for fuelling their inflated and delusional opinion of themselves (the Cpt makes an excellent observation about their status over the years). Rivalries are of course part and parcel of football but I prefer to focus on our team and our performance. Here's hoping we can get back under their skin, for all they protest that they don't care about us they don't like it if we are doing well. Until then I'll put my energy into supporting Town. Not sure where you live, but some people will have colleagues, friends and family supporting Leeds. They will have been rinsed because of our ineptitude this season, so the opportunity to give a bit back I don’t begrudge - although plastering it over social media would make us/them look like sore losers. My sister and her fella are Leeds fans, their kids Plymouth/leeds. Glad that we aren’t the only club of the 3 to have failed this season, even if our failure is greater. Also the die was cast on our season weeks ago, it’s not an either/or choice to indulge in a bit of schadenfredue.
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Post by nicovaesen on May 27, 2024 12:13:02 GMT 1
Melton Mowbray has been teaming with the deluded pretty much all season certainly in the last three weeks. Weird how it’s a bank holiday and the sun is out but there’s a certain lack of them 🤔. Can’t quite put my finger on the reason.
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on May 27, 2024 12:22:22 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one nah. It's part of the joy of football to mock other team's failings whilst ignoring your own
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Post by mids on May 27, 2024 12:25:52 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one You're boring. Of course we can laugh at them. Their interest ability to fook it up continually cheers me up no end...especially with how crap and 'skint terriers' we have been recently. The delusion of their fans and then their inevitable implosion is as funny as it is predictable. Who cares if it makes us look sad and obsessed. The football fans of the world can join as one now, again, in yet another refrain of "L***s, L***s are falling apart, again"
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Post by Mav on May 27, 2024 12:58:10 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one You're boring. Of course we can laugh at them. Their interest ability to fook it up continually cheers me up no end...especially with how crap and 'skint terriers' we have been recently. The delusion of their fans and then their inevitable implosion is as funny as it is predictable. Who cares if it makes us look sad and obsessed. The football fans of the world can join as one now, again, in yet another refrain of "L***s, L***s are falling apart, again" Abso fucking lutely Mids. We can get back to messing things up in due course but in the meantime ….. 😂😂😂😂
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Post by hd9terrier on May 27, 2024 13:12:11 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one No. You give what you get. And there’s no club that’s gives it out more than them. Bottle it on the big occasions always have. Only one season more than Town in the PL in the past 20 years… Pathetic.
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Post by always a terrier on May 27, 2024 14:45:13 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one They is no way Leeds will be pushing for the Premier League next season. They are now in a big mess they will have to sell there best players to balance the books. Definitely a fire sale incoming. Be lucky to get in the play offs for them next season. Couldn’t happen to a nicer club lol 😂. Leeds are falling apart again. 😂
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Post by 28901 on May 27, 2024 14:57:48 GMT 1
There's about 45 clubs in England who seem to think the top flight is "where we belong". Leeds probably top of that deluded list. If you take away the 15 or so years of the Revie era, then Leeds are traditionally a 2nd tier club more than anything else. They were before Revie and they have been since Revie. They do have a national appeal though, which no other club outside the top 4 or 5 do. The reason they sell mostly every away match is down to having so many fans all over the country. Why is that? I can only think its because the Revie era coincided with the start of regular tv coverage. Even so it was 50 odd years ago.
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Post by ldr on May 27, 2024 15:00:39 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one This is totally at odds with what football is about imo. Taking the piss out of those wankers is sometimes the best thing about being a Town fan. It’s our duty to do it and they reciprocate when appropriate. Fucking hell, they expect it! This kind of mentality is shared by those same folk who gave Harry Kane a standing ovation at our place. They have a completely skewed view of football and it’s tribal, historical rivalries.
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Post by dxterrier on May 27, 2024 15:13:30 GMT 1
A conversation I had with a deluded disciple last night....one that believes they are rightfully top 6 premier and top 10 europe
"Choked on the big stage again then" "F**k off, your lot went down into the 3rd division" "Absolutely we did, and no more than we deserved, and you obviously remember what that feels like, but if you ever want to know what it feels like to win a play off final i will happily tell you" "haaa trying to belittle a far bigger club when you have never won anything" "Leeds 3 league titles, Town 3 league titles" "Oh yeah 100 years ago means F**k all, f**king ancient history" "the first to win 3 in a row, 100 years ago maybe, 2 titles in the 70s and 1 in the 90s, also history but I know which is the bigger acheivement" "Your pathetic little club isn't even relevant to us" "Indeed, about as relevant as Leeds are to Manchester United"
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Post by 28901 on May 27, 2024 15:16:16 GMT 1
A conversation I had with a deluded disciple last night....one that believes they are rightfully top 6 premier and top 10 europe "Choked on the big stage again then" "F**k off, your lot went down into the 3rd division" "Absolutely we did, and no more than we deserved, and you obviously remember what that feels like, but if you ever want to know what it feels like to win a play off final i will happily tell you" "haaa trying to belittle a far bigger club when you have never won anything" "Leeds 3 league titles, Town 3 league titles" "Oh yeah 100 years ago means F**k all, f**king ancient history" "the first to win 3 in a row, 100 years ago maybe, 2 titles in the 70s and 1 in the 90s, also history but I know which is the bigger acheivement" "Your pathetic little club isn't even relevant to us" "Indeed, about as relevant as Leeds are to Manchester United" I work in Leeds and the real Leeds fans who actually go know way more football history than the armchair sky TV Man U, Liverpool fans.
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Post by turbo2 on May 27, 2024 15:17:47 GMT 1
Call me boring but we are in no position to be taking the piss out of Leeds. It just looks embarrassing that we are laughing at a club preparing for a promotion run to the Premier league next season whilst we prepare to steady the ship in league one You're boring. Of course we can laugh at them. Their interest ability to fook it up continually cheers me up no end...especially with how crap and 'skint terriers' we have been recently. The delusion of their fans and then their inevitable implosion is as funny as it is predictable. Who cares if it makes us look sad and obsessed. The football fans of the world can join as one now, again, in yet another refrain of "L***s, L***s are falling apart, again" Even funnier is the fact that their main ‘rivals’ won the cup on Saturday. The delusional kooonts
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Post by utttrooper on May 27, 2024 15:27:07 GMT 1
You're boring. Of course we can laugh at them. Their interest ability to fook it up continually cheers me up no end...especially with how crap and 'skint terriers' we have been recently. The delusion of their fans and then their inevitable implosion is as funny as it is predictable. Who cares if it makes us look sad and obsessed. The football fans of the world can join as one now, again, in yet another refrain of "L***s, L***s are falling apart, again" Even funnier is the fact that their main ‘rivals’ won the cup on Saturday. The delusional kooonts Didn't know Beeston Old Boy's Reserves won a trophy on Saturday
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on May 27, 2024 15:39:56 GMT 1
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Post by Wingman on May 27, 2024 15:47:03 GMT 1
Loving this thread. I don’t particularly usually enjoy seeing clubs suffer financially - lower league clubs moreso - but those such as Leeds who have gambled on bouncing back up (with a huge dollop of expectation mixed in) then failing, well, it’s hilarious.
No sympathy at all. Fire sale, could sell the stadium, training ground etc. Who knows? They screwed up under Ridsdale and the hotch potch of golfers, American footballers, basketball stars, actors etc who have invested in them could easily sell up and walk. Leeds would really be under the cosh then.
They have never had nor will have a divine right to be at the top table which their deluded clown fanbase think they have. They need to learn some humility, take the medicine, and rebuild.
I recently purchased a book for a family members birthday about Leeds, (itchy hands after) and in there was a small section about how the hostility from Town is one way, all fed by us and that we are an irrelevance to them,how they couldn’t fathom why we hated them. This stance and attitude is why they are so despised across the country. Add in BBC Radio Leeds, Adam Pope, ex-Yorkshire Post ‘journalist’ Phil Hay and it all adds more fuel to the fire. Next season could be interesting if they dispense with Farke (for me I’d keep him even though he may be a busted flush in this country now).
So this thread stays open as long as I’m a damn Admin, because it brightens my day. Unprofessional? Maybe. I’m not paid for this role and as such I don’t expect ProBoards to rollock me 😂 I’m a Huddersfield fan so it comes with the territory.
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Post by kennyironsjacket on May 27, 2024 16:22:13 GMT 1
Elland Road is falling down Daniel Farke is a clown EFL for 10 more years Hudders Town are on the beers 😄
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Post by leroy212 on May 27, 2024 16:28:35 GMT 1
Thought id look it up. In the 46 seasons since and including 78/79 when I started going to football... Southampton..8 seasons out of top flight... 38 seasons in it. Leeds ...25 seasons out of top flight....21 seasons in it. But I guarantee almost every Leeds fan will consider themselves to be far more of a top flight club than Southampton... and indeed the top flight to be their 'rightful place'. There's about 45 clubs in England who seem to think the top flight is "where we belong". Leeds probably top of that deluded list. Only just beating forest fans
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Post by bluebeard on May 27, 2024 16:50:23 GMT 1
I am Huddersfield born and bred but i now live in Heckmondwike which half Town and half Leeds. At my local gym the Leeds shirts have been out even on people who do not go and watch them, guess what, not a single shirt this morning but a few Town. It is true that for some deluded reason they really do thing they are a massive club.
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on May 27, 2024 16:52:58 GMT 1
Wish I could come up to Birstall this week, I could have had some fun! Shame I can’t.
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Post by sabailand on May 27, 2024 17:23:28 GMT 1
Wish I could come up to Birstall this week, I could have had some fun! Shame I can’t. Watched the game in Birstall at the Horse and jockey pub, quite possibly the only town fan in there, busy with Leeds but not overly so, could get to the bar easy enough.
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on May 27, 2024 17:34:22 GMT 1
Wish I could come up to Birstall this week, I could have had some fun! Shame I can’t. Watched the game in Birstall at the Horse and jockey pub, quite possibly the only town fan in there, busy with Leeds but not overly so, could get to the bar easy enough. The H&J gets pretty busy at times nowadays. My sister and her husband watched the game at Drighlington CC, she said it was rammed, but cleared quickly after the game!
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Post by galpharm2400 on May 27, 2024 18:08:26 GMT 1
After 2 fairly big wins in the 2nd play off games it was likely to be a tight game. One good chance taken by a striker who only needs the one. Leeds dont have that. Leeds play on the break, they had one, perhaps two in 99 minutes because saints were not going to allow it, no plan b after going behind in the game. Football is about scoring as many as you can but quite often its just about scoring as many as you need. Southampton beat leeds 3 times, they had the measure of them and simply needed one goal on Sunday. We thought Saints might get another but once they were ahead it was reasonably easy watching for the 'neutral'.
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Post by Tim Nice But Dim on May 27, 2024 18:10:53 GMT 1
I was in a Public House in Oldham for the game and the cheer for Southampton when they scored. I got chatting to a few Latics fans and they all said how they miss the games with Town, hopefully they will be back in the football league soon.
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