TOPIC: Another manager bites the dust

Uwe Rossler Leeds manager/coach sacked this morning.

Steve Evans getting the job

I'm no sure Leeds fans will be too happy with that. Leeds must have spent a small fortune paying off managers and coaches.

As it was quite succinctly put, we have enough on gardening leave to consider entry to next years Chelsea Flower show/need a bigger garden/etc.
Steve chuffing Evans, what has the world come to.

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If a Club and a manager ever deserved each other it's Evans and dirty Leeds!.

I'll give him a month!

Mortonblue wrote:
I hope he ends up back at City, the club he loves the most, a nice job with one of the youth teams will do him just fine.

If he'd only lasted another day.....Massimo Cellino banned again for failing the fit and proper persons test

Fat ****.

At least the circus has now got the perfect ringmaster. The far lesbian is even more reason to hate Leeds

Ha, ha ha, some classic comments on here.
Why oh why would Carlisle supporters hate Leeds when their paths have so rarely crossed. Can only be because of allegiances to other clubs.
I would have thought there were enough directions to be spreading hate at, unless it is true that most Carlisle fans only look for something to twine about.

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Damn right, I love a good moan in fact I prefer moaning to sex, however I occasionally enjoy a right good laugh and I find the Chiellino & Evans dream team hilarious!

beefsister wrote:

"I prefer moaning to sex"

Are you my wife in disguise?

Yeah, not really arguing about the two of them (detest Evans, but he is there now so has to be backed, as my feelings for the club are far greater than those for any individual), but the hate for Leeds is always something I cannot get my head around

You are doing it wrong (from what I can remember) if you prefer moaning to a leg over

Do you have to have a reason to hate Leeds, i just thought it was compulsory.

The only time i have ever been spat at was at b(ellend)road.

melbourneblues wrote:
I don't hate Leeds United. I do hate glory hunter fans though, whatever club they claim to follow.

I used to work with a devout Leeds "fan". Always slagging off Carlisle, while his club were riding high in the champions league (so you know how long ago it was). I have been to Elland road once in my life. Which is exactly one more time than he had. I don't think he'd ever even been to Leeds.

Then came their fall, the day they came to Brunton Park in a league match, unbeaten, and we gave them a right going over, 3-1. You have no idea how much I looked forward to seeing his face on the Monday.

He rang in sick.

thebadger wrote:
Dont hate anyone who follows the club they choose to support. I used to work with a massive Arsenal fan. Turned out ive been to the Emirates once more than he has and ive been once as well.

Dancingbear wrote:
Once is enough as well.

Yes, must admit I was getting more calls than I could answer walking up Warwick Road that day.
New from the start of the unbeaten run where it was going to end.

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Looks like you'll get the chance to do it next season as well

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Where do you want me to start?

Our paths did cross, 3 years on the belt and for those 3 years Leeds fans proved just what a bunch of [censored] they are. Horrible club and horrible fans. Hard to believe but I think they're more deluded than the Geordies, they still think of themselves as one of the country's super powers when in reality they aren't even the biggest club in the championship.

I honestly think some Leeds fans aren't really bothered about the result at games as long as they take loads of fans everywhere, they think a city with a population of 750,000 people taking 5,000 fans to a game 100 miles away is one of football's great feats, it's the biggest city with only one football club in Britain by quite a distance. Their crowds per head of population are pretty poor in reality.

Don't get me started on their European Cup win in Paris in the 70's. Do they actually think they won it ffs?!!! Leeds aren't liked throughout football because of their arrogance and arsehole supporters, simple as that.

franksidebottom wrote:
Im sure there are fans at Elland Road who spend more time looking at the away end than they do the pitch. Out of interest who do you think is the biggest club in the championship?

No doubt there are, same as at all clubs.
Not sure what the relevance of club size is, but even the new manager at his press conference said you could ask anyone from here to China who the biggest club in the championship and they would all say the same.
Original point stands - just don't get the hate for Leeds as it is totally irrational. Thought it might be a seventies thing. Someone used to knick my crisps when I was at junior school, but can't say I still fret about it.
I don't really give a flying f about any clubs about Leeds and Carlisle (okay, apart from Man U), so just don't get it.

Sorry, did not mean to like this (obviously).
So, 3 years in a hundred can invoke such hatred?
Makes no sense at all.

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Two times European Cup winners Nottingham Forrest?

Dancingbear wrote:
Who have Leeds played more in the last 10 years, Carlisle or Man Utd? How do Leeds supporters feel about MUFC?
We played Leeds 10 times in 2 and half years; 4 of those games were semi-final matches, 2 were clashes at the top end of the table. And of course we've played more than "3 years in 100" - 8 games in the 80's for example.

Biggest club in the championship?
Forest have won 2 European Cups, and more trophies than Leeds.
Wolves have won more trophies and been in the top flight more recently.
One club from yorkshire once won 3 consecutive championships (not Leeds).
Derby get bigger crowds.
6 other teams have played in European finals
Leeds have won 1 trophy in the last 40 seasons, with only 1 cup final appearance in that time. This is their 12th consecutive season below the top division too.
Blackburn have won the league more recently.
More than half the championship have been in the top flight since Leeds last have.
3 clubs have won a trophy since Leeds last did.
Not as clear cut as you'd think!

Sheffield is more of a football city - 40,000 folk between the 2 clubs watch them regularly, compared to less than 30,000 at Leeds.
I've no real problem with Leeds Utd, but a significant proportion of their supporters seem to think they're one of the biggest clubs in England, based on 7 or 8 decent seasons 45 years ago. Almost as deluded as the Geordies.

They are the biggest Club in the Championship like, thought the Forest one would come out but for me Leeds biggest by some distance.

Must have biggest away average in the division?

Newcastle and Leeds are both big Clubs, the problem is they have many supporters who feel that makes them far superior
to other fans.

They're massive underachievers to be honest, for the size of the population of the place you would expect them to be right up there. I have to say I got on well with the Leeds fans I met when they were up here, I've heard the stories and saw some of the idiots, but there were some genuine real football supporters among the Leeds fans.

They should be an enormous power to be reckoned with in football, but have been only briefly, I don't know whether cricket and rugby league dilute the football somewhat or what the reason is, but there are far fewer football fans (per head of population), it seems, than the likes of Newcastle, Liverpool or Manchester.

Think a fair few folk down there have got sick of it themselves (can happen at big/large Clubs as well as Carlisle) regarding owners etc... and ticket prices for walk on are shocking at Leeds - no wonder they are a big draw for Sky, many will just go down boozer and watch them I expect.

www.leedsunited.com/news/article/1bk17fn...ket-prices-announced

Leeds is heading towards being a rugby town not a football town

Leeds Rhinos average attendance last year: 15,000
Leeds Utd average last year: 24,000

Leeds-Fulham last night: 19,969

orfc wrote:
Leeds were away last night...

welll... you can prove anything with facts can't you

Wazza wrote:
Aye, was just proving not everyone between here and China would say Leeds are the biggest club in the championship. What makes you the biggest anyway? Home support? away support? recent history? all time history?. It isnt easy to quantify imo.

Suppose you could class how big a Club is currently by the number of Employees it has to an extent. If say Man U went pop and never existed it would really hurt the area, if same happened at Accrington far fewer would be hurt by it.

Must also admit forgetting Sheff Wed till I looked at averages, had bigger averages than Leeds a few seasons when both were in top flight.

Yep must be more football fans in Sheffield compared to Leeds. I'd guess they have a higher percentage from the area as well as opposed to Leeds.

And?
It is hard to define the basis of the biggest club, but would say it would be history, reputation, trophies won, crowds, home followings against them, etc
I would not even put Forest in the top three championship.

Pretty rich in terms of history Forest mind.

If you want to start talking reputation then Leeds prob have the worst reputation in the league so id prob leave that out if i were you. You are very defensive lately .

Read it again - I never said they were the biggest club in the championship (it was a quote). I have said later I think they are, but only in response.
Not sure how it got to be a willy waving contest about who is the biggest club.
Your points just go to show how hard it would be to define the top club anyway. Leeds would be in the top two or three in all categories and can't think of many others who would.
Couple of bizarre modern days ones - most ticket applications for a play off final (115K), most football club website hits (fourth in the country).

Wazza,
Yes, Leeds (and the barcodes) have their fair share of [censored] supporters, but it is probably proportional to other clubs due to the number of people who follow them.

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Be all the Chinese fans the website to do! Ticketing ain't too good online is it, got put in a 7 minute queue before when trying to find out ticket prices!

Moorlad,
Can't really disagree with the point on the crowd size per population (and the other poster who said it).
But, again, what makes Leeds a big club is the fact that the following is national and international wide.
Leeds still get Scandavian and Irish whites at each game.
This used to be the big argument with the Newcastle supporters over who was the biggest club when both were in the prem - they only have Geordies and exiled Geordies.

CarlisleWhite wrote:
Sunderland are the other bad one for that I always find.

Yeah, £5 premium on the day (or £5 discount for early booking as they prefer to call it).
Thing is with the ticket prices, they lose money by cutting the prices.

Yes, 4K supporters in London on a Wednesday night.
Didn't realise the Rhinos crowds were as high as that, but always been a strong rugby city as well.
Don't forget they are the top team in the country at the moment, and the football are not quite!

To be fair they probably are the biggest. Doesnt get them extra points though. Man United are easily the biggest club in the country and hopefully theyll win sod all.

It must have recognised you were not a Leeds fan!
Just got mine for Huddersfield straight away.