Paynter Leaving

[DiV]

Wrong choice of phrase

He will be hard to replace.

[magicroundabout]

i seem to remember you saying similar when Cox went.

if he'd scored 29 goals in each of the two previous seasons i might agree but on this occasion i don't.

he's gone. will be replaced. we wont miss him.

[Simon Pieman]

Whether we miss him will not be apparent until we have finished next season. People arguing either side of the coin are merely hypothesising, it's obvious nobody actually knows.

I agree with the comment about ceasing the continuous circle of arguing his merits/failings. He's gone get over it. If he does well at Leeds then he does well at Leeds. If he doesn't make an impact up there he doesn't make an impact. Six months down the line I'm sure there will be a 'told you so brigade' or people towing the 'we need another 20 goal a season striker because Pericard doesn't cut the mustard' line (sound familiar).

The thing which irks me are the people who haven't ever rated him suddenly making bitter and twisted remarks over his departure. There's a massive amount of irony in the fact an easily replaceable player causing so much fuss and controversy.

[Arriba]

he's a loss for sure but not the end of the world.not getting some money for him is the biggest pisser really.
i agree that leeds will ruin him.he aint good enough for what their fans will demand

[nevillew]

There is no guarantee that he would have had such a good season again anyway.

[STFC_Gazza]

i agree that leeds will ruin him.he aint good enough for what their fans will demand

That was my point, If he stayed here I don't doubt he would have done a job here where as he was nothing before he got here and will be nothing at Leeds.

[Simon Pieman]

That was my point, If he stayed here I don't doubt he would have done a job here where as he was nothing before he got here and will be nothing at Leeds.

How are those sour grapes?

[Processed Beats]

Just heard from a Leeds fan that Paynter is our for 6-8 weeks with a stress fracture.

[leefer]

http://www.waccoe.com/index.php?showtopic=189244

Well,well...............fucking great!

[tans]

Have to be a member to see it leef. What did it say mate

[Talk Talk]

Generally along the lines that they are now in the shit as they don't have any strikers of note without Billy. Jumping up and down for Bates to splash some cash on a replacement.

Sadly, nobody seems to care about how Paynter is or to wish him all of the best...I don't think they really have any faith in him doing much already.

This made me laugh:

He'll be as fat as fuck when he gets back.

All shaping up to be a fucking shite start to the new season isn't it?

Massive club.

[Talk Talk]

Oh and

How. The. Fuck. Can we remain calm? We're a fucking fortnight away from the new season, we're the biggest club in that league by quite a lot and yet we're looking like we're going to be the joke of the division.

[pauld]

How. The. Fuck. Can we remain calm? We're a fucking fortnight away from the new season, we're the biggest club in that league by quite a lot and yet we're looking like we're going to be the joke of the division.

Is there a league known to all of humankind that Leeds would not be too big for?

"Massive club" stuff aside, the rest of it's the standard pre-season "We absolutely have to sign a new striker/right-back/centre mid or we're all doomed, doomed I tell you" stuff you see everywhere. Like a good chunk of this thread for starters. Not to mention the various Chicken Little threads after Greer's departure hastened the imminent arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Is there a league known to all of humankind that Leeds would not be too big for?

"Massive club" stuff aside, the rest of it's the standard pre-season "We absolutely have to sign a new striker/right-back/centre mid or we're all doomed, doomed I tell you" stuff you see everywhere. Like a good chunk of this thread for starters. Not to mention the various Chicken Little threads after Greer's departure hastened the imminent arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Heh! heh! Yeah, perspective does get rather lost along the way on this and all football forums. Pre-internet, if we (or any club) sold a player people would just have a quiet moan about it down the pub and that would be it. Now they can  post their feelings on a forum of their choice, other people respond and they just wind each other up into a frenzy. Other people who previously didn't have an opinion, read it and think "oooooh, yes I'm angry too!" Before you know it, an every day event such as a player changing clubs escalates to something worse than a thousand Hirioshimas.

Mind you, Leeds are a massive club. If there was any justice in the world, they would have been promoted directly back to the Premier League and entered into the Champions League (group stage mind you, none of this qualifying bollocks)

[Batch]

I think we could all learn from the war.

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