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"The board took the decision following the recent poor run that has seen the club slip to ninth in League One," read a statement on the club's website.

Ninth place.... shocking.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/7794419.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/7794419.stm)

Agreed...with there squad they should be top!

Yep, maybe they do have one of the better squads in the league but they are far, far too reliant upon Beckford.  Poor run of form for him and there's no one to get the goals and they start to look pretty average.

The amount of managers these guys have been through in the last few years is starting to put us to shame!

This is why I have reservations about appointing someone like Calderwood.  If we ever had to sack him, I'd be gutted.

It's the Histon curse! I bet Martinez is shitting himself.

Leeds should be pissing this league, them being 9th is about par with us being 20th, not suprised.

I'd have him here in a flash.

Leeds have lost the same number of games as us.

A manager even worse than Malpas .. was always going to be sacked .. hope we dont end up with him

Really? I don't think he's that bad although i'll admit that i'd rather have Wilson.

Oh ollie ollie......ollie ollie ollie ollie ollieway!

Holloway, Ward, Cotterill, Wilson, Dowie, Money, Poyet, Speed.

I really don't care. Just put all the names in a hat and draw one out............

dont forget McAllister mate!

And they can all do the job here...if they are willing to come, just get it sorted.

i would take wisey back he did a good job when he was here

dennis wise is a poison dwarfed aids ridden little cunt.






ah, thats better!

I have to agree with the Fatbury there.  McCallister was a great player but he doesn’t appear to have that edge that makes a good manager and to be honest he reminds me a hell of a lot of Maurice Malpas.  Everything pointing to a great gaffer.  Brilliant career, vocal and committed on the pitch, captained his side but as a manager he just doesn’t have the edge required.

He had a mediocre stint at Coventry and given the squad he had at Leeds something really must be quite amiss to end up where they are at present.  

wasnt Poyet watching Leeds on Sat??

He was watching LEDs, JFW. A sucker for little flashing lights.

 Unfortunately this job is now a bit different to what it was  5 or so weeks ago.

 It's definitely not a job for a newbie, or for someone without experience of a lower div relegation scrap.

 The new man needs plenty of experience to come identify the problem areas not so much on the pitch, which are glaringly obvious, but more so the background factors. He needs to have the contacts to be able to make the changes quickly and cheaply, back in 00/01 it took a manager of the calibre of Kingy to haul us out of the mess caused by Bas T*dd....but Kingy came in after 14 games, and as he was already on the staff, could see what was required.

 
 

 

ahh my mistake Ben - I apologise prefusly

I think the FA should deduct Leeds 15 points for probably making an illegal approach for the Blackpoo manager (whose name escapes me currently)

Typical Bates "I never did anything wrong" attitude:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/7798767.stm

Ken Bates makes my teeth itch.

I can’t look or listen to him without that sensation akin to nails down a blackboard.  Almost as cringeworthy as Brent or that greasy David Miliband character but without the charm.

I'd love to see him come down a peg or ten.

Defer it until this next season though, could be in this league until 2011.