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Flowers laid on behalf of all Waccoe members.
 
A true gent of the game
 
RIP

Now I  appreciate there are bigger fish to fry but here are some of my pet peeves at Elland Road:
 
1. Dizzy penalties/penalty shootouts - why oh why?  It is so amateurish and basically shit.  Instead we should get the small goals out and watch the under 10’s up to under 13’s LUFC teams play each other in 5 a sides.  Let’s see some of the future players.  Or anything else that isn’t tin pot.
 
2.  Soaking the pitch incessantly.  Why does the pitch need to be drenched so much?  Why at half time.  Surely can stop 20 mins before kick off and let the players warm up without being soaked themselves.  Drives me and also that our players waste the first 10 mins of each half slipping.  And the slick surface is hardly helping us is it?
 
3. The shit soundsytem.  Can’t hear a word that mumbling bloke is saying and the music is muffled.
 
4.  The fucking  announcer making stupid repeated announcements during play that were made at half time about parking restrictions at the west stand.  Don’t need to keep hearing this and I’m sure the players who are trying to concentrate defending a lead don’t need to hear it either.
 
5. “Express” Card only payment lanes.  don’t call them express if the staff member working behind them is working on both an express lane and a normal lane and if it actually ends up taking longer to use that lane!
 
 
 

Passed away, seemed a very nice bloke. First Leeds manager I knew.

over 31 thousand tickets sold for the weekends game, it would seem that the mass of Leeds fans do not subscribe to the view of waccoe that the end is nigh?
Well done to everyone of the 31,000 and more hopefully.
Good to see plenty have some faith

Ipswich will be without goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski, who has a calf strain, with Dean Gerken deputising.
 
Jordan Spence serves the second game of his three-match ban, while Tommy Smith - linked with a move away - misses out.
 
Leeds forward Samu Saiz starts a six-match ban after being sent off for spitting in the FA Cup defeat at Newport on Sunday.
  Full-back Laurens De Bock, who joined from Club Brugge on Thursday, will not feature. SAM's prediction Home win 32% Draw 29% Away win 39% SAM, the Sports Analytics Machine, is a super-computer built by @ProfIanMcHale of the University of Liverpool.
Match facts
Ipswich have lost only one of their last 10 home league matches against Leeds (W7 D2), losing 2-1 in August 2013.  
Leeds have not kept a league clean sheet in any of their last 13 visits to Portman Road, since Mark Beeney was in goal for the Whites in a goalless draw in the Premier League in October 1993.  
David McGoldrick has found the net in five of his seven league matches against Leeds for Ipswich, netting six goals in total including one earlier this season at Elland Road.  
The Whites have not completed a league double over Ipswich in a season since the 2001-02 campaign, when both clubs competed in the Premier League.  
Only matches involving Hull (83) have seen more Championship goals than games involving Ipswich this season (78).  
Leeds have not won their opening away league match in a calendar year since 2009, when they won 2-0 at Brighton in League One; they have drawn two and lost six since.  
En route to Dublin Airport. If the weather is anything to go by it will be an horrendous day. Not confident going into this one, our poor record at Portman Road combined with the absence of Vieira & Sáiz strikes fear in me. Think we'll struggle to retain possession & be bullied off the 2nd ball
 
Ipswich 1-0 Leeds
 
Celina 59'
 
Hope I'm wrong MOT

Predictions please ladies - think we'll see something silly like Sutton last season? Or a repeat of the beating we gave these boyos a few months back? 
 
3 - 0 win, Grot to finally give us a goal MOT

I don't think I am out of order in saying that the matchday atmosphere in the Gelderd is at an all time low and has been for years. What seems strange though is that every season nothing is done to try and improve it.
 
I think the rise of the South stand over the last say 6 season has been a response to this and has seen atmospheres and numbers in that stand improve season by season.
 
With the Cheese Wedge being opened alot last season and selling out every game this season, the people standing there very much add to the atmosphere generated by the south aswell as creating its own atmosphere.
 
So my question is why is the Gelderd so consistently poor at generating any atmosphere? and what do people think it will take to get it back to the good old days?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Midfielder Ouasim Bouy will return to Leeds United early from his loan spell at Spanish club Cultural Leonesa, it has been announced.
Leonesa announced on their official website on Wednesday that the loan of the United player ended today and he is heading back to Elland Road.
The midfield anchorman, 24, joined Leonesa last summer on a season-long loan from Leeds after they signed him on a four-year deal following his release from Juventus.
  Buoy will arrive at his parent club six months earlier than expected after being barely used in Spain, making just four appearances in all competitions. Good move for Leeds?
Not really. If Buoy can’t get a game at the team placed 17th in the second tier of Spanish football, he will struggle to break into an English Championship side with genuine promotion hopes. Leeds would be better off sending the Dutch enforcer out on another loan for the second half of the campaign, perhaps following Marcus Antonsson and Lewie Coyle into League One. At the present time, that appears his natural level. The word from Spain is that Leonesa decided to offload Bouy back to his parent club to free up space on their wage bill, to enable them to bring in new arrivals. The player surely can’t figure in Thomas Christiansen’s immediate plans as he has had only 11 minutes of first-team action since late September.

Happy January 3rd Share the joy

Hand up, the team have surprised me since the slump we had. I really thought that after the initial great start our true level was closer to the slump than great start. We are half way through and it looks like we are competitive for a top 6 place. 
 
So we if we make the play offs do you think we can win it? I think automatic is beyond us.   

Thanks to Heidi for mentioning this on her Facebook post.
 
It's Toby's 5th Birthday on January 5th and it would be great if you could spare the time to send him a birthday card. Let's do a good Waccoe for the lad.
 
Send cards to Toby Nye, The Hope Inn, 74 York Road, Leeds LS9 8ES

Let's destroy these c***s MOT

If  you would like to go in the hat for 2 free tickets side by side you know what to do.
 
Please only put your name down if you will definitely take them. 
 
Contributors will go in the hat twice.
 
Draw to be made at 11pm tonight
 
Good luck 

Bottom club Birmingham have striker Sam Gallagher available again following his one-match ban for the visit of Championship promotion hopefuls Leeds.
Midfielder David Davis is also pushing for a return to the starting line-up as Blues seek a first win in eight games.
Leeds playmaker Samuel Saiz is back after two games out with a calf issue.
Ronaldo Vieira will be assessed after suffering a knock in the 2-1 win at Burton on Boxing Day, while Stuart Dallas could be missing again.
Dallas scored twice in Leeds' 2-1 victory at St Andrew's in April 2016 - one of three wins in the Yorkshire side's last four unbeaten visits.
Pierre-Michel Lasogga continued his comeback with a 15-minute spell off the bench against the Brewers and is pushing for a start for fifth-placed Leeds.
SAM's prediction Home win 31% Draw 29% Away win 40% SAM, the Sports Analytics Machine, is a super-computer built by @ProfIanMcHale of the University of Liverpool.
Match facts
Birmingham City have won only two of their last nine Championship matches against Leeds United. Blues have won just twice in 13 Championship games under Steve Cotterill, during which they have scored just five goals. Leeds have not won their final league match in a calendar year since 2009, when they won 4-2 at Stockport County. Birmingham have scored just 12 league goals in 24 games this term - comfortably the lowest of any team in the Football League. Thomas Christiansen's side have had five different players contribute five-plus Championship goals this term: Kemar Roofe (7), Samu Saiz (5), Kalvin Phillips (5), Ezgjan Alioski (5) and Pierre-Michel Lasogga (5) - the largest spread of any team.  
 
 
 
Not confident today
 
2-1 Brum (Vieira)

Very exciting times in The Hop as @Sheppy and my brother picked the winners and mrsmydad and my cousin witnessed the draw for no impropriety.
 
The winner of the signed 72 FA cup shirt was @strachan7 - well done mate
 
The winner of the signed smiley squad shirt of 73/74 was @snifferheadsin - well done mate
 
The order for choosing the other prizes were drawn and are
 
3rd @The BFB
 
4th @Norman6 
 
5th @Loop 
 
6th @mydadin72 
 
7th @bobbybrandy 
 
8th @FatBob 
 
9th @NorthLeedsWhite 
 
10th @Oxon White 
 
11th @tonyleeleeds 
 
12th @Evs 
 
I'll sort the prizes from 3rd onwards in next few days as on the piss now.
 
The best news is waccoe has raised £1,400 for the Toby fund
 
Thank You all 

Hi all,
 
Apologies for any delay but work/life a bit of a blur at the moment but in a good way 
 
I'm away with work first thing for the week but passenger in car down that there so will be collating all those kind enough to have bought tickets and tot up final tally.
 
I will list all those in draw this week so keep an eye out to make sure I don't miss you!! 
 
I'm working with a Spurts fan this week so may get him to do draw and he's an honest lad 
 
If anyone would still like to buy tickets for the two signed shirts plus other goodies then it's one ticket for a fiver or 3 tickets for a tenner by PayPal to hutchy17462@hotmail.com 
 
Cheers 
 
 
 

Leeds v carrot crunchers on 16 December
 
2 free tickets side by side to be won just reply on the thread if you would like to be in the draw.
 
Any contributor will have two tickets in the draw.
 
Draw to be made next Wednesday 

Which one and why? 

Not sure we need look any further. Roofe worth a run in his preferred position until January in my opinion. He's earned it. 

4 of the Supporters' Trust versus 4 Leeds United representatives (probably including an ex-player & Great).  Exact line-ups to be confirmed but this should be very good fun with some grand prizes to be won plus Pie & Peas supper in the ticket price.  Proceeds are going to the Leeds United Foundation.  Click on the link for more details.
 
The more the merrier, would be great to see Waccoers there.  Could you please help publicise the event, many thanks.
 
http://bit.ly/2nyOSiG

Thanks to @Rowley Birkin QC and @No More Zeroes who gave a helping hand.
 
Flowers laid on behalf of all Waccoe members.
 
 

Norwich, Hull, Forest. Reckon we might just get there ?

Draw tonight.  Know only the lower league teams played this weekend but the gates look appalling..  I blame it on Taggart taking the rats for a jolly in Brazil all those years back.   So who do we want .... dog fondlers away , Chelsea?  Spuds , We will probably get Reading away