>From: Robert Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To my mind, Venables was highly culpable for the shit we're in now. He >wrote off Batty without even seeing him play and played the biggest load >of wank in midfield. It was never any surprise we were terrible under >him with his atrocious selection policies. He had much better players at >the club than he played. I think Mark's quite right, he still had the >players to take the club forward. (Or at very least not take it into >such a steep decline.)
agree with you on batty and barmby was a joke but the team he thought he had when he took the job on was being sold right in front of him. my biggest point is this: the players didn't know if they were next out. how on earth do you steady the ship in that situation? have you ever worked for a company that's in the shit financially? "right olli, you're in this saturday but i can't make any promises for next week cos you might be sold off to pay for the guppies". i felt sorry for the guy at the time and still do. he was sold a stinker by risdale. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/2869547.stm but it seems i'm alone on this one, so let the flames commence! rich _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist maybe if I can work out a reason I can get home
