Perhaps if I'd schlepped (?spelling Dr. Mike) up to Darlington and actually forked out for a ticket I might have taken a more jaundiced view but I actually thought last night was pretty good. Granted the skill level was pretty shite for a lot of our players but that could be because most on show were fringe players of a Third Division club and not first teamers in a Premiership side. There was also very little that had me leaping out of my comfortable chair but that was mostly because, although I do like to see Leeds win always, I didn't really give too much of a shite about us winning in a Mickey Mouse cup. Having said all that I thought last night's performance was very professional in that they worked extremely hard to strangle Darlington out of the game, quick to close down, sharp into the tackle, and that they did try to play good football most of the time was very encouraging to see, bearing in mind that most of the players on view will not be in the first team most of the time but will be called upon to do a job on occassions and most of them seemed perfectly capable of doing that. In fact the only one who did not look capable of doing a job as a stand-in for the more regular owner of the shirt was Andrews and I'm sure he'll not be at the club in another fortnight. For my money Parker could take over the shirt from Heath now, though I do not expect to seem him do that yet. He will before long though. Huntington also looked good, as did Da Costa, and I can see Weston causing sides problems coming on as a late sub and running at tiring defenders. I was quite impressed at our squad depth, bearing in mind the problems of the summer.
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