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RITG is right – the reason we all expect promotion this season is because (while we gave Grayson extra breathing space after Speed’s death) Bates decided to say we need promotion this year.

The bare-faced cheek of saying that after spending £7million on the side of a stadium we don’t own (and can’t fill) and being the head of the team that cocked-up (manufactured?) the BJ contract-saga and Kilkenny signing, and Frazer Richardson re-signing (yes we forgot about that one didn’t we…), and both Montgomery and Eustace because they tried their luck by asked for a raise in the 11th hour, and probably countless others we’ve never heard about…

That shouldn’t take away from the fact that Grayson’s sides go through extended bad patches for half a season at a time. All teams have ups and downs, but we seem to have the longest downs (out of decent clubs) in the league…

With Warnock? I’d welcome him. Sure he’s a hate figure and he despises Leeds – he should fit in just swell with Kenneth Bates and his old mate Dennis Wise, etc.

Also don’t agree with reading into Warnock needing a big prize to woo him to Leeds. There’s a certain type of meddling man who will profess his desire to retire and then never will do – they’re the ones who tend to end up as managers and political leaders, etc. He was making complementary noises about Leeds last season when QPR went up and it looked like he might get the sack before even being given a game in the Premiership.

Sure he’s a flawed record. But everyone has – even Red-nose at Scum.

Neil Warnock F**K *** , If he be came manager LEEDS UNITED I would put my season ticket in the bin!!!.

Please give Grayson till end of the season he will get it right.

I fully support Grayson and think sacking him now would achieve very little. If things continue to deteriorate, the time for him to go is around 4 or 5 games before the end of the season. That way the newly incoming manager can assess his squad before the summer transfer window.

I like Warnock, but when he’s in charge of other clubs. No doubt he’s a character, like him or not he brings a certain level of personality to the game which is lost on the likes of Paul Lambert.

If – and it’s a big if – we can pull in a centre mid and centre half, I’m convinced it really could make all the difference in our fortunes. Then all the fickle fans will be lauding Larry G, so hold your horses with calls for Warnock, or anyone else for that matter.

Lets all try and wake up. We are in a worse position than 7 years ago, no quality in the team, a diminishing fan base, increased ticket prices preying on the DNA in each Leeds supporter and in turn weakening the heartbeat that was so strong, no knowledge of what is going on at the club

The latter fills me with increasing anxiety, the same old messages often dressed up in such a manner to deflect away from the smoke and mirrows that exits within a once great club. We are probably classed as a big club off the field by many but on the park we are no more than average with promotion credentials being nothing other than propaganda – look at the Lorimer statement on Delph and subsequent media releases as a prime example – and now we read Grayson wont be rushed into signings (if indeed he is still an employee)

I have a £633 season ticket application and am seriously considering why I should pay premiership prices in order to basically reimburse the historic administration losses…..apologies but having followed Revies boys and been in Paris for the great silverware robbery I find the whole situation terribly depressing

You talk about warnock having a bad record in the EPL, at least we would have a chance of getting in the EPL… Grayson needs to go now, we are not going to go any further forward under his management, I feel he has done his best and taken us as far as he can, most of you leeds fans need to wake up, you like grayson because he’s a leeds fan and was on the books as a player, that doesn’t mean he is going to get us promoted. I want the best thing for leeds united. And I think that is neil warnock! MOT

Guys, sacking Simon Grayson and bringing in Neil Warnock at this stage of the season would be a disaster, unless of course it is used as an excuse why we didn’t get promoted, to be honest in three seasons I think SG has done well, and what he has got to work with? No white knights as at QPR, City or even Blackburn, we keep hearing from Bates about the “treasure chests” and “money is there if you need it”, well get real, it isn’t, it’s just a con to get you to part with your hard earned cash, my season ticket renewal landed on my doormat this morning, it’s the middle of January another four months of the season left, and already he is after the dosh, The days of players “queuing up to join Leeds United” are long gone, football is a mercenary game, the players are in it for the money, they go to where the better offers are, of course they do, or they go to the premiership, where the money goes with the territory, a la Bradley Johnson or Beckford or Delph, we will sell any promising players in the next transfer window, expect, Clayton, Snoddy, Howson, McCormack and others to leave in the summer, the excuse will be used that the club couldn’t renegotiate, so we “had to sell” we will replace them with out of contract players loan signings and has beens, and let’s face it, we haven’t any money available to stay in the Premiership even if we get there, can you honestly see Bates paying an average wage of £60 grand a week to a squad of 18 or so premiership players, on the chance that we might stay in the prem, no chance, he would be thinking that the parachute payments would enable us to have a good team in the Championship, and to make a profit for his “investment” and remember for all his bluster, Bates cannot afford for Leeds to get promoted just yet, I seem to think there is a payout to the creditors if we go up to the premiership, and this has a time constraint on it, and the constraint ends next year, so he will hype on about if you want a premier club you need to pay for it, and raking in the money, with no intention of investing in the team, just hotels in Beeston and a stand that we don’t own, I have to ask would you build an extension on a house you were renting? thought not, why has Bates.
MOT

Neil Warnock? In the event that SG is about to be sacked and the club are lining up a new manager, I can only hope that the only consideration that Warnock would get is to ensure he is in captivity somewhere in deepest Cornwall and in possession of a “restraining order” making it illegal to be found within 200 miles of any Yorkshire border.

Like RITGK, I have been a fan of SG but ot in his coaching team and would suggest that he shows a little bit more ruthlessness in this direction and rids himself of Mr Snodin and his cronies and brings in a proven coaching team … Don Revie had Les Cocker and David O’Leary had Roy Aitken / Brian Kidd.

grayson is shocking! stood in his technical area alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll season scratching his head. anyone ever seen him sat down! what does he do on the training field? loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog ball!