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Cardiff v Leeds FA CUP Exit, I mean MDT

Right,

so it's a close call what's worse - my MDT record or Leeds Utd in the 3rd round of the FA Cup, but what the heck - might as well hex us in style against another beloved rival over many years....

Cardiff City are known as the Bluebirds, formerly the Red Dragons when that strange chap from the Far East owned them, formerly the Bluebirds.

God knows why, it's sheep central down there.

Cardiff is a prosperous part of Wales, which is on a par with describing Wortley as posher than Armley.

Cardiff's honours list:

Welsh Cup winners x 22

Pontythllwth cup winners x 3

Gwythnylllthinig league runners up 1932

Moving on - Cardiff are currently crap in the Championship (20th) having not won any of their last 5 games. Perfect form to beat us in the FA Cup sadly.

Famous fans include:

Guto Pryce (from Super Furry animals)

Neil Kinnock

Tom Jones

Ivor the engine

Alan Jones

Robert Jones (Builth Wells)

William Jones (B Company)

Dai Jones (C Company)

Dai Young (he did)

Douglas "Pwylgyngilgocherydrobwylantisiliogogogoch" Bader

Weather:

3 degrees and raining sheep, take a coat and your own drinking water if you don't want dysentry.

Prediction:

Leeds U18 B team sent out to lose 0-2 and send the Cardiff faithful screaming down to the pub to celebrate with the half a pint of Brains Bitter they can still afford.

55 comments

55 Comments

Lord Snodgrass

Jan 11

Just bought my ticket for the replay. Surely we can't f☆☆☆ this up.

Come on Leeds, let's have a cup run...

Soopaleeds

Jan 11

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I still have a chance to screw it up on the MDT - which one of us will last the longest m'Lud - FA Cup or League??

TC10

Jan 11

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Will your armchair fit through the turnstiles....? 🙈

Lord Snodgrass

Jan 11

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Ey up what the wwww what the hell is thar inferring thee. Tw.at thee tha nos..

Bull Thick With Drink

Jan 09

Congrats Soopa it looked like another typical LUFC FA Cup 3rd Round performance until the treble substitution that injected some intensity into the tie.

Im more convinced now that we will be in the 5th draw and who knows maybe wrexham will still be in it to draw them.

Soopa is bringing us to Wemberlee lads you heard it here first........

Jan 09

Congrats Soopa. Replay is on 17th Jan, so you know

Soopaleeds

Jan 09

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Oh great - my little cup of joy overflows 😣

Jan 09

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Get a win and we could go out v Boreham Wood or Accrington in the next round

Stevethemouse

Jan 08

The replay is 17 18 January

Stevethemouse

Jan 08

Well that was close

1972Glory

Jan 08

I'm not sure who sanctioned the final contract on that **** of a CB in our defence but I sure hope they are paying his wages out of their own pockets.

Strujik looked out of sorts, maybe the Captain's armband had a detrimental effect on him?.

Aaronson looks a shadow of his pre world cup form and is not really contributing anything.

Feel sorry for Joffy, the system we play definately does not suit him. Assuming we are not going to change it maybe he needs to go out on loan to get more game time and goals.

Little Willy continues to impress and looks a real gem.

Assuming we can beat the sheep shaggers, then given that we are away (again) to either Borehamwood or Accrington, you can hear the TV executives busting a gut to show the tie because we all know what's coming next!!!

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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Lots to agree with there....

Llorente was weak again today when attacked - looks much better with time and space to distribute. Shame because his first role is to defend... I know he can do better, but he just hasn't shown it this season at all.

Struijk looked like he wanted to be back at LB - definitely rusty

Aarondsen does look tired and a bit lost - maybe a rest due.

Joffy definitely doesn't suit our style, but then again when others are brought on up top they score, so at some point his place in the squad looks weaker and weaker.... I think his time is limited with us and that won't be popular.

Willy just needs to keep his head and stop the Grealish

guy.permentier

Jan 08

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At least a better second half and the subs from JM worked.

We should take care of Cardiff at ER, so we can go into another banana skin.

Hopefully we can recoup some of the ill & injured for friday.

TC10

Jan 08

Why not START with Wober to give him a full game to get used to us!?

Why keep 4 at the back when chasing the game when Baardiff crossed the halfway line about 3 times all game!?

Better 2nd half but then it should be against a crap Championship team who can't score goals!!

We should have actually won very comfortably with easy missed chances by Gnonto, Strukijk, Joseph and Rodrigo pen and don't need a replay....

What does Greenwood bring to us? I know he's young but his touch is awful.... to totally contradict myself he did put in some good set pieces today but I think you need to have more to your game than that in the Prem

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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Wober - looked useful when he came on - he's just joined the club and moved country (and presumably had all the accommodation to set up that goes with it) so adding him at half time makes sense to me. I think he's our LCB and Struijk is now LB when settled.

Greenwood - tough call here: we played a very young team and he shows flashes. He's a project to me and needs that exposure to sink or swim. He looks great at U21 level and looks like a player we should nurture - that's what we're doing so we have to give him some time.

He'll have better days.

Daniel2

Jan 09

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Greenwood has looked great for us everytime he plays as a forward in either a front 2 or front 3. Unfortunately Jesse is trying to make him a deep laying midfielder which basically nullifies his game.

Gelthardt is another who need to play in a front 2. Also dropping so deep destroys his game. He should be on the last mans should using his strength to turn his man and ot peeling off int that littl pocket of space between CB's and fullbacks thus allowing to either run at goal or hit his long range effords.

Aaronson has been played as a wide forward. Stick back at CM, tell him to stop diving every time he is touch and also to stop turning back he should come good. His diving reminds men of that Brazilian Aryan we had under mr anti purple.

Lord Snodgrass

Jan 08

Soopa the miracle worker. We didn't lose.

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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That's a low base to start from....😆

TC10

Jan 08

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Crap weather forecasts and Lord Drizzlybum now thinks he knows everything now he's turned into an armchair supporter.... 😉🤣🙈

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

Well it turns out my MDT and Leeds in the 3rd round are as bad as each other!!! 😜

Stalemate means another go - copy and paste time....

Smurf

Jan 08

I liked what I saw of Wober, looks a good acquisition. We definitely owned the second half. All the substitutions paid off. Roll on the rematch.

Enoch's extra leg

Jan 08

can't fault the effort in the 2nd half,we were unlucky not to win.still not good enough over 90 mins,we started brightly and gifted them a goal that gave them confidence

Wobber had a decent debut in midfield,he looks like he likes to get on the ball and likes a tackle.

Dessip

Jan 08

So, so lucky. Blame Marsch entirely. Patterns of play are predictable and so easy to defend against

Danish Leeds Fan

Jan 08

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Yes, a bit lucky. Too little creativity when Aronsson‘s out of shape

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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So just for the record - every match we don't win - blame Marsch entirely. For every match we do get a result we praise the players, fans, cleaning lady.....

Going to get boring mate.

For the record, he made good changes and picked a decent side - he's not to blame for the individual errors that led to goals and he made the subs that saved the game.

Dessip

Jan 08

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I’ll let you know if it gets boring should we ever manage to get the result you’re referring to. When our best midfielder is a newly signed left back Or When our back 4 are incapable of defending or maintaining possession. When our best opportunities are from set-pieces - and all of this against an out of form Championship side. honestly I fail to see why he should draw any praise whatsoever. We drew because he had to throw the kitchen sink at a poor side. Just what we need - another game in a congested 2nd half of the season. He’s a poor PL manager and his ’style’ of football doesn’t work with our players. after 12 months that’s all on him. Frankly, I can’t help think that the tea lady would have done just as good a job today..

Smurf

Jan 08

Get IN!!!!

Sonny Boy!

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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That's a great reward for a young man who came to us to play.

Smurf

Jan 08

Nice, Rodrigo. Can't fault his goalscoring this season.

Soopaleeds

Jan 08

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Finally can we bury the No9 argument? That's what Rodders is and always has been. Bielsa played him out of position and now he's shining.

Of course Dessip blames Marsch entirely... 😉

guy.permentier

Jan 08

Thing is we've got the uncanny ability to make really shxte teams look quite good. I'm afraid some of our lads have put on their shoes on the wrong feet.

But at the same time others do find their teammates in blue on a regular basis.

For once I agree with Smurf that it's very obvious Pascal has not played at CB for a while.

Danish the less said about Firpo the better.

Having said that, on our other flank, Kristensen is hardly faring any better.

A quick goal could change the outcame, because this is a really poor Bardiff side. But the fact we concede 2 against a struggling team says it all really.