A View From Behind Enemy Lines

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Obsessed

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As mentioned elsewhere, I sat in the Leeds end tonight, 3 rows back from our dugout. Interesting seeing Dodds and the staff up close.

Dodds very frustrated throughout, turning round and visibly swearing at every loose ball before f***ing about with his iPad on the tripod.

Was on Pembele, Bellingham and Ekwah constantly. Him and Proctor seemed to be coaching Pembele through the game.

Lot of encouragement for Rigg too. ‘More intensity’ repeated a lot.

Initially thought he looked quite immature in his approach by comparison to Farke who seemed much more composed. However, he was visibly making tweaks to positioning all the way through the first half in particular, moving Rigg out wider, then giving him the go ahead to get tighter in and around Bellingham.

Clearly a good tactician in there as evidenced by the result but his gut reaction to any mistakes seems to be to blow up, which can’t be good for the players and is a stark difference to the encouragement of Mowbray.

As a side note, Leeds fans were absolutely awful, not a peep from them and many round me booed them off in both halves. Top marks to the bloke behind me who broke the silence in the first half with a lousy ‘fuck off Farke you fat lazy ****’
 


Obsessed said:
As mentioned elsewhere, I sat in the Leeds end tonight, 3 rows back from our dugout. Interesting seeing Dodds and the staff up close.

Dodds very frustrated throughout, turning round and visibly swearing at every loose ball before f***ing about with his iPad on the tripod.

Was on Pembele, Bellingham and Ekwah constantly. Him and Proctor seemed to be coaching Pembele through the game.

Lot of encouragement for Rigg too. ‘More intensity’ repeated a lot.

Initially thought he looked quite immature in his approach by comparison to Farke who seemed much more composed. However, he was visibly making tweaks to positioning all the way through the first half in particular, moving Rigg out wider, then giving him the go ahead to get tighter in and around Bellingham.

Clearly a good tactician in there as evidenced by the result but his gut reaction to any mistakes seems to be to blow up, which can’t be good for the players and is a stark difference to the encouragement of Mowbray.

As a side note, Leeds fans were absolutely awful, not a peep from them and many round me booed them off in both halves. Top marks to the bloke behind me who broke the silence in the first half with a lousy ‘fuck off Farke you fat lazy ****’
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Good read thanks.

Think im a bit of a moron as far as coaching goes. Amazed how much in game coaching goes on n presumed most players could cope without it.
 
Obsessed said:
As mentioned elsewhere, I sat in the Leeds end tonight, 3 rows back from our dugout. Interesting seeing Dodds and the staff up close.

Dodds very frustrated throughout, turning round and visibly swearing at every loose ball before f***ing about with his iPad on the tripod.

Was on Pembele, Bellingham and Ekwah constantly. Him and Proctor seemed to be coaching Pembele through the game.

Lot of encouragement for Rigg too. ‘More intensity’ repeated a lot.

Initially thought he looked quite immature in his approach by comparison to Farke who seemed much more composed. However, he was visibly making tweaks to positioning all the way through the first half in particular, moving Rigg out wider, then giving him the go ahead to get tighter in and around Bellingham.

Clearly a good tactician in there as evidenced by the result but his gut reaction to any mistakes seems to be to blow up, which can’t be good for the players and is a stark difference to the encouragement of Mowbray.

As a side note, Leeds fans were absolutely awful, not a peep from them and many round me booed them off in both halves. Top marks to the bloke behind me who broke the silence in the first half with a lousy ‘fuck off Farke you fat lazy ****’
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First away match I’ve been to in a good few years. Our fans were class, never stopped singing, theirs were absolutely piss poor. Elland Road is a shit ground, was expecting so much more. So surprised they haven’t moved, there is plenty of space next to it to build a new one.
 
dcl0sc said:
First away match I’ve been to in a good few years. Our fans were class, never stopped singing, theirs were absolutely piss poor. Elland Road is a shit ground, was expecting so much more. So surprised they haven’t moved, there is plenty of space next to it to build a new one.
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I took the bairn tonight and I’ll never do it again until he’s 15/16. It’s a shit hole and I’d forgotten how bad it was. Them gangways at the top of the steps will see a disaster at some point, too thin too steep and stewards trying to let 7/8 up at a time keep to them clear after th game has kicked off and we’d queued 15-20 minutes to get in is only going to end up 1 way eventually whether that be us or another force their way up
 
hank evans said:
I took the bairn tonight and I’ll never do it again until he’s 15/16. It’s a shit hole and I’d forgotten how bad it was. Them gangways at the top of the steps will see a disaster at some point, too thin too steep and stewards trying to let 7/8 up at a time keep to them clear after th game has kicked off and we’d queued 15-20 minutes to get in is only going to end up 1 way eventually whether that be us or another force their way up
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Leeds have had problems with entry / exit to that away end for years. Loads of Newcastle fans missed KO last season. They will do nothing until forced and that won’t happen until there is a nasty incident.
ER was a tip when I last went, and that was probably 15 years ago maybe longer.
 
Obsessed said:
As mentioned elsewhere, I sat in the Leeds end tonight, 3 rows back from our dugout. Interesting seeing Dodds and the staff up close.

Dodds very frustrated throughout, turning round and visibly swearing at every loose ball before f***ing about with his iPad on the tripod.

Was on Pembele, Bellingham and Ekwah constantly. Him and Proctor seemed to be coaching Pembele through the game.

Lot of encouragement for Rigg too. ‘More intensity’ repeated a lot.

Initially thought he looked quite immature in his approach by comparison to Farke who seemed much more composed. However, he was visibly making tweaks to positioning all the way through the first half in particular, moving Rigg out wider, then giving him the go ahead to get tighter in and around Bellingham.

Clearly a good tactician in there as evidenced by the result but his gut reaction to any mistakes seems to be to blow up, which can’t be good for the players and is a stark difference to the encouragement of Mowbray.

As a side note, Leeds fans were absolutely awful, not a peep from them and many round me booed them off in both halves. Top marks to the bloke behind me who broke the silence in the first half with a lousy ‘fuck off Farke you fat lazy ****’
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No, that’s impossible.
The sympathisers will not have that.
 
AEMMG said:
The top coaches tend to be the more animated ones on the touch line.Klopp, Guardiola,Arteta, nearly kick every ball with their players and aren’t afraid to show their emotions on the touch line.
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Then again there’s plenty of players and coaches who say shouting from the touchline does very little.only players right next to coach can hear anything and overall view of the game from there is crap
 

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