50 Shades Of Dirty Leeds

I said to Dad after the game  "Why am I going to the Everton game ?" Dad chuckled "Cos you're a masochist!"
Different manager same old route one football...
Some thoughts.. 
Sam Byram looked like a wide eyed calamity kid amongst brutish tree trunk blokes.
We couldn't cope with their no 27 Elmohamady and their captain Koren was a handful. We simply had no answer for their pace. Perhaps Warnock is too "old school" kicking them off the park and having is not going to cut the mustard with a side that had ex Scumchester talent in the ranks.

Hull were far too tall, their defence looked composed, assured, slick - we fell short of the mark, quite literally! Only time they looked vulnerable was when we went 3-2 and suddenly felt the crowd baying for blood. Great atmosphere but same old same old frailties.
Becchio didn't do much bar penalty, I couldn't see much from the East Stand but it looked a little fortunate. 
We should've kept ball on floor, too many hopeful headers against big sh... houses, Becchio had no Ross McC to hide behind and we had no plan B.
Why 15-20 mins from end we suddenly burst into life as if we'd suddenly realised we were late for the last train of the day? Poleon  looked lively why not on earlier? Hull had some serious pace and brawn; Austin went for it, was committed but had men on him so as the game wore on we were running out of ideas. 

That little bit of investment, Prem quality, could turn a decent hard working Leeds side into a machine - we had moments of promise with Poleon and glimpses of the old resolute Elland Rd fortress via decent saves from Kenny and no nonsense stuff from Austin. Trouble is..the ghosts of Simon Grayson sides past reared it's head with hallmarks of  league one defending.  Varney was "far from all white" whether he made  White and Lees look like panicky headless  chickens or they were all culpable in school boy errors, fact was and is we have got to look at this as a lesson learned from a team that will be there or thereabouts come May.
Little things you'd hope an experienced man like Warnock would sort out - no variation in set play - why not take short corners ? Don't try to walk it in, look around you, the brain got ahead of the feet with Becchio a few times and the opportunity was all too often wasted. 
There were moments where we weren't too bad, Hull have invested and spent well, they were more organised, more mature. The likes of Byram and Poleon, even Tom "Why So Serious?!" Lees are good players they just need to get their heads screwed on, learn from the older players, unfortunately the paper thin squad means some are pressed into action when they're not quite ready and the bench has little to offer in terms of respite, the likes of Brown and Kisnorbo offer passion and professionalism but they couldn't muster up a solid, dependable 90mins in honesty.

Well, we move on, the Tigers may be purring but it wasn't a mauling in the second half, although at times it may well have been. Marching on regardless, let's hope Warnock is a wizard in the loan market..something must be done!