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[Changing manager won't fix this.]

The EPL is about money.
Total value of West Ham players is £400m.
Total value of Nottingham Forest players is £640 million.
Total value of Leeds is £316.

Changing manager won't fix this. It's time in January to get the chequebook out. Parrott is avaiable at the right price.

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You're right - changing the manager will not address the issue of the underlying quality, which is ultimately the primary issue. Leeds are not in a position to invest heavily, given Financial Fair Play (or whatever the term is now). So they are going to have to think on their feet in terms of outgoings and incomings in January.

However, as the team continues to spiral, and the supporters see (what they perceive to be) the same mistakes / misjudgements being made, the atmosphere is going to turn nasty and the mob will grow increasingly loud. A point will come where the owners will essentially need to consider their options - even where those options offer little hope - and make a change in the hope of rescuing the season. The only realistic change is the manager.   

These are tough times at Leeds and there must be a fair chance that Farke's time nearly up.

I'll be astounded - particularly given the upcoming fixtures - if Farke is still in post on January 1st. There was a very good interview on the Square Ball podcast with Graham Smith of the Yorkshire Evening Post (a local lad from around these parts, I think) and he seemed to be of the same opinion, and talked about these days being a turning point in terms of how the crowd are viewing him, and the inevitability of where that will lead as discontent grows.

I'll be very sorry if it does happen, given that he was responsible for our promotion back to the Premier League, but in the ruthless world of top flight football, I think it might be for the best.

In his defence, the quality of the team and squad is patently not good enough and we still rely on a lot of our Championship winning team. Furthermore, there are increasing questions to be asked over our recent transfer acquisitions. Our two forwards both cost nothing, which seems to reflect their contributions, and it seems to be increasingly obvious that Perri, Bijol and maybe even Stach, are not the significant improvements we would have wanted.

In terms of quality, I thought the finish for Villa's equaliser was just one example of an incisive piece of play that would be beyond our players. The reality is that the Villa squad - just like Brighton and Forest and others - seemed full of players superior to ours.

The reluctance by Farke to make changes until about the 70th minute is also infuriating, and there surely has to be a greater emphasis on attack, with James and Gnonto seeing more game time, although I may live to regret that hope if we lose 7-0 at City, undermined defensively by our attacking intent.

We now have City away, Chelsea home, Liverpool home, Brentford away and Palace at home, before Christmas and in truth it is difficult to see where the points are going to come from. As we're sitting down to our Christmas dinner I can envisage us cut adrift at the bottom, and Farke's tenure will surely be over. The mid Winter outlook is definitely bleak. 

Richard Darbyshire, lead singer of Living In Box, a group who had some limited UK chart success (3 Top Ten hits) in the late eighties.

https://www.oneills.com/uk_en/oneills-derry-gaa-home-jersey-2026-county-red-white.html Wants a few stripes on the arms imo

Derrys traditional home jersey is white. ??

I don't think so. I think their traditional jersey was red with a white hoop, but they have undoubtedly been associated with the white jersey for the years I've been watching football from the 1970s.

Images from the 1958 final show Derry in the red with the white band.

Tried to keep it to one per artist. Could easily have done a top 200.

Heaven 17 - The Height of the Fighting
Human League - Being Boiled
Depeche Mode - New Life
Cure - The Walk
Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Spandau Ballet - The Freeze
Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over
Kane Gang - Closest Thing To Heaven
Gary Numan - I Die You Die
PhD - I Won't Let You Down

• Hurt
• Ring of Fire
• (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

Dave Ball. Synth man and joint songwriter of Soft Cell.

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Alice Cooper - Elected
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Deep Purple - Hush
Nazareth - My White Bicycle
Guns 'n' Roses - You Could Be Mine
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

It is good going, but it would be nice to see a more competitive championship. Worth noting that Keady's win in 2018 broke a previous Middletown streak so it's really an Old Firm competition at this stage. I remember a period 10-15 years ago when Cuchulainns were making it a 3-way competition. Are they not coming through in big numbers?

I was checking out the roll of honour yesterday and noted that when Cuchulainns won their 23rd Armagh Title in 1989, Keady had 8 titles and Middletown 3 titles. Cuchulainns won 6 titles in the 1960s, 7 in the 1970s and 6 in the 1980s. Since then, they have literally fallen off a cliff. Is it due to the increased commitment needed in terms of Club football? There's no doubt that the hurling does play second fiddle to the football in the City, but would love to see Cuchulainns rise again. 

I Travel - good choice!  The first couple of albums had some gems. 

Up until, and including New Gold Dream, they were - for me - the best band in the world, and their music from that period still stands the test of time. I thought from Sparkle In The Rain on, they then went down hill, which ironically coincided with their much greater commercial success.

Holding Back the Years
Something Got Me Started
Fairground

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Yes this is a protest vote. Simple Minds don't have a best of let alone a top 3.

Tell me music isn't your thing, without telling me.

• I Travel
• Theme For Great Cities
• New Gold Dream

• Ashes to Ashes
• Kooks
• Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Dave and Ansil Collins - Double Barrel
Madness - Embarrassment
Special - Gangsters
Untouchables - Free Yourself
Beat - Too Nice To Talk To
Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty
Selecter - On My Radio
Boris Gardiner - Elizabethan Reggae
Desmond Dekker and the Aces - You Can Get It If You Really Want It

Stephen Luscombe (70), one half of the eighties pop group, Blancmange.

[The huge problem is that we are solid enough at the back and in midfield but painfully limited up front. Although Calvert-Lewin may make a difference when he is fully fit, a single goal from the spot in three games tells the story. At least one more creative recruit is vital before the window closes,]

It's always a roller coaster with Leeds, and we have managed to pack in a fair amount of contrasting emotions to the first four games of the season. What we can say with some certainty is that, while the financial regulations are grossly unfair, we have not handled our transfers well to date and the squad is of questionable overall quality. However, in difficult circumstances, four points from three difficult opening Premiership fixtures is a decent return. We can write off the Carabao Cup, where we usually underperform and were arguably worse at this time last year, but it was still an embarrassing perfomance. The win over Everton was crucial, thanks to a contested but probably justified late penalty, and we were realistically never getting anything from the trip to Arsenal. Today's 0-0 draw against Newcastle was hard to watch, but we got them on a good day and a point against a potentially top five side is a good result. The huge problem is that we are solid enough at the back and in midfield but painfully limited up front. Although Calvert-Lewin may make a difference when he is fully fit, a single goal from the spot in three games tells the story. At least one more creative recruit is vital before the window closes, and Elland Road, where we have not lost for 12 months, must remain a fortress if we are to survive.

Another excellent post, MR, which is again on the money. The creative recruit that was talked about came to nothing, with Leeds again being denied on the last day, with a very late attempt to get Harry Wilson from Fulham, falling short. At the time of writing, there is talk that Leeds will go back in for him in January, although by that stage there will be a lot of water under the bridge in terms of how the season will pan out.

Given how the transfer season ended, I sort of hoped we might try the free agent market, with Brownhill, Eriksen and Ziyech available. However, the Club has decided to stick with what they have, and the reliance on Calvert-Lewin and Nmecha - both who have been shown to be injury prone - is high risk stuff. I really hope they don't come to regret their strategy, as the supporters will be unforgiving.