He made 10 tackles yesterday - for context, Sheaf made eight and no Leeds player made more than two. Combined with the assist and his general passing range, it was as complete a DM performance as we’ve seen in ages.
He’s been dealt the best hand we’ve had in years, but has so far played it extremely well. Whether or not we can maintain the progress on the pitch, the steps taken to professionalise things off it at least leave us in good stead.
Atmosphere was fantastic yesterday, which really shows the value in admitting 2000 undercover Leeds fans in the home end. They were absolutely massive.
Keep them where they are - it’s good to see the dugouts if you’re watching on TV, and from a selfish point of view I enjoy watching highlights/live games with the camera in the same stand as my season ticket.
I’d love to see your working for him costing us 7-8 points on his own at the start of the season. But we obviously have a bit of a conundrum about how to use him going forward now we're committed to a back four. Viveash clearly believes in him but let's face it, no-one's upset if we manage to...
So refreshing to see us be the physical team roughing up a more technical side - Kitching and Collins won so many duels, Haji and Simms the same. Been ages since we had genuine physical presence across the pitch.
Christ we were good
Collins 7 Were the sliced kicks…deliberate?!
MVE 8 Might have been his best game for us
Thomas 9 Absolutely fucking immense
Kitching 9 Absolutely fucking immense
Bidwell 9 Superb job against two very tricky (and very different) RWs
Sheaf 9 Lost count of the number...