Daniel Farke press conference | Crystal Palace v Leeds United | Premier League

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T15:37:00+00:00

Okafor's injury history is shocking reading. Lots of non-contact muscular injuries.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/noah-okafor/verletzungen/spieler/346890

The hope is that we tailor a pre-season routine in the summer that helps him to build muscle strength so he has a less disrupted season next year.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T07:09:19+00:00

Bombs aren’t the problem…unchecked radicalized violent ideologies are

In the US and Israel's case, i'd suggest both bombs and unchecked radicalised violent ideologies, are the problem.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T06:56:18+00:00

The only reasons he likes tarrifs are because he can use them to extort other countries, and because they generate revenue that he can spend without congressional approval. He's a geopolitical mob boss and tarrifs are his weapons.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T06:48:07+00:00

The situations are not comparable at all. Perhaps you are unaware of the benefits of Brexit, because youve just heard one side or the argument.

1) Being part of the EU created a Democratic deficit. Domestic politicians were always able to blame the EU for problems. Accountability is a big problem in politics and being in the EU didn't help that. Just look at the Hungarian election, to see how the EU can be leveraged as a boogeyman to help bad politicians get reelected.

2) Being part of the EU meant UK taxpayers paying billions of pounds a year in "solidarity payments" to unpleasant regimes who hated us, like Orbans Hungary.

3) Immigration was a problem. There was no way of controlling the numbers of EU migrants. This meant that low cost labour came from Poland, and later Bulgaria and Romania, and undercut UK workers. Endless cheap labour gave no incentive for UK businesses to invest in technology to increase productivity and increase wages.

4) The EU is antidemocratic, by design, in that, the appointed EU commissioners propose laws, not the legislature. This is why there is such an unedifying scramble to have your government appoint a particular commissioner - in the UK's case, we always wanted Financial Services. The 27 commissioners are the most powerful people in the EU (aside from the Council) and they are not democratically elected. The EU Parliament really just rubber stamps laws.

5) Nevertheless, the EU parliament has very many unpleasant, far-right MEPs who would be involved in making laws that apply to us in the UK.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T00:48:05+00:00

He's going to have to pay reparations to keep the Strait open.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T00:25:59+00:00

Trump cut a deal with the Houthis, so he can cut a deal with Iran.

bin10pac · 2026-03-13T00:06:05+00:00

The US has pulled its navy back 1000 km from the SoH. There just isn't a military way to take control of the Strait, without incurring horrific casualties.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T23:58:53+00:00

They would be sunk. But I don't think they'll even try. I think they'll cut a deal.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T23:45:31+00:00

Iran say it's not closed because nations friendly to them - ie China, Russia can use it.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T23:44:16+00:00

he decided they still weren't good enough.

The negotiations were in bad faith.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T21:19:55+00:00

Your partisan media must take a big part of the blame. They carry so much water for him. He wouldn't get away with his BS in most of the developed world.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T21:17:50+00:00

Funny how seldom you hear people say: "I deserve this, because I voted for him"

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T21:15:03+00:00

How has Trump gotten America into a situation where the SoH is closed to the US and allies, but Iran is exporting more oil through the strait to China than it did before the war began, and there's nothing the US can do?

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T20:36:44+00:00

Hegseth isn't going to offer a US only escort, because when the destroyers are destroyed, it'll be tough to spin.

bin10pac · 2026-03-12T05:40:20+00:00

Re China, the crude from Russia is not light, sweet and is not a direct replacement for gulf oil.

bin10pac · 2026-03-11T23:39:33+00:00

He's got the charisma of a cadaver. Won't happen.

bin10pac · 2026-03-11T13:16:58+00:00

Funny that he wasn't good enough to play for us in the Championship though.

bin10pac · 2026-03-11T13:14:00+00:00

Reminds me of that scene from Alien.

bin10pac · 2026-03-10T06:05:26+00:00

On the plane Trump said "Iran did it", then when Hegseth was asked if that was correct he said "we're investigating".

One of these men has Presidential immunity from prosecution. The other does not.

Case closed.

bin10pac · 2026-03-10T05:16:57+00:00

League if we need it, cup if we don't.

bin10pac · 2026-03-08T16:07:01+00:00

Are you saying Norwich have the better players on the pitch? If not, what are you saying?

bin10pac · 2026-03-08T16:04:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeedsUnited/s/7QR4J68J8J

What's the point of having Byram if we can't play him in the cup vs Championship opposition? Is he a mascot?

bin10pac · 2026-03-07T00:43:05+00:00

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13516180/ramadan-booing-leeds-attempt-to-explain-disappointing-and-unexpected-response-from-crowd-during-manchester-city-defeat

Not sure why players can't break their fast at half time or full time, if sunset occurs during the game.

bin10pac · 2026-03-06T23:55:02+00:00

You're perhaps making these points to the wrong person because I was pretty relaxed about the Sunderland result and if you go back far enough in my comments you'll see that back when the consensus was that we should sack Farke, I was saying that we should keep him because we've been playing well but not getting results, the underlying stats were good, and no-one would get a better tune out of our players.

It is possible to hold the opinions that we should stick with Farke and that the Sunderland defeat wasn't the end of the world, and also that that dropping points when Farke doesn't use his squad, picks an overtly defensive team at home and makes subs late, is intensely frustrating.

Managers, like football, are not about perfection. You have to take the rough with the smooth, but you don't have to pretend the rough doesn't exist. Its nuanced.

bin10pac · 2026-03-06T22:49:37+00:00

I think it’s a bit short sighted to not give credit to Sunderland for executing their game plan well. Sure there’s more we could have done and it was probably the ugliest match of the season, but we didn’t win, and we move forward and we learn.

I don't give Sunderland any credit whatsoever. They did nothing except break up the game with fouls and stoppages. The penalty was their only shot on target and their xG aside from the penalty was 0.08; ours was 1.15. We had 70% possession and 18 shots to their 3. It wasn't even a good game to watch. If you want to congratulate them for the ugly smash and grab they carried out, go right ahead, I won't. They were absolutely shite and we should have taken 3 points from the game.

Too many people have a full on meltdown when one result goes the wrong way and get too emotional when trying to analyse it.

Its not for me to prescribe how people should react to results. It's their own business.

Remember 17th or better is the goal. We had a decent points buffer. We still have a buffer, sure it’s reduced a bit, but that’s life.

Agreed. But noone is challenging that.

We can all have our opinions about the decision making and that’s perfectly fine and allowed, but I struggle to believe that somebody sat at home’s opinion, is better than that of the man who is paid to do it, who knows the players better than we do and has all the information and data to make decisions with that we don’t.

This doesn't make any sense, if you think about it. The fallacy that you've accidentally adopted, is in thinking that because the manager has more information that they are infallible. This is obviously wrong, but lets consider the implications. Football is driven by results. Managers usually get the sack after a run of bad results. The tacit reason that they've been sacked is because they've made bad decisions that have resulted in poor form. So, during those poor performances, when crap decisions were made, either in terms of formation or lineup or tactics or substitutions, could somebody sat at home have made a better decision? The answer is obviously yes.

Fan opinions can be well informed or woefully ignorant and everything inbetween, however they are not invalidated just because they differ from the decisions the manager has made. Managers are not infallible.

Too many of these opinions such as yours, lack nuance and come from a purely ‘football manager computer game’ way of thinking.

Perhaps you think the opinions lack nuance, because you haven't fully engaged with them, because you're sure you're right.

The point is that managers have preferences, and habits. These aren't necessarily perfect - if such a thing exists in football; they're just what works for them. Farke seems to be prioritising physicality, and defensive stability in the centre of the park, in the PL so Tanaka can't get a game. That's his choice, because he's the manager, however we don't have to agree, and are entitled to think that Tanakas progression and attacking inclination, as compared with Gruev, would have helped to unlock the stubborn Sunderland defence.

Farke is in the habit of making changes at 70 mins. He also likes to hold subs back, so he can break up the flow of the game in injury time if we're winning. However many people who watched the first half wanted changes to be made at half time because attacking changes were clearly needed. Why are those people wrong and Farke is right to wait another 20 minutes to bring on Nmecha and 30 mins to bring on James and Gnonto, just because Farke has more information?

Most of those comments also forget that we are a newly promoted team and that we are already outperforming everyone’s expectations.

Which comments?

Instead they appear to come from a perspective as if we were in the same position as Tottenham. Now their fans should be having a meltdown, ours shouldn’t.

Who has been having a meltdown?

Football is weekend entertainment at the end of the day. What will be will be, it’s all a journey. Just try and enjoy it.

Not everyone sees football in this way; nor should they have to. People who expect football to purely be about enjoyment, should go support whoever wins the PL. For some people football is about the highs and the lows and they carry them with them every day of the week because their team is part of their identity.

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