Aus press reporting Sezer is a done deal to Wests on a one/two year contract.

Lucky Wests...

GH is on to a winner financially for the club (or so he thinks he is) with RS hailed as the developer of young players he can continue to do everything on the cheap with the long term plan/long game with the younger players giving him the grace of time with the supporters (or so he perceives) for things to come good. This is how it looks anyway.

We need to invest heavily in 2-3 high quality senior players to ensure the young players develop to their potential as otherwise they won't reach that level without key players around them.

Bored of it all now and losing interest fast.

Can't reply to your post AC but I absolutely agree, spot on. Many of us on here have been watching Leeds for a long time and the recruitment just looks a mess at the moment, we clearly have had several knock backs, hence why we couldn't give Austin an answer. But like you say, with some clever PR the club could regain the narrative. The longer it looks messy from the outside it becomes a less and less attractive club for new players to join and bad for season ticket sales for next year.. it's fair to say a lot of long standing fans are becoming very very tired of it.

I wish I could get in a time machine and see how "bored of it" lots of people on here were back in 2001/2002. Strangely enough they stopped being bored of it pretty soon after.

There's nothing to say it will turn out the same way, and of course the club can communicate better. But giving up on the club because things aren't going great is a different matter entirely.

Agree, but it's just human nature of supporters to become extremely frustrated after a long period of poor form on and off the field.. happens in all team sports at all clubs. We will have our time in the sun again no doubt and me personally will always go support the team, i've seen plenty of rubbish in my 38 years of going to games.

It's an entertainment product when all's said and done, yes with a large degree of loyalty and backing the team from where you're born . But in a similar way I wouldn't keep returning to a restaurant after years of serving bad food. I know some will find that a weak analogy but theres an intrinsic development of apathy and disinterest after years of poor management and false dawns especially given the context of this club and the resources it has compared to others.

I only get to a few games a year now anyway but I can't help a feeling of detachment when it seems clear that we will not be investing in the short to medium term aspirations to win anything.

Yep, they could make it something. Call in it "announcement day", get the players down to HQ, invite the fans etc etc. Would buy the sometime and create some positive focus. Surely it wouldn't be that complicated.

My concern on the lack of announcements IF deals are really done is they are on the lines of Milnes and more projects and plodders and good lads that Smith likes. We need some quality.

I've no doubt this is what we're looking at happening with faith being put in to RS making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. If we finish above 6th next year given how things look I'll eat my hat.

Yep. Anything less and the fanbase will collectively smell a rat. That said we have been linked with Levi, Brookes and a couple of other quality players in the right positions. However, it's one thing being linked and another getting them over the line. I'm sure GH knows projects and plodders will not cut it.

Spot on