How much influence does Bates still hold? If he is still active in the day-to-day running of the club, I'd give him 5 games before he`d be after throttling Davies.

I was proud of the LUFC team today, Good performance, Played some nice football & the players got stuck in, It was just a shame the referee was a shambles. Adam Clayton is looking a fantastic talent he was superb today and Andy Lonergan made some quality saves when we were players down.

No way, he's the most irritating little get in football. Grayson's fine, it's just Bates that needs removing.

Just spent a good 30 mins on Waccoe reading through the threads, and the 'Bates Out' videos.
Can anyone seriously see Bates going? Sadly the conman is there to stay until he croaks, and won't listen to the fans. They keep paying the ridiculous ticket costs, so he's getting his money to spend on hospitality boxes and hotels

grayson hasn't a clue how to set a team out. also his record of signings is, to be frank, garbage.
the ref was poor yesterday but the 2 sendings off were spot on

Didn't he play 4 centre backs across the defence yesterday?

yep

Davies has walked away from a few jobs because the board hasn't backed him financially. He wouldn't make it through the interview before spitting his dummy out.

Tad disagree re-Howsons 2nd yellow he doesn't touch him mate and Emnes does a Ronaldo.
Also when the Ref has already made his decision how can he change his mind when the 4th official intervenes over 60 yrds away?

his record is brilliant but i would agree, he wouldn't take the crap from bates that grayson does

Who would you have played? The woeful Connolly? Parker? White? both poor and injury prone.

I don't think we can criticise his signings too much given the financial restraints he's been working under.

i do. plenty of players out there and he has signed rubbish and plenty of it

I'm sick of hearing we dont have the money to go out and buy players and that's why we are looking for loans and free transfers. We've just got at least £1m for Kasper and spent £200k on Lonergan. The wages wont have gone up as we have lost Kilkenny, Johnson, Higgs and brought in Rachubka and Brown on free's. We've got O'Dea on loan for the season but he wont be on big wages. The club are turning profit's every year and have done for the past 3-4 years now.
Bates keeps saying he gives Grayson his budget and lets him get on with it and that there is money there to buy players if Larry wants to yet we never buy anyone unless we sell and make a profit like with the GK's.
Badly need a centre forward, shame that Somma is out for so long as he would of got a long run in the side but with Becchio out we need someone bringing in, Paynter is crap when fit and McCormack isn't the sort of striker to play down the middle on his own. He's the sort that needs to play off someone like Becchio.
After all this time i dont think Larry has ever known his best 11 since he joined us and it's still the case.

rlhttps://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/17/ken-batest-lambasts-leeds-moronsrl

"The rebuilding of Leeds United is bit like sex" says Ken Bates.

Yes. It's not going to happen with you unless you spend some money on it.

Bates is feeding him rope and he cant even see it, soon he will have enough to hang himself. Larry is a nice guy but he is so frustrating sometimes with regard to his team selections and tactics, yes they were bob on last night but as for the next game? who knows. Playing people woefully out of form/position and not sorting the gaping holes in our midfield and defence are the things papa smurf will castrate him with down the track.