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Im going and cant wait,walking past the bookies last night i noticed there advertising Leeds to win 4-0 in the window so lets hope there wrong
Im not too bothered if we lose aslong as we play better than we did against Huddersfield.

Bournmouth have sacked their manager after just 4 games

Over 4000 Bradford fans going tonight

Embarassing.

Is a bit, isn't it.

4,000 travelling support - that's more than we've got for home JPT ties in the past. And all so they can go to Elland Road for a night out.

Indeed.

At the end of the day it's a JPT game against a lower midtable league one team, I wouldn't usually care if we lost this sort of game 6-0 to be honest - obviously I don't want another Huddersfield-esque embarassment because it's a local derby, but I certainly want no part of this silly cup final atmosphere being built up, mainly by the teenagers on the official messageboard.

Maybe it's because I remember proper games between the clubs in the 80's (even though I was only young), but this is one game I really can't get worked up about. I will listen if it's on the radio though.

Old enough to remember the 3-3 at Elland Road courtesy of a Mervyn Day howler? One of the best atmospheres I've ever experienced at a football match that was.

Yes, I was there New Years Day wasn't it? - preferred the dodgy late penalty that got us 1-1 draw at Easter the next season though, although being spat for it at as a 10 year old was a bit of a surprise.

My mum actually banned my grandad from taking me to Elland Road after I told her of seats etc flying around on my first visit to watch City there, luckily her ignorance of football, and the fixture list, meant I never actually missed one of them.

The chav 5000 at Elland Road will be spitting feathers at this one. Even though we've apparently played well.....

"Should played Thorne, disgrace" etc, etc.....

Nah I didn't see any of that, although I had the sense to get out and straight to my car, balls to getting involved with any trouble.

As for the game, i had no real problem with Conlon being upfront on his own to begin with. We gave Leeds one hell of a game, and we took a great following and sang to the death! The real problem I had is why McCall didn't throw Boulding on earlier, after we pulled it back to 2-1.

If I wanted to be critical and sounding bitter, it was never a penalty, and our disallowed goal was never offside! But you need a little bit of luck to edge these games, and Leeds did edge it.. slightly!

Plenty of optimism to be taken out of this one lads.