Dale 0 Leeds 1
Tuesday, 19th Jul 2011 22:01 by Col

Dale fell to a home defeat to Championship side Leeds with the winning goal coming in the first half from the highly rated Max Gradel.

As is the norm now with preseason friendlies, there were about a thousand changes during the game with our side being:

Duke, Darby, Widdowson (Twaddle), Trotman, Holness (Doig), Jarrett (Adams), Jones (Gray), Kennedy (Marshall), Tutte, Grimes (Hackney)), O'Grady (Akpa Akpro).

Few points from this game:

* Dale fans were probably outnumbered not far off 3 to 1, with a large number of away supporters amongst the 3,935 crowd.

* The amount of money that we'd accept for Chris O'Grady has undoubtedly gone up, as after he went off after twenty minutes with a knock, we looked very weak up front indeed. His departure said more about his value to us than him scoring a hat trick could have done.

* The Dug Outs have been swapped round, with the home dug out now being the one closer to the Pearl Street Stand. Whispers at the game suggested that the switch has been done to avoid some of the main stand criticism that disappointed the previous managerial regime.

* We played some wonderful one touch football early on in the game, and one such play had us chalking up twenty odd passes on the trot.

* Andrew Tutte had an excellent game, both out wide and when drafted inside later in the game. He was full of running, and played with a vision. He had an excellent knack of bringing the ball forward too.

* The second half saw long periods of Leeds possession, though despite that they were unable to convert that possession into chances. Time will show whether that was down to our play of restricing the opposition or whether they were lazy in their play.

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Yorkshire_Dale added 12:13 - Jul 20 The commentators on the Leeds Streaming site thought we were very poor and would struggle in the League this season. Thought that Tutte was best player by far but we offered nowt up top. What do they know?
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geraldo added 14:28 - Jul 20

Didn't think we looked very good - same old story no strikers!!

Jarrett and Trotman did OK and Tutte was outstanding. Very disappointed in Grimes who probably isn't a striker after all.

Surprised that SE played such a negative formation after signing a couple of wide men!!
I hope we never play in that dire strip again with the black shorts and hooped rugby stockings..........

Mass_Debater added 14:58 - Jul 20 'Same old story - no strikers'!!! While we looked a bit toothless last night, to say it's the 'same old story', after the years we have just had, is total garbage.
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toffeelady added 15:33 - Jul 20

I was very annoyed with the ticket office, who refused to accept my sons i.d to prove he was under 16, he showed his concessions (under 16s) bus pass, which had photo i.d on it which had an expiry date on the card for when he turns 16, but the female jobsworth in the ticket office refused to accept this and made him pay Â£8.00 instead of Â£5.00 and meant my son had to walk home as he had no bus fare left.
You would think that with poor attendances and especially with this being a friendly the club should be encouraging young fans to attend instead of having this negative attitude

geraldo added 16:12 - Jul 20 Mass Debater - last season our top scorers were Jones and Dawson so case made!! JLAA will never score more than a handful of goals and Grimes never got a sniff last night. Let's hope that Tutte does a Jones this season..................
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bilbobaggins added 21:19 - Jul 20 jlaa looked like a cart horse not fit and far from being able to play a full part in any game , Do not know but the guy cant get hold of the ball and keep it and seams to fall over more and more when he tackled
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