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There was nothing "wrong" with advocating a different approach. Yes, the game panned out well with the 'play a strong 11' option, but it's non-sequitur territory to then intimate that it couldn't have equally turned out ok with the 'rest our key players' approach. Humans often seem obsessed with labelling predictions and/or opinions as "right" or "wrong", usually with the benefit of hindsight. Those advocating a different approach were simply that.... Different.... They weren't "wrong"...

Yep, agree.... Yesterday's win was somewhat bittersweet in a way. Whilst setting us up nicely for the playoffs it also served as a reminder of what could've been this season. Anyway, now's not the time for an end of season postmortem... Let's save that for the promotion party....

Not seen much of that kind of rhetoric to be honest. Yes, Leeds certainly weren't at their best but had they been then I feel we would've still got something out of the game. A very timely decent performance from us.

Whilst some of it is undoubtedly 'staged' most of it has a feeling of authenticity about it. Recommended even if you're not a Clarkson fan. (Watch the first 2 series first though)

Love him or hate him (the majority of the self-appointed Saintsweb intelligentsia being in latter category I would imagine ), Clarkson's Farm is a televisual masterpiece in my humble opinion. Just finished watching the first 4 episodes of the new series. A grown man? Struggling to holding back tears? Yep, that's me during episode 4.... guilty as charged, m'lud 🐖🐷🚜🥹

Indeed; kudos to Russ today for the tactical changes. One can't help but ponder though what might have been had he embraced such tactical fluidity more often during the course of the season. Anyway, that's in the past now. Looking to the playoffs with much positivity after today. COYR!

I'm looking for some logic in that statement.... Haven't found any yet. I'm sure there is though....

I'm not too sure Leeds would've agreed it was that simple had they won today...

Fair play to Russ. He took the riskier approach to today's game and it payed off. Onwards and upwards!

My son mentioned it to me

Free header Sulemana! Got to get that on target

Downes for me. He makes the difference in every game he plays.

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"Slight knock" for Adams...?

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I'd pull Downes off on 60 minutes

I obviously didn't know how good it was going to be before the game but now we know it was a stroke of genius I'm wondering why it wasn't tried before now...

Ah, gotcha. And there was me thinking putting the opposition defence under pressure and roughing them up a bit might have worked on other teams too. Silly old me....

Any reason why he didn't work this out several games ago....?

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Christmas 2022 more like...?!