It’s a Yorkshire derby for us this weekend and I just hope that means the lads are going to produce some kind of performance.
We’ve been limp and sluggish a lot this season and even in the big games the players haven’t really got up for it or put in a performance.
We should be able to get motivated for this game, though, and if we can’t more fingers will be pointed at Paul Heckingbottom.
Indeed, he’s already set for some hostility with him expecting abuse from the Barnsley fans come kick-off:
Heckingbottom on whether he's expecting abuse from the away end on Saturday. "Probably, yeah." #lufc
— Phil Hay (@PhilHay_) April 19, 2018
Rather predictably, though, some of our fans have pointed out that it might not just be from the away end where the vitriol comes from:
https://twitter.com/SupremeJansson/status/986942058417020928
and the home end
— steven gould (@goulds7) April 19, 2018
It will be a rare time bArnsley and Leeds fans sing the same song !
— david brooke (@davidbrooke58) April 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/mikeblesic/status/986945863082823680
https://twitter.com/GrahamJ85853102/status/986942138477961216
About the same as Don Revie s at the same point
— richard hunt (@fleetwhite) April 19, 2018
Both set of fans will agree on something
— d282k⚽🏁🥇 (@davidkerr2821) April 19, 2018
Why?? I think Barnsley Fans will feel he's doing an excellent job.
— Scott N. (@Leedzzlad) April 19, 2018
Even my wife will be giving him some grief and she's not even going…..
— LUFC LS25 (@EastLeedsLad) April 19, 2018
Unity between West and South Yorkshire.
— Joe LUFC (@LUFC_LUFC) April 19, 2018
The Verdict
I really hope that such a scenario doesn’t happen where our fans are having a go, too, but you can sense the increase in impatience with Hecky and it is understandable.
Losing this game to a local rival and a team that has been poor this year would certainly see some lose their heads so let’s hope we can just get a solid result for a change.
Thoughts, Whites? Let me know!