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Rich Holmes

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Straight outta Holbeck | Husband | Father | Leeds #LUFC sufferer | wannabe #Jedi | Usually found up a hill | "There is no Plan B. Just do Plan A better" M.Bielsa

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He's sometimes a guest on the squareball podcast. Worth a listen. He's knowledgeable and been around LUFC for a long time. Good mates with Gary Speed. He was at Sky and had to do commentary of Gary's passing. Truely heartbreaking. Still can't rewatch the clips of that.

07.03.2026 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bryn Law. LUTV commentator & Tony Dorego sidekick ๐Ÿ˜‰

07.03.2026 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a game that I only have a passing awareness of or care who wins (but Bryn's a fan, so I guess it's the Welshies marginally), one thing I will say.......

VAR are snitches

....Pass it on.
#lufc

07.03.2026 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hmm, I know King Ralph was a stinker, but I always quite liked John Hurt. ๐Ÿคจ

07.03.2026 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man with a surprised look on his face says " absolutely not " ALT: a man with a surprised look on his face says " absolutely not "

Errrrrr nope, certainly not the Oracle of Plymouth

07.03.2026 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ And this is me learning NEVER to mention J### H######### on here, ever again!!

07.03.2026 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good enough for the Prem?

He deffo played a part in Captain Chaos' attempt at managing us, and I'd like to see him in a Leeds shirt again, but I'm not sure if that's just the old romantic in me hearing echos of the "best young English striker prospect".

07.03.2026 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh, jeesh, I was having a bad day!! ......but I'm feeling much better now*

*unlike that charlatan, who'll be a t##t every day!

07.03.2026 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well, I've never been so...

07.03.2026 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bob's right.....he did. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

And now I'm on at least a 6 month ban from mentioning the Norwich t##t.

07.03.2026 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you're taking requests for the next few weeks, mate.........

No eagles references next Sunday please! ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†

07.03.2026 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes I worry for the state of things in this world, and then you meet folk like Mark and it reminds you that whilst ever there's folk like him, there's hope for us all in our little bluesky bubble.

07.03.2026 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No, Mark. Thank you. Keep doing what you do.

Only that way will we end up with more tolerant, aware people in the world than there are bots & bigots. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘

07.03.2026 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ernst Stavro Blo...wjob

07.03.2026 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just seen Geldhart's goal, and the thought struck me that it would not have looked out of place if it had come from a knockdown by DCL.

I know it's wishful thinking, so I'll just stick with wishing him all the best & hoping we get decent money for him in the summer.

#lufc

07.03.2026 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, if anything's going to encourage me to follow someone like Mark, it's going to be out of solidarity & against some of the dreadful comments he's had on t'other side & not just because he's my local vicar, an #lufc fan and an advocate for tolerance, peace & love.

Keep up the good work, Mark ๐Ÿ‘

07.03.2026 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kinda wish they had all gone off and set up their god awful super league and left the rest of us to it.

#lufc

06.03.2026 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are very much riding other club's luck at the minute, aren't we?

Surely it can't continue?
#lufc

05.03.2026 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To be honest mate, I don't want to watch or look at the score tonight, so this reply will do & what will be, will be. Still some twists & turns to come.

After the Mackems, I'm just gonna .....

05.03.2026 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Until you-know-who came to us, I'd lost sight of the importance of this....

"The only irreplaceable ones"

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean anything to those in power. I really wouldn't care to call them "other really important people". Fans are just another commodity to owners, TV, FA, etc.

05.03.2026 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nothing a couple of sessions won't fix.

05.03.2026 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I thought they were the greyhounds? ๐Ÿซค

05.03.2026 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awwww, why'd you have to go and mention bloody Goodman Ken?!!?

๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜‰

05.03.2026 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's a good tagline for a documentary that I would never bring myself to watch ๐Ÿ˜ณ

#lufc

05.03.2026 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, they were too busy turning football clubs into businesses that they forgot to consider if they should.....

....oh, and none of the football authorities did anything other than stand by and let it happen.

We delude ourselves that we don't follow a "business" as a coping mechanism.

05.03.2026 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like grains of sand on a beach. Might not be outright corruption, recency bias, stress, pressure based on the money involved, the players & fans or the atmosphere. Add it all together with crap like VAR & all it takes are officials who are not the best equipped to deal with all this & s##t happens.

05.03.2026 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A win from a good performance rather than a bad luck but it was a good performance will just be the tonic to ease the stress for a few days.

04.03.2026 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿคž๐Ÿคž

04.03.2026 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm with you. It's edging towards the docudrama, fly on the wall "a season with..."

04.03.2026 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0