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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:59 am  
McLelland can and should leave. He is nowhere near good enough unfortunately. Add to the fact we have Gale, Sezer and Austin next year he won't even get a game. Leeming looks much better in the halves than McLelland.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:38 am  
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McLelland can and should leave. He is nowhere near good enough unfortunately. Add to the fact we have Gale, Sezer and Austin next year he won't even get a game. Leeming looks much better in the halves than McLelland.


Agree
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:40 am  
Never sure about McClelland. He's never had a run of games, and when he had the chance to was unfortunately injured. He's never forced his way in either which may tell a story.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:09 am  
Isn’t Austin English passport?
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:20 am  
Trebor1 wrote:
Agree


Also agreed. Offered nothing last night.

Too slow, dithers and a huge opportunity wasted.

Championship at best i'm afraid.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:21 am  
As Agar pointed out at the end of the game, McClelland has had very little game time or time training with the team this season, so he was expected to struggle.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:21 am  
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Isn’t Austin English passport?
No he's a quota player Australian born.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:42 am  
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As Agar pointed out at the end of the game, McClelland has had very little game time or time training with the team this season, so he was expected to struggle.


Yeah, coaches will always protect their players publicly - but even the most one-eyed Leeds fan would find it hard to disagree that McClelland is a disaster.

He was a project signing that hasn't worked out.

Even Joe Vickery was a better player.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:45 am  
N3ERN wrote:
Isn’t Austin English passport?


It doesn’t work like that anymore, you have seven overseas players, whether they have English passport or not. There is no exemptions anymore.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:34 pm  
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Yeah, coaches will always protect their players publicly - but even the most one-eyed Leeds fan would find it hard to disagree that McClelland is a disaster.

He was a project signing that hasn't worked out.

Even Joe Vickery was a better player.


He's far from a disaster IMO. Joe Vickery has no relevance as a comparison. I'm more interested in whether he's a Jordan Lilley (not good enough) or a Luke Gale (good player Leeds originally let go because of senior competition).

I can see that the way things are going, it doesn't look great for McClelland. His last injury layoff was really badly timed, since if he was available he might have had a chance to show us what he can do. The games he played with second string teams last season didn't really give him a chance to show us much, at least not on attack, playing as he was behind a well beaten pack.

With no reserves, McClellands's only hope is that he can get enough first team game time to show us something, otherwise it is off on loan or a permanent move to another club. Much depends on how well he's rated by the coaching staff. If he's the prospect he's cracked up to be Leeds would be wise to give him more game time before letting him go, unless they've made a decision based on how he trains that he's not worth a punt.
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