However I do feel that since Gary McAllister has taken over as Leeds manager, the team has become extremely one dimensional with absolutely no width due to their four central midfielders.

Gary's excuse for constantly playing four central midfielders has been that he did not have any decent wide midfielders at the football club, but surely right winger Seb Carole and left winger Peter Sweeney could have been played down the wings to give Leeds a more attacking option?

Hopefully two new wingers will be brought in for next season to give the team a 'Plan B', along with a pacy central midfielder to take the place of David Prutton and Jonathan Douglas, who both look slow and off the pace even in the third tier of football.

It will be very interesting next season to see what Leeds United achieve on a fair and level playing field without the huge burden of the 15 points deduction, which in my view made the whole of last season a false, distorted, farcical charade of a league.

The 15-point penalty seemed so severe that everybody connected with Leeds United looked like criminals serving a sentence.

At the same time all of the childish Leeds haters at other third division clubs could not resist poking their noses into Leeds United's affairs, but could only fill their small stadiums when they played United in their seasonal cup final.

Leeds have been bullied and persecuted by the Football League with the severe 15-point punishment that has cost them automatic promotion and I sincerely hope that the club make all of those self opinionated opposing third division fans and opposing players and managers eat their words next season.

PAUL WILKINSON, Mirfield (via e-mail)

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Well, at least United turned up this Sunday. I think however that Doncaster deserved their win only because of the chances they created in the first 15 minutes.

After that it was fairly even. Donny played to United's weaknesses, ie the two full-backs.

Johnson can be forgiven as he is not a full-back but Richardson needs to be put out to grass. United also lacked width with two natural centre-midfielders playing on the flanks.

Therefore the priority this summer must be at least one full-back, two wingers and a striker.

While writing, is there any truth in the rumour that as the Football League will not be deducting Leeds 15 points this year, the other 71 League chairmen have voted to give themselves a 15-point bonus from the start of the season?

Luton, Bournemouth and Rotherham will also be given an extra 15 points to negate the 15-point deduction levied by the Football League for them exiting administration outside of League rules!

JOHN DAVEY, Leeds, (via e-mail)

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Once again we prosper only to deceive. How many more times must the Leeds United fans suffer such heartbreak?

Year in and year out they turn up in their numbers, but whether it's the players, the manager or the board of directors, there is always someone letting them down.

How much more can the fans take?

Okay, the manager Gary McAllister was rightly proud of what the players achieved this year – taking into account the 15-point deduction, the loss of Gus Poyet and Dennis Wise and the introduction of a new manager with new ideas of how to play the game.

So yes, I take on board what Mr McAllister says when he is proud of the players' achievements.

This however is the tip of the iceberg though, because it seems to me that the expectations of this club are too much for some of the players to deal with.

It happened in the play-off final two years ago against Watford and it happened again on Sunday. No goals scored and hardly any chances created.

I can't think of a save Neil Sullivan had to make on Sunday. Why do the Leeds players seem to bottle these occasions? That is the $64 million dollar question and it is something for the management team to ask as well.

Even when we play at home in front of big crowds we seem to suffer the 'pressure' of the big crowd and very rarely peform – the first leg against Carlisle shows this.

Now obviously we can't play all our games away from home but it goes deeper than this.

The Leeds fans turning up for the games now are the same fans who would have been watching the Manchester Uniteds, Chelseas and Liverpools etc on a regular basis and expect the team to play like they did.

Therefore, as we know the current players are a million miles away from those players back then, it is impossible for them to cope with the expectation.

I am obviously not blaming the Leeds fans for their great and loyal support, but when McAllister starts to recruit players, he needs to look them in the eyes and say: "Are you ready to play for Leeds United?" and ask them about 10 times to make sure because this club is way too big for this league in name, but not in footballing ability though – as Doncaster proved on Sunday.

Last Sunday was an embarrassment again for all the fans connected with Leeds United, and maybe next year when we average around 18-20,000, this may help us more, as the lower the crowd, the better we may perform.

PETER CLAVANE, Moortown (via-email)

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My friend and I would like to express our disgust at the way we have been treated by Leeds United.

We have been club members since before the current season began. We became club members so we could buy tickets if we made it to the play-off final.

When we tried to phone Leeds all we got was a recorded message saying you can only apply for tickets for the game at Wembley on-line.

I tried to send a fax all day on the Monday but could not get through. This has all happened within the time limit set by Leeds United.

Tickets for the members went on sale Monday and Tuesday but by the time we managed to talk to someone in the ticket office, they said they could not process our two tickets and that we would have to make our 11-hour round trip from Dorset to collect them.

This was the only way that we could buy them.

Why as club members and with today's technology should we be forced to do this?

Leeds took the application form off their website on Sunday morning and members could only buy them from Monday.

We bought the Leeds United bond and had a season ticket at Leeds United for seven years.

We now both feel very angry and let down by our beloved club.

GEOFF PARKER AND MARTIN DUNN, Dorset (via e-mail)

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WHEN Leeds United posted news of the early queues at the ticket office I went down to Elland Road at 8pm on the Tuesday and started queueing.
I shivered in a sleeping bag all night waiting for the morning.

No-one was on hand to organise the queues, even though the club knew that thousands of people were already down there.

Low and behold at around 6am a huge wedge of people decided to cheat the system and jump the line. I cannot believe that people who turned up 10 hours after myself were allowed to walk into the line without question.

There were no police, no stewards, nothing.

I had to leave the queue and let a friend take my place as I simply couldn't wait there any longer.

When I got to work I was absolutely shattered.
What the hell is happening behind the doors at Elland Road? The club has a complete disregard for its fans and doesn't deserve the support of the thousands of honest fans that had been waiting 16 hours or more.

HARRY, Liversedge (via e-mail)

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Over the last couple of weeks, while Leeds United have successfully negotiated their passage to the League One play-off finals, I have heard via the media comments on radio and TV on how people not involved in football do not understand a fanatic's passion for the game and their team.

It is not an easy passion to describe to those who do not feel it but it is akin to religion.

The fervour generated and the euphoria felt by following your team, with its highs and lows, is special.

I say special because after living in Australia for 28 years and returning 12 months ago to Leeds I now understand that following my team, Leeds United, from 12 000 miles away, cannot replace following and watching them at Elland Road. Particularly so this season, and what a season it has been.

As our anthem says: 'We've had our ups and downs' and this season has thrown up so many obstacles yet we have overcome them and the fantastic support seen at Elland Road has been instrumental in overcoming the lows to reach the highs.

I first watched Leeds United as a nine-year-old boy, stood on the open terracing of the old Geldard End against Spurs and seeing us win 3-1 back in October of 1964.

I will never forget that day. The bus from Garforth to Leeds, then on to Elland Road and there were over 41,000 people at the game. The atmosphere was absolutely brilliant and I was hooked from that very first game.

Now living in Bramley I am pleased to be involved with a great group of supporters, my neighbours Dave and Dean, their family and the rest of the boys from the 'Old Vic' have all made this season so memorable.

I would like to thank my partner for understanding, all at Leeds United and all those great fans for an absolutely magical season.

MAL TURNER, Bramley (via e-mail)

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