Whatever you think about Angus Kinnear — and opinions vary — his annual chat with Dan and Michael is always a good place to take the club hierarchy’s temperature. For the avoidance of doubt the next few hundred words aren’t a post-mortem on the thing itself as that’s been done to death, more on how he perceives the direction of the game itself and Leeds specifically

While largely glossing over the commercial and footballing mis-steps that got us back to where we were four years ago — and assuming he’s come to terms with his eminent role in that — the real meat came in latter exchanges on the implications of shifting the current structural status quo.

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