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Episode 31, recorded on 3rd June 2011, is the 2010-11 season review — at one hour and forty minutes, the longest episode of The Square Ball podcast to that point. Dan Moylan, Michael Normanton, Daniel Chapman (Moscowhite), and Paul O’Dowd (Oddy) go through the entire campaign systematically: the promise of the early weeks, the collapse in form that cost Leeds a play-off place, and the broader questions about where Simon Grayson’s side was heading.
Leeds finished seventh with 72 points — a total that, in most Championship seasons, would have been enough for the top six. The panel sit with that number and what it means. The squad is examined in detail: the players who exceeded expectations, those who fell short, and the areas where summer investment would be essential if Leeds were to mount a serious promotion challenge the following year.
The review covers the season’s key turning points — the runs of form both good and bad, the injuries that disrupted momentum, the selections that provoked debate — and weighs each of them in the light of how the campaign ultimately ended. Moscowhite brings his usual structural analysis; Oddy provides the emotional register; Michael asks the questions the listening audience would want answered; Dan holds the whole thing together across nearly two hours.
The Bates takeover sits in the background throughout, a question mark over everything that follows. Whatever Grayson and his squad managed to build in 2011-12, they would be doing so under an owner whose relationship with the fanbase had never been straightforward.
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