As they clambered off the team bus at Elland Road, you would have been forgiven for thinking a school class had just arrived for a stadium tour.
No fewer than seven teenagers stepped off the luxury Leeds coach, among them an actual schoolboy, 15-year-old Archie Gray.
The average age of Marcelo Bielsa’s bench on Saturday night was 18, with a total of 10 players unavailable.
And to think this was the one match deemed OK to go ahead in the Premier League yesterday.
There was a suggestion that Leeds had also tried to get this game called off on Friday night.