Jobyfox

That's exactly how I feel. 15/16 felt like a one off. At the time like it was our one and only chance. I got quite stressed just hoping to win every game and stay in contention. I got to the point where I was just desperate that we’d still be in with a chance come the last game of the season. I’ve said to people I forgot to enjoy it and if we ever had a really decent team again I’d just enjoy the ride - knowing that in my lifetime we’d done it once already. So that’s what I’m determined to do!

A toss up between Tony Spearing and Riyad Mahrez. But I’ll go for Mahrez

I only watched it on the telly, but the noise from the fans was loud and discernible throughout. I didn’t really hear anything from the Palace fans, which is disappointing as I thought their ground had a reputation for being one of the noisiest. It may, of course, had been different if their team had given them more to shout about but, purely from a telly perspective, I thought it was a good effort from our travelling support.👌

In the last 10 years Manchester United have won 2 league titles, 1 FA Cup, 2 League Cups and 1 Europa League. In the same time period Arsenal have won 3 FA Cups. A trophy we’ve never won. I think it’s nonsense to believe that these two clubs wouldn’t be a massive draw for someone like Brendan. Ultimately the best way to keep him, and any subsequent manager, would be to finish in the top four or win a trophy - then do it again - and again. We need to demonstrate that you don’t need to leave Leicester to win things. Then we’ll be one of the big clubs.

I agree with this. I’ve never felt as low walking away from the ground as I did after that Sheffield Wednesday defeat. It was the realisation that 3rd Tier might actually happen. I’d always thought we’d escape before then. Biggest defeat I’ve witnessed in terms of score was the 7-1 Sheffield Wednesday league cup one. I even left the ground at 7-0 down and missed the Bobby Davison consolation goal. But in terms of expectation that defeat didn’t hurt me as much as others. We were pretty poor back then and Wednesday had a really good side.

It’s something I put in my development plan at work and never achieve

I suppose you have a point. Back in the day I don’t think anyone ever categorically established whether “Posh Spice” had a predilection towards anal sex

Yes, we’ve come a little way since Elvis Hammond

Personally I’m much more comfortable with this. I think it’s more in line with my identity as a Leicester fan for 30 odd years. I’m strangely more comfortable with everyone predicting our demise than everyone stating we’re brilliant. As long as the outcome is that we exceed expectations and confound pundits to the extent where they have to scrape around for an explanation.

I know - I realised half way through I was writing quite an elaborate post to agree with you, although I think their style is more one dimensional without the creativity from the forward players.

In 2015/16 it’s true that we played in a defensively solid shape, conceded possession and attacked with quality and ruthless efficiency on the break. Burnley are defensively solid and play on the break - but they quite often miss out the midfield. The strategy is to hit balls into big players and then compete for the second ball. It’s quite effective, but pretty unattractive. When we won the league we recycled the ball with quality running from Kante in midfield, quality passing from Drinkwater, Crossing from Albrighton, moments of genius from Mahrez and brilliance from Vardy. I see the comparison, but it’s a bit like saying that we now play just like Man City - but with worse players.

I think some people who read these stats should take their blue coloured spectacles off. These stats actually reflect what I’ve felt this season: We’ve been good in some games We’ve looked poor and uncreative in others It all feels ok because it translates into 4th place in the table and a pretty reasonable points haul. The stats, however, present a cautionary tale - it’s not sustainable unless we change. But the good news is that the stats reflect the whole season. When we’ve played without 2 CDMs and with Maddison centrally we’ve looked much better. We shouldn’t be starting games with both Hamza and Wilf & we should be lining up with JM in the middle. If we do this consistently I think we’ll be fine. Then we might just need to find a way to get more output from the wingers. If, however, we don’t heed this warning we’ll be one dimensional and uncreative. It’s basically what we saw under Puel and sometimes under Rodgers. It’s not rocket science and, if we really think about it, the stats back up what we’ve all observed.

I’m afraid this thread was misguided and most of the contributions are awful. But I suppose this proves that something good may come from every stupid idea. I like it!

It wasn’t him, but he may have been the agent. That’s who I’m blaming anyway

That’s all well and good, but we will always have an inferiority complex. Remember what that Forest fan said: "No matter what they achieve they will never be our rivals. That will always hurt them no matter how many trophies they win” 😄 - Sorry couldn’t help repeating it. It’s such comedy gold 😂

I was just contributing to the discussion in terms of what has already been stated and trying to turn something very subjective into something measurable. I wasn’t making any statement on how important, or not, it was.

I think supporters of historically successful clubs hold on to this for far too long to evidence their size. It is true that historic success can often lead to a generation or two of large support that, in turn, helps maintain their status as a: 'big club'. Preston were easily the most successful club at the beginning of the 20th Century Huddersfield won the league title for 3 successive seasons in the 1920s Wolves won the league title 3 times in the 1950s Forest won the European Cup twice in the 70s/80s There has to be a situation when this success starts to become 'time served' and starts to lose its relevance to the current status. Are Huddersfield a bigger club than us (that's a rhetorical question)? Similarly I don't get this argument from supporters of well: "Man City/Chelsea are only big because of the money!" So what!! There was a time for any club that was the catalyst for their growth. For example: a lot of people turned to Manchester United following the Munich air crash. Chelsea weren't a huge club 30 years ago. They are now by any measure. Whether they are bigger than Arsenal is a matter of debate and it will only be decided either way by the trajectory of those two clubs in the coming years. There was no doubt in my mind 30 years ago that we were a smaller club than Forest and Derby. More recently I rated us all of a similar size. Now I think we're edging ahead, but what happens over the next few years will determine if we stay there.

I did occur to me today that when I started watching Leicester City just over 30 years ago Nottingham Forest were much more famous than us. Today even our WAGs are more famous than them!

I really couldn’t see the point of signing Wes Morgan when we’d already got the likes of Matt Mills and Sean St. Ledger in the squad. Do I need to elaborate further?

I often use those same words about Bayern Munich and Real Madrid

“No matter what they achieve they will never be our rivals. That will always hurt them no matter how many trophies they win” ————— This comment wins for utter stupidity and really sums up some Forest fans who think their bizarre sycophantic rivalry with Derby somehow makes them important. When we won the Championship and followed this up with winning the Premier League I’m not sure whether the thought: “... this is ok, but I really wish we had a rivalry with Nottingham Forest” ever crossed my mind. I wonder how many trophies we’d have to win before it did?

What a bizarre suggestion. Chilwell has a huge weakness with the quality of his final ball. He also hasn’t got the ability to go round players like a winger might. So let’s play him further up field where this lack of ability will be even more exposed?

I left after 90 minutes, but before the final whistle. I was desperate for a wee and if I’d got stuck in the stands I might well have pissed myself.

Bring on the scousers I say - by the score