dmayne7

Na. Just choose not to because nobody's knows how to applies to rules/laws anymore.

Exactly. He probably should do better but it was embarrassing defending from Vestergaard to not deal with it. That's where the blame is

Awful from Vestergaard

Beyond shit

Mavididi absolutely bottled that with Sa. If he'd gone for it, likely would have been Sa committing a foul.

Absolute suicide. Immediately makes the crowd more nervous and negative, and likely the defence too. Never let somebody use the selection by managers of certain players as the basis for it a 'correct opinion', on said player. They all do some utterly brainless things

Occured to me that it's not even a case of whether Ward is any good, it's that he looks mentally shot when he plays in the PL. Did alright in the cup game against Walsall but it's like he's got the footballing equivalent of the yips when he has to play in a PL game. Needs some serious help from a sports psychologist.

No I'm not, and I don't understand why anyone would be. He's proven to be an absolute tool and he's very average as well. I will probably cut players from our youth system more slack than 99% on here, but we're so far past that stage with Hamza. I'd say it's crazy we have him yet another deal but let's be honest, we have absolutely no sense of sound business in this club.

I agree with some people needing to get on board with where we are now, but you would have been happy with a guy in his late 20's who never scored or created goals, whilst we were at our peak?! Madness If this is a loan, then maybe it's not the worst deal but absolutely no way if it's a permanent transfer.

I bet he doesn't. Not exactly a small rap sheet is it...

How is he a good Leicester servant? You've basically identified why he isn't. He lucked out by being paid a hideous salary in a team that was best of the rest for the majority of his time here. He's then put a whole season in jeopardy by taking part in a COVID party, been done for drink driving and been fined for racist tweets, amongst many other things. In what way has he been a good servant?

Completely different to be earning that money in such a short space of time though. Enables you to be free of mortgages or other loans. Plus it gives you all that money to invest, even in the safest investments or getting a base interest rate, you'd still be earning plenty. The only way you'd struggle on that is because you had a dodgy financial advisor who took your money, some utterly life altering event or a crippling addiction where you piss it away.

But I think when we talk about inconsistentcy, we're talking about it when 1 challenge is deemed a foul but another is not. Generally that's within the same game but it may also extend to similar types of challenges across different games when 1 has resulted in a red card but the other was not punished. Point is, that is ultimately subjective even if 9/10 people believe the decision made by the referee to be incorrect. This was a simple case of 'fact'. If you have decided that the ball was last touched by a defensive player before going behind, the automatic result is corner. There's no room for subjectivity. It's no different here. The referee had identified it was a dive so gave it as a free kick and so a yellow card must follow. It's simple and not a matter of opinion.

This isn't about inconsistentcy though. It's one of those rules/laws that was absolutely black and white. If he had not given a pen and also not given us a free kick, then we could complain that he's should have given us a foul and the booking for the dive. But he gave the free kick because he seemed it a dive, so therefore it is an automatic booking. No subjectivity there. He absolutely has to be dropped off the next round of games as that just smacks of incompetence. Even beside that, Bruno's next challenge would have been a red 9/10 as well. We were so poor but make no mistakes about how much of a difference that would have made.

Actually, it's the complete opposite. For once most people are in agreement. The guy is crap. He's clearly been shown to be if questionable moral character as well so how the hell is that what you want in a squad man? He has an arrogance to him and that showed today as ambled around the pitch most of the game. If we didn't have him, we'd probably have given his squad place to another player? And by the same token, he was a youth team player who got a chance (and I desperately wanted to do well) so wouldn't it be better for us to give that chance to another young player who might be good enough? You're not wrong to say that it's a bit unfair considering he hadn't played any football but he doesn't have any credit in the bank, and it was just yet another poor performance, without the work rate to back it up.

You're right, but that also because he would have deserved it. He had a hand in building this squad and refused to select some of best players when he had the chance. Ruud basically had no choice but to start that team today and he's had 3 games. 4 points from those 3 is a decent return and obviously that kind of return keeps you in the league.

Stupid that people were genuinely blaming him for the first 2. But the third? Unacceptable. Yes, Murphy is odds on to score there but Ward has this weird thing where he almost falls back and splits his legs so there's a huge gap straight at him and it's not like he's doing that to cover extra space. But you're right, he shouldn't be the focus today when everyone who played was awful and majority of them didn't work hard enough. Of course, if he's in ahead of JS next week (assuming Mads is injured) then that'll be utter madness.

Barely. Jogged around. There was a point in the first half where Justin was dealing with Gordon in the box, and then Kasey (who was free) pointed at Justin to go and get the runner as well, which was basically impossible. He ducked out of a header on the touchline in the second half which was pathetic. For somebody so limited, he doesn't work nearly hard enough. Abdul works twice as hard with twice the talent. Players like Kasey have to work harder than anyone else to have a successful career.

It's not even that it's the best, it's that it's basically the only choice, at least in the fullback areas

It was today though. They ambled through that game. Barely saw anyone busting a guy. In fact the only player who did that is probably the one player who should be told to sit in and be ultra safe because he's so horribly out of form; JJ. They still had Jacob Murphy playing and he looked like a world beater. Expected to lose but didn't expect for it be like that. I wouldn't even say Newcastle were at their best either. It was woeful.

Where's the sick emoji?! Disgraceful to mention him in the same breath, even for a hyperbolic comparison

Not having that. Skipp was crap but at least he actually ran a little bit (basic pre requisite for a footballer). As I posted above, hardly helped that because Hamza can't complete a simple pass, it lead to Skipp getting booked so made us even more toothless.

Yep, no real leaders. Look at the talent (or more than it was lots of player's peak) of that Rodgers team and it was way better than other teams to have got into the CL. Today was one of rare games where they genuinely didn't look arsed at all. Not just fans saying they should work harder but really a case of them just not caring.

Jokes aside that's a bit unfair. He does use them so he can move his legs apart and let a shot go straight through him.

No. Skipp was rubbish but he's still a million miles better than Hamza. Why anyone would defend Hamza is beyond me.