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    Could you survive a visit to your local pub...

    in General Chat

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    23 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

    Mine is the 1852. I'd like to think that I could take on a year and survive it but having Googled it I see that Smith and Wesson were founded that year, so no, I couldn't take on a gun and win. However the first public toilets for women were also introduced that year, although having visited many over the years I'm probably lucky to have survived some of those too! 

    Depends if the clientele get involved too. The 1852 is rough as arseholes. 

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    Is Shakespeare the right man for the job?

    in Leicester City Forum

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    1 hour ago, Babylon said:

    Who said we played top quality football? I said I'd rather watch our game against Liverpool than play like Burnley and scrape a point by doing nothing but sit back.

     

    People keep banging on about Burnley all the god damn time. Yet they'd be moaning quick sharp if we were attempting to gain points like that.

    But we do have 20% possession and do **** all.

     

    The possession thing never bothered me before, in fact it was great in the title winning season because the moment we got the ball, we passed like Barcelona, skinned defenders for fun and outpaced anyone and everyone. But, this season and last, its starting to grate now how one trick pony we have become. Now we just bumble about giving possession away for 80% of the game through complete lack of football awareness, bereft of ideas, clumsiness and panic. For the 20% possession we have, I reckon about 1% of that is useful, or doesn't involve someone lumping it or giving it away on the second pass.

     

    Heart was racing watching the Liverpool match for two reasons; 1. Willing with every ounce of strength to get back in the game, and 2. with rage watching multi-million pound footballers make Sunday League look clean and crisp. The ups and downs of every moment, like 'yes, we've got the ball back, move it forward c'mon....oh, for ****s sake, why the feck has that bounced off of your knee? Oooo, thats it, compose yourself, look for the pass, yes that's it.... oh. yes. pump it long to Mr Nobody or Mr I'm a professional footballer but I've forgotten what my head is for. That might seem like excitement, with all those mixed emotions. Hell, the Liverpool game was probably super exciting for neutrals, but for me, watching the team I love that we've recently pumped millions into in the drive for progress play like they've just tied their laces for the first time. That's not excitement for me.

     

    And no, I don't want us to be boring in the same sense as Burnley or West Brom, but given the 'ambition' and the money we have spent, I would like to see A. some points on the board and B. some fecking football.

     

    EDIT. I must add, I'm not in the immediate out brigade for Shaky, i've stated previously see where we are at come the end of October when we've had a more natural run. I suspect we can get better if we utilise the right players and tactics. If come the end of October, early November and we are struggling then I think a decision should be made. I don't always like this idea of 'seeing where we are at come Christmas'. Id rather be proactive than put things off, especially when there is so much at stake.

     

    SECOND EDIT. Just to add again that I'm not buying some of these excuses. I mean seriously, Iborra is having to be shown how to play in a 4-4-2? Excuses like 'what do you expect with Andy King and Ndidi in the middle?' I just can't accept - if highly paid professional, international, footballers cannot adapt, or in fact just pass, then what the hell are they doing in the premier league and in our squad in the first place?

     

    The 'freak' season none of us wanted to be freak, we knew it was freak but at least hoped it would be the start of progress, development, ambition. We are currently playing to a standard comparable to our first season back. It's a shame to have to admit that - errors in that summer after winning the title have been dogging us since. I suspect some people might think this is a pretty damning and harsh assessment, especially considering the opposition, but barring the Arsenal game can anybody hand on heart say that we've done enough? I don't think so.

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    Is Shakespeare the right man for the job?

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted · Edited by SecretPro

    2 hours ago, Babylon said:

    You can do all of those things and still lose you know?

     

    The much lauded Burnley did those things and faced far more shots, more on target, more  against, a shit load more possession. Which takes me back to the point of fine margins. On another day they could have been mullered, yet people are holding them up as some kind of beacon of what's possible.

     

    I'm not overly happy with how things are going, not convinced about CS. But quite frankly we've got pretty much the amount of point I thought we'd have when the fixtures were announced.

     

    Do I think we could make it more difficult for teams by being as boring as fook? Yes, I think we'd pick up more points. But I'd rather watch games like Liverpool and Arsenal and be excited by the game, rather than scraping a 0-0 and taking two extra points whilst being completely bored to feck watching the oppo play it around us whilst we have 20% possession and don't get out of our half.

    We are not exciting to watch because of the quality of football, in fact we are exciting to watch because the football is so shoddy that it's played at rocket pace like pinball on crack and sometimes we can put in an OK counter attack. It's exciting to watch because it's end to end. Our actual football is easily some of the worst in the league, it's utter dilge. Imagine paying players 50-100k a week that can't string two passes together, win headers, win second balls or create anything? No need to imagine with Leicester city. In fact, I'm not finding the football all that exciting to watch anyway this season; very predictable, very unambitious and literally no plan except 'play on the counter and if we go behind, lump it as much as possible'. I don't want to guess whether we can survive playing this way or not, but I know we definitely cannot progress. Some of it at times is genuinely atrocious. 

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    Is Shakespeare the right man for the job?

    in Leicester City Forum

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    10 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

    This is the main thing for me as I mentioned earlier, it seems to be a habit with city that we tend to stick to the status quo rather than shake things up, we take an age to integrate new signings properly (ie. Starting) and in some instances this takes years, literally. (Gray). I'm not sure we will see the likes of Iborra and even Silva and Iheanacho starting regularly for a while. It seems to be the club are more interested in investing time in the likes of King, Ulloa, Shinji. Other teams seem to target the players they want in the transfer window and once they're in, they're in. 

     

    Fact is, the team that we built for an age, that won the league is aging, a little less interested maybe and whether we like to admit it or not, is starting to look very one dimensional. I'd like to see us starting making changes and investing the time in similar quantities to the money we have spent on new players. If we keep clinging on to that quo, we will eventually be wasting time, talent and opportunities. Same goes for other areas of the club/staff. We need a shake up. We spent so long building the title winning team, they achieve a remarkable success and the end goal has been met. I don't want us to be too slow to move forward, and too romantic with the past. 

     

    Im willing to give Shaky a while yet, but as I said, I'd be very interested to see what starting 11 an independent newcomer would pick, with no emotional attachment to the current squad. I think it could look very different, and it does kind of excite me. 

    Sorry to go on, but also following on from this;

    Our title winning season, something happened, actual unexplainable magic, everything just clicked in to place in some sort of orgasmic culmination of circumstance but:

     

    I'm not keen on the football we are playing. What worked then, isn't working now and relying wholly on counterattack football doesn't seem to me to be a great strategy. One reason for that is we have been found out, teams are well wise to it now. The brand of football we are playing at the minute I find pretty painful to watch, the passing is atrocious, the movement is terrible, there is negativity creeping in to the game and even when we counter, it isn't what it used to be. I often watch Match of the day and afterwards think that we play some of the ugliest football in the league, it's so mishmash, hit and hope and incoherent. I often find it difficult to spot what the game plan is or what it is we are trying to get out of the game and out of the players. It hurts to say this, but I think it's true. 

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    Is Shakespeare the right man for the job?

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    5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

    It won't happen. This main bulk of this XI and the formation will remain the same, it's a pipe dream to think otherwise. Also we're suffering a fair amount of injuries this season so don't be so sure we'll ever have a clean bill of health.

    This is the main thing for me as I mentioned earlier, it seems to be a habit with city that we tend to stick to the status quo rather than shake things up, we take an age to integrate new signings properly (ie. Starting) and in some instances this takes years, literally. (Gray). I'm not sure we will see the likes of Iborra and even Silva and Iheanacho starting regularly for a while. It seems to be the club are more interested in investing time in the likes of King, Ulloa, Shinji. Other teams seem to target the players they want in the transfer window and once they're in, they're in. 

     

    Fact is, the team that we built for an age, that won the league is aging, a little less interested maybe and whether we like to admit it or not, is starting to look very one dimensional. I'd like to see us starting making changes and investing the time in similar quantities to the money we have spent on new players. If we keep clinging on to that quo, we will eventually be wasting time, talent and opportunities. Same goes for other areas of the club/staff. We need a shake up. We spent so long building the title winning team, they achieve a remarkable success and the end goal has been met. I don't want us to be too slow to move forward, and too romantic with the past. 

     

    Im willing to give Shaky a while yet, but as I said, I'd be very interested to see what starting 11 an independent newcomer would pick, with no emotional attachment to the current squad. I think it could look very different, and it does kind of excite me. 

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    Is Shakespeare the right man for the job?

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    6 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

     

    Maybe cus of how he changed things round after the Don left ...   All the experience he has gained under 2 good managers...   The fact England rated him ....   And the fact he still hasn't got all his players available ...

    I'm not sure that's going to make a difference. For some reason City seem to make a habit of not playing players the fans want them to, putting too much faith and friendship into the likes of King and Ulloa and generally keeping any new signings out of the starting line up for an age, literally years in some cases. 

    Is the City of Leicester a dump?

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    4 hours ago, SkidsFox said:

    As an exile I think sometimes people forget about the good parts of Leicester. Yes, much of the centre is bland and functional, but there are good parts too. The curry mile on Belgrave Road is famous nationwide, the river pathway is great, and in New Walk you have an absolute gem. If only a "second New Walk" could be put in place.

    The saddest part used to be the Silver Arcade as it had great atmosphere - has it improved since being refurbished?

    lol it's still virtually empty. The shops were never filled but those that did move in moved out after 2 months because the rent the owners were charging was ridiculous apparently, to the point where it was putting off other businesses from moving in and the result was zero footfall. Think there are maybe three shops in it at the moment, hairdressers and a deli. The upstairs was a restaurant and bar for all of 2 weeks . Appears the greedy willy puller owners are content to leave it empty than to actually try and get any trade in by reducing the rent. Absolute waste of space. 

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