Guesty

So did I originally. Now you can stream it all on Netflix I went back through it. I found 6 and 7 a slog. But the last season (8) is much better - it links back to season 4. Also, it's one of the few series where the final episode ends the whole series really well. If you can remember enough might just be worth watching season 8.

Yes, he's frustrating and takes shots when he shouldn't. But there are only 3 players in the entire Championship who have more assists than he does this season. And he's managed that when we have strikers who can't score from open play and he's constantly doubled up on. He works quite hard defensively (for a winger) when asked and gets assists. Most of what we create comes from his side of the pitch - Mavididi has 2 goals and 0 assists in the Championship. He leads the team in assists and is the third top scorer. We will miss him if he leaves.

Stranger Things was pretty much what I expected, so wasn't too disappointed. It was better than the few episodes before it. For me Stranger Things joins a list of programs that should have been one or two seasons. Homeland, True Detective, Westworld, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica (remake), Altered Carbon, Prison Break, Squid Games, Broadchurch. They all had such fantastic first seasons. Then became so popular you can see studio execs got involved and tried to start stretching them out to make money. I recently started rewatching Homeland on Netflix and it's first season is so, so good. Every episode has twists and turns, there's no real filler. Possibly my favourite ever season of TV.

Not sure how a manager can watch that and not at least try to change something this far into the season. He see's his left back repeatedly targeted; his striker can't score; he only has one winger who has any end product and a weak as p**s midfield. So at least try something different at 3-0 down. Literally nothing to lose. Try 3-5-2 or 3-4-3. Just see what happens. I'm fed up of these one dimensional managers.

Does anyone think he's a great defender? He's bang average, but he's also the only defender who can play that position when we invert our right back (unless you bring back Faes). His passing is some of the worst I've ever seen. I don't know why we signed him if we wanted to play out from the back.

Yeah cause he used to annoy Pearson. Those interviews when we lost became quite funny/awkward listening to be honest. It did become personal, and tbh I didn't really blame Pearson for getting annoyed.

It's his fault. But he shouldn't be in this position. Passing is by far his biggest weakness. He shouldn't be receiving this ball in that position as a centre back. He needs his right back to be to the right of him so he's more central with more options. The system didn't help him today. But still, it's his fault.

I rarely listen to Radio Leicester anymore. But I'm sure people who do still listen like hearing the manager and players interviewed. And Radio Leicester likes access to things like pre-match press conferences. I'm not sure, but I think the only thing the club have to give them access to is match commentary. Like I say I don't really listen anymore so I'm not sure how soft on the club they are. But if they're going to burn a bridge it has to be worth it. And I imagine the BBC in general are worried about losing all match commentary. I bet all these clubs would love to force everyone to have to pay £5 a month to listen to the clubs own commentary. I'd be interested to know how the listening figures have changed over the years. I used to listen a lot back in the day. But it's so much easier to watch the club now.

It was weird when Cooper dropped him. Now I'm starting to wonder if he's forcing/demanding/asking the manager to play him inverted. Might work for him, but it really exposes our central defenders and they aren't good enough to deal with it. I'd rather see Aluko given a run of games.

It's nothing to do with impartiality. Stringer and Bourne used to be totally impartial. It's all to do with access. They can't afford to upset LCFC and have their access reduced. They banned Stringer from interviewing them when Pearson was here. Radio Leicester have even less power now. Especially with teams having their own online radio commentary. It's just not worth it for them to upset the club unnecessarily.

I felt more hopeless in the Kelly, Levin, Holloway era. Cause we just seemed to have no money at all and had players like Andy Johnson, Gareth Williams, Josh Low, Alan Rodgers stinking up the place. Pretty sure once we lined up with 6 right backs on the pitch. I still hope after we've got through this PSR minefield that we'll have money to spend again. And we have youth prospects to look forward to. Back then we only really had Stearman. But I don't think I've ever watched a team with such little fight and character as we have now.

Yeah, I do feel a bit sorry for him. I think he's inherited a terribly assembled squad. And even now some of our supporters still don't truly accept how bad it is. And I think they take that out on him. There is literally no fight or character in this bunch. His defence is totally lightweight and error prone, his midfield is lightweight and just gets run through, his wingers are totally inconsistent, and we don't have any strikers that can score from open play. When he drops players everyone blames him for not playing that player, but they're all s**t. He seems like a nice guy who's just out of his depth. He paid his own compensation to be here. Is one of the only people in that dressing room who wants to be here by the looks of it. But he isn't good enough. I think he was only brought here cause he was inexperienced and would do what he was told to - which is persist with players like Winks and Faes and play a style of football that's ill-suited to this set of players. So whilst I think he should go, I put much more blame on the players and the people who appointed him. If he'd had chance to bring his own players in I'd be much more negative.

Apparently, stats say he's a good shot stopper. I'd love to know the stats for how good our defence is (if there even are stats to measure that). Cause whilst he's making individual errors atm, he plays behind one of the most lightweight, error prone, worst defences in the league. It makes it sort of hard to properly judge him. If his backline was more solid he'd look better. With the goal he made his big error on today the cross should never have come in - there were 3/4 players just letting the guy cross it. People say put Begovic in, but he shipped 3 in the first half against Sheff Utd. I'd hate to be a keeper in this team.

None of them tbh. I don't think any of those listed should be in a Premiership starting 11. The only one's at the minute who look like they have any sort of chance in playing half decent in the Premiership are Fatawu and James. Maybe Skipp as a last resort.

He's not good enough, but I still feel sorry for him. We concede so many goals due to individual braindead errors and we don't have a striker that can score goals. We are a badly built squad. But if he isn't going to play a more solid defensive system then that's on him.

We are just so f**kin soft. They all just stand there and watch him cross and the keeper has to come out stronger.

I'd love to know if this inverted full back thing is a Marti idea or something Ricardo is forcing. Cause it really leaves us exposed on the break and doesn't help our central defenders.

Hasn't Fatawu got like 4 goals and 6 assists in 22 appearances. That really isn't too bad for a championship winger. Especially playing in a team without a proper striker. Whole reason he's in the championship is cause he's inconsistent. If he wasn't he'd be worth £50 million and in the Premiership.

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I see DK Metcalf hasn't got a grip on his temper tantrums he had in Seattle. The guy was always so emotionally immature. You'd think some of these players would have thicker skin. It's possibly cost him £45 million.

Honestly, I really didn't think he stood out in either match. He was good in those games you mentioned if that's what you're looking for. I never said he wasn't, just said he didn't really stand out. At Middlesborough I thought he was the best of the bunch defensively, but we also put Okoli at right back to help him. At Derby I thought the whole team played well and that one of the midfielders should have had MotM. I went to look at the match ratings on here to make sure I wasn't misremembering. And whilst i know they're hardly great evidence they sort of say the same thing. I'll admit though, I never really saw him at Oxford. And kept seeing people on here saying how exceptional he is and it's built up unfair high expectations. But that's my fault.

He's played 7 games this season. He was poor yesterday and he was dreadful against Huddersfield. He hasn't really stood out in many of the other games. I think the biggest problem he's got on Foxestalk is the Ben Nelson fan club. You can't even fairly criticise him on here without getting jumped on by a number of posters. Any young player is going to struggle in this defence. It has no protection, his more experienced defenders can't really help him cause they're bad defenders and he we have a young keeper. I hope he succeeds and we should keep playing him. He'd really be helped by Soutter coming back. People have been saying he's a future England international and a future £40-50 million pound defender who would sort this defence out. Maybe he is, but he doesn't really look like it atm. That isn't his fault. If people fairly point out he's had a bad game. A bunch of people come on here playing the outraged youth player excuse. Whilst some of the same people slag Silko Thomas off. Go on his thread yesterday, he's still getting slagged off after scoring. We just all need to chill. If he has a bad game, it's okay to say it. He's a young player in a sh*t defensive unit, he's going to struggle. We all need to manage expectations.

I agree. It's almost weird. He's looked okay when he's played for us this year in his cameos. Certainly nothing to complain about.

His Dad's legacy probably. This was probably something that bonded them together. And the sentimentality of how it ended for his Dad. He's probably that clueless about football that he thinks we'll get promoted. Really starting to think he might a Tim nice but dim character. Not in a funny way - like he genuinely might be a bit thick and not understand how bad it is. You don't keep someone like Rudkin in place given the amount of mistakes he's made for as long as he did.

I'm really not sure what subs I'd make tbh. Most people said this was our best first eleven before the match started. Not sure I'd chuck the kids on yet. But hope to see all the kids given a run out around the 60 min mark.