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    Strength of your squad on paper compared to rest of league?

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, sacreblueits442 said:

    ...I know logic dictates that we adhere to your take in regard to a skewed meritocracy!!!

      I do not adhere to where you finish determines your rosters strength. Belgium at present is on paper the strongest team in world football, but they are not going to win the European Cup or the World Cup.

     Closer to home had you put our roster up against the rest of the Premiership 2015/16, you would have found that we were a long way from the top of the list.

      You could give Neil Lennon the managers job at Barcelona and you would find, they would not be anywhere, that they should be.   There are other factors that will determine a teams success and a good roster is just a part of the reason.

    You have just answered my original point, I said 5th best based on where we finished in the PL last season thats a fact, I also said that what is on paper counts for toffee link back to your point about Belgium on paper, roster is important clearly but I am failing too see how my original point doesn't stand with your answer.

    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Vazman said:

    I haven't written to Santa for 40 years so here goes:

     

    Dear Santa please make Leicester City smash Totenham on Sunday, and for Gods sake give Cengiz Under 90 mins please!! I promise I wont write another letter ever again, and wash all the dishes on Christmas day on my own, if this happens yours faithfully Fearless Foxes Fan!

    PS: If you could help us with a win against Man Utd Boxing Day I promise to surrender the Remote control to my Wife for the rest of the Christmas Holidays!

    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    I haven't written to Santa for 40 years so here goes:

     

    Dear Santa please make Leicester City smash Totenham on Sunday, and for Gods sake give Cengiz Under 90 mins please!! I promise I wont write another letter ever again, and wash all the dishes on Christmas day on my own, if this happens yours faithfully Fearless Foxes Fan!

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    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, StanSP said:

    If he's upset Rodgers there's no way he even starts so that theory can be firmly chucked out the window.

    I'm sure Cengiz hasn't upset BR, and I'm sure BR wouldn't start him if he had.

     

    I think the lad has worked hard enough from what I've seen to warrant more syarts and game time he has got something that will make a difference given the chance.

    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

    Coming from Serie A, and worse not getting loads of games, he will have arrived well below the physical level required. Brendan has already stated his quality, it’s just a matter of conditioning 

    Yeah I did hear that a month or so ago and understand that, however I think he is ready for 90 mins now from what I've seen certainly looks fitter than some

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    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

    Be amazed to see Under start.

     

    Or (slightly less so) be here next season

    I really don't understand why Under doesn't get a full 90 mins, has he upset BR, I'm sure there must be a legitimate reason. From what I've seen though, he is a real threat and should be given a bit more game time instead of being subbed all the time.

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    Tottenham Hotspur (A) pre match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    5 hours ago, SecretPro said:

    I would like to see:

     

    Kasper

     

    Ricardo

    Fofana

    Evans (or Soyuncu)

    Castagne

     

    Ndidi

    Tielemans

    Praet

     

    Under

    Vardy

    Barnes

     

     

    For the rest of the season.


    Thanks

     

     

    I really like that line up,  and agree would be great for the rest of the season. However injuries are dragging on, what is going on with Castagne, he has had more time off than John Wayne's safety catch, when is he going to be fit again, Ricardo understandable with his op, Soyunchu understandable, but would be nice to get some positive news on when these guys will return.

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    Everton Post Match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    2 hours ago, deanolegend1989 said:

    In my opinion, @ealingfox is correct. It’s easy for people to give the ‘perspective’ line to shut down people, but this season we have in general not been good enough.

    We have had a handful of good performances but in general have been really poor.

     

    Ive heard people say ‘what points have we not deserved?’. I could argue most of them!

     

    - Sheffield Utd we were pathetic the entire 2nd half and 2 points knicked there.

    - Wolves was an awful performance that we knicked from a huge slice of luck.

    - Arsenal we were lucky to not go behind and we never win if we do because we are useless a majority of time when we go behind vs a very poor team I might add.

     

    We deserved and played well vs West Brom, Leeds, Burnley and Brighton. The rest we’ve been fortunate. Even Man City, we never win that game if we go in 1-0 down. Walker gifted a pen when Vardy is going nowhere.

     

    Switch it around, not one of our losses could anyone even question that we didn’t deserve! You could maybe argue Villa just because of the late nature, but we were pathetic in that game and no one can argue we deserved to win.

    West ham and Liverpool absolutely ran us over. We looked like a mid table championship team in the FA Cup 3rd round vs them.

    Fulham were very comfortable until the last 20 and Everton last night, we huffed and puffed but I’ve never been more sure we had lost the very second Kasper fumbles that in the net.

    I have absolutely no confidence when we concede first because we have no fight to turn around a position of adversity ever. We can’t play through the midfield, Mendy is a passenger and too static , Tielemens doesn’t dictate as well without Wilf and/or Praet. So we end up going wide to Justin or Barnes who run into cul de sacs 99% of the time and get doubled up on.

    Can see over and over again it happening, yet BR decides to not change the shape but just do a like for like ‘safe’ change taking off our most creative player Under for Perez. Gutless from management to playing staff.

     

    Funnily enough, it was Everton last year at home that always upsets me how far we’ve dropped. We were losing 1-0 to Richarlson exactly the same. BR doesn’t wait as long, he changes it and actually ‘gambles’ puts nacho 2 up top and that ultimately wins the game. Ndidi and Tielemens ran the midfield in that 2nd half and I actually believed we could win that game. Even if we hadn’t won it, we fought hard, made gambles and the passion and fight was there. It was chalk and cheese compared to not only yesterday, but all 5 of our losses this season when the second the opener fly’s in we lose without a fight.

    Its easy to say ‘it was one game’ Last night but it’s been nearly every game, even some we have won! BR has gotten more and more negative every month.
    Vardy needs more help in games we concede first. It’s too easy to mark 1 up top when teams sit in a low block.

     

    BR has had a huge problem with this for years even before us. I remember speaking to a Liverpool fan in 2014 before that big game vs Chelsea and when I said ‘you only need a draw, you must be huge favourites’ and he said ‘BR is great when we score first but if Chelsea score first he won’t be able to turn it around because he has no plan b’.

    Yes Gerrard slipped, completely different game, but the point remains . He is a very scared manager to take risks when we’re losing and he only reacts at 2-0 when he feels it’s game over and he ‘has to’.


    So yes it’s not a case of were 4th it’s ok. We have a very very huge problem that repeats itself of a lack of creativity. Vardy is icolated too often in games we are chasing, we need to get 2 on up top if we concede first and gamble, if we gamble and lose who cares? Not like we don’t lose anyway without a fight!

    Wilf back in the middle will be a huge Improvement , Praet is so underrated, he needs to play more.

    Obviously getting our fullbacks/CBS back will improve us too.

    Its the first time though that I’m really not confident in BR that he actually knows what he’s doing.

    We did go 1 - Nil down at Man City but came back and won. Some of what you say is true but I think alot of teams have had alot of luck as well and have been unlucky Sheff Utd a casing point played some positive football but been unlucky, I'm not saying we are comfortable doing exceptionally well and the Fulham game was awful IMO, However we are not the worst by a long shot and are where we are on merit with hard to cope with injuries. I feel frustrated because we could be better and should do better but under the circumstances deserve to be 4th and will hopefully get better.

    Brendan Rodgers Contract

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

    He's very much the perfect fit for us.

    If he was genuine top-level, world class he wouldn't be our manager.

    He's moved us miles forward, the players like him but of course he has flaws.

    We're Leicester, we're a work in progress, we're doing great things but it won't ever be perfect.

    I think the journey he is on with Leicester, and the successes he will bring in time, and with patience, might take him a notch further to being that world class manager. I just hope he doesn't get tempted by others before then, which is always a threat.

    Everton Post Match

    in Leicester City Forum

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

    Enough has been said about the players, tactics and team selection. All I want to add is that, above all, what I find sadly missing in our team under Rodgers is the Fearless spirit that served us so well during the title winning season (and indeed in the two or so seasons since then even though we were not winning as much). The old guard led by the likes of Vardy, Albrighton, Mahrez, Simpson, Morgan, Fuchs and Kasper (and Evans as a joiner later) always seem to have this desire to win (shown by their body language), even though their output or skills may not get them over the line all the time. It was a different mentality but they chase endless causes (Vardy still does and Kasper still has that look of concern on his face when we are losing), they believed they belong and can win, and they push forward even if they could be hopeless long balls. We now have more skillful players and we can play  more beautiful football arguably, but it seems we have lost that grit and belief. We rather play safe and pass around at the back then to have a go but risk losing or losing the ball. Funnily enough, I think belief is above all the most important. We now have the skill but we don’t have as much that spirit. We are becoming a bit like Spurs in the last few seasons when they constantly play beautiful football but they never could put together a decent run to win the title (and they would like us lose games when they were expected to win). Admittedly though, we do not constantly play beautiful football - only some time - as we regularly put up subpar performances like against Everton and Fulham. Belief and team spirit is something fully under the responsibility of the manager - and to me this is what sets apart the best manager in the world from good but not great ones. I don’t know, but Rodgers’ interviews never gave me the impression that he has got this right yet. It also seem apparent on the pitch when we fans regularly moan about players strolling to the corner flag, passing sideways or backwards when we are chasing games in the last 10-15 mins, when we decide to pass backwards to our own half for freekicks when our CBs are up near the box ready for a header but the ball never came, etc.

     

    I commented in the post match thread after our 3-0 win against Brighton that I didn’t like how we played the last 15 mins when we lacked drive. I said Klopp and Guardiola never allowed that to happen for Liverpool and Man City because they always say it is very important that the players always play with the same mentality. I said that I didn’t like it because that attitude would rub off on the team in the long run and when we need it to chase games. I was laughed at but this game showed exactly what I meant. 

     

    I used to love watching the likes of Vardy  pushing and pushing and Kasper shouting from the back urging players to go forward. We tried to have a go. Now we don’t. This, Rodgers, really needs to be reflected on and changed.

     

    Fearless Foxes.

    Fearless Foxes never give up is a great Motto, some of what you say above is true!

     

    But as with everything there is a fineline to be struck, BR has a very difficult job, I for one do not agree with everything he does and sometimes I wish he would give the players a rocket (especially in the Fulham game), but his respect from the players is clear too see and that takes time to build.

     

    I think we are at the stage now where some of the players know they haven't shown that fearless attitude and therefore not given 100% for the manager, the Everton game wasn't down to BR but some absent individual performances imo, I would love too see a bit more of the fearless foxes attitude Sunday and I'm predicting we will! BR is a good manager who is doing a good job with what he has got and I for one am pleased where we are, but acknowledge there is more determination needed from some individuals on the pitch.

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