Thequickbrownfox

On a slightly off topic note Jamie Vardy reached 300 career club goals last night. Stocksbridge Park Steels - 55 Halifax - 28 Fleetwood - 34 Leicester - 183

A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, high chief of the Vikings accidentally ordered 80 thousand battle helmets with the horns on the inside. Blackadder Goes Forth

Exactly. The BSLB podcast made an excellent point that there's a complete lack of ruthlessness at the club on and off the pitch. We never kill off games when we're ahead, concede too many late goals and can't fight back from behind. On top of this, we can't seem to sell or buy players without a 20 year saga and Seagrave just seems to either treat players like royalty or injure them. If the play off final ended up being us versus Southampton, I think both teams would be so utterly fed up it would be a weird spectacle.

2019/20 - 4 wins in our last 17 2020/21 - 5 wins in our last 13 2022/23 - 4 wins in our last 23 Will there soon be four blue bottles hanging on the wall?

Bottling it yet again. How many more seasons will tail off? I don't fancy our chances in the play offs, if it comes to that.

It's starting to get very worrying. Suddenly we can't hit a barn door or see a game out. My mind goes right back to 1994. Exactly 30 years ago the Foxes began a run of just 4 wins and seemingly endless draws from their last 16 games and just made it into the play-offs. They did of course finally win at Wembley, but it was a rather wobbly road! If we don't get promoted this season it'll be a ridiculous failure, but something just doesn't feel right at the moment. We need to find the spark again very quickly!

Leicester seem incapable of playing two good halves of football. One of them always looks tired and flat.

Yesterday I ordered Oasis soup. You got a roll with it.

I think it stems from an 8 game run with only one win from 1996 to 2003. We did play Arsenal twice and Liverpool once, so they were understandable. We beat Sheffield Wednesday in 1998, but lost to Leeds and twice to Ipswich and probably most galling of all conceded an injury time equaliser to Newcastle in 2003, when we were absolutely desperate for points in a relegation scrap!

Did Leicester ever really have a Boxing Day curse or is it just more annoyingly memorable dropping points over Christmas?

I'd prefer to watch Armando Iannucci's "Jaap Stam's Goals of the Nineties That Were Subsequently Disallowed."

Teams aren't going hell for leather against us, but they aren't completely sitting back and almost happy to only lose 2-0 now. Teams will be quite defensive against us, but it's a subtle and worrying little change at the moment.

Teams were sitting back early in the season. Now they've worked out that if they come at us, we can struggle. Recent performances have been quite poor. The international break probably comes at the right time. We've certainly got the players - we just need to have a bit of a rethink and start making a few tactical changes and get some more dynamism into the performances.

It's often a good game against Middlesbrough. Always reminds me of the League Cup final of 1997. Future Leicester legend Nigel Pearson appears in the famous photo after Heskey's scrambled late equaliser!

Have we missed an obvious one - Emile Heskey! April 1996 to December 2014 - Leicester and Bolton.

Excellent list!

Probably. I did think maybe Trevor Brooking, but he was 11 years at West Ham in the top division from the start of his career and then dropped into the second for three years with the Hammers.

Vardy's goal last night was his first in the Championship since March 2014 - a gap of nearly a decade. I can only think of Dion Dublin who has had a similar gap. His last goal for Cambridge was in the Championship in May 1992 after which he went on to a Premier League career not scoring a second tier goal again until March 2002 on loan for Millwall. There's probably quite a few more examples. Do any others spring to mind?

Yes, that's the one!

Here's an interesting quiz question. Name the four Leicester City players to have scored in the Shield.

Mixed feelings really. Obviously it would be great to stay up financially, but with many players leaving in the summer another Premier League campaign could be painful. It was a turgid game from us today, but admittedly that's what it's come to now and I could see the logic behind it. We're poor value for the neutral nowadays which is sad to see. Staying up would be a strangely flat experience in many ways. If we win 2-1 then that would be a mere 34 points and 9 wins with a goal difference of -17 and one clean sheet since the World Cup and that might be good enough to survive. It all feels very muted at the moment.

The Crystal Palace game for me. Not only were we diabolical, but the club then sacked Rodgers after we'd just had a two week break. Getting rid of him straight after Brentford would have given us a clear fortnight to get the current management team in, let them settle in a little bit and probably win one of the next two games. Instead our final window of opportunity was badly wasted in yet another example of gross mismanagement.

Time: unknown. Location: unknown. Cause of accident: unknown. Perhaps if someone finds this recording it will shed light as to what happened here. (Red Dwarf)

Yes, I know what you mean, but the trouble is I can't see us being secure with any tactic. If we do actually defend well until half time and it's goalless, would we really expect to win it in the second half? It's a very tough problem. As you say, the midfield is non existent defensively so it makes us very unbalanced and struggling however we approach it. Let's hope we can find a way, because things are getting rather desperate now.