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You could understand it if we were desperate and our entire future depended on it, rather than it just being a possible boost to our already boosted squad.

Momento Mori by Muriel Sparks Psmith, Journalist by P.G.Wodehouse

90% of foxes talk posters beg to differ, apparently.

isn't he about 40?

This is interesting - scroll down to 'zones of control' and you'll see no one plays as far up the field as we do. https://theanalyst.com/eu/2023/08/championship-stats-2023-24-opta

Simply not true - most games teams have played so deep we've had 10 players in the opposition half for long periods. Naturally there are times, from goal kicks etc, where we start deeper, but then that's right at the start of each possession, but gradually we'll work it up. Sometimes, high pressing teams put us in trouble, but 'plenty of chances' is surely an exaggeration.

Fair enough, but from what i've seen we DO try different things, every game.

I don't imagine he plans to quit, but making such a statement might give some of the boo boys a kick up the arse. I get what you're saying, i just don't understand why people still feel the need to groan when we've lost 4 games in 29, especially after seeing just 5 home wins last season. It's sad.

because it's a formal document - you have to know you're going to need one before you get one, probably have to supply contracts etc.

To assume that such a situation is the absolute truth is a little naive - i though you might know better than this. Smoke and mirrors, Sir. For a club in the EFL that spent so much in the summer, unless we come out with some such story, teams are just going to hike up their prices. it sounds like we could have sold souttar, but clearly chose not to, which suggests that things aren't quite as bad as they're making out.

Sure there are games when we haven't been at our best, but even against Leeds we weren't 'poor' - poor was what we were last season. As for the comparison with rodgers - there's a whole thread here showing exactly why there is almost nothing to compare, other than perhaps superficially. rodger's negativity ended with us playing one dimensionally along the back line, maresca has us playing across the back but via the midfielders and the goalie - it's massively different.

but even that is better than being criticised when you're doing a good job. which is what's happening at the KP. If people aren't happy, fair enough - but keep it to yourselves, people.

One of the most miserable and negative comments in this thread. Apart from the fact that we never just lum pit to the wingers and hope, exactly when and where have we been poor?

yeah, but common sense suggests that there's a time and a place for critique, and when we're 3-0 up or whatever doesn't seem to be it. Anyone who has a job wants to be acknowledged as doing their job well, if you do a poor job, then expect criticism, but if you're the best guy in the company and someone complains if you linger over your coffee break you might just think - føkk this, i'm the best person here and i'm getting shit because i take my time making my coffee. And as for our 'problems' - time to have some perspective, if this is us with problems, then it's clearly problems we can deal with - or should we, do we, as a fanbase, expect perfection

But why is this a problem - it's not complacency or sloppiness, it's a part of our game management. If we don't take time just to play passively, to allow the opposition their moment, then it will be us that becomes tired out. I get that it can be perceived as dangerous, but so far it really hasn't been - look at the figures for points dropped from a winning position and you can see that our game plan is sound (especially as the one loss we only had 10 men).

Which games are these - in the 6 games we've played in 2024 we've scored 3+ goals in four of them, only failing when playing with 10 men or against a very good Ipswich side. This is what is so hard to understand about all the moaning - in the last 6 games we've scored 15 goals - and probably could have had a lot more - and all people can do is pick up on the fact that at times we can be slower in our play - which, 30 something games in, you'd think people would have got used to by now.

But that isn't the result of the way we play, that's the result of how the opposition play - if they don't commit, they don't commit - and if they don't commit, we usually try another approach. people are talking/acting like we stand there for minutes on end, doing nothing, but it isn't the case, i'm sure if it was measured it wouldn't be anywhere near as long as people are making out. Form my experience the groans tend to be reserved for when we push forwards AND THEN GO BACK - which seems to be particularly the case with Justin. It's almost like the fans have been patient, it looks like we're going forward, and then we go back, and then they groan.

Curious to know, logistically, how this is even possible - just from traffic congestion?

Was it a whine or was it...a challenge? It seems to me that he's calling out these people and making them realise how idiotic they are.

He's a free agent in June - there'll be a lot more competition for him then.

Am i the only one who read this and thought it said Ewing Oil?

All reasonable points - but none of them relate to the style of play, which is what is being questioned here. What, reasonably, could maresca do or change to make the way we play less 'boring' without lowering the standard of our performances or jeopardising our sky high win rate?

But saying what is ideal and then saying you don't expect to get it is rather pointless. I'd like a villa in the south of france but i don't expect to get it - i could post this and most people wouldn't care, a few people would brand me a knob for posting it - so the best thing to do is not to mention it.

but this is exactly the problem - why isn't it good enough? Or do you mean, pretty enough or sexy enough; and for that matter what is enough - our goal difference is higher than the total goals scored by 10 teams in the league; last season in the entire championship only 5 teams scored more goals than we've scored so far - surely that suggests that from a quality point of view, we are not just 'good enough' we are exceptional. You say that you're not expecting of 90 minutes of free flowing football, then complain that there wasn't enough quality - how can you happily expect one thing and be dissatisfied when that outcome occurs? Can't you just be grateful that when it mattered we played some great football, and when we weren't setting the game on fire we were doing what we needed to do to prevent the opposition from scoring - isn't that the natural way of any football game? - your statement is everything that is wrong about the perception of what maresca has achieved.

No, entitlement is about having your cake and eating it. Every fan expects or at least hopes to win every week. The problem we have here is that we are winning most weeks and they're still not happy because we aren't winning the way they'd like us to win ; they're assuming that because we're leicester we should be winning by multiple goals, that we shouldn't concede goals.