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It's not going to happen mate. Take a step back, forget you support Leicester, and imagine what you'd think if a team in our position sacked their manager, capitulation or not. It's not a question of whether it's the right thing to do or not, it's a waste of energy to push for it and only serves to damage our chances. I would put my house on him not getting sacked before the end of the season. All we can do is try to initiate a siege mentality, because as you say it looks like the players are spent.

Disagree. It's the opposite of arrogance, it's fear. Our players know they're not good enough to find the quick, intricate passes to unlock teams in this system, so they play it safe instead. We did try to move the ball forwards quickly in the last 5 minutes or so, and it was a disaster. KDH, N'didi, and Justin in particular are awful for this. Justin should be nowhere near the 11 at any cost right now, even if that means moving Faes to left back and bringing Coady in at centre half. Hamza needs dropping as well. We need to fill the team with players actually capable of passing a football and the confidence should breed from there. Doyle Coady Vesty Faes Winks KDH Pereira Albrighton Vardy Fatawu Bring N'didi and Iheanacho on at 60 minutes to keep it fresh. Iheanacho on for one of the defenders if we're chasing, push Ricky back to RB and let Iheanacho play as a 10 in the gap Ricky leaves in the middle. N'didi on for whoever looks the most knackered out of KDH and Winks.

Whether that's right or wrong, ask yourself whether there is a world that Enzo gets the sack before the end of the season. I'm struggling to find the words to communicate quite how improbable it is. Improbable isn't the word. It isn't going to happen. Whether you want him gone or not, the best thing we can do is get behind the team. Not because I think he's perfect, not even because he's the best person to turn things around, but because the reality of the situation is that we won't be sacking a manager who has us in the automatics with 8 to go. It'd be unprecedented and we'd rightly be a laughing stock. We can't control what's going on. I can only imagine the news around the club is getting to the players. Enzo has also made some poor decisions, and it's clear how badly we need Ricardo on the pitch. It's all out of our control. Getting on the back of the manager is just about the worst thing we could do right now as fans, but I'd expect nothing less from our lot. Get behind the lads and let's see if a bit of atmosphere gives them a kick up the arse.

Enzo has made some mistakes, but this is a huge factor. It doesn't matter what style or structure you play, if your players consistently misplace simple passes, you're not going to look good or win many games.

It quite simply isn't going to happen. I'm as frustrated as the next fan, but this isn't the time to turn on the manager.

We (and any other football club, for that matter) categorically are not going to sack a manager sat 2nd in the league with 8 games to play. We can have conversations about whether he's right for next season, whether there might be shortcomings etc etc, but talk of sacking at this stage is as pointless as it is damaging.

A player has never been so highly rated and sought after as an apparent creative midfielder while having such a poor ability on the ball. The number of times he hit it first time to absolutely nobody killed us in that second half. He's got an engine and an eye for goal, but you simply cannot get away with a player as poor as he is in terms of his touch and passing in this system.

Chasing a game with 5 minutes to go, 6 men in the box, and as the worst ball player in our team he tries to slide an intricate little inside through ball through a tiny gap. As stupid as he is crap.

I said on 65 minutes I'm mentally preparing for the usual poor end to the game. Then we conceded, and I had absolutely no faith we'd make Bristol work for it. We must be the easiest teams in the football league to close a win out against. All of that is one thing, but what concerns me more is the poor performances right across the pitch. Every single one of them out there played like they had their boots on the wrong foot. Would love to know our pass completion percentage. Special mentions for Mavididi, KDH, and James Justin who were so poor that it took some doing to be that bad and avoid match fixing charges.

So then I'm sure you'll forgive people for treating such closed-mindedness with contempt, the way you do. You're as bad as a 'blue tinter' in that regard, surely? Why are so few football fans measured? In fact in life generally, why are folk generally in camp A or camp B, sat at opposite ends of the extreme? Can more people not appreciate what Enzo is doing while maintaining some reservations? Painful.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Sensi is an example of the profile of footballer we can bring in without breaking the bank.

Not happy / displeased with playing style. Po'tay'to / po'tar'to. I do think you'd find it more aesthetically pleasing with more capable players in there. We end up having to be more cautious than I reckon Enzo would like, because many of our players are really quite poor when it comes to finding a pass. Stick with it!

That's a bit contradictory, no? You're right, we were pissing the league. But a lot of people weren't happy, you included by the sounds of it. That's because the players we have, while of a great standard for this league, aren't the most suited to this technical style of football. That doesn't mean the appointment of Maresca was wrong. I love that we've gone down the route of establishing a clear identity. In a best case scenario, we go up, shake up the squad again and get one iteration closer to an 'Enzo' team, and we stay up playing an established style of play. Better that than going up by any means necessary and starting again next year. Nothing in sport is guaranteed and the best case scenario might not happen. Maybe it'll work out that, given our limitations in terms of having technical footballers, we'd have been better suited to a different approach. I'm not sure who that would have been, I'm glad we didn't end up with Scott Parker or Russell Martin, though. Only time will tell. I think we'll do it. I do hope the game management aspect improves though, it's that which worries me for next season if we do go up. To your point on the next two games, I don't think we're going to see much of Ricardo, at least not for both games, so we'll probably never know. I think not having Doyle at the same time as not having Ricardo could be a massive issue, so I'm not going to come on here and state that we'll be fine and win both games. One of our most established routes into Winks, who we all know is the lynchpin of our play, is from our full backs. I don't trust Justin and Hamza with the role of playing quick, crisp, accurate balls into him. If we start with those two, Bristol would be wise to press the hell out of Winks. I also think comments on Enzo not mixing things up is harsh. I think we have mixed it up because of this problem of late. We seem to go long a lot more than we were doing earlier in the season. It isn't working, though. I'm hopeful we'll have enough to take 6 points, but I don't think either of us will be in a position to use the next two games to prove or disprove our argument.

People wouldn't find Enzoball boring if it wasn't the likes of James Justin, N'didi and KDH tasked with playing intricate little passes. I like KDH, but the lad would be possibly the worst bowls player ever seen if he were to don the greens. Weight of pass not exactly his strong suit. We've seen in glimpses throughout the season how scintillating it looks when it clicks. It clicks more often when we have players that fit the idea. I take the point on lack of flexibility, but at this point in the season after week after week drilling in patterns of play, what do you expect? 4-4-2, play it to the wingers and whip it in? We thought ripping up the rule book and throwing caution to the wind would work under Dean Smith. That's not a defence of Rodgers, we should have sacked him months before it got to that, but panicking and abandoning established patterns at crunch time demonstrably doesn't work. You can like or dislike Enzoball, but Enzoball is what you get with Enzo and that was always going to be the case. Was he the best manager to suit the players at our disposal? Well, up until a couple of weeks ago we were set to break records. For me, we're already a little technically weak, so it only takes losing Ricardo's intricacy and N'didi's athleticism for it all to fall apart. Talk of being found out is lazy. We're just easier to play against without our best players. What I will say of Enzo - he needs to manage games better when we take narrow leads into the latter stages. I will level that criticism at him. The talk of boring football, however, is lazy.

Hamza and Justin on either side of our centre half pairing could really hamper our ability to play up the field, especially if Bristol press Winks as much as other teams have of late. Would it be a terrible idea to play Faes on the left and have him invert from there? I've always thought he's looked more impressive on the front foot, so why not make use of it? I'm not convinced it suits Hamza to invert. Faes moving wide opens the door for the experience of Coady at a time that demands leadership, too. Hopefully Ricardo is fit anyway, but it's unlikely he plays two games in 4 days, so we'll need a solution at some point that doesn't involve playing two full backs that are 'progressively challenged'. Mads Hamza Coady Vesty Faes N'didi Winks KDH Fats Vardy Mav

That runninglevel site has 26:19 as a 'novice' 5k time for a 30 year old and 26:45 for a 35 year old. As a 32 year old 2.5 months into running regularly, I'm going to take the 26:29 PB I just set as being at around exactly 'novice' level for my age. After all this effort I can finally call myself a novice. It's a proud day, I'd like to thank my parents for raising me, my partner for giving me the motivation to run every day, and my cat for having me chase her around the house when it looks like she's about to sit on something with a dangleberry hanging from her fur. You gave me the foundation level of fitness I needed to achieve this great feat. But seriously, I'm pretty happy to be at a '6 month runner' level at this point. Now, back to catching my breath.

Wasn't great that one. It's also the only game we've won recently. Noticing a trend?

Wholeheartedly agree. I never found it boring either. Okay sometimes we didn't find or try passes that I'd have liked to have seen, and that was frustrating at times, but I understand that's a personnel issue. N'didi and KDH will never be that type of midfielder. Our approach was considered, controlled and composed. The chaos we see now coincides perfectly with Enzo's tantrum following fan complaints. If we fvck this up, our fans more than played their part in unravelling it for us.

It's really bothering me that sceptics in here are patting themselves on the back now that we've had some poor results. From where I'm stood, we're not playing anything like how we were when we were winning. Something has changed. Mentioned it before, but we appear to be pressing a lot higher and more frequently than we were. This is actually giving fans open, entertaining games. The issue is we keep coming out the wrong side of them. If we were still playing the 'boring' football you lament, I don't think we'd be in this rather more perilous position. Say what you like about yesterday - and there was a lot wrong with it - but it wasn't boring. If anything, this recent run of form is proving you morons wrong. The advent of more entertaining football has resulted in poorer results.

People do realise they've played an extra game than us, right? And they were playing Millwall at home. Nothing has changed.

As usual, football fans concentrate on outcome rather than the root cause (the guy you're replying to). You're right, once we went down to 10 our chances were tiny, but people are analysing how we performed once down to 10. The problem was in how the red came about, and why we looked wide open all afternoon. Our players are being asked to press so high, all game long. We don't pick our moments, we just press, press, press. It's why teams cut through us like butter, because once you beat that press you're up against our slow back line. Too easy. It's also probably we concede so many late goals at the moment. Pressing all game means that we're goosed by the end of the game. We need to return to what worked for us for most of the season, which was controlling the ball and working it from the back. I'm most disappointed that it appears Enzo has caved to our moronic fan base.

The irony is, we appear to have abandoned our controlled approach to football matches in favour of a cavalier approach which involves our whole team pressing the opposition high. A return to 'boring' football would probably do us a lot of favours at the moment.

He was running at pace and his ankles had been clipped. Honestly I can't be arsed reading opinion on here at the moment. How does a football fan watch that and question it? Seriously? Lord give me strength.

'Clever Fox'

Look forward to Justin conceding possession leading to a last minute Bristol equaliser