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At his age he is bound to be inconsistent, he is still ticking along nicely though in certain aspects

Thoroughly deserved second ranking final for O’Connor, something clicked at the Welsh Open, great to see a continuation of that form this week. Tough task, but hopefully he can bring the trophy back to Leicester 🤞🏻

If some of our centre backs end up fvcking off. Adrian Barisic - Basel

With how deep we sat, it was virtually impossible to play more forward in the first half. Buonanotte, El Khannouss, Reid and Vardy are not the type of players who can advance you up the pitch. Buonanotte and El Khannouss are not strong ball-carriers, Reid lacks pace and 1 vs 1 ability and Vardy has lost a couple of yards of pace. They might not be to Premier League standard, but when you’re being forced back, you need outlets who possess pace. Therefore he has to start Mavididi and Daka more often. As you can probably tell, I’m still a little bit frustrated after last night

“We were too passive” ”We sat too deep” Sitting deep looked a clear tactic in the first half, so either Ruud gave them no instructions to push further up the field, or the players are simply not listening to him. He also mentioned about taking initiative and pressing, we didn’t really do that until Mavididi came on. While our press has been pretty non existent all season, we are the third worst team in the league when it comes to PPDA(Passes per defensive action).

He clearly told us to sit back in the first half, Vardy was almost in the 18 yard box at times. Sitting back like that, then trying to counter with a front four of Buonanotte, El Khannouss, Reid and Vardy is fvcking dumb.

Sitting back in the first half and trying to counter with Buonanotte, El Khannouss, Reid and Vardy is never going to work. Setting us up like that, you need at least one of Mavididi or Daka, preferably both. He’s also started pushing Ndidi further forward when we’re in possession, leaving us more vulnerable when it comes to turnovers/counter attacks, look at Ferguson’s chance in the second half for example. His selections and tactics are absolutely idiotic.

Quite possibly some of the dumbest tactics(Especially first half) that I’ve ever seen from a Leicester manager.

He has told us to defend deep with a front four of Buonanotte - El Khannouss - Reid - Vardy to counter. RVN is a fvcking dumbass.

I’m lost for words at how stupid Ruud’s tactics are

And Kristiansen And Soumare

Buonanotte starting but so does Vestergaard and Reid

Funny how we supposedly start Ayew and Reid because of “Defensive Work”, when both Buonanotte and Mavididi have been statistically better

QF at the Welsh, now SF at the World Open, Joe O’Connor has been in magnificent form recently.

That’s what you get when your manager wants a pair of pensioners and Oli Skipp for £25 million

Briefly mentioned him last season because he was delivering some excellent creative numbers, has continued that trend into this season too. Pavel Sulc of Viktoria Plzen would be high up on my list too, like Fruk, he’s continued to post some excellent creative numbers like he did last season.

You can also say you need the right players to play a possession heavy style in the Prem. We built the first foundation on that last season, but we messed it all up by appointing a manager who wanted to deviate away from it. Is a possession heavy style sustainable for a newly promoted club though, recent history suggests that it might not be. You can either go down the possession route, counter pressing route or the defensive grit it out route. Recent history suggests that you need some grit about you, if you want to stay in the Premier League as a newly promoted team. I’d happily take a hybrid style, but do we have the players who can roll their sleeves up and give us that bit of grit, we definitely aren’t seeing that right now. Is RVN even that guy in a managerial sense, he may not have the right personnel, but all I see is a manager who is just adamant with one formation, with a style that I thought concentrated on fast progressive football, to what is looking like a confusing mess, very much like Cooper. I don’t want a Dyche type either, especially not long term, but what type of manager possesses the best solution for us. Personally give me an Iraola type over a possession heavy or park the bus type manager any day.

Martin would indeed be an unpopular appointment, but I just fear they’ll go down the dominate possession route again, just because it worked so well last time. Who ticks that box…Russell Martin

What is the perfect ingredient though to stay up nowadays? We have seen teams go the possession route and fail, unfortunately it seems our board are also keen on that type of philosophy. Just look at some of the teams that have stayed up in recent memory. Sheff Utd(That good season under Wilder), Fulham, Brentford, Bournemouth, Forest. You either have to get recruitment absolutely spot on, for instance the signing of Palhinha made a massive difference to Fulham, or you have to be horrible to play against and grit it out, Brentford did that perfectly well when they first came up and have built on it. Our squad though imo lacks that grit, we’re too nice to play against, while to top things off our recruitment has been shite. We need to be horrible to play against, I want to see a team that presses and plays with energy, but I just can’t see the board going for someone with that type of style. We’ll probably go down the possession heavy route again and just go back to being a yo-yo club.

As a fan I’d happily forget about this season, but will the board want to operate in such manner, I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but we’re in Dean Smith type territory again. You either go down that same route again, or you sack RVN and just give it Barry-Murphy until the end of the season. But what’s the long term vision at this club? We get relegated and turn to another possession heavy manager like Russell Martin just because it worked last time? I fear that we’ll just become a yo-yo club again, or end up like Norwich and Watford are currently.

Inherited a poor squad and got thrown under a bus with a lack of recruitment in January, but at the end of the day… We can’t defend We can’t score One dimensional formation Obsessed with starting Ayew and Reid Those four things are the perfect recipe for the sack. With the situation we find ourselves in, Ruud just isn’t equipped for that kind of situation. We need a defensive organiser, we need someone who can make us difficult to beat. What we need is a Dyche type, but you just don’t want a Dyche type for the longer term.

Nothing will beat 07/08 for me, but in terms of an unlikeable squad, this current one is definitely in my top 3 over my lifetime.

Do that live on your next stream

He’s inherited a shit squad, but I’m officially Ruud out tonight. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s reached the point where I’d take Dyche.