Guest Col city fan Posted 19 December 2015 Posted 19 December 2015 When Cambiasso left eh Col? I'm saying nowt.... Cambiasso was basically replaced by Kante wasn't he? You do the math..
HighPeakFox Posted 19 December 2015 Posted 19 December 2015 When we failed to sign Lee Cattermole....... Sorry
Izzy Posted 19 December 2015 Posted 19 December 2015 I'm saying nowt.... Cambiasso was basically replaced by Kante wasn't he? You do the math..
WesMorganGod Posted 19 December 2015 Posted 19 December 2015 2 huge moments... getting Ranieri, he has been amazing, superb manager, love everything about the guy. .. and secondly YES the home game against Villa, that was a huge moment, 1 hour of that game we looked like the 20th team, couldn't even do 2 passes correctly.. loseing 2-0 and could have actually been 4-0 down, then we had a huge rally and came back to 3-2 and there was a huge huge huge moment.. since then I feel like our spirit has grown so much.
Captain... Posted 19 December 2015 Posted 19 December 2015 Spurs last boxing day. Interesting choice, we were very good and very unlucky, but the thing for me was the reaction from the fans at the final whistle, we cheered them off the pitch because they had attacked Spurs from the off and given it their all, yes we lost that game but it started to click that if we attack we will create chances and the fans will enjoy it, personally I would say it was switching to Schlupp and Albrighton as wing backs.
johnny the fox Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Surely it was the moment the Thai ladies tongue came in contact with the Hopper sphincter?
Vindaloo FOX Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 i have two dates that it clicked, first one last season vs Spurs and for the bigger picture 13th of May 2013. The team never wanted to feel that pain again and knew if they could bounce back from that dreadful day at Watford they could bounce back from anything. 5:20 - 6:00 says it all .
Wymsey Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Can't think of any, but I'm sure there's clubs out there (throughout the European leagues) that had won a top league title despite being labelled as 'underdogs' and greatly over-achieved domestically? I remember hearing Bayern Munich giving Dortmund a £2 million loan to assist with their payroll and were in serious danger of getting relegated, but when Klopp came he turned them into top-league title winners.
Sampson Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 i have two dates that it clicked, first one last season vs Spurs and for the bigger picture 13th of May 2013. The team never wanted to feel that pain again and knew if they could bounce back from that dreadful day at Watford they could bounce back from anything. 5:20 - 6:00 says it all . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag5gDQ8b7XY It wasn't the Watford game but that entire run at the end of the 2012-13 season. We were 2nd and had a very young side and looked sure to go on to get automatic promotion. Then we went on that horrific run when we won something like 3 of our last 17 games and only just scraped the play-offs. In hindsight I was the best thing to ever happen to us though. Look at that young/inexperienced side - Kasper, Morgan, King, Drinkwater, James, De Laet, Schlupp, Vardy - it's the same core squad that's still here - and they learnt how to get a winning mentality the hard way and the next season we walked the Championship and so many of those players stepped up the following season! That horrific run in the end of the 2012-13 season was so important and formative to this side.
Sampson Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Can't think of any, but I'm sure there's clubs out there (throughout the European leagues) that had won a top league title despite being labelled as 'underdogs' and greatly over-achieved domestically? I remember hearing Bayern Munich giving Dortmund a £2 million loan to assist with their payroll and were in serious danger of getting relegated, but when Klopp came he turned them into top-league title winners. Otto Rehhagel made a career of it - he won the Bundesliga with newly promoted and massively unfancied Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen sides and then won the Euros with Greece!I remember seeing his Kaiserslautern side of the mid-90s a couple of times - very similar to us in many ways. Incredibly energetic counter-attacking side who just couldn't stop winning and confounding everyone.
LanguedocFox Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Last season losing 3-4 to Spurs, after that we have never really looked back, losing in the league to Chelski and Arsenal only. Beat me to it. I watched the match on a stream, and while all the noise was about Kane's hat-trick - one of the softest I've ever seen - I was really encouraged by City's performance. It was a match we didn't deserve to lose, and the way that Nugent grabbed the ball and raced back to the centre-circle after he'd scored - in the 90th minute, mind - showed the never-say-die spirit that characterised the Greatest Ever Escape ©. That was the turning point for me, and we've never looked back.
Callabinho Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 It clicked when the players realised that the man sitting next to them was willing to run through a brick wall for them. We've got a team built around hard work, lion's courage, desire and talent. Sometimes these ingredients are much more powerful than a wallet full of cash and if you can convince a human that they're simply better than anyone else around them the message will eventually hit home. You can keep your money, and signing these supposedly "best players in Europe" if the ingredients don't mix then it won't work. What happens if you were to build a house on poor foundations? It would collapse, if you get the first bit right then the rest will fall into place. That's football guys.
Carl the Llama Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Can't think of any, but I'm sure there's clubs out there (throughout the European leagues) that had won a top league title despite being labelled as 'underdogs' and greatly over-achieved domestically? I remember hearing Bayern Munich giving Dortmund a £2 million loan to assist with their payroll and were in serious danger of getting relegated, but when Klopp came he turned them into top-league title winners. Comparisons will surely be drawn with Montpellier winning Ligue 1 in 11/12 which was their 3rd year back in the top flight having finished 14th the previous year (5th the year before that one), but I don't think even that could match us winning the PL if we pull it off.
Guest Col city fan Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 West Brom away last season was when it clicked. First half, we were dreadful. We went in 2-1 down and looking like a side all but relegated. I remember standing in the queue for a drink at half time with nearly all the chat amongst the masses, based on 'Pearson out'. Seriously, nearly everywhere you turned, the comments were about how he'd had long enough, we weren't going to stay up etc etc. THEN..he made a change. I can't recollect exactly what he did, but I think King replaced Ulloa and we pushed the full backs up. It worked..Vardy got the winner near the end, we went mad and the rest was history. For me, it was that afternoon that you could discern a real hope amongst our fans..and that genuinely came with 45 minutes of football. For me, that Vardy goal was, and always will be, priceless.
shailen Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Do you know what, we have been playing well since that Watford play off game. Every single game since then, more or less, we have played an attacking, high tempo, persistent game. It's been non-stop. That for me is when it clicked. The players felt the lowest of lows and came back fighting. I'm not fooled by our run towards the end of the season, because I felt that we had been playing that well for the whole season. It's just that added confidence and momentum, that we have had since the West Ham game. Add to that the clappers which do make a fantastic atmosphere, and its like a European atmosphere at the KP. All in all, I said this group of players will do fantastic things since we demolished the championship, not that I could envisage this good this quick, but I knew and believed in what we had here. The point I'm trying to make is that we have been this good since Watford play off game, but we've added quality that believes in playing the same way. Absolutely fantastic.
foxfanazer Posted 20 December 2015 Author Posted 20 December 2015 It clicked when the players realised that the man sitting next to them was willing to run through a brick wall for them. We've got a team built around hard work, lion's courage, desire and talent. Sometimes these ingredients are much more powerful than a wallet full of cash and if you can convince a human that they're simply better than anyone else around them the message will eventually hit home. You can keep your money, and signing these supposedly "best players in Europe" if the ingredients don't mix then it won't work. What happens if you were to build a house on poor foundations? It would collapse, if you get the first bit right then the rest will fall into place. That's football guys. Good post! You'll have me crying again like I was yesterday on the rad.......... erm that wasn't me....... honest!
Guest Col city fan Posted 20 December 2015 Posted 20 December 2015 Good post! You'll have me crying again like I was yesterday on the rad.......... erm that wasn't me....... honest! Own up.. It was wasn't it...
foxfanazer Posted 20 December 2015 Author Posted 20 December 2015 West Brom away last season was when it clicked. First half, we were dreadful. We went in 2-1 down and looking like a side all but relegated. I remember standing in the queue for a drink at half time with nearly all the chat amongst the masses, based on 'Pearson out'. Seriously, nearly everywhere you turned, the comments were about how he'd had long enough, we weren't going to stay up etc etc. THEN..he made a change. I can't recollect exactly what he did, but I think King replaced Ulloa and we pushed the full backs up. It worked..Vardy got the winner near the end, we went mad and the rest was history. For me, it was that afternoon that you could discern a real hope amongst our fans..and that genuinely came with 45 minutes of football. For me, that Vardy goal was, and always will be, priceless. To be honest Vardy, King and Mahrez dragged us out of the shit big time in those last 9 games. Vardy in particular just looked like his life depended on it
foxfanazer Posted 20 December 2015 Author Posted 20 December 2015 Own up.. It was wasn't it... I very much doubt poor Lee has woken up from his drunken slumber yet I was watching the live cam thing they do and Savage was in hysterics. Always seems like its the Leicester fans that are the embarrassing ones every week on there. I'm gonna phone next week and should offer some of my top quality analysis
Guest Posted 21 December 2015 Posted 21 December 2015 Definitive turning point, thank you sir. And to be fair i can't pronounce his name either. https://youtu.be/Dvqodwj2RZY
americanfox Posted 21 December 2015 Posted 21 December 2015 To be honest Vardy, King and Mahrez dragged us out of the shit big time in those last 9 games. Vardy in particular just looked like his life depended on it And Pearson wanted to sell Vardy back to Sheffield Wednesday...
Guest MattP Posted 21 December 2015 Posted 21 December 2015 West Brom game I think, had we lost that we probably go down.
Foxhateram Posted 21 December 2015 Posted 21 December 2015 And Pearson wanted to sell Vardy back to Sheffield Wednesday... No he didn't. Pearson rated Vardy in the highest regard and knew he would make it. Leave it out! Turning point had to be that Villa game. To come back from 2-0 down and win 3-2 in the last 15 minutes was amazing. It just seemed to give everyone hope of survival. King being put back in the first team last season was also important. Alongside the change in formation to the fast paced 3-5-2. People couldn't handle us. Then I suppose all that belief from lat season has spilt into this one and then the additions of fuchs, kante and the better attitude of Simpson has kind of been the missing pieces. Still say it would be no different whoever was is charge but that's a whole new debate that's been done before.
HighPeakFox Posted 21 December 2015 Posted 21 December 2015 No he didn't. Pearson rated Vardy in the highest regard and knew he would make it. Leave it out! Turning point had to be that Villa game. To come back from 2-0 down and win 3-2 in the last 15 minutes was amazing. It just seemed to give everyone hope of survival. King being put back in the first team last season was also important. Alongside the change in formation to the fast paced 3-5-2. People couldn't handle us. Then I suppose all that belief from lat season has spilt into this one and then the additions of fuchs, kante and the better attitude of Simpson has kind of been the missing pieces. Still say it would be no different whoever was is charge but that's a whole new debate that's been done before. Apologies, but I do enjoy a good oxymoron in the morning
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