Starting a player with a fever?

[Father Ted]

Essentially, yesterday would have also been the perfect time to 'rest him'. He's looking more and more knackered by the week and I just hope that we're not pinning too much of our hopes on him. Start Kramaric on the last man against City with Ulloa or Okazaki behind him. He showed enough endeavour in his cameo yesterday to show that he wants to be part of the team and I trust that he would be quite a nuisance on Tuesday night to a) try and fight for his place or b) advertise him self in the shop window for January. Either way it's win win for us.

[CharlieCharles]

Vardy should of been rested against Liverpool in time for Man City, personally would be shocked to see him start now on tuesday. 

 

Kram & Ulloa

[Matt]

I know we rely on Vardy alot but if he was 100% you don't play him simple as that, it's ok asking a player like Vardy if he's ok to play but as player like Vardy is gonna have to have something seriously wrong with him to answer no. It's a call you have to make as management to think he's not right.

 

Likewise as I said in the post match thread, you can't slag Ranieri off for his tactics or subs this season he's done almost everything spot on but yesterday we were crying out for a change at half time, yet it still took him another 20 minutes to change something, he was too late yesterday, like I said though you can't point the finger too much though given how good his tactics and subs have been so far, if it continues it'll be a concern but let's hope it was a one off and doesn't happen very often.

[NotTheMarketLeader]

No and it could result in his being drained even longer.

He also picked up a knock, perhaps through a lack of his usual sharpness. It's always tempting to play your best players whatever but it's folly most of the time...and evidence of how badly we need two more good strikers. By that I mean hardworking goalscorers not occasional supplementaries operating out of midfield.

They should be there as an extra, not as a front line.

Nailed it

[NotTheMarketLeader]

Highlights our lack of depth. We need to buy in January. Simple as that! All these people saying that we're top so we don't need anybody are naive imo. Take Vardy and Mahrez out and we simply don't have goals

Exactly

[LCCFox96]

Vardy's relentless style of play and limited recovery time over the December/Christmas/New Year Period will be crippling on him. Coming off early in a game we were clearly struggling in might not be such a bad call from the management team and I trust them to manage our key assets correctly.

 

More disappointing than Vardy playing poorly with fever was how badly Kramaric, Okazaki and Ulloa struggled to impact the game.

[Phube]

Kram, with 10 mins and a goal line clearance, struggled to impact a game we were chasing against a resolute team?

[AyewJoking]

Vardy shouldnt have played but Ranieri probably hoped he could make the difference before coming off.

 

Ranieri obviously doubted we could play for 90 without vardy.

 

Could be a sign of his and vardys determination to carry on winning which is admirable given we've reached a point even before the half way mark of the season  where its not the end of the world if we do lose.

[Freesolo]

Didn't realise Vardy has Asthma until today, good to see someone with his work rate doesn't let asthma get in the way of his game. I suffer with asthma very bad, csn do 90 minutes without my inhaler but stand there laughing and I need the puffer

 

He probably doesn't have Asthma at all, loads of athletes claim they have Sports related Asthma but are just lying. My younger brother was a very good Track and Cross Country athlete who trained with the Scotland Athletics team as a Junior he had a inhaler from a GP he would take a few very deep puffs before a race which open up your lung capillaries and give you a bit of a edge, everyone was doing it. If you where to look at all top endurance athletes i doubt their are hardly any that dont have an Inhaler

[fuchsntf]

Some people, so I suppose some top sportsman, can carry a virus/fever, and are are happy to be 15%-25% below their

normal performance, production turnover, playing the percentages.

I played/competed on at junior and int.level.Only a stomach virus would hold me back, at a lower level, so with the

sports science of today, I would hope these guys would go that extra yard.

If some of you remember the Stringfellow, then Glover days.Adding the Melrose and Young eras, those lads went

through alot, a virus would of been the least of their problems.The question for Vardy would of been on Saturday,

I feel shite, so give me some decent service....

[Jordan]

He probably doesn't have Asthma at all, loads of athletes claim they have Sports related Asthma but are just lying. My younger brother was a very good Track and Cross Country athlete who trained with the Scotland Athletics team as a Junior he had a inhaler from a GP he would take a few very deep puffs before a race which open up your lung capillaries and give you a bit of a edge, everyone was doing it. If you where to look at all top endurance athletes i doubt their are hardly any that dont have an Inhaler

There was an NFL player in the 1970s, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, that used to sneak an inhaler filled with liquified cocaine in his pocket onto the field.

[Thracian]

Some people, so I suppose some top sportsman, can carry a virus/fever, and are are happy to be 15%-25% below their

normal performance, production turnover, playing the percentages.

I played/competed on at junior and int.level.Only a stomach virus would hold me back, at a lower level, so with the

sports science of today, I would hope these guys would go that extra yard.

If some of you remember the Stringfellow, then Glover days.Adding the Melrose and Young eras, those lads went

through alot, a virus would of been the least of their problems.The question for Vardy would of been on Saturday,

I feel shite, so give me some decent service....

 

 

Vardy never showed the energy to benefit from any sort of service. Whatever was amiss with him, he just wasn't with it and should never have played. We'd still have found it hard with 11 men, let alone 10 or 9.5 given Shinji being in no-man's land.   

[dylanlegend]

If he says he can play and wants to play why would you not play him? I wouldn't have thought he'd have been pressured to play

[Merging Cultures]

If he says he can play and wants to play why would you not play him? I wouldn't have thought he'd have been pressured to play

I say that I can and want to do a lot. It doesn't mean I should do them. It is up to the manager (my wife, in my case) to add a dose of realism and make the call not the player.

Vardy needs a rest. He is the type of player who wants to play all the time. But he is the type of player who needs to be healthy, a broken wrist isn't the same as a fever which can lay you out and definitely slows you down.

[Gerard]

Highlights our lack of depth. We need to buy in January. Simple as that! All these people saying that we're top so we don't need anybody are naive imo. Take Vardy and Mahrez out and we simply don't have goals

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

Just looking at our "front four" minus Vardy & Mahrez and it's amongst the weakest in the division.

 

 A "front four" of Albrighton, Ulloa, Okazaki & Dyer just doesn't have enough goals in them or look threatening.

 

A player who is very quick and capable of playing with Vardy or in his role when required would be ideal. Bring in Breel Embolo and Andre Carrillo in January and I'd be a lot more optimistic about our chances.

[TrentFox]

Most sports people will tell you they only get to play one or two games a season - any sport - where they are 100% fully fit. They are always carrying something at that level. It's brutal out there and playing at a reduced fitness level is part of the battle. Unless you are Hazard, in which case you just walk off when it gets a bit tough.

[Mr gregs]

Why try look that deep into it ,given medical assessments on here! Remember we only get to know a fraction about day to day WK to WK life at city! Got trust them as vardy and medical side trust each other!