suffolk fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 1 hour ago, Aidan said: I like Ranieri but I never believed he was ever a good coach; rigid style of play, poor player rotation and substitution, reactive type manager, etc. I just keep noticing he never talks game plan, strategies, etc. but constantly blabbers about nothing ( "I want consistency, "I talked to Mahrez and Slimani and asked them to do something against Porto", "the players are tired", etc. - although they only played 2 CL games so far, I don't believe LCFC will keep him beyond this year. He should consider himself very fortunate to have come at Leicester at the right time and consequently took the credit for the team's performance. In my opinion, 4 players should be on the bench and called upon only when absolutely necessary (Albrighton, Vardy, Simpson and Wes Morgan) and replace them with Hernandez, Demarai, Okazaki and Chilwell. Never read so much crap in all my life. Are you really a Leicester fan?
Corky Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 It's a point gained because the performance was dreadful and they were much better. It was only their carelessness that gave us chances (that we should've taken, by the way). The whole team looked flat and laboured, we didn't break at pace, we gave the ball away needlessly a ridiculous amount of times and never got into a position to give Slimani a headed chance. Thanks to the post, their poor finishing and Schmeichel we got a point but that was as uninspiring as they come.
Callabinho Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 Controversial but....I'm starting to wonder what Ranieri is playing at this season..... Controversial as it sounds I do believe last season had a lot to do with the foundations laid towards the backend of the great escape season..... I'm confused as to what he is trying to do this season, it's so obvious what's wrong yet he's failing to address it...and with the serious question marks over the summer signings I'm really not confident about this season at all. I shall be hugely disappointed if we don't make the ten at least. Today was terrible, utterly and totally terrible...We're so predictable now it's untrue and if we come up against a dynamic side we're in trouble. Big changes needed, or we're in big trouble.
Great Boos Up Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 The match never really kicked in. Some crosses in to Vards, play the space with Slimani and through balls to Ulloa? We need our player shirt names printed bigger.
st albans fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 Some of you need reminding that we lost 3 games through the whole of last season. Nothing to do with the tactical nouse of the manager but apparently just momentum from the previous season !! our record over the 7 games in 22 days is 4-1-2. Not too shabby considering where the defeats came. Cluadio's only mistake is not rotating enough but if his fitness team are telling him the guys are ok to play then can we blame him if they don't perform? Imo, we are pacing ourselves for a long season. Perhaps an FA cup run targeted although January with two ties will be tough against the backdrop of the ACN.
harpendenfox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 3-1-3 actually St Albans, but your point stands. Just above your post @Callabinho describes today's performance as totally and utterly terrible. It simply wasn't. Below our best, yes, lacking in much goal threat, yes, but terrible it was not. I think we simply didn't have the energy to play our high tempo game, and thus we didn't carry that much threat. I was convinced our astonishing home record would fall today and that's before a ball was kicked, and the game went much as I expected, but we hung on for a draw. said to my pal as we drove up today that if we beat Copenhagen at home we could rest one or two in the later stages of the group stages. Not a statement I thought I would make in my Leicester City life
Corky Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 The Hull result is the problem, the others have gone fairly as expected (although the scorelines in defeat were not acceptable). If we'd beaten Hull then we'd have 11 points and that's an ok return from the games so far.
harpendenfox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 2 minutes ago, Corky said: The Hull result is the problem, the others have gone fairly as expected (although the scorelines in defeat were not acceptable). If we'd beaten Hull then we'd have 11 points and that's an ok return from the games so far. That's right. All the other results have been largely predictable for what we might call normal Leicester, however as we haven't seen normal Leicester for quite some time, it feels disappointing. Thus we need to beat Chelsea to compensate for Hull. Simples
kyleolly Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 I saw Drinky in the Hilton hotel bar last night pissed out his head so weren't surprised about his performance today
st albans fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 10 minutes ago, harpendenfox said: 3-1-3 actually St Albans, but your point stands. read it on Twitter - was wrong! Forgot Chelsea and included Swansea!
st albans fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 Just now, kyleolly said: I saw Drinky in the Hilton hotel bar last night pissed out his head so weren't surprised about his performance today If true then something badly wrong somewhere. U sure a) was him? b) he was rat arsed? no premier league player should behave in anything other than a professional fashion.
kyleolly Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 I heard him tell a member of staff who he was before he stumbled in to a table
Guest Col city fan Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 14 minutes ago, harpendenfox said: That's right. All the other results have been largely predictable for what we might call normal Leicester, however as we haven't seen normal Leicester for quite some time, it feels disappointing. Thus we need to beat Chelsea to compensate for Hull. Simples And therein lies the problem. Last season, we'd have gone away to Chelsea with real expectation of winning. This season, maybe not. Chelsea will be the favorites for that game, this season. Simples? No.
HighPeakFox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 4 hours ago, Kendal Fox said: But with us, what we achieved was literally on a shoestring budget. Literally, it really wasn't.
Guest Mickyblueeyes Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 why are we not adapting to our flaws this year? It seems like the same unimaginative game plan week in week out. Ranieri came out today and actually admitted we were poor, which while it's not great to hear is what needs to be said. I think the 2 week break has come at the right the time. The league team needs a tweak and this two weeks for the coaching staff and the players left behind is key. we are not relegation fodder but I refuse to believe that what we've played in the league this season is our best work.
st albans fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 9 minutes ago, kyleolly said: I heard him tell a member of staff who he was before he stumbled in to a table with mobile phones everywhere, surely someone would have taken a photo? players on the kind of contract Danny is surely don't behave that stupidly ? Even Mario didn't get peed up the night before a game!
orangecity23 Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 The biggest problem with today's game is that it was just so boring. We weren't terrible, but we didn't create anything much, and the game just drifted by. Southampton didn't help either, they turned up with no intent other than stifling last year, but we ground out a 1-0. They were quite happy to waste time today too, would just sit back and pass the ball back and forth between Fonte and Van Dijk, then back again, going minutes without thinking of leaving their own half. To be honest, maybe everyone would have been better off if the two teams had agreed they didn't want to play today, then cancelled the game and shared the points, and we could all of used the 2 hours to do something more constructive with our lives instead. Bah humbug!
Sionnach gorm Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 When I hear people here talking about "second year goes bad for Ranieri" and "tactically he's not that astute" I'm very surprised. Firstly it is not true (Monaco second year almost won league) and tactically he almost won another against a better team and a so called tactical genius manager (Roma/Inter). The usual blokes that read bad English papers with monkeys for sportswriters. That said I can't believe that after winning the fecking Prem a manager gets this treatment from ignoramuses like you. One went on to utter the words "Pearson". Go pound salt! If the mods want to ban me, I don't give a rats ass. I can still watch my Leicester games without those unholesome gits spewing forth absurdity and filth.
iancognito Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 2 hours ago, Aidan said: I like Ranieri but I never believed he was ever a good coach; rigid style of play, poor player rotation and substitution, reactive type manager, etc. I just keep noticing he never talks game plan, strategies, etc. but constantly blabbers about nothing ( "I want consistency, "I talked to Mahrez and Slimani and asked them to do something against Porto", "the players are tired", etc. - although they only played 2 CL games so far, I don't believe LCFC will keep him beyond this year. He should consider himself very fortunate to have come at Leicester at the right time and consequently took the credit for the team's performance. In my opinion, 4 players should be on the bench and called upon only when absolutely necessary (Albrighton, Vardy, Simpson and Wes Morgan) and replace them with Hernandez, Demarai, Okazaki and Chilwell. You said all this about Ranieri last year did you? I agree he needs to make changes and far too many aspects of the team aren't clicking )including the infuriating tactic of never switching Mahrez and Albrighton leaving the latter constantly cutting in and having no end product and the former doubled up on in every game) but you don't win the league without being a good coach. Momentum will take you so far and then you have to do something yourself. The defensive changes last season were a masterstroke and the several occasions where something wasn't working and he was bold enough to make half time switches convinced me he was a very good coach. Everyone's entitled to an opinion but yours is in a very tiny minority that very few would agree with
Twitcher Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 6 hours ago, Col city fan said: I did say Southampton would give us more problems than Porto... Porto are bang average. Sounded like Southampton should have won it? Worrying then that we were hanging on at the end against a "bang average" side.
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 6 hours ago, Larry_LCFC said: Pretty indefensible performance. Plan A has been found out now and we don't have a plan B, other than hoofball. When that doesn't work, we don't score. Too many poor performances all over the pitch. Vardy has been hopeless all season so far and I cant see many complaints if he is dropped for Chelsea. Really really poor. I think you've got that back to front / arse about face. Whats has happened is Plan A has been chucked - the one that worked all last season, and Plan B has been utilised this season. The basis of our success is gone - no pressing from the front, no Vardy making runs into space for Drinky to hit. Also the intensity has gone. These players are not good enough to be operating at anything less than 100% - 90% does not cut it. ( Drinks and Slimani aside). Plus, Majrez needs dropping. He was WALKING in treacle all the second half and made wrong decision after wrong decision. The second string need to know they are able to progress, while the 'big shots' for example Mahrez and Vards (is he injured?) need to know that nothing less than 100% is nor good enough. If their malaise transmits to the fans we are all screwed - a downslide in the home atmosphere will be really, really bad news which I m not sure is registering at the moment.
Dan Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 6 hours ago, brucey said: I find that quite assuring. Don't know about everyone else. He's not trying to dress up that we looked shite and he's looking for an answer. Good on him. Could've easily hidden behind that result as it's not a disastrous one, but the performance was dreadful.
Clever Fox Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 1 hour ago, Aidan said: I like Ranieri but I never believed he was ever a good coach; rigid style of play, poor player rotation and substitution, reactive type manager, etc. I just keep noticing he never talks game plan, strategies, etc. but constantly blabbers about nothing ( "I want consistency, "I talked to Mahrez and Slimani and asked them to do something against Porto", "the players are tired", etc. - although they only played 2 CL games so far, I don't believe LCFC will keep him beyond this year. He should consider himself very fortunate to have come at Leicester at the right time and consequently took the credit for the team's performance. In my opinion, 4 players should be on the bench and called upon only when absolutely necessary (Albrighton, Vardy, Simpson and Wes Morgan) and replace them with Hernandez, Demarai, Okazaki and Chilwell. How do you come to that conclusion to make a statement like that, His record says otherwise. Everything you've said couldn't be more wrong. Like any Manager you can only work with the players at your disposal and he got a League title out of his. CR is a realist he knows we don't have the players of the required quality other than Mahrez Drinkwater and Kasper at his best. Yes he came to Leicester at the right time, But he was smart enough to realise he didn't need to change much other than to instil confidence into the players and tighten up the defence. He knows we over achieved last year because of that belief and players trying to prove themselves. This season is a new Ball Game. We had no preseason which hasn't helped at all. Everyone is ready for us this season so we have to find a new way which is what we're trying to do. then we also have Europe to fight for. We are moving to the next level but that takes time to integrate players slowly. The one error we did make was not getting a quality midfielder in during the Summer. I don't think that was CR fault. Now all we can do is wait until January. Have a little faith that we're moving forward as a Club and enjoy the ride. Bumps and all and be thankful you are not a Villa or Derby Supporter.
daddylonglegs Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 6 hours ago, The Doctor said: Positives - Mahrez looked a bit more up for it than he has PL so far. Defended corners far better than the past couple of games. Negatives - Vardy looks bereft of confidence, Might be best if he doesn't make the england squad for this international break and is kept away from that toxic pond. Sorry if this has been mentioned - but Jamie Vardy has never ever lacked confidence. It's one of two things. Firstly - Claudio (and the fitness team) have told him to manage his body better and run less to prolong his career (the more likely). OR, the conspiracy theorists idea - he is not particularly bothered about Southampton at home when he has a book coming out soon, accompinied by the fact he wants to stay fit to be in the England set up over the next few weeks and doesn't want to dive into challenges. He was shite today, though.
Twitcher Posted 2 October 2016 Posted 2 October 2016 1 hour ago, Corky said: The Hull result is the problem, the others have gone fairly as expected (although the scorelines in defeat were not acceptable). If we'd beaten Hull then we'd have 11 points and that's an ok return from the games so far. Spot on. It's the only result that has really got to me. Not a good game today but no issue with the final result. Southampton are decent.
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