An open letter to people who haven't got a clue

[boots60]

Last season a MIRACLE happened. It happened to us. A beautiful MIRACLE.

Now it is back to reality. We are a middling size club that dreams of glory. Just like many other middling sized clubs that dream of glory. Difference is that it actually happened to us. Unless miracles have a habit of repeating themselves we are & have always been extremely unlikely to repeat the aforesaid MIRACLE.

I am & have always been very proud to follow my middling size club & will forever be grateful for what happened 2015 -2016. 

The only way to continue this unbelievable ride is to prioritise the Champions league & progress as far as we possibly can in the competition. OK this may or may not happen but FFS our poor league start to 2016 - 2017 in the league will be forgotten by the rest of the world in no time when a run or even a freak result or two against Europe's big teams could possibly result in another MIRACLE.

Point being, supporting a club is all about dreams of glory, not getting your knickers in a twist because we have a bad start to a season & some of the SHITE I've read on this forum tonight is bewildering to put it mildly.

Rant over, off to my kip.

[HankMarvin]

9 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Last season a MIRACLE happened. It happened to us. A beautiful MIRACLE.

Now it is back to reality. We are a middling size club that dreams of glory. Just like many other middling sized clubs that dream of glory. Difference is that it actually happened to us. Unless miracles have a habit of repeating themselves we are & have always been extremely unlikely to repeat the aforesaid MIRACLE.

I am & have always been very proud to follow my middling size club & will forever be grateful for what happened 2015 -2016. 

The only way to continue this unbelievable ride is to prioritise the Champions league & progress as far as we possibly can in the competition. OK this may or may not happen but FFS our poor league start to 2016 - 2017 in the league will be forgotten by the rest of the world in no time when a run or even a freak result or two against Europe's big teams could possibly result in another MIRACLE.

Point being, supporting a club is all about dreams of glory, not getting your knickers in a twist because we have a bad start to a season & some of the SHITE I've read on this forum tonight is bewildering to put it mildly.

Rant over, off to my kip.

Thanks claudio

shame "the miracle" wasnt the answer when the players all came knocking at the door for their top tier wage increases

[inckley fox]

5 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Thanks claudio

shame "the miracle" wasnt the answer when the players all came knocking at the door for their top tier wage increases

Obviously the board, if they're a good board, shouldn't care whether a miracle happened or not. They care about moving onward and upward. If they don't, then we should just gleefully accept that we'll plummet through the divisions whilst holding dear the precious memory of what once.

 

I'm sure this isn't what's happening. And, because lots of people at the club don't think 'wasn't May wonderful, let's not worry about anything ever again', I suspect there'll be justifiable pressure to make things better. If, out of sentimentality, there isn't, then we're finished.

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, inckley fox said:

Obviously the board, if they're a good board, shouldn't care whether a miracle happened or not. They care about moving onward and upward. If they don't, then we should just gleefully accept that we'll plummet through the divisions whilst holding dear the precious memory of what once.

 

I'm sure this isn't what's happening. And, because lots of people at the club don't think 'wasn't May wonderful, let's not worry about anything ever again', I suspect there'll be justifiable pressure to make things better. If, out of sentimentality, there isn't, then we're finished.

I meant the poster was Claudio 

One win in 6, a team that's looks worse every week as opposed to getting better, I think the fans have a right to voice an opinion.

 

[inckley fox]

7 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

I meant the poster was Claudio 

One win in 6, a team that's looks worse every week as opposed to getting better, I think the fans have a right to voice an opinion.

 

Yeah, definitely.

[Aus Fox]

I think we are in danger of becoming victims of our success. Last season everything came together in beautiful harmony.

Every single player we have played out of their skin in every single game and did the unthinkable.

with the players we have it's not going to happen every season. 

Why we can, we need to enjoy European nights and singing about being Champions of England.

Yes the players all got healthy pay rises, but for what they did for us and the club who can say they didn't deserve it?

Performances this season haven't been as good and we haven't had the rub of the green we had last year. We've been unlucky in the fact that the replacement we bought in for Kante has barely kicked a ball and Kasper has missed a few games already with injuries. Something last season we didn't have to deal with, we kept our best XI on the pitch week in week out.

Vardy is going through a bit of a dry spell, again something that didn't happen last season and Mahrez is usually doubled up on every week, we are struggling for outlets, meaning an over reliance on goofball.

Realistically this season Sunderland, Hull and Swansea are far worse than any other team in the division and despite what many have said on here I can't see us getting involved in a relegation battle.

Lets not get on the players and Claudio's back, let's enjoy the success we had but remember who we are, at best we are a mid table team, who had an amazing season and lived the dream of every football fan in the world last season.

[HankMarvin]

25 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

I think we are in danger of becoming victims of our success. Last season everything came together in beautiful harmony.

Every single player we have played out of their skin in every single game and did the unthinkable.

with the players we have it's not going to happen every season. 

Why we can, we need to enjoy European nights and singing about being Champions of England.

Yes the players all got healthy pay rises, but for what they did for us and the club who can say they didn't deserve it?

Performances this season haven't been as good and we haven't had the rub of the green we had last year. We've been unlucky in the fact that the replacement we bought in for Kante has barely kicked a ball and Kasper has missed a few games already with injuries. Something last season we didn't have to deal with, we kept our best XI on the pitch week in week out.

Vardy is going through a bit of a dry spell, again something that didn't happen last season and Mahrez is usually doubled up on every week, we are struggling for outlets, meaning an over reliance on goofball.

Realistically this season Sunderland, Hull and Swansea are far worse than any other team in the division and despite what many have said on here I can't see us getting involved in a relegation battle.

Lets not get on the players and Claudio's back, let's enjoy the success we had but remember who we are, at best we are a mid table team, who had an amazing season and lived the dream of every football fan in the world last season.

How very positive, one can only imagine you are sitting in the sun staring at the beach!!

[blueharmie]

Can't be arsed to read this letter.  I want to win some games.sort yourselves out Lcfc.!!

[filthyfox]

Any true blue would ALWAYS be happy with 17th!

 

Top tier pay rises? Really? I don't think they even compare to Rooneys money! Just because we haven't seen that level on money being given out before does not make it a miracle- it's today's football.

[Fox92]

We were too loyal to average players.

We gave bigger contracts to anybody who wanted one. (Nobody in our squad is worth 100k a week).

We lost our best player and didn't replace him.

We performed so poorly in the transfer market.

 

Our style of play is very poor. (Even Watford played football).

Players seem like they aren't bothered (And only two came over to clap after the game yesterday - yeah cheers for that we've come all this way for another shite performance).

Playsrs don't even look like they know what to do.

We're currently 2 points above bottom 3.

 

So don't tell me "I haven't got a clue"... We are truly awful and messed up the best opportunity this club has ever been in.

[Nick]

Meh.

 

We've all tasted football heroin and now we're having to go cold turkey.

 

Giving up stuff is never easy - you come back down to a bit of reality with a bump.

 

Im sure life will be good again soon.

 

#Keepthefaith

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

No I am sorry but that post shows the opinion of someone who hasn't got a clue. Firstly, our performances are not of a team who are a "middling side". It is of a side who will be slap bang in a the middle of a relegation scrap. How is that acceptable after we've splashed out a large sum of money and kept the vast majority of our miracle side? Give West Brom half the funds we have spent this year and they will think it's Christmas.

 

secondly, we are so uneven in our squad set up it is scary as to who was entrusted to make decisions on our squad additions during the summer. Which ever imbecile decided that Huth, Morgan and Was is good enough to see us through as our front three centre backs for an entire season has a lot to answer for. 

 

Thirdly, we seem to have no answer for a slump that has been ongoing since the start of the season. Yes, Kante was a loss but a genuine review of our shortcomings this year that is only one part of it. Our defending at set pieces wouldn't even pass as acceptable on a Sunday morning run around at Viccy Park!! The United game is prime example.

 

Finally, bringing up these flaws does not mean we are living in the past or deluded due to last years success. They are genuine questions as to what the **** sort of training/lack of tactical awareness is being coached on a weekday leading up to a game. 

 

I didn't expect us to anywhere near the top 6 this year but I certainly won't sit there and find it acceptable when my team are giving away goals by simply not tracking a man or marking a player at a set piece! This is not delusion. It's basic expectancy of all 20 teams in this league. So forget last seasons miracle of a world run football club being coached to its strengths and accept that this year the coaching, the management and the recruitment warrant criticism!

[Guest Col city fan]

29 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

We were too loyal to average players.

We gave bigger contracts to anybody who wanted one. (Nobody in our squad is worth 100k a week).

We lost our best player and didn't replace him.

We performed so poorly in the transfer market.

 

Our style of play is very poor. (Even Watford played football).

Players seem like they aren't bothered (And only two came over to clap after the game yesterday - yeah cheers for that we've come all this way for another shite performance).

Playsrs don't even look like they know what to do.

We're currently 2 points above bottom 3.

 

So don't tell me "I haven't got a clue"... We are truly awful and messed up the best opportunity this club has ever been in.

 

[Realist Guy In The Room]

If things continue, Ranieri will be gone by the Christmas/New Year fixtures.

 

 

[jonthefox]

A win on Tuesday and we can put the CL to bed until after Christmas.A few astute signings in January and we'll pull away from the bottom I'm sure.

[MC Prussian]

People complain that we're in the best position in ages seem to neglect the fact that there are about ten other teams in this division with a bigger standing and more money to throw around than we do.

 

When it is being said that we won the title last year due to the usual suspects having a shocker of a season amongst other unusual circumstances, surely you must admit that they've also found (better) ways of sussing us out now? Our way of playing must've been analyzed to death and without an alternative in terms of formation or attitude, we're on course for a return to mediocrity.

 

We're Leicester City and we've got no goddarn right to win the league year in, year out.

[J.Lisemore]

After having some chill time to reflect on the game, things aren't as bad as they seem. IF we won yesterday, we would have been 8th and as the wise man Don Goodman says... it's fine lines. We win against Bruge on Tuesday, we'll be through our CL group, something we'll probably never see again in our clubs history.  

[Barky]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

We were too loyal to average players.

We gave bigger contracts to anybody who wanted one. (Nobody in our squad is worth 100k a week).

We lost our best player and didn't replace him.

We performed so poorly in the transfer market.

 

Our style of play is very poor. (Even Watford played football).

Players seem like they aren't bothered (And only two came over to clap after the game yesterday - yeah cheers for that we've come all this way for another shite performance).

Playsrs don't even look like they know what to do.

We're currently 2 points above bottom 3.

 

So don't tell me "I haven't got a clue"... We are truly awful and messed up the best opportunity this club has ever been in.

 

The best opportunity the club has ever had was the opportunity to win the league last season and we took it. The best opportunity of this season is to do well in the champions league and so far we're taking it. We perhaps had an opportunity for another top-6 finish, but not too surprisingly we're finding that difficult. It's not exactly a crisis.

[Ted Maul]

There's a lot to be frustrated about at the minute. We had an amazing opportunity in the summer to buy world class players and kick on as a club, become more than the 'middling' club we always have been. We failed, spectacularly.

 

The players don't seem up for the scrap this season- weird, because we all know they've got it in them. 

 

The football really is dreadful at times, we're launching it forward to small players to try and win the header. That needs changing. I love direct football when done correctly, but this is turgid.

 

The wage increases don't bother me as such, because these players looked like they deserved it last season- it's the lack of application this season which is bothering me.

 

I'll always sing and get behind the team, no matter how we're playing and no matter which division we're in. But don't have a go at people voicing their frustrations, because it's understandable. 

[Foxes1]

I think the problem was we were too interested in giving the existing players new contracts we forgot the fact that we needed strengthening in certain positions in the transfer market and we didn't do it. We messed around trying to get players in and kept going back with so called improved offers, surely someone at the club knows what players are worth we put an offer on the table and if the selling club don't want to accept it move on quickly and look at someone else. Alright we bought in Mendy (Who has spent all the season injured so far so we don't know what he is like), we tried to sign Silva at the last minute (Was he one of our last minute panic buys as we always seem to do).

Someone at the club has to hold their hands up and say I screwed up over our transfer policy in the summer, but I doubt if anyone will, we allegedly had money to spend but didn't spend it in the right areas to improve the team, if Steve Walsh was the problem he has now gone perhaps he knew what was coming, but surely he had an assistant who knew who our targets were.

[Collymore]

I'm sorry folks but the party is over.  Let's start with the classic "We look so solid in the CL"

 

Club Bruge away - If their striker had slotted that ball in in the first few minutes we might not have won

 

Porto home - We were holding on in the end and probably the fair result would have been a draw

 

Copenhagen home - Kasper pulled off a great save for the win - could have easily have been a draw

 

Copenhagen away - just a "meh" game

 

We could quite easily be sitting here saying we're fighting relegation and out of the CL.

 

The fact that we haven't conceded a goal in the CL does suggest certain defensive positives but the fact that this is the exact opposite in the premier league suggests that it's been through more luck than anything else. 

 

To be at the very top in football is like being a Formula 1 car. The slightest problem can be the difference between coming first and last and that's what we're seeing this season. 

 

The problems obvious - it's absolutely scandalous that we didn't address our problems in midfield at a time where we were at our peak both in reputation and financially. I never expected to win the league again this season but how the management thought it would be OK to rely on King and Amartay as backup for an unproven Mendy is just sheer lunacy. We should have just spent whatever it took, hit release clauses right left and centre to bring in quality for not only first team but for cover too. 

 

Unless we address this fundamental problem I see even rockier roads a head. 

 

 

[Guest Manini]

13 minutes ago, Collymore said:

I'm sorry folks but the party is over.  Let's start with the classic "We look so solid in the CL"

 

Club Bruge away - If their striker had slotted that ball in in the first few minutes we might not have won

 

Porto home - We were holding on in the end and probably the fair result would have been a draw

 

Copenhagen home - Kasper pulled off a great save for the win - could have easily have been a draw

 

Copenhagen away - just a "meh" game

 

We could quite easily be sitting here saying we're fighting relegation and out of the CL. 

 

 

Hindsight's 20/20 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

9 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

I think we are in danger of becoming victims of our success. Last season everything came together in beautiful harmony.

Every single player we have played out of their skin in every single game and did the unthinkable.

with the players we have it's not going to happen every season. 

Why we can, we need to enjoy European nights and singing about being Champions of England.

Yes the players all got healthy pay rises, but for what they did for us and the club who can say they didn't deserve it?

Performances this season haven't been as good and we haven't had the rub of the green we had last year. We've been unlucky in the fact that the replacement we bought in for Kante has barely kicked a ball and Kasper has missed a few games already with injuries. Something last season we didn't have to deal with, we kept our best XI on the pitch week in week out.

Vardy is going through a bit of a dry spell, again something that didn't happen last season and Mahrez is usually doubled up on every week, we are struggling for outlets, meaning an over reliance on goofball.

Realistically this season Sunderland, Hull and Swansea are far worse than any other team in the division and despite what many have said on here I can't see us getting involved in a relegation battle.

Lets not get on the players and Claudio's back, let's enjoy the success we had but remember who we are, at best we are a mid table team, who had an amazing season and lived the dream of every football fan in the world last season.

Only nit picking but Kante was still a Leicester player when we signed Mendy, wasn't be bought to add to an area we were lacking in rather than to replace?

[Fox92]

3 hours ago, Barky said:

 

The best opportunity the club has ever had was the opportunity to win the league last season and we took it. The best opportunity of this season is to do well in the champions league and so far we're taking it. We perhaps had an opportunity for another top-6 finish, but not too surprisingly we're finding that difficult. It's not exactly a crisis.

Nah, we won the league and we had the best opportunity ever to build on that. I'm not saying challenge for the title every season (we're only Leicester City ffs) but at least perform better in the transfer window. We're stuck with average players, some of which are on high contracts. Everything our players wanted they seem to have got and now it does seem like they lack passion, commitment and desire - all of which were our main ingredients last season.

 

If it's not a crisis what is it? This season couldn't been any worse - we've picked up one away point ffs. I can take losing at Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea but at Hull and Watford? And even our home performances aren't exactly sparkling. West Brom beat us and Southampton would've beat us if it wasn't for the fact Austin hit the post. They were better than us. We beat Burnley, Palace and Swansea which are all expected of us - but even the second half against Swansea was very poor... We've played well for 3.5 halves this season and that is unacceptable.

 

We're two points about the bottom three ffs. People were talking about "kick starting" our season at Watford but we were shit (yet again).

 

A goalkeeper that finished bottom of the German top flight, an £8mill winger that can't get in the squad, our third most expensive signing is constantly injured while we lost our best scout (who perhaps did more than just that) and one of our greatest players ever. The crisis started in the summer.

 

[Barky]

25 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Nah, we won the league and we had the best opportunity ever to build on that. I'm not saying challenge for the title every season (we're only Leicester City ffs) but at least perform better in the transfer window. We're stuck with average players, some of which are on high contracts. Everything our players wanted they seem to have got and now it does seem like they lack passion, commitment and desire - all of which were our main ingredients last season.

 

If it's not a crisis what is it? This season couldn't been any worse - we've picked up one away point ffs. I can take losing at Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea but at Hull and Watford? And even our home performances aren't exactly sparkling. West Brom beat us and Southampton would've beat us if it wasn't for the fact Austin hit the post. They were better than us. We beat Burnley, Palace and Swansea which are all expected of us - but even the second half against Swansea was very poor... We've played well for 3.5 halves this season and that is unacceptable.

 

We're two points about the bottom three ffs. People were talking about "kick starting" our season at Watford but we were shit (yet again).

 

A goalkeeper that finished bottom of the German top flight, an £8mill winger that can't get in the squad, our third most expensive signing is constantly injured while we lost our best scout (who perhaps did more than just that) and one of our greatest players ever. The crisis started in the summer.

 

We lost one player when many thought we'd lose several. I think our player retention was very good. That's not a crisis.

 

We've been unlucky in that the man who is supposed to be taking Kante's spot in the team has been injured. There's nothing we could do about that and now we're having to regularly play the promising Amartey earlier than we'd have maybe liked, so we're having to deal with the inconsistency that inexperience brings. A crisis? No.

 

Again we've been unlucky with Kasper being injured and have had to replace him with the not quite so good, but still capable Zieler temporarily. Crisis? No.

 

We've got a highly rated youngster who came from abroad in the squad who Claudio doesn't think is ready yet for the first team. Crisis? No.

 

We're dominating our champions league group and have played most of our tough away games in the league already. We've had a couple of disappointing results, that's it. Everything else is as rosy as I can remember and I've been a fan since the late 80's. We are nowhere near a crisis.