Time to get a grip.

[Finnaldo]

And that's not just the team. That's the manager, the coaching staff and the fans.

 

Don't get me wrong, this season has been fvcking dog sh!t. Not just fvcking dog sh!t, rancid, festering dog sh!t that's been left in the middle of the street and stuck to our boots virtually every step we've took. The defense has more than shown their age, the midfield's been lost trying to make up the lost ground at the back and the forward line has floundered without support as a result.

 

But now, after the vote of confidence, you'd expect the Thais will stick firm to their decision to keep Claudio. After January, we're more than definitely stuck with the squad. There's a lot of people who'll be sunken by one or both of those outcomes but either way, we're entering the critical end to the season and as bleak as it is, we're not down yet. In fact, we're not even in a relegation position yet.

 

It's a poor time to be an optimist around here but this is a squad that's been pressures of all kinds, if it's there to be suffered they've suffered it. Relegation battles, scandals, chasing an impossible dream and making it reality.

 

This is arguably the most difficult challenge they've faced thus far, the goal drought, the leaked defence, but they can overcome it. There is positives. Ndidi has proved his worth as a CDM and can get forward, perhaps when Amartey get's back he can cement a CB spot. At that point we have more freedom up front, we can make moves without looking back at the defence, we can get out of it, perhaps even more comfortably than we could of imagined. 

 

And while it may very well not turn out like that, the fact is we still can the ball in our court, it's in our hands and we're not reliant on other results as it stands. This is all a far reach but following the statement the best thing we can do as a football club is rally for one big push. As much noise as possible for the fans and a hope tat the players and manager can see the light .

 

Dilly Ding, Dilly Dong, LTID, FOAD and all the rest, it's time to get behind the City more than ever. If we could make the impossible come true last season, we can comfortably stave off this rot!

[Guest the fox]

I'm 100% always behind the team and defending the players, until I watch the usual 90 minutes a week. I am trying, I'm really really trying. But, the defense is not even defending the team, let alone themselves. So, how can i defend them . but, still COYF ... until the next league game

[STUHILL]

18 minutes ago, Finnaldo said:

And that's not just the team. That's the manager, the coaching staff and the fans.

 

Don't get me wrong, this season has been fvcking dog sh!t. Not just fvcking dog sh!t, rancid, festering dog sh!t that's been left in the middle of the street and stuck to our boots virtually every step we've took. The defense has more than shown their age, the midfield's been lost trying to make up the lost ground at the back and the forward line has floundered without support as a result.

 

But now, after the vote of confidence, you'd expect the Thais will stick firm to their decision to keep Claudio. After January, we're more than definitely stuck with the squad. There's a lot of people who'll be sunken by one or both of those outcomes but either way, we're entering the critical end to the season and as bleak as it is, we're not down yet. In fact, we're not even in a relegation position yet.

 

It's a poor time to be an optimist around here but this is a squad that's been pressures of all kinds, if it's there to be suffered they've suffered it. Relegation battles, scandals, chasing an impossible dream and making it reality.

 

This is arguably the most difficult challenge they've faced thus far, the goal drought, the leaked defence, but they can overcome it. There is positives. Ndidi has proved his worth as a CDM and can get forward, perhaps when Amartey get's back he can cement a CB spot. At that point we have more freedom up front, we can make moves without looking back at the defence, we can get out of it, perhaps even more comfortably than we could of imagined. 

 

And while it may very well not turn out like that, the fact is we still can the ball in our court, it's in our hands and we're not reliant on other results as it stands. This is all a far reach but following the statement the best thing we can do as a football club is rally for one big push. As much noise as possible for the fans and a hope tat the players and manager can see the light .

 

Dilly Ding, Dilly Dong, LTID, FOAD and all the rest, it's time to get behind the City more than ever. If we could make the impossible come true last season, we can comfortably stave off this rot!

 

I want the manager and players to come out saying stuff like this. I want them to realise that this is going to be a huge challenge and will need everyone to be up for the fight ahead. 

 

We are going to have to battle for every point now until the end of the season. There is no easy way to stay up now. Players need to realise this and show a huge change in attiudes and work rate.

 

 

[bovril]

Tbf if we stay up and go on a bit of a run in the FA Cup, combined with winning our CL group, you would have to say it's been a good season.

[M0901]

I'd snatch your hands off for 17th right now. Regardless of optimism you have shown.

 

However, you're right in the fashion that the whole squad needs to get on with it. The board have shown their support for Ranieri, and now the players need to pull their fingers out and actually play to justify their wages. This may just be some other football club to a lot of these players but we are the champions of England. Most of these players will never taste that success again, so they may as well give it everything while they can.

[Finnaldo]

Just now, bovril said:

Tbf if we stay up and go on a bit of a run in the FA Cup, combined with winning our CL group, you would have to say it's been a good season.

 

Exactly! Riding off the magic of last season it's pretty bleak but get a win against Derby and progress, pick up a result against Swansea and put in a shift against Sevilla and it all flips. We could be looking back at the end of February with a real chance in the FA Cup, a good run in the Champion's League and the table looking a lot rosier!

[The Guvnor]

Time to get a grip on reality, we are playing like a team who have already conceded defeat driven by a manager who seems completely devoid of any answers.

[Finnaldo]

Just now, The Guvnor said:

Time to get a grip on reality, we are playing like a team who have already conceded defeat driven by a manager who seems completely devoid of any answers.

 

See: 2014-15

[psychonaut]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

Tbf if we stay up and go on a bit of a run in the FA Cup, combined with winning our CL group, you would have to say it's been a good season.

Yeah it could go either way resulting in one of our worst seasons in our history or a good follow up season to the title. This desperate grimness that we're all feeling right now could easily be remedied within a couple of weeks. For example string 3 wins together in the league and watch every ounce of dread and despair lift from this forum. A month or two after this when we're pretty much safe and sound and all will be forgotten as the immense pride of winning the PL resurfaces again and eclipses all in well being.

[Guest]

I hope by some twist of fate we finish the season 10th while still playing this poorly, just to watch the forum become an existential quandary of Biblical proportions. 

[Guest Col city fan]

To be honest..it's been all talk, talk, talk.

There's been loads of this type of thread. We apparently aren't 'real fans' if we aren't 'singing our hearts out for the lads' (cos that apparently makes all the difference). Now it's time for everybody to get a grip. 

ALL WE WANT TO SEE IS THE PLAYERS DOING THEIR TALKING ON THE PITCH...

Before the Man Utd game there were lots of rally crys...and then we went on to get pummelled.

Let's just see some good football, some tactical ability and some confidence.

Then all the nonsense on here will cease. At least for a time.

If anybody else tells me to get a bloody grip im gonna bloody scream. 

I never cease to be amazed by how many plus ones rally crys like this get. They are all variations on the same theme. And none of us can do anything much if the players just ain't playing.

Dilly ding! Etc.....

 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

I'll get on board, fed up of feeling miserable this season

Please Claudio let's try and play more expansively, get on the front foot especially at home and get some of the feel good factor back in the team and amongst fans! Starting tomorrow vs Derby

[foxy boxing]

i know it's hard for fans at the moment and  feel they and their club are in meltdown but the club has been in much worse situations in the past and we've always come out the other side stronger and more determined. we are that sort of club we experience extreme highs and dark lows but we are never dull or boring and we have stable foundations that if the worse does come we will be able to bounce back, maybe not exactly like before but certainly better for it, if it happens

[deejdeej]

I've figured it out, Vardy and Drinkwater have a natural cycle. One season they're shite the next they're brilliant. Don't worry next season will be great.

[Finnaldo]

28 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

To be honest..it's been all talk, talk, talk.

There's been loads of this type of thread. We apparently aren't 'real fans' if we aren't 'singing our hearts out for the lads' (cos that apparently makes all the difference). Now it's time for everybody to get a grip. 

ALL WE WANT TO SEE IS THE PLAYERS DOING THEIR TALKING ON THE PITCH...

Before the Man Utd game there were lots of rally crys...and then we went on to get pummelled.

Let's just see some good football, some tactical ability and some confidence.

Then all the nonsense on here will cease. At least for a time.

If anybody else tells me to get a bloody grip im gonna bloody scream. 

I never cease to be amazed by how many plus ones rally crys like this get. They are all variations on the same theme. And none of us can do anything much if the players just ain't playing.

Dilly ding! Etc.....

 

 

I'm not blaming fans at all. They have a right to feel miserable, I thought my analogy at the start of the OP made that clear...

 

I just can't see how being perennially miserable about it will well the club or your own health, the board have said Claudio has their support, he's staying and that's that. Fair enough if you feel it's the wrong decision, but that's the way it's played. There's nothing we can do. Will talk of being in the Championship help matters? I doubt it. I'll see hope as long as there's enough games to secure safety. Talk of being a 'realist' runs hollow with me when it comes to football, planning for a drab Championship season whilst we're still in the Premier League seems totally redundant.

[Guest Col city fan]

1 hour ago, Finnaldo said:

 

I'm not blaming fans at all. They have a right to feel miserable, I thought my analogy at the start of the OP made that clear...

 

I just can't see how being perennially miserable about it will well the club or your own health, the board have said Claudio has their support, he's staying and that's that. Fair enough if you feel it's the wrong decision, but that's the way it's played. There's nothing we can do. Will talk of being in the Championship help matters? I doubt it. I'll see hope as long as there's enough games to secure safety. Talk of being a 'realist' runs hollow with me when it comes to football, planning for a drab Championship season whilst we're still in the Premier League seems totally redundant.

Nice one mate. I wasn't having a go at you...just at the frustration of lots of debate and discussion whilst the players continue to not produce the goods on the pitch.

All we need is to see an upturn really isn't it. We don't want to get relegated.

[red5]

[Guest]

awful album by an awful band. 

 

if they're using this for goal music then i hope we keep our current form.

[ARM1968]

The only people who need to get behind anything are the players. We might moan but it's our Leicester and it always will be. 

 

The players need to get a grip and believe in themselves. FFS they won the league last year. 

[worthosoriginals]

7 hours ago, Col city fan said:

To be honest..it's been all talk, talk, talk.

There's been loads of this type of thread. We apparently aren't 'real fans' if we aren't 'singing our hearts out for the lads' (cos that apparently makes all the difference). Now it's time for everybody to get a grip. 

ALL WE WANT TO SEE IS THE PLAYERS DOING THEIR TALKING ON THE PITCH...

Before the Man Utd game there were lots of rally crys...and then we went on to get pummelled.

Let's just see some good football, some tactical ability and some confidence.

Then all the nonsense on here will cease. At least for a time.

If anybody else tells me to get a bloody grip im gonna bloody scream. 

I never cease to be amazed by how many plus ones rally crys like this get. They are all variations on the same theme. And none of us can do anything much if the players just ain't playing.

Dilly ding! Etc.....

 

Get a bloody grip!

[Clever Fox]

8 hours ago, bovril said:

Tbf if we stay up and go on a bit of a run in the FA Cup, combined with winning our CL group, you would have to say it's been a good season.

That's all any of us realistically expected.

[norwichfox]

22 hours ago, Finnaldo said:

And that's not just the team. That's the manager, the coaching staff and the fans.

 

Don't get me wrong, this season has been fvcking dog sh!t. Not just fvcking dog sh!t, rancid, festering dog sh!t that's been left in the middle of the street and stuck to our boots virtually every step we've took. The defense has more than shown their age, the midfield's been lost trying to make up the lost ground at the back and the forward line has floundered without support as a result.

 

But now, after the vote of confidence, you'd expect the Thais will stick firm to their decision to keep Claudio. After January, we're more than definitely stuck with the squad. There's a lot of people who'll be sunken by one or both of those outcomes but either way, we're entering the critical end to the season and as bleak as it is, we're not down yet. In fact, we're not even in a relegation position yet.

 

It's a poor time to be an optimist around here but this is a squad that's been pressures of all kinds, if it's there to be suffered they've suffered it. Relegation battles, scandals, chasing an impossible dream and making it reality.

 

This is arguably the most difficult challenge they've faced thus far, the goal drought, the leaked defence, but they can overcome it. There is positives. Ndidi has proved his worth as a CDM and can get forward, perhaps when Amartey get's back he can cement a CB spot. At that point we have more freedom up front, we can make moves without looking back at the defence, we can get out of it, perhaps even more comfortably than we could of imagined. 

 

And while it may very well not turn out like that, the fact is we still can the ball in our court, it's in our hands and we're not reliant on other results as it stands. This is all a far reach but following the statement the best thing we can do as a football club is rally for one big push. As much noise as possible for the fans and a hope tat the players and manager can see the light .

 

Dilly Ding, Dilly Dong, LTID, FOAD and all the rest, it's time to get behind the City more than ever. If we could make the impossible come true last season, we can comfortably stave off this rot!

You get my vote to carry out the pre match team talk

[Finnaldo]

That's step one boys! Benny & Was so much more confident defending and distributing (still slightly shaky but a lot more confident!) and that left Ndidi, King, Gray, Kaputska et al do their thing! 

 

Hoping we carry this into the Swansea game, could be looking a lot brighter soon!

[norwichfox]

On 08/02/2017 at 22:26, Finnaldo said:

That's step one boys! Benny & Was so much more confident defending and distributing (still slightly shaky but a lot more confident!) and that left Ndidi, King, Gray, Kaputska et al do their thing! 

 

Hoping we carry this into the Swansea game, could be looking a lot brighter soon!

So disheartening to read this now, why oh why didn't he give them a chance?

[UniFox21]

I want the players to come out and play like they give a shit about our club, making challenges, chasing after balls and not giving up 

The minute the crowd sees that, they get behind them more, and the KP becomes a shitty place for a team to come and play at