Guest Sharpe's Fox Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 Looks like to me. Everything Nige built has been dismantled. Many people have left of their own accord but I principly blame the Italian style of anti-football Ranieri deploys every game.
FrankieADZ Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 5 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said: Looks like to me. Everything Nige built has been dismantled. Many people have left of their own accord but I principly blame the Italian style of anti-football Ranieri deploys every game. spot on, all the foundations that made the club do well, CR has either totally gone against or just got rid of them as you said, and his tactics this season has gone against what he'd do last season, ala Today, Wague going off he'd bring on an attacking sort of player, this season he brings on Wasyl. all in all, i think hes lost it now, confidence on the whole has gone and CR needs to go
Milo Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 9 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said: blame the Italian style of anti-football Ranieri deploys every game Bang on - Claudio's God complex is unravelling all of the work that's been put in place over the past few years
Jay123 Posted 18 February 2017 Author Posted 18 February 2017 I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing that it's the whole squad ****ed
Melbourne Fuchs Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 I blame Claudio's attitude, it annoyed me to no end how he insisted at the start of the season that 40 points was our goal, we'd just won the league! I admit, no one expected us to win it again and few people even expected to finish in a Champions League spot but surely we should be realistically aiming for European football after last season! To me it seems patronising to insist that we are always the underdogs especially against a team two tiers below. In my opinion it is his insistence that we are underdogs and his low expectations that result in performances like the confidence-devoid, shambolic and indescribabley shït one we just witnessed.
st albans fox Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 I don't recall him starting the season saying '40 points'. Is this a myth based on last year?
Jay123 Posted 18 February 2017 Author Posted 18 February 2017 3 minutes ago, Melbourne Fuchs said: I blame Claudio's attitude, it annoyed me to no end how he insisted at the start of the season that 40 points was our goal, we'd just won the league! I admit, no one expected us to win it again and few people even expected to finish in a Champions League spot but surely we should be realistically aiming for European football after last season! To me it seems patronising to insist that we are always the underdogs especially against a team two tiers below. In my opinion it is his insistence that we are underdogs and his low expectations that result in performances like the confidence-devoid, shambolic and indescribabley shït one we just witnessed. If you could put that any better it would be in the dictionary
Melbourne Fuchs Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 5 minutes ago, st albans fox said: I don't recall him starting the season saying '40 points'. Is this a myth based on last year? Nope http://www.espnfc.com/english-premier-league/story/2925166/dont-laugh-at-leicester-citys-40-point-target-says-claudio-ranieri
st albans fox Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 1 minute ago, Melbourne Fuchs said: Nope http://www.espnfc.com/english-premier-league/story/2925166/dont-laugh-at-leicester-citys-40-point-target-says-claudio-ranieri Ok - thnx
China Black Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 I remember him mentioning the 40 point target during pre season, and was pretty underwhelmed with this statement.
Melbourne Fuchs Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 Don't get me wrong, aiming for forty points was exactly the right attitude when we were high flying in the league in 2015/2016, it took the pressure of us and what resulted was amazing, but as we know Ranieri always struggles in his second season and perhaps this is because the players he has managed get complacent due to Claudio's laid-back attitude and seemingly low expectations.
Foxxed Posted 18 February 2017 Posted 18 February 2017 I bet Schlupp's comic relief would cheer up the dressing room.
Donut Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 6 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said: Looks like to me. Everything Nige built has been dismantled. Many people have left of their own accord but I principly blame the Italian style of anti-football Ranieri deploys every game. Everything "nige" built. So once again the league title was all pearson and all the problems are created by Ranieri. I think quite a few might be in for a rude awakening if they think changing the manager will cure all. Do you think given last season Ranieri made a conscious decision to play this brand of "anti football" or do you think there might be more factors at play?
WigstonWanderer Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 By the end of the great escape Nige had built a magnificent attacking unit which (less Cambiasso, but with Kante in the pipeline) he bequeathed to Claudio. Claudio's more cautious defensive intincts meant a transition to a different style was inevitable. Somehow the styles fused for one magnificent season to produce the title win, but unfortunately the transition didn't stop there and we are now seeing the end result.
Guy Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 7 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said: Looks like to me. Everything Nige built has been dismantled. Many people have left of their own accord but I principly blame the Italian style of anti-football Ranieri deploys every game. In a warped sort of way, then despite last season's "miracle", then in retrospect many will now argue that last season under Ranieri was a total fluke and that this 'dismantling' process going on - while not motivating last season's star players like Vardy and Mahrez into the bargain....is highly reminiscent of what Peter Taylor did after he took over from M.O'Neill! He started off ok too (and we were top of the league for two weeks in the early part of 2000-01 season too lest we forget!) but then he too got found out later in the season re moving on our best players under O'Neill (Steve Walsh, Tony Cottee, Ian Marshall - journeymen as they were) and replacing them with totally shite signings (Trevor Benjamin, Akinbiyi, Lee Marshall and Junior Lewis to name just four!). It's perhaps taken Ranieri longer to get found out in this way as things presently stand. Only time will tell between now and May though of course. Just a thought!
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 3 hours ago, Donut said: Everything "nige" built. So once again the league title was all pearson and all the problems are created by Ranieri. I think quite a few might be in for a rude awakening if they think changing the manager will cure all. Do you think given last season Ranieri made a conscious decision to play this brand of "anti football" or do you think there might be more factors at play? Spot on some unreal over reactions on here the let's bum NP bandwagon goes rolling on
Guest Sharpe's Fox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 5 hours ago, Donut said: Everything "nige" built. So once again the league title was all pearson and all the problems are created by Ranieri. I think quite a few might be in for a rude awakening if they think changing the manager will cure all. Do you think given last season Ranieri made a conscious decision to play this brand of "anti football" or do you think there might be more factors at play? haha what's with the quote marks bud don't think it's a matter of opinion Nige's name was Nige. Doesn't take a genius to work out Ranieri sets the game out to counterattack sides whether it's Bournemouth or Sunderland or Derby. When the team is low on confidence that won't work because when one goal goes in the game plan goes to pot and they're at a loss at what to do. Sooner or later someone will have to tell the side to go out and try to win games like the new managers at Hull and Swansea have done. You don't have to have to get a new manager in to do it because Nige did it but it works most of the time.
desertfox2 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Pearson builds a club looks like Ranieri manages a side. Not very well at the moment. Imagine if Walsh (part of Pearsons club) had not been able to convince Ranieri to take Kante over Mendy. Which took some convincing by all accounts. Last season would not have happened. Now it just looks like everything that was built and ready to manage has bit by bit been unravelled and eroded away. Someone has to step up and stop the rot. It was poor from everyone at the club to not kick on after last year when we could have done a man city and got some quality players in the summer window when they would actually have considered us if the money was right. But its criminal to allow our club to be bit by bit torn apart and someone with some balls needs to do something about it. Now.
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