smr Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Getting a bit ****ed off now reading posts on social media by other team's fans now. All along this line as well - Liverpool or utd fans saying "Oh why you surprised lol, you're Leicester you should have gone down last season, you were favourites too, you belong in a relegation battle, you should be grateful for what you got last season." **** off, seriously. With that stance where were Chelsea before Roman steamrollered the bank notes into 'em? Were man city winning the premier league and in with a bloody good shout of it every season before the Saudis came along waving their cheque books? We had a massive opportunity last Summer to invest in our achievements and take our club to unprecedented and solidified heights like those two teams, we've got the money, we had no excuses, we ****ed it up through a lack of focus and tactful thinking, investment and recruitment.... At least when we did win the Premier League we can say that we did it on merit and didn't buy it. Just embittering now seeing what fears I had about our dealings in the Summer coming to fruition.
Spiritwalker Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Yep all those pundits, journalists and fans from other teams slating us for having the audacity to be pissed off at losing every single game can fork right off.
shailen Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 There is being poor and there is a lack of desire, effort and committment. I wouldn't care if we lost 10-0 every week from a lack of quality but every single player put every ounce of energy into every game. That is simply not happening. I feel that the players this season have let last year's heroics get to their heads and thought they didn't need to try except for the CL games. We need to go back to what made us win the league and play with 100% committment if we are to get out of trouble. Don't think anyone expected a repeat of last season, far from it tbf, but this shambles of performances that we are currently seeing where we look so poor and no energy is unexcusable. At least under Pearson, we played well during that great escape season and were unlucky in a lot of games.
Koke Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Robbie Savage spends all his time on 606 and BT Sport calling people who want a change of managers "ifiotic" and "clueless". How about you address the actual problems Leicester fans have been taking about for months, Robbie?
smr Posted 19 February 2017 Author Posted 19 February 2017 1 minute ago, shailen said: There is being poor and there is a lack of desire, effort and committment. I wouldn't care if we lost 10-0 every week from a lack of quality but every single player put every ounce of energy into every game. That is simply not happening. I feel that the players this season have let last year's heroics get to their heads and thought they didn't need to try except for the CL games. We need to go back to what made us win the league and play with 100% committment if we are to get out of trouble. Don't think anyone expected a repeat of last season, far from it tbf, but this shambles of performances that we are currently seeing where we look so poor and no energy is unexcusable. At least under Pearson, we played well during that great escape season and were unlucky in a lot of games. Exactly! Been to every home game this season with my old man and he's said that twice now after we've gone through the turnstiles... wouldn't mind so much if we were losing if the players showed the fight and desire. We can't complain if they've put everything into it, about them. We can still complain that we didn't recruit properly... I perhaps naively thought we'd sign some real marquee players in the Summer, but all we did is ensure Vardy and Mahrez didn't **** off. We needed more strength than that, 3 or 4 decent, well established players. Last season you could see that Kante held off a lot of pressure from Morgan and Huth - and realistically, did anyone ever believe they'd be top 10 Premier League CBS? We should have invested more, but even with what we have we shouldn't be 17th in the league now. The players aren't putting the fight in, it's humiliating to think that these players are picking up 50-100k a week and just moping around like slapped arses each and every game. Lacklustre isn't the word.
Brainy Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 I've wasted too much time on match of the day posts tonight trying to get through to the exact people you suscribe, its just a retarded argument. If I supported another club our size maybe i'd fall for the "how could you want Ranieri out" argument, but having our club in this mess really does make you think differently. I hope if anything he would walk, but personally I lay the blame more with the players than the manager. To sack him less than a year after what happened last season would be awful. But right now what other option is there? Sometimes clubs will have a reason to be optimistic that they can get out of trouble with the same manager that has overseen their slide down the table, but what have we seen since the turn of the year to make us think that Ranieri can turn it around? Absolutely nothing, this is what those fans don't understand. Right now our only hope is that the teams below us manage to pick up less points than we do through until May. The only thing that gives me hope of us staying up at the minute is how bad Sunderland are, how bad Crystal Palace are and Hull. But as an outsider looking at them clubs, Big Sam can usually get clubs out of that sort of mess, and things have picked up a little for Hull recently. Sunderland are capable of a good result every 4 or 5 games but will more or less lose shamelessly the rest of them. We can't score, we concede 2/3 goals every game, it doesn't exactly bode well does it. There is clearly quality in this squad but we're not seeing so much as glimpses of it.
lee7 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Whenever I see sky sports post on Facebook asking if he should be backed or sacked it genuinely makes me laugh how many non supporting Leicester fans wade in with the whole 'he produced a miracle you ungrateful ****s, he should have a job for life' or 'you are where you belong, your not a true Leicester fan if you want him sacked' how about **** off. They're not having to watch sh*te football weak in weak out. We have no plan A & no plan B! The football we play is utterly clueless. Most of the mistakes we are making on a regular basis you wouldn't even see kids make in a saturday league.
smudger63 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 1 hour ago, shailen said: There is being poor and there is a lack of desire, effort and committment. I wouldn't care if we lost 10-0 every week from a lack of quality but every single player put every ounce of energy into every game. That is simply not happening. I feel that the players this season have let last year's heroics get to their heads and thought they didn't need to try except for the CL games. We need to go back to what made us win the league and play with 100% committment if we are to get out of trouble. Don't think anyone expected a repeat of last season, far from it tbf, but this shambles of performances that we are currently seeing where we look so poor and no energy is unexcusable. At least under Pearson, we played well during that great escape season and were unlucky in a lot of games. I`m sorry but i can`t agree that we were playing well under Pearson in the great escape season, at least until the final 9 games, when it was shit or bust time, and after (Cambiasso!) suggested a change in formation, and Pearson finally let them off their leash, and have a go at teams. We all remember the 5-3 win over Man Utd earlier in that season, but how many heard the interview with Shakespeare on radio Leicester before that game, where he said that the players had been to see them, and asked if they could really give it a go against United, because they thought they could get at them. So that fantastic attacking football that we played on that day, was played that way at the request of the players, not because of a Pearson tactical masterstroke. Sadly after that game, the players were obviously told to go back to the "stay in the game", lose 1-0, 2-1 tactics For most of that season, we weren`t getting tonked, because we were so negative with our "we have to stay in the game" tactics, tactics that seen us bottom of the table for three quarters of the season. A tactic that seen us have one shot, and that in the 90th minute away at Southampton, a tactic that seen us lose at Swansea, with a performance that was 10 times worse than the one last week, a tactic that seen us draw against a 10 man Hull at home, when we barely had a shot, in what we thought was a must win game at the time. In fact we still had 4 points fewer at the same stage of that season than we have now! Funnily enough, seemingly many of those who were mortified at the prospect of Pearson being sacked, despite us being 4 points worse off at that stage of that season, were among the first to want Ranieri out! Strange that! I do think that Ranieri needs to go now, and it really saddens me to have to say that, but some of the bile and damn right nasty comments that have been thrown at him on here from some fans, has been a disgrace, because while it is true that most of the squad were put in place by Pearson and his staff, there is no way that we would have won the league last season, with any other manager in charge than Ranieri. For that we should all be eternally gratefull to him, i know i will!
lildave3 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 I don't know why people always bring Chelsea into things like this, they were a top 6 club before Roman arrived not relegation fodder.
Jakewilk Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 7 hours ago, Koke said: Robbie Savage spends all his time on 606 and BT Sport calling people who want a change of managers "ifiotic" and "clueless". How about you address the actual problems Leicester fans have been taking about for months, Robbie? He never said that when Chelsea sacked Mourinho last season after he won the premier league the season before.
surrifox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 7 hours ago, Koke said: Robbie Savage spends all his time on 606 and BT Sport calling people who want a change of managers "ifiotic" and "clueless". How about you address the actual problems Leicester fans have been taking about for months, Robbie? Savage is an arse - whoever selected him as a media presenter should lose their job
CKB Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 7 hours ago, smr said: With that stance where were Chelsea before Roman steamrollered the bank notes into 'em? Were man city winning the premier league and in with a bloody good shout of it every season before the Saudis came along waving their cheque books? We had a massive opportunity last Summer to invest in our achievements and take our club to unprecedented and solidified heights like those two teams, we've got the money, we had no excuses, we ****ed it up through a lack of focus and tactful thinking, investment and recruitment.... At least when we did win the Premier League we can say that we did it on merit and didn't buy it. Look we may never have hit them heights, i wasn't expecting us to become the next big thing, I was just expecting a plan, forward thinking, consistency and a vision. We ended up getting mistake after mistake from board room level down to pitch Nobody (in that bracket we are in) has a true devine right to stay in the PL but when you are mismanaged so bad and the rot sets in, you are fvcked! Look at all the clubs who have been mismanaged in recent years. Didn't end very well for them did it....
Joefox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 It's frustrating because it appears we are going out of our way to prove them right. was reading something on Facebook yesterday asking whether Ranieri should be sacked and all the comments were along the lines of 'fickle ungrateful fans'. It really is quite frustrating. Take this season as a stand alone season and it would be unacceptable by anyone's standards. We are in a completely unique situation whereby we are unwilling to do what we otherwise would have normally have done and replace the manager because we should be grateful for winning the title even though literally everyone agrees in was a one off. why should all the fans accept being a permanent yo yo club because that's what we've always historically been? Why shouldn't every club strive to improve? We had our golden opportunity and we've blown it.
Corky Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 You can still be grateful for something whilst having a different view now. Winning the title was incredible but managers should be judged on a season-by-season basis. It gets you credit in the bank, anybody seriously wanting the man out in September is ridiculous really, but we are six months into the season and it seems we are getting worse. And maybe some of us don't want to get relegated back into a division we don't really like? If we're fickle, ungrateful then so be it, it's our club and we want the best for it. If it means thanking the man who delivered last season but saying we need a change for the better then unfortunately it might have to happen. You also have to separate those who want him out through a dislike and those who feel it might be the right time for change based on the whole season. We're not all in one category.
BenTheFox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 I've actually found myself agreeing with Chris Sutton. That doesn't happen too often.
lgfualol Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Got told this by a Villa fan "Just find it funny that if these performances were put in two years ago, it would just be the norm. Sorry but you've regressed to the mean. You are on a low ebb for sure, but if your fans didn't completely over react to it you'd probably have a better chance of survival." A lot has happened in 2 ****ing years! It is like clubs shouldn't have any ambition just because we are called Leicester.
HybridFox Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 7 hours ago, lildave3 said: I don't know why people always bring Chelsea into things like this, they were a top 6 club before Roman arrived not relegation fodder. Manchester City weren't though. Were in the football league not so long before the Sheikhs arrived
Corky Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 2 hours ago, lgfualol said: Got told this by a Villa fan "Just find it funny that if these performances were put in two years ago, it would just be the norm. Sorry but you've regressed to the mean. You are on a low ebb for sure, but if your fans didn't completely over react to it you'd probably have a better chance of survival." A lot has happened in 2 ****ing years! It is like clubs shouldn't have any ambition just because we are called Leicester. Overreact to what? The fans at the ground, the ones who can make a real difference, have been mostly supportive. They even clapped the team off after the Man United waste of time. No banners about sacking managers or calling the players out, just a determination to generally back the team. The manager still has his name sung in a positive way. But there comes a point when the fans just get fed up with non-performance after non-performance. No goals scored, several conceded and the next limp defeat. The owners did not spend £80 million and then are happy to be relegated. They didn't increase several contracts to huge levels, relative to our history, to be happy to be relegated- they improved contracts to tempt good players to stay because we had a decent future. That didn't involve Championship football next season. The owners don't want to accept relegation so why should the fans?
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 They all just think we should just accept this and not want progress, we won the league ffs that means we had a bloody fantastic opportunity to at least make us regulars in this division and not have to accept piss poor performances week in week out!
Mickyblueeyes Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 12 hours ago, Koke said: Robbie Savage spends all his time on 606 and BT Sport calling people who want a change of managers "ifiotic" and "clueless". How about you address the actual problems Leicester fans have been taking about for months, Robbie? Considering that Robbie was part of a side that capitulated, gave up, embarrassed the club and then ****ed off shorty after. I am not surprised. You would've languished in Division Two for most of your career mate had Garry Parker been three years younger mate. These pundits only started to noice us 18 months ago. They didn't see the struggles this club had to go through because of what Savage, Taylor and their bad of nobheads did to this club. Had they paid attention, they would start to understand just a little bit why it hurts so much to see so much hard be pissed away because a football manager too stubborn wants it his (wrong) way or the high way. As for Savage, the disdain in O'neil's tone when he speaks to probably shows your worth to this club now.
evil jack Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 I thought both hosts of 606 were appalling to that Leicester fan at the beginning of the show. Yes it was 'David "at this moment in time" from Mansfield', but he was making very fair points and being shouted down and ridiculed with every word. FWIW I don't believe the other caller was even a Leicester fan at all... There are a number of pundits who see Leicester's title win as an embarrassment, and are sooooo happy that the top 6 is seemingly back to normal ££££££££££. Bollocks to them.
Stadt Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 We can all accept losing, but what is unacceptable is the total dismantling of everything that made us successful and the rate at which we're plummeting. It's one embarrassing performance after another.
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 14 minutes ago, Wookie said: We can all accept losing, but what is unacceptable is the total dismantling of everything that made us successful and the rate at which we're plummeting. It's one embarrassing performance after another. It is embarrassing especially when we have players on big contracts, what we are paying our players we aren't getting anything back. I'm not certain but I'm sure we our paying out bigger wages than some of those teams above us in the league. We have a bloody good right to expect better than this garbage!
The Doctor Posted 19 February 2017 Posted 19 February 2017 Chelsea were a top six side before Roman, Man City were midtable before the sheikhs. Entirely different scenarios to us - we should have been expecting a relegation battle last year. Complaining about the position - relative to expectations it's poor, but rewind 18 months and it was expected. The problem is entirely the performances - we started the season at 50% and seem to have just stayed there: too many players who simply cannot be arsed and are still trying to coast on last season.
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