FA Cup

[Duncan_K]

I think Schmeichel, Evans, Ndidi, Vardy as the spine of the team does not need a huge amount of rest and should play every game only resting if they get a niggle or towards the end of games that are looking already won or lost. 

 

I don't mind a bit of rotation so long as those 4 are playing. 

[TJB-fox]

This game might help us get up to scratch faster in the league 

[FoxesDeb]

31 minutes ago, tickler28 said:

We are going to have to rotate players at some point and give big players a rest....are people saying they'd prefer that to be in the league matches?

Yes, I want the Cup we haven't won before 

[MonmoreStef]

Seriously pointless playing the final at Wembley if still behind closed doors which it will be. Wait to see which teams get to the final and then find a ground more suitable. Wembley will be ridiculously eerie with no crowd. 

[NewEnglandFox]

It's hard to win anything with a try not to lose mindset. Wanting not to lose in the league so you want to throw away an FA Cup chance in consolation? Nah, that just continues the rot. Here's what I would do. Go out and smash Brighton. Put 3 more points on the board and get y'all to stop looking down at the table and stop looking down at an FA Cup Quarter Final. Build a little optimism and morale. That stuff is contagious.

[Aus Fox]

FFS we have a maximum of 11 games if we get to the final, after three months off, professionals should be able to play 11 games.

Rest a player only if he gets a niggle, whole sale changes never work.

I can’t believe any Leicester supporter would ever say bin off the FA Cup. We are two games from the final! Three games from the only trophy in English football we haven’t won. 
 

[urban fox]

50 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

FFS we have a maximum of 11 games if we get to the final, after three months off, professionals should be able to play 11 games.

Rest a player only if he gets a niggle, whole sale changes never work.

I can’t believe any Leicester supporter would ever say bin off the FA Cup. We are two games from the final! Three games from the only trophy in English football we haven’t won. 
 

Well said. If I am honest, CL would be great, and will certainly help us financially and in attracting quality for the long term BUT it's the FA CUP ffs.

It is probably a generational thing but for many it represents unfinished business. 

One of my earliest heartaches as a young city fan was losing in 1969, the first time I ever registered true grief over losing a game of football. OK so I was a kid but it still hurts. 

Nobody ever thought we would win the league, but the cup  was different. We had a history of good cup runs yet it remains that elusive holy grail. 

This is the best chance we have had for many a year so we shoul go all out for it.

Ask vardy and Co if they would rather have an fa cup winners medal or a few extra games in an overcrowded season.

[Stadt]

I think I’d be more sad than anything see Wes or Kasper lifting the FA cup at an empty Wembley. I would have preferred if they suspended it until fans were allowed back

[deanolegend1989]

It’s not even a debate . Fa cup win means not alot anymore.

If the question is by the end of this season you get options:

1 - 3rd No Fa Cup. CL football

2. - 5th Fa Cup win. No CL football.

 

As Roy Keane says, I’d be ‘flabbergasted’ if any fan would hand on heart take option 2 in reality.

 

Look at Wigan, Look at Portsmouth. FA Cup doesn’t mean much unfortunately. We could win it, our best players take the winners medals and leave and In a year or 2 we could easily be without Chillwell, Youri, Ndidi, Ricardo, Soyuncu and Maddison. With Kasper, Evans and JV soon to be finished too we could easily slip down to the Championship! That’s not even starting on the management team and Rodgers!

With CL football, we could keep a majority of the squad and crucially, find it easier attracting better players and a better future for us.

 

With CL football our future (5 years or so at least ) would be likely in the top flight, financially well would be stronger in these tough times and so on and so on. We would be in a better place for long term success(and more Fa cups down the line when we’re further into the project and more established)..Don’t think fans realise how crucial these 8 games are, to not only this season but the next decade potentially!

to trade all that for an FA cup is Either pure nostalgia or borderline mental.

 

It is not even a debate! We need CL football. This is huge for our club!!

[coolhandfox]

Players actually need games, the issue now is lack of match fitness not like during Christmas when it's fatigue because you have played 20 odd games already! 

[Nicolo Barella]

7 hours ago, Duncan_K said:

I think Schmeichel, Evans, Ndidi, Vardy as the spine of the team does not need a huge amount of rest and should play every game only resting if they get a niggle or towards the end of games that are looking already won or lost. 

 

I don't mind a bit of rotation so long as those 4 are playing. 

Does them being more important to us somehow negate their need for rest? Lol.

[Manwell Pablo]

Can’t see any point in naming a significantly weakened team. Fixture list has been pretty kind to us in terms of this game, it’s fcked them over good and proper, they are under more pressure for league results than we are,  we can use five subs if needed in every game we have left, I’m pig sick of losing to the rent boys in the latter stages of the FA cup. If we take three points on Tuesday Give it our best go I say.

[Sooper Steve's shin]

4 hours ago, deanolegend1989 said:

...

We could win it, our best players take the winners medals and leave and In a year or 2 we could easily be without Chillwell, Youri, Ndidi, Ricardo, Soyuncu and Maddison. With Kasper, Evans and JV soon to be finished too we could easily slip down to the Championship! That’s not even starting on the management team and Rodgers!

 

Wow, that escalated quickly...

[Sooper Steve's shin]

14 hours ago, Poznan34 said:

We're 8 points clear of 5th and have a much better goal diff, no sweat. 

I need to keep reading this!

[Filbert_Ross]

8 hours ago, deanolegend1989 said:

It’s not even a debate . Fa cup win means not alot anymore.

If the question is by the end of this season you get options:

1 - 3rd No Fa Cup. CL football

2. - 5th Fa Cup win. No CL football.

 

As Roy Keane says, I’d be ‘flabbergasted’ if any fan would hand on heart take option 2 in reality.

 

Look at Wigan, Look at Portsmouth. FA Cup doesn’t mean much . We could win it, our best players take the winners medals and leave and In a year or 2 we could easily be without Chillwell, Youri, Ndidi, Ricardo, Soyuncu and Maddison. With Kasper, Evans and JV soon to be finished too we could easily slip down to the Championship! That’s not even starting on the management team and Rodgers!

With CL football, we could keep a majority of the squad and crucially, find it easier attracting better players and a better future for us.

 

With CL football our future (5 years or so at least ) would be likely in the top flight, financially well would be stronger in these tough times and so on and so on. We would be in a better place for long term success(and more Fa cups down the line when we’re further into the project and more established)..Don’t think fans realise how crucial these 8 games are, to not only this season but the next decade potentially!

to trade all that for an FA cup is Either pure nostalgia or borderline mental.

 

It is not even a debate! We need CL football. This is huge for our club!!

 

Could say to that , look at Leeds look at Blackburn. Playing in the Champions League doesn't mean much. 

[sacreblueits442]

17 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Rodgers has yet to win an English trophy so I’d guarantee he will be well up for this competition. We’ll play our strongest team and we have a chance. Some of their players are on the way out and their new arrivals can’t play. That opens the door for us. 
 

Both games against them have been really competitive so I expect a great game regardless of the result. 

..what about tactics!!!

We got it wrong against Villa, who says Rodgers won't pull that nonsense out again.

[Webbo]

We weren't in the CL this season and we've survived. Would I rather we won a trophy or enter a competition we can't win? It doesn't even need thinking about. 

[Duncan_K]

8 hours ago, Nicolo Barella said:

Does them being more important to us somehow negate their need for rest? Lol.

No, but (sometimes Vardy accepted), they don't do the same number of high intensity sprints as the full backs or wingers so need less rest. Also rest is about a balance thing for the whole team, as i said if they get a niggle then they will need rest too, but otherwise i think they will be fine. 

[Nicolo Barella]

4 minutes ago, Duncan_K said:

No, but (sometimes Vardy accepted), they don't do the same number of high intensity sprints as the full backs or wingers so need less rest. Also rest is about a balance thing for the whole team, as i said if they get a niggle then they will need rest too, but otherwise i think they will be fine. 

Fair enough. I still wouldn't be comfortable pushing them that hard, particularly with Evans's history of injury issues. Vardy as well is aging a bit so it would be nice to be preventative of any potential injuries to him either, as they could affect him more.

[Foxin_Mad]

They may as well open the Stadiums again, we have hundreds of thousands of people protesting together in cities around the UK, people cramming into beaches and parks, huge queues at shopping centres and fast food joints. Football is the least if the problems. I see France are allowing reduced capacity sporting event crowds now for the final of the French equivalent.

[Bert]

9 hours ago, deanolegend1989 said:

It’s not even a debate . Fa cup win means not alot anymore.

If the question is by the end of this season you get options:

1 - 3rd No Fa Cup. CL football

2. - 5th Fa Cup win. No CL football.

 

As Roy Keane says, I’d be ‘flabbergasted’ if any fan would hand on heart take option 2 in reality.

 

Look at Wigan, Look at Portsmouth. FA Cup doesn’t mean much unfortunately. We could win it, our best players take the winners medals and leave and In a year or 2 we could easily be without Chillwell, Youri, Ndidi, Ricardo, Soyuncu and Maddison. With Kasper, Evans and JV soon to be finished too we could easily slip down to the Championship! That’s not even starting on the management team and Rodgers!

With CL football, we could keep a majority of the squad and crucially, find it easier attracting better players and a better future for us.

 

With CL football our future (5 years or so at least ) would be likely in the top flight, financially well would be stronger in these tough times and so on and so on. We would be in a better place for long term success(and more Fa cups down the line when we’re further into the project and more established)..Don’t think fans realise how crucial these 8 games are, to not only this season but the next decade potentially!

to trade all that for an FA cup is Either pure nostalgia or borderline mental.

 

It is not even a debate! We need CL football. This is huge for our club!!

I’m flabbergasted you’d rather finish third than win a trophy. 

[Devonfox1884]

46 minutes ago, Webbo said:

We weren't in the CL this season and we've survived. Would I rather we won a trophy or enter a competition we can't win? It doesn't even need thinking about. 

I was thinking about this yesterday - surely we’d have a much greater chance of winning the EL than the CL too. If you look at the teams left in it this season, the ‘tough’ ones would be united, Inter, Sevilla, Leverkusen and Roma probably. I think if we played at our best we could beat any of them, which I’m not sure we could against Real, Juve, Bayern etc.

 

Clearly we want to play on the biggest stage, and that’s CL. But if for whatever reason this season doesn’t end well and we end up in the EL, while disappointing, there would be a silver lining there I think.

 

So given the two options given above I’d almost certainly take an FA cup win and 5th - I really want to see us win that trophy. But this isn’t an either or scenario, we can win it and finish in the top 4, and that should be our aim!  

[1972 Fox]

1 hour ago, Duncan_K said:

No, but (sometimes Vardy accepted), they don't do the same number of high intensity sprints as the full backs or wingers so need less rest. Also rest is about a balance thing for the whole team, as i said if they get a niggle then they will need rest too, but otherwise i think they will be fine. 

What does Vardy sometimes accept? 

[Duncan_K]

1 minute ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

What does Vardy sometimes accept? 

I accept that Vardy is sometimes an exception

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Why do people hate the idea of us winning stuff. Mental.