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Luke Thomas

By HighPeakFox, in Leicester City Forum

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lcfc_forever

lcfc_forever

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You just know when he plays now we’re screwed defensively. If we realise that, so do the players and their confidence drops accordingly. Haven’t seen a defender worse than him, and that includes Faes. 

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Edingleyfox

Edingleyfox

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2 hours ago, Bozman said:

He wouldn't get in the Mansfield team, he is at best league 2 level and not sure he is physically strong enough for that, he's done wonderfully well to be a professional footballer..  

Mansfield such a good example on a smaller scale of everything Leicester used to be 10 years ago.

They live within their means, experienced manager, attendances about 8000 when they were 3000 s few years back, recent promotion and 5th round of cup. 

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old koppite

old koppite

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2 hours ago, JimJams said:

To be fair, if I were called out for being shit at my job whilst I was down the pub I'd kindly tell you to get fxxked.

I know what you mean and you’re semi joking, but we’re not professional sports people and like in his case, we’re not earning a huge salary with a very privileged life. 
Some will disagree, but some of us are irked that he’s down the pub a few hours after yet another humiliating display by him. Just show a bit of respect of the clubs fans, stay at home or at family’s for a meal for the evening. 
if this is all true about him boozing a lot, then let’s take the pee when he’s on the pitch with a song - “he likes a few pints, he likes a few pints, Luke Thomas, he likes a few pints”! 

JimJams

JimJams

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46 minutes ago, old koppite said:

I know what you mean and you’re semi joking

With Thomas flopping so badly, I agree it's not the time to go soft on him to be honest.

 

 

Boner.

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Pita

Pita

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4 hours ago, BillyFOX12 said:

League One is around his level tbh

Not sure he’s that good. He’s just a national league player. 

Angus Scott

Angus Scott

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Looks like he lost his man again yesterday for the winning goal. I'm sick of moaning about him every game & saying I never want to see him again. I'm just now clinging to the hope that he will be part of the fire sale that will take  place when we get relegated

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old koppite

old koppite

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40 minutes ago, JimJams said:

With Thomas flopping so badly, I agree it's not the time to go soft on him to be honest.

 

 

Boner.

It’s unnerving to see flopping and boner in the same post! 
As I said, IF he is out a lot on the beer with the club in such a mess and his focus and performance well below the standard required, then he deserves flak. 

Dickov22

Dickov22

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13 minutes ago, Angus Scott said:

Looks like he lost his man again yesterday for the winning goal. I'm sick of moaning about him every game & saying I never want to see him again. I'm just now clinging to the hope that he will be part of the fire sale that will take  place when we get relegated

Why would any club buy him? 

Ron Judkin

Ron Judkin

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I remember seeing him down David Lloyd’s, speaking to a PT/Tennis coach whilst munching a chocolate bar as the coach said “Your diet really is shit isn’t it”. So what do you expect? 

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nnfox

nnfox

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1 minute ago, Ron Judkin said:

I remember seeing him down David Lloyd’s, speaking to a PT/Tennis coach whilst munching a chocolate bar as the coach said “Your diet really is shit isn’t it”. So what do you expect? 

And this is one of the reasons we are where we are.  And it's not just LT.

 

Professional players HAVE to look after themselves.  It's these little things that compounded over time lead to problems.  A Mars a day keeps the doctor away?  No!  And this shouldn't need explaining to a professional athlete.  If this happens everyday, for years, by most of the squad then it will lead to sub-prime fitness levels across the board.  Which is actually where we are.

 

The late Steve Jobs of Apple fame described building a team with A, B and C grade players.  He would stop at nothing to hire A-grade players.  These are the people that are passionate about the project, are super motivated, self-starters, tailor their life to achieve great results and love to work with other A-grade players, actively seeking them out.  Get them together and they'll challenge and push each other forward.  BUT, A-players will only tolerate B-Players.  B-Players are the ones who are largely competent but only ever go through the motions.  They never set the world on fire, they do what's expected and generally do enough to hold their weight but are nothing special.  The real danger comes in when you get C-players involved.  These are the guys who generally perform poorly, are ill-disciplined and can actually be damaging not only to team performance but to the brand as a whole.

 

Now, whilst A-players can tolerate B-players, when C-players start turning up, the A-players just up and leave.  What's more dangerous is that while an A-player in charge of recruitment will go all out to hire other A-players, put a B-player in charge of recruitment and they will happily recruit C-players because there is no danger that a C-player will outshine them.  The whole thing is a downward spiral.

 

I think this plays out at Leicester.

 

All of our A-players have packed up and gone.  We won't try to hire A-players (at board level or coaching staff) because if they did get through the door they would call out the dross that's here already.  On the playing side, we just don't have any leadership that will demand high standards from the rest of the squad.  Riccardo probably should, but it must be so draining as he's probably a lone voice, certainly no more than one or two others.  The rest don't have the right mentality - they accept and possibly promote poor discipline.  We have too many C-players, hardly any B-players and no A-players (Jordan James?).

 

We don't stand a chance of attracting A-grade players for the first team.  Nigel Pearson had it right where a big part of player recruitment focused on mentality and ensuring that they would always look to do the best for the team and better themselves individually.

 

What we have now is just nonsense.

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sm1

sm1

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2 hours ago, Ron Judkin said:

I remember seeing him down David Lloyd’s, speaking to a PT/Tennis coach whilst munching a chocolate bar as the coach said “Your diet really is shit isn’t it”. So what do you expect? 

Explains why he has the physicality of a wet paper bag and hasn't developed abit in 4-5yrs. 

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Mickyblueeyes

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The reason Luke Thomas gets rightly criticised on this forum or elsewhere is because his errors are not all down to a lack of ability, take the Southampton game on Tuesday, first half full of concentration etc. decent performance.

 

His problem Is the moment he looses concentration he puts on a “can’t be asked attitude”. What amateur players do playing 5-a-side after 1 hour of running around. May leave a leg in, let the other person run away without chasing them, start messing about and talking. Etc. fine at that level but things like the push is what he does consistently when he gets tired of being professional.

 

He’a stealing a living and should be hounded out because he doesn’t have the class to make up for his shortcomings by putting the effort in. Not sorry for these players anymore

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Dan

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He wouldn't last six months at virtually any other EFL club if all that is true. You get rewarded for it at Leicester though.

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