Craig Shakespeare & Mike Stowell

[AjcW]

1 hour ago, Ricey said:

I think it was the crossover of PeaThisrson and Ranieri that worked so well. Having the infrastructure, culture, staff, recruitment and momentum from the Pearson era added to Ranieri's superior media handling style and ability to tweak things in-match to get results created a perfect hybrid. Pearson's weaknesses were Ranieri's strengths.

 

It was never going to work for long though.

Great summary this.

 

If we'd won the league under Pearson, nowhere near as many fans of other teams would have applauded us for it, because he'd have been rubbing people up the wrong way for the 11 months preceding it  

[Fox1980]

2 hours ago, ARM1968 said:

It was Cambiasso and you all know it you sick sons of bitches. 
 

He left a note outlining the whole thing after engineering the great escape. Checked in every week via the force. Simple. 

It was the monks simple as 

[Spudulike]

30 minutes ago, pmcla26 said:

We saw some Atletico fans in the dry dock after the game and they said "you made us suffer.. no one does that to our defence!" - I really thought Ben Chilwell was gonna be the new Gareth Bale after that night  

I remember Griezmann being on his knees at the final whistle and Simeone looking shell-shocked. 

[Spudulike]

1 minute ago, pmcla26 said:

Yeah they knew they'd had a game! I wasn't that impressed with Griezmann live, to be honest. 

He's probably the fastest player I've seen live (other than Vardy, obvs). 

[bovril]

Mike Stowell decided to wait 9 years at Leicester before finally taking that moment to unleash his football mastermind on the world. 

[CosbehFox]

33 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Diego Godin in that game was the best centre half I had ever seen in the flesh.

Gimenez superb for them as well

[Arriba Los Zorros]

This is nothing new is it, we all know that Ranieri came in, didn't change much from a team which had an incredible momentum and team spirit (built up by his predecessor Nigel 'Godlike' Cult of Pearsonality) and played a major role instead keeping players relaxed, downplaying the situation.

 

Whether or not he's a good coach (for the record, I think he's pretty one dimensional) he played an absolute blinder here letting the perfect storm play out. Having the vision (and humility) not to change everything overnight that was working. As the season went on our defence became stronger and stronger too, which was needed to grind out the 1-0s week after week. That's the reason why he was a genius rather than his actual coaching.

 

LCFC legend for that, whether or not Nigel, Shakey, Cambiasso , insert other did the hard graft.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

So basically Ranieri was a bumbling Inspector Gadget figure? Somehow foiling the evil machinations of Dr Claw and MAD, but with the real legwork being done by Penny and Brains (Shakespeare and Stowell). Yes?

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, TAFKA Castroneves said:

Doesn’t surprise me, I was impressed by Shakeys short time at the helm, his place in the social/squad hierarchy was always going to be the challenge for him which sadly didn’t quite work out.

 

My main Shakey memory was that second half against Athletico at home in the Champs League where he switched up the system at half time and we begun absolutely battering their goal. Gotta give him credit for that as we didn’t go down with no effort, he found a way to really put the pressure on one of the best defensive units in the whole of Europe.

 

Pearson was the perfect front man overall to it though, had a bit of the Clough/Taylor vibe to them.

....very much this!!!

It was always going to be difficult transitioning from Assistant to manager for Shakey, and at the time when he was appointed, I posted on here, if it did not work out, we are going to lose a very good coach in the bargain.

   Time was not something that was afforded to him, and I suppose we could not allow our Premiere status to go, so we acted quickly, along with the club being somewhat reluctant to endorse the appointment in the first place. 

  One memory of his managerial tenure was an interview by Radio Leicester after a game we had lost and he was asked the reason for a substitution. He proceeded to answer the question as what he expected of the incoming player and how he saw it would work out and how the team was to readjust to the substitution. It was a breath of fresh air to hear someone give such an detailed explanation and frankly I would have loved to have listened to him talk about the game and how he saw things.

    This chance will perhaps never happen again for him, and he may believe that he had to take it, to find out if he was capable of management. I still think he is, we were just too high a profile, and had too much to lose should he fail. He would have succeeded in the lower leagues and could have worked his way back to the Premiere League.

   I have always wondered why we went to a high tempo and high press game in the Championship, and I feel he had a big say in us doing so.

[FLAN]

2 hours ago, bovril said:

Mike Stowell decided to wait 9 years at Leicester before finally taking that moment to unleash his football mastermind on the world. 

Give it another 9 and he may have told Kasper about owning the 6 yard box 

Edited 8 October 2021 by FLAN
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[baldeagle]

So let me get this right , in the great escape year where we were abysmal for most of the season with Shakespeare and Stowel as our back room staff not forgetting  allegedly it was all Cambiasso’s doing we escaped relegation as he appeared with a master plan  . Then the following  title winning year it wasn’t Ranieri’s doing as he was just the media clown but Shakespeare’s and Stowell’s 🤔🤔

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

So let me get this right , in the great escape year where we were abysmal for most of the season with Shakespeare and Stowel as our back room staff not forgetting  allegedly it was all Cambiasso’s doing we escaped relegation as he appeared with a master plan  . Then the following  title winning year it wasn’t Ranieri’s doing as he was just the media clown but Shakespeare’s and Stowell’s 🤔🤔

Most of the 2014/15 season is forgotten about in these arguments

[HighPeakFox]

This again. In my opinion, it was just a number of factors at work, and they happened to all knit together perfectly. I'm happy to credit everyone involved to some degree & I'm fairly sure it would not have played out the way it did otherwise. 

Edited 8 October 2021 by HighPeakFox

[baldeagle]

13 minutes ago, bovril said:

Most of the 2014/15 season is forgotten about in these arguments

Oh yep sorry forgot we only had 1/4  of a season that year . 

[bovril]

Also why have I spent most of my life thinking Mike Stowell is Scottish?

[sacreblueits442]

36 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

So let me get this right , in the great escape year where we were abysmal for most of the season with Shakespeare and Stowel as our back room staff not forgetting  allegedly it was all Cambiasso’s doing we escaped relegation as he appeared with a master plan  . Then the following  title winning year it wasn’t Ranieri’s doing as he was just the media clown but Shakespeare’s and Stowell’s 🤔🤔

.....I am sure Pearson said that he got it wrong in that season and did not believe that we could play the same way we played when we came up!!!

I always believed we were a much better team than we were showing week after week. Pearson said all his players were very positive and were never downbeat throughout the bad results.

  I always felt we were good enough for top 10 pushing for top 6 in that season, Pearson got it wrong and he admitted it.

[enmac]

Unless my memory is playing tricks, I thought Claudio changed full backs early on,  Danny Simpson for Sclupp and Fuchs for de Laet. Crucially, he turned JV into a lone central striker. Without these changes there's no way we would have won the league. So for me, Claudio 75% won it with 25% from Nige. 

Can't help wondering what would have happened if Esteban had stayed for that season. No Kante, therefore, so I have my doubts. 

[Corky]

Shakespeare then Cambiasso masterminded that survival then Pearson, Shakespeare and Stowell masterminded the title win then Puel set up Rodgers' top five finishes and Cup win as we've seen written on here.

 

I think that's our last 7 years covered. Basically the bloke in charge at the time has little or no input, it was all in place.

[baldeagle]

3 hours ago, enmac said:

Unless my memory is playing tricks, I thought Claudio changed full backs early on,  Danny Simpson for Sclupp and Fuchs for de Laet. Crucially, he turned JV into a lone central striker. Without these changes there's no way we would have won the league. So for me, Claudio 75% won it with 25% from Nige. 

Can't help wondering what would have happened if Esteban had stayed for that season. No Kante, therefore, so I have my doubts. 

Also changed to inverted wingers swapping Ryad over 

[DoveValleyFox]

Mike Stowell was goalkeeping coach to Rab Douglas and Conrad Logan so no, I could never believe that he had the slightest influence on our title win, or any other honour 

[RumbleFox]

No individual was responsible for our league win. What we did was a beautiful miracle which was the result of a million things coming together at exactly the same time. The manager, the previous manager, the coaches, the players, the fans. That penalty miss against Watford. The groundskeeper. The friends and family of all the players. The weather. The recruitment. Kante. I wouldn’t change a single ****ing thing about that season or the previous two or three. It all needed to happen exactly as it did for us to complete what remains the greatest story in all of sports history. I reckon a different breakfast from one of the players might have derailed things. A broken down car on the way training. A different kit person. I still can’t really believe it happened. It’s mad. Truly mad. It’s ruined football for me a bit because I’ll never see anything like it again. Football. ****ing hell. X 

[Aleksz]

11 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Diego Godin in that game was the best centre half I had ever seen in the flesh.

I’ve always said this and my non LCFC mates call me mad. He was genuinely incredible that night. 
 

Chilwell had the game of his life that second half with him and Albrighton chucking them into Ulloa all second half, Godin marshalled the majority 

[Babylon]

3 hours ago, baldeagle said:

Also changed to inverted wingers swapping Ryad over 

Eh…. Pearson always played a left footer on the right hand side. Knockaert and Mahrez in the championship already forgotten.

[eblair]

2 hours ago, DoveValleyFox said:

Mike Stowell was goalkeeping coach to Rab Douglas and Conrad Logan so no, I could never believe that he had the slightest influence on our title win, or any other honour 

Gordon Ramsay couldn’t make Rats meat into a delicious dinner 

[eblair]

11 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Diego Godin in that game was the best centre half I had ever seen in the flesh.

Still talk about how good defensively atleti were, was incredible to watch

 

still think we were robbed in first leg though