Rennes (H) pre match, Thursday 10 March, 8pm

[Jabfox]

3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I've never known anything like it, hindsight like many other times this season suggests he shouldn't have been starting last Saturday anyway but maybe that's a little unfair. Whatever, we keep getting injuries and something has to change, if we become more cautious to bringing players back then so be it. Nearly 90% of players that come back from a long lay off with us get injured again very quickly, that's very perturbing.

It's beyond a joke now, whether its a mixture of poor man management or just complete bad luck something has to be looked at, it's demoralising now knowing we don't have Fofana and Vards going into the game tomorrow. 

 

Arguably two of our most important players who really set the standards for how we play as a team.  

[Ric Flair]

1 minute ago, jeffschlupp said:

For me, it's not like we've not been cautious. Justin took 12 months to recover from an ACL injury, when plenty of other PL clubs have had players return inside 9 months. Fofana was initially December/New Year and has taken another 2-3 months to be match ready. The injuries were much worse over Christmas because we had to play players through fixtures the PL wouldn't call off.

 

Even with the current uproar, we have only got 6 out and Fofana will be back on Sunday and Ricardo not long after, so it seems. Castagne, Evans and Vardy are all surely targeting United straight after the international break. It is hardly disastrous anymore.

Wow

[Dan]

When we have a full squad eh  might as well change it to "when we have Mbappe and Haaland". It's about as realistic.

[SemperEadem]

7 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

They dont have to do it at all, they earn millions and millions of pounds a year through tv revenue which increases year on year and can pay dogshit squad players like Vestegaard 70k a week. In Germany season tickets are less then 200 euros a season. A price increase is absolutley disgusting and hopefully if they announce one our supporters will group together and protest 

One will the rest will stay schtum to keep their cosy treatment.

[st albans fox]

7 minutes ago, turlo said:

Yep that sounds more like a ligament strain. 

you would think so 

not good by the sound of it …..

[ealingfox]

iTs JuSt BaD lUcK

[coolhandfox]

23 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I've never known anything like it, hindsight like many other times this season suggests he shouldn't have been starting last Saturday anyway but maybe that's a little unfair. Whatever, we keep getting injuries and something has to change, if we become more cautious to bringing players back then so be it. Nearly 90% of players that come back from a long lay off with us get injured again very quickly, that's very perturbing.

Wasn't he injured by a tackle? 

 

He could have been held back for a month and still have been injuired by a tackle.

 

Its a contact sport after all.

[RoboFox]

Ok, just end the season now. I think I'm done. 

[sacreblueits442]

34 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

If Vardy says he is fit, why wouldn't you play him.......pretty certain he isn't pushed out onto the pitch not wanting to play....

.....quite simply this knock could have happened at anytime!!!

Starting Vardy after his first 20 minutes cameo  was a bit desperate, we have constantly had the long term injury, the come back and the subsequently long lay off thereafter. We do not seem to learn from previous experiences, and we see this over and over in different aspects of the management of this team..

[Ric Flair]

23 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Wasn't he injured by a tackle? 

 

He could have been held back for a month and still have been injuired by a tackle.

 

Its a contact sport after all.

Are you more likely to be injured by a tackle when back to full fitness or still working your way back? All we know is that of all the players to return from long lay offs are quickly picking up other injuries and overall our injury issues is relentless. I cannot accept there's nothing more we can do.

[CosbehFox]

How much more longer though do you play Vardy 'to step' up his injury return though? 

 

He did twenty in the week. Maybe 45 next? But that's a bit of an odd mark 

Doing sixty in the next game seems a logical step which doesn't affect the step up of the team as a whole.  

 

Fofana came through a behind closed doors friendly on Friday btw - that's why the club were ready for him to play some part tomorrow night. 

Edited 9 March 2022 by Cardiff_Fox

[coolhandfox]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Are you more likely to be injured by a tackle when back to full fitness or still working your way back? All we know is that of all the players to return from long lay offs are quickly picking up other injuries and overall our injury issues is relentless. I cannot accept there's nothing more we can do.

I agree with you from a point of hamstring, muscle pulls etc.

 

But an impact injury is a little different.

[tsintskaro]

He is 35, you can no longer depend on Vardy

get over it 

[Dan]

Just now, tsintskaro said:

He is 35, you can no longer depend on Vardy

get over it 

I see him as being in the Aguero phase at Man City like the last couple of years.

[FoxinNotts]

Time for Iheanacho and Daka to weigh in with a consistent number of goals please 

[Bayfox]

1 hour ago, hackneyfox said:

Have they really? If that was the case then they'd be charging £500 a season ticket.

Well 8% on a £450 season ticket certainly starts to push it that way. They keep using the 380 because that's the cheapest. Please don't be fooled. There was some interesting things spoken about at the FCC certainly Leeds fanbase got mentioned a lot and the club clearly don't want any of that mentality about if they can help it.

[Foxes96]

No mention of Ndidi suggests he is okay and didn’t pick up a knock the other day.
 

Shame about Fofana, although should only miss the one game, so hopefully back for the weekend.
 

Vardy being out is disappointing, especially given how sharp he had looked, but can’t legislate for an impact injury like that. At least they brought him straight off, and will hopefully back after the international break

[Md9]

Can see vardy calling it a day at the end of the season if we don’t get any kind of European football getting on a bit and sure it must be frustrating coming back for a game or 2 then injured again for a month 

[SemperEadem]

Just now, Md9 said:

Can see vardy calling it a day at the end of the season if we don’t get any kind of European football getting on a bit and sure it must be frustrating coming back for a game or 2 then injured again for a month 

Reckon he goes off to his US team?

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Bayfox said:

I'll cope. I really object to this it's OK because they have looked after us. The fact it they really don't need this money. The same as they really didn't need our 70 quid after giving us a refund, what was the point and technically they spent it all in less that a couple of months anyway even with furlough. 

 

I'm shocked so many are happy to sit and accept it. It's terrible timing as well.

I agree. I'm not too fond of the whole they have looked after us, so it Ok argument.

 

But prices can't be frozen indefinitely. 

 

I don't think the timing is great, but when is a good time to put up prices? When was the last time they increased the price of a season ticket? I think our season tickets are pretty good value. I have more of an issue with the cost of individual match tickets, even though they don't affect me as a season ticket holder.

 

Who are they? The club or Top?

 

The club has 3 consecutive years of losses, adding up to £121m, so it is not like they are sitting on a pile of cash.

 

Since King Power acquired LCFC in August 2010, the owners have put in £352m (£246m loans and £106m share capital), including £162m in the last two years alone. In fact, in the ten years up to 2020, they have provided the 6th highest funding in the Premier League, so it's not like TOP isn't putting his hand in his pocket. 

 

 

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, Md9 said:

Can see vardy calling it a day at the end of the season if we don’t get any kind of European football getting on a bit and sure it must be frustrating coming back for a game or 2 then injured again for a month 

No chance he walking away from 100K + a week contract.

 

He's a later bloomer, he's going to want to play in the PL for as long as possible.

 

 

[sacreblueits442]

26 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

Time for Iheanacho and Daka to weigh in with a consistent number of goals please 

.....so long as we play them together upfront!!!

[FoxinNotts]

2 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

.....so long as we play them together upfront!!!

not necessarily, for me. They both just need to take their chances, whenever the are on the pitch.

[goose2010]

6 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Reckon he goes off to his US team?

He will when his contact is up but cant see it anytime before then. 

[HybridFox]

33 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

Time for Iheanacho and Daka to weigh in with a consistent number of goals please 

He needs to play both of them together. They're just completely nullified on their own 

Edited 9 March 2022 by TK95