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The last dance

By shailen, in Leicester City Forum

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Lambert09

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i will have faith we can do it up until 5 mins into the game when i see soumare jogging back after joelinton after he sloppily roles the ball to him 

ithuriel

ithuriel

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10 hours ago, shailen said:

Everyone has written us off and the odds are rightly stacked against us. We all know that a lot of players will leave regardless at the end of the season and we will look a different proposition next season. 

 

These players have delivered for the club in the past and there is a route for survival, no matter how unlikely it looks. Can they rise to the occasion?? 

You could dose them with viagra in their half time Horlicks and still not get a rise from them.

fox_favourite

fox_favourite

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Anyone who thinks we have a hope. Look at the body language at the end of the Liverpool game. That screams defeatist attitude to me. It's been completely sap out of them and we will get thrashed. I'm going to ignore this one till 10. 

Raj

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Imagine the pressure on Everton now.

Its ALL in their hands.

Just pray to ALL the gods the buckle.

Knowing usvthough they will ANDso too will we🙄

gerblod

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21 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Would like to think that all the toxicity could be put aside today. We've been given a path out of this. It doesnt have to look pretty. A moment of magic will do. We can be that team for once this season that gets thats unexpected result and creates another twist in the relegation saga.

Since the International break, Rodgers removal and a less-than-inspiring choice of replacement by a tardy and diffident management, FT has become a cesspit of toxic comment. I'm glad you used the word, because there's a number of posters who regularly and frequently, before a ball is kicked, begin their vendettas against individual players who, for no good reason, inspire their hatred and contempt . These might seem extreme words, but the repetition has become tiresome and unpleasant, very much so...enough for me to consider permanently leaving the forum.

 

It appears to me that the players have been totally let down by the KP hierarchy and, on here anyway, the 'supporters'.

 

Last night they battled in a heroic fashion against an ascendant side and left them fearing losing.

At a late point in the game Newcastle began to look tentative - appearing playing for and relieved to settle for a draw - after a match long dominance of possession and opportunities.

 

I woke up this morning feeling proud of our boys. They weren't gutless or cowards or lacking determination. What they've lacked is clear leadership and support for two seasons now.

 

I admit that I've consistently criticised both Tielemans and Soumare this year, but it's not their decision they should playing. I have vented my anger at Soumare's apparent laziness, and lack of urgency and fitness, but I'd never call him useless, cowardly, 'championship level' or any other of the demeaning epithets levelled at him or Thomas, Castagne, Faes, Barnes, Maddison, Vardy, Ward, Iversen, Amartey, Söyüncü, Kristiansen, KDH, Souttar and anyone else who I've missed. Some jerk even had a go at Evans yesterday evening.

Is this fandom, support - or is it an opportunity for the unfulfilled or envious wearing the guise of supporter to heap scorn on young men who've 'made it'?

I've had enough of this season and enough of Rodgers and his coaches, Top, Rudkin, Whelan and Smith and crew (well perhaps not Shakey). But I will continue to feel pride when the lads take to the field.

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smudgerfox

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5 minutes ago, gerblod said:

Since the International break, Rodgers removal and a less-than-inspiring choice of replacement by a tardy and diffident management, FT has become a cesspit of toxic comment. I'm glad you used the word, because there's a number of posters who regularly and frequently, before a ball is kicked, begin their vendettas against individual players who, for no good reason, inspire their hatred and contempt . These might seem extreme words, but the repetition has become tiresome and unpleasant, very much so...enough for me to consider permanently leaving the forum.

 

It appears to me that the players have been totally let down by the KP hierarchy and, on here anyway, the 'supporters'.

 

Last night they battled in a heroic fashion against an ascendant side and left them fearing losing.

At a late point in the game Newcastle began to look tentative - appearing playing for and relieved to settle for a draw - after a match long dominance of possession and opportunities.

 

I woke up this morning feeling proud of our boys. They weren't gutless or cowards or lacking determination. What they've lacked is clear leadership and support for two seasons now.

 

I admit that I've consistently criticised both Tielemans and Soumare this year, but it's not their decision they should playing. I have vented my anger at Soumare's apparent laziness, and lack of urgency and fitness, but I'd never call him useless, cowardly, 'championship level' or any other of the demeaning epithets levelled at him or Thomas, Castagne, Faes, Barnes, Maddison, Vardy, Ward, Iversen, Amartey, Söyüncü, Kristiansen, KDH, Souttar and anyone else who I've missed. Some jerk even had a go at Evans yesterday evening.

Is this fandom, support - or is it an opportunity for the unfulfilled or envious wearing the guise of supporter to heap scorn on young men who've 'made it'?

I've had enough of this season and enough of Rodgers and his coaches, Top, Rudkin, Whelan and Smith and crew (well perhaps not Shakey). But I will continue to feel pride when the lads take to the field.

Omg where to start.

 

 

smudgerfox

smudgerfox

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2 hours ago, gerblod said:

 

It appears to me that the players have been totally let down by the KP hierarchy and, on here anyway, the 'supporters'.

 

Last night they battled in a heroic fashion against an ascendant side and left them fearing losing.

At a late point in the game Newcastle began to look tentative - appearing playing for and relieved to settle for a draw - after a match long dominance of possession and opportunities.

 

I woke up this morning feeling proud of our boys. They weren't gutless or cowards or lacking determination. What they've lacked is clear leadership and support for two seasons now.

 

Yes - possibly for the first time this season - the players successfully executed a game plan. But they deserve criticism, they deserve scathing criticism, for a season filled with woeful, inadequate performances both individually and collectively and for failing to realise the precarity of our situation until it was far too late. It’s the players who’ve given the ball away, a matter of a few yards from their own goal,  gifting the opposition goals,. It’s the players who fail to stop crosses coming into the box by failing to close down wide players, the players who regularly concede in the last ten minutes through lack of collective game management  and individual fitness. The players miss penalties - many of them crucial, sitters (ditto) and argue with journalists who merely point out their inadequacies. if you call it toxic , I call it the inevitable consequence of their collective complacency and carelessness and the club’s inexplicable tolerance of it. I am 63 and have been supporting since I was 5 and I have never sung “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” at any Leicester team until Fulham away a mere two weeks ago, when sadly I concluded it was true.


So yes, we now know what needs to be done on Sunday and let’s remain positive and get behind the team and pray to God they can achieve it. I will be there shouting and singing with the best of them. But none of us, nor no-one at the club, player, manager, owner, board member, should EVER forget, or be allowed to forget, the Everest of incompetence that has led us to this desperate moment in the first place. 
 


 

 

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gerblod

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On 23/05/2023 at 09:40, smudgerfox said:

Yes - possibly for the first time this season - the players successfully executed a game plan. But they deserve criticism, they deserve scathing criticism, for a season filled with woeful, inadequate performances both individually and collectively and for failing to realise the precarity of our situation until it was far too late. It’s the players who’ve given the ball away, a matter of a few yards from their own goal,  gifting the opposition goals,. It’s the players who fail to stop crosses coming into the box by failing to close down wide players, the players who regularly concede in the last ten minutes through lack of collective game management  and individual fitness. The players miss penalties - many of them crucial, sitters (ditto) and argue with journalists who merely point out their inadequacies. if you call it toxic , I call it the inevitable consequence of their collective complacency and carelessness and the club’s inexplicable tolerance of it. I am 63 and have been supporting since I was 5 and I have never sung “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” at any Leicester team until Fulham away a mere two weeks ago, when sadly I concluded it was true.


So yes, we now know what needs to be done on Sunday and let’s remain positive and get behind the team and pray to God they can achieve it. I will be there shouting and singing with the best of them. But none of us, nor no-one at the club, player, manager, owner, board member, should EVER forget, or be allowed to forget, the Everest of incompetence that has led us to this desperate moment in the first place. 
 


 

 

Was it sticking to a game plan or was it because Evans and Souttar were reinforcing the defence? Basically, six men + Iversen were packing defence, but they showed a determination that's been absent for a while. Perhaps, in numbers, they'd begun to believe in themselves.

I know that mistakes and panic begin to emerge when players lose confidence in themselves and in their team mates. Argue all you like that it's down to diffidence or cowardice or incompetence, but these boys have shown how well they can perform. There's a reason for these bad performances and it's more likely to have arisen in Rodgers' gradual erosion of his players self-belief.

Most of us knew he should have been sacked months ago. Why expect the players to begin to play well overnight? The sacking came too late to establish a new order. Now we're on the cusp of paying the price.

 

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weller54

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On 22/05/2023 at 07:08, shailen said:

Everyone has written us off and the odds are rightly stacked against us. We all know that a lot of players will leave regardless at the end of the season and we will look a different proposition next season. 

 

These players have delivered for the club in the past and there is a route for survival, no matter how unlikely it looks. Can they rise to the occasion?? 

 

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Mickyblueeyes

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On 23/05/2023 at 05:30, Raj said:

Imagine the pressure on Everton now.

Its ALL in their hands.

Just pray to ALL the gods the buckle.

Knowing usvthough they will ANDso too will we🙄

The thing that worries me is not Everton messing it up. I think there is a good chance of them not winning. My concern is with our guys. 
 

They’ll have spent this week arranging moves. Celebrating call ups. Having a run around. But will they have the intensity best West Ham ? I just don’t see it.

Raj

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8 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

The thing that worries me is not Everton messing it up. I think there is a good chance of them not winning. My concern is with our guys. 
 

They’ll have spent this week arranging moves. Celebrating call ups. Having a run around. But will they have the intensity best West Ham ? I just don’t see it.

I wouldnt be surprised at all if Everton lose and our lads lose too.

Its the Leicester way.. 

WigstonWanderer

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Weren’t we in a similar position in one or both the last matches of the two seasons where we failed to get into the top 4? Can’t remember the exact details now, but I’m pretty sure that for at least one, maybe both of those matches we needed a result in one of the other matches to go our way, and for us to win ours (or was it draw). Anyway needless to say some other team did us a favour but we stuffed up our end.

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