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Automatic Promotion or Play-offs?

By StanSP, in Leicester City Forum

1st, 2nd or Play-offs?   

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  1. 1. Where Will We Finish?


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adejo92

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7 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Where have I said we wouldn't be bottlers if that did happen? 

"Be nice to see any comments about 'bottling' if we overcome this period and do end up finishing 1st... "

 

Probably reading it wrong but certainly reads as though your calling out those using the term bottling.

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fuchsntf

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1 hour ago, Suzie the Fox said:

Still think we shall finish 1st, just not with a huge gap and achieving records that were on the cards pre-christmas.

Takes a bloody woman to tell these macho snowflake fans,

how to stand up and  be men…Sport split the men between the boys,

players are at least trying their damnest despite their varying qualities.

Easy for fans to play the wild critical pundit and claim their rights..

 

Why modern fans have become too cynical,and only good weather fans,nothing I would be proud of…

Suzie the long tall sassie sally..A vixen showing so called foxes home.& 

giving those foxes a run for their „know-better“ asses.…..:banana:   :P

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StanSP

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6 minutes ago, adejo92 said:

"Be nice to see any comments about 'bottling' if we overcome this period and do end up finishing 1st... "

 

Probably reading it wrong but certainly reads as though your calling out those using the term bottling.

For now yes, and if we finish 1st because they're quite vocal at the moment. So let's see what they say if we do end up 1st, that's all. 

 

Maybe I will label us bottlers if we continue to mess it up... 

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weller54

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15 minutes ago, phoneticerror said:

We’d be pissing around licking a self sealing envelope. Anything to make an easy task harder.

The envelope would go from Faes to Vesty, Vesty back to Faes, back to Mads, to Winks, to Vesty, back to Mads, to Faes,  to Vesty ..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

to Faes, back to Mads...who kicks it into touch.😂

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george55

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2 hours ago, weller54 said:

Playoffs!

Momentum is everything at this stage!!  Leeds and Ipswich are flying!

if foxes win or there remaining games then no mater wat the  others do and id ban fatawu from is own penalty area he cost us against cov ,and when it times tp play saints they can only make the play off hence a weakened team  lol

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Tommy Fresh

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4 minutes ago, adejo92 said:

Agree to an extent, but whatever happens from this point on, throwing away the lead we have is the definition of bottling and even if we won every game from today onwards, and won the league with points to spare, ive seen enough calamity to know we'll get smashed next season.

That's not bottling though is it, if we rediscover some good form and finish first after having a blip at this stage of the season, it's the exact opposite of bottling.

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Tommy Fresh

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3 minutes ago, weller54 said:

The envelope would go from Faes to Vesty, Vesty back to Faes, back to Mads, to Winks, to Vesty, back to Mads, to Faes,  to Vesty ..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

to Faes, back to Mads...who kicks it into touch.😂

You definitely yearn for the days of Ian Holloway as he was 'fun'

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Ric Flair

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This is a very difficult question to answer and I'm not referencing the psychological damage experienced as a Leicester fan of massive leads frittered away in recent years, last seasons scandalous relegation or even the horrors of 2012/13 either. I mean because of the nature of the top 4 this season and the points hauls that have and will be racked up by the end of it.

 

What goes against us is that we don't have the momentum right now. Both Leeds and Ipswich have had poor patches of form but the difference is they had theirs with enough of the season left to piece together some form and keep it going to get better and better. We now have a small part of the season left with very little margin for error and the nagging doubt in the back of our minds of how on earth aren't we home and hosed. 

 

It's mental torture now and only the strongest will prevail and those who want it the most. Another thing that goes against us is we have the most inexperienced manager out of the lot and one who in the last month has made some deeply perturbing decisions.

 

His best work at correcting things has come between the international breaks so let's hope Enzo does some soul searching and reflecting ASAP and has the clarity and artistry to mastermind this through to the end. His pig headedness with continuing to pick an appallingly out of form Wout Faes, who's been at fault time and time again recently ahead of Conor Coady is really poor. We lack leaders and grit and the one thing Coady has is both, he's been here and succeeded in this scenario too. But Enzo is doubling down on his principles whilst the pressure mounts and so far he's got no answers. 

 

His reluctance to use the squad like he did earlier in the season is mystifying too, it's no coincidence the fitness levels look to be sagging and we've gone from being the ones to ending games relentlessly to being sucker punched in the closing stages and it all being so inevitable.

 

Something has got to change in our play, this notion that we are good defensively is looking majorly flawed in 2024. I'm not sure what has happened but we are now badly exposed and whether it's just poor form, teams have sussed us out or we are doing something markedly different, we don't have much time to root cause it. We possess an array of central defenders better than any other club in this division and yet he won't break up the pairing. I can understand to a certain degree given the prowess of the first half of the season but the warning signs have been there now for too long and in any other area with an embarrassment of riches (up front) he's made changes and benefitted in doing so, the cyclical nature of the form of Vardy, Iheanacho, Daka and then Cannon we had navigated with great success up until recently.

 

We now need to work on a defensive structure that prevents us from being torn open so easily. Nelson is the quickest centre half we have and Coady is the best organiser. Souttar is a back to the walls defender and maybe down the stretch he is needed and stop playing such a suicidal high line but at the very least Wout Faes has to come out and whilst Ricardo is out then the inverted full back system needs minimising in certain games where there the oppositions strengths are overloading the flanks.

 

This system does not stand up well to pressure, nor does the weaknesses of our current defence and he has to change it. 

 

Another outside factor we've got to deal with, that will intensify is our financial situation. Our 2022/23 accounts will be published very soon and then the coverage of what this may mean and likewise for 2023/24 will grow and grow. That pressure is not something we could do with and again for a team that's been suspect this season, it's another huge handicap we'll carry.

 

The harsh reality is we could win 7 of our remaining 9 games and still finish 3rd. It's highly unlikely both Leeds and Ipswich win nearly all their remaining games but this season is not comparable to any other in regards to points required down the stretch. What we at the very least need to do is show promotion form in the remaining games, if them pair do a madness and we somehow miss out then we'll have to lick our wounds and keep going until the curtain is drawn at the end of May.

 

Let's make no mistake here, failure to get promotion in whatever form would be catastrophic for the future of this club. That's yet more added pressure for us and it doesn't bare thinking about bit we cannot hide away from it. The points gap has vanished, nobody is going to do us any favours, we face 9 remaining games that we won all 9 of when we faced them 1st time around and that has to be the attitude and desire of the players and manager when we face them again. We need to be aggressive, clinical and want it.

 

There's a chunk of this side that cannot have a relegation and a bottled promotion on their CV if they want salvage their careers. I'm looking to the likes of Ndidi, Ricardo, KDH and Vardy and I want to see them drag us across the line.

 

I think we'll finish 2nd but it'll be very tight as I think we might only get 16-17 points from the remaining games.

 

 

 

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EastAnglianFox

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As a club i understand why we need to be dining at the top table and for that I’m desperate not just to go up but add yet another Champions trophy to the cabinet.

 

Personally, do I miss the Premier league, not one bit!

 

Such a strange one, of course I’ll be doing my best to be the happiest fan ever if we are promoted, but being honest I think my main emotion will be a little bit meh, can’t help it and wish it wasn’t the case

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squidsworth

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Wouldn't suprise me if this lot finish 4th at this rate, the top two beginning to look like a pipe dream considering the sh*t show of a year we've had.  Dunno what people have seen to suggest anything other than play offs now, hopefully we'll hang onto 3rd and get our day at Wembley.

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