Gary Rowett

[lcfc_forever]

His post-match comments seemed to give the impression that some players just aren't listening, and determined to play that passing style instead of taking a more direct route. As many have said, their goal could easily be stopped but it's like they're too nice (or more realistically arrogant, perhaps a mix of the two) and feel that kind of cynical tackle is beneath them. Sad to see Ricardo's decline, he is an impact sub at best now.

 

If one of those early improved performances had led to a win, think he would have got the momentum we needed. But playing well while making stupid mistakes to stop us getting a win has eroded any confidence there was. 

 

Leicester are going down so he surely makes big changes for the final games, selecting with players he trusts - they might be technically weaker but so are the sides around us, and they're putting in far more effort. 

 

Jarrod Bowen made a comment about it's not just about quality, but "but you need grit and desire and a will to win through the whole squad”. That's why West Ham may well stay up, and we'll be playing Crewe next season. 

Edited 12 April by lcfc_forever

[FoxesWalk]

As ever in recent years, the manager is far from the biggest problem at Leicester City FC. There are far bigger issues above and below the manager. 

[ronnup]

If they're not listening to him that's on him. Dont play them. Spineless and lets be honest does he care? Hes gone in 4 weeks

[damolcfc]

Callum Davidson looks like a hanger on... he does seem a bit pointless 🤣

[JJD_LCFC]

25 minutes ago, ronnup said:

If they're not listening to him that's on him. Dont play them. Spineless and lets be honest does he care? Hes gone in 4 weeks

Agreed. I actually felt Rowett would be a good choice in our current position. 
He hasn’t changed anything at all. Persists with players who underperform and constantly starts same formation. Surely he knows there are more formations that 1-4-3-3. He is off in a month and players know it and don’t care. 

[deep blue]

1 hour ago, Product of 84 said:

I think we are doomed. 

 

I don't know how he changes it with 4 games to go. There isn't a player he can bring in different to what we have got. The youngsters aren't bailing us out of this. 

Of course the youngsters aren't going to bail us out of this.  You have to be on the pitch to have any chance of affecting things.

[Grumpy Fox]

Rowett is a good manager, but it takes time to change which we simply dont have.Performances have improved, more chances are being created which means less play near our goal.

Unfortunately Rowett is getting no breaks, forwards cant hit a barn door and stupid mistakes on pitch.

Four games Gary, time for another Leicester City miracle, no pressure but you are our only hope.

[Claudio Fannieri]

The players won’t listen, they are ingrained in how they want to play ….. what a load of shite, most have come from other clubs playing differing styles, formations etc so don’t believe for one second, they wouldn’t be adaptable especially when the ‘chosen’ way is producing defeat after draw after defeat. 
 

if they aint listening why pick them, why bin off every young player to favour experience if none were buying into your messages Gary?  Why not change formation, try different personnel then. 
 

He knows he is a dead man walking and is getting his narrative out there before he leaves today under his NDA. 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

1 minute ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

The players won’t listen, they are ingrained in how they want to play ….. what a load of shite, most have come from other clubs playing differing styles, formations etc so don’t believe for one second, they wouldn’t be adaptable especially when the ‘chosen’ way is producing defeat after draw after defeat. 
 

if they aint listening why pick them, why bin off every young player to favour experience if none were buying into your messages Gary?  Why not change formation, try different personnel then. 
 

He knows he is a dead man walking and is getting his narrative out there before he leaves today under his NDA. 

 

I assume Gary’s referring to the 11 minutes between his first set of changes and his second, where it looked like he attempted to go 442.

 

Leaving a rather weird selection of players across the midfield four and a pace less back four, the balance wasn’t right and we struggled to win the ball back from Swansea at all in those minutes.

 

The subsequent subductions on 73 essentially reverted back to what was being played before and was essentially an admission that the first substitutions were misguided.

 

 

[Beachyboy]

13 hours ago, Parafox said:

Top.

 

Being a twat thinking he understands football and tactics and dictating the way we play 'cos he saw Man City once.

 

 

If you were Rowett going soon anyway, why would you listen to how we should play? nobody will care how we play as long as we get results and this way clearly hasn't been affective for 2 years at the minimum. 

Edited 12 April by Beachyboy

[Blue ROI]

Has he gone yet?

[Chelmofox]

Im not buying this 'hes a good manager' crap. 10 games in, and he has maintained relegation form with 1 win in a series of very, very winnable games. A lot of the teams we came against were bang out of form.

 

Now - dont get me started on the players - the senior ones especially. But, Rowett has persisted with the same setup and he has rewarded the senior players.  He has also persisted with having limited tactical changes and making like for like subs late on.  Now he is complaining that they dont listen to him?  Junior players (most noticeable Page) have been cast aside and important periods of their development pushed back.

 

For a long, long time I have seen average teams cut through our midfield like a hot knife through butter. With this setup, it feels like we have no midfield at times. Swansea did it a few times yesterday, and then they scored being able to run up the pitch in numbers with very little pressure applied. Rowetts solution to this is to continue to play the same way. Many of our fans have a kind of Stockholm syndrome where we believe there is no other system that can be played.

 

So yesterday, in a must win game, i am watching Vestergaard stand on the ball (and give it away in very dangerous positions), Riccy contribute nothing and look slow, Winks trying to boss the pitch and offering nothing (again!), Skipp looking ineffectual because he cant play with Winks and is not adaptable, the Wingers getting doubled up on (even though the opposition still maintain their shape), and us progress the ball a bit, and go sideways, then pass it back to Vestergaard.  I watch a team without a midfield for most of the game. And don't get me started on Ayew's cameo. At this time Monga gets to join when the whole team have downed tools, Aluko watches an OAP amble around and wonders what he ever has to do to get a game, and Page is presumably playing Xbox at home. 

 

The manager is now pretending that he cant do anything about this??! Absolute fraud. I would have supported changing it and still going down. I would have supported looking more to the academy and see them go down fighting. I would have supported dropping Fatawu and Mavadi and moving them to impact subs. I would have supported never seeing Ayew or Winks play for this club again.  The manager had no grit about him - he just tried to be a yes man and hoped that Winks would make that magic pass, that Daka would magically become consistent, that Riccy would find a yard of pace from somewhere and that Abdul would start scoring the worldies again. 

 

I've said it a few times, Rowett is a loser and will never achieve anything significant in the game. He's had 10 games (and a nice holiday in Portugal) to do something. He's gone backwards. 

 

 

Edited 12 April by Chelmofox

[brookfox]

It’d be like giving a chef a bag of mouldy bread and expecting him to knock you up a decent sandwich.

[Chelmofox]

15 minutes ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

 

I assume Gary’s referring to the 11 minutes between his first set of changes and his second, where it looked like he attempted to go 442.

 

Leaving a rather weird selection of players across the midfield four and a pace less back four, the balance wasn’t right and we struggled to win the ball back from Swansea at all in those minutes.

 

The subsequent subductions on 73 essentially reverted back to what was being played before and was essentially an admission that the first substitutions were misguided.

 

 

I saw Bobby come on the pitch, presumably with instructions, and shout some stuff a Mukasa. Both Mukasa and i think Winks just shrugged their shoulders and clearly had no idea what the orders were. 

 

I would say that a big part of that 11 minutes were how those orders were given out. 

[HankMarvin]

Bloke is weak as piss.

“Steffi was feeling ill this morning but we felt he was ok to play, maybe that was the wrong decision”

 

What does it take to make changes to out of form players that have earned you 1 win in 9 going into the game and have one yellow card to show for it 

 

[RedSoxUK]

His 'they don't seem to be listening' bollocks would be fair if he played something different than the 4231 with many of the same players like the last few managers. How can you expect any significant change from before (which is why they were sacked,) if you keep doing the same Gary? This is where a competent DoF oversteps and questions the shape and formation. If you want to be more direct why not switch the wingers, play 2 up top, go three at the back. Something different. He's allowing this and massively culpable.

 

I think it's this misguided 'oh well Fatawu and Mavididi delivered in the championship before' belief that has kept the shape and the players when they both should have been dropped months ago. It's too late now.

[Brizzle Fox]

1 hour ago, HankMarvin said:

Bloke is weak as piss.

“Steffi was feeling ill this morning but we felt he was ok to play, maybe that was the wrong decision”

 

What does it take to make changes to out of form players that have earned you 1 win in 9 going into the game and have one yellow card to show for it 

 

Tbf "Steffi" has been playing likes he's feeling ill for the whole season, so who'd notice the difference. 

 

Defies believe that this total waste of space has been pretty much a starter all season.

[foxesblue]

On 16/02/2026 at 15:52, Fox92 said:

He will keep us up. 

Aged well

[oxford blue]

3 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

I've said it a few times, Rowett is a loser and will never achieve anything significant in the game.

That is almost what my neighbour said (an Oxford season ticket holder) said on Rowett's appointment; that despite being in charge last season when Oxford seemed certain for relegation to the division we are heading for.  I am still not sure I agree given the cards he was dealt: no striker and a discontented dressing room. Nevertheless, he should go at the end of the season and hopefully KP. A complete reset is essential

[HankMarvin]

15 minutes ago, oxford blue said:

I am still not sure I agree given the cards he was dealt: no striker

No he had strikers, just a couple of shit ones much like a lot of the division. Then he has players like Fatawu and James that will go onto much better things, players the likes of Oxford and Portsmouth could only dream of having. Between the 2 strikers and the 2 previously mentioned players they have 30 goals.

 

[Guesty]

If the players aren't listening: drop them. It's not hard. He's gone at the end of the season, he has nothing to lose. At least try and mange the situation - and try something different. Anyone who doesn't listen, put them in the bomb squad and sideline them.

 

It's actually a little bit pathetic to come out and say that and then keep picking the same players every game. Almost like this situation is too big for him.

Edited 12 April by Guesty

[Richard]

Interested to see what those who are saying he keeps persisting with the wrong selection suggest he does instead? 

 

I'm not Rowett's biggest fan by any means but he really doesn't have much of a choice beyond playing a few teenagers. As he said in his post-match comments, we can't play direct and we can't press aggressively because we don't have the players capable of doing those things. All we have are players to knock the ball around the half way line in pretty triangles.

[JonnyBoy]

6 hours ago, ronnup said:

If they're not listening to him that's on him. Dont play them. Spineless and lets be honest does he care? Hes gone in 4 weeks

The fact he still starts mavididi says everything I need to know about this bloke and why we have won 1 in 10. Everyone can see it, why can’t he? 

[Blue ROI]

26 minutes ago, Guesty said:

If the players aren't listening: drop them. It's not hard. He's gone at the end of the season, he has nothing to lose. At least try and mange the situation - and try something different. Anyone who doesn't listen, put them in the bomb squad and sideline them.

 

It's actually a little bit pathetic to come out and say that and then keep picking the same players every game. Almost like this situation is too big for him.

Nah he had his chance to change things up a little and didn't do it.

 

Same old same old, Ayew, Reid, Mavs etc

 

He's done.

[AjcW]

4 hours ago, RedSoxUK said:

His 'they don't seem to be listening' bollocks would be fair if he played something different than the 4231 with many of the same players like the last few managers. How can you expect any significant change from before (which is why they were sacked,) if you keep doing the same Gary? This is where a competent DoF oversteps and questions the shape and formation. If you want to be more direct why not switch the wingers, play 2 up top, go three at the back. Something different. He's allowing this and massively culpable.

 

I think it's this misguided 'oh well Fatawu and Mavididi delivered in the championship before' belief that has kept the shape and the players when they both should have been dropped months ago. It's too late now.

Allegedly we have a new DOF but he’s not been seen this month and was meant to start end of March…. So that’s interesting…