Lets Be having You Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 I cannot really comment on City's performance at Hillsborough on Saturday because I'd been laid low by a flu virus and missed the Sheffield Wednesday match. What I do know, though, is that the 2-1 defeat has left the Foxes in their most chronic condition for 15 years. So, if manager Craig Levein is right in his view that the players "probably don't see themselves as relegation candidates'', they need to take a reality check. Look at the table for pity's sake - City are now in the bottom three. Not since the "Great Escape" of 1991 when City beat Oxford in the last game at Filbert Street to guarantee that they avoided the drop to the old Division Three for the first time in their history, have the fans been more fearful about the future. It is worth pointing out as well that in the 1990-91 season City actually won 14 games - 12 of them at home. The current side have managed just five wins in 28 Championship matches and only one victory on their travels in the last 13 months. Since beating Sheffield United at the end of November, the Foxes have lost six out of eight League games and picked up two points out of 24. They are dropping like a stone. And the last time they kept a clean sheet? That was against Southampton on November 5 a dozen games ago. Not relegation candidates? You must be joking! So, if the problem is not ability, what is it? I reckon it can only be the mistaken belief that "it can't happen to us.'' Oh yes it can - and, if City don't get their act together right now, it will. Throughout the season there have been plenty of occasions when the quality of City's football has been good. They have passed the ball around well and created chances but missed more than they have taken. Individual errors defensively have also proved costly and apparently did so again on Saturday after City had taken an early lead. By rights that seventh-minute goal from Richard Stearman should have set City on the way to three points against an Owls team also in relegation danger and lacking confidence. If the Foxes had played like they did against Spurs in the second half of the FA Cup tie, they would surely have won. For whatever reason they clearly did not, or could not, reproduce that form and now face the fight of their lives to survive in the Championship. With 18 games to go, there is still time. City are not dead and buried yet. But there will need to be a massive upturn in fortune and a change in approach if they are to avoid the drop. It is now all about results - nothing else. It will not matter a jot how well City play and how attractive the football looks if they don't win. This is roll-your-sleeves-up and battle time. The next few matches will not be a place for the faint-hearted and Saturday's game against Cardiff at the Walkers Stadium is absolutely massive. Lose that and City really will be on life support in intensive care - and it will need more than a few antibiotics to pull them through from Mercury and he is spot on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burger Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Quality! Suprised that was printed! You can bet if Levein read that he thought 'What does that guy know?' But he's talking sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimp Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Good to see the Mercury finally telling it like it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Levein never plays a consistant side, hes always picking and changing players positions which is unsettling the side. Fair enough we have some injuries but they should just be straight swaps of a winning team. Levein's tinckering around with the side and it's completely different every game, this should of been done during pre-season. Leveins had a a season and a half-or so and he doesn't know his strongest side, hes switching and changing every match and its showing in our performances. I would happily say its not the players as we've seen they can play good football, why on Earth they can defeat the 4th in the Premiership and lose to relegation contenders in the span of two games is down to one person. Craig Levein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The People's Hero Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 HAHA! Your username is onion! I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Good to see the Mercury finally telling it like it is. Its about time someone in that newspaper talked f*****g sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gené and Tonic Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 HAHA! Your username is onion! I love it! indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burger Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 His actual nick name is Onion as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gené and Tonic Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Because the way he smells makes you cry? Or is there another reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burger Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 Cuz when he be a baby, he be crying like a li'l bitch, all the tiiiime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The People's Hero Posted 16 January 2006 Share Posted 16 January 2006 His actual nick name is Onion as well. I like onion. Onion should post more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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