Does it need to get worse before it gets better?

[Monk]

I'd just searched for 'Monk' to see what I had posted. Most of it was utter drivel of course but although the thread itself isn't that interesting the fact that we were asking such a question then, and looking back at the past 12 months. I think the question should have read 'Will it get more ridiculous and embarrasing before it gets better'.

[Daggers]

Same here. Usually if there's an old thread to be dug up, i'll feature in it looking at men's helmets.

Like the tool I'll feel ... in a few years time!

I blame the continuing camping up of national television for the random outbreaks of rampant gayness in these forums.

I am pleased for you chaps - but there is a time and a place and this thread is not it.

[Ric Flair]

I blame the continuing camping up of national television for the random outbreaks of rampant gayness in these forums.

I am pleased for you chaps - but there is a time and a place and this thread is not it.

Pigs in Blankets, that's what's caused this.

[Daggers]

I feel cheated because I thought BF had returned to posting and to be roundly mocked.

He's a big chicken.

*cluck* *cluck* *cluck* *cluck* *cluck*

Yea! That's right BF - a big Scotch chicken.

[ronnup]

I blame the French.

And the parents.

And Thatcher.

[colbo68]

In some ways...

I cannot bring myself to wish a bad result never mind a bad time on anyone but any optimism I get about Leicester get's washed over by despair because our team never looks to be blended.

You cannot watch Leicester and think "you can see what he's trying to do."

It's there in our other teams but the first team seem to be a jumble. Youthful parts, older parts but no unity, no pattern of play, no joy.

Our team is disjointed. Players stand in a position waiting rather than moving and making things happen.

Levi adds a bit of buzz on the ball but generally there's no instinctive football, nothing that smacks of a statement being made.

There's too many players who don't do much wrong but don't do much right either. It's almost pure communism. Almost as if everyone is equal and no-one more equal than others.

The forwards are equal. The defenders are equal. And the Berlin Wall's been relocated to run between the two.

And Kelly's a mirror image of his players.

He doesn't do too much wrong considering his circumstances. But since we escaped relegation - which was never pretty, he's not done much right either.

His signings aren't hopeless. But they're not good either - and no better than what we had.

His teams pick up a point a game - dead average.

His players are consistent enough - consistently ordinary.

His selections - consistently ordinary and unimaginative.

His substitutes - the same. Sylla instead of Dodds at Hereford was typical.

His pre-match routines. Always the same from what I see.

And the atmosphere - neutral to disappointed. Rarely ecstatic.

The phrase putting a man out of his misery comes to mind but when I think that I also think RK's quite intelligent. Everyone says he's a good coach. A good bloke. The guy who saved us from relegation. He deserves a fair chance. And who can argue?.

But then he picks another team and even before the kick-off I'm utterly flustrated. it's a Jack of All Trades team. It won't disgrace. It won't excite. In all probability it will draw.

And I say to Rob.

For God's sake don't do an Eriksson.

For God's sake don't lose your job for the want of having the bottle to attack with your head but most of all with your heart.

Don't draw or lose when you could so easily have picked the best players - and won.

As usual I agree with the bulk of what Thracian says - however, I must argue with the issue of 'atmosphere' - its usually pretty crap at home, I concur, in fact there are very few home games I have been to where the atmosphere has been rocking (with the exception of the Watford game). However, the away games are a different matter! Norwich last weekend was great fun, loads of singing, packed house (their largest of the season) and we came away thinking "yes we were lucky to draw", but that we had had a good time and could actually have sneaked a victory - compare that to earlier away games (eg. Sheff Wednesday) and I believe that the Leicester fans are now actually more in tune with the players and are beginning to like Ollie. I have consistently been dismayed at the performance of the club over the past few seasons but am now sensing a renewed hope.

[lavrentis]

As usual I agree with the bulk of what Thracian says - however, I must argue with the issue of 'atmosphere' - its usually pretty crap at home, I concur, in fact there are very few home games I have been to where the atmosphere has been rocking (with the exception of the Watford game). However, the away games are a different matter! Norwich last weekend was great fun, loads of singing, packed house (their largest of the season) and we came away thinking "yes we were lucky to draw", but that we had had a good time and could actually have sneaked a victory - compare that to earlier away games (eg. Sheff Wednesday) and I believe that the Leicester fans are now actually more in tune with the players and are beginning to like Ollie. I have consistently been dismayed at the performance of the club over the past few seasons but am now sensing a renewed hope.

Good post! Agree

[Dowlingontheball]

Ill tell you something, leciester city need to crush crystal palace like they did to Watford in august.

LEICESTER WIN ONE FOR YOUR COUNTY.

[Sods]

As usual I agree with the bulk of what Thracian says - however, I must argue with the issue of 'atmosphere' - its usually pretty crap at home, I concur, in fact there are very few home games I have been to where the atmosphere has been rocking (with the exception of the Watford game). However, the away games are a different matter! Norwich last weekend was great fun, loads of singing, packed house (their largest of the season) and we came away thinking "yes we were lucky to draw", but that we had had a good time and could actually have sneaked a victory - compare that to earlier away games (eg. Sheff Wednesday) and I believe that the Leicester fans are now actually more in tune with the players and are beginning to like Ollie. I have consistently been dismayed at the performance of the club over the past few seasons but am now sensing a renewed hope.

It took you a year and a half to agree

[Daggers]

As usual I agree with the bulk of what Thracian says

Well there's usually a bulk of it to agree or disagree with