Head Honcho Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Yet again MM leaves me totally underwhelmed but I'm gonna give GM my full support.... ......................well at least until the first home defeat Good Luck Gary.
Tevez Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 MEADWELL ARE YOU LISTENING JUST KEEP KEEGAN GLISTENING WE MIGHT BE BACK IN MAY, TO TAKE HIM AWAY WALKING IN A MANDARIC WONDERLAND.
Raj Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Does it not stress you out that even if we are succesful the football we watch every week will still be sh!t?I don't know if I am the only one with this view but i would rather really enjoy my football & be in league one than it be a painful experience but we get into the premiership. Id sooner be winning 1-0 in a shit game than lose 4-2 in an entertaining one with great football. Are you sure you'd enjoy your football in League One? Perhaps you should have a word with the Leeds/Forest fans and tell them it's much better where they are instaed of trying to get promotion!!! Yeah i can imagine the scene in L1.... Afre 15 games of entertaining football with no wins- " come on lads we are losing 3-1 again but what great football!!!"
Matt Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Id sooner be winning 1-0 in a shit game than lose 4-2 in an entertaining one with great football.Are you sure you'd enjoy your football in League One? Perhaps you should have a word with the Leeds/Forest fans and tell them it's much better where they are instaed of trying to get promotion!!! Yeah i can imagine the scene in L1.... Afre 15 games of entertaining football with no wins- " come on lads we are losing 3-1 again but what great football!!!" Exactly when we were being relegated from the Premiership one of the times (Not sure which, maybe all of them) people just kept saying to me "Yeah but at least when your in Division 1 you'll be playing well and winning more games" Rightio
Thracian Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Id sooner be winning 1-0 in a shit game than lose 4-2 in an entertaining one with great football.Are you sure you'd enjoy your football in League One? Perhaps you should have a word with the Leeds/Forest fans and tell them it's much better where they are instaed of trying to get promotion!!! Yeah i can imagine the scene in L1.... Afre 15 games of entertaining football with no wins- " come on lads we are losing 3-1 again but what great football!!!" The old argument that perpetuates the approach. Why in these examples don't we ever win 4-2? Oer would you perhaps rather draw that 1-0 game 1-1 because you sat back for the last 15 minutes when you didn't need to and gave the opposition a chance they didn't deserve? Look at most teams that win things. They score 70-100 goals which doesn't represent many 1-0's. Do you drive your car with the brake on?
Raj Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 The old argument that perpetuates the approach. Why in these examples don't we ever win 4-2? Because we dont have the players good enough. Plain and simple!
Bert Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!From a 100 percent Sky Blues fan, I wish you the very best with this superb manager in charge. He is very well suited to be Manager of Leicester City. Well when you go into administration and get a 15 point deduction we'll be the one's going "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" because you'll be 15 points behind the rest of us. Now, hadn't you better get back to servicing your mum? Or is that your auntie?
reynard Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Because we dont have the players good enough.Plain and simple! But we don't have the players good enough to get 1-0 results and as Megson doesn't know how to get a team to score more than once we could lose a lot of games.
Raj Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 But we don't have the players good enough to get 1-0 results and as Megson doesn't know how to get a team to score more than once we could lose a lot of games. Is that fact?
Ultra Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Commiserations - and that's from a Forest fan. Get ready for sterile, long ball football and a tactically inept defensive mindset. Even if Megson IS successful, it'll be so painful to watch. Mind you, with that megalomaniac Mandaric he'll be lucky to last until Christmas ! What is it four managers in 2007 (to date) ? I remember that carrot top playing six defenders against [then] Conference South Weymouth ! Mind you, Colin Calderwood isn't much better - another defence minded tinkerer.On the plus side [for you] he has much to prove and will be well motivated. Further, his actual signings overall weren't bad, it's just that he was unable to motivate any of them ! Interesting times ahead. Oh and for a Forest perspective on the City - Trees unrequited 'rivalry' see http://leftleaningpolitics.blogspot.com/20...cester-and.html . I would add, in fairness, that your visit brings out a fair share of Red nutters too - not just your thuggish fringe. I'm waiting for the abuse, but have tried to post in a non-sectarian way.... still the excitement of the CC Round 2 is underwhelming for me, if not for you Foxes. Hiya Tricky Tree! Never thought I'd see the day - in more senses than one. You and I have been to enough City-Forest matches to know that the myth of "unrequited" rivalry is precisely that - a myth. The red "nutters" aren't normally active at the City Ground - only when we and Derby visit. And the abuse towards me and other City fans on other message boards (most notably on 606 during our last Premiership season) suggests that many trees are more ill-disposed towards us than you suggest. Thanks for the advice on here about Megson, but if I were you I'd focus on your own club and its current battle to avoid falling into the fourth division...
reynard Posted 13 September 2007 Posted 13 September 2007 Is that fact? Not exactly though in their promotion season they scored 61 goals and conceded 29. away from home they scored 25 in 23 so that is 36 at home. not exactly exciting but then if it gets us up we wont mind.
boneman Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 Okay, on the positive note. He did bring promotion for boing boing Baggies. But he did it with the most dreadful and ugliest football ever, something like 19 or 20 one-nil wins. But still, this is bad. It really is bad. Checked the stats... 2003-2004 Season 1-0 wins (7) 2-0 wins (5) 3-0 wins (3) 4-0 wins (1) 2-1 wins (7) 3-1 wins (1) 4-1 wins (2) 3-2 wins (1) 4-3 wins (1) They did have 3 losses to finish the season, but overall I would say fair results , lets give the ginger a go
boneman Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 The Megson era (2000 - 2004) Towards the end of 1999, dissatisfaction with the commercial management of the club led Paul Thompson, the principal financial backer, to challenge the chairmanship of Tony Hale. By early 2000, Thompson was chairman and set about reforming the club's finances and arresting the team's decline back towards the Second Division. Gary Megson arived as manager on March 11, 2000 and saved the club from relegation by a crucial win on the final day of the season. The 2000/2001 season saw the club in the First Division play-offs and, the following season, promoted to the FA Premier League for the first time. The promotion was won on the last day of the season, after a dramatic run-in that included the notorious Battle of Bramall Lane. The team displaced bitter local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the promotion places, their 10 point lead having been overturned in the final 10 games. However, the promotion had been largely unanticipated by the club and forward planning had been limited. Moreover, immediately following promotion, a bitter quarrel developed between Thompson and Megson. There ensued a boardroom battle in which Jeremy Peace finally emerged as chairman but much vital time had been lost in building a team for the Premiership campaign. Moreover, a dispute with the players arose when Peace sort to renegotiate personal contracts which he belived to be financially imprudent. Unsurprisingly, the club was relegated in 2003 but, unlike so many in a similar position, with sound finances on which to build a team for a further campaign. On April 24, 2004 the club secured promotion back to the Premiership with four games of the season still to play. However, the club's 2004-05 season started poorly. After informing the board that he would not re-sign with the club beyond the end of the season, Megson was dismissed on October 26, 2004. Mmmmm...if Megson's not a yes man who can see this happening again, oh deja vu
Leicester Rule! Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 View From WBA Fan : Great manager. At our place he started to think he was running the club though, lost the dressing room and it was time to go. 5 great years, took the club from nothing to a premiership/championship yo-yo team View From Forest Fan : Forest were being run by vastly overpaid and largely talent free players. Megson came in and tried to show them who was boss. This was ultimatley his downfall as they stopped playing for him. As a fan though I liked the thought of him abusing Johnson, Rogers, Gerrard etc. Near the end of his tenure though he said how Forest could field two 11 a side teams that were of the same (mediocre) standard. This meant that the 13 players he had signed were no better than the clowns he inherited.
Claymore Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 From a Leicester Fan. Lets face it, he was not most peoples 1st choice of manager; definitely not mine. But he is here now and as a Leicester fan I will back him. I am not looking forward to what most people think will be dreary football, but until we actually see what he will deliver, there is no point in castigating him. None of us know whether he is the new MON or the new Taylor, but until we have given him a decent amount of time to find out, he has my full backing. And yes I will, unlike some on this forum, sing his name on Saturday. Not because I am sycophanic, not because I like him even, but because he is OUR manager and giving him support can only help him and OUR team.
BigGibbo Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 Id sooner be winning 1-0 in a shit game than lose 4-2 in an entertaining one with great football.Are you sure you'd enjoy your football in League One? Perhaps you should have a word with the Leeds/Forest fans and tell them it's much better where they are instaed of trying to get promotion!!! Yeah i can imagine the scene in L1.... Afre 15 games of entertaining football with no wins- " come on lads we are losing 3-1 again but what great football!!!" Yes saying i'd rather be in league one was an exaggeration but if we were playing exciting football we wouldn't be losing every match, just the odd game we would of drawn we may lose but it evens itself out by getting some wins you wouldn't have got before. Like Keegan when he took man city up which is why Keegan was an exciting idea for me!
BigGibbo Posted 14 September 2007 Posted 14 September 2007 Is that fact? 64 goals in his most succesful season automatic promotion from the championship so us season ticket holders will be very lucky to see much more than a one goal a match average. And as for seeing 4-1 again i doubt it because at 2-1 Megsons usual tactic is to switch to a 6-3-1 formation i don't know about you but that depresses me!
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