Scunthorpe 0-0 Leicester - Post match reaction

[maddog]

FOOKING CRAP LINEMAN COST US 2 POINTS Good game plan by Megson and we should had won, but Fryatt missing a great chance. Stearman and Newton fooking useless. We need a striker who can score. DJ useless.

newton wasn't useless what game were you watching? he was the only player trying to attack, one of the better performers today.

yes Stearman was shit get Kaebi in, Fatty Fryatt was lazy, weak, slow, always offside, shit etc. Didn't even have his good finishing today. Dj needs to start matches and get games and he will start scoring.

[Joe.]

newton wasn't useless what game were you watching? he was the only player trying to attack and in my view one of the better performers today.

What game were you watching?

[filbertway]

newton wasn't useless what game were you watching? he was the only player trying to attack, one of the better performers today.

lol

Did you blink every time he lost the ball.

Any fooker can try and run forwards, it doesn't make you a good player.

[Simi]

newton wasn't useless what game were you watching? he was the only player trying to attack and in my view one of the better performers today.

So you still have them blinkers on then?

Newton was nothing more than average today, he would be nowhere near my preferred midfield at the moment.

[maddog]

Edited it, i still think Newton was good, maybe i did blink at the wrong time

[Joe.]

Edited it, i still think Newton was good, maybe i did blink at the wrong time

I just think your eyes were permanently shut.

[ASH17LCFC]

newton wasn't useless what game were you watching? he was the only player trying to attack, one of the better performers today.

The thing what pissed me really off about Newton, was that we had a free kick in a good position and for some reason it got passed to Newton on the wing and he didn't even try to take his man on and loss it. Fooking useless plank he is.

[maddog]

i didn't notice Newton doing anything wrong, maybe cos hes usually really shit and today just average. I did notice Stearman playing absolutely awful, Sheehan is shit coky twat, Fulop was good, Fryatt has nothing but good finishing which he didn't have today, overweight, slow, weak, useless, Campbell wasn't given enough time, Hume battled well never should have got sent off, Clemence is the only player in our team who can play a simple pass along the floor to one of our players, a few yards away, weso looked good when he came on, Chambers did ok, some good moves some bad, Kisnorbo scored a nice goal, N Gotty solid as ever. Megson was a bit weird possibly going to Bolton, i mean hopefully going to Bolton, he should have made his subs way earlier in the game.

[Micky Ruddle]

Were those officials from S****horpe?

More than likely. Certainly had it in for Hume and Fryatt.

I'm gonna post the Great Escape video on YouTube for thou to see. Would you be interested in watching?

[Ultra]

A dreadful game. I don't think I've EVER seen a City midfield create as little as ours did today.

A couple of key decisions went against us but you couldn't say we deserved to win.

We seem to have accepted our position as a lower-mid-table Championship club.

[escape2victory]

3-5-2 i like and think is the way forward. However we need to change some of the personel within this system to give us more balance. Desperately need a target man and someone who can play left wing back, and judging by some of the transfer rumours this week, these are also areas which Megson is looking to strengthen, which is reasuring. Ive never seen Ka'abi play so carnt comment too much but surely he is tailor made for the right wing back slot. Yes Stearman is dependable and good defensively, but everytime he got the ball tonight he checked back and offered very little going forward. Also the midfield three needs more creativity. Would love to see Hume in the hole behind a front two with Clemence and Wesolowski backing him up. Dunno maybe this is all bollox and we would get overrun with this team, but carnt help feel it would give us greater attacking balance.

[Jonbluefox9]

The only way we looked like scoring was from set pieces or mistakes by the opposition. Kisnorbo's disallowed goal came from a set piece iirc and Fryatt was one-on-one with the 'keeper due to a hesitation in the S****horpe defence from what I could see. We need at least one creative midfielder out of the three man midfield if 5-3-2's going to make us successful because while one point away from home isn't a disaster, draws at home too will lead to mid-table at the most. There's just not enough attacking threat from a midfield three of Newton, Chambers and Clemence or even a midfield three containing Wesolowski in place of one of them.

[Geo V]

It is tiresome football to watch but we looked really solid at the back and gave them nothing, making them look really poor. I still felt that we could have lost one of if not both Newton and Chambers from midfield for creative midfielders. I don't think they did anything special defensively. We had the best chances and a perfectly well taken goal disallowed so their were pluses to the game but I like Im sure many others are hoping for some creativity.

[Dames]

That goal was not offside. Beagrie is a w*nker.

It just wasn't our day today as usual we get the inept referees.

I don't think the Football League likes us.

[Geo V]

One other thing about today that I didnt get was why we kept on punting the ball up towards two smallish strikers?! The way we play is making them look bad because we are not playing to their strengths.

[Jordan]

The defense was, awesome today, but with this system, they had to be because Leicester made no effort to keep any sort of possession. At first, I was shocked to see how far back the midfield was playing, but with this system, they weren't going to be much use with the ball anyway. The game plan was simple enough:

1) Load up on the defense and strangle them on the wings and 18-40 yards away from goal; S****horpe's midfield is good enough to make tidy passes and keep control, but not good enough to deliver a killer final ball under pressure... not that their forwards were going to get past an excellent back three and Fulop to find those balls anyway. This part worked out beautifully.

2) Don't worry about possession; just launch the ball as far as possible, and maybe it'll take a good bounce or a forward will win a free kick or a deep throw in. A few problems, though: Hume is 3 ft 6 in and Fryatt had a bit too much to drink on Friday night, and even with the later kick-off, he still couldn't sleep off his hangover. If either of them did control the ball, though, the midfield was waiting 50 yards behind them because of Game Plan Part 1.

Lots of people talk about "width" and play on the "flanks" all of the time without really knowing what they're talking about, but Leicester aren't going to be a good counterattacking team unless they've got fast wingers who can run all day. Perhaps they're not concerned with that at all, but just hoping for a set piece chance or two might work sometimes, but it's a shallow offensive strategy.

It really was a boring game. As a human who likes some form of fun entertainment sometime, well, let's just say that if it weren't for my strong attachment for Leicester City Football Club, I might have spaced out during a few portions of the game. Perhaps watching a 0-0 snoozer alone while hundreds of Man U fans were singing stupid joy-and-alcohol-fueled songs about Ole Gunnar fooking Solskjaer as their team laughed their way past Aston Villa made me a bit envious...

But don't get me wrong--I'm happy with the way the defense played, and if they would have walked away with a 1-0 win on either the Kisnorbo goal or Fryatt's great chance, I'd have been ecstatic. But as it were, (and even though chances to watch Leicester are few and far between) the game and its result became simply a decent part of my nice day out.

(edited b/c I have OCD)

[Thracian]

**** off linesmen and referees.

1. Hume's sending off was extremely harsh, I'm not even sure whether the final nail in his coffin was even a free kick.

2. That bloody disallowed goal. He was clearly onside. From the linesman's point of view it was hard to tell and I understand that but surely video evidence is required to help linesmen in situations like that? He clearly had no idea whatsoever if Kisnorbo was offside or not. Basically it's cost us 2 points, very pissed off.

3. Matty Fryatt! I'd expect him to bury chances like that

4. We desperately need proper wing backs. I'm definitely not a fan of Stearman and Sheehan playing there for good.

Why call Stearman and Sheehan for clearly following their intructions? Scunny have failed to score four times in 50 matches and our first aim was not to score. Defensively we were outstanding, restricting a dangerous side attacking-wise to the very minimum of shots and perhaps one real chance.

This without much of our first choice midfield.

[He's not bald]

Why call Stearman and Sheehan for clearly following their intructions? Scunny have failed to score four times in 50 matches and our first aim was not to score. Defensively we were outstanding, restricting a dangerous side attacking-wise to the very minimum of shots and perhaps one real chance.

This without much of our first choice midfield.

What a great advert for Championship football that game was,Tuesday is bound to be a sell out now! Anyway I'm off to Bolton to listen to what a collective sigh of relief sounds llike

[Guest]

I saw you before kick off, with Sir Fynwy !

I tried to lose him as well.

[Simi]

That goal was not offside. Beagrie is a w*nker.

It just wasn't our day today as usual we get the inept referees.

I don't think the Football League likes us.

Don't forget he used to play for Scunny.

[Candidcamera]

I say leave the back 3/5 alone and concentrate on the rest. The two wing backs are young and need time. The only 2 others that pick themselves are Clemence and Hume.

[MPH]

well if signing fulop permanently doesnt quite work, we could always get Phil Neville in goal..... seems to know what he is doing as a gk... bloody good save it was too..

[l444ry]

Can't see why all the negativity. City have come on a bomb since Megson took over. Rome wasn't built in a day but the green shoots are there for all to see, unless you are Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder. The organisation of the side was the best I've witnessed since O'Neill's days and if Megson can get in a striker who can hold the ball up then the attacking aspect of the side will improve markedly.

In previous seasons had City had been reduced to ten men away from home, they would probably have lost with a whimper. Yesterday, they never even looked like getting beaten. This is certainly the most positive I've felt about the team for ages. When Leicester put a few three pointers on the board these draws will look a lot better than at the present, and more in context with the overall improvement being made.

[Flynny]

I'm going to sort of repeat what I said in the 'meanest defence' thread, namely:

The system and Megson aren't the problem, it's our lack of quality and intelligence in midfield. The midfield are trying to play short, quick passes, which isn't what we need.

We don't need a big man to hold up play at the top of the pitch, we need the ball to stay in midfield longer. This gives the wing-backs time to bomb down the flanks, and the strikers time to move and attempt to get in behind, which equals options. Which are what we're lacking every time the ball comes into space, because we're trying to play shortish and quickly. Too quickly.

I'd like to see a midfielder take some responsibility, move into space with the ball, find another midfielder with a pass, who then slots it either to a striker or a wing-back making a run. By this point we should have men up the pitch.

I honestly think this is ALL we need to do. Everything else looks fine.

How many times did we have options when the ball was in midfield yesterday? How many through-balls into space that Fryatt hasn't got the pace to run onto did we play? How many times did we only have one other player ahead of the ball with all four Scunny defenders still back?

[Simon]

I'm going to sort of repeat what I said in the 'meanest defence' thread, namely:

The system and Megson aren't the problem, it's our lack of quality and intelligence in midfield. The midfield are trying to play short, quick passes, which isn't what we need.

We don't need a big man to hold up play at the top of the pitch, we need the ball to stay in midfield longer. This gives the wing-backs time to bomb down the flanks, and the strikers time to move and attempt to get in behind, which equals options. Which are what we're lacking every time the ball comes into space, because we're trying to play shortish and quickly. Too quickly.

I'd like to see a midfielder take some responsibility, move into space with the ball, find another midfielder with a pass, who then slots it either to a striker or a wing-back making a run. By this point we should have men up the pitch.

I honestly think this is ALL we need to do. Everything else looks fine.

How many times did we have options when the ball was in midfield yesterday? How many through-balls into space that Fryatt hasn't got the pace to run onto did we play? How many times did we only have one other player ahead of the ball with all four Scunny defenders still back?

Nail. Head. Hitteth.