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[davieG]

Losing 2-0

How come they, Premium TV website for a League one team can manage on line up dates

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[Father Ted]

We'll win 3-2

[harpendenfox]

Is there even a glimmer of hope anywhere in our club at the moment.

I guess this illustrates the trouble any manager will have 'moving on' players deemed surplus to requirements

[davieG]

3-0 now!

[Father Ted]

3-0 now!

I wonder if Thracian will come back and say if Kaebi was playing then we would have won.

[Manwell Pablo]

I wonder if Thracian will come back and say if Kaebi was playing then we would have won.

He'll come back yammering about Felix Bastians if he's playing.

EDIT: Just seen the teams, no wonder we're losing, their teams much stronger.

[dandannieldanok]

Looks like Neil Lennon is playing unless they have someone else with the same surname

[Manwell Pablo]

Looks like Neil Lennon is playing unless they have someone else with the same surname

No thats Neil Lennon, and Grant Holt, as I said, quite a strong team.

[Father Ted]

Looks like Neil Lennon is playing unless they have someone else with the same surname

It is Neil. It said on there site that Lennon would be facing his former side.

[Mark]

3-0? Release them all.

[Big Time Charlies]

3-0? Release them all.

Release the hounds more like

[Wilkesy]

Lost 4-0, says there unbeaten this year aswell!

[RowlattsFox]

4-0.

http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Lates...1193996,00.html

[mancunianfox]

Jimmy didn't really stand much of a chance with that 'defense' in front of him.

[Father Ted]

It sounds as though Casino Jimmy had a good game.

[Big Time Charlies]

One thing that concerns me as a Leicester Fan (and there are many things which concern me at the moment) is the appointment of Gerry Taggart as Reserve Team Manager.

Now nothing against GT, he's a Leicester City legend and all - but what the fcuk does he know about management? Call me a sceptic but I thought at the time he was brought to the club as a token gesture to appease the fans, and now we've gone and given him control of our reserve team. Surely the reserves should be under the control of the Assistant Managers?

[Staf]

I know it is only the reserves but by the sounds of it we got slaughtered

[davieG]

Taggart Out

Beaglehole IN

[MPH]

Jimmy didn't really stand much of a chance with that 'defense' in front of him.

they chucked a pack of cards up in the air behind the goal and it unsettled him....

[Tommy G]

they chucked a pack of cards up in the air behind the goal and it unsettled him....

Getting beaten by Forest is shocking at any level. Sums up LCFC at the minute. reserves can't even fookin win

[Fez of Mahrez]

Our reserve team is a mixture of seventh-choice right backs, foreign misfits and kids.

It's never going to be successful. As long as they are keeping fit ready for first-team action if called upon then I wouldn't be too concerned about losing away to a team containing a good number of first-team members.

The reserves at the moment are doing poorly because the players who would be making an impact are elsewhere being better utilised either in our first-team or on loan in the lower leagues.

[Thracian]

Our reserve team is a mixture of seventh-choice right backs, foreign misfits and kids.

It's never going to be successful. As long as they are keeping fit ready for first-team action if called upon then I wouldn't be too concerned about losing away to a team containing a good number of first-team members.

The reserves at the moment are doing poorly because the players who would be making an impact are elsewhere being better utilised either in our first-team or on loan in the lower leagues.

You'd have been concerned if you'd been there.

[ronnup]

Our reserve team is a mixture of seventh-choice right backs, foreign misfits and kids.

It's never going to be successful. As long as they are keeping fit ready for first-team action if called upon then I wouldn't be too concerned about losing away to a team containing a good number of first-team members.

The reserves at the moment are doing poorly because the players who would be making an impact are elsewhere being better utilised either in our first-team or on loan in the lower leagues.

Agree totally. We've got a first team that looks like reserves and no solid first eleven. It's comical the changes made to our first team.

[Thracian]

Nottingham Forest Reserves 4 Leicester City Reserves 0

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Two goals by Scott Dobie, one from Ben Fairclough and a final flourish from Ryan Whitehurst gave Pontins League leaders Forest a mocking 4-0 over Leicester at The City ground today in a game that said everything about City's current gloom and Forest's air of expectation.

It could have been eight or 10. City goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen made five vital saves with his feet, another couple from close range headers, the hosts had a goal disallowed and there was a goodly array of conventional misses.

Leicester did occasionally venture up to the attacking end but you could have bought and eaten a pastie outside in the intervals between and still not missed anything of significance from the visitors.

Sappleton had a long range fizzer and an effort from a cleverly worked corner which bounced off the bar. Chambers should have scored when a through ball evaded Forest's cover but he half-heartedly tapped his shot at the keeper and Craig King put in a excellent low cross near the end that would surely have brought a goal if anyone had bothered running into the area.

Otherwise, had Milan Mandaric been watching, he'd have winced at the thought of what he was paying to put on the field.

Had the coach driver seen the game you wonder if he'd have waited for the players afterwards it was that bad.

Yes Forest had a far superior team but there wasn't a phase of the game where we were better than Forest.

Fitness...no

Competitiveness...no

Speed to the ball...no

Teamwork.............no

Movement ............no

Ball control............no

Individual skills......no

Threat in the air.....no

Threat out wide.....no

Ground Passing.....no

Forest looked like silk to City's sackcloth.

There was a great example of what I mean near the end.

Forest's James Reid started a move around the left back area and quickly the ball was transferred to the right touchline. Reid, meanwhile had started sprinting towards City's penalty area...some 50-odd yards.

In no time the cross came in low from the right where Whitehurst tapped in a goal totally unmarked from somewhere around our penalty spot. Reid was right behind him, equally unmarked. No-one had made any attempt to track the runner.

The first goal had similar factors. Forest right winger Fairclough beat Joe Cobb for pace and loose marking enabled Dobie to score with a simple header. Both maker Thornhill and scorer Dobie were left unmarked for the second and Forest's third was a glorious left-wing cross by Grant Holt and unchallenged diving header from Fairclough.

Peter, Paul and Mary asked "Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? and might have made a repeat record about our defenders when they were needed.

But this wasn't all about them. Skipper Alan Maybury, who partnered Scott Garner in the centre of defence was so understandably pissed off with the lack of urgency in front of him that he offered one verbal lashing on the basis of "f....g get on with it" that could be heard in the County ground. And you could understand his frustration.

The football came from Forest, they were taller, faster, used the width of the field and ran for one another in a way Leicester were never close to matching and I didn't see much animation or verbal encouragement from the City bench to help make things better.

We looked what the result suggested - a club in desperate trouble, short of confidence, short of options, short of sufficient talent, short or urgency and desire, short of speed and, most of all, short of leadership off the pitch and inspiring examples on it.

Player ratings to come.