Ollie and his square pegs in round holes

[Ultra]

Right- I've fully made my mind up now. Hume cannot play right wing. If Ollie won't play him up front then I think it's time he should have a spell on the bench and see if Bori can do any better.

Also, in reply to Chambers being played out of position, he actually did much better than Mattock and was maybe one of our better players today. I don't know whether Clapham was on the bench or not, but he's probably not match fit anyway.

Apart from that I saw no other "square pegs in round holes".

It defies logic to play an exclusively right-footed player at left back. Several promising City attacks broke down today because Chambers was unable to use his left foot.

He's shown before he can't play in that position. Even a half-fit Clapham would have been better.

[Joe.]

It defies logic to play an exclusively right-footed player at left back. Several promising City attacks broke down today because Chambers was unable to use his left foot.

He's shown before he can't play in that position. Even a half-fit Clapham would have been better.

I doubt it very much.

OK he wasn't great, but I thought Chambers offered a lot more than Mattock on the left and was maybe one of our better players.

[Dames]

Even if its 1 or 2 players out of position it can really upset the balence of a whole team.

And with Ollie ranting and raving about how unbalenced the squad was he still has the nerve to do it.

[escape2victory]

It defies logic to play an exclusively right-footed player at left back. Several promising City attacks broke down today because Chambers was unable to use his left foot.

He's shown before he can't play in that position. Even a half-fit Clapham would have been better.

Were you saying that at Norwich when he came on and kept Croft relatively quiet ? Look, we signed Clapham on Thurs. When was the last time he played 90 minutes ? Nowhere near match fit. Mattock has been doing well recently and must have been buzzing with the under 21 call up. Stearman has been struggling all week and was a doubt for today, so Chambers was on the bench probably if Stearman broke down. But as it happened, Mattock had a mare for the goal and lost all confidence, so the manager made the decision to take him off and replace him with an experienced pro. Where is the problem there ? Did we look more likely to concede with this decision ? This isnt what cost us the game, and is a totally irrelavant topic. Something you know alot about, after reading your previous posts.

[Lillehamring]

Right- I've fully made my mind up now. Hume cannot play right wing. If Ollie won't play him up front then I think it's time he should have a spell on the bench and see if Bori can do any better.

Also, in reply to Chambers being played out of position, he actually did much better than Mattock and was maybe one of our better players today. I don't know whether Clapham was on the bench or not, but he's probably not match fit anyway.

Apart from that I saw no other "square pegs in round holes".

How about hayes on the left wing, how did he do... i got the feeling we didn't really create that many chances, even in the second half.

[Jimmy]

Wesolowski definitely travelled with the squad though. Ollie must have just seen him surplus to requirements then for this game...

Kisnorbo travelled to Norwich even though he was banned, that means nothing

[leicesterseddon]

hayles is a joke and should be forced into retirement

hume is still our most talented player going forward but can't play in a position...he just roams unproductively around the field

mcauley needs replacing...i know that's controversial but his errors are costing us games and he only knows hoof-and-run football

clapham...what is ollie thinking

this looks to be another season with no pogress

[Dames]

hayles is a joke and should be forced into retirement

hume is still our most talented player going forward but can't play in a position...he just roams unproductively around the field

mcauley needs replacing...i know that's controversial but his errors are costing us games and he only knows hoof-and-run football

clapham...what is ollie thinking

this looks to be another season with no pogress

Hayles is actually a very handy player to have and i think he's doing a good job.

Hume is only good when he's up front. Any other position and he's pretty useless.

McAuley does need dropping i agree. People have been up his bum since ipswitch came in for him but his lack of pace and tedancy to just belt it up field no matter the situation is why we are failing so badly in attack. Instead of solving this problem we went and brought a lump for him to aim at instead when we really should be working to stamp it out of his game.

Clapham has been there done that. He's here to fill in for Mattock when needed and help guide him along quite a sensible signing tbh.

[WetFlannel]

hayles is a joke and should be forced into retirement

hume is still our most talented player going forward but can't play in a position...he just roams unproductively around the field

mcauley needs replacing...i know that's controversial but his errors are costing us games and he only knows hoof-and-run football

clapham...what is ollie thinking

this looks to be another season with no pogress

1. Hayles has two goals already... thats equal with Fryatt all season

2. Clapham hasnt even played yet

[CKB]

Starting 11..

Alnwick

Stearman

Kisnorbo

McAuley

Mattock

Hume

Oakley

Clemence

Laczko

Howard

Hayles

One square peg aka Hume..

So Ollie changed some stuff at half time and my god what happened? we actually played better than the dreadful first half performance, yes overall it wasn't good enough and it still highlights the MAJOR problems Ollie has in cover, but jesus he changed some stuff around as he clearly wasn't happy with the first half performance, if he didn't people would probably be moaning that he didn't do nothing!

He took off Laczko because he's another who isn't quite fit, replaced him with Campbell went with a 4-3-3 and second half performance was better at least, it just clearly shows like i said the major lack of cover and it is a problem, i'm not gonna pull up Ollie because he put Chambers at left back jeez!

Maybe Bori isn't quite fit, language barrier, etc..

Maybe he replaced Mattock with Chambers cuz he wanted abit more direct pace, or he just wasn't impressed with Mattock?

Maybe Clapham isn't fully fit? infact not a maybe he can't be!

WHO KNOWS?

So in the end it became

Alnwick

Stearman

Kisnorbo

McAuley

Chambers

Bori

Oakley

Clemence

Campbell

Howard

Hayles

So that is still only 1 peg and that being Chambers at left back!!! yes ok it was 2 before with Hume being replaced, but hell surely it's better than when it was Kenton, Chambers, Stearman, Fryatt, Hume, Mattock, Sheenan, N'Gotty ETC, ETC! all being out of position in certain games or even all of them in a game?

So i think it is harsh to even pull up Ollie about it, he is doing his best he is trying to balance it all out but there are certain positions that are a trouble at the moment, wings and left back..and i believe he will get it sorted..HE NEEDS TIME!!!

There is one thing i am gonna say tho, i would love to know in the last hmmmm 3/4 years how many last minute/very late goals we have conceded? that have cost us a win or a draw? we must be top of the league in that one!

[CKB]

Oh and i forgot about the Hume substitution, not quite sure about that one but not gonna pull Ollie up about it either! I may pull Ollie up about things say 10/15 games into next season, at the moment i have no right to do so!

[C-man]

hayles is a joke and should be forced into retirement

What?! Baz was quality!!

Mattock was taken off 'cos he was absolutely well and truly done for the first goal, and fortheir disallowed one just before. He didn't look too bad going forward, but he really isn't a good defender.

Hume was poor again and you could make a case for him to be dropped now.

[CKB]

Mattock was taken off 'cos he was absolutely well and truly done for the first goal, and fortheir disallowed one just before. He didn't look too bad going forward, but he really isn't a good defender.

It's probably still Mattock's rawness that is the problem, he will get better and better i think but he looks very outta depth at times, i think it's abit to much for him and hence why Clapham has come in, would have perfered a better left back coming in tho! but hey ho that's life!

[termite111]

This is the reason why Leicester keep getting poor results.

Ollie is constantly moaning about having little options and players playing out of position. He gets some more options and carries on playing players totally out of position. What the hell is he doing? Anyold person would know that if a player is a right back you play him at right back, a striker, you play him up front. Ollie keeps moaning, and keeps being a hypocrit and playing players out of position, it's just baffling.

Hume was fantastic against Cov up front, his actual position, so what does Ollie do? Plays Hume right wing against Palace and he was fooking awful. We have other options now, Bori can play on both wings and was great when he came on against Palace, yet he just sits on the bench until the last 5 minutes today while Hayles and Hume play on the wings. It's just a joke

The biggest folly of Ollie's today though was left back. We have just signed the left back Clapham who was nowhere to be seen today and we obviously have Mattock, and supposedly too many left backs now so we let Shush! go out on loan.

What does Ollie do?

He puts a fooking right back in left back position. Chambers has been good this season at right back, he gets forward, and makes tackles yet he always seemed to be behind Stearman in the pecking order. Credit to Stearman who has been better recently but Chambers has been good too.

A right back at left back when we have left backs now, strikers on the wings who obviously can't play there when they are both playing well up front and we have the Hungarian wingers now.

Stop playing players out of position Ollie, or just stop moaning about square pegs in round holes when you keep hammering those pegs in!

Im starting to wonder if Ollie is right for our club now. Ill judge him after the first 10 games of next season and see where we are then, whether in league 1 or the Championship

yeah he maybe playin hume on the wing and others out of position but the fact of the matter is the 2 new hungarians ideally needed to be eased into our games. yeah they both played fantastic in the first game which prob wasn't good cause all fans now expect that very match. ollies prob trying to protect them slightly from the fans getting carried away then start getting on there backs after 5 games without a ecxellent performance like there first.

even though we've signed another 7 players we are still short in numbers. if oakley or clemence get injured we're back down to king or weso who ideally would get the odd game to develope them better than them playin and having to expect them to perform. it's not fair on the kids it could ruin there devlopment look at walcott should of stayed in championship for another season at least.

this season is still in my opinion just stay in the championship and carry on with clear out in the summer as our squad looks a whole lot better in terms of shape than it has in the past 2-3 seasons thanks to ollie.

if we had won today he would still be called our saviour but no it's one lose and lets get him out UNBELIEVABLY FICKLE but hey thats leicester city for ya

[maddog]

Putting a positive spin on todays result, we haven't moved any points closer to the relegation zone

and we have only moved 1 extra point away from the playoffs.

So if we had won we would only be 8 points behind

O well Plymouth next, a must win just for Ollie's sake.

Also if we do win, we can sing we've got Holloway at the end

Time to put this result behind us and start looking forward to the next match.

[Yaxx]

When will people face up to the fact that we're just shit, plain and simple. When we get turned over twice by the likes of Blackpool (who can't even muster a pisspoor 10,000 crowd at home) then something is drastically wrong. But we've known that for a long time. The new signings are a cut above the rest and I think given time they will start to make a difference, but I have to admit to being increasingly bemused by Holloway and his team selection/tactics. We've thrown far too many points away by playing dodgy formations and people out of position. Having said that, Holloway is as good a manager as we're likely to get and we just have to hope that long term he gets it right.

In the meantime we're in for some pretty miserable results. The team is just not good enough to win more than the odd game here and there and to think otherwise is pure folly. It's understandable that people's expectations soared after the game against Coventry, just as they did after we tubbed Watford, but Rome wasn't built in a day as they say. In fact, Rome burning as Nero fiddled is perhaps more accurate.

[Matt]

Can I just ask what gives us the right to think we should roll Blackpool over? Fair enough there not a big club, they havn't been in the Prem, e.t.c, but on the day any team can beat another, and imo it's abit disrespectful to Blackpool and such teams that some people think we have a right that we should turn up and beat them, you have to work to beat any team, and the table doesn't lie, before yesterday goal difference was all that separated Leicester and Blackpool so on current form, on this season we are no better than Blackpool, why shouldn't they beat us?

Oh yes I forget we're the mighty Leicester City That other teams should respect and we have the right to beat everyone.

Some people really do need to get the heads out there asses and take the blue tinted glasses off.

And so what if they only have 10,000 turn up to there matches?

If attendances won you matches we'd be in the top 6 for sure but we're not in the top 6 because of the players we have, Ollie has bought in some new players, I have been impressed with them but I see the rest of this season as a very long pre-season, Ollie has got a few of the footings in place to start building his team, He is trying to get them how he wants them to play, experimenting abit, in the summer i'd expect a few more players to come in, and them we can look to next season.

Of course that's what I thought this season though, was unbelievable excited about the first game of this season, just to be disappointed and realise it was another dawn of false hope.

[blackpoollad]

Thanks for sticking up for us Matt, and Yaxx the only reason we on "muster" p**s poor 10,000 attendences is because our ground only holds under 10,000. If our chairman decided to pull his finger out then im sure we would be getting in the region of about 15,000 - 17,000 week in week out, which I know does not compare to the likes of you but we dont have the biggest town in the country. Alot of teams have under estimated us this year, which has obvously backed fired, but we do get annoyed about the lack of respect we get from alot of "big" clubs fans who believe beacuse they have more supporters feel that they should be beating the "likes" of blackpool.

[potter3]

Thanks for sticking up for us Matt, and Yaxx the only reason we on "muster" p**s poor 10,000 attendences is because our ground only holds under 10,000. If our chairman decided to pull his finger out then im sure we would be getting in the region of about 15,000 - 17,000 week in week out, which I know does not compare to the likes of you but we dont have the biggest town in the country. Alot of teams have under estimated us this year, which has obvously backed fired, but we do get annoyed about the lack of respect we get from alot of "big" clubs fans who believe beacuse they have more supporters feel that they should be beating the "likes" of blackpool.

And you were the loudest home crowd I've heard all season

[Trav Le Bleu]

Missed the game entirely yesterday cos I was in Wales, but evn so I do know that,

a) Chambers is a good right back who can play left back in emergencies

b) Hume isn't a winger - he should be either up front or just behind in a central attacking midfield role.

However we are still a bit short on wing options, so...

[Simi]

What?! Baz was quality!!

Mattock was taken off 'cos he was absolutely well and truly done for the first goal, and fortheir disallowed one just before. He didn't look too bad going forward, but he really isn't a good defender.

Hume was poor again and you could make a case for him to be dropped now.

Every week it seems now that Mattock is being taken apart. Why are we still playing him? He may have improved going forward, but of late is all I've seen is that he's at fault.

I can only hope that Clapham is going to be a half decent player to increase competition at left back, or we still have a big problem.

As for Hume, it's simply not working playing him wide right, too many times he's drifting out of games and not offering us a wide outlet. Whatever the problems are with Bori, the sooner they are sorted the better.

[Uncle Albert]

Every week it seems now that Mattock is being taken apart. Why are we still playing him? He may have improved going forward, but of late is all I've seen is that he's at fault.

I can only hope that Clapham is going to be a half decent player to increase competition at left back, or we still have a big problem.

As for Hume, it's simply not working playing him wide right, too many times he's drifting out of games and not offering us a wide outlet. Whatever the problems are with Bori, the sooner they are sorted the better.

Because he is a good young player, getting called up for the Under 21's shows that. He is was one of our best players against Palace on Monday.

I agree with you about Hume, I think he needs a bit of time out of the team. Bori in for him and Hayles and Howard up front.

[Bert]

Every week it seems now that Mattock is being taken apart. Why are we still playing him? He may have improved going forward, but of late is all I've seen is that he's at fault.

I can only hope that Clapham is going to be a half decent player to increase competition at left back, or we still have a big problem.

As for Hume, it's simply not working playing him wide right, too many times he's drifting out of games and not offering us a wide outlet. Whatever the problems are with Bori, the sooner they are sorted the better.

Clapham is a pro whose been there and done a solid championship player. Mattock will learn a fair bit from him, as like you say he's getting turned inside out most weeks.

I think with Hume, Ollie doesn't want to drop him, but with Hayles being one of our better performers these past few games, i can see why he's in the starting eleven, even more so after yesterday.

When Bori's English is better i think he'll get a run, maybe even try him on the left and give Lazcko a rest.

[Simi]

Because he is a good young player, getting called up for the Under 21's shows that. He is was one of our best players against Palace on Monday.

I agree with you about Hume, I think he needs a bit of time out of the team. Bori in for him and Hayles and Howard up front.

He is a good young player yes, but surely you can see in recent weeks he has been exposed defensively, it's not the first time it's happened.

Clapham is a pro whose been there and done a solid championship player. Mattock will learn a fair bit from him, as like you say he's getting turned inside out most weeks.

I think with Hume, Ollie doesn't want to drop him, but with Hayles being one of our better performers these past few games, i can see why he's in the starting eleven, even more so after yesterday.

When Bori's English is better i think he'll get a run, maybe even try him on the left and give Lazcko a rest.

You might be right mate. If that's the case I hope Ollie doesn't carry it on for too much longer. I don't think he can argue to much that Hume has played well on the right. He said himself that he likes him up front with Howard.

Hayles has done well lately, but I'd rather see him coming off the bench as an impact player. For me, Howard needs a partner with pace.

[Father Ted]

Clapham is a pro whose been there and done a solid championship player. Mattock will learn a fair bit from him, as like you say he's getting turned inside out most weeks.

I think with Hume, Ollie doesn't want to drop him, but with Hayles being one of our better performers these past few games, i can see why he's in the starting eleven, even more so after yesterday.

When Bori's English is better i think he'll get a run, maybe even try him on the left and give Lazcko a rest.

I totally agree with that apart from what you say about Hayles being one of out best performers of late. He was shocking against Palace and scored the flukiest goal I've ever seen, the goal just about summing up his day. He is a useful part of the squad but my God he has no skill.