Chromophobia Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 It's a total double-edged sword situation. I think we will gain a bit of respect as a club if we keep holloway, and to be fair there's no reason why anyone else would do a better job of getting us out of league 1 really. He needs to put some faith in the young players though, if he sticks with the carthorses, depending on wether they stay or not, it'll be infuriating.
Dames Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Rumour has it that he's staying. And he's already started planning his pre-season.
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Rumour has it that he's staying.And he's already started planning his pre-season. Ollie's Army!
ribber Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 He has no man management skills and spends all his time belittling the players and trying his comedy routine for the press. I cant see why anyone would want him near the team after his failure to motivate them at home against S Wed. A game that would have probably saved our season. I mean, come on, how could the team not be up for that match? He has to be sacked! I believe he lost the dressing room very soon after joining us and managed to demotivate the players he later signed. Its nothing personal Ian, you are just a sh*t manager! Please go!!
Father Ted Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Ollie's Army! For god sake! You made a topic saying why he should go! Why don't you give us some reasons why he should stay!
LE5 Chris Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 We need to rebuild the squad yet again, and given his transfer dealings in January I don't trust him to do that. Plus I can't get over the fact he is the only man to have taken us down to the third tier - sorry Ollie, thanks but no thanks.
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 For god sake! You made a topic saying why he should go! Why don't you give us some reasons why he should stay! Try reading the thread I made, I think it is self-explanatory. Feel free to place a considered response in it
Thracian Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Haven't you done enough damage IH?. Sod off somewhere you can play as many has-beens and loanees as you like.
Benji Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 My biggest problem is the pressure he'll be under from game 1. While I want him to stay, i think if he does he'll feel the heat which will FORCE him into fielding has-beens and players with a good 'reputation' in the hope that they'll be markedly better than the league below. Then of course we'll not get any sight of the promising youngsters such as gradel and others which could be a big big mistake and even if we did go straight back up, be a quick fix solution making us a league 1/championship yoyo team.
Father Ted Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Haven't you done enough damage IH?. Sod off somewhere you can play as many has-beens and loanees as you like. Yes You couldn't have put it any better! Although, personally I think everyone hates Holloway and wants him gone so that we can get Thracian in as manager!
Warbo666 Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 i'm sorry people, but holloway has done everything possible i think, we had 2nd best defensive record in the league.... but we cant score goals... hume was the only one who was scoring, and we had fryatt who wasnt scoring, DJ campbell again not scoring... so what did ian do? brought in 2 strikers who have been more than capable of scoring goals in this league and should have scored them.... Hayles, scored hatfuls of goals previous season... didnt do bugger all this season, howard, only scored like 4 goals for us this season?... again scored more previous season... so to focus on one player, hayles, no way would ian have treated him/trained him differently to how he was when he was at plymouth, yet he didnt do the business for us, and why? because there are players lacking in team effort , and compassion for the club, to be honest, i thought howard and hayles were flops yes, but Holloway was trying to loosen the plug on our goal drought with proven goalscorers who didnt do the business. people forget that its the players who are out on the pitch, not the manager, and Holloway is one of those managers who would love to be on that pitch himself. So cut the guy some slack, he went to a team that had some terrible players/signings, players who only look for their next wage packet. I think he should be given the chance to get us back up, we need consistency with a manager, i've had enough of leicester constantly messign the team around with cutting managers out. Holloway, I look forward to seeing you manager leicester on a promotion double to the premiership. BLUE ARMY! BLUE ARMY! BLUE ARMY!
DanTheFox07 Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 Everyone still goes on about getting rid of holloway....! who will we get in that will do such a good job to vindicate sacking him? ur all saying get rid and then coming up with no alternatives for the job! Davies - not good enough for derby in the prem so y us? Dowie - Did very poorly at charlton in prem and over achieved when in charge at cov I don`t rate him, infact the only person i would settle for if Holloway goes is Paul Ince he has a big future in the game! spent 160.000 to get Mk Dons promoted says a lot, i sense he is a big motivator which looking at our team is what we need. All this said I Think Holloway could well stay at the club and surprise a lot of you, oh and also not sure what to make of this and if anyone else has already posted on it? but read an article in daily mail saying that only him and his scout have been summoned to the meeting on mon? so does this mean they will be setting transfer targets and deciding who is released with Mandaric telling holloway his job is safe but results must improve? seem`s strange that the rest of the management under holloway wouldnt all get called in to be sacked, but well soon find out.
DanTheFox07 Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 i'm sorry people, but holloway has done everything possible i think,we had 2nd best defensive record in the league.... but we cant score goals... hume was the only one who was scoring, and we had fryatt who wasnt scoring, DJ campbell again not scoring... so what did ian do? brought in 2 strikers who have been more than capable of scoring goals in this league and should have scored them.... Hayles, scored hatfuls of goals previous season... didnt do bugger all this season, howard, only scored like 4 goals for us this season?... again scored more previous season... so to focus on one player, hayles, no way would ian have treated him/trained him differently to how he was when he was at plymouth, yet he didnt do the business for us, and why? because there are players lacking in team effort , and compassion for the club, to be honest, i thought howard and hayles were flops yes, but Holloway was trying to loosen the plug on our goal drought with proven goalscorers who didnt do the business. people forget that its the players who are out on the pitch, not the manager, and Holloway is one of those managers who would love to be on that pitch himself. So cut the guy some slack, he went to a team that had some terrible players/signings, players who only look for their next wage packet. I think he should be given the chance to get us back up, we need consistency with a manager, i've had enough of leicester constantly messign the team around with cutting managers out. Holloway, I look forward to seeing you manager leicester on a promotion double to the premiership. BLUE ARMY! BLUE ARMY! BLUE ARMY! Im with you mate, seem`s some people wanna blame him for all our problems and make him the scapegoat for relegation! but u hit the nail on the head it`s the players at the club......simply arent good enough and he hasn`t had enough time to make the changes hed like. Weve had a losing mentaility as a club for a long time but its all holloway`s fault that? people need to wake up and smell the coffee and realise that sacking this guy is a step back not forward.
TrickyTrev Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 It's always the team with the worst spirit and fight that goes down Or the team set up least likely to win football matches? Perhaps one with two donkeys upfront? To the previous but one poster. The reason Barry Hayles didn't bag a hatful is that he is old and slow, he has never been any good but used to be a nuisance, now he is just shit. Anyone can see that after 5 minutes of watching him play, Mr. Holloway however decided to persist with him over the man that has scored the goals to keep us up over the previous 2 seasons. Steve Howard didn't score any goals because he is a limited footballer. If you supply him with chances in the box he is good in the air and a reasonable finisher. He has however played most of his career in lower league football for a reason. Spending 1.5 million on him as a 30 year old was a bonkers decision, we could have brought ina much better player for that sort of money, but then not playing to his strengths was criminal. The players under performed. But Holloway made soem dreadful errors. I doubt he even realises it.
Trumpet Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 'He knows the Squad' - What sort of a reason is that for keeping him? He knew them and got them relegated.'Desparate to rectify the situation' - I bet he is on his wages, better than being unemployed. Get rid of Crusty the Clown the big useless stiff! Please don't let us reward failure! If he got the sack, he'd be paid off. 2 years? wages. No work.
davieG Posted 11 May 2008 Author Posted 11 May 2008 If he got the sack, he'd be paid off. 2 years? wages. No work. Well we don't know that do we, there may be a clause in his contract that say's if you get relegated you get FA, Milan may have learnt a thing or two by now.
Trumpet Posted 11 May 2008 Posted 11 May 2008 Well we don't know that do we, there may be a clause in his contract that say's if you get relegated you get FA, Milan may have learnt a thing or two by now. I doubt that very much!
Ric Flair Posted 12 May 2008 Posted 12 May 2008 Dreadful article, i'm not even sure why he has agreed to this interview. He's only done it to save some face when he get's the sack because I don't even think he really thinks he can do the job or even want to do the job. He's officially the worst manager at this club in 124 years if you go by records and stats and it's hard to battle on with that around your neck. I crave stability and seeing my team piece together a successful team and spirit, but stability can only be created if the men involved are capable in the right environment and sadly Holloway isn't at Leicester. Time for him to move on and prove he is a medicore lower league manager on a smaller scale, like the other sack full we've had in recent years.
Ashley Posted 12 May 2008 Posted 12 May 2008 I hope Ollie keeps his job. All we need is another Manager. And all we need is to pay off another managers wages.
morris1234 Posted 12 May 2008 Posted 12 May 2008 GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GET US BACK UP - OLLIE CITY NEWS BY ANDY MANN WWW.THEBLUEARMY.CO.UK 08:30 - 10 May 2008 Ian Holloway will appeal for the chance to lead Leicester City's League One challenge when he holds showdown talks with Milan Mandaric. Holloway is set to meet the City chairman on Monday, where his fate following relegation to League One is likely to be decided. Holloway will state his case to lead City next season, pointing to the Championship promotion he won with QPR in 2004 as evidence that he knows what it takes to get out of the division. Holloway said: "I have a record of getting people back out of this division. "I have done it once before and I am desperate for the chance to do it here. "These sort of decisions are not in my hands. There are bigger things at stake than Ian Holloway, it's not about my future. This is about Leicester City." The Mercury reported earlier this week that fans' groups are split on whether Holloway should remain as City boss, while 61 per cent of supporters in an online poll at www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk say he should go. Despite the question marks hanging over his Walkers Stadium future, it seems Holloway has already begun planning for next season. Holloway said he has made changes to City's pre-season plans in a bid to get the players' "mind-set right" for the club's first ever season in the third division. And that will include putting the players through a punishing pre-season schedule at an army boot camp. Holloway said: "We had a meeting about pre-season. Looking at that, we were going to go to a place that is a bit too expensive now. "I don't feel that's the right sort of mind-set. "We are talking about going to a different place, earlier, to make sure we get the mind-set right of our team and our players. "The luxurious part of it has gone. We are going to go to an army boot camp to work our socks off and generate what we are going to be up against. I have gone in and done that." It must be hoped it will help address what Holloway says was a lack of team spirit that cost City dearly in their failed relegation battle. Holloway told BBC Sport: "It's always the team with the worst spirit and fight that goes down. "I have to say, very harshly, it must have been us. That's unacceptable." Meanwhile, Iain Dowie, the former Charlton, Crystal Palace and Coventry manager who has been heavily linked with City over the last 15 months, is one of the favourites for the vacancy at QPR. Dowie, who had a brief spell as caretaker-manager at Loftus Road in 1998, is being tipped to take over following coach Luigi De Canio's exit. i hope we do actually send them to a bloody boot camp!! they need it!!
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