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mmarkie

Team for Birmingham game

By mmarkie, in Leicester City Forum

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Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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I personally think the prices for this friendly are disgusting. I certainly won't be going on moral grounds.

What a great idea, let's have a friendly played on Balmorral grounds for the Queen. I bet she'd go berserk over Gradel.

Tommy G

Tommy G

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What a great idea, let's have a friendly played on Balmorral grounds for the Queen. I bet she'd go berserk over Gradel.

I mean I won't be paying my money to that club for a friendly match. It should be £2 or £3 at most. It's just a prime example of the money making machine that is Leicester City. They should get a ground full and get extra contribution from refreshments and club merchandise etc. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this opinion.

davieG

davieG

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I mean I won't be paying my money to that club for a friendly match. It should be £2 or £3 at most. It's just a prime example of the money making machine that is Leicester City. They should get a ground full and get extra contribution from refreshments and club merchandise etc. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this opinion.

It is expensive but as has been said many times they don't make any extra from refreshments and I would imagine it will have little impact on the sales of club merchandise.

Businesses these days seem to prefer lesser numbers paying more, probably because it's cheaper to manage, less overheads and easier to control.

Fox in a Box

Fox in a Box

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GK:Logan/Cisak

RB:Gilbert

CB:Hobbs

CB:N'Gotty

LB:Chambers

RM:Adams

CM:Oakley©

CM:Wesolowski

LM:Campbell

ST:Fryatt

ST:Howard

Subs

Tunch, Dyer, Hayles, Gradeloski, Sapp

billyfox1

billyfox1

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GK:Logan/Cisak

RB:Gilbert

CB:Hobbs

CB:N'Gotty

LB:Chambers

RM:Adams

CM:Oakley©

CM:Wesolowski

LM:Campbell

ST:Fryatt

ST:Howard

Subs

Tunch, Dyer, Hayles, Gradeloski, Sapp

Has N'Gotty played much in pre-season?

Guest

Guest

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Hendo

Gilbert

Tunchev

Hobbs

Mattock

Adams

Oakley

Weso

Gradel

Fryatt

Chambers

Subs: DJ, J Chambers, Dyer, Worley, King

Unabomber

Unabomber

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Henderson

Gilbert

Tunchev

Hobbs

Mattock

Adams

Oakley

Weso

Dyer

Fryatt

DJ

Is what I think Pearson will choose. Perhaps bringing Gradel on after 60 mins or so, I just think he will find it hard to drop Adams as he is his signing and has been in great form over the last few games. I also don't think he will start with Gradel on the left as he is yet to have tried this.

I'm just abit unsure about the strikers, I can't see Hayles starting and Fryatt has had a good pre season so far, and Campbell has looked much more lively than Howard.

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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A tenner is hardly extortionate. I reckon it's just double figures and the £12 non-season ticket holder price fooling people. If it was £8 I bet everyone would be saying it was cheap.

But it's not £8. It's 12 for me. Too much for a friendly, especially when I could see a match of importance for a few quid more.

I'm trying to cut down on spends as well.

Daggers

Daggers

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A tenner is hardly extortionate. I reckon it's just double figures and the £12 non-season ticket holder price fooling people. If it was £8 I bet everyone would be saying it was cheap.

They could have made this free for season ticket holders - I may have even come if they had.

Bert

Bert

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I mean I won't be paying my money to that club for a friendly match. It should be £2 or £3 at most. It's just a prime example of the money making machine that is Leicester City. They should get a ground full and get extra contribution from refreshments and club merchandise etc. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this opinion.

I love how you say "that" club, don't you mean "our" club?

Ashley

Ashley

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My dads been for a meeting at the Walkers Stadium today and he said the pitch is looking in very good condition.

brookfox

brookfox

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Henderson;

James Chambers, Worley, Tunchev, Mattock;

Adams, Weso, Porter, Gradel;

DJ, Fryatt.

I can see that you're going with the pace and skill option, but that front 6 would get bullied off the pitch in League 1. Their average height on a par with an Under 15 team. I can just see Weso and Porter battling it out for midfield domination. And no, we wouldn't ping it around in clever triangles while the 6'4" centre back with the broken nose aimlessly tries to change direction. And I'd hate to see us defend a set piece, against Kettering we gave away a goal from a cheap corner. Unfortunately Howard is going to have a part to play this season at both ends of the pitch.

Thracian

Thracian

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I can see that you're going with the pace and skill option, but that front 6 would get bullied off the pitch in League 1. Their average height on a par with an Under 15 team. I can just see Weso and Porter battling it out for midfield domination. And no, we wouldn't ping it around in clever triangles while the 6'4" centre back with the broken nose aimlessly tries to change direction. And I'd hate to see us defend a set piece, against Kettering we gave away a goal from a cheap corner. Unfortunately Howard is going to have a part to play this season at both ends of the pitch.

O ye of little faith. :D Do you not think the likes of Gradel, Porter and Campbell have not been kicked throughout their football careers by bigger opponents?

We were relegated without two of those three last season - despite having the muscle of Howard and Hayles - yet, already we're scoring more goals because we've got some wingers and some pace in our attack at long last.

Do you think I care if the opposition score one or two if we're going to score five?

And who do you think is going to mark our collective mini-army of fast passers. Four big, cumbersome, defenders stretched wide as they possibly can be? I don't think so. The opposition will need reinforcements and that means we'd have a backline with near bugger all to do.

I remember it with Newcastle in the days of the diminutive Andy Cole and his later partner, Peter Beardsley. For the opposition their whole focus was on damage limitation, on getting men behind the ball, on baulking the opposition as best they could. It mostly didn't work. They were overrun.

We've rarely exposed defences in recent years because we've nver had the sort of livewire attackers I've mentioned since the days of David Connolly and he was only one. But there's no way the inferior defences of Division One would generally resist full-scale attacking by fast, clever and determined players whatever their average height.

Look at a great team like United. Where are their giants? They win things because they are fast, accurate, skillful, brave and ruthless.

Big blokes against little uns? I remember the Wyggeston school bully, all 6ft 4ins of him, knocking seven bells out of a bespectacled guy one day. A little fella politely asked him to lay off but the beating continued. In the end the little fella got between the two, smiled placatingly at the bully and gestured him to examine the lad on the floor to see what he'd done.

In a flash as he did so, the little un's eblow crashed upwards into the nose of the bending bully, an assault he knew nothing about until he awoke from his operation in Leicester Royal Infirmary several hours later.

It wasn't muscle or fighting ability that led to the bullly's demise, but cunning, speed of thought, and the accurate execution of a battle plan. And with our players that is surely the great strength we have to use.

And besides, Weso was our best battler by a distance at Kettering and he was just the same early on last season before his injury - a time when we occupied a League position that didn't offer any concerns about relegation and when we lost just one League match out of five and then in a game we largely dominated against Blackpool.

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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O ye of little faith. :D Do you not think the likes of Gradel, Porter and Campbell have not been kicked throughout their football careers by bigger opponents?

We were relegated without two of those three last season - despite having the muscle of Howard and Hayles - yet, already we're scoring more goals because we've got some wingers and some pace in our attack at long last.

Do you think I care if the opposition score one or two if we're going to score five?

And who do you think is going to mark our collective mini-army of fast passers. Four big, cumbersome, defenders stretched wide as they possibly can be? I don't think so. The opposition will need reinforcements and that means we'd have a backline with near bugger all to do.

I remember it with Newcastle in the days of the diminutive Andy Cole and his later partner, Peter Beardsley. For the opposition their whole focus was on damage limitation, on getting men behind the ball, on baulking the opposition as best they could. It mostly didn't work. They were overrun.

We've rarely exposed defences in recent years because we've nver had the sort of livewire attackers I've mentioned since the days of David Connolly and he was only one. But there's no way the inferior defences of Division One would generally resist full-scale attacking by fast, clever and determined players whatever their average height.

Look at a great team like United. Where are their giants? They win things because they are fast, accurate, skillful, brave and ruthless.

Big blokes against little uns? I remember the Wyggeston school bully, all 6ft 4ins of him, knocking seven bells out of a bespectacled guy one day. A little fella politely asked him to lay off but the beating continued. In the end the little fella got between the two, smiled placatingly at the bully and gestured him to examine the lad on the floor to see what he'd done.

In a flash as he did so, the little un's eblow crashed upwards into the nose of the bending bully, an assault he knew nothing about until he awoke from his operation in Leicester Royal Infirmary several hours later.

It wasn't muscle or fighting ability that led to the bullly's demise, but cunning, speed of thought, and the accurate execution of a battle plan. And with our players that is surely the great strength we have to use.

And besides, Weso was our best battler by a distance at Kettering and he was just the same early on last season before his injury - a time when we occupied a League position that didn't offer any concerns about relegation and when we lost just one League match out of five and then in a game we largely dominated against Blackpool.

What he said. :cool:

And to quote an old proverb; "It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog."

billyfox1

billyfox1

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Cameron Jerome, Garry O'Connor, James McFadden, Kevin Phillips, Marcus Bent all in the squad..................................:(

they'll never get through our 9 man defence

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