Donny Post Match

[Leicester 0-0 Doncaster ??]

Whyyyyyyyyyy (i had a bet on your team)

so my only and natural response now is:

0:25-0:30

[MrSpaM]

Not a great match by any standards, Gallagher should have buried that chance that fell for him, waghorn was doing a kingy tonight. Fryatt lokked our most dangerous player until he was taken off, we've got lucky with results tonight though.

Bring on saturday

[acooling08]

I went to the game and we were pretty awful as were Doncaster.

Dull, slow, no creativity or quality all game.

Shit Officials.

Gallagher missed a sitter.

Shit tactics by Pearson.

[acooling08]

i bet donny are really pissed off tonight ,

they ain't beat us since 1902

They'll be fookin laughing mate. They came into the game after 4 straight defeats, played absolutely shit and still got a point.

[davieG]

I defy anyone to identify a single highlight unless there was a camera on me having a piss at half-time.

[Maybes]

A drab match with two teams offering nothing in attacking football.

Very poor game to spectate.

Gallagher should have scored.

Howard coming on in the 88th minute.....really what is the point. At least give the guy a good 10minutes to hassle a chance for someone!

[Ford Super Sunday]

I'm starting to get slightly, just ever so slighty concerned at how inconsistent we are becoming. It's frustrating

[lcfcsnow]

Turgid.

Wellens' pass rate must be around the 20% mark, should not have walked back into the team.

The formation doesn't work at home, proven by two 0-0 stalemates, it was a mess before Fryatt's injury.

Forget Pearson out, sack the PA man, and Steve Howard first. <_<

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Awful injury to Fryatt, well done to the Donny fans for clapping him off. I hope it gives a couple of others a chance to shine but Gallagher's miss when he was one on one with the keeper didn't fill me with much confidence.

The ref was average. He stopped the game far too often for my liking, insisting that free kicks and throw-ins were taken on the exact blade of grass on which they were won. In a game as scrappy as this one it helps if play isn't constantly stopped for minor infringements.

Was disappointed with the attendance. 18k might be good enough for some teams in this league but we can do better.

[maddog]

We have a solid good defence and keeper.

We have a shit crap useless midfield, mainly Oakley, Wellens and King who are all far too similar players and have no real creativity or quality. We basically have no midfield.

And we have strikers that can't score.

The goalscoring charts for our forwards are totally fooking embarassing.

And why didn't NP make the 3rd sub earlier

Fooking useless, inept freezing cold home performance against a dogshit Doncaster side.

Only consolation is i would have been delighted with 4 points from these last 2 games prior to the Blackpool game which we have, a win Saturday will make it 7 points from 3 games, playoff form.

But annoying we didn't draw at Blackpool and win with a good performance today, not a patch on the Newcastle game.

Get Wellens, Oakley and King out the team and get some strikers that can score. Recall Dj, he's no worse than what we already have.

Adams and Gradel are no worse than what we have, Pearson continuously shoots himself in the foot with those decisions.

I would say Adams, Gradel and Dj are 10 times much better options than Oakley, Wellens, Gallagher, Howard, Kermo etc at the moment, Gradel won't be back but Adams and Dj should be instantly recalled.

[Ozwin]

Worst game I've ever seen in my life. No lie.

Both teams couldn't string 3 passes together without losing it. It was fooking horrific, Mandaric should give us the next game for free.

[davieG]

Awful injury to Fryatt, well done to the Donny fans for clapping him off. I hope it gives a couple of others a chance to shine but Gallagher's miss when he was one on one with the keeper didn't fill me with much confidence.

The ref was average. He stopped the game far too often for my liking, insisting that free kicks and throw-ins were taken on the exact blade of grass on which they were won. In a game as scrappy as this one it helps if play isn't constantly stopped for minor infringements.

Was disappointed with the attendance. 18k might be good enough for some teams in this league but we can do better.

Any 12 year old getting in for free will be thinking what a waste of money , at least those who didn't turn up had the benefit of missing it all and may not be put of the next game which I'd definitely consider missing if I hadn't got a ST and was paying £20+ on the gate - even the £8 offer seems too expensive after that turdy performance.

[coale39]

We have a big lack of motivation for small sides.

[philce]

I defy anyone to identify a single highlight unless there was a camera on me having a piss at half-time.

Why play 5 in midfield at home against a team who have lost the last 4?

Players out of position, top goal scorer possibly out for the rest of the season.

Id have taken mid table obscurity before the season started, we have been spoilt and naturally expect more. Pearson needs time (and money) to sort this out.

I just hope Milan isnt getting itchy fingers again.

[Fox You Forest]

One of those games where everything about it is just piss poor, only positive I can think of is it won't take much forgetting.

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Any 12 year old getting in for free will be thinking what a waste of money , at least those who didn't turn up had the benefit of missing it all and may not be put of the next game which I'd definitely consider missing if I hadn't got a ST and was paying £20+ on the gate - even the £8 offer seems too expensive after that turdy performance.

Yup I would probably agree with you there. I can't imagine what it must be like for those people who witnessed their first Leicester City game today. What an introduction. I swear at half time there were some people who came all the way from Finland to watch the game as well.

[jonthefox]

Just got in.

That was without a doubt the shitest game a footy ive seen for a long time. no passion, no tactics and a wank referee.

should of stayed at home.

[davieG]

Why play 5 in midfield at home against a team who have lost the last 4?

Players out of position, top goal scorer possibly out for the rest of the season.

Id have taken mid table obscurity before the season started, we have been spoilt and naturally expect more. Pearson needs time (and money) to sort this out.

I just hope Milan isnt getting itchy fingers again.

I believe it was supposed to be 433 with N'Guessan the target up front for all the hoofs. Unfortunately him and Gallagher played too wide and too deep, also Oakley seemed to be playing off Fryatt and then Waghorn's shoulder. In fact I swear after Gallagher went off Waghorn went wide right and Oakley was virtually a lone deep lying centre forward

[LoughboroughFox]

cant score against a side struggling, and lost the last how many? WTF? were shit and should never be in the position were in! simples! a false position we are in and if anyone begs to differ, then that's your opinion, this is mine.the joys of free speech!

[lifted*fox]

Well that was a cold 90 minutes of little excitement.

Wellens should not have walked back into the team like that.

IMO sends out the wrong message to the players who worked hard in his absence.

Considering how poor he has been of late, I think it would have been a deserved break on the bench.

Fryatt looked dangerous & alert until his injury.

I hope he gets well soon, a real shame.

A good response from the crowd, shows what a fan 'hero' he's become in the last year.

I think our defense looked solid today.

Berner, Brown, Morrison & Hobbs all perfomed well & Weale had relatively little to do on his Birthday.

Midfield in general was a shocker, with none of the players able to retain the ball at their feet.

Seemed like everyone's first touch took the ball a million miles away from their feet.

Also, what is the point in bringing Howard on for 3 minutes?

At least give him 10 minutes to settle in & try to hassle someone.

Poor substition timing tbh.

Ah well, over now.

Here's to a win again Scunny at the weekend.

[Ozwin]

Fryatt was the out and out forward, then when he went off Waghorn got put there. Then towards the end N'Guessan and Waghorn swapped.

Needless to say nothing worked and Gallagher's a berk for missing that one on one.

[coale39]

I believe it was supposed to be 433 with N'Guessan the target up front for all the hoofs. Unfortunately him and Gallagher played too wide and too deep, also Oakley seemed to be playing off Fryatt and then Waghorn's shoulder. In fact I swear after Gallagher went off Waghorn went wide right and Oakley was virtually a lone deep lying centre forward

Defo the way forward

[Donut]

90 minutes of pure pain

Fryatt

[Legend_in_blue]

Seriously tonight we were absolutely dire.

That really was a woeful and totally unacceptable performance against a lightweight, weak, insignificant opposition. Total joke.

We seriously need to take a look at ourselves. You want top six, then go for it, take a risk. All this negative play tonight will get us nowhere other than mid-table obscurity. It's a real pity because I firmly believe that we have the personnel to do this, to pull off a top 6 finish, but with the attitude and tactics laid out by NP, sorry, won't get us there.

I see it like this. We're not going down. We won't be relegated. Points wise we're in a very good position, so why not really have a go at it rather than scrimp and scrape ourselves along to a bore draw in the hope that we might get something, that we might nick something from the game other than that.

It really was pathetic tonight, not happy about it at all.

The system never caused their CBs a problem, yet again we are the architects of our inability to create and enthuse the crowd, frustrations are laid firmly at the referee, we play at the oppositions level, we don't raise the game, we don't play with pace and rather than change it, we stick players in and around an ineffective system in the hope that something might change.

Howard on for the final 2 minutes of the game - total insult to the man. Disgrace. We play everyone but an out and out striker up front for an hour and then decide with 2 minutes to go to change it. Even then Howard is on his own with these two wide men that don't know whether to go forward or stay back. Total farce.

I'm fed up with this because come the end of the season and we're 2 or 3 points away from where we should be, we'll look at this and wish we'd have gone for it.

Real shame.

[Thracian]

I wonder how Pearson would feel if he were invited out to dinner and no-one spoke.

Or if he went to the pictures and found the feature film had no action, no entertainment and no-one with a starring role.

Or if he went to the races only to find that none of the horses raised more than a canter.

Cos that's how it felt for me tonight.

The was little in the football to talk about, no impact (apart from Fryatt being flattened), no-one showing any real passion or determination to win the game and no-one raising a gallop, apart perhaps from N'Guessan.

As a "football match" it offended the Trades Description Act cos if that is what football's supposed to look like then my 14-stone wife looks like a prima ballerina.

Did City even have a shot on target? Oh yes they should have had. Kingy gifted Gallagher the chance to win the match with the kind of pass every striker dreams of.

But Gallagher isn't a striker. Pearson says he is but his record says he's not.

He's an occasional scorer and looked just that tonight when, put clear through and given the rare luxury of a little time and space, he failed even to hit the target from 18-20 yards and from a position right in front of goal.

There was no presence of mind to the bloke. No clinical ruthlessness. No natural instinct to do the right thing. He just hit the ball and hoped... wide of the goal and probably too high to have gone in anyway.

Other than that the game was memorable not for anything to do with quality football but for the extraordinarily violent head-on collision that flattened Fryatt and left him with a reported broken jaw and apparently unconscious for several minutes.

Oh yes, and the sight of two City players kindly leaving the ball to each other while a Doncaster player stepped in to say "thanks very much". And the through balls so subtle that they completely fooled our momentarily chasing wingers who stopped in their tracks making the passers look like idiots.

In fact too often City players seemed subject to an automatic braking system the moment they crossed the halfway line. Our attacking conviction was minimal.

Then we had City's latest efforts to take a free-kick or a corner successfully.

I know it's asking a lot for mollycoddled footballers to work twice in a few days but surely they could muster the strength and technique to deliver a simple cross over the top of the first defenders and into the area where our own players were gathered.

But apparently not. Perhaps next week, but then I've been living in hope for most of five seasons now and am still to see any collective improvement.

And when there was a cross into the danger zone no-one took the chance or showed the drive necessary to try to get on the end of it. And on the only occasion I remember they did, Hobbs overstretched to ruin a perfect opportunity for the waiting Morrison. No call perhaps? No awareness? Just unlucky? I don't know really. It was just that kind of night.

And you knew if was going to be when the referee and West Stand linesman showed themselves not only to be way out of their depth, quickly getting nought out of two between them for decisions that should have been City corners.

And then we were treated to the referee amusing himself with a game of "Mr Pedantic Personified" - hauling players back like some school headmaster for daring to take throw-ins a yard or two from the proper place.

And so the game developed into a yes/no interlude almost from the off. Yes we'll play, no we won't...

It was horrible.

Waghorn, when he came on, too-often showed the control of a juggler with hiccups but he did have one chance from which he might have scored only to remind us that he only uses his right foot for standing on and in the time he took trying to manouevre the ball onto the one foot he uses for football the chance had long gone.

Quite why Pearson changed his successful Blackpool formula I don't know - and neither did anyone else in my vicinity.

But we were back to Barnsley. Next-to-no shots, next-to-no chances, next-to-no passing, next to no movement and next-to-know imagination or footballing competence. Only the industry remained in a restrained but organised sort of way.

Someone said that Pearson had promised passion. Well I hope he looks up the meaning of the word before he gets home tonight. Yes we're keeping more clean sheets than a nunnery. Trouble is they're cleanest at the end where we're supposed to be scoring!