marbelladave Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 You should. As I said, movies are not my thing... Last time I went to the cinema was on a wet Tuesday afternoon in Adelaide, South Australia, early in 1988!
Lillehamring Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Anyway, I've written something about LCFC in general as a result of watching them today. It's a bit long, but feel free to give it a read: http://theseventytwo.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/leicester-adapting-to-sousa-style/ not at all - good summary, fez.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 not at all - good summary, fez. Cheers! Had an unusually high amount of views on that post, so quite a few FTers must have gone and had a look. I appreciate it. Enjoying this football writing lark. Thought the City fans turnout yesterday was excellent.
LE3Yellow Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Hello, being one of two Leicester- based Oxford supporters I felt I had to put a post on! I think yesterday Leicester played very well in the first half, showed some good movement and passing football. Good free kick for your goal, and in addition I felt you could have had a few more in the first half. Good run from Dyer which led to him hitting the post. He's a funny player, I've seen him a three times now and he does some brilliant runs but never quite capitalises on the good positions he gets into. Anyway second half we tried a bit harder and also had our stronger team on in my opinion. When there attitude is right, we have a good forward line and I think we deserved to draw level and probably should have scored more. Leicester came on stronger last five minutes and had a diving header well saved. Also I couldn't quite see from where I was from, was that a penalty shout when dyer went through? Good afternoon though and nice to see some football after the utter dross we've had to watch for the last three seasons. Good luck for next season, I think play off's for Leicester if you can stregthen the defence. I hope for us to be playing you in three years!
Edmund Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Cheers! Had an unusually high amount of views on that post, so quite a few FTers must have gone and had a look. I appreciate it. Enjoying this football writing lark. Thought the City fans turnout yesterday was excellent. I thought it was a fantastic write up. This article deserves to be in the local rag. Summed everything up perfectly.
andy_croydz Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Hello, being one of two Leicester- based Oxford supporters I felt I had to put a post on! I think yesterday Leicester played very well in the first half, showed some good movement and passing football. Good free kick for your goal, and in addition I felt you could have had a few more in the first half. Good run from Dyer which led to him hitting the post. He's a funny player, I've seen him a three times now and he does some brilliant runs but never quite capitalises on the good positions he gets into. Anyway second half we tried a bit harder and also had our stronger team on in my opinion. When there attitude is right, we have a good forward line and I think we deserved to draw level and probably should have scored more. Leicester came on stronger last five minutes and had a diving header well saved. Also I couldn't quite see from where I was from, was that a penalty shout when dyer went through? Good afternoon though and nice to see some football after the utter dross we've had to watch for the last three seasons. Good luck for next season, I think play off's for Leicester if you can stregthen the defence. I hope for us to be playing you in three years! Wow, an LE3 based Oxford fan! What part of LE3 are you from?
marbelladave Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Anyway, I've written something about LCFC in general as a result of watching them today. It's a bit long, but feel free to give it a read: http://theseventytwo...to-sousa-style/ Nicely written piece, always hard to judge the level of analysis and/or criticism appropriate for a 'general' piece. Good introduction for any Foxes fan who has failed to 'keep up' over the last few months.
Guest NGoloMode Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Also I couldn't quite see from where I was from, was that a penalty shout when dyer went through? Definately not, but he should have scored really.
ousefox Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Cheers! Had an unusually high amount of views on that post, so quite a few FTers must have gone and had a look. I appreciate it. Enjoying this football writing lark. Thought the City fans turnout yesterday was excellent. Great read
Fez of Mahrez Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Cheers all, I'm very grateful. Just confirmed I'm back doing the Saturday game fan articles for the Merc's Monday sports supplement this season. I don't post much on here anymore but am always reading everything to get a feel for the general opinion.
StanSP Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Cheers all, I'm very grateful. Just confirmed I'm back doing the Saturday game fan articles for the Merc's Monday sports supplement this season. I don't post much on here anymore but am always reading everything to get a feel for the general opinion. Do you have the permissions to stick a few outrageous rumours in ?
Narborough_fox Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 Fez, I think you should get a job writing for a paper!
James. Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 That 72 site aint too bad either. Keep it up Fez. Like you I'm not posting much anymore but this site and your articles are gonna be particularly important for me as I try to keep up to date with the first half of the season from over here in India.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 That 72 site aint too bad either. Keep it up Fez. Like you I'm not posting much anymore but this site and your articles are gonna be particularly important for me as I try to keep up to date with the first half of the season from over here in India. I had no idea you were in India mate haha!! My brother's just got back from two or three months over there. Saw a man on a motorbike driving repeatedly into a cow down a sidestreet in Delhi.
James. Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 I had no idea you were in India mate haha!! My brother's just got back from two or three months over there. Saw a man on a motorbike driving repeatedly into a cow down a sidestreet in Delhi. This place is bonkers. In another bovine related incident we passed a cow taking a breather in the middle of a 3 lane carriageway on the way back to our apartment today. I've been here 10 days and I can honestly say I've been anywhere as barking mad as Mumbai.
Foxblogger Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 It was an interesting game, and I'm not convinced we'll enter the season playing 4-4-2 on that showing. Adams is getting a lot of stick for going forward too often and neglecting defensive duties, but it seemed to me he was following deliberate instructions from Sousa to do this. But I agree with most of the other comments here, Fryatt wanted far too many touches, Howard is a bit redundant if we're going to keep the ball on the ground for much of the game and DJ is making a mockery of those of us (myself included) who wrote him off not so long ago. Did like the continental touch of inside-out wingers, and (if the first half was anything to go by) it definitely seems we'll be keeping hold of the ball instead of artlessly tossing the thing forward when a passing avenue is shut down. I'm feeling positive.
Thracian Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 We won't be playing against Mickey Mouse defences in The Championship so, for me, preparation should be all about securing the personnel and the system to score goals. I think Reading got 100-odd when they went up. And it's hard to see us getting anywhere near that because our back line simply doesn't retain the ball well enough nor do they have the have the mobility to support. Add that to the fact that King is our only goalscoring central midfielder, Howard won't be getting any quicker nor do I see Fryatt as a creative striker and I just don't see where the goals will come from unless there are significant new signings. Pace, movement and ball retention (passing) are the key factors in modern winning football and we're just lacking those things in too many departments. Our back line is strictly functional. By and large they don't score goals and they don't support attacks with any consequence. It means we'll be going into games with three or four potential scorers (nothing new in recent seasons) when we really need six or seven. We also need fast, attacking full-backs who make things happen and where are they going to come from?. One day the penny willl drop. Attacking requires a through-the-team philosophy and commitment. And I cannot see any other approach getting us up. And really, our appearance in last season's play-offs only deflected attention from our lack of sufficient goals or commitment to getting them. Some games we hardly had a worthwhile shot never mind the two or three goals we should have been looking for.
Bugg Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 What is wrong with you? You're never pleased. Also, you end up making a short essay about problems that need summing up with a couple of sentences.
Foxblogger Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 We won't be playing against Mickey Mouse defences in The Championship so, for me, preparation should be all about securing the personnel and the system to score goals. I think Reading got 100-odd when they went up. And it's hard to see us getting anywhere near that because our back line simply doesn't retain the ball well enough nor do they have the have the mobility to support. Add that to the fact that King is our only goalscoring central midfielder, Howard won't be getting any quicker and don't see Fryatt as a creative striker and I just don't see where the goals will come from unless there are significant new signings. Pace, movement and ball retension (passing) are the key factors in modern winning football and we're just lacking those things in too many departments. Our back line is strictly functional. By and large they don't score goals and they don't support attacks with any consequence. It means we'll be going into games with three or four potential scorers (nothing new in recent seasons) when we really need six or seven. We also need fast, attacking full-backs who make things happen and where are they going to come from?. One day the penny willl drop. Attacking requires a through-the-team philosophy and commitment. And I cannot see any other approach getting us up. And really, our appearance in last season's play-offs only deflected attention from our lack of sufficient goals or commitment to getting them. Some games we hardly had a worthwhile shot never mind the two or three goals we should have been looking for. At the risk of sounding entirely negative you only need to score once to win a game, and City won more games by a single goal than any other side in the Championship last season. There's no need to score 100+ goals. Birmingham went up having scored 54 goals in 2008/09, Nowrich City were relegated in the same season having scored 57. You could just as easily argue, as I'm sure Nigel Pearson and Paulo Sousa would do, that good defences are the foundations upon which winning teams are made.
andy_croydz Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 At the risk of sounding entirely negative you only need to score once to win a game, and City won more games by a single goal than any other side in the Championship last season. There's no need to score 100+ goals. Birmingham went up having scored 54 goals in 2008/09, Nowrich City were relegated in the same season having scored 57. You could just as easily argue, as I'm sure Nigel Pearson and Paulo Sousa would do, that good defences are the foundations upon which winning teams are made. In fairness though... That was with Pearson... He was a defender himself so it didn't surprise me that we didn't concede too many last season. Under Sousa though I get the feeling he likes to play more attacking minded football, scoring more goals but possibly leaving us more open defensively. It's all speculation at the moment though, we will see how the season has panned out in May next year and then talk about whether we were too open defensively or not.
orangecity23 Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 We won't be playing against Mickey Mouse defences in The Championship so, for me, preparation should be all about securing the personnel and the system to score goals. I think Reading got 100-odd when they went up. And it's hard to see us getting anywhere near that because our back line simply doesn't retain the ball well enough nor do they have the have the mobility to support. Add that to the fact that King is our only goalscoring central midfielder, Howard won't be getting any quicker and don't see Fryatt as a creative striker and I just don't see where the goals will come from unless there are significant new signings. Pace, movement and ball retension (passing) are the key factors in modern winning football and we're just lacking those things in too many departments. Our back line is strictly functional. By and large they don't score goals and they don't support attacks with any consequence. It means we'll be going into games with three or four potential scorers (nothing new in recent seasons) when we really need six or seven. We also need fast, attacking full-backs who make things happen and where are they going to come from?. One day the penny willl drop. Attacking requires a through-the-team philosophy and commitment. And I cannot see any other approach getting us up. And really, our appearance in last season's play-offs only deflected attention from our lack of sufficient goals or commitment to getting them. Some games we hardly had a worthwhile shot never mind the two or three goals we should have been looking for. I find it interesting that you've already written off our back line as functional, unable to score and unable to retain the ball. By all accounts, Kennedy is an attacking full back, no-one has actually seen our new centre back Vitor yet, so it's impossible to know how well he will retain posssion, Tunchev may yet return and is known for his ability to keep possesion, and to top it all off we're attempting to convert Nicky Adams into a an attacking right back, something which you spent the majority of last season campaigning for, but with the ponderously slow Oakley instead of Adams.
C-man Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 We won't be playing against Mickey Mouse defences in The Championship so, for me, preparation should be all about securing the personnel and the system to score goals. I think Reading got 100-odd when they went up. And it's hard to see us getting anywhere near that because our back line simply doesn't retain the ball well enough nor do they have the have the mobility to support. Add that to the fact that King is our only goalscoring central midfielder, Howard won't be getting any quicker and don't see Fryatt as a creative striker and I just don't see where the goals will come from unless there are significant new signings. Pace, movement and ball retension (passing) are the key factors in modern winning football and we're just lacking those things in too many departments. Our back line is strictly functional. By and large they don't score goals and they don't support attacks with any consequence. It means we'll be going into games with three or four potential scorers (nothing new in recent seasons) when we really need six or seven. We also need fast, attacking full-backs who make things happen and where are they going to come from?. One day the penny willl drop. Attacking requires a through-the-team philosophy and commitment. And I cannot see any other approach getting us up. And really, our appearance in last season's play-offs only deflected attention from our lack of sufficient goals or commitment to getting them. Some games we hardly had a worthwhile shot never mind the two or three goals we should have been looking for. .... and without seeing a single game. Impressive.
Mawsley Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 What is wrong with you? You're never pleased. Also, you end up making a short essay about problems that need summing up with a couple of sentences. What's the problem with someone offering a critique of our historical and enduring approach to the game? What's wrong with questioning a lack of attacking ambition? During our season in Division III we should have posted some 6-0 wins on more than one occasion but Pearson didn't let us. Plus, you are factually incorrect. I believe it was Thracian on a market stall, on television, being very effusive about Pearson.
Craig Posted 25 July 2010 Posted 25 July 2010 In fairness though... That was with Pearson... He was a defender himself so it didn't surprise me that we didn't concede too many last season. Under Sousa though I get the feeling he likes to play more attacking minded football, scoring more goals but possibly leaving us more open defensively. It's all speculation at the moment though, we will see how the season has panned out in May next year and then talk about whether we were too open defensively or not. I wouldn't be so sure based on Swansea last season...
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