ibbosuk Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 CRAP, Same excuses from Sousa as before, no more than 16,000 there today what ever the official figures say, defence poor, losing confidence in Sousa fast, we are going backwards fast, somethings got to give soon. WE ARE POOR.
Edmund Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 whilst that is true - we were unlucky today, you can't get around it! That doesnt explain the shambolic defence though... It wasn't just the defence. We had no end product up front at all. This game was calling for Campbell. Unfortunately for us he's buggering off. How many corners did we have? We didn't even make anything of them. Our set pieces are poor, defence poor and the strikeforce is non existent. To top it off we've got bizarre squad selections i.e. Fryatt and King on the bench. Everything is a shambles. You can see the players don't have the desire they had last season. This reminds me of a Levein game when we always 'unlucky' to have not one the game.
wurmer Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Who was captain today - couldn't tell from watching the game (which says something!)
Jonezy Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Ouch, that was frustrating to watch, and the fiancé is NOT impressed with me screaming out these frustrations at the tiny little crappy shit stream I watching this at..... Get the 'can't head, even if my life depended on it' - Moreno out of that frickin hopeless defense for at start and then get a no nonense experienced CB in for a start and then practice some bloody set pieces, as they were abysmal in both ends. Also bring in some Haitian voodoo witches to change our luck, as we are not having any at all. That should sort us out.
wurmer Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 It wasn't just the defence. We had no end product up front at all. This game was calling for Campbell. Unfortunately for us he's buggering off. How many corners did we have? We didn't even make anything of them. Our set pieces are poor, defence poor and the strikeforce is non existent. To top it off we've got bizarre squad selections i.e. Fryatt and King on the bench. Everything is a shambles. You can see the players don't have the desire they had last season. This reminds me of a Levein game when we always 'unlucky' to have not one the game. Fryatt I can understand - coming back from 'injury'. King - agree, doesn't make sense that one.
Fox92 Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Moreno could have knocked the ball back to Logan, instead of trying to play his way out of trouble. The second goal just came out of nowhere. __________________ We wasn't that good enough last season despite getting to 5th and the loan players helped us out. That many faces that left whoever the manager would be this season, Pearson or Sousa, with a problem. Thats why I didn't think we'd make the play offs whoever the manager is and therefore some of the people saying sack the manager is ridiculas. The club overachieved last season with the momentum of winning promotion. Last season was the year to go up, I constantly said that at the time. __________________
Edmund Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 How the **** was Kings goal disallowed at the end? Couldn't see anything wrong with that.
AmyLGK Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Well that was the first time I was able to watch us today - living no where near my wonderful home town. I've evidently been deluded as I was expecting to see some "pretty football" - WHERE THE HELL WAS THAT THEN????? And why on earth were King and Fryatt on the bench?? I want to believe in Sousa and to give him time - but I didn't really see anything to suggest we're making any progress. Dyer was brilliant though - I've never been so shocked (but happy) to see someone score
STUHILL Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Guy from Shepshed is talking most sense I've heard on RL
sdb Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 I'd also like to add that marking from set pieces isn't good enough. Mills was given way too much space several times - think Howard was (meant to be) marking him but honestly couldn't say.
Dylan Posted 28 August 2010 Author Posted 28 August 2010 Last season we had a solid defence and this season were so bad at the back. 8 goals from 4 games speaks for itself. Moreno was terrible, don't know why Morrison didn't play. Dany Nguessan was quite poor. We played much better with King and Fryatt- don't know why they didn't start. Zonal marking just doesn't work, man-for-man is better. King's goal should've definetely of stood, shocking decision. 1st goal was poor by Moreno, weak and hesistated. 2nd goal- free header. Dyer's goal was fantastic. 1point from 4games is shocking at any level. I know it's only the start of the season but we don't want to be playing catch-up this early on, 9 points off the top already. And we have a difficult next 3 fixtures- Coventry away after the international break- a local derby, and Cov have got off to a great start. Cardiff at home- massive threat, great start, quality players. QPR at home, great start, good team, difficult. Going to be hard to pick up many points from these games, especially if our defence doesn't improve, teams like QPR and Cardiff WILL punish us. From these games we could very easily come out with nothing, which would leave us in a terrible position. Need to either use Morrison at CB, or sign one before the window closes. And we need a better left-winger than Dany Nguessan, someone with a decent cross- someone like Whittingham, but can't see us getting him. And if DJ's going, i'm hoping Abe or Crncic is good, as I think Howard's better as an impact sub, and need someone better to partner Fryatt up front. EDIT: Also like to mention the abundance of corners we've had so far this season, yet we've not scored one. The only time we've come close I can remember is King against the crossbar. Need to improve on the set-pieces.
Edmund Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 I'd also like to add that marking from set pieces isn't good enough. Mills was given way too much space several times - think Howard was (meant to be) marking him but honestly couldn't say. Marking and attacking. I lost count of how many corners we had yet we didn't attack a single one due to being out marked or poor delivery.
C-man Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 So now were playing shit football and losing Terrific.
MPH Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 How some of the people on here can keep a place in collage/university or hold down a steady job is beyond me. They are reaching for the anti depressants and hangman's noose after 4 games!!! Its the end of the world!!!!! Its just embarassing watching people on here. People have a short memory.... O'neill had a worse start....
bluefox82 Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Seriously worried for us this season in my opinion we lack in defence midfield and up front. Time to splash the cash and if not get o'neill back before he goes to florist
Cropwellfox Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 It wasn't just the defence. We had no end product up front at all. This game was calling for Campbell. Unfortunately for us he's buggering off. How many corners did we have? We didn't even make anything of them. Our set pieces are poor, defence poor and the strikeforce is non existent. To top it off we've got bizarre squad selections i.e. Fryatt and King on the bench. Everything is a shambles. You can see the players don't have the desire they had last season. This reminds me of a Levein game when we always 'unlucky' to have not one the game. This. Shambles is right. Not one player has been signed that I can see is better than what we have, we've been cocking around with Campbell all summer - will we won't we sell him, now it looks like he's gone and we have 48 hours to sign a replacement, we get a keeper in on loan, paying wages, and don't select him. Three of our best young players left on the bench, four games into the season and Sousa clearly has no idea who to pick and what system to play. I expected a slow start, but nothing like this, for me this team doesn't have the nuts to turn up and win a local derby in a couple of weeks time - from the eleven who started, only Hobbs and Dyer looked like they really wanted it. How Sousa is on the radio talking about how he is proud is beyond me, and leaving King out a good decision. Sorry the guy is a joke. Our club is a joke yet again.
Edmund Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 How some of the people on here can keep a place in collage/university or hold down a steady job is beyond me. They are reaching for the anti depressants and hangman's noose after 4 games!!! Its just embarassing watching people on here. People have a short memory.... O'neill had a worse start.... Oh **** off with your O'neill start. This is 2010 under Sousa. Stop the silly comparisons. Sick of all these deluded twats trying to justify a shite performance and shite result by comparing our start with something which has **** all relevance.
Wasyls Pec Deck Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 I have to say Oakley is fading fast isn't he... he seems to be anonyomous for large spells. As much as I like Howard, playing him from the start only confuses our game plan (if we have one...) - arent we supposed to be passing it around (like Spain!?) - yet we resort to lumping it to Big Steve. Better as an impact sub? I liked the way Reading setup - lone striker swamped with support from midfield. We have the players to do it - when Nigel did it last season 451 that could just as easily move to a 433 we enjoyed success.
STUHILL Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Sousa just rambles in interviews and doesn't make any sense!!! I really miss Pearson and his no nonsense. If we played poor, he would just say it.
leftsideoverhere Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 losing confidence in Sousa fast Losing confidence? You've been slagging off Sousa since the day he was appointed. Your sig has been a gormless attack on Sousa for weeks. I'm sure some of our fans are happier when we lose and they can vent all their own inadequacy and frustration at the football club, on here and on Radio Leicester. Big up to the Fosse Boys who did get in - the right side of the kop was far louder all game than it usually is, and they were the only people still singing after Reading's second goal. Presumably those who were stopped getting in were those who had tickets for other parts of the ground? For once the stewards seemed to be checking. I fear the clown in the crowd will have Sousa's head before he's able to craft us into a footballing side. But the team didn't do him any favours today. Lamey seemed off the pace for much of the game, and so many times we won the ball only to be sluggish on it, and then lose it again. If we're going to try to play good football, we need to learn to pass in front of a team mate, not at their heels.
C-man Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Defensively we are an absolute disgrace. At least we have two weeks to fix it. As for Sousa's team selection, I honestly don't know
STUHILL Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 PlayerS handed in transfer requests!!! I'm worried. On and off the pitch it isn't looking good. I iwll give him his 10 games but after that. I will not hold back. Come on Sousa, prove my doubts wrong
Webbo Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Oh **** off with your O'neill start. This is 2010 under Sousa. Stop the silly comparisons. Sick of all these deluded twats trying to justify a shite performance and shite result by comparing our start with something which has **** all relevance. Too fu cking right. I'm sick of hearing bad luck, we didn't play well, Sousa's signings are no better or worse than what we already had. We only seriously looked like scoring after we went 2-1 down.
MC Prussian Posted 28 August 2010 Posted 28 August 2010 Can I just say we were by far worse than bad today. Clueless. Hapless. Inept. Inconsistent. Disinterested. Slow. Mentally disoriented. We never turned up for the first 45 minutes, the only guy actually caring about the game was Lloyd Dyer. He was the only one trying to make something happen (although at times too greedy himself), everybody else was just asleep, in particular Gallagher. A few tame shots here and there were all we could manage. Howard and Wellens need to work on that. Oakley a letdown as always, for a captain virtually non-existent on the pitch, too quiet and lost in midfield, gave away a few good passes. Why Sousa is insisting on playing Moreno as a centre-back, I'll never know. The lad has no clue how to defend, he's way too timid and not made for a rough English game. He miscalculated about ten long balls, easy giveaways and was at fault for Reading's first goal - he was trying to do something fancy in the back end, with disastrous consequences. Morrison, on the other hand, who's been part of a sturdy defense last season, is being kept on the bench. What for? Lamey showed signs of improvement, but he still gets missing up front too often, which leaves his right back side too exposed. Hobbs didn't convince me, either. Lacking a fair bunch of confidence (who wants to blame him when he has to put up with a Portuguese starlet right next to him), he had a terrible game in the first half, losing numerous one-on-ones. The worst bit of it, though, is that Reading never looked like scoring. They were bad, they never turned up themselves and simply profited from a Leicester side that actually managed to outperform them in negative terms. The second goal was a real killer blow. We were desperate to create something, score that winner, missed out on a few 100-Percenters (two penalties against us and King's shot which apparently was a goal) included. Maybe it was just meant to be - if you can't convert your own chances, you can be sure to get ****ed in the end. A lot of huff and puff from the home side, but without any result. I just don't want Sousa to come up with excuses again, defending a crap result. There are no positives to draw from tonight. Apart from the fact that we have Lloyd Dyer. Kumbaya. As of right now, to me it looks like we're going for an Ipswich 2009/2010. Starting the season in woeful ways, only to improve after two months or so. All in all, shocking, shocking, shocking.
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