City Fox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Seen it so many times clubs going on massive runs to win promotion. Look at Blackpool Would never right us off doing the same. I still think Saints will fall away and West Ham have a habit of buckling under pressure. A good run of four, five games and you can be right up there with them. If we get things right in January there's no reason why we still can't finish first or second I'll be positive and say second
Guest Col city fan Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Would take 6th in a heartbeat. Never thought I'd be saying that at the start of the season but any team that can't string together 2 wins in a row hasn't got a chance of getting automatic promotion. Really don't want us to keep trying to buy our way out of trouble because it's just not working. We need players that see Leicester as a step up in their career an not a drop down for bigger wages. I think Kasper, konchesky, peltier and nugent have done well but other than that nobody has the hunger to win games Could not agree more... Although I genuinely think our squad currently isn't good enough and we do need to sign a couple or three players. Younger players with a desire to better themselves and to earn more money is usually a better option than older journeymen who have already played at a higher level and, for whatever reason, have dropped down. There are some exceptions to this of course.. The Yak for instance. And I think it's ok to throw in a couple of older heads from time to time. But it's usually the case that a good, young, progressive team is one which will deliver. It all depends whether the owners have any longer term vision for the football club. MON was brilliant at bringing through youth, then spotting one or two older fellas to help him develop them. But it's also about temperament, attitude and confidence. The likes of Heskey, for instance, was helped no end when Claridge arrived at the club. This is why I'd like to see us sign the likes of Jordan Rhodes, Robbie Brady and Billy Sharpe, together with Peter Whittingham and perhaps an older midfield general to get em playing on the pitch and help the management to develop them off it.
City Fox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Could not agree more... Although I genuinely think our squad currently isn't good enough and we do need to sign a couple or three players. Younger players with a desire to better themselves and to earn more money is usually a better option than older journeymen who have already played at a higher level and, for whatever reason, have dropped down. There are some exceptions to this of course.. The Yak for instance. And I think it's ok to throw in a couple of older heads from time to time. But it's usually the case that a good, young, progressive team is one which will deliver. It all depends whether the owners have any longer term vision for the football club. MON was brilliant at bringing through youth, then spotting one or two older fellas to help him develop them. But it's also about temperament, attitude and confidence. The likes of Heskey, for instance, was helped no end when Claridge arrived at the club. This is why I'd like to see us sign the likes of Jordan Rhodes, Robbie Brady and Billy Sharpe, together with Peter Whittingham and perhaps an older midfield general to get em playing on the pitch and help the management to develop them off it. It's OK to say MON did this and MON did that the problem we have is MON isn't here Pearson is Is Pearson really that good at bringing youth through? I think he's been brought in to spend money more than to build a team for next season or the season after that. Get us up then see where were at. If we do go up this season the youth is going to get very little game time in the Premiership. The likes of Sharp, Rhodes are not Premiership players in my opinion which is another thing we need to look for. We need players that are going to take us up then keep us there. There's no point in blowing £10 -15m this season the come the summer we need to spend another £30m to stay up. Need to use the cash we've got wisely and buy players to take us to the next level and stay there and progress Not convinced Pearson can achieve that but time will tell
foxfanazer Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 It's OK to say MON did this and MON did that the problem we have is MON isn't here Pearson is Is Pearson really that good at bringing youth through? I think he's been brought in to spend money more than to build a team for next season or the season after that. Get us up then see where were at. If we do go up this season the youth is going to get very little game time in the Premiership. The likes of Sharp, Rhodes are not Premiership players in my opinion which is another thing we need to look for. We need players that are going to take us up then keep us there. There's no point in blowing £10 -15m this season the come the summer we need to spend another £30m to stay up. Need to use the cash we've got wisely and buy players to take us to the next level and stay there and progress Not convinced Pearson can achieve that but time will tell Id have to disagree. We need to get to into the prem first which imo is a bigger task for us than avoiding relegation from it. I don't think a team capable of avoiding relegation from the prem would necessarily be the same team that could get us promoted from championship, if u know what I mean
City Fox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Id have to disagree. We need to get to into the prem first which imo is a bigger task for us than avoiding relegation from it. I don't think a team capable of avoiding relegation from the prem would necessarily be the same team that could get us promoted from championship, if u know what I mean I'm not so sure. I think we can attract some good calibre of players where if we do go up they could do a job for us. A lot of players looking to make a few quid in the Premier League the likes of Andy Johnson at Fulham, if we could build a team now it could save us a few quid in the summer. Just depends on Pearson and if he can get them sort of players to come
foxfanazer Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 I'm not so sure. I think we can attract some good calibre of players where if we do go up they could do a job for us. A lot of players looking to make a few quid in the Premier League the likes of Andy Johnson at Fulham, if we could build a team now it could save us a few quid in the summer. Just depends on Pearson and if he can get them sort of players to come just think its hard to find that sort o player that is good enough for the prem but feels they aren't too good to drop down and prove themselves. Don't get me wrong there are a few players out there like that and in a ideal world they would be great. Just think Pearson that sort of persona that young hungry players would thrive to impress him and that's our best hope of promotion. We would certainly need a few experienced heads aswell
reynard Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Pretty difficult to say at the moment. The league is very tight and a good run would help but at this precise moment we show neither the ability or self belief to put together such a run. Saturday exemplified this almost more than any other game this season. So on current form somewhere between 9th and 14th with 3 new quality players in the right positions, a brain transplant for Mills, not losing Kaspar and some good luck and some self belief 5th or 6th. Top two are not on in my opinion.
steveherbe Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 10th for me. Too many average players, despite all the money we've spent. I'm starting to think Sven was panic buying back in the summer.
Babylon Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 The way we are playing at the moment - Mid table at best. The way we are playing? Losing a game to a last minute goal after playing most the game with 10 men, and dared to draw against Peterborough? I think people might be over reacting to the last two results a bit.
City Fox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 The way we are playing? Losing a game to a last minute goal after playing most the game with 10 men, and dared to draw against Peterborough? I think people might be over reacting to the last two results a bit. Got to agree with this the games we've had apart from maybe Peterborough I wouldn't class any of our last eight as easy. West Ham, Burnley, Leeds, Palace, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Hull, Peterborough Before that lot I'd have predicted 16 points and we got 11. That's no disaster against them sort of teams. Judge the team on the coming games
Marmite Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 If we bring in a few quality midfielders in to feed Beckford and Nugent and Mills can stay on the pitch I think we can get in the playoffs. Failing that I would say mid table
MrFox781 Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 were far to inconsistent. 7th. But please prove me wrong.
psychonaut Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Around the same place we finished last season
Guest DavidJCW Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 I would imagine we'll scrape 6th and then lose in another heart breaking semi to a team we really ought to beat.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 The way we are playing? Losing a game to a last minute goal after playing most the game with 10 men, and dared to draw against Peterborough? I think people might be over reacting to the last two results a bit. However if you look at most people on this thread's predictions, most are going for anywhere between 7th to 11th which is effectively mid table?, im not saying anything that other people arent and if you actually look at the rest of my post it does state if NP can work his magic that we could still make the play-offs!!!! Hardly an over reaction?
dpjfox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 where did reading spring from last season? no reason why we cant get in top 6
Kitchandro Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 I also think people are writing us off too early. We aren't good enough yet but we're not that far away, 2 good signings would do it IMO. On another day we would have won the Peterborough game confortably, it was just one of those days in some respects. We are showing some encouraging signs but we've got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. Nobody expected Pearson to get us in the play-offs the first time, people were negative then, but he did. Seeing us 5 points off 6th is disheartening but I still have faith we'll make up the gap.
liamsm Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 The way we are playing? Losing a game to a last minute goal after playing most the game with 10 men, and dared to draw against Peterborough? I think people might be over reacting to the last two results a bit. It does not matter how the results came about the fact is 1 point out of 6 aint play-off material
liamsm Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 Got to agree with this the games we've had apart from maybe Peterborough I wouldn't class any of our last eight as easy. West Ham, Burnley, Leeds, Palace, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Hull, Peterborough Before that lot I'd have predicted 16 points and we got 11. That's no disaster against them sort of teams. Judge the team on the coming games Don't matter how you try to gloss over this we took 11 points from 20 from these games, not good enough to get out of this division
wellyfox Posted 12 December 2011 Posted 12 December 2011 ATM 8th. Come the end of jan I may think 5th or 6th. But if we get the right players in early enough in jan and they perform I may say 2nd. I do think sotton will bottle it though and finish play off's leaving wham to take the title. If I'd got to bet on it I would not be tempted to do so till mid feb. With posibly 4 or 5 new players coming in jan it's too hard to call ATM.
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