Season Over?

[svensson]

anyone would think a little bit of optomism was painful or poisonous... haters gonna hate.....

[Kitchandro]

I'll show some support at the matches. I don't have to jump on the delusional bus after every match.

These players are being absolute cvnts and I refuse to pick the positive points from their woeful games.

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Absolute shite, as usual when it comes to the big games we need to win.

A win would have really put us in a good position, but we're just not good enough.

League season is over now, wish I wasnt going Reading now!

[Ultra]

I'll show some support at the matches. I don't have to jump on the delusional bus after every match.

These players are being absolute cvnts and I refuse to pick the positive points from their woeful games.

And nor should you.

Massive changes in the squad are needed. I hope the manager will be brave enough to implement them during the summer.

[acooling08]

anyone would think a little bit of optomism was painful or poisonous... haters gonna hate.....

Optimism is painful, because with Leicester it nearly always ends in crushing disappointment. I'm only old enough to have been a proper supporter since around 2002. In those 10 years I have seen 1 promotion to the Prem, 1 prem season getting relegated, 1 season walking League 1, and about 7 others of absolute crap. Forgive me for not be able to be optimistic anymore. How many times are we going to say 'next season is our season'??

[Daggers]

I admire anyone who truly believes we can make the play-offs.

I worry about their sanity.

[Happy Fox]

Win the next two and it is back on but the likelihood of that happening is slim, but never say never

[ozleicester]

Guys... for the very last time, GROW A PAIR AND SUPPORT YOUR CLUB! Yeah it is tough at times. Yeah we're up and down like a ****ing elevator. Yeah we're 7 points off the play-offs. Yeah we have a habit of being let down. Yeah we blame a different person every week. Yeah we need to get a consistent run together for once. But this is what we are about. We're Leicester City and would you really have it any other way? We do it the hard way, we always have, we always will and that is why we love our club so much. To those of you so called "fans" out there who have jumped back on the "We're shit" bandwagon take a long hard look at yourselves. It is really not so glum... We could be Forest! It's gonna be a tough ride on the run in but never say die! Foxes NEVER quit. So stop complaining, proudly get behind your team and sing your ****ing heart out for the lads! Lets get behind Nige and the players and drive us towards the play-offs! If we don't make it then we don't make it but next season we will go again. Each and every one of us. ♥ WE'RE LEICESTER CITY - KEEP THE FAITH ♥.

Too many negative people on here. You're supporters right? Well support!

Wow, you must be pretty short tempered, your 2nd? post and its for the "very last time",

[Milton Keynes Fox]

This time I refuse to be drawn in by the 'it's still possible' brigade.

I always fall for it and think that we will actually go on a run and sneak 6th, but then as always my hopes get crushed with a disappointing defeat against a shitty side.

Well now I refuse to get my hopes up. I'm getting off the optimism bus until next season.

League Season over, even if we beat Reading on Saturday.

Forget the league, let's go for the FA Cup!!

My thoughts exactly

[foxfanazer]

We should just enjoy the rest of the season for what it is and if anything good happens then bonus. We will be very good in some games and they will be entertaining to watch, we will also be very poor in games against poorer opposition which will be very frustrating. We are 1 game away from wembley and have the potential to beat chelsea on the day (based on how much better we play against good teams). My point is these massive over reactions to losses and wins are pointless. Let's start enjoying watching our team and not get so highly strung. PS I know I'm going to get eaten alive for this

[lcfcbaby]

After our back to back wins we had the pressure of expectation back again as fans we were hoping/expecting something was going to happen! That has probably got something to do with our loss!

Our league season may appear to be over but our cup is far from it!

[leicestercity_]

After our back to back wins we had the pressure of expectation back again as fans we were hoping/expecting something was going to happen! That has probably got something to do with our loss!

Our league season may appear to be over but our cup is far from it!

For me the league is Far from over but each to their own!! Games come thick and fast over this period.. We have a game in hand on Blackpool which with a win we would be 5 behind them! Anyone can beat anyone..

As for the FA cup.. Well we may just be facing Chelsea 'player power' fc when they hit some form.

[lcfcbaby]

I've jut realised were 8 points behind 5th place Blackpool with a game in hand over them! We are still with a chance!

[_Fatboyslow_]

glad someone agrees with me! Instead of coming on here and moaning, slating and being generally negative 24/7, we should generate some passion, back the team and accept it when we've played badly. 7 wins in 11 is hardly a bad run and Ashton Gate is always a tough place to go for us. Forget about it and move on for Reading. 7 points is not a mountain.

AND WE ARE STILL IN THE CUP and we should get a half decent ref for the chelsea game, so anything can happen

[NiftyFox]

If we beat Reading on Saturday all these doubters will believe we can still make it. Once we've played Brum, Blackpool and Hull then we can see if the season's over or not.

[jonlcfc1990]

We should just enjoy the rest of the season for what it is and if anything good happens then bonus. We will be very good in some games and they will be entertaining to watch, we will also be very poor in games against poorer opposition which will be very frustrating. We are 1 game away from wembley and have the potential to beat chelsea on the day (based on how much better we play against good teams). My point is these massive over reactions to losses and wins are pointless. Let's start enjoying watching our team and not get so highly strung. PS I know I'm going to get eaten alive for this

THIS

[Thracian]

The season is anything but over. There is still the faintest chance of reaching the play-off and having gone through various seasons without losing in my own sporting life, I know that anything is possible while the mathematics allow it.

But even if we fail to reach the play-offs we can start right now trying to build the sort of team which could. Let's not talk about another managerial change either... it's already been like a managerial pass-the-sodding-parcel at Leicester for a decade and it's got us nowhere.

Pearson's probably the best of an average-to-awful bunch (the choice we're likely to get in The Championship) but I'm quite sure even a bloke with his limitations can get us through to the Premieship at the very least.

First he needs to decide how he's going to do it and then to look ruthlessly at the players he's got and decide which of them will fit with his intentions.By the time we end this season we ought to have our own attitudes and basic pattern of play established with no obvious flaws in the components we use to do that.

It really is a clinical thing in the first instance. Strikers who guarantee a certain number of goals between them, wingers who deliver a certain number of crosses between them and chip in with an acceptable number of goals/assists. Central midfielders who provenly achieve a certain successful pass rate per game and also a certain "impact" pass rate - ie passes which might themelves or contribute to the creation of goals. Then we come to full-backs who provenly get into the opposition half a certain number of times and who themselves deliver a certain number of positive passes.

And so it goes on. The proof of every player is in the analysis if you look closely enough. If the analysis does speak highly enough there's two choices, Either you see enough in the player to show him how to improve to the level you require or you get rid. Whatever, you accept nothing less than what you require.

The same goes with free-kicks/corners. They need to be worked on and properly analysed. How many free-kicks/corners per game produce genuine goalscoring chances or goals? Establish the level you need and work towards getting it - with nothing less being acceptable.

This is just the start when it comes to what is necessary to win things. The only way you'll ever convince professional players they're falling short is to show em the figures that prove it. Once you do that the bright ones will show willing to improve.

Another thing is for the manager to establish in his mind the developing players within the club who he believes have the ability to mix with the first team and then to give them that chance...with some sort of consistency. This is not a matter of playing them once or twice then dropping them. But involving them for a period of time and analysing the good and bad in all they do - emphasising areas for improvement and praising the positive.

More generally, even throw-ins should be looked at. Every single aspect of the game should be made the most of. Times we take quick free-kicks in seemingly positive positions with no real thought to how we're going to make anything of them. That goes back to the thoughts of the old coaching gurus like Charles Hughes and Allen Wade whose often flawed theories did so much harm to the English game.

One the basic team is established comes the time for adding the finer elements, giving rein to individual talents, establishing mental thoughts to deal with particular situations and installing the psychological self-belief so necessary in a winning team of any sort.

Finally there's analysis of the opposition. A team must have complete faith in a manager's tactical ability...an attitude whereby, whatever the situation, their boss will think of something to improve things.

Do they have such people in The Championship? Maybe at Southampton. Whatever, we need Nigel Pearson or his appointed expert to know chapter and verse about opponents and exactly how best to combat them as individuals and as a unit.

With all that detail there's plenty to do. All the work, in fact, which will give us the chance of success. Providing the manager makes it sound simple as picking grapes from the vine to his players.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hughes_(football_coach)

http://www.wadardbooks.co.uk/acatalog/info_143.html

[Mythyaar]

Has anyone done the maths on the teams around us when Pompey get liquidated? We lose 2 points, but I'm assuming that puts us in a better situation than most of those in the top half who will have at least 3 points deducted?

[steveherbe]

Wasn't it only a couple of weeks ago NP threatened to shoot anyone with negative thoughts about play-offs? Just seen this on Clubcall:

Play-offs could be beyond us - Pearson

Obviously someone has jusy made coffee at the KP, and our Nige has just woken up and smelt (smelled???) it!!

[DanTheFox07]

Oh please, A team that can`t win more than 2 games in a row, even ipswich have managed better! Our promotion push is over and Pearson has all but confirmed it, FA cup is only thing we have to look forward to if we can beat chelsea against the odd`s?

[DanTheFox07]

Has anyone done the maths on the teams around us when Pompey get liquidated? We lose 2 points, but I'm assuming that puts us in a better situation than most of those in the top half who will have at least 3 points deducted?

Nobody want`s to see this Happen and wouldn`t want us to be in a better position because of this, I would prefer we earned the right off our own back to be in the play-off`s!

[Wherethefoxhat?]

Has anyone done the maths on the teams around us when Pompey get liquidated? We lose 2 points, but I'm assuming that puts us in a better situation than most of those in the top half who will have at least 3 points deducted?

Yep....we were talking about it coming home from last night's debacle . Clutching at straws i suppose !!

Oh please, A team that can`t win more than 2 games in a row, even ipswich have managed better! Our promotion push is over and Pearson has all but confirmed it, FA cup is only thing we have to look forward to if we can beat chelsea against the odd`s?

Speak for yourself !

[DanTheFox07]

Yep....we were talking about it coming home from last night's debacle . Clutching at straws i suppose !!

Speak for yourself !

why am I speaking for myself? be more specific! you think were still in with a chance of promotion? explain.....!

[lcfcbaby]

why am I speaking for myself? be more specific! you think were still in with a chance of promotion? explain.....!

We're 8 points behind 5th place blackpool with a game in hand! It's still mathematically possible and teams around us will not sustain their runs and some are yet to play each other! There is a slim chance of us reaching the playoffs but it's still a chance!

[Dan]

Season's over. Quote me, If we make the top 6 I'll post up a pic of my balls.