Guest Col city fan Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 I tried to make the point a few weeks ago that we are just an average team with average players. Not many people agreed if I recollect, still suggesting that we needed time to come good and to develop as a team. A good, confident, progressing side does not usually win every game... But neither does it churn out a great performance one week, to then revert back to struggling over the next few weeks. IMO a good side is one that goes out, most weeks, expecting not always to win, but always to put in a good performance with some structure, some effort and some belief. This was the strength underpinning the MON teams... None of our players were sensational in their own right... Sure there were some very good players, but none were much better than the others. But what they did do was to put in, week in, week out, consistent performances based upon a great team ethic and a tactical approach which made us hard to beat. This is why Pearson has such a massive task ahead of him. The players he has at his disposal are not consistently good enough. They can have some games where we all go 'wow!' (like Becks against Forest and Danns against Derby)... But such performances are all too rare which is why we are pretty shocked when they appear. IMO teams that are 'good enough' are 'good enough' on a consistent basis. They churn out victories, they battle for each other, they believe they can win more than they lose. This squad of players is miles off that... Literally miles away.. I think Pearson knows this and this is why he said what he said after the game. As I've said for months, I expect a big change in the summer. This squad is not good enough to mount a challenge... So I maintain what I said a couple of months ago.
Kitchandro Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Your correct spelling of prima donna has earned you a rep point. Use it wisely. I had to make sure it was two words I think we could do with some pre-madonna's though, the 60s and 70s sides seemed to be pretty decent
Kitchandro Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 I tried to make the point a few weeks ago that we are just an average team with average players. Not many people agreed if I recollect, still suggesting that we needed time to come good and to develop as a team. A good, confident, progressing side does not usually win every game... But neither does it churn out a great performance one week, to then revert back to struggling over the next few weeks. IMO a good side is one that goes out, most weeks, expecting not always to win, but always to put in a good performance with some structure, some effort and some belief. This was the strength underpinning the MON teams... None of our players were sensational in their own right... Sure there were some very good players, but none were much better than the others. But what they did do was to put in, week in, week out, consistent performances based upon a great team ethic and a tactical approach which made us hard to beat. This is why Pearson has such a massive task ahead of him. The players he has at his disposal are not consistently good enough. They can have some games where we all go 'wow!' (like Becks against Forest and Danns against Derby)... But such performances are all too rare which is why we are pretty shocked when they appear. IMO teams that are 'good enough' are 'good enough' on a consistent basis. They churn out victories, they battle for each other, they believe they can win more than they lose. This squad of players is miles off that... Literally miles away.. I think Pearson knows this and this is why he said what he said after the game. As I've said for months, I expect a big change in the summer. This squad is not good enough to mount a challenge... So I maintain what I said a couple of months ago. Spot on Col A lot of work to do
beryllind Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Lets get real, The owners must be seriously reconsidering their commitment to this club, they were looking for a higher profile within the media for their business and thought LCFC would provide that quickly for them, but the major advice they got must have been sh-t. Just hope they don't pull the plug.
FrankieADZ Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 I wouldn't. Mind but Reading aren't even good, they just played defensive negative football waited and then launched the ball forward to their two quick players and scored. However that seems to be a winning formula. In this league and a sure fire way to beat us. Atmosphere didn't help it was awful, not much singing and only back five rows stood. So winning 7 games on the spin before today makes them an average/poor team? Fook me. you must class that Arsenal invincibles team as a bunch of lucky bas*ads then.
NottsFox Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 I am starting to get really fed up of football. Spending money, time and commitment and wasting my life on this is a joke! The owners will run off before you know it! Watch this space.
purpleronnie Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 who would honestly take the Leicester job? Someone out of work.
NottsFox Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 who would honestly take the Leicester job? A lot of managers because it is a cracking job at first sight with all the backing and what have you. But after three months they will see what they have got themselves into!
Sisyphus Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Reading are a good side granted but do you honestly think it is acceptable for Leicester to lose 3-1 to a side like Reading if we honestly have any thoughts of the Play-offs etc, we should be aiming higher in my opinion. This result and this season so far is just not acceptable in my eyes Err, Reading are a good side, but it's not acceptable to lose to them? How does that work then? We have been averaging over 2 points per game since September. It took us a few games to adjust to losing Long and Mills (thanks for that btw)...Don't just look at the last 8- look at the last 30. #Big Bad Wolf
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 who would honestly take the Leicester job? Ron Atkinson with Desailly as his no.2. Dreams
Neil_LCFC Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 The fact that the season is nearly over & we haven't come from behind to win a single game says everything about the lack of character in our squad. They are ok when things are going well as soon as we go behind we are as good as beaten, losers the lot of them.
marbelladave Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Stringer's missing the point there. Yeh I don't want us to go skint chasing the dream. But fvcking hell, I'm fed up of this shitty league. We AREN'T winning a lot of games. We AREN'T entertaining. We AREN'T playing good football. I can't have any pride in my club if it's happy to be midtable in the Championship. That's not what sport is about. Sport is about trying to be the best. I want the O'Neill years back. I want to go to Wembley and I want to win trophies. I want to be able to say we've won the FA Cup as well. I want to beat big clubs. I want over 30,000 at home on a regular basis, I want optimism and great atmopsheres created by our fans beause we're not depressed. Yeh so OK, we might finish in the bottom half of the Prem, we might get thrashed occassionally. But we might have some really memorable wins. We'll have a realistic chance of getting to the latter stages of a cup competition. We'll be in the top division and people in other countries will know that when they see Premiership matches. I want to go to Italy in the summer and say 'Leicester are in the Premiership now, we beat Liverpool last week, here's a video of our fans going mental'. We've been down here too long. When's the last time we spent 9 years outside the top flight? It's not happened for at least 60 odd years. We are underperforming as a club. This is not even close to good enough. Fine post Kitch......
leicesterisme Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Steve Bruce is looking for a job Hope it stays that way.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Steve Bruce is looking for a job And why is he looking? Because he was in a relegation battle with players that have now reached 8th and a quarter final place in the FA cup under MON and are looking up and strong for a top 10 place minimum... So with player motivated skills like that lets get him in now
iamafox Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Steve Bruce is looking for a job But would he want to manage in the Championship though?
NeilyBoy Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Steve Bruce is looking for a job Your humour is very dry. I almost thought you were being serious.
MC Prussian Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 To the ones claiming that we're "shit": Get real. We're simply very... mediocre. As seen in the league table. I predict us winning three, four games max out of the remaining fixtures and finishing in the *ahem* respectable 10th position.
davieG Posted 10 March 2012 Author Posted 10 March 2012 The problem is not individual players being average most teams in this league are made up of average players, what we need is a stable team that know each other so well they know where they are going to put the ball you wont get that with constant changes which we've had for so many years know and all it's brought is ongoing failure to deliver even a modicum of success.
Guest Col city fan Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 The problem is not individual players being average most teams in this league are made up of average players, what we need is a stable team that know each other so well they know where they are going to put the ball you wont get that with constant changes which we've had for so many years know and all it's brought is ongoing failure to deliver even a modicum of success. I do agree... And I don't.. The teams that are doing very well this season generally have some very good players at this level that can change a game with individual ability. West Ham... Nolan, Noble, Green... Very good, consistent players at this level Southampton... Ricky Lambert has scored 26? goals in the league and Adam Lallana has been exceptional Cardiff... Peter Whittingham and Kenny Miller... Both very good at this level. You're right about changes etc but the better sides do have some better players in. The 'better players' that we were meant to have in our team (Mills and Beckford) have failed us miserably.
LCFCCHRIS Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 Need to have a jumble sale of players in the summer
Sisyphus Posted 10 March 2012 Posted 10 March 2012 I do agree... And I don't.. The teams that are doing very well this season generally have some very good players at this level that can change a game with individual ability. West Ham... Nolan, Noble, Green... Very good, consistent players at this level Southampton... Ricky Lambert has scored 26? goals in the league and Adam Lallana has been exceptional Cardiff... Peter Whittingham and Kenny Miller... Both very good at this level. You're right about changes etc but the better sides do have some better players in. The 'better players' that we were meant to have in our team (Mills and Beckford) have failed us miserably. Yet Reading (whom you fail to mention) have averaged over 2pts per game since last September. With a squad mainly made up from our acadamy...name our "stars"?
davieG Posted 10 March 2012 Author Posted 10 March 2012 I do agree... And I don't.. The teams that are doing very well this season generally have some very good players at this level that can change a game with individual ability. West Ham... Nolan, Noble, Green... Very good, consistent players at this level Southampton... Ricky Lambert has scored 26? goals in the league and Adam Lallana has been exceptional Cardiff... Peter Whittingham and Kenny Miller... Both very good at this level. You're right about changes etc but the better sides do have some better players in. The 'better players' that we were meant to have in our team (Mills and Beckford) have failed us miserably. Maybe those players are showing their best form because they're in a settled, stable organically developed team where their team mates know how to get the best out of them. We keep swapping managers and throwing new players, not just one or two but 5,6,7 etc into the mix and expect instant, consistent winning results, it rarely if ever happens like. Plenty of people are saying Reading are average and they've lost 2 of the best performing players in the league last year from their squad, but they've simply replaced them and carried on slowly developing their squad whilst making shit loads of money rather than spending shit loads and are currently 2nd equals.
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