hackneyfox Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 This is the type of match that I know expect us to lose, which is quite depressing. On the one hand we put so many balls into the box, on another day we would have definitely scored at least one. But on the other, we've got no one to blame but ourselves. Yes the goal at the end should have stood. It was a classic case of the goalkeeper being too shit to catch the ball under pressure and the referee giving a free kick for no reason. It's the kind of decision we should make more of because the referees get away with this blatant favourtisim towards keepers time and time again. But it shouldn't overshadow what was an incompetent performance. We looked very dangerous from Marshall's great deliveries from setpieces but the truth is we struggled to create chances from open play throughout. Even when we did get a few balls in the box near the end our other players showed a complete disregard for getting on the end of them. Our winger situation is still dire. Or should that be Dyer. Once again, with a weak defence there for the taking (and no surprisingly I don't mean our own, I'll get to that) he consistently failed to even attempt to beat his man. Then when the time came for him to produce some actual football skill and all he does is randomly swing his odd shaped leg in the direction of the ball in the faint hope he will make decent contact. Largely this results in him scuffing it or spooning it into space. Both these things happened a number of times when he was in good positions , notably with his brilliant chance in the second half. Then we move onto Marshall. Now, I think he deserves a lot of credit today, he worked hard throughout and his delivery was spot on most of the time. He was always looking to shoot or put in a telling cross. But we've been crying out for a winger for a long long time now and that is what he's supposed to be. Except it would be too orthodox to play a winger out wide, oh now, Pearson's genius tells him to play Marshall in the centre, and even when he is played out wide, he instructs him to come inside amongst the congestion of the centre part of the pitch. How does this solve our problems of width and creatvity? If he's a winger, play him out wide. If he's not, get another one. a PROPER winger. Not only is he out of position but you've got Nugent as well, a striker, oddly enough playing some sort of wide role. Now I appreciate that Pearson is trying to play a variation of 4-3-3 but there is one slight flaw in his plan: It's bollocks. Nugent is our top scorer, not a wide man, he and Beckford (or whichever sod wants to play for us) need to be up front together, as a two, because that was working a few weeks ago. I'm not sure who this new system suits at all. What is it with Pearson and square pegs in round holes? Central midfielders out wide, strikers out wide, wingers in the centre. He even had Wes Morgan up front for about 20 minutes. Which yeh is good in theory if you want him to knock them around, but it wasn't like he was part of a 5 man strike-force, it was just him, and our strikers and midfielders dropped off I don't understand how we can dominate possession in a match and find it so hard to create chances from open play, yet they play one 30 yard pass over the top and they're on the end of it with a chance. Actually I do have an idea of what the problem might be and that's Lee Peltier. I haven't rated him since before Christmas but I didn't realise how unbelievably dog shit he was until today. The amount of times he is caught out of position is staggering. He is on the halfway line every time the opposition is coming down the left! I find this quite strange considering he offers nothing going forward, every pass is sideways or backwards, he can't cross and he can't skin anyone. Konchesky meanwhile, is up and down the pitch all game, supporting our attacking play, and then, as seen several times today, sprinting over the other side of the pitch to cover Peltier at right back! Bamba is not a holding midfielder, he can't pass and is too slow in possession, lets drop that experiment. Schmeichel IS getting worse, he's less confident than ever with crosses and his kicking gets even more terrible by the match. Stowell is shit, sack him. We're a poor team and people need to realise this. As I've been saying for some time, we need to replace a few players and we need to replace them with better ones who have a specific purpose. If they're a winger they need to get the ball out wide, and I stress out wide, run at people, beat people, commit defenders, find space and either score or put it on a plate for our strikers. Us not scoring today was our own fault, just as conceding was our fault. We need new players and we need them in the summer. Not next January. Not next season. Not when these current crap ones retire. We have not played well today, we have simply had a lot of the ball. Our performance was actually terrible. Again. Against ANOTHER shit club near the bottom. it was one of those games where we could have gone on all night and we'd still not score. But that's not because all the luck was against us, it's simply because we were too shit to score a goal against Peterborough. (With the wrongly disallowed goal duly noted). Spot on Why Pearson continues with this ridiculous formation is beyond me, clueless against Hull, Forest and now today. He's starting to remind me of Adams, he seems to have lost the plot, his positioning of players in the last 4 games is a joke, at our expense. I'm not wasting anymore money this season and I was looking forward to Millwall.
Out Foxed Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 I can't disagree with your point about attacking the ball. Marshall put in some good crosses but we allowed them to dominate us in the air, nowhere near aggressive enough. A bit of spine in the air would have seen us take three points today because, as has already been said, they were shit. most the crosses were too deep.
fox ache Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 I don't know i'm sure probably did say similar things in our relegation season but I think i'm more frustrated and annoyed this season than back then, probably because of the expectations from pre-season, I wasn't OTT expect automatic, but play-offs were reasonable and minimum expectation - whether that be 6th or 3rd I was just asking for playoffs, but we have been a mid-table team all year and that's where we are, huge disappointment. I probably will be there with my ST next season but finding it hard to get the enthusiasm to renew, then again i've been a season ticket holder for all these years, what if next year is our year and I miss out because this huge disappointment of a season has put me off buying a ST - I think we have to make it next year or it'll be shit or bust next season, I don't think the owners will leave this year but next year if we fail? Maybe. I think attendance will drop in the few weeks of the season left and possible next year unless we have a good start to next season. Its like a lottery syndicate......Totally had enough and want to pull out, but i know if i did, they`d win !!!!!!! So i`ll just keep going until one year, i can say i told you i was right...
Corky Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 most the crosses were too deep. They weren't. A couple might've been, but most were begging to be attacked and create a bit of havoc in their box.
Simmo86 Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 Go **** yourself - the reaction at the end was entirely reasonable and understandable. On my mobile on the train back so can't be bothered to elaborate with reasons why. By the way - I'm amazed there hasn't been a thread yet about how bad that Drinkwater free-kick at the end was - deserves his own pile of criticism for how unbelievably shit that was at such a late stage in the game. The performance today didn't warrant that reaction, we didn't lose today due to lack of effort, we lost down to individuals not taking their chances. Booing is acceptable when the effort isn't there, I didn't see that today. I'm not saying we were amazing today but we were nowhere near as bad as what some are making out on here and if thats the standard of performance we're going to start booing at then we might aswell not bother!
ScouseFox Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 The whole giving up on the team thing will be cast aside by most when we get caught up in the transfer hype, favourites for promotion, big name signings and an opening day win etc. Same as every other year.
Master Fox Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 How about a simple......"I don't care" There you go. That's my view of our club. Let it go. Do something else with your lives.
HEGGSY Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 The whole giving up on the team thing will be cast aside by most when we get caught up in the transfer hype, favourites for promotion, big name signings and an opening day win etc. Same as every other year. We're literally the most predictable set of fans I've ever known.
purpleronnie Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 forget all this nonsense. How did the melbourne song do?
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 The reaction at the end was a culmination of a long, underwhelming, disappointing season. Add in the fact that half of those underachievers couldn't wait to get down the tunnel. I didn't think we played too badly, we certainly had a fair amount of shots and corners and at least there are chances we can point to that we perhaps should have taken (St Ledger and Dyer the biggest culprits). The same couldn't be said against Forest on Tuesday. I think the biggest positive today was Marshall. I thought he was quality and his set pieces were fantastic. People saying he's a winger, play him out wide, why? The guy looked ok but nothing at more when he first joined and was playing wide, Pearson moves him into the middle and he scores a couple of goals and is involved with 90% of our attacking play. Keep him in that hole please. I actually think Bamba did well again when he was in centre midfield, I'm not sure him and Morgan suit each other too well despite being our best central defenders in terms of ability. It was when he moved to the back in place of St Ledger that we started looking a lot more shakey at the back. Drinkwater clearly has ability but needs to start doing more and imposing himself on matches rather than decorating them here and there with nice touches. Peltier I thought was, and has recently been. one of our worst. I remember a guy at the start of the season who looked a valuable replacement for Naughton. A full back that bombed forward, ran at his man, got crosses in. All we see now is him get the ball, stop, turn back, and play a simple pass to his centre half. Get running down that wing again! Beckford. I don't like him, but today doesn't help his cause does it? Another distinctly average performance and attitude to boot. If he's been working his behind off ALL game, showed some worth and then has a little strop it's not ideal but perhaps forgiveable. To so publicly undermine Pearson is out of order, I'll back Pearson whatever he chooses to do. Pearson's shown far more faith and patience with him that others would have done, if he goes the way of Mills I'll back that. Cutting out this sort of thing is what is needed to ensure we don't suffer another season of overpaid, underperforming, egotistical clowns. Yes he might have chased back just prior but that's what I expect of our players why should he be given leniency for that? The exhaustion argument is redundant too, there was a good 20 seconds between us winning the free kick and it being taken during which he could have strolled towards the area. There were at least two of our players who tried to encourage him forward to no avail. A striker, a goal scorer, a poacher not willing to get in the area in the last minute when a chance could quite conceivably drop to him? No excuse for that and the only explanation is an attitude that we don't need.
Corky Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 Michael Oliver was poor, for me. Looked like a handball in the first half when Nugent had a shot and it was never a foul on the keeper by Morgan.
Simmo86 Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 forget all this nonsense. How did the melbourne song do? Didnt really take off Decent end today though
Craig Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 The performance today didn't warrant that reaction, we didn't lose today due to lack of effort, we lost down to individuals not taking their chances. Booing is acceptable when the effort isn't there, I didn't see that today. I'm not saying we were amazing today but we were nowhere near as bad as what some are making out on here and if thats the standard of performance we're going to start booing at then we might aswell not bother! Exactly.
The People's Hero Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 How about a simple......"I don't care" There you go. That's my view of our club. Let it go. Do something else with your lives. This is my honest view. But I can't stop myself checking scores, hoping for something better, going to games etc. And I let it upset me, a 28 year old man! I'm trying to bring my son up as a Leicester fan but in truth, I might give that up for his sake, not just LCFC but try to educate him that following a football team.. and I have done it all round the country, really is not worthwhile. I wonder, if I could switch off lcfc in my head/consciousness, would I? I'd like to keep all the positive memories etc but if I could turn off the love for the club, would I? At the moment, probably. But then what would we do on Saturdays and moan about?
Guest ttfn Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 By the way - I'm amazed there hasn't been a thread yet about how bad that Drinkwater free-kick at the end was - deserves his own pile of criticism for how unbelievably shit that was at such a late stage in the game. Agree with this entirely. He just half-heartedly walked up to the ball and leathered it into the stand.
Kitchandro Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 The performance today didn't warrant that reaction, we didn't lose today due to lack of effort, we lost down to individuals not taking their chances. Booing is acceptable when the effort isn't there, I didn't see that today. I'm not saying we were amazing today but we were nowhere near as bad as what some are making out on here and if thats the standard of performance we're going to start booing at then we might aswell not bother! It's relative to opposition though. Against some sides we would have lost heavily today. Against Peterborough the scoreline looks somewhat respecatble. But our defending was as bad as I've seen it today in terms of just letting them have the ball in space and not picking up players. Having a lot of the ball does not equate to a decent performance. Having the amount of possession that we had today and creating that few chances is disgraceful. I wouldn't mind but our tactics seem to be getting worse, strikers who were banging them in a while ago are now playing on the wing and despite buying a winger because we really needed one we are now playing him in the centre. Dyer was awful again yet we've shown no signs of replacing him at any point. We're still not improving and we seem to be trying to everything to fvck things up. The boos at the end today were a culmination of the disappointments that continue. With nothing to play for anymore the players can feel as down and as low on confidence as they want, because fans have a right to their opinion and they're fed up.
Guest Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 How can a 1-0 loss to a team in the bottom third of the division look respectable to a team that said they'd win the league.
Kitchandro Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 forget all this nonsense. How did the melbourne song do? Not well, and in a sober state I can now see why. We butcher almost every song by trying to make it sound drab. When you're smiling has always been a great example but the melbourne song takes it to a new level. People, on the video, they sing 'DA DA DA DA...' at the top their voice, at a slowish pace. They don't mumble 'der der der der' really quickly. Instead of sounding like a passionate army of supporters we make it sound like Birkett house doing a nursery rhyme.
NewburyFox Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 How we didn't score today is beyond me. We didn't create much in open play, but we could've scored a few times from corners, freekicks and the like. 23 shots, including 12 on target, and to not score is amazing. We weren't that good but the performance certainly didn't warrant the reaction at the end. As for Beckford, I'm not using him as a scapegoat today but he really did get on my nerves. Very rarely holds the ball up, no physical presence upfront, a diabolic first touch and I lost count of the number of times that we lost possession by him trying a fancy flick. It's unneccessary and we would do so much better if he were to hold onto the ball. It seemed to me from the terrace (and I want to see it again) that he chickened out of getting on the end of Schlupp's deflected shot at the end. It appeared that all he had to do was make decent contact with the ball, but he left it drift out for a corner as he would've got clattered by the Posh player. Like I said I want to see it again, but if that's true then it's shocking. Chasing back doesn't excuse him from not taking that hit for the team. Nugent should've had a blatent penalty too, and was also lucky to avoid a red in the current climate.
CasperBlue Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 Stats show posession was 50 50, Posh 7 shots on target as against 11 for the Foxes.(only shots on target tend to become goals).
Corky Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 How we didn't score today is beyond me. We didn't create much in open play, but we could've scored a few times from corners, freekicks and the like. 23 shots, including 12 on target, and to not score is amazing. We weren't that good but the performance certainly didn't warrant the reaction at the end. As for Beckford, I'm not using him as a scapegoat today but he really did get on my nerves. Very rarely holds the ball up, no physical presence upfront and I lost count of the number of times that we lost possession by him trying a fancy flick. It's unneccessary and we would do so much better if he were to hold onto the ball. It seemed to me from the terrace (and I want to see it again) that he chickened out of getting on the end of Schlupp's deflected shot at the end. It appeared that all he had to do was make decent contact with the ball, but he left it drift out for a corner as he would've got clattered by the Posh player. Like I said I want to see it again, but if that's true then it's shocking. Chasing back doesn't excuse him from not taking that hit for the team. Nugent should've had a blatent penalty too, and was also lucky to avoid a red in the current climate. Both of Dyer's shots were awful, one blazed wildly over and the other almost back pass strength. Marshall tested their keeper but St Ledger's miss was the worst at the start of the second half.
Dan Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 We're so shit it's embarrassing. Just pips the 07/08 relegation season. It really has been one extreme to another.
Leicester_Loyal Posted 31 March 2012 Posted 31 March 2012 Really started to worry about Peltier, just not good enough. I think Beckford will be off in the summer, and tbh I don't mind. Also Dyer isn't good enough, we need a better left winger. And ffs please work on our corners.
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