MC Prussian Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Spot on , so would I it seems his attitude towards a lot of things doesn't do him any favours , it was a similar attitude on transfer deadline night well I won't be staying up until that time it's not my job , I'm feeling a tide is turning here I didn't hear many positive response on RL tonight on the phone in , I'm wondering what the owners are thinking now as they fly out of the ground in the helicopter back to London Since when are the calls made to Radio Leicester representative of the general consensus? There is no tide turning, merely many fans unhappy with yesterday's performance. Pearson played one of our strongest starting XI (with the exception of Albrighton and Kramaric maybe). The most disappointing thing is that I've seen the team put in good shifts, even during that bad run. I always thought they showed enough resilience and dedication regardless of the result, which is indicator of a good team spirit and togetherness. There's talent in this squad, no doubt. But one could expect more urgency against a team that is within our reach if we want to survive in this league. The players' commitment were at fault against Palace and that general half-heartedness is what's getting me down more than anything. Apart from two, three players (Cambiasso or Mahrez, for instance) the rest pretty much flattered to deceive. The amount of wasted chances in the second part of the first half flabbergasting. That's amateurish. What the owners are thinking? Probably "Gee, suck it up. Three points off safety still. We can do this. Now off to London for a posh restaurant."
CosbehFox Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Rather play the likes of the big boys and give em a game than going back to another season of wolves,reading,ipswich n co.... I support the club because its my club. Not because of who we play. This obsession with the top flight really pisses me off.
MC Prussian Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Of course. There are people out there who seem keen to embrace relegation, as if we were a Blackpool, a Burnley, a Swindon, a Barnsley, or a Bradford, and always knew we weren't cut out for this sort of thing. We're where we want to be, where we've been for half of the last 60 years, and we have to do everything in our power to stay here. If we go down, we have to make sure that when we do finally go back up, it's with someone who can keep us there. The idea that relegation is completely acceptable for a club like ours, or that losing to pretty much anyone is alright because they're probably better than us, smacks of a hopeless lack of ambition. Our last relegation from this league saw us in the wilderness for a generation, and drop into the third tier for the first time ever. The one before that saw the club financially fold. The one before that preceded a seven year absence, when we also nearly went down to the third tier. Don't we learn anything, ever? You mean your definiton of "ambition"? Anything is still possible before the final whistle goes in May. It won't be the end of the world if we should go down again, as we have everything in place to compete in the Championship. Our wage bill is rather reasonable, finances healthy, debts paid off, infrastructure refurbished, we have a more than decent fanbase and with the experience from this first season back in the top flight, it'll have done the players the world of good. Maybe they'll learn something from it. I also think we'd be looking at letting some of the bigger disappointments go this summer (e.g. Morgan, Konchesky, etc.) and add a few young and talented players to the squad to complement it. Relegation this time around would hardly be comparable to the last few instances, where we went down stuck in much more financial troubles or with a lot less talented squad. You out of all people should know that.
Munshi Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 We will get 6 points from the next 3 games and we'll beat QPR at home on the final day of the season to stay up. Here first.
Gubbins Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 It won't be the end of the world if we should go down again, as we have everything in place to compete in the Championship. Our wage bill is rather reasonable, finances healthy, debts paid off, infrastructure refurbished, we have a more than decent fanbase and with the experience from this first season back in the top flight, it'll have done the players the world of good. Maybe they'll learn something from it. Sorry but how will a season of being beaten almost every week have done the players any good at all? The belief and confidence simply won't be there come the start of next season. Also certain players will have 'learnt' that they aren't cut out for the top division and face the bench/reserves if we're promoted. That isn't gonna make them play any better!
Happy Fox Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Sorry but how will a season of being beaten almost every week have done the players any good at all? The belief and confidence simply won't be there come the start of next season. Also certain players will have 'learnt' that they aren't cut out for the top division and face the bench/reserves if we're promoted. That isn't gonna make them play any better! I agree wholeheartedly Gubbins this experience isn't like failing in the playoffs when you feel like shit and have that self motivation to wipe the league clean i.e us and Dierby (this season). Getting relegated is a whole new ballgame both the manager and the players many of them know they aren't cut out for the top flight will they have the motivation and desire to get promotion knowing that they are likely to get moved on? I don't think so.
ithuriel Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I think we are a certainty to go down, no change in being able to score goals even when we create a fair few chances and with the transfer window closed. Just hoping now they can show enough not to be bottom come the end of the season.
Benguin Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Yes we're in a bad situation. No I wouldn't put money on I staying up. BUT With 14 games to go and only 3 away from safety it can not be dismissed. If after Arsenal, Everton and Man City we are worse off then I'll make no attempt to argue against the relegation fan club. For now however, let's get behind our team and have a cracker. I expect nothing short of a huge singing, happy crowd at Arsenal away. To be fair to the relegation lot though, I did hear a cracker at the stadium yesterday. Kramaric comes on and over touches his first ball. "Get him off Pearson!"
Bayfox Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 sad thing is burnley or qpr who we were a country mile better than last season are gonna stay up. due to us and villa being completely ****ing useless.
Tielemans63 Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 sad thing is burnley or qpr who we were a country mile better than last season are gonna stay up. due to us and villa being completely ****ing useless. I agree completely. The worst thing about this season is that the position we find ourselves in is almost entirely of our own making. Look at Burnley, Dyche gets loads of stick on here but they are organised, they are well drilled and they're positive. We just seem to have lost our way almost completely.
Raj Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I support the club because its my club. Not because of who we play. This obsession with the top flight really pisses me off. I DO and have supported them too over the last 20 years...LIke i said though i'd sooner our club challenge at the highest possible level against the best in England with players who are world class than play on a TUesday night against Wigan with 18,000 there...your happy with that for the rest of your life then great.
Babylon Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I DO and have supported them too over the last 20 years...LIke i said though i'd sooner our club challenge at the highest possible level against the best in England with players who are world class than play on a TUesday night against Wigan with 18,000 there...your happy with that for the rest of your life then great. How much world class play we seen this season? There are a lot of decent players, but in terms of real top level quality it's been utter shit this season except for a few flashes (and I'm talking from both teams). I've been quite surprised.
teblin Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 How much world class play we seen this season? There are a lot of decent players, but in terms of real top level quality it's been utter shit this season except for a few flashes (and I'm talking from both teams). I've been quite surprised.. True a lot of time we've beaten ourselves
MC Prussian Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I DO and have supported them too over the last 20 years...LIke i said though i'd sooner our club challenge at the highest possible level against the best in England with players who are world class than play on a TUesday night against Wigan with 18,000 there...your happy with that for the rest of your life then great. Sorry, but unless you're Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United or Manchester City, that won't happen in a million years. Or did I misread your sentence? It's highly unlikely we'll ever get to those spheres. And in all seriousness, can and do we want to? The intriguing fact about this club is that we've never been "up there" and that we've thrived on the underdog label. We've reached stability within the club and stand on solid footing. Now we're aiming for stability in terms of sportive success. And that might take a while. Even if it means getting relegated and having to push for a return to the Premier League once more.
smudger63 Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 How much world class play we seen this season? There are a lot of decent players, but in terms of real top level quality it's been utter shit this season except for a few flashes (and I'm talking from both teams). I've been quite surprised. Which is what makes our current position all the more annoying. I`ve been surprised at just how average the majority of teams have been in this league. Just shows what a good job Sky TV, The FA and the media have done in hyping the league up into something it isn`t.
Stevie Synex Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Sorry, but unless you're Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United or Manchester City, that won't happen in a million years. Or did I misread your sentence? It's highly unlikely we'll ever get to those spheres. And in all seriousness, can and do we want to? The intriguing fact about this club is that we've never been "up there" and that we've thrived on the underdog label. We've reached stability within the club and stand on solid footing. Now we're aiming for stability in terms of sportive success. And that might take a while. Even if it means getting relegated and having to push for a return to the Premier League once more. Agreed. The most important thing is the club and the clubs stability - our beloved club that has been with us over 130 years and hopefully for atleast 130 more. We are fortunate to be able to enjoy a relativly good passage in the clubs history but let us not forget the last time we were relegated we nearly lost the club. I do not think that will not happen this time. We mere mortals are spectators during our passage in time and should embrace and enjoy what our club provides us with - long live the club.
Number 6 Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Yesterday was a turning point for me. The gap doesn't matter, it's the points you end the season on, but I just have no confidence in us putting away the likes of Newcastle and QPR at home given recent losses to Stoke and Palace. We played ok but, in the last 15 minutes really failed to put Palace under any sort of pressure. The side didn't look like one who believed they could get something. Having said that, and thinking we are down, there is no point giving up for various reasons. We've seen we are capable of decent runs and 5 wins would potentially be enough. Wigan and Sunderland have, in past seasons, gone on these kind of runs and pulled clear. Also, there is a lot of dross down there and teams like Villa could well get dragged in. We may now be in the position where we need to get something against a big club, but we have done that before this season. I know we all pick apart what's gone wrong this season but it has to be put into perspective. The 3 promoted teams occupy the bottom 3. All of us have gone about it in different ways: spending loads or not spending, it hasn't altered it. I think the step up was perhaps just a lot larger than many of us thought. We maybe getting the £60m TV money at the end of the season but we're competing with sides who had an extra year of those huge sums. Things will not always go to plan. We're by no means guaranteed to come straight back up should we go down, but we have a great advantage in having a squad who has proved excellent in the division and now is in a healthier financial position. WBA had years of yoyoing before establishing themselves. It's a bitter pill to swallow, and this year has been very depressing, but relegation would not be the end of the world.
Guest Col city fan Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I agree with Seenitall...and I don't often say that.. This season didn't HAVE to be this bad. It genuinely didn't. No-one is saying we were going to get to the dizzy heights of top 6/7. Neither did we have to be bottom of the table amidst sides who themselves are proving poor this season. It didn't have to be this way. It's excuses again and I'm afraid, we've been reading them all season usually from the same posters. There seems little point in going round and round in circles. The Pro Pearson lads will not accept how rubbish we've been this season. But if you look at our stats, our points, our goals scored, our goals conceded, the reality is we've been nothing other than very poor. The biggest disappointment is that Pearson doesn't seem to have learnt much. He's still playing the 4-4-2 and actually, our form is now worse than it was early in the season.
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 Of course. There are people out there who seem keen to embrace relegation, as if we were a Blackpool, a Burnley, a Swindon, a Barnsley, or a Bradford, and always knew we weren't cut out for this sort of thing. We're where we want to be, where we've been for half of the last 60 years, and we have to do everything in our power to stay here. If we go down, we have to make sure that when we do finally go back up, it's with someone who can keep us there. The idea that relegation is completely acceptable for a club like ours, or that losing to pretty much anyone is alright because they're probably better than us, smacks of a hopeless lack of ambition. Our last relegation from this league saw us in the wilderness for a generation, and drop into the third tier for the first time ever. The one before that saw the club financially fold. The one before that preceded a seven year absence, when we also nearly went down to the third tier. Don't we learn anything, ever? THIS
CosbehFox Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I DO and have supported them too over the last 20 years...LIke i said though i'd sooner our club challenge at the highest possible level against the best in England with players who are world class than play on a TUesday night against Wigan with 18,000 there...your happy with that for the rest of your life then great.Maybe I see a bigger picture that football is cyclic sport. Teams go up, teams come down. We will go back up in my lifetime if we go down. History tells us that regardless of era's. Of course I'd like to see us in the top flight but it's not era of the world, it's not the end of my Saturday afternoons. Let's we stay up this season, is worth celebrating that we are 17th best club in the country who won 9 games all season? Football is a roller coaster, partocularly City. I'd hate a constant run of seasons finishing 11th, 14th, 12th, 11th. I have had as many laughs and memorable days in the likes of Huddersfield, Barnsley and other provincial grounds than I have in the likes of Manchester and London. If we wtay up great stuff, maybe we can push on. If we go down oh well, we will be back to being where we were during the majority of my life.
LCCFox96 Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I agree with Seenitall...and I don't often say that.. This season didn't HAVE to be this bad. It genuinely didn't. No-one is saying we were going to get to the dizzy heights of top 6/7. Neither did we have to be bottom of the table amidst sides who themselves are proving poor this season. It didn't have to be this way. It's excuses again and I'm afraid, we've been reading them all season usually from the same posters. There seems little point in going round and round in circles. The Pro Pearson lads will not accept how rubbish we've been this season. But if you look at our stats, our points, our goals scored, our goals conceded, the reality is we've been nothing other than very poor. The biggest disappointment is that Pearson doesn't seem to have learnt much. He's still playing the 4-4-2 and actually, our form is now worse than it was early in the season. I'm vocally pro Pearson on the forum but I DO accept the team has been poor in most games this season and our form up till now deserves relegation. I'm just as frustrated as the next Leicester fan, pro or anti Pearson, and our situation is far from rosy. My issue lies with the key words in that statement: - "our form up till now". That could still change. We are 3-5 points off the pace with a tough run coming up but can't realistically or affirmatively say we are down just yet! So it seems to me that the anti-Pearson posters want us to either one of two things: 1) Accept relegation and sulk about in the stands until in inevitably happens. 2) Call for Pearson's head, enjoy watching him get sacked and pray someone else works miracles with the side I'm not prepared to do either of those. I won't accept we are down until we actually are dead and buried and I don't want Pearson replaced because I A) Don't see who will replace him now, B) Who will replace him and do a good job, C) Should the worst happen he's a manager that knows the lower leagues and D) He's built the promising squad we have today, he just needs to get it to deliver, which I think he can still do this season. It annoys me when people call for the players to show more desire and fight, chant "get into em" etc and are fully behind the team at 3pm before being ready to bash them 5pm. We're struggling in the league above and it looks bleak right now. C'est la vie. We need to pick ourselves up and go onto the next one. Its time for the manager, the players AND the fans to stand up and be counted.
weller54 Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I'm vocally pro Pearson on the forum but I DO accept the team has been poor in most games this season and our form up till now deserves relegation. I'm just as frustrated as the next Leicester fan, pro or anti Pearson, and our situation is far from rosy. My issue lies with the key words in that statement: - "our form up till now". That could still change. We are 3-5 points off the pace with a tough run coming up but can't realistically or affirmatively say we are down just yet! So it seems to me that the anti-Pearson posters want us to either one of two things: 1) Accept relegation and sulk about in the stands until in inevitably happens. 2) Call for Pearson's head, enjoy watching him get sacked and pray someone else works miracles with the side I'm not prepared to do either of those. I won't accept we are down until we actually are dead and buried and I don't want Pearson replaced because I A) Don't see who will replace him now, B) Who will replace him and do a good job, C) Should the worst happen he's a manager that knows the lower leagues and D) He's built the promising squad we have today, he just needs to get it to deliver, which I think he can still do this season. It annoys me when people call for the players to show more desire and fight, chant "get into em" etc and are fully behind the team at 3pm before being ready to bash them 5pm. We're struggling in the league above and it looks bleak right now. C'est la vie. We need to pick ourselves up and go onto the next one. Its time for the manager, the players AND the fans to stand up and be counted. Good Rallying post... But have you seen the number of Zulu's up on the hill??
Lasty Posted 8 February 2015 Posted 8 February 2015 I honestly think we're done for. The straws to clutch at are getting fewer and further between. I'll still be there, division is irrelevant for me, I just like going to watch city. However, I am disappointed in them this season. They've never really looked good enough barring a couple of all too fleeting moments.
foxes_rule1978 Posted 16 May 2015 Posted 16 May 2015 No coming back from this. #Iwaswrong #soveryverywrong Well done...
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