Pun free Leicester thread

[jaffka]

Life bish. You should try it.

yes - but what on earth has me gently teasing Bruce about his Knight-o-phobia in reference to something me and WtW said to him at the game got to do with who signed knight? and if you have a life - why is randomly announcing who signed knight such a stand-out fun event for you?

perhaps you could really enjoy life to the max and randomly point out which manager signed other players - that would be such a hoot!

You are just missing the insane one.

[thebish]

aye... the panic-fannies are taking over the asylum...

I could understand it if this was a forum for 12yr-olds....

[NiceHotCuppaTea]

[Athers]

I'm curious about this "go and outscore" approach, when everyone here would have bet their house on us going for a 0-1 smash and grab win, during which we'd spend all our time keeping control the game... without the ball?

I suppose if we'd conceded that 75minute goal at 0-0 and then another on the break at the end it'd have just felt routine, there is something so much worse about a 5-3 than a 2-0.

Nevertheless this isn't the result to focus on, I don't think it's a straw to break the back. In fact three points from two back-to-back away games on short rest could be seen as not a problem.... but that five.. The home form is the killer isn't it.

[thebish]

I'm curious about this "go and outscore" approach, when everyone here would have bet their house on us going for a 0-1 smash and grab win, during which we'd spend all our time keeping control the game... without the ball?

for the first 10mins or so - it DID look like we were setting up for a dour 0-0 or a fortunate 0-1 smash and grab late winner..

but conceding early on - and looking as if we would concede another hatful before WtW had unscrewed his flask - forced a change in attitude...

[Leyther]

Yesterday was the second time I've seen the Wanderers this season. Awful, awful, awful. I'm not into massive tactical analysis or intricate discussions about formations but anybody who has ever watched or played football would surely have been scratching their heads wondering what Freedman was trying to achieve there yesterday.

Three goals away from home, exciting 8 goal thriller etc etc but from minute one there was only ever going to be one winner of that game yesterday and it wasn't us. Was our starting line up any less talented than theirs? Where we playing a team with way more financial clout than ourselves? Some of Leicester's defending was woeful but we looked all over the place every single time they came forward.

I now live in Leicester so have taken some right stick for this one, I sat in the home end with Leicester fans, relatively close to the dug outs. Freedman's demeanour and body language was of a man lost - bewildered by his own overly complicated tactics and systems. He spent most of the last five to ten minutes in the technical area scratching his head.

I don't watch the whites enough anymore to comment much beyond this one game but the league position and continuing faltering results tell their own story. The worst thing is that I really don't care that much anymore. Under Megson I'd get irate and come for a rant on here, now its just a shrug of the shoulders and wait for Leigh to start playing again.

I don't watch or support the Wanderers expecting to win every week, I've seen more than my fair share of shocking matches and seasons (the news of Comstive bringing back some rather fond memories of a standard of football supposedly far worse than that we experience now), I can handle mid table mediocrity and the occasional relegation but pay to watch this clueless cretin tinker week in and week out, in the arrogant belief that he knows far more than us?? No thanks.

[thebish]

on the off-chance that anyone was wondering, there was no booing from the Bolton fans yesterday - and no unrest to speak of - no dougie-out chanting - no chanting against any of the players... generally good spirits all round...

[jaffka]

on the off-chance that anyone was wondering, there was no booing from the Bolton fans yesterday - and no unrest to speak of - no dougie-out chanting - no chanting against any of the players... generally good spirits all round...

The christmas spirit prevails

[StaffsTrotter]

on the off-chance that anyone was wondering, there was no booing from the Bolton fans yesterday - and no unrest to speak of - no dougie-out chanting - no chanting against any of the players... generally good spirits all round...

whats your point - everyones happy - or are you just taking the role of forum provocateur ?

Away support is usually better than home, but in any case I'd say our fans are a pretty forgiving bunch (mostly)and recognise that its counter productive ranting against the team during matches. My memories of PL relegation was of positive support rather than immediate recrimination

At the same time it may be we just sleep walk into these things and apathy is setting in, people just cant be bothered and other than the hard core will just vote with their feet

[thebish]

on the off-chance that anyone was wondering, there was no booing from the Bolton fans yesterday - and no unrest to speak of - no dougie-out chanting - no chanting against any of the players... generally good spirits all round...

whats your point - everyones happy - or are you just taking the role of forum provocateur ?

what??? just reporting the fact! not long ago someone was saying that there was general unrest amongst the fans - can't remember the exact words - so I was surprised to hear nothing of the sort... despite losing - spirits remained quite high...

not sure how saying there was no booing at the game is provocative... unless you're very, very, very easily provoked!

[bwfcdan94]

There was a very old bloke who was constantly moaning at every player on the pitch even Mortiz after he had scored 2 goals. But generally most fans took the defeat well as they did at Boro.

[CAPSLOCK]

on the off-chance that anyone was wondering, there was no booing from the Bolton fans yesterday - and no unrest to speak of - no dougie-out chanting - no chanting against any of the players... generally good spirits all round...

whats your point - everyones happy - or are you just taking the role of forum provocateur ?

what??? just reporting the fact! not long ago someone was saying that there was general unrest amongst the fans - can't remember the exact words - so I was surprised to hear nothing of the sort... despite losing - spirits remained quite high...

not sure how saying there was no booing at the game is provocative... unless you're very, very, very easily provoked!

The moaners are still at the away games but theyre generally drowned out by the well oiled majority who are intent on getting something from the day out

Our results seem better on our travels when backed by this more vocal supporter

It's probably a coincidence

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Our results seem better on our travels when backed by this more vocal supporter

We're the division's 12th best away side, its 19th best home side. Quite honestly I think Freedman's more comfortable playing away than at home, and not just for supporter reasons: it's easier to hit on the break away, especially when “Teams come to the Reebok and sit in” (Freedman, BN, this Monday).

There's nothing necessarily wrong with being suited to away games - as I keep saying, last time we got out of this division we won more away than at home - but you also need to have a front-foot plan: in that Allardyce promotion season our home form was W10 D10 L3. Hopefully Freedman is finding that front-foot plan, either by formation (the 4-4-2 against Blackpool), selection (more genuinely creative attacking midfielders like Moritz than hard workers) or tactics.

[CAPSLOCK]

I don't mind us getting 15 points a season at home if we get 69 away...

Problem is that most folks get their football fix from home games so their is increased pressure on Freedman and the players (and all other clubs) to perform at home