Post Match Peterborough 1 Leicester 5 (FA cup)

[Kettering Pete]

This is my penny worth on squad rotation for what it’s worth.

I am of the opinion that a club should put out its strongest (on paper) team on all occasions, whether it be league, FA Cup, or even league cup. Players should win their place by form and by skill and by ability rather than ‘it’s their turn.’ I could envisage a situation where the bottom teams in the premiership, decide to put a weakened team on the field when playing say Man City, so as to save their best players for when playing their competitors in the relegation battle. After all it is likely that they will lose to Man City anyway so why risk the players? Just don’t like this at all. I think this is a modern football idea that should be scrapped ( along with moving electronic advertising at the side of the pitch and post goal music).

End of rant.

 

[camberwell fox]

This is my penny worth on squad rotation for what it’s worth.

I am of the opinion that a club should put out its strongest (on paper) team on all occasions, whether it be league, FA Cup, or even league cup. Players should win their place by form and by skill and by ability rather than ‘it’s their turn.’ I could envisage a situation where the bottom teams in the premiership, decide to put a weakened team on the field when playing say Man City, so as to save their best players for when playing their competitors in the relegation battle. After all it is likely that they will lose to Man City anyway so why risk the players? Just don’t like this at all. I think this is a modern football idea that should be scrapped ( along with moving electronic advertising at the side of the pitch and post goal music).

End of rant.

Hoist the white flag against the better teams?

We wouldn’t have won the league would we?

About 1 time in 10 an upset happens, this is what gets me out of bed, beating Palace, Newcastle, Brighton and so on is important of course but that 1 in 10 is the beauty of our league.

Without this the attraction has disappeared and you may as well have two leagues within one - a top six and the also rans.

Not for me thanks.

 

[Kettering Pete]

Fair point CF, we probably wouldn’t have won the league had we adopted that approach. But I feel that “may as well have two leagues within one - a top six and the also rans.” Has already been the case for a while (with a notable exception!) and I don’t feel that monopoly will be broken again for a long time. If at all. The pressure to stay in the premiership is all. Teams will become more desperate to stay in.
I recall that when we came up many posters here would’ve been happy with 16th/17th.
I dunno maybe it’s just the hangover talking but I see a dystopian future for football in general.
Hope I’m wrong. Someone convince me I am!

 

[Leigh]

Just watched the highlights on MOTD. What is Danny Murphy's obsession with Leicester and Mahrez leaving? He mentions it on every show he's on. Logan also said we might sell him for £40m. People do remember we won the league and are owned by a billionaire right?

 

[fitz]

Just watched the highlights on MOTD. What is Danny Murphy's obsession with Leicester and Mahrez leaving? He mentions it on every show he's on. Logan also said we might sell him for £40m. People do remember we won the league and are owned by a billionaire right?

Diabetes having a good game means Mahrez is on his way. What if he'd had a shit game? Nearly all of the match of the day was bollocks. One game even had some bloke doing the commentary and randomly some woman screaming took over for one of the goals before the bloke took over again. Very odd.

Edit - and that bellend who sounds a bit like the guy who used to present They think it's all over...going on about how good someone's free kick effort was, even though it wasn't even on target.

 

[H T B]

Liked the commentator for Sheff Utd game half time summary.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Liked the commentator for Sheff Utd game half time summary.

It’s how I felt when Shakespeare was ‘manager’.

 

[glyn]

Just watched the highlights on MOTD. What is Danny Murphy's obsession with Leicester and Mahrez leaving? He mentions it on every show he's on. Logan also said we might sell him for £40m. People do remember we won the league and are owned by a billionaire right?

The Times match report of our Watford win last week was just a whole page of why Mahrez should have a chance at a bigger club.

Funny how the agenda is still set the way the top clubs want it to be. We changed nothing back in 2016 after all.

And on the fee any mention of anything less than the Van Dijk fee should be laughed out of town. How can Mahrez be valued so little?

 

[tedfoxxx]

Edit - and that bellend who sounds a bit like the guy who used to present They think it's all over...going on about how good someone's free kick effort was, even though it wasn't even on target.

 

[fitz]

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That's the one, but not the one.

 

[bloo]

The Times match report of our Watford win last week was just a whole page of why Mahrez should have a chance at a bigger club.

Do you think we'll ever be seen as a 'big club'? I mean, what exactly do we need to do?

(Not that I necessarily want to be a big club btw. Not if that includes a sense of entitlement. This 'winning the Prem' thing is all a bit new to me and I'm not really used to it)

 

[Blue Maniac]

Do you think we'll ever be seen as a 'big club'? I mean, what exactly do we need to do?

(Not that I necessarily want to be a big club btw. Not if that includes a sense of entitlement. This 'winning the Prem' thing is all a bit new to me and I'm not really used to it)

Have a big stadium, spend lots of money winning nothing for decades on end, and get lots of loud, obnoxious fans who simply assert we’re a big club against all evidence. In other words, be Newcastle.

If I had to choose I’d rather the club actually be run like a big club than seen as one.

 

[Feriol]

Man City are perhaps the model of becoming a big club in the modern era, and unsurprisingly it's have loads of money.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Have a big stadium, spend lots of money winning nothing for decades on end, and get lots of loud, obnoxious fans who simply assert we’re a big club against all evidence. In other words, be Newcastle.

If I had to choose I’d rather the club actually be run like a big club than seen as one.

Leeds Leeds Leeds.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

The FA Cup is baffling to me now. Back in the far off days when it was loved by everyone & winning it was a major achievement, the draw was made on the radio at lunchtime on a Monday. Now that it's become little more than an afterthought for many, the draw is live on the telly in prime time on the ****ing One Show.

I have to say I'm not altogether sure that sandwiching it between some no mark plugging their latest shit tv show/film/book & a story about how some fat **** lost a lot of weight is going to get the competition a whole new audience. Maybe they're going to get some ****er from a soap or reality show to make the draw?

 

[Blue Maniac]

I have a faint recollection of one of the cup draws (FL Trophy?) on Soccer AM with giant playing cards or something. Gimmicky wankery.

 

[camberwell fox]

The FA Cup is baffling to me now. Back in the far off days when it was loved by everyone & winning it was a major achievement, the draw was made on the radio at lunchtime on a Monday. Now that it's become little more than an afterthought for many, the draw is live on the telly in prime time on the ****ing One Show.

I have to say I'm not altogether sure that sandwiching it between some no mark plugging their latest shit tv show/film/book & a story about how some fat **** lost a lot of weight is going to get the competition a whole new audience. Maybe they're going to get some ****er from a soap or reality show to make the draw?

Can I take it then that you are unsure?

 

[big_mac4824]

So when does the draw take place?

 

[camberwell fox]

So when does the draw take place?

Dunno, give_us_a_wave may know, wavey?

 

[SJN-Fox]

Tomorrow on The One Show 7:20pm. We are ball number 2.