Post Match Chelsea 3 Leicester 0

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

This, this and this!

I can understand not hitting the same levels of form as last year, but most criticisms seem more directed at effort levels.

I do not think many fans would criticise losing away to a top 4 team by 3 goals if it looked like we actually put up a fight and tried to win!

 

[Brown Nose]

I can only speak for me but I'm struggling to lift myself for a 7am kickoff in an away game I fully expect us to struggle in...I'd imagine I'm not alone. Last season definitely broke me in some ways. Or, alternatively, allowed me to focus on other things.

Unlike you, however, I'm absolutely loving the Champions League fixtures and am delighted the club are having a real go.

I don't have an issue with this opinion. It's obviously your right as a fan to feel however you want. Of course, I understand that some fans are excited about the Champions League. I'm just not one of them and given the struggle we've had selling out the matches, I'd say I'm not alone.

You are free to struggle this season as you're not paid to do anything. The problem occurs for me when players receiving the 6th-8th highest wages in the country repeatedly play Premier League games like they're pre-season friendlies. I don't mind losing at Liverpool, Man Utd and Chelsea, but I do mind not putting up any resistance whatsoever with the effective excuse being we're not bothered because we've got a game we're more interested in playing in a few days.

We're hammering our confidence and playing a very dangerous game with our league position for what? Most likely, just an extra couple of games in February.

 

[Lako42]

Its only a matter of time until the negativity from thr league spills over into the CL.

You cant keep it totally separate on a mental level.

 

[FOX Franks]

I can't remember who said it, I think Brown Nose, but the idea that we are in a relegation battle considering that we're 14th with half of our games having been against big 4 clubs away from home.
I don't think any of us would have been expecting points from those games the season previous, and even this season we'd have said a point is decent.

Yes - the defensive problems are concerning, but we're winning against the clubs that matter at home.

Like many members on this forum, I too would prioritise champions league, as it's the only time we'll get a shot. BN - are you saying that if we were in a similar position with a very strong opportunity to win the FA cup, you would prioritise the league? I appreciate it isn't exactly the same, but...

really?

 

[bocadillo]

I can't remember who said it, I think Brown Nose, but the idea that we are in a relegation battle considering that we're 14th with half of our games having been against big 4 clubs away from home.

We're two points above 18th; it's not impossible for us to be down to 18th by Saturday tea-time. I think that means that we are in a relegation battle.

 

[City Fan]

We're two points above 18th; it's not impossible for us to be down to 18th by Saturday tea-time. I think that means that we are in a relegation battle.

Not in October it doesn't.

 

[Jeff]

it's not impossible for us to be down to 18th by Saturday tea-time

Actually it is impossible.

 

[Brown Nose]

BN - are you saying that if we were in a similar position with a very strong opportunity to win the FA cup, you would prioritise the league? I appreciate it isn't exactly the same, but...

really?

As you say, that isn't the same thing at all. However, if we were to be settled in mid table when the quarter finals of the FA Cup come round, of course I'd want us to go for it.

The situation we're in is entirely different because we haven't earned the right to take our foot off the gas in the league. Are we so complacent and deluded as to believe that we have some sort of right to be a Premier League team? I know we've got a better squad than several other sides but bigger and better clubs than us have sleep-walked into relegation.

I've not seen one other team this season take Premier League games as lightly as we have. Only four teams have scored fewer goals than us and only five have conceded more.

Wakey, wakey, we are a poor side right now.

 

[bocadillo]

Actually it is impossible.

sssshhhh! If Hull weren't playing Stoke, it would be.

 

[Jeff]

sssshhhh! If West Ham weren't playing Sunderland, it would be.

No. Nothing to do with that match. Try again.

 

[FIF]

We're two points above 18th; it's not impossible for us to be down to 18th by Saturday tea-time. I think that means that we are in a relegation battle.

I don't think so.

Relegation battles don't start after 8 games. The season and the schedule need to balance out a bit and you need to be down in the lower regions in the new year or even later to be classed as in a relegation battle.

At the moment we are just low in the league.

 

[bocadillo]

No. Nothing to do with that match. Try again.

Who mentioned West Ham and Sunderland?
;-)

 

[bocadillo]

...you need to be down in the lower regions in the new year or even later to be classed as in a relegation battle.

You also have to be battling. We're not, so you must be right.

 

[City Fan]

IT'S ONLY ****ING OCTOBER!!!

 

[LeeCovFox]

I think Ranieri is right. I'd be delighted to finish 17th if we got ourselves a run to to last eight or so of the European Cup, drawing one of the real big boys. It's something we'd remember forever. A top ten finish is just another midtable top flight finish. I've seen a few of them already. Embrace the novelty of what we are seeing.

Winning the league last season has definitely changed things for me. I'm finding it almost impossible to get up for league matches. And I'm watching far less football on the telly. Club football has peaked for me, I think. For the first time I'm seriously considering giving up my season ticket at the end of the season.

 

[City Fan]

Winning the league last season has definitely changed things for me. I'm finding it almost impossible to get up for league matches. And I'm watching far less football on the telly. Club football has peaked for me, I think. For the first time I'm seriously considering giving up my season ticket at the end of the season.

100% exactly the same for me, and I knew it would be the case. If it wasn't for the Champions League I'd have given mine up this season.

 

[tedfoxxx]

This season is like wilderness that followed binge watching Breaking Bad.

 

[londonfox]

I think Ranieri is right. I'd be delighted to finish 17th if we got ourselves a run to to last eight or so of the European Cup, drawing one of the real big boys. It's something we'd remember forever. A top ten finish is just another midtable top flight finish. I've seen a few of them already. Embrace the novelty of what we are seeing.

Winning the league last season has definitely changed things for me. I'm finding it almost impossible to get up for league matches. And I'm watching far less football on the telly. Club football has peaked for me, I think. For the first time I'm seriously considering giving up my season ticket at the end of the season.

How would you feel if we finished 18th?

 

[spionfox]

I understand that some fans are excited about the Champions League. I'm just not one of them and given the struggle we've had selling out the matches, I'd say I'm not alone.

Nothing to do with a lack of enthusiasm, more the ticketing arrangements (three in one go) and afterwards the inflated individual prices. I know personally ten people, season ticket holders, who would have loved to have bought tickets but who were financially unable to justify it.

 

[LeeCovFox]

How would you feel if we finished 18th?

I wouldn't care. We've been relegated before and will be several more times before I'm dead and gone.