Redditch Fox
Well-Known Member
I admit that the WBA prompted me to give it a go yesterday. All I saw was a team of relatively well paid players with a seasoning of very experienced players outplayed after the first few minutes by what has been described as ambitious mainly younger players. We were fortunate to get away with 0-2
Basically, not much different to what i have generally seen before this season.
I've just had a glimpse of the learned Sunday Mirror which contains a knocking piece against Leicester for contemplating a managerial change after 4 months. I understand that argument, but after 20 odd games you would hope to see some improvement and yet there isn't any when you come down to the bottom line of results.
I think there has to be a serious attitude problem amongst the first team squad and my assumption is that Holloway is largely the victim of this situation in the sense that there has been a bad attitude problem long before he arrived. The culture is all wrong at The Walkers. I'm long past spending late nights on the club scene but we do seem to have consistent reports of wannabe young "stars" swanning around in absurdly expensive cars before games and after games when we have just been stuffed. I can certainly say that we have had loan players and imports who look absolutely uninterested in playing for Leicester - John and Cort were classic examples. I except Hendrie where I suppose there is a motivation driven by fear that his career was going down the shute.
In all of the above, Holloway comes across as an increasingly helpless and somewhat forlorn byestander. My conclusion is that it needs a much stronger manager than Holloway. One or two posters have suggested that we have had too many 'up and coming' managers and perhaps need an experienced old head. I think that may well be right. I think we need someone who could say "Look I don't have a great deal to prove, but you players do" and myjob is to sort you out. As Melton has been saying for ages, we have a crazy situation where almost every player who arrives deteriorates. This must be about getting drawn into the wrong culture. There must be quite a number of 'bad apples' in the dressing room and irrespective of whether we are relegated or not, these need to be removed before the start of next season.
Basically, not much different to what i have generally seen before this season.
I've just had a glimpse of the learned Sunday Mirror which contains a knocking piece against Leicester for contemplating a managerial change after 4 months. I understand that argument, but after 20 odd games you would hope to see some improvement and yet there isn't any when you come down to the bottom line of results.
I think there has to be a serious attitude problem amongst the first team squad and my assumption is that Holloway is largely the victim of this situation in the sense that there has been a bad attitude problem long before he arrived. The culture is all wrong at The Walkers. I'm long past spending late nights on the club scene but we do seem to have consistent reports of wannabe young "stars" swanning around in absurdly expensive cars before games and after games when we have just been stuffed. I can certainly say that we have had loan players and imports who look absolutely uninterested in playing for Leicester - John and Cort were classic examples. I except Hendrie where I suppose there is a motivation driven by fear that his career was going down the shute.
In all of the above, Holloway comes across as an increasingly helpless and somewhat forlorn byestander. My conclusion is that it needs a much stronger manager than Holloway. One or two posters have suggested that we have had too many 'up and coming' managers and perhaps need an experienced old head. I think that may well be right. I think we need someone who could say "Look I don't have a great deal to prove, but you players do" and myjob is to sort you out. As Melton has been saying for ages, we have a crazy situation where almost every player who arrives deteriorates. This must be about getting drawn into the wrong culture. There must be quite a number of 'bad apples' in the dressing room and irrespective of whether we are relegated or not, these need to be removed before the start of next season.
