Post Match Manchester United 2 Leicester 0

[fitz]

The alternative is to get a manager who won't stand for any bollocks from the players and a board that will properly support him.

Fingers crossed it may happen someday

 

[camberwell fox]

Agreed. Probably needs some slow change. We have tried changes to formation etc previously though and that went badly.

I think we are trying to 'do a Fergie' - albeit badly at the moment.

Stability, slow morphing and a defined style of play built atlround a few cornerstones.

 

[bocadillo]

I think we are trying to 'do a Fergie' at the moment.

Then presumably Shakespeare only has a 12v battery hairdryer.

 

[camberwell fox]

Then presumably Shakespeare only has a 12v battery hairdryer.

You may be right Boc.

 

[camberwell fox]

Incidentally, commercially and from an entertainment perspective we are the dream ticket.

 

[Orifice]

I used to think that it was important to have a manager that works with the players/keeps them on side to get the best out of them.

Perhaps Shakespeare is rubbish at that as well as pretty much everything else.

 

[bocadillo]

Incidentally, commercially and from an entertainment perspective we are the dream ticket.

Only Arsenal and West Ham have seen more goals scored in their games.

 

[camberwell fox]

Only Arsenal and West Ham have seen more goals scored in their games.

Exactly +++.

We are X factor.

 

[fitz]

Exactly +++.

We are X factor.

Was Pop Idols yesterday

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

OK. We all think we can do better than the current manager, even though we know **** all about the players' state of mind, any of their domestic problems, their general fitness and match sharpness, any injuries they are carrying and how they perform daily in training.

Shakey has all that data but has not yet sharpened the team back to the cutting edge of the 2016 Champions.

So on the basis of watching most matches by TV here are my observations, when we have everyone fit.

On the few occasions I have seen Mahrez been given free reign in the centre of the park, he has looked awesome, able to easily pass it forwards to a striker or quickly get a shot away. I would have him paired with the much-maligned Okazaki running' interference' for him.

So my plan would start with 3-4-2-1, but could have Plan B of 4-4-2 as opposition/play dictates.

So a solid back 3 of Morgan, Maguire and Huth. M & H can cover when Maguire breaks forwards.

N'didi and Iborra/Drinky in the centre midfield. Albrighton and one of Simpson/Fuchs out wide depending on opposition wing strengths.

Mahrez, Okazaki and Vardy ripping them apart up front.

Plan B, revert to our normal 4-4-2.

Then maybe Morgan and Huth can do short passes to Maguire, who takes 5 steps forwards to give a short pass to N'didi, who takes a couple of steps forward to make a short pass to Mahrez, who then rips them up!

None of these 50 yard hoof & hope out to the wings!

 

[camberwell fox]

Was Pop Idols yesterday

I know, series has finished and Ms Boyle has labotomised.

 

[David Gwilliam]

We showed mid table ambition with the Shakey hire, to the signings. Let's see what happens this week.

We're better than I expected

You may turn out to be right. However, the team generally got remarkably good results under him last season. Of the three big signings Maguire looks excellent and we have not seen enough of the others to judge.

Morgan may be past his best. However, his place as a Leicester legend is secure. He will no doubt come on to the pitch in forty years time to rapturous applause I look forward to seeing this.

 

[Miles Away]

You may turn out to be right. However, the team generally got remarkably good results under him last season. Of the three big signings Maguire looks excellent and we have not seen enough of the others to judge.

Morgan may be past his best. However, his place as a Leicester legend is secure. He will no doubt come on to the pitch in forty years time to rapturous applause I look forward to seeing this.

With due respect I think you should have another look at the results. They leveled off.

Agree on Morgan. A genuine legend.

 

[Redditch Fox]

Pattern has emerged where we generally see off the weaker sides - and are set up to more or less to inevitably concede defeat against the strong sides.

May be realism by Shakey but I think that the danger is that our support/ paying customers will get fed up with this before too long.

 

[Rock Fox]

This is by some way the strongest and most successful LCFC I've ever seen, though admittedly I only go back to 1961. I'm reassured by the way the pre-, match and post- match threads merge into an incoherent mess of pessimistic verbiage as our resident cast of Captain Bringdowns run the rule regardless of whether we're up against clueless arriviste hopefuls or those living on past glories raising their game against a club who actually won the damn thing fifteen short months ago.

Almost agree (first game I saw was 1965) - but I think the strongest team we have ever had (will ever have?) must have been two years ago to include Kante and fully fit Morgan, Huth, Drinkwater

 

[Motown Fox]

Morgan may be past his best. However, his place as a Leicester legend is secure. He will no doubt come on to the pitch in forty years time to rapturous applause I look forward to seeing this.

Blimey David there's me thinking you were nearer my age.
I'd like to think I'd be there too, with a card from King William at home too I'd got some months before.

 

[homer]

I'd like to think I'd be there too, with a card from King William at home too I'd got some months before.

President Abbott

 

[AberFox]

To add to the Wes Morgan debate, he made Football365's Team Of The Week:

http://www.football365.com/news/f365s-team-of-the-week-two-from-liverpool-and-chelsea

He can't have been that bad on Saturday! For the record, I agree with the majority that he had a great game, closer to the Wes of old rather than the liability we saw so often last season.

 

[LudlowFox]

Re Morgan, I think we were just playing to his strengths... allowing the opposition lots of possession and to put crosses in.

Conversely, didn't you notice how crap de Gea was?

(I thought Wes had a good game even allowing for the fact that the 'body on the line, do or die' stuff is what he is good at)

 

[big_mac4824]

Re Morgan, I think we were just playing to his strengths... allowing the opposition lots of possession and to put crosses in.

Conversely, didn't you notice how crap de Gea was?

(I thought Wes had a good game even allowing for the fact that the 'body on the line, do or die' stuff is what he is good at)

The problem is the do or die stuff is not needed when you read the game I know I was slated for having a pop at him however it is his positioning that is hurting us defensively. We will see what shakey does when Huth is fully fit who IMO is a better defender. the body on the line stuff is commendable however if you position yourself properly it is not needed.

For the record I do not dislike Morgan he is a legend and was immense the year we won the league however I think we should be building the defence around Maguire, perhaps I have been harsh I don't know maybe if he had swapped Shinji for King earlier we could have been more solid, bringing Gray on for Albrighton was IMO a mistake it should have been Chillwell.