Tony Elsby said:
Too soon to be critical after two defeats in a row?". Don't you count last season's defeats? What bothered me about last season was not getting relegated but the management's failure to steer us through to success from winning positions.
The manager is very limited to what he can do to influence a team once they cross the line, from what you are saying Micky should magicly be able to prevent players like scowcroft/curtis etc miss kicking a ball. Considering we were made up of not wanted players from 2nd rate clubs, maybe just maybe Micky had made the players already over achieve by getting into that winning position.
Tony Elsby said:
We weren't the worst team we just donated points
through what seemed like a lack of tactical acumen and a good many managers would never have survived that indignity. Leicester's "fickle fans" were in fact, so reasonable, that they accepted MA building another side to take us straight back.
Of a manager influencing a team it is one of the great blessings of my life that I was once talked to Bill Shankly about football. At least I held the phone and listened while he talked. "Aye," he said, "Liverpool is special. Even the way the players break their legs at Liverpool is special. We don't worry about the opposition at Liverpool - they fade like snow when the rain comes..." He kept it up for over half an hour, one anecdote after another and he'd never met me in his life. Some managers have a presence. You could be sure no Liverpool player would cross the touchline at Anfield unless he were prepared to die for Liverpool. No player would knowingly be picked unless he were prepared to play with the style and passion of Liverpool. Shankly could influence the way the grass grew at Liverpool. They were happy, happy days - two wingers, pinpoint passing, fearsome tackles and shots galore. Influence?. Everything about Liverpool was Shankly. Undiluted passion and nothing second best.
I've had near 50 years of supporting City and for months now - not four games - it has been making me feel miserable. Not just losing - there's been a fair bit of that in 50 years - but the way we're losing and the prospects for the future.
I don't want City's team full of journeymen and bad team's rejects. What on earth has Mickey ever done to suggest he can work miracles which the previous manager's of these players have failed to do?.
Dario Grady has got a contract for life at Crewe but is exactly the sort of person we need at City. A man with genuine coaching skills who can spot young talent and make it blossom. I don't want Mickey's head. I've looked at his team for long enough so I certainly don't want to look at him.
If Mickey can get a Dario Grady or a motivator like Joe Kinnear to help him that's good management, wise delegation and I'll be happy for Mickey to sit back and collect whatever salary he gets.
How he does it I don't care but I'd like him to stop making me bloody miserable. I want to able to talk about my team with pride again because at the moment everyone I meet is taking the piss.
If he wants to stop making excuses for himself and his team why not meet with the directors and agree a new contract whereby he and his coaching staff only get paid on the basis of points won/ position in the table etc.
Try it Mickey, cos I would. And if the PFA won't allow it why not publicly agree to donate your wages to the LRI every time you get beaten because it would focus your attention and would soon stop you accepting sub-standard performances and attitudes. It would also do some good for the less fortunate in our society because you're not doing much good at the moment that I can see.
No we weren't the worst team, we were the third worst team.
Tony Elsby said:
Let me ask why should "fickle" fans accept their team almost continually losing or underperforming at home over nearly 12 months.
The team was made up of has beens and never has beens, like i said maybe we overachieved considering finances and players brought in. 90% of fans thought we would go straight back down, so did the pundits and so did the bookies, so how exactly is going down under performing??? Maybe it was the fact Adams made them play quite well every now and again that raised your hopes from relegation to survival.
I can't even be bothered to answer your other points, the fans of this club are an absolute joke. Ok everything aint rosey at the minute and things need adjusting, but is anything ever rosey at many clubs. To be even suggesting a replacement of a manager after FOUR games is complete and utter madness. Players dont even get a chance to get use to playing with each other.
Should Adams get the sack i expect all of you to back the next manager 100% for the rest of the season. Or will you just turn on him again like you did Oneil when he first came if things dont start off to well. I think i know what you will be doing.
Fickle Hypocrits with dillusions of grandure sums up 80% of Leicester fans.
People need to snap out of trying to compare every manager we get to MON, the guy was a one of for this club. Just like Brian Clough was for forest. You can't go around sacking a manager just because he can't achieve what your greatest manager did.