Post Match Newport County 2 Leicester 1

[bocadillo]

Doesn't that tell you something about the motivation they get/or don't get, from the manager? Strategy, substitutions, formation, roles etc.

It suggests to me that they are a bunch of donkeys who thought that they could get through without exerting themselves.

 

[alex]

Tenacity and will? Who’s job is it to install that into the team?

Players and manager, we seemed to have more of both following Claude Puel’s half time chat.

 

[homer]

Players and manager, we seemed to have more of both following Claude Puel’s half time chat.

Yet we had a complete absence of either following Claude Puels' training, management and wholesale preparation of the players for the actual start of the game itself

 

[SimonW]

Puel obviously has to shoulder some of the blame for the lack of effort shown on Sunday.

The players however carry as much if not more of the blame for the lack of effort.

I remember hacking down to Harlow nearly thirty years ago to watch a Jock Wallace team get humiliated, I can't imagine he took it easy on the players for that particular game expecting us to beat them easily, especially after they had earned themselves a replay with a draw at Filbert street.

 

[alex]

Yet we had a complete absence of either following Claude Puels' training, management and wholesale preparation of the players for the actual start of the game itself

So, to be clear, the players are exempt from blame? I think that's a naive view from you. You know better than that. Unfortunately, our players seemed to breeze in to the game thinking that their collective Aston Martins were enough. I don't believe Puel or any of the coaching team would have asked that they don't play with any intensity during the match, do you?

 

[homer]

So, to be clear, the players are exempt from blame? I think that's a naive view from you. You know better than that. Unfortunately, our players seemed to breeze in to the game thinking that their collective Aston Martins were enough. I don't believe Puel or any of the coaching team would have asked that they don't play with any intensity during the match, do you?

Of course the players are to blame, but the manager is the one that is there to influence them and shape them, and he is the complete feckwit who picked that abomination of a team

Were the players to blame when we sacked Ranieri, the man who gave us the single most perfect thing in the whole history of the Club ?

Too feckin' right they were, big feckin' time, the bastards.
But he got the bullet anyway

 

[alex]

I like you.

 

[David Gwilliam]

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I suspect if they'd seen the team sheet before they left Leicester they would have said that the line-up was sufficient to beat a team in the lower reaches of the Football League. . .

Sorry Boc but this is not true. City Fan and Mike the True Blue along with a certain Pickwickian character warned about fielding a weakened side.

It is true that individually most of our players were better than theirs. However, they were a team; we should have picked a team.

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

In our champion winning year, I think there was a stat which showed we used the fewest players out of our squad of any team. It was so similar each week, apart from a rare injury or suspension, that the players became almost telepathic in knowing where each other was and where they were going to run to.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

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Sorry Boc but this is not true. City Fan and Mike the True Blue along with a certain Pickwickian character warned about fielding a weakened side.

It is true that individually most of our players were better than theirs. However, they were a team; we should have picked a team.

Seems churlish to point you in the direction of the Pre- and Match threads for the Peterborough 4th Rd tie last year - when ten changes were made - no Vardy, even included bombscare Benny and hapless Hamer. Usual suspects were predicting doom and gloom, Ihehanacho, Gray andDiabate ran riot (though not Harvey Barnes), to the tune of five lovely goals.

For me this season has been, is, and will continue to be about caprice, not the mysteries of being a team (against Everton), but not a team (Against Newport).

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

IMO the manager is the key figure. A good one gets the best out of even crap players. I don't like Puel's brand of football, I can't see us ever winning anymore silverware playing this way and surely that is the aim? Every football club strives for success. At the same time, there are areas where Puel is right - we have an imbalanced squad right now and I'm not convined half of them are good Premier League players. Additionally behind the scenes our transfer dealings of late have been more miss than hit and we seem to have been handing out lucrative new contracts to the likes of Matty James and Daniel Amartey who have not only picked up nasty injuries but who it is questionable whether they are good premier league players in the first place.

 

[big_mac4824]

Seems churlish to point you in the direction of the Pre- and Match threads for the Peterborough 4th Rd tie last year - when ten changes were made - no Vardy, even included bombscare Benny and hapless Hamer. Usual suspects were predicting doom and gloom, Ihehanacho, Gray andDiabate ran riot (though not Harvey Barnes), to the tune of five lovely goals.

For me this season has been, is, and will continue to be about caprice, not the mysteries of being a team (against Everton), but not a team (Against Newport).

Yet Puel selected a Midfielder who had not played for 12 months and put in a midfield of TWO!! He then selects a player that has played more International games than club games this season on the bench. He then performs a stroke of genius by leaving our best striker at home, and then when we need to go for it and try and create chances against a side that are parking the bus he leaves our most in form player (Ricardo) on the bench.

Even Klopp had his big guns on the bench which he used, the only conclusion I can come to is that Puel did not want to win that game, either through sheer arrogance or he is petrified of achieving success for fear of replicating it the next season.

 

[Skitzo]

James hadn't played a first time game in 10 months but he had played a lot of games for the U23s

 

[homer]

James hadn't played a first time game in 10 months but he had played a lot of games for the U23s

Yeah he looked completely match fit, didn't he ?

 

[City Fan]

James hadn't played a first time game in 10 months but he had played a lot of games for the U23s

Had he? I thought it was just a couple.

 

[City Fan]

Yeah he looked completely fat, didn't he ?

Yep.

 

[Skitzo]

Yeah he looked completely match fit, didn't he ?

well the only way you get completely match fit is by playing and whether fans like it or not the FA cup isn't seen as important as league games, there is more money between each individual league place than the winners of the FA cup will make, the FA want it to be taken seriously again by clubs then they need to up the money. I don't like the situation but I have accepted it as there is nothing we can do to change it.

I'm not a fan of Matt James, I wouldn't have extended him and I would make him available for transfer I would much rather have seen Dewsbury-Hall get the start instead

Had he? I thought it was just a couple.

he had over several months, gradually increasing minutes played

 

[M17TT C]

Yet Puel selected a Midfielder who had not played for 12 months and put in a midfield of TWO!! He then selects a player that has played more International games than club games this season on the bench. He then performs a stroke of genius by leaving our best striker at home, and then when we need to go for it and try and create chances against a side that are parking the bus he leaves our most in form player (Ricardo) on the bench.

Even Klopp had his big guns on the bench which he used, the only conclusion I can come to is that Puel did not want to win that game, either through sheer arrogance or he is petrified of achieving success for fear of replicating it the next season.

International goalkeeper

Back 4 all of which have PL winners medals.

2 fans favourites in midfield.

An international winger

2 regular international forwards.

Seems like a team that should easily be enough to be Newport County so you can't blame it on poor selection.

People are moaning he plays players out of position but then call for a RB to be brought on out of position???

And do you honestly think Newport away is as tough a match as Wolves away??

If you come to the conclusion that Puel didn't want to win the game then you really are in cloud cuckoo land! Do you honestly believe he just told the players to go out and throw the game as such??

 

[Brown Nose]

For me this season has been, is, and will continue to be about caprice

If only . . . .

 

[popillius]

People are moaning he plays players out of position but then call for a RB to be brought on out of position???

No. Most people wanted Ricardo on in one of the positions he has played so well in for the past few games. Some of us felt that having him play RWB would have made more sense than pushing Albrighton back and watching him try to defend. I am not saying it would definitely have made a difference but let's not be silly about what you think some fans were asking.