The Voice From Above
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So it seems there's 3 names in the frame. Sven, Goran and Erikson.
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Martin Allen was not sacked for football reasons; Paulo was.
What crap players? Perhaps our worst player has been Michael Morrison who was a candidate for player of the season last year.
Possibly that Slovenian with too many consonents who I have not seen may be crap.. Possibly Lamey though he may just need time to adjust. Vitor has managed 20 minutes and is on loan so he cannot be sold.
From what little I have seen of him I do not believe that Moreno is a crap player. I think he is a talented player that needs to adjust. I would also guess that Abe is talented.
The season we went down Martin Allen inherited a very poor squad that had been flirting with relegation. He added some far worse players and destroyed the confidence of the one talented striker Matty Fryatt.. The players that Megson and Holloway inherited was the poorest Leicester squad I can remember. We had the January window with Holloway desperately trying to bring in strikers and wingers.
Whoever succeeds Sousa will inherit an excellent set of players who have been underperforming. What would Megson or Holloway have given for a midfield battler like Wellens, a winger like Dyer or a striker like Waghorn.
But no one wanted Neil Warnock when we had the chance.
Agree with all this. The problem has been in fitting the players we have into Sousa's system instead of 4-4-2.
Some people did
But the good old Foxes Trust specifically told him that he would never be accepted by the fans
Cheers for that, lads
If he didn't make so many stupid appointments he wouldn't be in the position where he has to sack people.
Rubbish Jeff. He actually made mostly very good appointments. Megson would have done a good if unpopular job, Pearson was exceptional. Holloway is clearly a very good manager as is Sousa. The only one he got wrong was Martin Allen and he nipped him in the bud immediately.
Please, please, please will somebody tell me why Sousa is "clearly a very good manager". It's clearly not his record so does speaking with a foreign accent make someone a good manager or what?
Ooh, so why was he sacked then?
Rubbish Jeff. He actually made mostly very good appointments. Megson would have done a good if unpopular job, Pearson was exceptional. Holloway is clearly a very good manager as is Sousa. The only one he got wrong was Martin Allen and he nipped him in the bud immediately.
Please, please, please will somebody tell me why Sousa is "clearly a very good manager". It's clearly not his record so does speaking with a foreign accent make someone a good manager or what?
...let me get what I want this time?Please, please, please
I might get shot down in flames but I honestly believe that PS should have been given atleast another 6 games to get it right, I am sure if he was still in charge tomorrow Scunny would be thumped as some team was due it sooner or later.
The championship is a difficult and unpredictable league and anyone can beat anyone ie: bottom team beating top team (Yes I know we lost to QPR).
I blame some of the players more than the manager, just like some of our so called fans certain players have never accepted PS and his style of play.
It's all so easy to think Nigel Pearson was god and yes he did a great job getting us promoted at first time of asking which I am indebited to him for doing so.
Pearson also did a good job last season getting us to a whisker of promotion to the Prem but he had an element of luck along the way winning games in the last few minutes that we would normally lose.
It wasn't pretty to watch but I know you are all thinking that todays game is a results game and Pearson was the right man for that, but I am a purist and like to be entertained so believe given just a bit longer PS might have just about got it right.
Whoever the next manager is (be it Sven, MON etc) under Mandaric will have a mountain to climb and could well put our great club back a step, remember 2008/2009.
Why are people so obsessed with formation?
Pearson played a 4-5-1/4-3-3 for much of the final third of last season and it was very successful. Whether we play 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 is not the be all and end all.
Oh, and "formation" does not equal "system". "Formation" is just a small section of "system." Formation is simply where players stand in relation to each other, there is far, far more to football tactics than that.
For example one problem I always felt with Sousa was that his full-backs pushed forward too much and Hobbs and Morrison are not players who are comfortable covering at full-back when the full-backs were still up pitch, neither are players like Waghorn or Dyer good at helping out the full-backs when overlapped. As such we were often caught out by teams taking advantage of the gaps often left in the full-back position.
Another problem was that we always seemed to play a much higher defensive line than last season, which can be very effective if you keep the ball want to attack as a team, but opposition teams just stuck pacey forwards trying to break the offside trap there and played long balls over the top allowing them to break through the defence, QPR in particular were good at this.
I might get shot down in flames but I honestly believe that PS should have been given atleast another 6 games to get it right, I am sure if he was still in charge tomorrow Scunny would be thumped as some team was due it sooner or later.
The championship is a difficult and unpredictable league and anyone can beat anyone ie: bottom team beating top team (Yes I know we lost to QPR).
I blame some of the players more than the manager, just like some of our so called fans certain players have never accepted PS and his style of play.
It's all so easy to think Nigel Pearson was god and yes he did a great job getting us promoted at first time of asking which I am indebited to him for doing so.
Pearson also did a good job last season getting us to a whisker of promotion to the Prem but he had an element of luck along the way winning games in the last few minutes that we would normally lose.
It wasn't pretty to watch but I know you are all thinking that todays game is a results game and Pearson was the right man for that, but I am a purist and like to be entertained so believe given just a bit longer PS might have just about got it right.
Whoever the next manager is (be it Sven, MON etc) under Mandaric will have a mountain to climb and could well put our great club back a step, remember 2008/2009.
Absolute lunacy.
What style of play? Did you see any of our last few defeats? There was nothing pissy-passy about what I saw. More headless chicken, to headless chicken followed by panic punt.
The players hadn't got a clue what to do on the pitch. Why was this ever going to improve?
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Manchester C | 9 | 23 |
2 | Liverpool | 9 | 22 |
3 | Arsenal | 9 | 18 |
4 | Aston Villa | 9 | 18 |
5 | Chelsea | 9 | 17 |
6 | Brighton | 9 | 16 |
7 | Nottm F | 9 | 16 |
8 | Tottenham | 9 | 13 |
9 | Brentford | 9 | 13 |
10 | Fulham | 9 | 12 |
11 | Bournemouth | 9 | 12 |
12 | Newcastle | 9 | 12 |
13 | West Ham | 9 | 11 |
14 | Manchester U | 9 | 11 |
15 | Leicester | 9 | 9 |
16 | Everton | 9 | 9 |
17 | Palace | 9 | 6 |
18 | Ipswich | 9 | 4 |
19 | Wolves | 9 | 2 |
20 | Southampton | 9 | 1 |