Stoke on Sunday is our biggest game since....

[The Old Fox]

If you do not believe that the game on Sunday is the most important EVER - albeit on a par with the last time we were in a similar position - then surely, your in the wrong place. You may be happier at www.talkingcrochet.com!

 

[Melton Fox]

If you do not believe that the game on Sunday is the most important EVER!

I don't think you'll find anybody who doesn't think that :icon_conf

 

[highland fox]

If you do not believe that the game on Sunday is the most important EVER - albeit on a par with the last time we were in a similar position - then surely, your in the wrong place. You may be happier at www.talkingcrochet.com!

Thanks for the link,been looking for a diaper cake for ages

 

[Jeff]

I don't think you'll find anybody who doesn't think that :icon_conf

The difference between the Premier and Championship is much bigger than between the Championship and League One. So you could say the play off finals were more important.

If we go down it's not the end of the world.
Hundreds of thousands of people watch football outside the top two divisions, why should we think we're above that?

 

[Melton Fox]

So you could say the play off finals were more important.

They were certainly bigger games, and even the League Cup Finals were bigger games!!!!

 

[The Old Fox]

The difference between the Premier and Championship is much bigger than between the Championship and League One. So you could say the play off finals were more important.

If we go down it's not the end of the world.
Hundreds of thousands of people watch football outside the top two divisions, why should we think we're above that?

We are not too good to play in League One: the problem is just the opposite. It will be difficult to get back to the Championship - ask Forest and Leeds - we will take a financial hit and media coverage of Leicester will become even more scarce. It will probably mean another mass turnover of players.
I struggle to find a single positive connected to dropping a division.

 

[Melton Fox]

I struggle to find a single positive connected to dropping a division.

Oooh, I can think of one massive positive.

 

[highland fox]

Oooh, I can think of one massive positive.

Me too,we won't be on Sky very often if at all so I won't have to watch us

 

[PONTUS KAAMARK]

We have had far 'bigger games' but this is the most important game in my living memory.

 

[Fox From The Hudd]

Oooh, I can think of one massive positive.

Let's hope that happens whatever the result....:icon_cool

 

[Matt_B]

I'm with Alex I think, it's not as huge a deal as it is being made out to be. If it wasn't going to be the first time ever then people wouldn't be as concerned. I spoke to Sheff Wed fan the other day and his comment was re: Sheff that "I don't want to watch the shite down there again" rather than it being a huge deal to be relegated.

 

[alex]

I don't think Ian Holloway is the problem Melts, honestly. I think MM's summer and unrealistic pressures are where we find the problems here. That's what needs sorting out IMO...

 

[Melton Fox]

I don't think Ian Holloway is the problem Melts, honestly.

I know you don't.

 

[Melton Fox]

unrealistic pressures are where we find the problems here.

Indeed, MM should have kept his bloody big mouth shut and let the players think it was OK to have no ambition.

A better speech would have been "I have no plans, Premiership football would be nice one day, but I aint too bothered. Don't worry fans, at least you'll have the pleasure of paying to watch the players and the manager having fun whilst they pick up their wages"

Getting promoted withing three years with one of the biggest budgets in the league isn't a bloody unrealistic pressure.

I despair sometimes at the excuses we give this fcuking Manager!!!!

 

[alex]

It is an unrealistic pressure if you're not prepared to back your manager, which from what I understand, has been an issue. Holloway wanted Norris, Allen wanted many players we were unable to obtain. Meanwhile, we signed a whole host of nonsense pre season, most of which was not the fault of the manager at the time. Holloway has been disappointing in not making sure we were safe, agreed, but to think that that is all his doing I think is as silly as MM declaring Premiership football in three years. A better speech would have been to let his manager do the talking IMO.

 

[Melton Fox]

It is an unrealistic pressure if you're not prepared to back your manager, which from what I understand, has been an issue.

If MM wasn't backing Holloway, he'd have been gone by now.

 

[alex]

If MM wasn't backing Holloway, he'd have been gone by now.

Not true completely. I think he backs him half-heartedly, and perhaps with wise caution. I think MM believes in hiring a manager who will see the vision with him. This I believe is a reason both Dowie and Warnock would be wary of coming here this season. MM also wants to be liked by the LCFC fans too much IMO. I am cynical of it, why should we truly believe this is anything to him really? He's only invested what I think he should have had to invest in buying the club in the first place! If MM really backed Holloway then I think Norris would have arrived and Etuhu not.

 

[Melton Fox]

Not true completely. I think he backs him half-heartedly, and perhaps with wise caution. I think MM believes in hiring a manager who will see the vision with him. This I believe is a reason both Dowie and Warnock would be wary of coming here this season. MM also wants to be liked by the LCFC fans too much IMO. I am cynical of it, why should we truly believe this is anything to him really? He's only invested what I think he should have had to invest in buying the club in the first place! If MM really backed Holloway then I think Norris would have arrived and Etuhu not.

I agree 100% with the issue of MM focusing too much on what the fans want and what they think of him.

This attitude will cause this club to go out of business. Why?, because of inept people within the club that get the crowd on their side.

 

[alex]

In your opinion, how has Holloway got the fans on his side since being here?

 

[Redditch Fox]

Not true completely. I think he backs him half-heartedly, and perhaps with wise caution. I think MM believes in hiring a manager who will see the vision with him. This I believe is a reason both Dowie and Warnock would be wary of coming here this season. MM also wants to be liked by the LCFC fans too much IMO. I am cynical of it, why should we truly believe this is anything to him really? He's only invested what I think he should have had to invest in buying the club in the first place! If MM really backed Holloway then I think Norris would have arrived and Etuhu not.

I think you are over-complicating things. It's a given that Mandaric likes to be liked - but I imagine that he took a decision around 2 months ago that there had been so much pain in sacking and trying to re-appoint managers this season and last season, that he was going to take a chance and stick with Holloway for the time being. Holloway's popularity with many supporters will also have been a factor.

Sunday's match will determine whether or not Mandaric's gamble in keeping Holloway has paid off - and you can see the logic of why people like Melton half want us to get relegated. I want us to win on Sunday -retain our place in a division where it is theoretically possible for us to compete to return to the Premiership - and for Mandaric who i think is a very good thing for Leicester City to take some decent advice in appointing a new manager.