Who Do You Blame?

Can not spot a player thought. His signings were meh to bloody awful in the main with Sinclair being the best by far. Too many duds for our liking.

Black Starr is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks Rogers isn’t good enough for them. He’s doing a brilliant job, and Leicester are punching well above their weight.

With all due respect to LCFC - what they’ve achieved over the past 8 years is nothing short of stunning - and there lies part of the problem I believe (having followed a team that has had a similar journey)

The rise of a team from the 3rd tier of football to where they are now...having collected the top prize in English football along the way - of course hopes and expectations will always be high and wanting to do even better

I’m not saying they can’t, Leicester are currently still in the top 10 best teams in the whole Country

HOWEVER....

Whether you agree or like it or not, Leicester City are a relatively unfashionable medium sized Club

This shouldn’t mean they can’t go on and achieve more, but it will be so much harder than say an Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Man Utd or Man City

Just like my team, it’s almost impossible for a team of Leicester’s stature to continually provide good, winning and successful football - it’s just unrealistic in today’s world

Unless you have the enormous fan base or The history or the Billions of £’s, it’s just that much harder to consistently compete with the so called ‘big boys’

This isn’t in any way meant to be disrespectful to who Leicester are or what they’ve achieved - it’s just the reality of football in today’s economy and world

Yes, continue to dream high and expect more from your team, but one must always hold in balance a realistic outlook of the bigger picture

Anyway, that’s my view....and my advice is enjoy it whilst you have it...all I have left are the memories and experiences of what I witnessed some 40 years ago...but they are just as magical and special to me now than they were when they were taking place back in the mid to late 70’s...in fact, probably more special and magical now, because I realise that I’ll never see my team reach those heights again... but no one can ever take that history or those memories away from me or my team 👍🏼

All this talk about “expectations”, “punching above our weight”, “Championship” and “3rd tier” teams in recent times.

From these distant shores, I have painted a picture with nothing else to hand other than what I have heard on the airwaves or read in the daily press to provide some kind of “comfort blanket” for my sorrows. To sum it up, the season has been not too dissimilar to that experienced by a relay runner in 2nd or 3rd place for much of the race and for 3/4 of the home lap, never able to keep up with the eventual winner, but sitting safely ahead of the chasing pack. He suddenly drops the baton, loses ground but somehow manages to keep ahead of the hounds behind him, snapping at his ankles. How the eventual finish pans out waits to be seen but if it was looking odds-on a 2nd or 3rd placing was on the cards, then anything less than that would be a huge disappointment.

The most warming words I took out of the national radio commentary following yesterday’s defeat were “and another two wins should secure a Champions League place”. Now where will they come from 🤔

It’s over to you, the panel.

Kind of agree with what you’re saying Rev, and don’t you worry, despite our frustrations we are enjoying it, and the title win and all that surrounded it completed my life as a supporter.

However, don’t mistake “expectations” with “hope”. We are a club that has over achieved in recent years as per your definition, but we now have something we can build on. We as fans know we have to get that right NOW, or as per your prediction, we could go tumbling down the table just as quickly. That’s why we’re worried, impatient, frustrated. Because if we don’t capitalise on this and get champions league football next year, it could unravel as quickly as it came.

We as Leicester fans just don’t want to throw away that opportunity.

Surely other team’s fans can see that?

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 11 hours, 3 minutes ago
Black Starr is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks Rogers isn’t good enough for them. He’s doing a brilliant job, and Leicester are punching well above their weight.
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He was doing a brilliant job. 3 wins in 12 and failing to score in 5 of the last 9 isn’t brilliant.

If we throw away a CL lead that was 11 points I think in Jan then that won’t have been brilliant

Fans of most big clubs can’t understand that - they just see the current position in the table, not the form or the bigger picture

I don’t want him sacked, I want him to improve

Thing is Rev, I do think that’s a bit of an old fashioned view of football. Times have changed - and well run clubs who make consistently good decisions can have a long term plan to be a top 6 club and achieve it. Look at what Wolves are doing. They aren’t limited by the size of their fan base or their history

Forest could have stayed near the top past the Brian Clough years had they not made such dreadful decisions. It wasn’t the fact you were a small club overachieving that saw you plummet down to league one - it wasn’t inevitable because you weren’t Liverpool, it was appalling club decisions and a string of terrible managers

Where I agree is that clubs like Leicester and Forest have far less leeway to get things wrong. The top clubs pump money in to cover their mistakes - but that doesn’t mean there’s a ceiling you can’t ever get past

Let's say Leicester fail to qualify for the CL, who would you replace Rodgers with?

comment by clapfreesince2003 (U22207)
posted 7 hours, 31 minutes ago
Let's say Leicester fail to qualify for the CL, who would you replace Rodgers with?
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I’d replace him with Brendan Rodgers personally. The question is, if this form continues in to next season and we end up in a relegation battle, should we replace him.

This is a genuine concern right now unless he can arrest our form. You may think this is an impossibility, but you would have probably thought that after we won the title too, but it was inevitable unless we sacked Ranieri.

It doesn’t take long for it all to go wrong.

I wouldn’t be getting rid of Rodgers if he didn’t get CL football (which he won’t). My concern is the same as Mersey - the momentum we then take into next season, probably minus Maddison or Chilwell. Can easily see it unravelling - Leicester is that sort of boom and bust club really