Eustace or Cisse or a new holding MF need to play EVERY game... Hughes/Hendrick/Bryson is too weak as proved time and time again.

Hughes appears to be tailing off again at the same point as he did last season.

A bit of rotation between Hughes & Hendrick (sometimes Bryson if absolutely necessary) wouldn't go amiss for me.

Poor all over the park last night, Leicester steamrollered us from start to finish and hats off to them for doing so.

Rubery there was school boy errors yesterday all over the pitch. I don't know how you can blame Keane and Hughes when it was the entire team.

Let's get down to the errors, both centre halves were letting the ball bounce before heading away. What were we taught at school?

Andre Wisdom was having a mare against Dyer.
Jamie WRd should of been tracking back helping him out, but he wasn't. I could see that in the first half.

The midfield was non existent, apart from the first 10-15 minutes. Which resulted in Martin getting no service.

Hendrick can't play in the holding role. We need someone with experience for that role.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it was men against boys yesterday.

One plus side for me, Forsyth was man of the match. Even with his error at the penalty. He's getting better and better.
Finally, and this is just my opinion, because GSE are not going to be investing any money, I would sell Ward and Hughes so we can bring some much needed experience in.

Forsyth threw away the brief glimmer of hope we had 30 seconds later, if we kept it at an undeserved 2-1 for 10mins or so Leicester COULD have got jittery, stupid dumbass challenge.

The squad needs freshening up for sure Wassa and with experienced players who can deal with the physicality of this league.

Much to lightweight, got a real reality check last night, now we'll see Steve earning his corn, time to act.

Wassa, wasn't particularly highlighting Keane or Hughes for last nights result,more a culmination of the last few games.

I agree there were too many absentees last night.

We really do need to formulate a plan about our midfield.It feels a bit like everyone is trying to be accommodated at the expense of the team.

Don't think Grant was far away from MoTM but best not to rip it all to pieces: it was a bad show against a good side and we took our medicine.

This same squad got us to where we lose away at the leaders and hysteria ensues, so let's not condemn them all as not good enough. We missed a defensive midfielder, Stevie will have learned a few more things and we move on.

The players are the same players we had 4/5/6 weeks ago.

We are looking tired and bereft of ideas - this is not an observation of last night but certainly was part of the Huddersfield, Barnsley and Wigan games.

I'm not too down - it was a tad embarrassing in my local watching it until I realised that we were ALL a tad embarrassed because we were all Derby fans.

Let's see how we respond - opposition teams are always going to try and nullify (or batter us a la Wigan ) and it's how we cope with this which will shape our season

PS Leicester WERE exceptional and we were naive - hey, ho Well done Leicester!

Agree with Viewfrom. Foxes are in exceptional form so lets reserve judgement as the season progresses. Keep the faith theres still plenty of time.
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I thought Hughes had one of his better games of late last night. I agreed with the manager that we lost our individual battles all over the pitch. We lacked any feeling of robustness at central defence or at the base of midfield. Vardy won plenty in the air and we rarely cleared our lines properly from long-balls in the air, exemplified by the stupid second goal but there were many other examples. For the second successive game Hendrick seemed to lack the basic physicality necessary for the role. Forsyth was guilt of destroying the brief candle of hope we had with his ridiculous challenge - as he moved towards the Leicester player I was shouting: "Don't dive in!!!" at the screen.

I think that if Eustace isn't able to start every week we need another player in that position. I would rotate Hendrick and Hughes a bit more to keep them fresh. I think Forsyth has been pretty decent but if we have ambitions to progress we need slightly better in that position, and we also need to consider the centre-half situation. Keane has looked OK but not dominant. Possibly playing alongside Keogh would suit him better but Morgan's performance showed what you really want from a centre-half - uncompromising physicality of the no-nonsense variety, nothing given cheaply away. Last night showed that while against the weaker teams our quality can sweep away the opposition, against stronger teams who do not allow us to get into our stride we lack the resilience to stay in games and grind out a result.

Hughes seems to have lost a bit of confidence in his ability, he chooses the easy short pass which puts players under pressure instead of holding it up or playing a killer pass, a bit savage-esque if you like.

You think we've got problems - Leeds losing 5-0 to the Owls!

Wassa,
McClaren has been saying the players must learn from their mistakes but he made the biggest by no having a holding midfielder on the pitch against the top team in the division

Last night was plain scary.....

Well, it could be worse.

We could be Leeds

I gave the furniture some kicking last night, I can tell you.

Hughes dosen,t seem able to find those killing passes at the moment and Ward needs a few matches on the bench, he,s no help at all.

I was surprised when Eustace was left out. This was the sort of match when we needed him.
I thought Wisdom and Ward were poor and was glad when they were taken off, but Bamford and Bennet did not do much better against a good strong ruthless team.
Keane may well be a good player in a few years time, but when is Keogh coming back?
My men of the match, for the Rams, were Grant and Martin who worked tirelessly against very tough defenders.
We need to beat Brighton next week!

Not sure why people aren't focussing on McClaren. He gave the players little hope last night by playing a daft attacking 4-3-3 formation away to the best attacking home team in the league.

If you come to the King Power trying to outscore us we will have a field day, it was poor tactics from McClaren and that was highlighted on Sky as well

comment by BlackStarr (U12353)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not sure why people aren't focussing on McClaren. He gave the players little hope last night by playing a daft attacking 4-3-3 formation away to the best attacking home team in the league.

If you come to the King Power trying to outscore us we will have a field day, it was poor tactics from McClaren and that was highlighted on Sky as well
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if we had changed tactics to try and nullify leicester and lost people would have criticised anyway! why wouldn't we back ourselves with our away record? the one criticism i would level at mcclaren is playing hendrick ahead of eustace which left us weak in mf.

we were crap, leicester were excellent and up-for-it, end of story.

I wonder if we will develop an alternative to the 4-3-3 though maybe a 4-2-3-1 with Cisse and Eustace in ...thug life.

Think Hendrick's fitness is effecting him but looking forward to how the team responds to the last three kicks in the dlicks.

MILF,

Away from home Eustace or Cisse should of started last night & that was McClaren or Simpson's fault.
Hendrick isn't a holding midfielder by any imagination

comment by JorvikRammer stuck in Düsseldorf (U1369)
posted 3 hours, 10 minutes ago
Wassa,
McClaren has been saying the players must learn from their mistakes but he made the biggest by no having a holding midfielder on the pitch against the top team in the division
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Jorvik your guess is as good as mine
Hendrick is not a holding midfield player

Wassa,
Lets hope the same mistake isn't repeated

Yep lets hope He's learnt is lesson to be fair Jorvik. This was coming mate. I still say we look to light weight in midfield.....

Very disappointing game of course but looking at the table now it still makes good reading 6 pts clear in play offs and as long as we are realistic that auto was never really on then I would take that at the moment.

There were some good signs in the Chelsea game and these are the same players so still reason to be optimistic.