You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
Big shout out tonight to all those people who have slagged of the Leicester players over the last few days. Thank you you have certainly helped motivate the players and create a siege mentality. Tactics did help of course.
What Glory Hole said. The kettling of everyone (still) involved at the club into a corner really helped the togetherness on show.
Your bitterness shall keep us up.
The club will feel it justified its decision but no one will ever be able to claim again those players gave it their all for Claudio.
It's simply not credible to claim otherwise. Intensity is the footballing word for effort. They sabotaged him, plain and simple. Extraordinary considering he turned a load of nobodies into title winners.
jar jar - You kind of have to ask why they sabotaged him. If that performance and intensity were there all along, what was so wrong before? Was Ranieri that much of a threat to them, when he talked himself towards the end about how he might have trusted last year's performers too much? I don't have the answers but you have to admit it's odd.
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 9 minutes ago
You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
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Yet another fan whose principles go out of the window with a win. Let's have this conversation again if you're relegated.
Yea I don't know what happened but it's obvious they turned against him. Is such a weird set of events.
I'm getting annoyed at people not understanding what the difference was tonight, people who generally haven't got a clue what they're talking about because they don't watch us week in week out.
The difference tonight was simply tactics. Going back to what we did last season and the nine games before that. Our success was built on high energy, high intensity, counter attacking football. Getting at teams early on in games, putting players under pressure and forcing mistakes.
Ranieri stopped us pressing, tried to make us more defensive and ultimately tried to change our style of play. The style of play that we became renowned for was replaced by something nobody recognised, least of all the players.
Tonight proved why Ranieri had to go, a very difficult but absolutely correct decision. Applause to the owners for once again having the best interests of the club at heart
Fair play to the players too, a lot of things have been said and there was a lot of pressure on them but they did themselves proud, took a lot of character that. Excellent stuff.
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 9 minutes ago
You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
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Yet another fan whose principles go out of the window with a win. Let's have this conversation again if you're relegated.
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On the contrary, I vehemently backed Ranieri and blamed the players but after he was sacked and information leaked out, I decided then it was the right decision. You can check my history if you want but this isn't a reaction to a win, not at all.
That's the weird thing - nobody knows. All we have is that Ulloa felt that Ranieri had lied to him about his opportunities to find another club in the January transfer window in order to get more football.
Aside from that, it's just stories about (for instance) how he (supposedly) changed formation for Copenhagen away an hour before kickoff. Which would explain why we were so awful there until he changed it back to normal 35 minutes in. But even that doesn't explain the sense of absolute demoralisation around.
And as I've said elsewhere, they're clearly not fit enough - they just got far enough ahead of Liverpool tonight that they could hold them off with sheer desire. Whether that's cause or effect remains unclear.
Tonight's showing has made a lot of those players go down in my estimation to be honest. To simply not yet because you don't like the manager is awful, in any other line of work the manager would be giving them the boot, not the other way round.
I know people will argue about CR getting things wrong, which he no doubt did, but after everything he did least season the least he deserved was for the players to actually try.
Kudos to the fans though. At a time where it could be very easy to get divided or be petty, they really seemed to pull together and get behind the players tonight (in a way I'm not 100% sure they deserve), whilst also honouring Ranieri
CofE - There must be an element of tactics about it. But it was quite amazing how quickly everyone suddenly knew what they were doing again after weeks of absolute confusion over whether they're supposed to sit back or press. And the individual effort levels were huge again.
THE bag - We've got to get behind the club. Ultimately, while others don't care about what we do after the fairytale (and partly why we've suffered a lot of abuse from other fans and the press about "knowing our place", we have to appreciate the past but not get stuck in it. The only way of getting glory at all is to be in the Premier League, and we have to support the team to make that happen, at least while the circumstances are unclear. Which they will probably forever be.
What a complete daily star reading facktard the OP is. Shambles of an article
Player power is hardly a new found fad.
It's because of what they achieved last season and the ongoing interest in the CL league that has turned this into the circus it has become.
Fact remains that football is a business and the owners of Leicester are serious ones and not from these shores and after the joy they also brought to their homeland, that could backfire with relegation hitting them both in the pocket but more importantly face.
It's a calculated risk to get rid as is their right but if they do go down the King will have lost some power.
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 1 minute ago
CofE - There must be an element of tactics about it. But it was quite amazing how quickly everyone suddenly knew what they were doing again after weeks of absolute confusion over whether they're supposed to sit back or press. And the individual effort levels were huge again.
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That's the whole point though mate, they were obviously clear on their instructions to press and play with higher energy. Shakey said it in his post match interview. The players looked clueless before, looking around at each other, not knowing whether to press or sit and that's down to lack of instruction or asking them to do something they didn't understand.
The individual efforts were huge again but that really can simply be down to confidence in what they're doing.
Yep and I admire that attitude. It'd be easy to get dragged into negativity but you haven't and that would no doubt have had a big affect tonight.
CofE talking about tactics - weren't you looking for changes after things weren't going well? I'm sure I've seen you pushing for 3 at the back, for example. It's natural to change things around when things don't work, but the problem didn't seem to be the tactics, it was more the application of the players.
They upped it in the CL and got results when it suited them
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 10 minutes ago
I'm getting annoyed at people not understanding what the difference was tonight, people who generally haven't got a clue what they're talking about because they don't watch us week in week out.
The difference tonight was simply tactics. Going back to what we did last season and the nine games before that. Our success was built on high energy, high intensity, counter attacking football. Getting at teams early on in games, putting players under pressure and forcing mistakes.
Ranieri stopped us pressing, tried to make us more defensive and ultimately tried to change our style of play. The style of play that we became renowned for was replaced by something nobody recognised, least of all the players.
Tonight proved why Ranieri had to go, a very difficult but absolutely correct decision. Applause to the owners for once again having the best interests of the club at heart
Fair play to the players too, a lot of things have been said and there was a lot of pressure on them but they did themselves proud, took a lot of character that. Excellent stuff.
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Football fans are so fickle. Can I ask all Lester fans to think about the giant debt you all owe Claudio ranieri? Just think about it.
COE, I only read your first paragragh .
Listen, people are so deeply jealous of our club and what we achieved. We know the title was buit over many years but some people will simply not have it.
C of E, don't take it personally when fans of 'poxy' clubs aim criticism at your club. We're the same fans who were willing Leicester on last season and willing them on again this season to get in among the old guard and break the hierarchy. The likes of me look at this situation with no agenda, only the ability to stand back and take a view based on what we see and hear and read. You clearly know more about your team's tactics, but the pundits on MotD tonight said Leicester's players put in twice as many tackles against Liverpool. That's not the result of better tactics - that's them displaying with a desire they've rarely shown all season.
System is one thing. Leicester fans can't though pretend "intensity" (i.e. effort) wasn't noticbly different too.
comment by Glory Glory Hole (U1063)
posted 1 minute ago
COE, I only read your first paragragh .
Listen, people are so deeply jealous of our club and what we achieved. We know the title was buit over many years but some people will simply not have it.
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How the hell was the title was built over many years, ffs man you were guaranteed relegation fodder at Xmas the season before and have skipped between both leagues for many a year.
Take the rest of the night off.
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 2 minutes ago
C of E, don't take it personally when fans of 'poxy' clubs aim criticism at your club. We're the same fans who were willing Leicester on last season and willing them on again this season to get in among the old guard and break the hierarchy. The likes of me look at this situation with no agenda, only the ability to stand back and take a view based on what we see and hear and read. You clearly know more about your team's tactics, but the pundits on MotD tonight said Leicester's players put in twice as many tackles against Liverpool. That's not the result of better tactics - that's them displaying with a desire they've rarely shown all season.
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Best post I've read all night
THE bag - While they did up it in the Champions League at first, they did drift away somewhat. Brugge in our group were awful, while we arguably got more than we deserved with 4 points from 2 matches against Copenhagen. Porto at home was the best performance, and that required a top save from Kasper Schmeichel at the death to claim the 3 points. In fact Schmeichel won us a heck of a lot of points in that group, including one great save with a broken hand in Copenhagen (!)
Against Sevilla we got absolutely smashed, but they didn't finish their chances then bottled it and let us in for a goal. A 2-1 loss was an absolute travesty, but somehow we're still in the tie.
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posted on 27/2/17
You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
posted on 27/2/17
Big shout out tonight to all those people who have slagged of the Leicester players over the last few days. Thank you you have certainly helped motivate the players and create a siege mentality. Tactics did help of course.
posted on 27/2/17
What Glory Hole said. The kettling of everyone (still) involved at the club into a corner really helped the togetherness on show.
Your bitterness shall keep us up.
posted on 27/2/17
The club will feel it justified its decision but no one will ever be able to claim again those players gave it their all for Claudio.
It's simply not credible to claim otherwise. Intensity is the footballing word for effort. They sabotaged him, plain and simple. Extraordinary considering he turned a load of nobodies into title winners.
posted on 27/2/17
jar jar - You kind of have to ask why they sabotaged him. If that performance and intensity were there all along, what was so wrong before? Was Ranieri that much of a threat to them, when he talked himself towards the end about how he might have trusted last year's performers too much? I don't have the answers but you have to admit it's odd.
posted on 27/2/17
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 9 minutes ago
You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
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Yet another fan whose principles go out of the window with a win. Let's have this conversation again if you're relegated.
posted on 27/2/17
Yea I don't know what happened but it's obvious they turned against him. Is such a weird set of events.
posted on 27/2/17
I'm getting annoyed at people not understanding what the difference was tonight, people who generally haven't got a clue what they're talking about because they don't watch us week in week out.
The difference tonight was simply tactics. Going back to what we did last season and the nine games before that. Our success was built on high energy, high intensity, counter attacking football. Getting at teams early on in games, putting players under pressure and forcing mistakes.
Ranieri stopped us pressing, tried to make us more defensive and ultimately tried to change our style of play. The style of play that we became renowned for was replaced by something nobody recognised, least of all the players.
Tonight proved why Ranieri had to go, a very difficult but absolutely correct decision. Applause to the owners for once again having the best interests of the club at heart
Fair play to the players too, a lot of things have been said and there was a lot of pressure on them but they did themselves proud, took a lot of character that. Excellent stuff.
posted on 27/2/17
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 9 minutes ago
You're a fool that doesn't know what you're talking about, not a clue.
Jog on back to your poxy excuse of a football club!
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Yet another fan whose principles go out of the window with a win. Let's have this conversation again if you're relegated.
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On the contrary, I vehemently backed Ranieri and blamed the players but after he was sacked and information leaked out, I decided then it was the right decision. You can check my history if you want but this isn't a reaction to a win, not at all.
posted on 27/2/17
That's the weird thing - nobody knows. All we have is that Ulloa felt that Ranieri had lied to him about his opportunities to find another club in the January transfer window in order to get more football.
Aside from that, it's just stories about (for instance) how he (supposedly) changed formation for Copenhagen away an hour before kickoff. Which would explain why we were so awful there until he changed it back to normal 35 minutes in. But even that doesn't explain the sense of absolute demoralisation around.
And as I've said elsewhere, they're clearly not fit enough - they just got far enough ahead of Liverpool tonight that they could hold them off with sheer desire. Whether that's cause or effect remains unclear.
posted on 27/2/17
Tonight's showing has made a lot of those players go down in my estimation to be honest. To simply not yet because you don't like the manager is awful, in any other line of work the manager would be giving them the boot, not the other way round.
I know people will argue about CR getting things wrong, which he no doubt did, but after everything he did least season the least he deserved was for the players to actually try.
Kudos to the fans though. At a time where it could be very easy to get divided or be petty, they really seemed to pull together and get behind the players tonight (in a way I'm not 100% sure they deserve), whilst also honouring Ranieri
posted on 27/2/17
Not try, not not yet
posted on 27/2/17
CofE - There must be an element of tactics about it. But it was quite amazing how quickly everyone suddenly knew what they were doing again after weeks of absolute confusion over whether they're supposed to sit back or press. And the individual effort levels were huge again.
posted on 27/2/17
THE bag - We've got to get behind the club. Ultimately, while others don't care about what we do after the fairytale (and partly why we've suffered a lot of abuse from other fans and the press about "knowing our place", we have to appreciate the past but not get stuck in it. The only way of getting glory at all is to be in the Premier League, and we have to support the team to make that happen, at least while the circumstances are unclear. Which they will probably forever be.
posted on 27/2/17
What a complete daily star reading facktard the OP is. Shambles of an article
posted on 27/2/17
Player power is hardly a new found fad.
It's because of what they achieved last season and the ongoing interest in the CL league that has turned this into the circus it has become.
Fact remains that football is a business and the owners of Leicester are serious ones and not from these shores and after the joy they also brought to their homeland, that could backfire with relegation hitting them both in the pocket but more importantly face.
It's a calculated risk to get rid as is their right but if they do go down the King will have lost some power.
posted on 27/2/17
comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 1 minute ago
CofE - There must be an element of tactics about it. But it was quite amazing how quickly everyone suddenly knew what they were doing again after weeks of absolute confusion over whether they're supposed to sit back or press. And the individual effort levels were huge again.
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That's the whole point though mate, they were obviously clear on their instructions to press and play with higher energy. Shakey said it in his post match interview. The players looked clueless before, looking around at each other, not knowing whether to press or sit and that's down to lack of instruction or asking them to do something they didn't understand.
The individual efforts were huge again but that really can simply be down to confidence in what they're doing.
posted on 27/2/17
Yep and I admire that attitude. It'd be easy to get dragged into negativity but you haven't and that would no doubt have had a big affect tonight.
CofE talking about tactics - weren't you looking for changes after things weren't going well? I'm sure I've seen you pushing for 3 at the back, for example. It's natural to change things around when things don't work, but the problem didn't seem to be the tactics, it was more the application of the players.
They upped it in the CL and got results when it suited them
posted on 27/2/17
comment by Champions of England (U21032)
posted 10 minutes ago
I'm getting annoyed at people not understanding what the difference was tonight, people who generally haven't got a clue what they're talking about because they don't watch us week in week out.
The difference tonight was simply tactics. Going back to what we did last season and the nine games before that. Our success was built on high energy, high intensity, counter attacking football. Getting at teams early on in games, putting players under pressure and forcing mistakes.
Ranieri stopped us pressing, tried to make us more defensive and ultimately tried to change our style of play. The style of play that we became renowned for was replaced by something nobody recognised, least of all the players.
Tonight proved why Ranieri had to go, a very difficult but absolutely correct decision. Applause to the owners for once again having the best interests of the club at heart
Fair play to the players too, a lot of things have been said and there was a lot of pressure on them but they did themselves proud, took a lot of character that. Excellent stuff.
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Football fans are so fickle. Can I ask all Lester fans to think about the giant debt you all owe Claudio ranieri? Just think about it.
posted on 27/2/17
COE, I only read your first paragragh .
Listen, people are so deeply jealous of our club and what we achieved. We know the title was buit over many years but some people will simply not have it.
posted on 27/2/17
C of E, don't take it personally when fans of 'poxy' clubs aim criticism at your club. We're the same fans who were willing Leicester on last season and willing them on again this season to get in among the old guard and break the hierarchy. The likes of me look at this situation with no agenda, only the ability to stand back and take a view based on what we see and hear and read. You clearly know more about your team's tactics, but the pundits on MotD tonight said Leicester's players put in twice as many tackles against Liverpool. That's not the result of better tactics - that's them displaying with a desire they've rarely shown all season.
posted on 27/2/17
System is one thing. Leicester fans can't though pretend "intensity" (i.e. effort) wasn't noticbly different too.
posted on 27/2/17
comment by Glory Glory Hole (U1063)
posted 1 minute ago
COE, I only read your first paragragh .
Listen, people are so deeply jealous of our club and what we achieved. We know the title was buit over many years but some people will simply not have it.
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How the hell was the title was built over many years, ffs man you were guaranteed relegation fodder at Xmas the season before and have skipped between both leagues for many a year.
Take the rest of the night off.
posted on 27/2/17
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 2 minutes ago
C of E, don't take it personally when fans of 'poxy' clubs aim criticism at your club. We're the same fans who were willing Leicester on last season and willing them on again this season to get in among the old guard and break the hierarchy. The likes of me look at this situation with no agenda, only the ability to stand back and take a view based on what we see and hear and read. You clearly know more about your team's tactics, but the pundits on MotD tonight said Leicester's players put in twice as many tackles against Liverpool. That's not the result of better tactics - that's them displaying with a desire they've rarely shown all season.
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Best post I've read all night
posted on 27/2/17
THE bag - While they did up it in the Champions League at first, they did drift away somewhat. Brugge in our group were awful, while we arguably got more than we deserved with 4 points from 2 matches against Copenhagen. Porto at home was the best performance, and that required a top save from Kasper Schmeichel at the death to claim the 3 points. In fact Schmeichel won us a heck of a lot of points in that group, including one great save with a broken hand in Copenhagen (!)
Against Sevilla we got absolutely smashed, but they didn't finish their chances then bottled it and let us in for a goal. A 2-1 loss was an absolute travesty, but somehow we're still in the tie.
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