by Terminal Boardom » 14 Apr 2009 19:26
by Agent Balti » 14 Apr 2009 19:33
Terminal Boardom We need to be a shade more realistic.
Chopping and changing the manager will do nothing but waste time and take us backwards. How many managers have Leicester had since SSC joined? How successful have they been? We are in serious danger of "doing a Charlton". Positively, this would involve steady growth and improvement. Negatively, biting off more than we can chew.
I recall reading some time ago about the Business Plan which was for us to yo-yo between the Premiership and Championship and continuing to build steadily along the lines of Charlton and Bolton. This I can easily live with.
SJM has always said that he finds the whole concept of money in football as being vulgar and he is right.
Thank goodness the likes of Royalee, Woodcote and Wycombe Royal are not in charge of the football club. We would have gone out of existence years ago.
Be careful what you wish for.
by The 17 Bus » 14 Apr 2009 19:50
by Dirk Gently » 14 Apr 2009 19:59
The MVPTerminal Boardom Cock
You're a cock.
by Southbank Old Boy » 14 Apr 2009 20:02
Terminal Boardom We need to be a shade more realistic.
Chopping and changing the manager will do nothing but waste time and take us backwards. How many managers have Leicester had since SSC joined? How successful have they been? We are in serious danger of "doing a Charlton". Positively, this would involve steady growth and improvement. Negatively, biting off more than we can chew.
I recall reading some time ago about the Business Plan which was for us to yo-yo between the Premiership and Championship and continuing to build steadily along the lines of Charlton and Bolton. This I can easily live with.
SJM has always said that he finds the whole concept of money in football as being vulgar and he is right.
Thank goodness the likes of Royalee, Woodcote and Wycombe Royal are not in charge of the football club. We would have gone out of existence years ago.
Be careful what you wish for.
by Terminal Boardom » 14 Apr 2009 21:28
by Southbank Old Boy » 14 Apr 2009 21:39
by Cookie » 14 Apr 2009 21:56
Forest Gump He is obviously an intelligent bloke. Most pundits rate him as a very canny / astute / clever manager.
So why then, for the third season during his reign at the Club have we seen a spectacular collapse in form during the second half of the season.
And why does nothing appear to be done?
The answer: Steve Coppell does not know how or why the team were playing so well - therefore he has no clue what to do about them doing so badly. He does not know how to manage
Soon after he leaves we'll find out what went wrong.
by Terminal Boardom » 14 Apr 2009 21:57
Southbank Old Boy Coppell is still held in high regard for what he has done here too - TB adds reading a number of posts on here I would have thought otherwise, that doesnt mean it might not be the right time for his reign to come to an end
You say we shouldnt ditch a manager because of a sticky patch, well we should if the manager has run out of ideas and the hunger for the job. He himself said he might not have been the right person to rebuild the team after it started to fail last christmas. That was why he was going to walk away
They say there is no room for sentiment in football, I think it was sentiment that made Coppell stay last summer and I think he should probably have followed his gut instinct and walked away
by yuomi » 14 Apr 2009 22:01
by BonBoh » 14 Apr 2009 22:13
by Southbank Old Boy » 14 Apr 2009 22:23
yuomi hes been here for 5 years. our form has been dire for 3 MONTHS! i hate to think how many marriages most of you are going to get through. for gods sake lets have some perspecitve.
by Skin » 14 Apr 2009 22:24
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 14 Apr 2009 22:29
by Archie's penalty » 14 Apr 2009 23:59
BonBoh There are so many factors as to why we have slumped this year.
One major factor is our home form. Teams have learned how to frustrate us in different ways.
1. they play negative football with a 4-5-1 formation - stifling our attack, frustrating us and hoping for an away goal (which they ultimately get before us). Then they park the team bus in front of goal and shut us out.
2. they disrupt the multiball system and ask the ref to scrap it after they take the lead. Then revert to 1.
3. they target key outlets, such as Federici's kicking... slowing down our MOMENTUM which is our strongest asset at home and is relevant to points 1-3.
In general, one could criticize the fact that it took the management/training staff too long to figure out
a) what was going on
b) a solution to it
A solution may have been to play negative football and pass the ball around the back four - luring the opposition out.
A solution may have been to play a different formation - 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 in an attempt to thwart the opposition and enter a battle for supremacy rather than to blitz them with all guns blazing.
A solution may also have been to convert every good chance we had. Look at Sheff Utd. Kitson hit the bar. 60 seconds later the Blades took the lead. Had Kitson scored, it probably would have been a different outcome.
A solution is certainly also NOT to revert to hoofing the ball upfield when we go a goal down. However, this is not the management's sole fault. The players have lost confidence and start to panic. They then just punt it anywhere, hoping for the best. Yet, honestly, we are not that type of side and it never works - which is why we are in the state we are in at the moment. We have run out of ideas because everyone has forgotten the simple stuff we did earlier in the season.
Other things are a factor, too.
Leroy Lita.... Can't score for us (except the one on his return). Noel Hunt is dropped for Lita and we stopped scoring from the second game onward after he returned. Now how must Noel feel about that? Then SC chops and changes things but always goes with Doyle, who is probably completely burned out. Then we try anybody up front and re-sign Kitson who immediately replaces anyone who had any kind of form. No wonder the morale is shot and we have found it difficult to score. This is, in my opinion, down to poor management decisions. Yet again, they may have worked so we can't criticize SC for trying. It's always easier in hindsight.
Blackpool was a critical game for us and I feel that SC did the right thing. He dropped Kitson for NHunt and had the guts to play Karacan instead of Matejovsky. the initial 25 minutes gave us something to really hope for.
Let's tidy up a bit more and bring in Pearce for Duberry and get Henry back from Millwall. Play these younger players in the play-offs and if we go up, we go up. If we lose, like a lot of us might now expect to happen, we will at least have some great young players with the skill and the will to play for us all of next season in the Championship after we lose the big time charlies to the Premiership.
by Hoop Blah » 15 Apr 2009 09:22
Terminal BoardomSouthbank Old Boy Coppell is still held in high regard for what he has done here too - TB adds reading a number of posts on here I would have thought otherwise, that doesnt mean it might not be the right time for his reign to come to an end
by brendywendy » 15 Apr 2009 09:52
We havent played good football to open up the opposition all season
by Focher » 15 Apr 2009 09:56
by Hoop Blah » 15 Apr 2009 09:58
brendywendyWe havent played good football to open up the opposition all season
this seems wrong to me
but then what do i know
i have the memory of a piece of cheese
by brendywendy » 15 Apr 2009 10:10
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