The morning after the shite before.

[Brauny]

Brauny, I’ve worked in professional football, that’s just Roy of the Rovers thinking, I’m afraid.

It’s a job, a very well paid job, and it’s treated as such by the vast majority. Any player telling you otherwise is giving you Christmas Card pish.

We’ve got a squad filled with blokes who’s football next season will be well away from the KP, when the going gets tough they don’t care.

So fans are are between a rock and hard place, let them know what you think and they down tools, or scream your lungs out in support but they lack any kind of mental fortitude or willingness to go the extra and deal with pressure so they wilt.

Respect your opinion but don't agree with it all.
For the record I have not worked in professional football, but have reasonable knowledge of how it works through a family member playing for Leicester City and also working with ex professionals.
Regarding downing tools I don't accept that. Players may consciously or unconsciously be less motivated but they couldn't hide a big drop off in performance without getting hooked and dropped.
At a level where results are often determined by fine margins, a player only needs to slightly drop their standards for it to make a difference.
Another reason I'd doubt them downing tools is because the vast majority of footballers want to play at the highest level they are capable of.
They would want to be a marketable product for potential suitors.
Clubs that target a player must also surely be scrutinizing every aspect of potential new recruitments and I'm sure a player with a poor attitude would be a big negative.

 

[essingtonblue]

So, we're now at the stage of personal attacks on the manager. What has he actually said that's Mourinho-like, or made himself out to be something special?

Wouldn’t you say a person with the tiniest amount of experience in a job replying to concerns over his style of play with threats of walking away if they aren’t accepted & embraced, the actions of someone with designs on themselves?
I know I bloody would.

 

[RevFox]

Brauny, I’ve worked in professional football, that’s just Roy of the Rovers thinking, I’m afraid.

It’s a job, a very well paid job, and it’s treated as such by the vast majority. Any player telling you otherwise is giving you Christmas Card pish.

We’ve got a squad filled with blokes who’s football next season will be well away from the KP, when the going gets tough they don’t care.

So fans are are between a rock and hard place, let them know what you think and they down tools, or scream your lungs out in support but they lack any kind of mental fortitude or willingness to go the extra and deal with pressure so they wilt.

A plea here from someone who has never posted before, but like many on this board who loves the club.
We are eight games away from the Premiership, that's all. If we had arrived at our current league position after a storming run up the league we would all be happy. I know we are not getting the points we all hoped for but... let's put all our personal opinions aside, let's not think about the points deductions yet, let's just get behind the team. We are Foxes supporters and we have had a wonderful ten years, a time which none of us would ever have thought possible. So, let's get on with our job, for just a few more games, and then we can voice our thoughts!!

 

[Brauny]

Wouldn’t you say a person with the tiniest amount of experience in a job replying to concerns over his style of play with threats of walking away if they aren’t accepted & embraced, the actions of someone with designs on themselves?
I know I bloody would.

Totally agree.
I said at the time he had no track record to think people should be falling at his feet.
A good record earns respect, it was way too early for him to be throwing such threats out.
MON waited until he proved us wrong before giving the fans a reminder of the stick he was given.

 

[Oadlad]

The problem is that if we had stormed into third we would have been playing well.
Our problem is we have meekly subsided into third...
And the posts above are right because this is a collective decline, not just a couple of players out of form.
And its timing with all the off field stuff is surely not coincidental...