My Team ; My Error

snootyfox

snootyfox

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When my team, Leicester City, win a game it makes me happy. Whatever else is happening, it cheers me up.
I love my team, and it’s a great team…. It has everything, young rising stars, Wiley old pros, world class gifted players, and workmanlike players, it’s a great squad, and on their day they can beat anyone, I think they’re better than Manchester United and Arsenal for that matter. I think 8th is the very least they deserve, they also deserved better than the new third tier of European competition, I genuinely believe this squad are good enough for higher levels.
So why haven’t they achieved??? Because they don’t have that man to install that belief, confidence and mettle to get them over the line….. there’s nobody reaching into their souls to allow them to find that extra energy, to give that 110% when the chips are down. Instead they have a coaches’ voice telling them the opposite, telling them that it’s the opposition who are world class, and who can’t find a way to coach them into successful defence of a corner ball so that each time they concede another, it’s yet another punch in the guts for them. I love these players, this squad, and applaud them for their brilliant efforts despite the lack of an elite manager that knows how to motivate. Well done my team.

My error
…was to tune in to Radio Leicester on my way home and hear the bare-faced lies from the Leicester City manager as he addressed the microphone…
“The players have been criticised all season which I think is really unfair…..”

No they haven’t

The media and fans’ criticism ‘all season’ has been;
- inability to defend set pieces (down to the coach)
- inability to see out a winning position (game management, down to the coach)
- injury prone players and apparent fielding of players not fully recovered (down to the coach)
Apart from occasional moans about one or two individuals (from fans, not noticed any media), the players have NOT “been criticised all season” like he’s stated.
I dislike lies, especially when it’s snide, disguised and from an individual responsible for a lot of professionals’ progression in their sport.
My team, brilliant
My error, tuning in to the liar
 
snootyfox said:
When my team, Leicester City, win a game it makes me happy. Whatever else is happening, it cheers me up.
I love my team, and it’s a great team…. It has everything, young rising stars, Wiley old pros, world class gifted players, and workmanlike players, it’s a great squad, and on their day they can beat anyone, I think they’re better than Manchester United and Arsenal for that matter. I think 8th is the very least they deserve, they also deserved better than the new third tier of European competition, I genuinely believe this squad are good enough for higher levels.
So why haven’t they achieved??? Because they don’t have that man to install that belief, confidence and mettle to get them over the line….. there’s nobody reaching into their souls to allow them to find that extra energy, to give that 110% when the chips are down. Instead they have a coaches’ voice telling them the opposite, telling them that it’s the opposition who are world class, and who can’t find a way to coach them into successful defence of a corner ball so that each time they concede another, it’s yet another punch in the guts for them. I love these players, this squad, and applaud them for their brilliant efforts despite the lack of an elite manager that knows how to motivate. Well done my team.

My error
…was to tune in to Radio Leicester on my way home and hear the bare-faced lies from the Leicester City manager as he addressed the microphone…
“The players have been criticised all season which I think is really unfair…..”

No they haven’t

The media and fans’ criticism ‘all season’ has been;
- inability to defend set pieces (down to the coach)
- inability to see out a winning position (game management, down to the coach)
- injury prone players and apparent fielding of players not fully recovered (down to the coach)
Apart from occasional moans about one or two individuals (from fans, not noticed any media), the players have NOT “been criticised all season” like he’s stated.
I dislike lies, especially when it’s snide, disguised and from an individual responsible for a lot of professionals’ progression in their sport.
My team, brilliant
My error, tuning in to the liar
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Exactly Snooty Fox
Nailed it.
 
The same manager who stopped us losing five FA Cup finals.

It's been a horrendous season with injuries. I'm not using that as an excuse but it has had a major significance.

He said from day one our squad is good enough to challenge the hierarchy but not good enough to challenge on four fronts.

With COVID and what not, the funds haven't been available to build the quality of the squad. What we have spent has been invested in the future. He hasn't bought anyone ready to slot right in and hit the ground running.

Yes he bought Vesta who's experienced, but that was all that was available at the budget to cover a injury ravaged defence, and deep down I think he was hoping he had the next Van Dijk on his hands.

A fully fit squad, a decent budget, a few offloaded to add to the coffers, then we can judge where we stand.

I'd keep him for now, unless Mourhino walks out on Roma Thursday morning.

Whatever anyone thinks, he's a flight of steps above Dyche, Potter and some names bandied around.
 
snootyfox said:
When my team, Leicester City, win a game it makes me happy. Whatever else is happening, it cheers me up.
I love my team, and it’s a great team…. It has everything, young rising stars, Wiley old pros, world class gifted players, and workmanlike players, it’s a great squad, and on their day they can beat anyone, I think they’re better than Manchester United and Arsenal for that matter. I think 8th is the very least they deserve, they also deserved better than the new third tier of European competition, I genuinely believe this squad are good enough for higher levels.
So why haven’t they achieved??? Because they don’t have that man to install that belief, confidence and mettle to get them over the line….. there’s nobody reaching into their souls to allow them to find that extra energy, to give that 110% when the chips are down. Instead they have a coaches’ voice telling them the opposite, telling them that it’s the opposition who are world class, and who can’t find a way to coach them into successful defence of a corner ball so that each time they concede another, it’s yet another punch in the guts for them. I love these players, this squad, and applaud them for their brilliant efforts despite the lack of an elite manager that knows how to motivate. Well done my team.

My error
…was to tune in to Radio Leicester on my way home and hear the bare-faced lies from the Leicester City manager as he addressed the microphone…
“The players have been criticised all season which I think is really unfair…..”

No they haven’t

The media and fans’ criticism ‘all season’ has been;
- inability to defend set pieces (down to the coach)
- inability to see out a winning position (game management, down to the coach)
- injury prone players and apparent fielding of players not fully recovered (down to the coach)
Apart from occasional moans about one or two individuals (from fans, not noticed any media), the players have NOT “been criticised all season” like he’s stated.
I dislike lies, especially when it’s snide, disguised and from an individual responsible for a lot of professionals’ progression in their sport.
My team, brilliant
My error, tuning in to the liar
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absofuckinglutely bang on the money, well put and the most accurate post of the season !!!
 
I have hammered Vestergaard and Bertrand on here because they were crap signings.
I don't think the players want to play dull tippy tappy, possession for the sake of it football.
The Napoli (home and away), Florist and Roma games really pissed me off because of Rodgers. He sets the tone.
He is handsomely paid but happy like a certain Conservative PM to throw everyone else under a bus to deflect blame.
The sight of him as an excited schoolboy on the pitch at Roma pre match was truly pathetic. No wonder we lost.
The Cup Final was fantastic and unforgettable but it's history now. You have to keep moving forward.
 
courtslcfc said:
The same manager who stopped us losing five FA Cup finals.

It's been a horrendous season with injuries. I'm not using that as an excuse but it has had a major significance.

He said from day one our squad is good enough to challenge the hierarchy but not good enough to challenge on four fronts.

With COVID and what not, the funds haven't been available to build the quality of the squad. What we have spent has been invested in the future. He hasn't bought anyone ready to slot right in and hit the ground running.

Yes he bought Vesta who's experienced, but that was all that was available at the budget to cover a injury ravaged defence, and deep down I think he was hoping he had the next Van Dijk on his hands.

A fully fit squad, a decent budget, a few offloaded to add to the coffers, then we can judge where we stand.

I'd keep him for now, unless Mourhino walks out on Roma Thursday morning.

Whatever anyone thinks, he's a flight of steps above Dyche, Potter and some names bandied around.
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I appreciate that courts. But it’s not really the point I was making. It’s not covid, injures or vestagaard that causes us to fail to stop 26 opponents set pieces ending up as goals.
Or to cause the manager to spout lies to deflect from his own inabilities, if you were his player you’d be just a little bit pissed off with that masquerade
And I was desperately hoping nobody was going to hop on this thread with a mention of fucking Sean Dyche
 
courtslcfc said:
The same manager who stopped us losing five FA Cup finals.

It's been a horrendous season with injuries. I'm not using that as an excuse but it has had a major significance.

He said from day one our squad is good enough to challenge the hierarchy but not good enough to challenge on four fronts.

With COVID and what not, the funds haven't been available to build the quality of the squad. What we have spent has been invested in the future. He hasn't bought anyone ready to slot right in and hit the ground running.

Yes he bought Vesta who's experienced, but that was all that was available at the budget to cover a injury ravaged defence, and deep down I think he was hoping he had the next Van Dijk on his hands.

A fully fit squad, a decent budget, a few offloaded to add to the coffers, then we can judge where we stand.

I'd keep him for now, unless Mourhino walks out on Roma Thursday morning.

Whatever anyone thinks, he's a flight of steps above Dyche, Potter and some names bandied around.
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hes not a flight of steps above them at all. Hes what is holding us back, l can't say it better that Snooty as hes nailed.

This is a top 4 squad with a manager who will never ever win the Premier or anything else for that matter.

I shared his management history on another thread, have a look, the past tells the future !
 
bnet said:
hes not a flight of steps above them at all. Hes what is holding us back, l can't say it better that Snooty as hes nailed.

This is a top 4 squad with a manager who will never ever win the Premier or anything else for that matter.

I shared his management history on another thread, have a look, the past tells the future !
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Oh so just like we stayed up to spite NFP, we won the fa cup to spite Brendan? And the charity shield?
 
courtslcfc said:
Oh so just like we stayed up to spite NFP, we won the fa cup to spite Brendan? And the charity shield?
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nope, anyway its just my opinion thats all, perhaps l say it as a fact, from where I'm looking it is and from yours its not, which is fair enough. I won't change my opinion and I'm certain that I'll be proved correct, but obviously you are as well.
 
courtslcfc said:
Oh so just like we stayed up to spite NFP, we won the fa cup to spite Brendan? And the charity shield?
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Just for the record, I loved NFP. An odd bloke but a huge part of elevating Leicester City to where they are now.
As a complete opposite to Rodgers, Pearson told it how it was and couldn’t help himself from speaking his mind, even when it was to his own detriment.
I wish him well.
 
who was the last roof approved manager? before you answer Saint MON was25 years ago and was against less rich and professional clubs. He did however get 53 points one year
 
snootyfox said:
Just for the record, I loved NFP. An odd bloke but a huge part of elevating Leicester City to where they are now.
As a complete opposite to Rodgers, Pearson told it how it was and couldn’t help himself from speaking his mind, even when it was to his own detriment.
I wish him well.
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What did Pearson win of any significance? It doesn't matter what he does any more, you just look for a negative in everything.
 
Club_B00k_Crutchless said:
What did Pearson win of any significance? It doesn't matter what he does any more, you just look for a negative in everything.
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There is no negative mentioned regarding Pearson, he spoke too candidly for some, which landed him in trouble

The main negative on the original post is pointing to myself…..as stated, my error.
 
snootyfox said:
There is no negative mentioned regarding Pearson, he spoke too candidly for some, which landed him in trouble

The main negative on the original post is pointing to myself…..as stated, my error.
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You misunderstood, you are negative about everything Rodgers does and compare him to Pearson who you present more positively. I don't recall a great deal of posts from you until the last few weeks, when all you've done is post negative stuff about Rodgers. Yeah we could probably have done better, but to finish 8th is not a disgrace for a club of our resources considering the injuries we've had to deal with. Obviously they were Rodgers fault as well but let's look forward to next season.
 
Club_B00k_Crutchless said:
You misunderstood, you are negative about everything Rodgers does and compare him to Pearson who you present more positively. I don't recall a great deal of posts from you until the last few weeks, when all you've done is post negative stuff about Rodgers. Yeah we could probably have done better, but to finish 8th is not a disgrace for a club of our resources considering the injuries we've had to deal with. Obviously they were Rodgers fault as well but let's look forward to next season.
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Yes I think you’re right. I didn’t understand you

However yes, I view lying as a negative, I view long term repeated failings as a negative
If he were once to be honest and say ‘I have let these players down this year, I have blamed them, I have told them they lack this, that or the other, I have not once pointed the finger at myself’
If having posts of this nature on a message board prompts you to think of Nigel Pearson that’s entirely your choice. Why not focus on the positive elements of our players which I have lovingly acknowledged
 
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snootyfox said:
I’m a Leicester City fan, not a Brendan Rodgers fan. Why don’t you concentrate on the positive elements of the post.

‘Some people only see the
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snootyfox said:
I’m a Leicester City fan, not a Brendan Rodgers fan. Why don’t you concentrate on the positive elements of the post.

‘Some people only see the negatives’
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Look at the positives this thread is so negative towards Leicester city football club just to let you know we finished 8th that's right 8th god Some of you need to go back in memory to 2005 to 2013
 
Cowboy said:
Look at the positives this thread is so negative towards Leicester city football club just to let you know we finished 8th that's right 8th god Some of you need to go back in memory to 2005 to 2013
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That’s great for you. It’s not great for a Youri Tielemens or a James Maddison…. who just might feel that they will need to leave, as 8th doesn’t quite do it for them, or their careers, and who might just feel a bit pissed off that their boss keeps telling the world that they and their team mates have been criticised all season.
And no we don’t need ‘to go back to 2005-2013’, the football club is in the hands of owners not only with ambition, but with pride, care and dignity. Ambition is about looking to the future, not backwards….. I believe there are more great things to come for our club. Ride ‘em Cowboy
 
snootyfox said:
That’s great for you. It’s not great for a Youri Tielemens or a James Maddison…. who just might feel that they will need to leave, as 8th doesn’t quite do it for them, or their careers, and who might just feel a bit pissed off that their boss keeps telling the world that they and their team mates have been criticised all season.
And no we don’t need ‘to go back to 2005-2013’, the football club is in the hands of owners not only with ambition, but with pride, care and dignity. Ambition is about looking to the future, not backwards….. I believe there are more great things to come for our club. Ride ‘em Cowboy
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Tielemans had no intention of signing a new contract that contract had been on the table for 1 and half years ago and the criticism has been right and fully deserved.maddison might well just wait to see what happens next season but if he sees use challenging for a European places and another good cup run that hopefully sees us winning another trophy then he might just stay unless one of the top4 come in for him .you said it ambition and a lot depends on that to see what happens but that means they need to spend big to get to the ambition and show the bigger players that they want to succeed so know go off with sweep and sue and play nicely
 
I can see where Snooty is coming from though I believe Rodgers has enough credit for another season. This will be a proper test with no Europe and hopefully fewer injuries. The fact that he is David Brent is something that is never going to change, any more than Pearson or Puel are ever going to change. Having gone through Taylor, Levein, Holloway many of us will be delighted with top half and top Midlands club.

But Top won't. He wants top (sorry) six pretty much minimum. The disruption caused by European games is "a good problem to have". Rodgers will be gone if we don’t get there next year.

I would love to know the story of the Norwich game. Rodgers not coming out and no subs is off the scale weird.

Anyway, priority now is FC Halifax Town beating Chesterfield tomorrow in the Conference playoffs. Come on you Shaymen !!
 
spot on
he's a gaslighter, he twists the truth until people think what he says is the accepted version of events
working for someone like that must be a nightmare
 
Snooty is right as BR is a poor leader

Good leaders are humble, they accept their failings and protect their team from criticism.

BR is the opposite. Fails to take responsibility for poor performances and the shocking defending all season.

I don’t know who would replace him but he’s definitely not a leader .
 
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