Post by leicesterlass on Nov 25, 2006 18:35:20 GMT -1
Those of a nervous disposition should look away now.
Right where do I start with today? Another wasted day, more wasted money, how many more times am I going to be made to feel like this by the team I love??
So here's how I see it:
ROB KELLY: Wrong starting eleven again, Welsh and Maybury?? May as well have fucking Laurel and bastarding Hardy! How many more times is Kelly going to chuck away points by picking the wrong side, he did exactly the same at Wednesday earlier on in the month. And one point from 12 with no wins in November says it all. I'm beginning to wonder if this is the same Robert Kelly who was nominated for the manager of the Month award last month. Rob Kelly is one of the most genuine and nice people I've ever met but I honestly think he's took the club as far as he possibly can, no-one will ever forget the simply amazing job he did for us last season and we will be eternally grateful but we've taken no steps forward since then. In all fairness he really has got his hands tied behind his back, no money means that he's got to work with what he's got but looking at the players he's brought in:
The 'team' today (and what I thought of their 'performances'
CONRAD LOGAN: Did well enough, had no chance with the goal but some of his kicks were shocking. Countless times he kicked balls straight out for a Derby throw and in the last 10 minutes when we were chasing the game and had McAuley up front he wasted the kick by sailing it straight over everybodys head and to the Derby keeper, schoolboy errors. When we needed to keep the pressure up when we had Derby reeling he should've used his head a bit more.
RICHARD STEARMAN: Well the controversial element of the game was centered around Stearman and to be honest I thought he was one of the few positives (I use that extremely loosely) out of today's game, got forward and contributed well in attack but defensive frailties were exploited a few times as well.
PADDY KISNORBO: One of the worst games I've seen him have in a Leicester shirt, although Jon Stead and Steve Howard barely got a shot at goal, Paddy's distribution was awful, again when we should've been looking to attack quickly and meaningfully he'd pass back to Logan and it really did piss me right off. I think he still thinks he's down under and so everything works the opposite way, no Paddy we're shooting the other way!
PADDY MCCARTHY: Similar to Kisnorbo really, defended well enough but question have to be asked about the whole defence about the goal, how Stead was allowed a free shot 5 yards from our 18yard line is quite ridiculous and a same old story unfortunately. Again, our distribution from the back is absolutely shocking, the saying 'attack from the back' doesn't seem to apply for us seeing as none of our defenders can pass a ball properly.
NILS-ERIC JOHANSSON: In the first 15 minutes I thought he was going to get ripped apart by Giles Barnes but he steadied himself after a rocky start. He's another one who can't pass, so many times today we wasted possession and instead of being on the front foot we were under pressure from Derby.
ALAN MAYBURY: Well, where the hell do I start with him? He is absolutely fucking awful, can't run, can't defend, can't pass cannot do anything. We may as well have had a bloody blow up doll (or sheep) on the right wing today. As far as I'm concerned he can fuck off and the sooner the better.
STEPHEN HUGHES: Lightweight, knocked off the ball too easily, too many misplaced passes, poor innocuous challenges. All the traits you want in a centre midfielder ay? I don't see how any player can be so good in one game (versus Ipswich) and since then look a totally different player, we were totally outplayed in the midfield today and Hughesy bottled it too many times. This was an East Midlands derby, the fact that he couldn't even look interested in that shows me that he's not the kind of player that we need in the centre midfield.
DANNY TIATTO: Well, from one extremity of midfield player to another, the thing I like about Danny is that he gives it his all, wears his heart on his sleeve. On the other hand he's a bloody useless midfielder, provides no creative element whatsoever. Although today he was the pick of a bad bunch in the middle of the park. Cracking goal line clearance as well.
ANDY WELSH: Well, well, well, what a waste of space he was today, I think he got only one cross in? And was pushed off the ball far too easily and looked to the ref every time, to be honest I can't believe he started the game ahead of Levi Porter and for me he did nothing to warrant a start against Norwich on Tuesday night.
MATTY FRYATT: Gotta feel sorry for the lad really, he's just chasing shadows. He's obviously lacking confidence and match fitness and didn't get a sniff at goal today. The lack of creativity from midfield is seriously hampering our strikers and also our chances of staying in this league. I really hope Matty gets a goal soon, he works tirelessly for the team and really must be thinking there's not much point because the rest of the lads are simply awful.
IAIN HUME: The only good player in an otherwise shambolic team. This guy is just becoming more and more of a legend in my eyes week on week, his head never drops even though there is a continual lack of service and he's always dropping deep into the midfield to try and make things happen. I think he'll be gone in January, and to be honest I think it's best if he does leave, he deserves to be playing in a better team than Leicester. It would kill me to see him leave but he's quality sticks out like a sore thumb in our team, he really is a class above.
Subs:
LEVI PORTER: Did more in his first five minutes than Andy Welsh had done all game, really did provide a good attacking outlet for us in the final stages of the game and should definitely start against Norwich on Tuesday.
GARETH MCAULEY: An unconventional emergency striker but when he came on we looked a half decent team, all the chances came from him but if I'm being super critical (which quite frankly I am) he should've scored at the end, had a free header at the back stick but unfortunately sent it wide.
ELVIS HAMMOND: An absolute donkey, never looks interested and never runs faster than first gear. If he wants a place in the starting line up he's going the wrong way about it, if he put himself about a bit then maybe he'd get the nod ahead of Fryatt but to me he always looks like he'd rather be elsewhere and if that's the case then that's exactly where he should be.
The incidents at half-time though were quite shocking really. A few idiotic Leicester fans tried to rob the burger bar so the shutters went down and they stopped serving everything. Then people started to get a bit rowdy and sang Leicester songs and banged on the shutters, obviously the coppers came down and were greeted with a beer shower and then they started to hit people with their batons and really quite violently, a young lad who I was near got hit and his dad was absolutely livid.
All in all after today's game I was gutted. The referee was an absolute joke, how our goal was disallowed I will never ever know but to be honest we deserved exactly what we got from the game, absolutely nothing. The atmosphere was awesome though and all credit to Derby fans, there was a good bit of banter between the two sets of fans.
But Leicester's performance today really did annoy me, we didn't look up for it enough, even though it was our biggest away game of the season. The team doesn't know anything about pride or passion but if they want to know a thing or two about it I suggest they just think about the 3,000 Leicester fans who were there today and got behind the lads from start to finish; the 3,000 Leicester fans who spend their hard earned cash going to support the team; the 3,000 Leicester fans who remember the teams of the past who would never put in such a half-hearted performance against local rivals; the 3,000 fans that all left the stadium feeling absolutely gutted.
Will the players feel the same tonight? Of course not. Today for the first time in a long time I felt like turning my back on Leicester for a while, because I just thought why should I give up my time and money to watch crap like this who don't even give a toss about the club.
I will support Leicester for life, through think and thin but think us fans deserve something back from the players.
Up the foxes!
Right where do I start with today? Another wasted day, more wasted money, how many more times am I going to be made to feel like this by the team I love??
So here's how I see it:
ROB KELLY: Wrong starting eleven again, Welsh and Maybury?? May as well have fucking Laurel and bastarding Hardy! How many more times is Kelly going to chuck away points by picking the wrong side, he did exactly the same at Wednesday earlier on in the month. And one point from 12 with no wins in November says it all. I'm beginning to wonder if this is the same Robert Kelly who was nominated for the manager of the Month award last month. Rob Kelly is one of the most genuine and nice people I've ever met but I honestly think he's took the club as far as he possibly can, no-one will ever forget the simply amazing job he did for us last season and we will be eternally grateful but we've taken no steps forward since then. In all fairness he really has got his hands tied behind his back, no money means that he's got to work with what he's got but looking at the players he's brought in:
- Andy Johnson - Past it and quite frankly as useful as a chocolate teapot.
- Josh Low - Not Championship standard, simple as that. The only decent cross he's put in all year was the one to set up Gabby Agbonlahor against Villa.
- Darren Kenton - Average Championship player, but we really didn't need any more defenders
- Gareth McAuley - The only decent one of the lot.
- Andy Welsh (on loan) - Unneccessary really seeing as we have Levi Porter who would be more effective than Andy Welsh even if he had one leg.
The 'team' today (and what I thought of their 'performances'
CONRAD LOGAN: Did well enough, had no chance with the goal but some of his kicks were shocking. Countless times he kicked balls straight out for a Derby throw and in the last 10 minutes when we were chasing the game and had McAuley up front he wasted the kick by sailing it straight over everybodys head and to the Derby keeper, schoolboy errors. When we needed to keep the pressure up when we had Derby reeling he should've used his head a bit more.
RICHARD STEARMAN: Well the controversial element of the game was centered around Stearman and to be honest I thought he was one of the few positives (I use that extremely loosely) out of today's game, got forward and contributed well in attack but defensive frailties were exploited a few times as well.
PADDY KISNORBO: One of the worst games I've seen him have in a Leicester shirt, although Jon Stead and Steve Howard barely got a shot at goal, Paddy's distribution was awful, again when we should've been looking to attack quickly and meaningfully he'd pass back to Logan and it really did piss me right off. I think he still thinks he's down under and so everything works the opposite way, no Paddy we're shooting the other way!
PADDY MCCARTHY: Similar to Kisnorbo really, defended well enough but question have to be asked about the whole defence about the goal, how Stead was allowed a free shot 5 yards from our 18yard line is quite ridiculous and a same old story unfortunately. Again, our distribution from the back is absolutely shocking, the saying 'attack from the back' doesn't seem to apply for us seeing as none of our defenders can pass a ball properly.
NILS-ERIC JOHANSSON: In the first 15 minutes I thought he was going to get ripped apart by Giles Barnes but he steadied himself after a rocky start. He's another one who can't pass, so many times today we wasted possession and instead of being on the front foot we were under pressure from Derby.
ALAN MAYBURY: Well, where the hell do I start with him? He is absolutely fucking awful, can't run, can't defend, can't pass cannot do anything. We may as well have had a bloody blow up doll (or sheep) on the right wing today. As far as I'm concerned he can fuck off and the sooner the better.
STEPHEN HUGHES: Lightweight, knocked off the ball too easily, too many misplaced passes, poor innocuous challenges. All the traits you want in a centre midfielder ay? I don't see how any player can be so good in one game (versus Ipswich) and since then look a totally different player, we were totally outplayed in the midfield today and Hughesy bottled it too many times. This was an East Midlands derby, the fact that he couldn't even look interested in that shows me that he's not the kind of player that we need in the centre midfield.
DANNY TIATTO: Well, from one extremity of midfield player to another, the thing I like about Danny is that he gives it his all, wears his heart on his sleeve. On the other hand he's a bloody useless midfielder, provides no creative element whatsoever. Although today he was the pick of a bad bunch in the middle of the park. Cracking goal line clearance as well.
ANDY WELSH: Well, well, well, what a waste of space he was today, I think he got only one cross in? And was pushed off the ball far too easily and looked to the ref every time, to be honest I can't believe he started the game ahead of Levi Porter and for me he did nothing to warrant a start against Norwich on Tuesday night.
MATTY FRYATT: Gotta feel sorry for the lad really, he's just chasing shadows. He's obviously lacking confidence and match fitness and didn't get a sniff at goal today. The lack of creativity from midfield is seriously hampering our strikers and also our chances of staying in this league. I really hope Matty gets a goal soon, he works tirelessly for the team and really must be thinking there's not much point because the rest of the lads are simply awful.
IAIN HUME: The only good player in an otherwise shambolic team. This guy is just becoming more and more of a legend in my eyes week on week, his head never drops even though there is a continual lack of service and he's always dropping deep into the midfield to try and make things happen. I think he'll be gone in January, and to be honest I think it's best if he does leave, he deserves to be playing in a better team than Leicester. It would kill me to see him leave but he's quality sticks out like a sore thumb in our team, he really is a class above.
Subs:
LEVI PORTER: Did more in his first five minutes than Andy Welsh had done all game, really did provide a good attacking outlet for us in the final stages of the game and should definitely start against Norwich on Tuesday.
GARETH MCAULEY: An unconventional emergency striker but when he came on we looked a half decent team, all the chances came from him but if I'm being super critical (which quite frankly I am) he should've scored at the end, had a free header at the back stick but unfortunately sent it wide.
ELVIS HAMMOND: An absolute donkey, never looks interested and never runs faster than first gear. If he wants a place in the starting line up he's going the wrong way about it, if he put himself about a bit then maybe he'd get the nod ahead of Fryatt but to me he always looks like he'd rather be elsewhere and if that's the case then that's exactly where he should be.
The incidents at half-time though were quite shocking really. A few idiotic Leicester fans tried to rob the burger bar so the shutters went down and they stopped serving everything. Then people started to get a bit rowdy and sang Leicester songs and banged on the shutters, obviously the coppers came down and were greeted with a beer shower and then they started to hit people with their batons and really quite violently, a young lad who I was near got hit and his dad was absolutely livid.
All in all after today's game I was gutted. The referee was an absolute joke, how our goal was disallowed I will never ever know but to be honest we deserved exactly what we got from the game, absolutely nothing. The atmosphere was awesome though and all credit to Derby fans, there was a good bit of banter between the two sets of fans.
But Leicester's performance today really did annoy me, we didn't look up for it enough, even though it was our biggest away game of the season. The team doesn't know anything about pride or passion but if they want to know a thing or two about it I suggest they just think about the 3,000 Leicester fans who were there today and got behind the lads from start to finish; the 3,000 Leicester fans who spend their hard earned cash going to support the team; the 3,000 Leicester fans who remember the teams of the past who would never put in such a half-hearted performance against local rivals; the 3,000 fans that all left the stadium feeling absolutely gutted.
Will the players feel the same tonight? Of course not. Today for the first time in a long time I felt like turning my back on Leicester for a while, because I just thought why should I give up my time and money to watch crap like this who don't even give a toss about the club.
I will support Leicester for life, through think and thin but think us fans deserve something back from the players.
Up the foxes!
