Lens away - Saturday

[Sly]

4 minutes ago, markko said:

Did not see the game. I know Daka went off. Did Cannon get any minutes? How did he look? What is up.with Vardy and how long will he be out? I think we will add to the squad. We have to. We need some quality though not just volume.

Vardy is a mystery. 
 

Mav was preferred to Cannon for the striker role. 

Edited 11 August by Sly

[markko]

On 03/08/2024 at 14:51, Shah johns said:

https://scorevisit.com/match/fc-augsburg-vs-leicester-city-19159399

 

Just now, Sly said:

Cannon didn’t play. He was left on the bench. 

How odd..He is either not fit or Cooper does not want him. Very odd. Surely you gotta give him a chance even if it is to confirm your thoughts. If we don't sign anyone as it stands we have no striker!

[Sly]

2 minutes ago, markko said:

 

How odd..He is either not fit or Cooper does not want him. Very odd. Surely you gotta give him a chance even if it is to confirm your thoughts. If we don't sign anyone as it stands we have no striker!

He did actually come on I think. I’ve just blocked the entire game from my memory. 

[kristianity77]

I haven’t watched a single pre season game and I don’t think I’m even going to pay much attention to our games in the league either.  I can’t remember a single season in 35 years of supporting Leicester where I was so disinterested in an upcoming season. The club stinks, the owners and powers that be have no clue in what they are doing.  
 

It’s Leicester City in name still, but there is nothing “Leicester City” left here. 

[fox in the sox]

Why is everybody so concerned about friendly results. They are only played to improve fitness and to try out formations. The results/performances don’t matter which is why I have never watched one. I am concerned about this season due to the playing squad not due to a few friendly results.

[StriderHiryu]

17 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

In the match highlights for this one, there wasn't a single Leicester highlight, despite the clip being 11 minutes long. That's how bad we were. 2 shots in total, one on target, which was a pathetic effort. Not even any passages of play showing forays into the other half.

 

Absolutely abject performance from start to finish.

 

 

 

 

I tried to make sense as to why it's all been going wrong over on my own channel:

• Changed the attacking setup for the worse
• Using the wrong players for the wrong positions
• Player positioning all over the place
• Awful pressing
• Poor build-up

I try and show real examples with comparisons to the team just 4 months agon in the video.

Probably not the best season to launch a YouTube channel given our incredible perfomances so far !

[filbertway]

6 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

 

I tried to make sense as to why it's all been going wrong over on my own channel:

• Changed the attacking setup for the worse
• Using the wrong players for the wrong positions
• Player positioning all over the place
• Awful pressing
• Poor build-up

I try and show real examples with comparisons to the team just 4 months agon in the video.

Probably not the best season to launch a YouTube channel given our incredible perfomances so far !

Just think, if you can get through this season then you'll be prepared for anything in the coming years

 

[The Doctor]

3 hours ago, fox in the sox said:

Why is everybody so concerned about friendly results. They are only played to improve fitness and to try out formations. The results/performances don’t matter which is why I have never watched one. I am concerned about this season due to the playing squad not due to a few friendly results.

it's the performances. when we say fitness we should mean sharpness. if it was fitness then you'd just spend all summer in the gym and on the training pitch, you'd be fit as a fiddle but you wouldn't be sharp. friendlies are there for players to get drilled in the patterns of play and executing them under pressure from opposing players without the pressures of points. what patterns of play are we seeing, do the players look like they know what our tactics are and how to execute them?

[Drew Peacock]

4 hours ago, fox in the sox said:

Why is everybody so concerned about friendly results. They are only played to improve fitness and to try out formations. The results/performances don’t matter which is why I have never watched one. I am concerned about this season due to the playing squad not due to a few friendly results.

I agree that results don’t matter at all but I think performance does massively at this stage. 
Anyone who watched that yesterday saw very worrying signs. It looked like the first day of pre-season training with a new manager, not the last pre-season friendly a week before the new season. 

[Rain King]

Just as a side note. Driving in France was an absolute luxury, first time driving abroad and it was infinitely more enjoyable than this country.

[Qwerty]

9 hours ago, guest123 said:

sounds like heaven 

It was just a bit strange.  We couldn’t be trusted to go into the stadium without riot police surrounding us, but once in, we were left to our own devices!  

[09bballer]

2 hours ago, Rain King said:

Just as a side note. Driving in France was an absolute luxury, first time driving abroad and it was infinitely more enjoyable than this country.

My daughter agrees, her first time too. She was worried about the roundabouts but found it all a breeze. Whereas Dartford and the M20 are a joke.

[Rain King]

Just now, 09bballer said:

My daughter agrees, her first time too. She was worried about the roundabouts but found it all a breeze. Whereas Dartford and the M20 are a joke.

Stuck at the approach to Dartford tunnel for nigh on 2 hours. Unfortunately every other possible route was closed.

[Daggers]

21 hours ago, Miella27 said:

 

I am also concerned by Cooper coming out and telling everyone we need new players. Yes, we do, but it screams of Rodgers and refusing to take responsibility for the job. He signed up for it...

 

Don't you think that three consecutive club managers all saying roughly the same thing while in post, earlier and earlier, screams something else?

 

Because to me it says that all three have been lied to.

[Dan LCFC]

5 hours ago, Rain King said:

Just as a side note. Driving in France was an absolute luxury, first time driving abroad and it was infinitely more enjoyable than this country.

Drove to Lille back in 2018 and thought exactly this at the time. Genuinely easier.

[Ian Nacho]

Up there with one of the worst Leicester performances I've ever seen but who cares, I've driven to Brugge and I am currently sinking 11% pints. 

[lcfcbluearmy]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

Don't you think that three consecutive club managers all saying roughly the same thing while in post, earlier and earlier, screams something else?

 

Because to me it says that all three have been lied to.

Or all 3 have heard the excuse of the previous one and used it to try and cover there own backs.

 

Probably somewhere in the middle

[Free Falling Foxes]

I reckon the absolute best we can hope for this season is, we scrape past Derby's lowest ever points total in the premier and we somehow finish off the bottom - though we will be certainly in the bottom three.

[Anorak]

1 minute ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I reckon the absolute best we can hope for this season is, we scrape past Derby's lowest ever points total in the premier and we somehow finish off the bottom - though we will be certainly in the bottom three.

Yep, I'd take hitting 20 points and avoiding humiliation. 

 

 

[suffolk fox]

Great away trip.  Lens not as bad as people were saying, obviously they have never been.  Pubs/cafe bars were decent beer good.  Their fans were very good, great atmosphere decent stadium.  View through netting which is normal at away european venues.

 

Sit or stand where you like, again normal for european aways, some people from UK don't understand this.

 

As for the football Lens were superb.  Mendy best player on the pitch by a country mile everything for them went through him.  (we never gave him a chance did we).

 

We were disorganised, clueless, and quite frankly a disgrace.  I am going to the bookies this week and putting 20 quid on us not even getting to double points this season.  We can't even make simple passes, and never looked like making or trying to make a forward pass.  A scuffed shot from Cannon greeted with, We've had a shot, we've had a shot etc....something like the 75th minute.

(only shot on target entire game, 0 corners entire game).

 

Who knows what will happen against Spurs next Monday.  5, 6 nil would be my prediction.  Saving grace for me.  I am in Majorca and no I am not finding a bar out there to watch it in.

[Daggers]

11 hours ago, lcfcbluearmy said:

Or all 3 have heard the excuse of the previous one and used it to try and cover there own backs.

 

Probably somewhere in the middle

I think you're going some to think a man who's only been in the job a couple of weeks is making excuses 

 

 

[Stormfox]

13 hours ago, Daggers said:

Don't you think that three consecutive club managers all saying roughly the same thing while in post, earlier and earlier, screams something else?

 

Because to me it says that all three have been lied to.

Possibly but the situation has been plain to see... The players at the club and the likely money available,who can't see that?? 

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Stormfox said:

Possibly but the situation has been plain to see... The players at the club and the likely money available,who can't see that?? 

And they sit opposite Rudkin, and Rudkin tells them a tale...

 

Who can't see that?

[Stormfox]

6 minutes ago, Daggers said:

And they sit opposite Rudkin, and Rudkin tells them a tale...

 

Who can't see that?

The might sell a tale but do your homework!! 

[lcfcbluearmy]

33 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I think you're going some to think a man who's only been in the job a couple of weeks is making excuses 

 

 

Why it's clear he can't successfully set up a squad to play football. This team minus one player played perfectly as a team together last season (whether you liked the style or not) now they look a complete shambles. Cooper can see that so is setting up his excuses already in case it goes wrong and some people are buying it unfortunately