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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 19:50 12 Jan 2025
We’re still bleating on about yesterday then.
All players who played with the exception of Nardi have played plenty of football this season . No one was out there who shouldn’t have been .That wasn’t our ‘second string’ . It wasn’t a bunch of kids brought out of the stiffs to play a premier league team .
We just weren’t good enough . We didn’t retain the football well enough just like every other game this season. We just didn’t get away with it this time.
I read things like “Marti lied to us”, “that starting line up was minging”, “f*cking furious with Marti” and god knows what the idiot I’ve muted has vomited out in the last 24 hours. Seen usually reasonable and interesting and sensible posters be personally abusive to a couple of players . Come on guys . We all hate losing . Conceding 6 is embarrassing of course . But take a breath ffs.
Plenty to disagree with Marti on yesterday. No subs at half time for example. Seemed strange to me but there would be a reason for it. I don’t know why but my guess is he likes his players to play themselves out of bad form . Thats why Madsen started . Thats why he persevered with Ashby….thats why he never took Fox off against Portsmouth.. we don’t have to agree with any of that stuff , but we’re all football manager 2025 in hindsight aren’t we?
MC has been in charge for just over a year . The fact that we go out in the 3rd round year after year after year isn’t Marti’s burden to carry . It’s not his problem .
It’s our problem and rightly so . We’re entitled not to accept that, but a coach ultimately lives and dies by his league position (mark robins) not a cup win at Leicester. The bigger picture is we need Dunne and Smyth to help stay out of that drop zone . You may not agree but you have to accept that that may be the clubs and Marti’s priority .
He put out a team he thought would be competitive and he was right . 3 terrible individual errors in the first half and we concede 3 goals . A coach can’t do anything about that .
And for the 4th and for the 6th.
He wouldn’t have expected his players to fold like that so maybe just maybe the players should hold their hands up as JCS alluded too.
25 pages of whining .
Blimey .
How many pages was the Luton match thread after a great victory ?
And 1 last thing that if taken the wrong way will upset everybody but it’s not meant too.
I’ve read that the 4500 didn’t deserve that starting line up.
The 4500 were incredible yesterday as I’ve said previously. Loud , proud and just brilliant .
But surely not one of the 4500 bought a ticket without wondering if we might just play a weakened team and if you did then that’s a bit naive . In the end we left Dunne , Smyth and 18 year old kid out who has made 12 appearances. Nardi would have made little to no difference as Walsh had no chance with any of the goals . The team could have been a hell of a lot weaker in truth . Chair, Varane, Field, JCS, Saito, Kolli, Ashby, Paal all started and have started league games in the last 2 weeks . Edwards will start games going forward so how weak was it really? Too late perhaps but Smyth, Colback and Frey got minutes . So just Dunne and Morgan then. And I read that we’ve rested most of the squad and we’ll still lose at Plymouth ? Most of the squad??
Listen I don’t expect our fan base to accept losing 6-2. It hurts .
Some of the criticism has been fair and deserved . But 25 pages, multiple threads , personal attacks , calling the coach and someone who continues to polish and ever growing turd….a liar…. Come on . |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 17:06 11 Jan 2025
Your first paragraph is the football internet in a nutshell .
Disappointing but we move on.
Especially after reading the thread about Andrew .
Puts it into perspective |
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Reply | Andrew Slade
at 16:55 11 Jan 2025
This is terrible news. Known Andrew from going to QPR for the last 15 years or so and we often stopped and chatted .
Unbelievably sad to read this just now as I didn’t know .
That’s now 3 friends die in 5 days . Devastating , plus my son’s partners best friend who died of ‘flu’ at the age of 26 on Wednesday .
Been a terrible week and puts our result today in to perspective . It’s not important .
Rest easy Andrew, Jason and Freddie. |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:48 11 Jan 2025
Fair point . Don’t fully agree as there could be loads of reasons why he wanted to put a player on and I only say that through experience, but I understand your point and reasons . |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:42 11 Jan 2025
I do think we should be looking to move Madsen out on loan for the remainder of the season.
I just think that this league is way too quick and physical . Clive already told us that many other scouts and clubs left him alone for this very reason.
He ours for the foreseeable future so maybe a loan to Scotland or something might help . Lesser quality but just as physical?
Not sure, but he is a five a side footballer and can’t cope with our football as it stands .
The fact we have paid more money for him than we have for anybody else for yonks , means questions should be asked at the ‘fans forum’ next week .
Oh I forget , the questions are controlled and vetted beforehand . Silly me [Post edited 11 Jan 16:44]
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:36 11 Jan 2025
Works both ways . Maybe the player he replaced needed replacing .
We always seem to forget that the bench has all the data there. We don’t, yet we (including me ) think we know best . |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:31 11 Jan 2025
Fair assessment I think .
Expected a sub or 2 at half time myself and we didn’t pounce on the momentum turning our way with Kolli’s goal . 5 mins later it’s too late |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:26 11 Jan 2025
Our attitude to the trophy competitions, is why our 'honours' list is so pathetic.
Yeah because if MC picks Dunne, Smyth , Morgan and Nardi today , we’d be everyone’s favourite to win the cup this year !
Give over |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:18 11 Jan 2025
He had a very poor game and I’m surprised he wasn’t replaced but MC doesn’t usually do that . He sees a bigger picture in harming his confidence long term and letting the player play his way out of poor form . He left fox on V Portsmouth when we all thought he should be hooked.
He just needs to learn when to try difficult things and when to do it simple . At the moment he wants to try tricks in flicks in too many dangerous areas .
Was napping for the penalty too and generally was poor but these things happen to all players .
It’s how he recovers I think .
I do think Edwards will play next week and Dunne will play right back . Difficult game for Edwards and JCS too wasn’t it |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 16:08 11 Jan 2025
No and as I say , it was a fair comment by yourself .
F*cking hate losing games as much as the next fan and will have the proper arse ache for a couple of hours …but a few days ago I called the MC can’t win today and I stand by that .
6 shots on target and 6 goals is brutal. We made mistakes and got severely punished. Leicester deserved their win but the scoreline is harsh beyond belief.
I think some get carried away about our recent form too. We have done great …but the Championship is absolute bilge. So although I agree with Ned that we could easily go on a bad run now , I hope that really that keeps our feet on the floor and we learn from it and improve as a team.
Time will tell.
West Brom, in top 6 of championship losing 4-1 now at Bournemouth so let’s all take a deep breath.
We ain’t great but today in the much bigger picture it’s not the end of the world .
The 4500 were and are magnificent too. Tremendous support . |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 15:53 11 Jan 2025
Fair comment .
But where I’d disagree with you Brian is we have given the ball away just us much in every game in the last 2 months but you me and most of everyone else has said we’ve played well.
Today our mistakes have been well and truly punished ..they don’t usually (they do occasionally of course) . So win games and people say we have played well and we have . Today most fans will look at the score and think we’ve been garbage . We haven’t .
Not so good in the second half admittedly and they have deserved their win .
But come on it’s not being terrible . They are simply more clinical than us on the break .
Putting the 2 squads together and putting emotion to one side whose would you choose ?
As I said previously, you have to take care of the football and that is a huge lesson from today. The 6th goal just sums it up in a nutshell .
So the post was correct in my eyes .
And just to add , usual people on here moaning and bitching and getting their little ‘QPR losing erections’, but looking at the amount of times they’ve posted during the match , they can’t be watching it properly so you know …mute and carry on |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 15:29 11 Jan 2025
5 goals from only 5 shots on target from 5 errors.
Incredibly harsh score line but a huge lesson to be learned.
“Take care of the football” as Mark Warburton would say every 10 mins . But he was right |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 14:56 11 Jan 2025
You can say what you like about the team selection , not read through this thread and the usual suspects probably have, but we’ve played really well . We’re the better side for big chunks of that .
But if you keep giving the ball away in the middle of the park (like we do a fair bit) against a Premier League team you will get punished . And punished we have been .
Naive and from Ashby . Admire the confidence but that’s plainly stupid . Kolli too for the 3rd goal but tucked his goal away nicely .
Couple of strong subs (Dunne for Ashby maybe ) and we have a chance |
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Reply | Predict the team for the cup game
at 08:54 8 Jan 2025
Still buzzing from Monday night . Amazing the difference in my mood waking up the next day after a (another) win 😄 |
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Reply | Predict the team for the cup game
at 08:03 8 Jan 2025
Perhaps. Flip side to that is a coach is judged on his league position .
Mark Robins is a prime example of that . That’s how coaches live and die so I can understand if MC approached it differently to the fan base .
I hope you are right but would understand it if he rested a couple. |
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Reply | Predict the team for the cup game
at 07:51 8 Jan 2025
Yep would agree in principle mate .
But if he rests a couple I would understand I guess is what I’m saying whilst being slightly frustrated that we might not totally go for Leicester, who will surely rest players themselves.
I can see the data guys requesting to manage the minutes of someone like Frey for example.
As someone else mentioned , what is a ‘weakened team’ anyway. Colback needs minutes so is likely to start / play an hour and only 6 weeks ago we were screaming for his return . I have no insight at all but someone like Field must be getting into red zones etc so do we play him again in a cup competition we have a slim to no chance of winning or do we rest him so we don’t risk him him being available for the rest of the season?
I can see that argument whilst not fully agreeing .
The positive side is we have recently manufactured a situation where we are not deep in the proverbial so that’s where I agree with you that we can go strong at Leicester .
Unfortunately for people like me (of a certain age ) the priority of all football clubs is league football unless you miraculously find yourself in the later rounds.
That’s something I think I’ve now just accepted as sad as that is . |
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