Just reading a Leicester forum

[HebburnMackem]

What is considered a fail is relative to how high the bar has been raised.

 

[I'm Spartacus]

Sad I know but a lot of the fans aren't happy with Ranieri and some want him out. If we had a manager who won the league and struggled the season after do you think our fans would be the same or would we give them as much time as needed?
I personally can't understand it the bloke should be a legend and because the over performed last year hel more than likely end up being sacked eventually

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/109526-sunderland-post-match-thread/?page=3

I was watching them yesterday thinking how the fuck did these twats win the league last season? The best I could come up with was either someone sold their soul to Satan for a great escape and one title win or a witch or wizard was casting spells to knobble the opposition.

 

[Laeotaekhun]

Sad I know but a lot of the fans aren't happy with Ranieri and some want him out. If we had a manager who won the league and struggled the season after do you think our fans would be the same or would we give them as much time as needed?
I personally can't understand it the bloke should be a legend and because the over performed last year hel more than likely end up being sacked eventually

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/109526-sunderland-post-match-thread/?page=3

It's akin to reading a thread on here, after a few defeats - the bedwetters are out in numbers!

 

[John J Rambo]

Someone tell their vagrants who frequent ours then!

Haway mate, some of their players aren't good enough for them anymore. Ya nar, those bottom 6 type players...... Hmmmm.

 

[John J Rambo]

First 20minutes, they were as poor as I've seen up here in a while.

 

[fatha]

Reidy gave us our best years for decades and was turned on immediately when it all turned sour...So yes to the OPs question

 

[jayjaysafc]

I don't think anything has changed with them. Their game play is all about hitting the front 3 with long first time balls, as soon as the ball comes out of defence into the midfield the forwards are on their bikes knowing that a long ball is coming over the top of the oppo defence whether is be left right or centre.
I think oppo teams are wiser to it now and set up accordingly. Moyes did his homework correctly. He is no mug

 

[Sandboy]

I thought Amartey looked like someone's mate who turned up and was asked to make up the numbers because they were short, the game passed him by

and they were playing us

 

[kp10]

I suspect that if they were to go down (unlikely) they may have financial problems. They gave out big contracts in the summer & also bought some expensive players. How many have got relegation clauses in their contracts?

OK, they have done well & got a packet from the Champions League so that will protect them for a while but the outlook would be uncertain to say the least.

There'd be a fire sale, they would probably be able to shift the better players

 

[Manny F]

I don't think anything has changed with them. Their game play is all about hitting the front 3 with long first time balls, as soon as the ball comes out of defence into the midfield the forwards are on their bikes knowing that a long ball is coming over the top of the oppo defence whether is be left right or centre.
I think oppo teams are wiser to it now and set up accordingly. Moyes did his homework correctly. He is no mug

Exactly. They let defences push up in possession last season and as soon as they won the ball banged it into the space behind them and off would go Vardy and pals in a foot race. No balls to feet necessary. Problem is it's not hard to stop once defences are aware of it. There was also their well worked set pieces, they came close twice yesterday with those.

 

[mart]

If similar happened with us this place would be full of people wanting his head.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

This place man

What they did last year was brilliant, absolutely astonishing really. And it broke the boring dominance of about 4 clubs.

They were never going to repeat it, they will stay up mind and probably finish mid table as we thought they would at the start of the season.

Would we react to Ranieri in the same way? Course we would. Everyone forgets the past and thinks short term in football now. Look at the handful of knackers on here who don't like SKP because of his last season

 

[DPTT]

What annoys me more is the fact they're the Champions and they couldn't sell out their allocation on a Saturday to a place relatively near them in terms of the Premier League aswell

You normally find out how good a teams support really is by their away following I reckon. Just because they won the league does not guarantee that there support would increase, especially at away games.

 

[Hongkongphooey]

They've been found out. Simple as that.

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Where's that Leicester fan who always turned up giving it large when they were winning?

Dunno, I can't remember what he was called

 

[gipetto]

Reidy gave us our best years for decades and was turned on immediately when it all turned sour...So yes to the OPs question

No he wasn't.

 

[Aldhun]

The tough stance on defenders not being allowed to get away with man-handling forwards has hit them particularly hard albeit they got away with this once yesterday in the box and several times elsewhere.

 

[RodneySAFC]

It's a tough one. Their players played way above their actual level last season. So much so, they have been accused of cheating which of course has not been proven.

It does make you wonder though considering their fall from grace in such a short period. They've only lost one player in Kante, yes he's a great player but it shouldn't impact upon a side to this degree. They look like a side threatened by relegation, not simply a side suffering from poor form.

The whole situation is suspicious imo.

Back to the question, if their fans think relegation is a real possibility, which it seems to be then I think they have every right to be concerned/want change. However, it's too early to let Ranieri go just yet, he at least deserves time to turn things around.

I'm sure they've lost a few from the back room team as well.

 

[Fossa]

I thought he should have left during the summer.

 

[TartanMackem]

Last season was a freak, the like of which we will never see again in our lifetimes. A bottom half premier league team with 4 very good players winning the league.

After selling Kante, now they're a bottom half premier league team with 3 very good players, one who is injured, the other who might have been a one-season wonder, and the third who looks like he doesn't want to be there anymore.