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8 minutes ago, Chairman Mao said:

Pearson was sacked after his son was implicated in a racist sex orgy while on a pre season tour in Thailand. Pearson cited 'differences of opinion' at the time. Given the fact he had kept the club up this was clearly a serious rift.

As far as I am aware the then owners of Leicester, despite trying to sell the club, are the current owners. 

I appreciate 7 years is a long time but the rift appears sizable making a return to the club very unlikely imo.

Bit harsh, mate. Who of us can say we haven't been to one of them sexist race orgies from time to time? 

6 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Did he?      

No. Henry's winding you up. 

2 hours ago, firstdivision said:

The best football since we returned to the Championship came in Sept-Dec 2017 under LJ when we  shot up the league and reached the s-f of the LC. We scored goals and, here's the difference, stopped the opposition scoring.

One night stand outs: 2-0 at Fulham on 31 October. Our football in the first-half was superb. And we didn't give goals away. We also had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside.

Another moment that stands out: Jamie Paterson's stunning goal at Sheffield United. People focus on the shot, but the build-up was superb as well. We played superbly at Ipswich in that spell as well. We won at Sunderland. And we beat Manchester United with a couple of excellent  goals. We also came from a goal down to bear Derby 4-1. Amazing how the memory can fade.

We are quite fun to watch but I hate being 'patted on the head' by Norwich fans. And we lost. We gave them stupid goals. That is not good football. 

Also, when the game had one goal in it last night, we didn't look like scoring. Norwich sat back and tried to hit us on the break. They played quite pragmatically - and successfully. 

That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last.

2 hours ago, firstdivision said:

The best football since we returned to the Championship came in Sept-Dec 2017 under LJ when we  shot up the league and reached the s-f of the LC. We scored goals and, here's the difference, stopped the opposition scoring.

One night stand outs: 2-0 at Fulham on 31 October. Our football in the first-half was superb. And we didn't give goals away. We also had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside.

Another moment that stands out: Jamie Paterson's stunning goal at Sheffield United. People focus on the shot, but the build-up was superb as well. We played superbly at Ipswich in that spell as well. We won at Sunderland. And we beat Manchester United with a couple of excellent  goals. We also came from a goal down to bear Derby 4-1. Amazing how the memory can fade.

We are quite fun to watch but I hate being 'patted on the head' by Norwich fans. And we lost. We gave them stupid goals. That is not good football. 

Also, when the game had one goal in it last night, we didn't look like scoring. Norwich sat back and tried to hit us on the break. They played quite pragmatically - and successfully. 

That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last.

2 hours ago, firstdivision said:

The best football since we returned to the Championship came in Sept-Dec 2017 under LJ when we  shot up the league and reached the s-f of the LC. We scored goals and, here's the difference, stopped the opposition scoring.

One night stand outs: 2-0 at Fulham on 31 October. Our football in the first-half was superb. And we didn't give goals away. We also had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside.

Another moment that stands out: Jamie Paterson's stunning goal at Sheffield United. People focus on the shot, but the build-up was superb as well. We played superbly at Ipswich in that spell as well. We won at Sunderland. And we beat Manchester United with a couple of excellent  goals. We also came from a goal down to bear Derby 4-1. Amazing how the memory can fade.

We are quite fun to watch but I hate being 'patted on the head' by Norwich fans. And we lost. We gave them stupid goals. That is not good football. 

Also, when the game had one goal in it last night, we didn't look like scoring. Norwich sat back and tried to hit us on the break. They played quite pragmatically - and successfully. 

That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last.

1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said:

No we don't.

Do.

3 hours ago, phantom said:

What does everyone normally do when City don't play? 

Argue on here

1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

That’s the most bizarre thing of all: the FA have actually denied football supporters their opportunity to pay their respects.

They were so looking forward to doing this at Anfield .....

6 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Apparently we cannot even cope with kids playing football,  having swimming lessons or opening a playground.  How will we cope at war?!

Send adults?

Stop all the clocks, call off the matches, give Scott and Weimann a much needed rest; play Preston and Norwich when Kalas and Klose are fit. 

I don't think I can manage ten days of mourning, although Preston home, Norwich and Burnley away .....  ?

3 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Wasn’t it our first live TV game ?

Forest semi, second leg 89?

35 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

And we still don’t need any “singing” centre backs, midfielders or strikers.

Doubt we'll get "3 singing," not at AG, although if we can just beat bloody Preston ....

33 minutes ago, Riaz said:

We had a ridiculous amount of games up until the middle of january. With injuries, the players in the team, played saturday tuesday saturday, from august to january, thanks to the League cup run.

I think becuase of this, we ran out of steam

Bradford managed promotion from L2 and a League Cup run with one more game than our cup run in 2012/13. And four FA Cup games, three more than us in 17/18. They did ok for "steam."

Footballers get "tired" or run out of "steam" for all sorts of reasons, not all of them because of playing lots of games. How many times have we heard footballers saying they'd prefer to play than train? We just do not know for certain why we fell away that season.

I don't think Diedhiou can have been "tired," he didn't play any games from Palace in October until his return to fitness. Kent and Diony cannot have been tired from that schedule either. Diony didn't run out of steam, he never had any in the first place.

The following season, we got into April, and with the play-off "finishing line" in sight and Derby lagging behind us, we "ran out of steam" again. This time, with no "ridiculous amount of games" to point to. 

Thing with Kasey Palmer is, we don't miss him, not one tiny bit. We could be struggling this season, and still we would not miss him at all. I would imagine it is the same for the other clubs he has played for. It will be no great surprise if it's the same once he has left Coventry. 

One of the difficulties, in assessing the job Nige was doing, was in having a clear, unequivocal understanding of the size of the pickle we were in following covid and the era of Johnson and Ashton, how our hands were tied. But in football, no-one from a club comes out and says: "I have made a right mess of this, to be fair, and was completely taken in by the incompetent and vain Ashton who I have now fired because he was shite and making a right bloody Horlicks of this club. Nige is now buggered financially this season, and next, so if he signs some old shite and we are unwatchable and turgid for another 12 - 18 months, it's my fault and all pelters must be sent my way not Nige's."

Football clubs don’t do this, they do: "we go again" and "today's attendance was 21,866." And other cheery, nothing-to-see-here nobody-goes-home-empty-handed infantile nonsense.

If owners do not offer the plain truth and explain and official sites and outlets are not forthcoming, people are left to piece the reality together themselves, and some are a better at that than others.

For me, it's more stew than brew. For me, Nige has got the slow cooker on and something smells good. When's it ready, Nige?

1 hour ago, sticks 1969 said:

Really can’t wait for next Saturday 

when was the last we felt like that ??????

Wednesday, just gone

1 hour ago, OldlandReddies said:

That must be a record in World Football.

Nah, think it was San Antonio Unido about 25 years ago went something like 7 years without a penalty in the Chilean Segunda Division. 

13 hours ago, Mad Cyril said:

 

I pay for entertainment, not risk management...

Where do you go for the latter - Hargreaves Lansdown? 

1 hour ago, Slippin cider said:

Did we manage to hold on to him after last nights deadline?

Yeah. And before it. Where is @BS4 on Tour... by the way?

10 minutes ago, JoeAman08 said:

I swear only city fans can turn a good thing into a negative

It is his second full season as a CB. His first playing in the middle of a 3 as a playmaker. We look so much better in possession now with him. Van Dijk, Dias, Thiago Silva and Sergio Ramos have all made mistakes passing the ball or spending too much time on it. Relax and enjoy us being comfortable in possession. 
 

For a converted winger, I think he is outstanding back there. Only going to get better with more minutes. His pass last night I think was a moment where he thought he could get away with it and did not. Lesson learned and we move on. 
 

We are 7th. We have had 3 straight 2-0 at home. We look a threat not only as a countering side but much better in possession and more of a set piece threat. We have had the lead in every game on top of all that. The positives are everywhere and they have been hard to find the last 3 seasons and yet we are getting threads like this. 

Nige calls this the bigger or "whole" picture. He is quoted on the BBC site saying: "Most people have gone home happy because we won, but I have to look at the whole picture."

Like @Harry was doing recently, when things are going well it's ok for some people to ask: How can we be better? It's not the end of the world. It's what Nige is doing.

Equally, when things are not going well, it's ok for people to come on here and say "there are some positives/signs of encouragement," particularly when we're only a day in to September. Some other people properly lose their shit on here when this happens, including myself once or twice. 

Some people seem to struggle with debate that goes beyond "win=everything's fine/lose=everything's shite" level of chat and I wonder why they keep returning to this place when it is pretty obvious by now what they will find here, and what various posters starting threads will predictably entail.

And also, it will be exactly the same at just about every club up and down the country. Man City could do with a defence to match their forward options, a little bit like ourselves, I shouldn't be surprised to see on their forum. Be a bit of a waste if they don't win the league with the new young kiddie they've got up front.

The definition of 'forum' goes something like: "a place where ideas and views can be exchanged" whereas too many people seem to want this place to have one narrative or simple idea ("win=good, lose=sack someone") and to come on here after a win or loss and see that one idea they have about how things are right now repeated back to them.

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

7 loans seems like a brilliant plan, I bet the 2 who spend the game sat in the stand with their coat on will love that.

Eustace: "you, you, you, you and you: get yer boots on. You two: you can leave your coat on." 

13 minutes ago, eardun said:

Having just watched the highlights Atkinson did not react quickly enough - he could have come towards the ball but he was rooted to the spot. Clearly Naismith’s error but he could have lessened the impact in my view. 

Atkinson needs to be thinking in all games at all times: he's going to pass it to me. He's going to pass it to me. Even when everyone in the ground is thinking: he really needs to just get rid here, Atkinson needs to also be thinking: he's going to bloody pass it, this is coming to me. Everyone at the back needs to think like this.

Like a boy scout, Atkinson, Vyner et al need to prepared. Be prepared for the ball to head his way from Naismith. And like Clouseau, they need to be expecting the ball when they are least expecting it. With Naismith, there is no: "not now, Kal" option. Not at Brammall bloody Lane there isn't. 

7 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

I thought he had a good solid game.

The thing he lacks is aggression, there were times tonight (as in other games) where I was willing him to go through the opponent, show him you aren't going to be mucked around, or stick an elbow in when going for a header. He would find games a tad easier if he just had that aggression. He's a good footballer in his own right though.

 

He might read read Otib at 2pm on a Saturday or 7pm on a Tuesday to help with this ...

9 hours ago, James54De said:

What on earth do you do? 

Give 'em the ball

38 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

It would be nice to follow the Alan Dicks strategy but unfortunately things have changed. Transfer fees were much lower then so City could  easily reject offers. Arsenal offered £240k ish for Merrick and Richie combined - ie £120k each ! - but City rejected the bid. Could City reject a bid of £20m ish for a player now? The salary gap between Division 1 and 2 wasn’t great in Dicks days but now the difference between the Premier League and the Championship is enormous. Would a young City player not want to have his salary increased by a factor of 4 or 5 now?  The young City players seem to be sensible and probably won’t rush to leave, but it’s only a matter of time. 

Tom Ritchie didn't know about the offer either, I think that's right, because Alan Dicks didn't tell them.