You're having it both ways here. You're using end of season valuations not what they were worth when brought in. The fact that Rosenior multiplied those players values is a credit to him not a negative.
Match Day Thread Leicester v Hull City
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Presumably you've been a City fan for 5 minutes, or is it as long as that?
I've been going 60 years and trust me, Rosieball tap tap backwards backwards is absolutely dire
26 years for me as a season ticket holder and away follower, it was awful and made me stop wanting to go to games. Losing by a single goal with a minute to go and he has the goalkeeper playing it around with the centre backs, Jesus no thank you.
I preferred that then just walloping the ball up to the enemy for their goalkeeper or centre halves to collect up and launch a counter.
I preferred the early season alternating, which seemed to be working pretty well.
The long ball tactics are another good reason for playing Crooks in the advanced midfield role because he has a better chance of winning the odd header against big central defenders.
The long balls are just too straight now is all. Spraying long diagonals over the top was our gun in a knife fight earlier in the season.
I'm not sure we do consciously go defensive after going ahead. I think we just lose momentum for whatever reason, our chance creation dries up and the other team start getting more and more chances until they eventually score. It's not like he ever brings a defensive player on and changes shape like Bruce would back in the day, we tend to keep several attacking players on and we stay high up the pitch but the attackers just get less and less of the ball.
I think the problem recently has been the midfield and that the manager is trying to include McB, Gelhardt, Miller and Belloumi. Gelhardt tends to go wide or further forward, meaning we have effectively 2 midfielders. I think you choose between Belloumi and Gelhardt and have a 3 man midfield. Slater, Crooks and Lundstram. Makes us more solid and stops us getting overrun in midfield.
Just remembered something from the other night. Pandur was booked and it was his 8th yellow this season. That takes some doing from a goalie. On the subject of bookings we have had more than any other team, 27 ahead of the next highest!
I saw that and thought the same. Has to be mostly time wasting
I enjoyed the football under Rosenior, and I wasn't the only one. However, it's all about opinions and others are equally valid. Apart from 'Rosieball was some of the worst football we have ever played in the last 60 years' which is ridiculous.
24 of those 27 have been the coaching staff
Steve Bruce relegation season and Walter/Selles are the most infuriating teams for me. When we had players clearly capable of far better playing daft illogical set ups that didn’t suit them and throttled them from playing anything decent.
Outright worst is probably the second half of the McCann season after Bowen and Grosicki left. That has to be one of the biggest collapses in football history from genuinely chasing the playoffs halfway through the season to end up finishing bottom.
Outright worst is probably the second half of the McCann season after Bowen and Grosicki left. That has to be one of the biggest collapses in football history from genuinely chasing the playoffs halfway through the season to end up finishing bottom.