In peace, I wondered how you Foxes have assessed your season thus far. I had commentd on one of your pre-season threads that I thought you would be fine as you had a stable squad which worked for each other and a manager who the playes had belief in. My concern was getting off to a slow start as the first four fixures were tough. In essence your points return early doors was very encouraging and it is the more recent games that have created difficulty with a home draw with Burnley and losses to Palace and Newcastle in your poorish run of late. Are you still fairly confident or do you foresee some strengthening come the transfer window being inevitable? I would be interested to know. Certainly to put my qestion in context, when you look at the Championship this year you would not fancy any team surviving in the Prem next season!
Welcome, Thurby I have to agree with most of what you say. If anything, things have been back to front... We probably would have expected 1 point from the first 5, and 8 from the next 4, not the other way around It is somewhat concerning with our performances against Newcastle and Swansea, not just the results. It's not like we played well, and were unfortunate. I expected better after our earlier performances, if I am honest. But our magnificent 5-3 win against Man Utd can't stop leading me to comparisons of Cardiff beating Man City 3-2 (?) at home early on last season. I'm sure they were dreaming, and thinking everything is rosy in the garden at that point. They were still relegated. There are two things though that do fill me with confidence. Number one, being our owners, and perhaps mainly their relationship with Pearson. There will be no arguments, no newspaper feuds, no disagreements on transfer funds/policies, none of that rubbish. We will not implode, by any means. [Please see Cardiff and DQPR] The second, is the January transfer window. We have the money to do what we want, effectively. NP and his scouting system have a very good track record, and I'm looking forward to it continuing. We have been able to attract Cambiasso, who has actually been very good for us. In turn, I hope this will attract better players to our club in January. Again, I'm talking model professionals here, I don't mean for us to chuck millions at effectively retired players looking for a final paypacket. [Again, see DQPR ] All in all, good start, faded slightly, but we have the fixtures on our side to kick on now, starting with WBA at home this weekend. One final thing, is it's a marathon, not a sprint. Look at last season, and Palace and Sunderland... No matter how bad things may seem, or how low you go, or how many times you are written off as "certainly relegated", there is always a chance... Good luck in your Championship season, I hope it's your only one
Cheers Jack, thanks for your kind words and hopefully we have a couple of games against each other next season. I agree with your comments as a whole, nice to a have a sensible conversation with other fans. QPR are the pits for sure, we call them Koo Pee Arr.
I was trying so hard to make a`yellow` connection. I just couldn´t think of a team... should of had Norwich in my head.
Yes it is a bit scary these days particularly as the gap between the two leagues grows bigger each year. Also not only have we both visited the third tier of the pyramid but a few others in recent times like Man City, Southampton and Leeds.
Indeed Thurnby. The financial gap increases massively each year, last year's relegated teams (sorry to mention the R word) received more than the EPL champions the previous year! Very difficult/competitive to get out of the Championship & even more so to compete with established PL teams for those promoted. Our entire team v ManU cost about £16M, their summer signings cost £250M. I know we are not comparable to Man U but it just illustrates the financial gulf.
