Can never forget how we lost to the Villa in the cup 3 years ago, Pearson made Sherwood look a brilliant manager!
... which was quite a feat ... for me it was Barnsley away in the Championship .. made me have serious thoughts of packing it all up ...
Barnsley away? Which year was that? I only have good memories of Barnsley away, can't remember a bad game there
Definitely shakeys fault. Now that the honeymoon period is gone and you can see shakey in all his glory, he only knows the one way of playing (which teams have cottoned onto). He picks the same clapped out side week in week out. You have a talented striker in Ihenacho who isn't getting a look in (surely it makes sense to rest vardy rather than playing a half fit vardy), you have a talented spain midfielder to give you some control in iborra who doesn't get any game time. Demarai gray has looked greedy but talented and has youthful legs to at least drive forward.
Hard to not agree with any of that. 4-4-2 only worked with kante who lets face it is effectively 2 players in the middle anyway! It made a small revival in the immediate aftermath of Ranieri going. It didn't work in the first season, most of last or this as we don't have the personnel. Really think we need to have more across the middle and we have perfect wing backs in Chilwell and Albrighton
2012/13 ... we were second at the start of January then went on a run of 16 or 17 games without a win - NP seemed either incapable (or just unwilling) of changing things and we plodded on game after game with more or less the same line up to no effect ... the travelling support lost patience at Barnsley and started to have a right old go at the players as they left the field ... think we lost 2-0 ... but it wasn't really the score line ... it was the manner of defeat ... inept and lacklustre.
Ah right. I remember going to the defeat away at Peterborough at the start of that run of bad form but I think in the 3 times I've been to Barnsley we've won 2-0 twice and 3-0 in the promotion season. I think whether you are a Pearson (and therefore Shakespeare fan) or Ranieri or both, a weakness of all of them is pulling the team out of a bad run of form. I loved Pearson but I wouldn't want him back as manager and recognise that he failed tactically at times. I just think he had us in such great shape behind the scenes which has slowly deteriorated since he left. I would honestly welcome him back in another position where he could oversee those strengths again without managing the team. Just like Raneiri's strengths came to the fore with taking the pressure off the team and handling the media
Both Iheanacho and Iborra are returning from their own injuries. Gray splits opinion amongst City fans - he did start the last match when we were awful and created little. Far more to it than just Shakys fault.
Well Pearson built a side that won the Premier League and Sherwood built one of the worst sides in Premier League history Anyway West Brom we all know what happens. We lose at home and Vardy gets the winner at the Hawthorns. Standard