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Are you the spokesperson for all fans now? Just because you don't fit in that category, in a comment that wasn't even addressed to you, don't assume everyone is the same.
I am stating a fact - everyone I asked have predicted we will be midtable at best except you, yet you feel the need to keep everyone else's feet on the ground?

Drop Mahrez because we are winning? Sorry, you've lost me there.
If we win games without Mahrez then yes drop him - we were more defensively sound without him so unless he plays in place of Okazaki, I can't see him back in the team as we still play really well without him.

Not sure what you're warbling on about here but that was a general comment, not aimed at Ranieri. Even bad managers win games.
As you said wrote that while writing about CR, why wouldn't anyone take that as you calling CR a bad manager?

Why do people keep saying I say nothing positive about Raneiri - in threads in which I've said positive things about Ranieiri? <doh>
Because everything positive has been with an if or a but.

So people with different opinions to yourself are WUMs now? FFS.

In all honestly, I'm getting sick and tired of this. Have I entered a parallel dimension in which the Nazis won the war and uniform thinking is compulsory? I have a different opinion to some of you (and not all of you, I notice). Get over it.
I only know you from this board over the years - I like your opinions so that you are being so negative bothers me.

You don't seem have any pleasure from where we are now - tomorrow is could all go to **** so enjoy it while you can rather then waiting for the boot to drop.
 
FFS I thought this was a thread about Leicester City not f@£ing Gangsta if you all want to have a chat do it on a different thread so it doesn't grip everyone s goat who wants to read about the Foxes ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!
Fine - this is the end.
 
Pearson did not have more involvement. Typical Leicester - we looked at stats, but also the cheaper options ie players nearing the end of their contracts. Obviously, the manager will be kept informed of who the option is and any updates, but it was the same for Pearson as it is for Ranieri. I agree that the best approach for a new manager is not to change too much when the side find a winning formula - it is imperative to maintain that kind of mindset. As such, he has not changed too much. What he has changed is the formation, and given a friendly and more professional face to the club.
If Pearson had a similar image to CR - he would still be at the club.

I think this is probably the case.
 
3-0 after 20 mins Man Utd def torn to shreds

... puts into perspective our first half performance (indeed our whole showing) against Arsenal where we could easily have gone in leading ... we are where we are in the league on merit because we can compete with the very best ... Arsenal on their day when on song can score at will ... if they keep it up in the second half the margin could be four or five (although United have some dangerous forwards) ... I'll still back United to be up there come the end of the season mind ...
 
......Yes I remember calling for his head throughout the winless streak last season... only I didn't did I? .. not once ..in fact I consistently advocated sticking with him ...and gave him and the team deserved credit when things turned around... my 'anti-Pearson' campaign was a bit **** tbf ... credit to you mind, your anti Ranieri one is a real corker ...and our board is now full of Nazis because a few of them have taken you to task on it?



...time to get a grip fella..

I didn't say you did call for his head - last season. You learnt your lesson from him proving you wrong at least twice before, when you DID call for his head. Damning with faint praise was your approach last season - an average manager I think you called him several times. An average manager that set up 90-95% of the framework that's bringing us success now. You also showed no negative response to his firing and were clearly going to fall over yourself to back his replacement, which, fortunately, is now being helped by positive results. The irony is, though, that most of those results are due to him sticking to the game plan and team set up by the previous regime, which you refuse to acknowledge! I'l ask you the same question I asked Big Fox - what positive changes has CR made to the team that was scoring goals for fun and keeping clean sheets during the last nine games last season?

Again, I will repeat that I am not part of an anti-Ranieri campaign. He comes across as a lovely bloke, and, as I've said in the post about which you probably haven't read, so I'll spell it out again when it comes to results so far: HE'S DONE AS WELL AS HE COULD HAVE. Not sure how that saying someone is doing as well as they possibly could can be construed as an anti campaign and I certainly don't remember you saying anything positive like that about Pearson - even when we ripped up the Championship, you questioned his ability to keep us up.

However, I report what I see, and I have seen elements that concern me. I did with Pearson too. No-one took me to task on that though, because I said many times that the positives outweighed the negatives and I was regarded as his supporter. Ranieri hasn't been at the club nearly long enough to win me over, plus, like many, I was nonplussed at his appointment, so now some are taking every negative comment I say as a personal insult. It's these people, which include yourself, which need to get a grip.
 
I didn't say you did call for his head - last season. You learnt your lesson from him proving you wrong at least twice before, when you DID call for his head. Damning with faint praise was your approach last season - an average manager I think you called him several times. An average manager that set up 90-95% of the framework that's bringing us success now. You also showed no negative response to his firing and were clearly going to fall over yourself to back his replacement, which, fortunately, is now being helped by positive results. The irony is, though, that most of those results are due to him sticking to the game plan and team set up by the previous regime, which you refuse to acknowledge! I'l ask you the same question I asked Big Fox - what positive changes has CR made to the team that was scoring goals for fun and keeping clean sheets during the last nine games last season?

Again, I will repeat that I am not part of an anti-Ranieri campaign. He comes across as a lovely bloke, and, as I've said in the post about which you probably haven't read, so I'll spell it out again when it comes to results so far: HE'S DONE AS WELL AS HE COULD HAVE. Not sure how that saying someone is doing as well as they possibly could can be construed as an anti campaign and I certainly don't remember you saying anything positive like that about Pearson - even when we ripped up the Championship, you questioned his ability to keep us up.

However, I report what I see, and I have seen elements that concern me. I did with Pearson too. No-one took me to task on that though, because I said many times that the positives outweighed the negatives and I was regarded as his supporter. Ranieri hasn't been at the club nearly long enough to win me over, plus, like many, I was nonplussed at his appointment, so now some are taking every negative comment I say as a personal insult. It's these people, which include yourself, which need to get a grip.

... my last words on it ... the actual time I did criticise Pearson's managerial capabilities was during a winless run of 17 games in the Championship and with the most expensively assembled squad in the league ... I firmly believe that was justifiable grounds for criticism?

You have absolutely no basis for your negativity against Claudio Ranieri... other than some schoolboy crush on Nigel Pearson that you just can't seem to get over ...we are coasting along at the top end of the league, playing fabulous football, seeing the very best being brought out of our most talented players and under a manager who has already demonstrated, with his team set-ups and substitutions, that he has a very good tactical knowledge of the game AND knows how to get results ... now for fooks sake move .on .. there are plenty more fish in the sea <laugh>
 
The main differences between last season and this are last season we had NP and Cambiasso who both were major reasons we went on the run we did.

NP was a really driven person and he molded the team into his own image - with him gone, all of us were frankly terrified that we would lose that never say die attitude that we had but we haven't - and in fact we seem to be playing much more confidently (although that could be more to do with us not being bottom with a limited number of games remaining).

Cambiasso who was at the centre of everything good we did and as we don't have him any more and have had to play differently - how many times last season were we under the cosh only for Cambiasso calm things down and ping a long ball to Ulloa for us to attack? Now we are running with the ball more and playing the ball into space for the likes of Vardy to run on to and attacking with pace and purpose and I've got to say I enjoy watching this way more then last season.

Drinkwater, Mahrez and Vardy have improved massively - Drinkwater was 3rd choice last season, Mahrez was a sub and Vardy spent more time offside then doing anything productive. I would give some credit way we play now and to the new formation as although it is similar to last season, it definitely suits them more.

Overall is it better and have we improved? Defensively not as we are much more suspect but attacking we have which has countered it. I have stated before that I do not care if we concede in every game if we stay up and that still stands - 15 points from 24 is an excellent return, especially considering they came from the teams that we think will be around us at the end of the season.

I am not deluded to think that our current run is solely due to CR and there is no effect from last season but all of the crap that has happened with NP departure could have really distabilised the club but has not and I give props to CR for that.

Hopefully we will carry on and reach our goal and if this is the worst we play this season, the future is looking good.

I think this is a very fair, well considered post. I agree that's it's possibly easier to watch now because there is less pressure. That said, I miss Cambiasso's class. The long balls into the channels we're seeing now aren't quite as breathtaking, but watching Vardy/Schlupp/Albrighton beating everyone for pace is thrilling.

Obviously I agree I don't care if we concede and win, but you look to things like that to see how we'll cope in the future. If we lose one or two of our key attacking figures to injury or lack of form, we could be in trouble. But, like West Ham last season, if we carry on as we are we could have most of our points on the board before anything like that happens.
 
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Well no.... that is NOT fact.... It's hypothetical. Talk is cheap after the event. We can all be good managers once the horse has bolted
Ranieri made some bold changes and we won. 3 points in the bag.
JOB DONE
Er, Miami, you do realise I wasn't being serious? Hence the emoticon at the end.