STOP MOANING!!!

Ahhhhhh, it wouldn't be a Leicester forum without the stop moaning debate.

Tomorrow, we'll revert back to the booing vs not booing debate!!!

I'm with the guys above. On the old 606 there use to be quite a lot of knee jerk reactions, moaning an silly posts. On here I've found it more frustration, and there's been some really good debate around the what, why's and how we can improve.

No genuine poster has calle for Sven's head.

Granted that we finished in 10th spot last year.

That team was largely made up of loan players - who you could argue weren't bothered either way, cause they were still going back to prem clubs at the end of the season.


4-3-3 - no-one was questioning it just after christmas, when we went on our long unbeaten run, were playing well, and winning games - With Sven in charge.

4-3-3- works. It always has, and always will. I accept, it may not be the best formation for us to play with the players we have - in fact, I agree, it's not.

But it's not a bad formation in general. Just our players don't fit in to it.

My point was simply that I'm fed up of all the negativity surrounding the club. We have rich owners, one of the best man managers in the world, great plans for the future, and a brilliant squad on paper.

Surely some of you would have joined a team - be it football, rugby, hockey, or any other sport - and after 6 games still not quite sure what your team mates were going to do.

Now imagine that the entire team had never played together before, and everyone is learning what the other 10 player on the pitch will do with the ball.

It's not easy, but i'm confident we'll get there by the end of the season.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not slating people on here, cause lets be honest, we're a minority of leicester fans!!

I have heard quite a few of our fans (not on the board) slating Sven, slating the club and calling for Sven's head.

Leeds fan in peace.

ha you think your board is bad(no i don't mean Ken Bates) you should see ours for moaning!
The problem it seems from an outside perspective is that you've pretty much replaced the whole team over the summer!
But thats Sven's style spend money!
you had a pretty decent team by the end of last season and would have made play offs if it wasn't for your poor start, so i find it confusing that he's bought so many players in! Yes positions need strengthening but nearly all of them! Unfortunatly thats what happens when you get a chairman who are willing to splash out!
I have a couple of mates that are worried because that if you don't get promoted then you'll be in a bit of trouble financially! I'm guessing a few on here think that too!

"I have a couple of mates that are worried because that if you don't get promoted then you'll be in a bit of trouble financially!"

Debatable. If the owners were to leave, then the wage bill being as high as it is would be unmanageable. But I don't think it's for certain (or even necessarily likely) that they would leave should we not get promoted. Sven is another matter.

It's not a great position to be in, and the wages are definitely the issue. It's not that I think the Thais aren't to be trusted, but to be highly indebted to anyone is a potential problem waiting to happen. (See the world economy for instance.) Of course, as long as we reach the Premiership and/or the Thais continue in the honourable and excellent way in which they have thus far, there's no problem...

But anyway, I fear I'm veering toward moaning, which would be bitterly ironic given the focus of the article.

"you had a pretty decent team by the end of last season and would have made play offs if it wasn't for your poor start"

A lot of our first teamers were loanees last season, but for the players which were ours I totally agree with this statement.

Absolutely agree with Cantlebabes' opening proposition. There is far too much moaning, and too many reckless calls for Sven's head.

Good to have a sensible Leeds fan in the thread. I'm not sure it was our bad start which alone explains our faltering last season: from March onwards we played too poorly too often, and so faded badly. Until then we were on course for the play-offs. I don't subscribe to the view that it was the fault of the loanees', either. What wouldn't we give for Naughton today...?

Are we exposed, financially? Sure we are, and its always going to be a background anxiety until we arrive in the promised land. But I don't sense that our owners are fickle enough to walk away after only a year or even two. Time will tell....

malling - I wasn't saying the loanees were at fault, I was just making the point that it was always going to be difficult to retain the team we had last season because we had so many on loan which weren't going to be here this season.

Agreed, BF - my issue was really with Cantlebabe's suggestion that our loan players perhaps weren't bothered about where we finished last season, as they were anyway going back to their premiership clubs. I myself didn't see evidence of that in the way any of them played. Did anyone, really...?

Malling - No, not especially, but then I'd never really seen any of the players play before they joined us - bar Yakubu, so am not aware of their playing style.

I'd not saying it was a conscious decision to play poorly, because obviously it wasn't, but perhaps if they were playing for their own future, knowing that if they'd got us promoted they were due a big wage rise, and the other benefits coming with promotion, they may have put in 110% instead of 100?