He is hilarious. Definitely a good addition to ja606.

They're are gonna be plenty of 200+ articles throughout the season I feel.

There's quite a few Spurs fans waiting for us to fail now. Just like all the journalists did pre-season.

But just like the journalists ignorance we were dismissed purely on the fact we're Leicester, and ignoring how good the players are and how we are as a team.

Yes Schlupp my fan club are going to be most disapointed as we continue to prove everyone wrong.

I think come the end of December when we've successfully negotiated this "terrible" run of games, people will start to realise how good we are.

People seem to forget who we have in charge too, Ranieri is as good as any manager in the league and has achieved success from clubs in similar positions all throughout his career. He qualifies teams for Europe and he'll do it here too.

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I saw this article yesterday evening and thought it was best not to highlight it.

If we still had Pearson I think we would have beaten Spurs and Bournemouth because we would have attacked instead of showing too much respect.

But then I don't think we would have come back from losing positions to gain 10 points and ultimately I don't think we'd be in the top three but then we did concede less and score just as many with NP.

Hard to say really but I think we would still be doing well but not as well as we are.

We owuld of beaten spurs and bournmouth and lost all the other games because he would not of been able to make the tactical changes CR makes and we would of been playing 3 at the back so losing one midfielder.

Genius

comment by arrothefoxinoz (U8567)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
If we still had Pearson I think we would have beaten Spurs and Bournemouth because we would have attacked instead of showing too much respect.

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you showed a newly promoted side too much respect ? Proof if ever that you are simply a deluded wum

What are you talking about? We went to Bournemouth and sat back when we should have attacked them. We didn't need to worry about their threat when ours is much greater but we played one up front and let them come on to us. We had just beaten West Ham away by attacking them and then goes defensive against Bournemouth 😏 Ridiculous!

The same with Spurs at home. I don't know why we set up like that and that's not the formation I thought we should have played. Ranieri was still learning and in his early games he made a few odd choices and to sit back and not attack you was an odd decision and one that Pearson wouldn't have made.

We would have attacked in both games and most likely would have won both but we sat back and drew both instead.

comment by Nevsaysagoal2city (U5194)
posted 43 minutes ago
We owuld of beaten spurs and bournmouth and lost all the other games because he would not of been able to make the tactical changes CR makes and we would of been playing 3 at the back so losing one midfielder.

Genius
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I agree with that Nev, totally 👍

We'd be top 👍

Title would have been sewn up already under Pearson.

But being serious, Arro is probably right. I think we'd be doing well, but not quite 'as well'.

spurs were absolutely awful against lesta, comfortably worst performance of the season, and you couldn't even beat us at home

comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 47 minutes ago
spurs were absolutely awful against lesta, comfortably worst performance of the season, and you couldn't even beat us at home
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ok, thanks for your input. We can rest easier now knowing this.

Where would we be if Pearson were still here? Well you could make an argument for almost every position in the table as it’s all conjecture and cannot be proven. Whilst we’re all getting excited about Raneri’s contribution we shouldn’t forget that our last 9 games under Pearson were: won 7, drawn 1, lost 1 (to Champions Chelsea). In other words the run we’re on now started under Pearson.

I think it’s quite possible that with more or less the same players our good form would have continued. It’s also quite probable that Pearson would have played a back three with wing backs, which may have given us more defensive rigidity. Ranieri made the changes to rescue us from losing positions, but under Pearson would we have been in those losing positions in the first place?

It’s all a guess, but I would say that under the Pearson who managed for the first 2/3 of last season we wouldn’t be where we are now. However, I reckon Pearson learnt enough about the team, the individuals within it, formations and the form of individuals to speculate that under Pearson we would be doing as well as we are now.

Of course we’ll never know and I think other questions are more important. I think I’ve seen enough of Ranieri to suggest he is tactically more astute than Pearson and he manage individual games better. At the moment, however, he’s doing it with Pearson’s team and his true test will come when he has to manage injuries, poor form and transfers. Pearson’s major strength was building a team and on that CR is yet to be tested.

It's all conjecture, perhaps a better question would be where would ranieri have taken Leicester last season?

Pearson had a poor season until the last nine games and those games proved beyond doubt that his selections and tactics for the majority of last season were poor and costing us results.

In particular the omission of Albrighton, playing Vardy on the wing (which we are now slating Hodgson for), persisting with Ulloa as the lone front man for much of the season and other bizarre tactical decisions.

To his credit he got it right in the end and the last 9 games showed how the team could have performed for much of last season - eg not rooted to the bottom of the table with no win in 14 games.

I think Pearson would have probably carried on the good run for a while, but even the most ardent Pearson fan surely has to admit that ranieri is the better tactician

Give it a rest about Pearson, he only changed tactics because Cambiasso suggested it. If he was that good he wouldnt be sat on his backside in Sheffield right now. He was tactically out of his depth at Premier League level - he will get another job in the Championship soon

Incidentally why are we doing all this d1 ck measuring with Spurs’ fans?

Their profile as a Premier League club and subsequent expectations, are totally different from ours. We are massively exceeding expectations at present. They are about on a par with theirs.

If we finish near Tottenham Hotspur at the end of the season I reckon we’d look at pre-season expectations and all agree that they’ve been exceeded – because we’d almost certainly be in and around the top 6.

We'll know when he's been here long enough to assess him properly rather than riding on Pearson's coat tails 😜

Its an Arro thing Joby nothing to do with the rest of us it his digit in their vice at the moment.

BS interesting way of looking at although you know my views on NP as a person all managers would struggled. But NP's stubborness meant player ike albrighton who could of done the job he is doing for us know could of done it them.
As for the bull that CR's doing it with NP's players they seem well and truly CR's and he is getting the best out of them and his new signings and with a smile on his face.

I never quite understand this talk about being a “Pearson fan” amongst Leicester fans. Primarily I’m not a Pearson fan or a Ranieri fan – I’m a Leicester City fan! As such I fail to understand, in the context of LCFC history, how I can’t be a Pearson fan.

B A LCFC Fan is right – not the bit about the old wives tale about Cambiasso, but that we should give it a rest about Pearson. That era has gone and we can all reflect whether Pearson picking us up from our lowest position in the history of our club and restoring us in the Premier League was a good era for our club.

Ranieri is our manager now and it is only after he leaves, or has been here for a long time, that we can really measure his achievements against other past managers. Naturally, as a Leicester fan, I’d love to be sitting here in 2 years time typing about him being our best manager in history.

Calm down Joby. A spurs fan asked a reasonable question which we are responding to. It's hardly unusual to compare your new manager with your old one and consider what might have been.

The Pearson fan bit basically means that while overwhemingly Leicester supporters at heart, the fan base was quite split into those who loved Pearson and those who didn't. There are exceptions of course

Is not an Arro thing at all Nev, it's me being outspoken about my opinions and them not liking it!

All they're trying to do is mock our players and you seem to be fine with it but I'll give the arrogant cockney wangers my thoughts. It's not me on their board, they're all over here like obsessed rats!

Remember that before saying it's an Arro thing, I'm just defending my team so if you have an issue with that then take it somewhere else!!

OOps I think I may have started something here.

With regard to CR, I think he is being very clever with his tactics. Even more credit to him for getting the players to buy into them.
I am convinced he changes our set up 'slightly' to wrong foot the opposition.
Take for instance droping Marez, when he was flying.
The opposition set up to play him and then found a different tactic. The players seem to be able to cope with a sudden reversal of tactics while mid game, and that then totaly blows away the opposition.
This would have been an issue with Pearson.
I also think NP fell out with too many players, regardless of their form, and dropped them from the squad entirely, thereby not having the continuity we see this season.