Short comment by a leicester fan

LeicesterBoy · February 18, 2012

Reading through your judgements following the game i totally agree that it was poor, by both teams. But i do not understand how you can use the explanation that you were missing players, especially not compared to the amount of players which we were missing.

Matt Mills - Our Cb and captain did not play

Sol Bamba - Our best Cb currently returning from the African cup of nations with Ivory Coast where he was the only player to play every minute of every game.

John Pantsil - Not really rated by our fans but another premier league expeirenced Rb who is captain of Ghana

Andy King - Top goalscoring midfielder for us in the last two seasons, wanted by Everton

Paul Gallagher - Our set piece specialist, and top goalscoring midfielder this season

Daniel Drinkwater - Bought from Man utd after his performance for barnsley against us, and has been our stand out player since joining the club last month

Martin Waghorn - A great young prospect we have, always pushing for a first team place but unfortunately injured

Darius Vassell - No more expeirenced player in the championship, we miss him a lot.

There is no doubt that you are missing a few players, e.g. holt but that is your own fault for resting him. Today our defence and midfield was totally different to what we are used to, and was not first choice. Sometimes you have to accept that on the day the opposition was much more committed and wanted it more, and inevitably were the better team.

Although i do not agree with ritchie wellens that we are the better club, bigger maybe, in terms of size of ground and amount of fans, but i would rather be in your season. Good luck with the rest of the season.

I am a Banana · February 18, 2012

I can assure you that when all Norwich fans saw our team today they were happy. I was for sure.

Neither team was good. but you were better than us,.

I am a Banana · February 18, 2012

p.s. good luck in the draw and next round. Have a soft spot for leicester leicester leicester, leicester leicester leicestorrrrrr [8]

Frying Pan Eyes · February 18, 2012

You definately deserved to win that game. Surprised it was only 2-1. We were awful, must admit you wasnt much better as we made you look good. Bit of a shame as if we played how we can we would of beat you quite easily. Worst performance for a few years that was. Oh well its football.

Good luck for the rest of the season.

......and Smith must score. · February 18, 2012

Fair post LeicesterBoy although I can''t say I''d agree that we''ve made too much out of our injured players.We put out a strong team but we just didn''t click like we thought we would. That happens. The best team won and i hope you get a decent draw in the 6th Round.Thanks for your best wishes for the rest of the season and maybe you''ll be back here in the League next year.

spencer 1970 · February 18, 2012

Couldn''t agree more fella. One of our worst performances under Lambert and you played well with Danns bossing midfield...you rightfully won.

We had a bad day with a weakened team, you did enough with a weakened team. Fair play.

To be honest this is prob all you have to look forward to this season as a big outsider for the playoffs and with the squad you have (I bet it cost more than ours (wages too)) surely you must be a tad disappointed with that? Enjoy your cup run chap...

...we''ll enjoy Man U next week.

ron obvious · February 18, 2012

Leicester Boy, I think our main problem today was in central defence. We lost our 2 first choice players a couple of weeks ago, coped brilliantly the next week, but got found out today. Barnett, I''m afraid, is not up to it, & Ward has only just come back after long term injury.

But, most of all, we weren''t bothered. Enough. Morison was probably the worst offender.

And I suspect that attitude came from Lambert.

Phillip J Fry · February 18, 2012

Leicester are a good side, they would surely be in the play off positions and pushing for automatic promotion if Pearson had been manager at the beginning of the season. Leicester came with a game plan (Solid defending, Directness when necessary and keeping the ball in the attacking third via short passing). Norwich were poor, Leicester were good, simple as.

kdncfc · February 18, 2012

I think our clubs are a similar size tbh - similar amount of fans although you have a bigger ground you never fill it whereas our fans are a much more loyal bunch.Just back from the game and you were much better than us on the day mainly because you seemed to want it more and we never turned up - good luck in the next round.

......and Smith must score. · February 18, 2012

[quote user="ron obvious"]Leicester Boy, I think our main problem today was in central defence. We lost our 2 first choice players a couple of weeks ago, coped brilliantly the next week, but got found out today. Barnett, I''m afraid, is not up to it, & Ward has only just come back after long term injury.

But, most of all, we weren''t bothered. Enough. Morison was probably the worst offender.

And I suspect that attitude came from Lambert.[/quote]I''m sure we set out to win the game but we just didn''t click.I''d be surprised if the manager couldn''t be bothered either. He must know we''re as good as safe in the League so I think he must be as disappointed as we all are that we came so close to a Wembley appearance.

Bury Yellow · February 18, 2012

Spoilt your measured assessment Leicesterboy by stating Leicester are a bigger club. Bigger ground -yes but looked at the hole that it replaced. Bigger crowds er I don''t think so. Bigger club? Nah!

ron obvious · February 18, 2012

[quote user="......and Smith must score."][quote user="ron obvious"]Leicester Boy, I think our main problem today was in central defence. We lost our 2 first choice players a couple of weeks ago, coped brilliantly the next week, but got found out today. Barnett, I''m afraid, is not up to it, & Ward has only just come back after long term injury.

But, most of all, we weren''t bothered. Enough. Morison was probably the worst offender.

And I suspect that attitude came from Lambert.[/quote]I''m sure we set out to win the game but we just didn''t click.I''d be surprised if the manager couldn''t be bothered either. He must know we''re as good as safe in the League so I think he must be as disappointed as we all are that we came so close to a Wembley appearance.[/quote]

I''d have thought so too. But I''m beginning to think he''s a bit paranoid about our survival; everyone knows you shouldn''t count your chickens, but 35 points with 13 games to go?? I think a little gamble on a cup run wouldn''t have come amiss.

It might even be a financial thing; the possibility of a higher place in the league being weighed against the likelihood of getting to the final.

Plus the higher up the league, the more attractive we become to quality players?

GJP · February 18, 2012

[quote user="ron obvious"]Leicester Boy, I think our main problem today was in central defence. We lost our 2 first choice players a couple of weeks ago, coped brilliantly the next week, but got found out today. Barnett, I''m afraid, is not up to it, & Ward has only just come back after long term injury..[/quote]

This is the kind of thing I expected to be said and I think it''s harsh.

There were weaker links in the team than Barnett and Ward.

GJP · February 18, 2012

[quote user="LeicesterBoy"]

Sometimes you have to accept that on the day the opposition was much more committed and wanted it more,

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Bingo.

kick it off · February 18, 2012

Take nothing away from Leicester, we just didn''t turn up today and they did, and they wanted it more than us.

However to say we''re making too much of our missing players is a bit much. Yes some were rested rather than injured, but we were without Holt, our leading goalscorer, captain and talisman, our entire first choice back four was out - 3 injured, one rested and our keeper was a 19 year old making his second appearance.

We had 21 shots vs 14. In my opinion, Holt is on the pitch, we won the game today. He was a big miss and a mistake from Lambert not to have him on the bench at least.

LeicesterBoy · February 18, 2012

My friend, i came here not to argue, however your crowds are bigger, but what do you expect. Premier league football this season, and today a chance to get to the quarter finals of a cup yet there is only 26000 there, only 2000 more than our average attendance in a championship season full of disappointment.

We took 8,000 to forest in the last round, and over 6,000 to cov at the first game of the season, anyways there would have been double the amount of leicester fans there today had your club and local authorities not deemed us as high risk. To put it blankly either Norwich are a bunch of pussies or that area of your club and local authorities is a joke. Our owners have a greater personal wealth and more money than yours, they own a bigger and wealthier company than yours and yes we have a bigger ground based in a larger city than yours. You may be premier league but that does not make you bigger, I''m guessing that Blackpoll were a bigger club than leeds last season because of this?

You have a higher league status, not club status. As a previous poster suggested, our players are on higher salaries than a team placed 8th in the premier league, clearly because we are such a small club this cannot be possible??

I wii reitterate my earlier point, i wish norwich and all other fans (not including you) good luck for this season and next, you were the best team i saw us play last season and you thoroughly deserve to be there. However, now we have big nige back it will not be long before we rejoin you in the prem, i see many similarities between Paul lambert and big nige.

LeicesterBoy · February 18, 2012

But my point was that we did not turn up. Our whole midfield was missing, king gallagher drinkwater, aswell as our Cb''s mills and bamba. U say u would have won had holt played, i say we would have played better scored more and conceded less had there players not been injured. Lets face it, that is the most ridiculous penalty decision anyone has ever seen. I expected at least 4-5 in the game after i saw it.

Syteanric · February 18, 2012

[quote user="LeicesterBoy"]

Darius Vassell - No more expeirenced player in the championship,

[/quote]David James, Neil Sullivan and maik taylor might have something to say about that.....

LeicesterBoy · February 18, 2012

All goalkeepers, who have not played as consistently at a high level as vassell has, the 3 barely play anyway

drurys testamonials V 15 · February 18, 2012

You played better. We gave you space. Our team did not turn up whatever Lambert said on Radio Snorefolk about their best effort. He made a poor decision with today''s team. They did not do the business. You kept Wes from playing which was good tactics for you.

February 18, 2012

The FA Cup is littered with ''giant killing'' acts... and NCFC has killed it''s share over the years. It happens.Time now to say well done Leicester and move on.

kick it off · February 18, 2012

We let in two soft goals and aside from that you rarely troubled our goal except from corners. We only got 26000 because that is our capcity after segregation netting etc is in place, it was a sell out you moron. We got bigger crowds than u last season, and the season before when we were in league one and you were in Champs. We have sold out every home game for 3 years (at least) and yet you only fill 2/3 of your soulless 32,000 bowl, which we could fill every week if we had the capacity. "WE have a bigger ground in a bigger city" - yes you do, so why can''t you fill it you muppet?

I''m not saying we are a bigger club, because in fact I actually think we''re pretty similar medium sized clubs, however to state that you''re a big club because you pay old has beens more money in the champs than our young, up n coming talent in the prem is ridiculous. That doesn''t make you a big club, it makes you mugs.

you won''t find many fans on here who agreed with the local authorities decision to restrict your tickets, but maybe if your lot hadn''t kicked off a few years ago in Leicester, you wouldn''t have had this problem.

Darius Vassell is crap, as he proved when we beat you at the Walkers last season.

In what way is Pearson similar to Lambert? What a stupid comment.

Let''s face facts, you beat us fair and square, although neither team turned up and it could easily have gone the other way; but you say if you hadnt had so many injuries blah blah blah, if our first choice 11 played your first choice 11 and both teams played as well as they can who would win? My money is on us, pretty damn comfortably.

im spartacus canary · February 18, 2012

leicester owned us on and off the pitch.. we didn''t have an answer to there team or there fans ..just got to take it on the chin [:D]

Pyro Pete · February 18, 2012

Leicester deserved to win the game. Good luck to them in the next round.We don''t need to argue our case as a club though. Two successive promotions and 8th place in the Premier League speaks for itself.

Lisa Ate All The Bread Again · February 18, 2012