Leicester (away) 5:30pm 27/10/2018 - Match build-up, commentary, discussion & analysis
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A point well earned in the end.
Noble, Hernandez and Anderson were poor today. Need some more bodies in in January to make something of this season.
our squad is now coming exhausted .....but no moaning from me, just a bit gutted lady luck was not on out side for once in my lifetime,..,
Terrific effort from the players; would have taken a point at the start, so under the circs well satisfied.
Cows bottom.
Banjo.
Can't complain about taht.
All sorts of team spirit, playing for the shirt etc etc.
coyi
If Arnie has to have surgery or a prolonged period of rest for his knee we're horribly short up front.
Need two or three in, IMO.
What do you do in the summer, when they all come back and you have 2 or 3 surplus senior players? Or, maybe 4 or 5 'cos a couple of the kids/yoofs (out on loan like Cullen, or pushing up against the age barrier like Diangana or Oxford) are also looking for opportunities?
Do you only sign the new ones on short term contracts?
Do yo accept that the kids are going to have to move on?
No, not for me. That's a step backwards to short term solutions, and leaves no opps for the kids. If we want to build a good squad, we can't be looking for short term fixes all the time.
But even without the injuries I'd still want another forward in at a minimum. Arnie is carrying this front line and no way should we rely on Carroll to stay fit.
I also think we started the season a central midfielder light, so I'd like to see us sign one of those too.
Nothing wrong with wanting to improve our options, is there?
Need to build the midfield around this lad. Southgate is the crowd, too. Hopefully he'd have been impressed.
Players playing well individually and as a team, tactics and substitutions made well and effort level that is obscene, so much running off the ball. Leicester really played that second half at full tempo yet our desire to not concede was evident in every tackle, every close and every run.
This was also without someone who arguably our best player in Arnie.
Lots to look forward to in my view !
Diop and Rocky have improved so much from their first games this season, and Rice was immense again, we really, really need to tie him down to a new contract, because it would cost us a huge amount, and big wages, to replace him with someone as good.