Rate AN vs Lester

[maninasuitcase]

Seeing as its not been done I'll start the ball rolling

One way traffic first half with a measly 10% possession at one stage.
To be only one down was a bonus.
Second half we missed a glorious chance in the first minute and started to play a bit better, however for reasons only known to AN we didnt bring a sub on until 88 minutes, which was absolutely effing pointless.
By this time ratboy had come on, scored, and rubbed it in our faces.

Can only be a 2 at best from me.

[stokefc]

He was shite , rabbit in headlights ...1 out of 10

[pushon]

Really this old hat again. Why should anybody bother☹

[Gods]

Stat that jumped out at me was on our own Match Centre.

Leicester 457 Attacking Passes, Stoke 68 Attacking Passes.

They are the kind of stats you would expect if Man City were playing the Dog and Duck.

[thisisouryear]

I don't rate him at all

[marwood]

I was going to give a point for starting Lowe but that got minused out by the too late and pointless subs

For the first time in months I could actually see a gameplan, 11 players all in our own half, and only press them when they threatened goal, try to break on the counter. Let them keep possession, hit on the break. It was never going to sustain 90 minutes but for 20 at least it looked like that rarest of things thrown up by AN - "a gameplan"

Sadly the goal revealed (shock horror) the absence of a Plan B.

The subs thing was just baffling, especially as at 1-0 down and between 55-70 minutes, they visibly dipped and were there to be exploited.

On reflection, it can only be a veiled message to the owners that he needs extra funds to buy a free agent. This coupled with 2 keepers on the bench and 2 16 year olds (Albeit Sidibe is there on merit) is his way of saying he needs more bodies.
This kind of brinkmanship with the owners, coming as it does after he was backed balls-deep all the way through the window, is only going to end one way

A big fat fucking round zero from me

[damo]

For the record. I was the tall old grey haired fella shouting we are not playing Man fuck*n city in the first half. Bloody embarrassing

[Deleted]

Dogshit.

It's a big fat 0 for me.

[Gary Hackett]

I was going to give him 6 if he'd had made some progressive subs around the 60th minute whilst we were still capable of a draw but he gets a 2 from me for standing there with his finger up his arse.

[citynickscfc]

0.

Time is up.

[terrorofturfmoor]

Today put me in mind of one of Pulis's write-off games.... "go out there, do what you can, but don't feel to down hearted after the game".... That was in the Premier league against the likes of Chelsea (at the time), Liverpool and Man Utd.......... Today was in the Championship against Leicester!!!

I'm not even going to bother marking him!!!

[boskampsflaps]

5.

[CBUFAWKIPWH]

5.

Given the injuries couldn't do anything but grind out a draw and not get thrashed. Failed to get a draw but didn't get thrashed.

[thepottypotter]

-1

Extra point lost as he played Laurent again

[lawrieleslie]

Didn’t watch the game but looking at the stats, bringing on 3 subs on 88 minutes when you’re 2 down can only mean a big fat zero.

[kidcrewbob]

Oct 7, 2023 20:55:41 GMT thisisouryear said:

I don't rate him at all

This

[shrewspotter]

1st half dreadful

2nd half, we were better, they made subs, we watched and they kicked on

Only at 2-0 and 88 minutes did he realise sub's might help

0 shocking manager

[leicspotter]

Given our circumstances I didn't mind too much that we played the way we did and, in fact, had a couple of decent chances.

As others have said, the substitutions were bizarre. At 1 nil down it would have made sense, and might have given us a chance, at 2 nil it was totally pointless...just as we ended up, again

Thought our support was excellent

[gingerninja]

We played first half like we were playing Barcelona or Man City in their pomp, it was a squirmy watch from the back of a settee performance. Yes we had injury issues, but Christ alive we could have made a much better fist of it..

[pavel]

Staring at yet another defeat and bringing your subs on at 88 mins and which didn’t include Vidigal says it all.

Zilch

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Oct 8, 2023 9:06:09 GMT gingerninja said:

We played first half like we were playing Barcelona or Man City in their pomp, it was a squirmy watch from the back of a settee performance. Yes we had injury issues, but Christ alive we could have made a much better fist of it..

It's really incredible just to see how far we have dropped off in the last six years.

[OldStokie]

As someone else has said, he was doing a 'Pulis' and had pretty much ruled this game out of his calculations considering Leicester's complete domination of almost every one of the teams they've played. I can see the sense in that. I can also see why some supporters are pissed off with him. But when you've got an injury list as chaotic as ours is then you really have to factor that in. We were lucky in that we kept the score down to a 2-0 defeat. It could have been 5 or 6. But he got away with it. I'll judge him properly if we get some players back during the international break and start to improve. The Sunderland game is now massive.

I'll give him a 4.

OS.

[albundy]

0

Leicester weren't that special

We gave them 90% possession in the 1st 20 minutes and they didn't have any chances

1st goal was a good finish after the ball looked like it was getting away from him

Had Nathan Lowe got a foot to Juniors cross at the end of the 1st half instead of it going under his foot and then cushioned his header in then we could have been 2 - 1 up.

The lack of changes between 60 - 75 minutes was the most frustrating. We were having more possession and got it back over 20% for the match and they looked vulnerable

Travers kept us in it with some quality saves as the game opened up and a point was not beyond us

Vidigal was on the bench to placate the fans, he had little intention of ever bringing him on

[ohbottom]

10-10

Can't believe the shit he's getting on here, it's not his fault all the players he signed are shit or injured or both, or that Leicester didn't understand his tactics and weren't supposed to actually attack us.  And what about all those penalties the ref was supposed to give us?








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[jesusmcmuffin]

1

Atrocious the way he acted late on


I give him one point for managing to get his legs in his trousers

[Staffsoatcake]

Taking a side into a game hoping to keep the score down.

Minus 10.

[Deleted]

Wank out of ten.

Not for the first time either.

[nott1]

He'd better start winning when the season resumes else it's p45 time!
Anyway I thought Lester (Pigott) was dead.

[Old School Stokie]

10/10

[matelot1996]

I’ll give him 45.
His P45.
To set up like he did tells me he has almost given up.
You don’t do that after 10 games when we need points.
Just No.