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I think its fair to say that its been a hit and miss season so far with alot of positives being mixed with negatives...just so annoying that the team takes a step forward with a good display then backwards again with a bad one.....this time last season i remember Leicester fans wanting rid of manager Pearson...the forums and press were lambasting his every decision,he looked on borrowed time...the board were patient and the fans were won round.....and after last nights win at QPR they look a good outside bet for Prem football....they havnt spent big,didnt take the chance with Cox....things are looking rosy for Leicester much to my annoyance.
Dont pretend to know the mood of all Town fans but support for Wilson dosnt strike me as being that great....some of his decisions have been baffling to me,but then so was Pearsons in the Leicester fans eyes last year.....i will wait to the seasons end before making rash judgements on our manager.

i dont think wilson is going to be good enough for us.
steady, but not going to get us promoted without major funds.we wasted time with malpas, and i've seen little to say we've pushed on from his reign.

Leicester fans probably had a greater expectation at the beginning of last season than us at the beginning of this seson.
Wilson's first step was to strengthen the back and midfield this he has done (not counting the Gillingham game).
We are playing good stuff at times, but we all know the problem, the strike force.
Austin is a hope, but more of a hopeful prayer than a definite 'we have the man'.

I'm quite happy with the set-up of the club, from what I've seen of other sides in the division so far nothing I've seen really worries me, with what we've got at the moment we could be just behind the play-offs and with a striker I think we will make it.

A dickie bird tells me that the management rate Austen as highly as Cox...only time will tell,be nice to see him notch one today.

Major progress since Malpas, we are two or three players short of a good side, keep the faith.

I agree with dell. In my eyes we have progressed a lot. We have Greer and Cuthbert at the back. We have Douglas in midfield. JPM has begun to earn his wages. The only real problem is the final third of the pitch, and as much as we can (rightly) blame Wilson for not sorting this out sooner, he's still brought us a long way, and still has a lot of time to rectify that situation before we can even think about writing this season off. Maybe Revell will come good after a slow but far from dreadful start? Or perhaps Paynter will get his place back and grab a few? Austin could even come into the side and be a great asset for all we know.

We were a total shambles under Malpas. Lower League 2 standard. Under Wilson we are mid table league 1 standard.

no, we were lower to mid league 1.we are a bit better this season

3 points better off. Won the same amount.

15th game last season we drew 2-2 with table topping Leicester.

We are a tidy, organised side this season that is 2 decent players away from being a fucking good team in this division. If we'd kept hold of Cox we'd be in the top 4 I have absolutely no doubt of that. The football is a hell of a lot better than it was under Malpas and I think with a bit of patience Wilson will do good for us. Unfortunately, the impatience of our support will see we get what we deserve which is absolutely nothing.

we deserved an able replacement for cox.
we're still waiting.
we are a better unit than last season, but there are still much things wrong with the team and structure of the side.

I'm not sure it's easy finding someone to replace a 32 goal a season striker, and it's not as if they haven't tried. But still, abusing the players that are out there working their bollocks off isn't really helping is it? The verbal abuse Revell and Paynter have received by some of our fans is fucking shocking, and is part of the reason why I think as a set of supporters we don't deserve any success.

What things would you change in the side at the moment?

also, back to our fans no co-incidence Austin hasnt played at home yet.

And also no coincidence that Macklin plays better away from home.

agree about the abuse.i am with you 100% that we have some morons as fans.

i'd play players where they are at their best and for the benefit of the team.we'd have to watch training and know the players inside out to reach those decisions.
the non playing of paynter and easton in particular rings alarm bells.

I'm far from doubting Wilson. At least he has got us playing as a solid unit and has assembled a decnet enough side. We'll be mid-table this season and there's nothing wrong with that. After all we're in the middle of a 5 year plan for promotion to the Championship so what's the rush? DW's subs and tactics etc are a little baffling at times but all managers do it. I used to get really annoyed with Sturrock as he never seemed to use any subs early enough etc.

Agree that some of Wilsons subs have been strange but generally I think he's done an OK job. Most people say they're happy with progress and I think that's pretty clear. It's a damn shame we didn't get more out of that 11 game unbeaten run, I think we deserved a bit more than we got. Beauty of football I guess. There's still a hell of a lot of time to go in the season though.

I think the standard of league 1 is better this season. We were so bad last year I don't know how we stayed up.

Probably because we had one of if not the best striker in the division!

we stayed up because we werent as bad as 9 other teams.

unlike most I dont think our team was that bad last season, much stronger upfront (obviously) but not at the back.

this season we seem consistently solid at the back, decent in midfield and lacking the final ball going forward.

last season we had games where we were wank but other games where we looked very good. I mentioned the 2-2 home draw with Leicester last season. I thought we were fantasic that night, never deserved to be 2-0 down in the first place.

I havent seen this seasons team put in a performance that strong this season (I've missed Brentford) but on the flip side I havent seen this seasons team put in a performance as crap as Brighton, Wallsall, Yeovil, Yeovil, Cheltenham (away) (I've missed Gillingham)

Cox did drag us up a bit under Malpas. As did Barry Corr when he played.

To be fair, without Douglas we arent much better now than the Malpas days.

We're too balanced I think. We need to take more risks, especially at home because when we do we look very good.

Yes Dave, last season we didn't go down because there were worse teams, which is why I was amazed because we were league 2 standard.

we were only in L2 a few seasons ago.

last seasons team was alot better than some of the shite teams we played that season.

Disagree completely. We can actually pass to each other under Wilson and are a hell of a lot better defensively.

Also we have a decent keeper...it helps.

the decent keeper helps, we looked much better when Phil Smith came back in towards the end of last season. dont think he gets enough credit for our final push to safety.

I like Smith...but Malpass keep swapping the keepers was amazing...we know Lucas is number 1.....so does both the keepers...DW has shown(Paynter) that if you dont stay playing like a number 1....your out.

A bit strange that Wilson showed more patience with Hurchinson though, no?

Sie...i keep telling you..when you get loan signings from bigger clubs you have to play them...thats why i dont like the system

Like today

Hutchinson has only played six matche.s..half off the bench,,,he got dropped just like Paynter did....my issue is that come January Ferry,Hutch,Tope all go back.....i dont slag any player and the stick Hutchinson is getting isnt warranted in my opinion...hes been no worse or better than others in the team...