Going into this game I felt we had to at least match what The Blunts did at Hillsborough so when Leicester went down to 10 men after 10 minutes I thought there was no danger and we would be at least keeping the pressure on for another week, wrong again.


KB played the same 11 that beat Watford midweek other than the enforced absence of Shaun Derry who was surprisingly replaced by Eirik Bakke, on the bench there was no Richard Cresswell.


Four minutes into the game and we were one down after Iain Hume managed to squeeze a shot in after Leicester had been given a free kick close to the box, we had never won here and it looked like that run might continue, then after 12 minutes Rob Hulse was brought down in the box by Patrick McCarthy, penalty and a red card for McCarthy.

Robbie Blake stepped up and it was 1-1, for the second game in succession the opposition had had a man sent off, only one but there was still plenty of time for another.

From the 12th minute onwards it was all down hill, we were poor but this is not something that has just happened this week, I do not think we have created much at all since the 2nd 45 against Plymouth. How many of our goals have been penalties this year? I cannot remember when we were last awarded as many penalties, we cannot complain.

Leicester did not look like a team with 10 men and though we had chances neither keeper was threatened, Bakke looked well off the pace and was replaced and not before time 10 minutes into the second half by David Healy. For a team that still had high hopes of automatic promotion this was an uninspired performance and the team were quite rightly booed off the pitch.

We should not give up on automatic promotion until we cannot make it but I think once we have got the 12 points we now need to guarantee a play off spot we should concentrate on getting our key men fit and ready for the final few games of the season and the play offs.
Next up Luton and I think we will see a better performance, we have to.


Full time 1-1 by the way.