Jobyfox

To be honest we should have prioritised that model and recruited into it immediately after the title win when we were still in the Premier League. It could have been our clear identity. The problem with the slow, slow, possession type model is that it will always get destroyed by the best teams who just do it better and with better players. We saw in 15/16 that low block, fast transition, was so difficult to prepare for and play against when almost everyone else is playing a sort of facsimile of the Pep model

I’m fed up with all the negativity on these pages. Give him a chance. I reckon he’ll keep us up!

Oh come on - he isn’t that bad. Perhaps he’s a bit cheesy, but “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and other tracks were at least a bit of fun and got people on the dance floor. It could be worse and …. oh ….. Russell? …. nah….. we’re doomed!!

Is it possible that we’ve reached the absolute bottom and today the curve has started to twitch in an upward direction?

That one sentence alone sums up all you need to know about his ability

I’d take Alison Hammond at this stage

Pleased I will be watching LCFC in the Championship next season. Just a shame that it will be Lincoln and not Leicester

Yep - and our striker options are Patson Daka and Jordan Ayew

I still find him quite useful - even at my age

To be honest I get a bit bored with the Daka v Ayew debate. It’s self evident that both are shite and that we should have planned for life after Vardy much better. Absolutely criminal negligence from the recruitment team to be left with these two. All this is a given. This is where we are and choices still have to be made. I’d rather have Covid than Ebola Fever. For me Daka should always play as the team plays higher up the pitch when he is present. I don’t want to see Ayew play for us ever again. For months now I’d rather play Daka, change the system completely (false 9?), play somebody out of position as striker or, reluctantly, chuck one of the youth team players in. But not Ayew. It might be a list of unsatisfactory options. We are in least worst territory but choices still have to be made and, for me, the outcome of those decisions would never be Ayew

I don’t think that it’s inevitable but there is always that moment in the season where you lose hope and think it’s more likely than not. This (QPR) game was the equivalent of my Bournemouth at home moment from the 22/23 season or Sheffield Wednesday at home in 07/08. Are we definitely down? No Do I think we’re going down? Yes And, for the first time, this feels more than just general disillusionment and pessimism

Ayew?????

Who else was at the Sheffield Wednesday home game in 2008?

Contract extension incoming

You know what if we stay up. I think you might be right

I always like to look through the comments in mid-December when I revisit this thread. It just shows how reactionary we are sometimes to brief upticks in form. BDCR is what he is. A very average player and, considering we signed him in the Premier League, an incredibly poor signing

Possibly saves the world as we know it!

Yes, unfortunately that’s not a phrase that’s usually associated with a squad that includes Daka, Ayew & BDCR

I don’t see any reason for your optimism

Well I’m guessing that revolutions are started much more frequently by students and communists than they are by middle aged conservatives

I was assuming that this thread is a little “tongue in cheek”. But give it a couple more weeks …:

He’s not the Messiah…. he’s ….

Yes. I did think that. Pretty good salary in the overall scheme of things