Jobyfox

Yes I know, but this is the “positives to take away” thread

Incredibly we’re still not in the relegation zone

I’d normally criticise people for leaving early but, if you didn’t leave early today, what on earth were you doing? (Actually, there could be an argument made for leaving when Ward was named in the starting eleven)

There’s only one Danny Ward

I feel that, come the end of the season, the only thing I’ll be grateful for is that we didn’t beat Derby’s points record

I think this game was the true barometer of where we’re likely to finish. As you say - we’re going down!

You can excuse Stolarczyk to some extent as he was injured until last week, but Iversen should have been ahead of Ward. Ward should never have represented us again after our last relegation. For his sake as well as ours.

Just got back from Christmas shopping. How’s our biggest match of the season going?

Probably the most important game of the season and we’re starting with Danny Ward in goal. FML!!!

Bloody hell. I’ve been watching LCFC for a long time, but had to google the top two on that list. I can’t remember Hodge being that bad. Ricardo was unpopular because he had a very strange style and was picked ahead of Chris Weale who was perfectly competent at the level we were at. It depends on the criteria. Some on that list only had a handful of appearances. Ward played long enough to make a significant contribution to us going down. Some of these probably are worse (eg Kalac), but were found out pretty quickly and kept well away from the starting eleven

186 pages of saying how crap someone is? Well it isn’t nice, but it is a reflection of the frustration of people. I was rather hoping we’d never see him in an LCFC squad again after our relegation season. That’s right for us, but also right for the player who would struggle to redeem himself in the minds of the fans of this club. Yet, there he was, on the pitch, at Newcastle, in a Premier League game. I realise there were a collection of circumstances that enabled him to be back in the squad (i.e. injuries to our best 2 goalkeepers) but, even so, it was still depressing to see him on the pitch again. He needs to go, as soon as possible, for his own sake and for ours!

Hopefully talking about “Jakub” is recognition that he is still our 2nd choice keeper and “other options” might just have been forced upon us through injury

It does seem like you could get dyno-rod in with an industrial plunger and they still wouldn’t flush!

They’re still significantly better than us!

Put them in the same sweater with their heads sticking out the same hole and insist that they are conjoined twins!!

Crumbs of comfort… Us, Ipswich and Southampton were always going to struggle. We needed an established PL club to get dragged into it. Wolves are now most emphatically in it!

After our relegation season Ward should never have made another squad. How have we contrived to get into a position where he’s playing in the PL again. Where is Iversen? How long until Jakub Stolarczyk is fit again? Who’s available on loan? Going back to Danny Ward is just criminal mismanagement of the highest order?

I see you’re feeling generous

Yes. It was always likely to be damage limitation today. Our squad is poor. Our squad decimated by injuries is highly unlikely to get anything at Newcastle.

Bet it was deflected

RvN and Cooper both have the misfortune of having to pick from the same squad. In this case one that is also decimated by injuries

Agreed. But the alternatives are ……

Used a Portkey - apparently

Yes … he’s on the bench