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Ipswich just look like a side that are coached properly. That could be enough to keep them up.

Fulham are so well coached that I simply cannot see them not beating us comfortably. Really unfortunate against West Ham to not win, let alone lose that game. They're better coached with better players. And yet here we are looking at it as a must win.

I actually think yesterday was the first time I felt reminiscent of that season. Palace were not the better team yesterday, we were competitive. But lost. That must've happened 10 times before we beat West Ham in that season.

I don't think that a lot of the fans think about it that deeply. I think those that genuinely really care, most of the time will try and generate an understanding of 'why' it is that we're so crap and act accordingly. That makes up a decent % of the people on this forum. I think a very large % of our season ticket holders are almost casual fans. They're there to go along and watch the football without huge interest in the behind the scenes or wider context of the performance of the club. Sure, they want us to win... but I don't think we have a massively "invested" fan base on the whole.

We applauded at Fulham in '23, we applauded when we went down. Foxestalk is not representative of the emotion that the KP has.

He's more Demarai Gray than Harvey Barnes but he is far away from our biggest issue. I thought he had a couple of really good moments last night. Honestly if we had a striker who regularly made runs in behind, I think he'd benefit massively.

I much prefer how we play under Ruud but realistically, all I want is to stay in the division & start again in the summer (Ambitious I know). So... Sean Dyche is available. Could we....

It is pointless making sensible comments like this when people are emotional though. The reality is you can look at it from your perspective (Someone who evidently watches the matches and draws conclusions beyond what the final score was) and from the perspective of someone who looks at the league table, nothing else.

We had to try and build some momentum, i didn't mind him playing a strong side. Not resting *anyone* was bizarre, though.

Unsure if this has been mentioned but the players looked absolutely exhausted after 35 minutes tonight. Wtf is that all about.

It’s also the fact that people are so desperate to be right about the fact that Cooper should’ve been sacked, that they’ll defend Ruud regardless of performance or outcome. Again, Cooper was wrong for us. He would’ve got us relegated. Ruud will relegate us *unless* we sign 3 more defenders, a midfielder & a no. 9 between now and Jan 31st. (Good luck…)

It’s this. All over the forum & all over social media you’ve got massive weirdos who cannot comprehend that Cooper was rubbish & not the answer for sure AND ruud also far behind.

I’m fed up of these slow deaths we’ve had to endure over the last 6 years. Anyone with a pair of eyes could see we were chucking top 4 in 20 & 21, yet had to listen to a media narrative that we were dead certs for it. Same with relegation in 22/23, ‘too good to go down’… not if you watch the games. All three instances dragged out til the last game over the course of about 3-4 months of agony and this year will be no different as the sides above us are all pathetic too.

The review was complete at the end of the 22/23 season. You can't seriously demand *another* review!?

I agree regarding the adverse comments. He's not half as bad as people are making him out to be, however I feel his ceiling is a lot higher than we currently are getting. In terms of being lucky to have him last year... hmmm. We were paying him £90,000 a week in the championship. We essentially did a player swap with Spurs via Maddison + £30m cash. Not sure there's much good luck on our account there.

anyone know where Iborra lived?

Is there a defence for the CFO, Rudkin & Whelan to survive if we have failed (again)? I'm not sure how much longer fans can deal with a lack of accountability or consequence for the people running the club so dreadfully. If a deduction is imminent, the outcome cannot just be that the fans suffer the consequence. Heads have got to roll.

It would be so good if the socials posted a happy birthday tweet/post for him. Would perfectly sum up the relationship between club and fans.

We miss Wilf so much it's crazy. Not even Wilf from earlier this season, we miss the version of him where his sole job is winning the ball & preventing counter attacks. He takes so much pressure off the more creative players in the team, not to mention the ease it brings to any two centre halves, knowing they have him in front of them instead of Winks/Soumare who are regularly anywhere but where they're supposed to be.

We deserved something out of both the City & Villa games. Having said that, I don't think we deserved more than 2 points from West Ham/Brighton. Things aren't better from a points perspective (The only thing that matters!!), but context is important. The last 4 fixtures are basically as tough as we could've faced. 3 of our best 4 players are injured. Not sure now is the time to definitely say things can't get better, particularly with a decent set of fixtures coming up.

It was dumb luck that the performances we had under Cooper didn't lead to batterings. That and a keeper playing out of his skin. xG is by no means the be all and end all, but is a very good indicator of a team's ability to create chances & how good they are at preventing them. We lost 4-2 to Arsenal under Cooper, on the surface - not a battering. Diving into the stats, the xG was Arsenal 6.05 (!!!!) to our 0.34 (!!!). Dumb luck. You then compare that to the 'battering' we recieved under Ruud against Wolves where Wolves had 4 shots on target, create an xG of 1.14 and win 3-0. Sometimes you don't get what you deserve and Cooper's reign is indicative of that. Despite a significantly worse pool of players to select from against significantly stronger opposition (On the whole), we look like a team with a game plan. Despite the media's depiction of us suddenly being terrible defensively, we are conceding fewer chances per game than under Cooper & have maintained a decent goal threat (Once again, despite having fixtures against City, Newcastle, Liverpool & Villa). I can understand the frustration with Ruud (I am still furious about Wolves, particularly his goalkeeper selection), but lets judge him at the end of January. At that stage he'll have had a much fairer crack of the whip in terms of fixtures and hopefully have some more bodies to choose from.

I am not sure how any Leicester fan who watches the games can genuinely believe this. If you just look at the results, sure. If you watch the games (And also consider who we've played, the injuries we have) then you cannot look at the team and not see improvement.

The Hermansen injury absolutely stinks. Seriously concerning.

sorry if this has been said but Vardy dived

Yeah, please for the love of god don't take any solace in the club's hierarchies 'confidence' on avoiding charges. I think we've seen enough examples in the last 3 or 4 years that where they place their 'confidence' is drastically misplaced more often than not.