jimsmallman

I think we might go there with a shred more confidence than recently, and they seem to be stuttering a little. Not saying we'll win or owt like that. But could see us getting a point and then beating Norwich as Rowett gets his ideas over more and more with time.

I'm still laughing at our lot singing "he's had enough" to VK when he went down yesterday. He is massively worse than Luke Thomas. At least LT looks like he cares.

Very proud to be in that away end today. Great support. Best I’ve felt in ages when the second goal went in, shame we couldn’t hold on.

Would have taken a point when we were Doggo in the first half. Now gutted we didn’t win. Wasn’t expecting us to all of a sudden be, you know, any good, but there seems to be some fight and something to build on. Players looked distraught at the end. Good. About time they cared more. Can see us beating Norwich next weekend.

Shocked that Joe Allen and Charlie Adam aren’t playing for them

On the walk to the stadium I saw a stoke fan wearing the following: CP Company hat Stone Island jacket CP Company hoodie Stone Island trackie bottoms Acuascutum scarf Mate, if you’ve got that much money then why the hell do you live in Stoke? (Obvs they’re all fake and his favourite film is Green Street)

I’ve decided to go to this FFS. Forgotten how bleak a place Stoke is.

Wait. Hold up. He TRAINS?

A few mates who are Stoke fans have told me that we are nailed on to win this as they are really struggling. Loads of injuries meaning they've got a kid playing in goal who is League Two level, they haven't got a striker who can score goals and their midfield has been decimated. Plus there are rumblings of problems between staff on the coaching team and bad morale in general. 3-2 Stoke win then (we're 2-0 up at half time)

Beaten up after the Stoke away playoff semi final second leg (deserved it; was seventeen and being obnoxious after we won). Punched in the face by a Red Star fan on my way to meet my Dad for the home UEFA cup game. Giant Red Star fan asked me where the pub was, I pointed him towards the nearest one, and he punched me in the face. Was more shocked than hurt. Walking from the car park to the away end at Leeds during the League One season and watching a big lad deliberately take his jacket off to reveal a Galatasaray shirt and dare Leeds fans to do anything about it. Chesterfield away in the league cup in the late 1990s. Some 15 year old Chesterfield fan kept coming up to the barrier and making cut throat gestures at us all, repeatedly met with laughter. Game ends, he keeps doing it... then absolutely legs it to get out of there before our lot leave. We eventually get out to see him being loaded into an ambulance as we walked back to the car - he'd slipped running down the stairs and broke his leg. Plus I swear I once saw Bernie having a really sensible conversation with someone and he saw me and my mates Leicester colours and reverted back to being the "normal" Bernie. But I used to drink back then so I might have imagined that...

This Sky commentator could not want Coventry to win any more. in the first half he said “this stadium, that was built for this team” So… like most stadiums then? Wasn’t even referencing when they didn’t play there. Was just trying to insist what a great stadium it is. Couldnt contain his joy when the second went in.

I looked at that fixture list and thought “a fair few of these are winnable” Then I remembered that I’ve watched us recently and we’re doggo and absolutely going down.

See now I’ve seen yours and I’d blocked out some of these horrors. Especially Kermorgant.

Ward Maybury Faes Whitbread McGivern Low Wise Lewis Kaputska Hammond Cort Although if you picked any of this season’s regulars bar Jordan James or the kids you can’t blame anyone, can you? And for any younger members of the forum, if you think Luke Thomas is bad, and he is, you should have seen Ryan McGivern. Ooh boy.

I feel sorry for him. Yes, he’s part of the blame for yesterday, of course and made some daft choices. But you can at least feel his rage at the players for throwing it away so spectacularly. At least it’s not Marti’s “we need to stick together, we go again” nonsense. I’m glad to see he cares because nobody else at the entire club seems to. Crucially - HE DOESNT WANT THE JOB. He is not qualified to do it and is nowhere near ready for it. He’s not even angling for it. You have the feeling it’s actually ruining his life right now. The real blame is the idiots at our club who seem to have no clue who to appoint as manager as we slide down the table. I have a feeling that they deliberately put a club legend in place so they could stall for a bit, protecting the fact that they don’t know what they’re doing and letting someone popular take the heat. Except it’s not working. We know who is really to blame for this and that’s where our efforts for change should go towards. Arguing over King’s abilities is exactly what they want.

When this happens it’s further proof that we just live in a horrible simulation. It is absolutely destined to happen. Nailed on.

Who cares. We have a relegation battle to concentrate on. Play the under twelves. I could not give less of a ****. The only use for this game is for the away end to protest out mismanagement. It should be a chance for the new manager to have a look at what horrors he has to work with, but we obviously won’t have anyone in place until then. And when we do it’ll be Russel Martin.

I used to work there. Technically EVERYONE there is freelance apart from management. All independent contractors - I was when I was presenting. The impartiality is intended for politics rather than sport (otherwise they wouldn’t be allowed to say, celebrate a Leicester win) It’ll be more that they’re told by management to toe the line to not upset people at the club. Piper is clearly a proper supporter and that’s why he kicks off. Good on him. Presenters fear for their jobs as there’s always someone else to replace them. I haven’t worked there since 2011 but rest assured I would have got myself in trouble by this point 😂

We are crap. And we are going down. The worst mentality in football. Rotten mentality everywhere. It is going to take a genius to keep us up. And we deserve what’s happening to us. Absolute dross from the biggest bunch of overpaid wasters that you’ll ever see. How we do not have a manager yet is another chapter in the horror of mismanagement that we’ve suffered for years. Useless. If I was as bad at my job as the people at the top level at our club are I would have been fired long ago. How can every single person see it and nobody at the club? Useless. I hate them. All of them.

GOOD LORD

The official club commentator constantly getting player names wrong is genuinely tedious.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Thomas win so many loose balls in one game.

They were always going to throw everything at us in this half. Now let’s see what the mentality is like.

AAAAARGH

Daka has been really good. Skipp and Winks have been winning everything. A smashing half.