Big_Nige

WBA in the great escape season. Out of body experience when that went in But there’s been so many, Vardy and Leicester just go hand in hand. It’s going to be so strange to not have him rustling the opposition next season

Some dynamism please. Fed up of watching pedestrian fc Fast flowing football with young hungry players with something to prove. I don’t want to see a squad of plodders picking up a final pay cheque. Would be great to do it with a core of academy graduates This is genuinely a new era now, we need new heroes

You can just imagine the scenario can’t you. Daka is given the role as starting number 9. He scores a few on the way to promotion and we give him a new 3 year deal

We’ve got a manager who doesn’t want to be here, we’ve got players who are just picking up a pay cheque going through the motions. The club is on its knee’s right now I don’t give a shit about the next 5 games, I’d rather the kids got around the squad in the summer, with a new manager, and a feel good feeling round the place. Like what Enzo fostered from day one. Right now it’s poisonous Play BDCR. Ayew, Faes, VK, Soumare, Vestergaard, Coady, Ward and all the other clowns, and let everyone let them know how we feel oh, but beat Forest and hopefully resign them to Azerbaijan on a Thursday night

That Leeds game killed him. Before that he lead the line ok. Scored a few tap ins, and was generally threatening. He had a goal wrongly disallowed against Leeds, then missed a sitter. After that he was rancid. Missed very good chances away at Plymouth and Millwall too, confidence disappeared and he becomes a circus footballer For all of Patson’s faults I genuinely think it’s his mentality that lets him down the most. If he misses a chance he’s mentally gone, and then the clown shoes come out

That post promotion feeling is really important for any club, if the fixture list is kind you can ride the wave and pick up points you might not in that difficult mid season period. We did it under Pearson, beating Man U, drawing with Arsenal etc etc. Cooper just installed a pessimism and negativity from day 1. Banged on about premier league experience, how tough it is in this division etc etc. This isn’t delusions of grandeur but we’d been there for the last decade, as a club and an fanbase we knew that, but treating us like he’s just took charge at Luton instantly got many fans backs up. And our existing squad had the relevant prem experience. We needed some stardust, not journeymen, as the existing squad had the bones to compete, with 4 or 5 starters coming in. What Cooper & the board did in the summer was inexcusable. Fulham away just sticks in the mind more than most. 2nd game of the season. We should approach it with no fear and we approached it like cowards. A team in the image of the manager Ruud, he’s just out of his depth. A modern manager that over-coaches without coaching the actual match in front of him. He’s pathetic and indemic of so many modern coaches and why football is a duller as a spectacle than it ever used to be. Both the terrible appointments, both will never be seen in the premier league again, and both say more about the scattergun unplanned nature of our board than anything else

Is anyone actually saying that in real life? I think we’ve got a fanbase that is apathetic, which is the worst thing a fan base can be. I wish I cared more, I used to, and I want to again. God knows it used to ****ing hurt. This season I’ve just lost the will. I’m probably part of the problem to be fair. I went Hereford away, dancing on the terraces when Oh Lloyd, Lloyd Dyer put us 2-1 up. I was at Vicarage Road for Deeney Day. I was at WBA when Vardy made us believe, and I was at Palace when the impossible dream became an impossible reality. Couldn’t be arsed to go today. Sold my ticket. I’ve not been arsed all season truth be told There’s a disconnect all across the club. We need a reset at board level and across the playing staff. We need new hero’s and new memories. I don’t want to fall out of love with this club, it’s been the one constant in my life. But at the moment, for the first time in my 40+ years I can see a life that doesn’t revolve round LCFC and it genuinely makes me sad

No matter how good/shit we’ve been in the last decade I’ll always look at our manger and think would Pearson have done that? Ruud doesn’t deserve to breath the same air

I remember going too, Carling Stand, spent most of time throwing Maltesers at someone’s bald head about 6 rows down. The hi-jinx of youth eh. Apologise to the follically challenged middle aged bloke I hit on at least 6 occasions

Let’s get the band back together again

Nelson was getting rave reviews before his injury. But yeah, the rest of the youth other than Cover just hasn't worked

I can assure you I’m not missing the point, I’m saying there are 22 more games to get the amount of points needed to stay up. Today is a massive game between 2 clubs that will definitely be in the mix come May. To stay up you more than likely need to beat the teams around you, especially at home, but defeat wont mean certain relegation like some people are saying My point is more around the hyperbole involved in football. One game in a 38 game season played in December does not define your season, but I agree, it can damage it. Drawing at home to your relegation rivals in May and missing a penalty to go 3-1 up, yes that is season defining

And we had 4 games left to save ourselves after that game, which included Liverpool and Newcastle After today we have 21 games to play

I get all of that, and today is a huge opportunity to put breathing space between us and the bottom 3. Losing to a relegation rival at home is a game that could and probably will define where you finish come the end of the season. But losing today doesn’t mean certain relegation, it’s just people being melodramatic

Today is massive don’t get me wrong, but the amount of people saying we’re down if we lose today is just bizarre. We’re not even half way through the season yet. If we were Southampton marooned on 5 points then fair enough, but we’re bunched up in between teams equally as poor as us. Lots of twists and turns to go