Looking like we will get to play against Stockport County. Sometimes dreams really can come true.

5 hours ago, davieG said:

It's certainly a big possibility.

 

Can we find buyers for these for a fee the club will accept (historically No!) I can't see how we can afford to keep more than a couple on, hopefully relegated wages

Faes

Okoli

Mavididi

Fatawu

Vieites

Decordova Reid

Souttar

Kristiansen

Choudhury

Skipp

Vestergaard

Thomas

There was speculation in the punter corner that clubs often have wages clauses if relegated but that no one would have the foresight to spec in a double relegation. So LC will be stuck paying high wages to players that either no one wants or they are happy just going through the motions whilst seeing out their time on high wages. Its a Danny Ward someone somehow gave me an extension scenario on steroids.

Only 5 times have a professional football team managed back to back relegations. Never has any club managed a triple drop straight off but with this club might just crack it.

3 hours ago, Spudulike said:

the Profit and Sustainability Regulations (PSR). Far from being a tool for "stability," PSR has become a financial guillotine for any mid-sized club daring to challenge the elite.

 

Leicester City FC have achieved nothing that hasn't been tested before by Blackburn Rovers, Bolton and Leeds United. It proves you can buy a temporary fix but at the undeniable cost of long term decline. It is certain another club will try the same recipe, Wrexham possibly?

Thank the Buddhist Monks that the points deduction didn't make any difference to use stumbling our way to relegation.

I'm going to call this early, back to back relegations and it's £35 off to air ambulance.

Well done to the 3.7% who called it correctly.

At least, the last time in the third division we actually won a lot of games and winning games is way more enjoyable than losing lots of games.

Well congrats to the 3.78% who had us bolt on for the bottom of the league. No big air ambulance pay day this year.

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

If you're measuring managers as managers not just as head coaches (ie, their impact on the whole club not just on-field performance) then I don't think there's any argument here. 

 

It's Brendan Rodgers by a massive, massive, massive distance. 

 

Fair points. OK - it's BR for the toxicity in spite of one significant redeeming aspect, our one and only FA Cup. I think that was the last 'good game' that I enjoyed a whole game of football involving LCFC.

A trip down memory lane up to last month, unfortunately I'm old enough to remember most of them. I'd personally hand the trophy to Holloway as the only manager who ever managed (to date) to get the team relegated to the third tier of English football.

Tom Mather P2 Win ratio 0%
Kevin MacDonald P3 Win ratio 0%
Mike Stowell P2 Win ratio 0%
Andy King P4, Win ratio 0%

Then those who had a decent run of games.

Board P18 Win ratio 16%
Frank McLintock P 40 Win ratio 12.5%
Dave Bassett P32 Win ratio 12.5%
Ian Holloway P32 Win ratio 28%

When you play 15 players every game, unless you are putting subs on sitting 4-0 up, then it shows what a rag bag of a team the side is. No cohesion, no backbone - just nothing much. It doesn't matter if you have half decent players here or there, football has always been a team game. I reckon we have now landed at the season finish position.

With one draw and five losses in the last 6 games you have to wonder at the optimism here. Bookies now have Leicester City in the group of three to go down this season. That is sobering.

Danny Ward was the reason the side got relegated 4 seasons back. Single handed, the worst (by far) goal stopper in the league. Twice as likely to be picking an on target, goal bound, shot out of the net than the top keepers in the league. Stole a living and even managed a contract extension. So aided and abetted in his quest to be the absolute worst of the worst.

The only thing needed to be said is February 11th 2016 top of the EPL, February 2026 hurtling towards relegation from the Championship having landed -5pts from the last 6 games.

I haven't been able to find any streams all of this season, have I missed anything?

10 years ago, topped the EPL. What a shit show.

30 minutes ago, teblin said:

The back 4 cost about £66million 🤢

That is almost three times the entire 2015 squad cost! Inflation, it's been terrible.

We did have a successful season last time in the third division. All the relegated clubs from last season are piss poor, it's not just us. 

Silly boy. Should have done jail time.

https://www.news18.com/sports/chelsea-wesley-fofana-spared-jail-blues-star-fined-forced-to-do-community-service-for-reckless-driving-ws-l-9674280.html

This was decades ago, back in 1982 when Alan Young stepped into goal to replace the injured Mark Wallington. Back in the day you were allowed only 2 subs, so an outfield player ended up in goal and we completely thrashed the opposition with some long range blaster goals to boot. I think it ended up a 5-2 FA cup match win against the then also second division Shrewsbury. I remember feeling we were going to get a drubbing with a stand in goalkeeper but Smith got himself knocked out and came back to make a couple of really good saves. It was surreal.

Just for the sheer drama and amusement of the day, it was a once in a lifetime display of a GK performance. Everyone needs to live the moment, I found a highlights clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVst4ZayCm4&ab_channel=1980sFootballHeaven

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For those not using eTorro I'd recommend looking at it as it is US$ based and Rachel is going to be tanking the £ in November. 

Without doubt Peter Taylor if only for signing Dennis Wise.

20 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

People sleep on Elliot forget how good he was up the other end.

when you consider some strikers fail to score more than 5 in a season, he has 2 seasons of 7 and 6 goals.

 

22 Goals in 199 prem games 

From my fading memory Elliot started as a striker before relocating to defence which is why he was pretty good at scoring goals, particularly headers from a time when we could actually score from set pieces.

God I'm old, it wasn't always this way.

Shilton

Nish
Huth

Cambiasso
Whitworth

Kante

Weller

Mahrez
Lineker
Worthington

Vardy

Last chance on this. Season about to kick off, new manager in place. Team up in the air a bit. Bookies don't fancy the team for promotion or relegation.