OntarioFox

Waking up hoping we can do Middlesbrough a favour. Middlesbrough. God it's grim at this club right now.

Imagine having a shocker of a debut but being overshadowed by Eric Dier being even shitter Just need this to continue all season and maybe it can be a smokescreen to convince them to sign him permanently - 'ohh it's not his fault, he just needs a better partner at the back'.

Maresca did in hindsight.

Palace could go either way from here - Bournemouth have proven that it's possible to replace big departures time and time again with the right scouting in place. Based on what I saw from their fringe players in that Macclesfield game though, they're in for a world of hurt going forwards. They looked like us. Congratulations to Man City for buying out the competition again.

...in the first game after the second of two relegations he'd been a massive part of, against a team of children and volunteers who hadn't been paid in three months, and who currently sit on minus seven points at the bottom of the second tier. Yeah, he sure showed us.

Looking at your profile picture, be warned - the combined might of Wout's defending and hfaes' online footprint might just cause the Third Impact

Nicky Maynard

That one's personal. Ben told us to FOAD (with hand gestures) when we were 2-0 down at Barnsley and he decided to stroll over to take a corner with zero urgency. Pearson froze him out afterwards and his career stalled from there. Bloke was exactly the sort of bad egg who NFP wouldn't tolerate in his squad - thought he was the big man and drifted through games with barely any effort just because he scored a couple of worldies. Similar to Mills, he's popped up on football podcasts since and seems a right whopper. Wise aside, his was the easiest (and most rational) inclusion for me. Wout's stupid little ear cups against Sheff Weds this year is the only time a player has come close to that level of disrespect with me there to witness it.

I meant in the season itself - but you're absolutely correct that he had a big part to play in getting us to that point.

winnit please

Chilwell had about as much input towards the title as Matty James did, and the latter was on crutches for the whole season.

The Dean Hammond / Gary Taylor Fletcher DMF pairing against Chelsea shortly after our promotion is the stuff of legend. Absolute banter line-up.

I was debating whether I was including only players I disliked while they were with us, or ones I grew to hate after the fact. I ultimately settled on just players who I wanted to see the back of while they were LCFC players. Fofana is absolutely in the latter category, alongside Chilwell who will forever be clowned upon for his antics in the FA Cup final, but who let's be real we've never properly replaced at left back. If you'd asked me 5-6 years ago I'd have potentially considered Mahrez on the wing for the way he burnt bridges as he left, but time has healed that wound - he acheived incredible things with us and has to go down as our best ever winger. Plus he'd make the team I picked far too good.

not sure if i'm more annoyed at you mentioning the game or Coady

Just a bit of fun now we're hopefully witnessing the beginning of the end for a certain fluffy-haired defender at LCFC - I challenge you to put together a starting line-up of players you actively dislike, or disliked at the time they were playing. Could be because of attitude, could be off-field shenanigans, could be because they were just THAT bad, could be a combination of all three. I'll start with a team from my 30 years following the Foxes that would personally have me handing back my season ticket... Ward McGivern Faes Wayne Brown Lamey Ben Marshall Wise Soumare Tete Akinbiyi Gray Admittedly I struggled with the front three - I don't think there's a player I genuinely hate even with our club's current sorry state there, more a case of not living up to expectations or being frustratingly inconsistent (having one good game in ten is known as "Demarai Gray Syndrome" in our family). I gave Akinbiyi the nod over Daka, because while I was young I vividly remember being at Filbert Street and it being the first time I heard us boo one of our own players. But everything behind that was rich pickings going back thirty years. We've had some right whoppers - I was debating Ricardo (GK) and Matt Mills (CB) for those positions, but Ward actively contributed to the position we're in today, and Brown's politics were more Lazio than Leicester, so they get the nod.

Fine by me if it convinces them to part with the money in the summer. He just needs to go. Anything but him floating through the loan, ending up back here and being given yet another chance by whoever succeeds Marti. I don't want to see him in a Leicester shirt ever again. Felt the same way about Soumare when we last got relegated, only for the useless f**ker to worm his way back in after chickening out on Championship football under Enzo.

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised we got anything for him. He was atrocious last season, to the point that some of us were giving Luke Thomas undue credit by the point of relegation purely for being on the side that was getting targeted less. Nothing against the guy, he seems nice enough and he was excellent for us pre-injury, but I'm not really that bothered if he does manage to carve out a career at a slightly higher level than we'll be at for the next while.

I'm just picturing a horror show here where he conveniently gets "injured" at the end of his loan spell, doesn't sign and happens to miraculously gain fitness just as the summer window shuts, leaving us stuck with the bastard until his contract ends. Even worse, yet another brainless manager then decides to ignore all the warning signs from the last four seasons and "take another look" at him when he becomes available again - after wasting two months of the season being rotated with players more deserving of the shirt he then runs down the clock to leave on a free and another Rudkin masterclass ends in a huge loss. I was going to make his mystery "injury" occur at the World Cup, but let's be honest, even in this post-Kompany and Vertonghen Belguim team I can't see him forcing his way back in, whether the French League makes him look semi-competent or not. I said it before but when you play Wales and your name ends up being a punchline in four different languages despite your team somehow winning, the gig is up. My bet is on it happening when he realises he's not going to make the squad despite having spent five months at a "superior" team. Thanks for nothing Wout, well done for being a huge on-pitch reason for the state we now find ourselves in. And no, giving it back to the fans after scoring the winner against a team who weren't even being paid at the time and currently sit on minus-seven points does not mean you're thought of any more fondly.

Most boring tie imaginable, but winnable at least

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These have lost two on the bounce, we've won the last two, we're obviously favourites

Surprised nobody has popped up to laugh at Cov yet

Purposely skipped watching today's game as I expected him to not give Evans any minutes, and yet I'm still pissed off that the inevitable has happened. Getting updates on here and yelled "f**k off" in the aisles of Tesco when I saw the subs. Man's a f**king coward. Bringing Ayew on when 2-0 up against League Two opposition is inexcusable when we've got such a garbage pair of senior strikers and a youth prospect who Marti seems to have personally duck-taped to the bench. I'd be needling my agent to get me the f**k out of this club this month if I was Jake. I look forward to him scoring against us in League One two years from now.

GO AWAY MARTI

PUT EVANS ON FFS