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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

As long as it puts him in the shop window I guess. Teams across Europe will be creaming their pants at the thought of buying a player in such hot form after goals against Cheltenham and Mali. This should still be Jake Evans' game though. Sick of the sight of Patson.

'If the club says it's 27k then it's 27k, people just have an agenda against Top, we were in League One once'

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That's the problem though, we don't have that and haven't since the day it opened. We're bone idle when it comes to our talent pathways and have been for years now - who was the last youth prospect to have a loan that actually led to them breaking through and becoming a hot prospect? I guess you could say Nelson is showing signs this year after his Oxford loan, but it took 4 months of him rotting in the reserves for him to be trusted and it's unclear what his ceiling actually is so far. Beyond that you have to go back as far as KDH and Barnes, both of whom were developed at Belvoir Drive. It's nice that we have players coming through for our own squad, but from a hard-nosed financial point of view Seagrave has been a disaster and is not paying for itself - the only one I can think of has been McAteer and even with Ipswich paying what we knew was daft money, a one-off £9 million sale is hardly justifying a setup that probably costs more than twice that to run in a season. The rest of our 'prospects' are sold for chicken feed to lower and non-league clubs or rot in and around the matchday squad until they're no longer likely to push on. There's a possibility Monga could be that next player to be sold for good money, but given how terrible we've been at negotiating reasonable terms with vulture clubs (Nyoni being a great example), I have zero faith that we're going to get the money we should do. And every wasted asset is another nail in our financial coffin. We do have a great academy and facility in terms of getting bodies into the squad, but until it's run by people with the slightest hint of business acumen, it's going to cost rather than benefit us financially - something we can't afford in our current predicament. Which is a key reason Top needs to go and sell to someone who will hire a director with those skills.

Maybe crowdfund and give them out around town before the games

If Evans doesn't get game time given our striker situation, I'm done

When asked about seriously considering signing a 36 year old who almost died in a car crash and hasn't played a competitive match since, spending weeks making him Plan A, wasting a week of the January window, then that player getting injured leading to the deal not going ahead and the club left with two shit senior strikers, a Leicester City spokesperson said:

Nuno?

i despise modern football

That shit shot they just had took a deflection and should have been a corner, too. Officiating absolutely stinks.

Well, that's annoying - they'll probably pip Hearts now they've got the guy who actually knows how to manage a football team. Again.

Trying to convince myself that I'm happy we've won, but i'm that numb to everything involving LCFC right now that I honestly don't particularly care. Only thing that's really left me smiling is Jakub's performance, which was top class. And I guess I was happy to see Page come on and make a positive impact, I think we started to grow into it a little more after then which perhaps deserves a bit more credit given it eventually led to the win. Everything else was dross tonight - I should be sat here watching Abdul's worldie over and over but I just... don't really fancy it? To call it a pyrrhic victory is an understatement, does absolutely nothing but leave us treading water, prolongs Marti's stint and gives the KPFC weirdos some sort of false vindication for going, even though 90% of them were half way to the Jewry Wall by the time he popped up with it. He had an anonymous game otherwise. Choudhury was f**king awful, defense was largely at sixes and sevens (haha hello Gen Alpha) and even usually reliable players like James and New Skipp were giving away the ball and conceding set pieces left right and centre. It was bloody awful. I might just skip Cheltenham entirely unless we see A) Souttar back for it and B) the likes of Aluko, Page and Evans involved from the start. It's going to be Daka up top though, we all know it, and that's the point at which I go off and do something else with my Saturday.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Can't comment on the first 20 mins as I didn't see it, but didn't hear a peep out of us all game besides a handful of "come on Leicester"s and the meekest cheers for a Worldie i've ever heard from the 4000 people left in the ground. The "back the lads" KPFC types had, of course, already left by the time Abdul popped up, they need to be back in time for whatever's on telly. Newsnight? I dunno. Boos at half time. Who's doing that if the big bad Union FS "turncoats" aren't here, then? Pathetic atmosphere and total proof that without Union FS the ground is completely soulless. Out-sung comfortably by WBA despite them barely bringing 1000 themselves. Point very well made tonight, sure there'll be a few flask botherers on Facebook giving it the biggun to our own fanbase rather than enjoying the moment after that unconvincing win though.

Absolutely shite, but Jakub take a bow - he's earned us three points there, never mind two.

Oooh you beauty Abdul Another two points shithoused through individual brilliance, will take that