OntarioFox

'We are where we are! We were in League One once! Puel out!... wait, who's the manager again?'

'And who would buy us' is not the flex that poster thinks it is. It's a fair question - but only because the shocking and overpaid playing squad, massive debts and unbuilt extension make us a tough sell for anyone! I'm guessing it was just a different way to phrase 'be careful what you wish for', as if whoever comes in could possibly do a worse job without folding the entire club on day one.

The Elon Musk of football ownership, then

It's been fun watching the mood slowly turn on there. The regular posters don't quite seem to know how to deal with negative comments about the team and board, which is now the majority of the replies.

The Leon Crncic of goalkeepers

Can we bribe Matt Piper to burst in mid -interview and give him a lungful? About the only person in that building that isn't going to kiss his arse.

Dug myself a bit of a hole here haven't I? Not questioning that we should have sold him for the record, Ipswich paid daft money for a bang average Championship player. We'd have been insane not to take the money - though we have form for that... Luke Thomas anyone? Just think he was one of the few who seemed to give a shit in an otherwise checked-out squad. I'm clutching at straws I know, but in an world where he wasn't sold he'd have a place in the matchday squad ahead of BDCR at the very least, if not Mavididi on current form. He wasn't exactly a mentality monster but I couldn't point out any examples of him giving up like Stephy did to allow Brittain to make that cross on Tuesday. Again I'll yell it louder for those at the back - yes we were right to sell, he's a £5 mil player at best.

I mean they haven't really got any other music culture besides A) the Binley Mega Chippy theme song and B) The Specials writing Ghost Town about what a shithole it is.

The OntarioFox curse strikes again Still reckon Manning is a goner if they don't win this though

OK I really did underestimate how gash Norwich actually are. Still, that Duffy has a bit of fire in his belly doesn't he? Showed more passion in 10 seconds of gobbing off to his manager than I've seen from our entire squad all season. Would single-handedly do us based on that alone. The inevitable prediction is they sack Manning tonight and get a rocket up 'em just in time to spank us at the weekend in front of their home crowd. Josh Sargeant brace and a Faes-arsecheek own goal to compound a miserable 3-1 loss, ours coming through I dunno, let's say JJ again.

Hot take - we are sorely missing Kasey's workrate. Average player but at least he put a shift in.

Just save face by saying it was your League One 26/27 picks

Best player on the pitch. The Huddersfield excuse can well and truly get in the bin now. As can Marti if he drops him again. To be honest, we'd probably be awkwardly celebrating a clean sheet and spawny 1-0 win if his team mate had bothered to jump to challenge Ayling at the end.

Shhh, if Rudkin takes one look at the table he'll offer him a contract extension

Faes cupping his ears to us after scraping a win against Barry Bannan and a bunch of kids seems a long, long time ago now.

Absolutely none, and I didn't say he'd be a good manager. I just love Kingy. As I've said in other threads (and here regarding Pearson) they'd be cynical appointments by the board, who know the fanbase will swallow more shit, for longer, as they are loved figures. Oh, and when I say soothing for the soul, I just mean having those nostalgic faces in charge. All signs point to it continuing to be a disaster on the pitch, at the very least until (theoretically) Nigel is given a summer to fumigate the rat-ridden ship.

A Norwich win tonight and the gap to relegation is 7 points. Could be as little as 4 by the time they're done with us on Saturday. Not likely as everyone from Oxford down would need to pick up points, but not impossible. And that's before any points deduction.

His health is more important. I reckon I'd have an aneurysm having to deal with the likes of Faes, Soumare, Winks and Mavididi every day, let alone him. Plus, it'd be another one of those wool-over-the-eyes, memberberries appointments that deflect from the utter rot at board level at LCFC. I worship the man, but even them dragging Nigel back in from the cold would be a distraction exercise that probably would work on a fair few people. If Rudkin is still here as DOF, Nigel working underneath him is utterly pointless. Let him dictate the transfer policy and targets, don't put him on an inevitable warpath when the transfer windows come calling and that worm piles yet more failures on top of the stinking manure heap of our squad.

Kingy in the dugout and Pearson upstairs would be soothing for my soul, but it's just not going to happen. I'd rather he washes his hands of us and focuses on staying well, at least until the nightmare of Top's ownership is over.

Not sure why people leave early for Strictly by the way, Okoli's footwork was the spitting image of John Sargeant at the end there. I've seen plants less rooted to the ground.

I mean, we didn't exactly do anything with the man advantage did we? Besides sit even deeper and throw away two points, that is. I'm not going to praise him for a half-completed run he could well have skied into row Z, when five minutes later, with supposed fresh legs, he's getting turned by someone who had been running around for an hour and a half longer than he had. Unless his fitness levels really are so atrocious that he tires himself out quicker than I do in five a side after six pints the night before? Our players are just so lazy man. I'm sick to death of it.

I wish it was, r/lcfc are arguably an even weirder lot than us miserable sods here on FoxesTalk. I got hounded on there earlier this season for daring to suggest Wout Faes needed dropping.

Mavadidi had been on five minutes and got turned by a player who had played a full 90 and grafted enough to get booked, by the way. Surprised I didn't catch him yawning during the replay. Lazy sod. I think we need a thread where we count up which players have cost us the most points over the course of the season, because those two dropped today are 100% on him and Okoli not putting in the bare minimum.

Norwich are shit. Like, proper shit. I still expect them to do us at the weekend. I was there when Sousa lost his job after a game at Carrow Road. I expect Marti will claw on until the inevitable happens on Saturday then suffer the same fate, after gifting three points to what - let's face it - is now a relegation rival. I have incredibly mixed feelings about Kingy waiting in the wings to take the reins, because it isn't going to be a pretty season whoever is in charge with this soiled thong of a squad. I love him and don't want him tainting with it, but at the same time I think Top and Co, despite their complete lack of brains, know the fanbase will give him more time than anyone else in this situation given just how dire our player options are. I would say he'd at least have the balls to drop the wastemen and play the kids, but I dunno, I've sat through five years of this shit now and I'm running out of times I can say with a straight face that the next manager will dare to try it. Even Enzo clogged up a bench spot by signing Coady.

(my post took two hours to approve so i'm going to be naughty and bump this again) - for those daft enough to attend, how was it? Not seen it that empty for a league game since... well, Boro in the Championship. And that was in a blizzard.