LCFCJohn

Yeah talk about trying to reach for reasons to be critical . At the very most, it slightly skims it on the way into the roof of the net but I’m not convinced it even does as it doesn’t seem to be enough to change the course of the ball. Strange thing to try and use to play down the goal anyway, particularly in light of Preston’s first!

Damn auto correct Meh, Hull or Hulk, probably still take a beating!

Does it change his past (lack of) performances with us? No. Does it mean we should suddenly keep him? No. He needs a new start as much as we do. But it also doesn’t mean you have to mock him and call him out and he has actually had a really good game and done his part towards what should have been 3 point. 1 - Ayew and other strikers wouldn’t have been in the position to score those. For his many faults, Daka defends from the front and at least puts pressure on opposition defences to make errors and yesterday took them twice. 2 - I don’t think it’s right to play down the goals as not being worthy because they have been the result of Preston’s defensive errors. How many of the many goals we have conceded this season have been from pure great attacking play by our opponents where you just hold your hands up and say fair enough? I’d wager not many. The vast majority of the goals we have conceded have been due to errors so let’s take them when it is the other way round. On the defending from the front, so many goals we concede are due to giving the ball away cheaply in the middle of the pitch and there being no midfield. Opponents have so much space. So I will happily see any forward carrying out the work up the other end to relieve the pressure.

You know, whenever people say about a club, it’s too soon to get promoted (to the PL), I disagree because worst case scenario, you get a cash injection, you can invest in some younger, hungry players with either a positive upside through resale or who will set you up to go again in the Championship should you get promoted. Given the financial constraints we already had in place, it is unforgivable that the summer we went up, the business was Ayew, Skipp, BDR, Okoli and Edouard. Literally nothingness. Weren’t keeping us up. No resale value to help us be able to invest this season and clearly aren’t cut out for the Championship. It’s all be said anyway hasn’t it. The club deserve everything that is coming as do most of the fan base. I can absolutely understand why fans of other clubs will find it funny.

I agree with you that we might as well not even bother with the Hulk game

I have just watched the highlights again and the only ones that stood out as proper chances were Skipp after the foul on Daka. He should be doing better there. And Daka in the first half when he took the cross down and took the quick shot. Anywhere either side of Iverson and that likely goes in. Given the day Daka was having yesterday you’d say it’s a shame it was on his left foot (cue comments that he doesn’t even have a stronger foot). I thought there were a couple more that weren’t shown on the highlights I have just watched. One where Daka shot on the turn from within the area that again, too close to the keeper. And another similar one, maybe Mukasa. I would still say we did enough to have won the game based on the goals scored and chances created. It was another game where due to the calamitous defence, we are left having to score twice to even get a point from these games. Not good enough. So I’m not saying we were great going forward, but at least did what we needed to and bagged a couple.

Well said Troy Deeney. Somebody gets it! Amazing how so many of our so called fans are too clueless to! Interesting his mention of speaking to ex players and naming Morgan. It seems any public comments made by the ex players avoid criticising the club/ownership but perhaps privately they are? Which isn’t helpful. They are no longer on the payroll. They don’t owe Aiyawatt anything. They’d do better by the club condemning what it has become.

I’d say there’s a high chance even Sheffield Wednesday would have got their first home win if they’d faced that exact same fixture and performance from Preston as we did….

It’s not automatically just the player nearest the goal when it is conceded. This isn’t me defending Thomas or the defence. They’ve been a shambles. So many mistakes and even if not outright mistakes, just weak and ‘should be doing better’ moments. How often have we actually conceded through a well worked or individual brilliance goal? I can’t remember as most have not been as there isn’t that type of quality in this league. But we have to look at how the defence is put in these positions week in week out. Fatawu was an absolute joke giving the ball away in the first place. When we give the ball away cheaply, the midfield is non-existent and the opposition have so much space to just run at our defence. To not blame Fatawu for that first would be letting him off massively. It must be miserable for this defence and goalie. Constantly getting put on the back foot. It’s no wonder they are mentally shot beyond recovery.

Would we say Wednesday are favourites or at least evens for this? Shocking that we can be going to a side who has won once all season, no wins at home, on minus points and yet we can’t in all honesty be going to ‘expecting’ to win.

We gifted theirs to be fair. Two awful Championship sides, playing out a poor quality game in which errors were the only way anything was going to happen.

Seems quite obvious. In the season Milan Mandaric passed away, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth and Leicester to be relegated….

Too little. No ground made on Portsmouth or Oxford and only one winnable game left this Monday….

Should still have been a red card. He was the last man!

There’s literally no point watching any more of this. Preston are awful and yet we go in behind after leading and in full knowledge they have the 3 points wrapped up by half time.

Clearly well over.

Every game. Giving the ball away cheaply time and time again. And then acres of space for even opposition as poor as Preston to punish us with ease. Probably time to do something else with the rest of the afternoon. We know what happens next.

He can go much further than Lisbon after the season finishes. He’ll have all the actually close season and a good couple of weeks into when pre-season before Aiyawatt and Rudkin make any decisions about who the manager for next season is. Subject to the situation with flights by then, definitely time for full tour of Australia and New Zealand I’d say!

I mean I feel the same and England are there! Like you say, joke tournament really with 48 teams in it. Held primarily in a backwards Country against the backdrop of what is happening in the world and the corruption within FIFA. I also can’t be arsed with most of the kick off times. Rather be in bed by 10 when I am up early for work.

Exactly. I put the same point about how the QPR game played out to one of the particularly toxic KP defenders on FB. This particular person is very abusive to those who don’t share the same view as they do. The reply was simply that they don’t have to explain themselves to me, i.e they are completely clueless and have no counter point to make. I don’t agree that the protests affect the game given it is outside for the reasons you outline in your first paragraph. However, if it was a game where we had capitulated after 2 minutes, without agreeing with it, you could see how those determined to slam the protests could make the link. The QPR game, I made exactly that point. We started well and took the lead. What do these people think? Like you say, the players suddenly remembered and that was the reason they fell apart? No, they feel apart because they are weak and fragile mentally. Nothing to do with the protest.

Exactly. The Trust put up a post last night about not having had a reply from the club about the season ticket deadline. Already comments having a go at them. The post about them organising discounts at the cavendish from a couple of days back has a solitary comment, which isn’t even a grateful one but someone saying it’s too far a walk to the stadium. I mean my office is a few hundred yards from the Cavendish and there are literally trams from right outside, about every 5/10 minutes that take you straight to Hillsborough within about a 10 minute journey time!

Criticising others trying to impact change whilst offering exactly zero solutions other than just sit and accept it is hardly any more productive for the future of the club than those protesting.

Really good work that the Foxes Trust and UFS do. It’s amazing how both are vilified by certain sections of the fan base. @Foxes_Trust, they are quick pile on when you posted about the Unite for Change on your FB page and even the financial stuff (just facts being shared) in the last day or so. Get this on your page and let them squirm!

I’d say all the fans who utter the words ‘they won the league for us’ are yeah! This was not intended to pull him apart by the way. I’m sure that the culture was better at that time (although our players had a reputation for throwing managers under the bus so that’s not great culture wise). These players were given huge salaries and gifts like cars after the title won though so they will of course be bias. It’s just to point out that we were never fantastically run. If a Brentford or Brighton went and won the league or a cup, you could point to the strategy at owner level that makes them well run. We lived off some high transfer fees, from the Pearson/Walsh days and then Puel/Macia. And frittered it all away to end up where we are. The managerial appointments dating back to the start of the ownership show a lack of cohesion and lined up thinking/planning.

Absolutely. And it seems that one of the remaining defences is the charitable side. Two things here. It’s all relative. To billionaires, what they donated is probably no different relative to wealth than you or I sticking £30 in to someone raising money for a charity when doing something like a marathon. It’s generous but not worthy of timeless praise. And if I had committed £30 to someone and the had to be chased for it, that would make me not even generous! If what you and others have said is true of course about being chased for it.