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Imagine being a genuine threat full stop.

Hate this attitude with a passion. The reason why big clubs are big clubs is because they built on their success. They used one trophy or title as a foundation and continued to develop. We had started to do that. Top half finishes, squad being made stronger by selling one big name and buying 3 ambitious ones, not looking behind us or settling for 40 points. For the best part of a decade until this current disinterested, weak owner made poor business decisions backed by his inexperienced yes man DOF, we were establishing our brand and our club as a top flight fixture. The thought that we've always been a small club is - frankly - bullshit. Forest Green, Bromsgrove, Northampton, etc etc are small clubs. We're a single city club, the tenth largest city with a larger population than most of our rivals. Aside from the late 80s and a yoyo patch in 70s we've had long spells in the top division. This is not our level. Nor should we settle for it because we've been here before. Half that current Premier League - Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton, Brentford, Wolves, even our mates up the A46 have had long spells in the Championship and lower. Do you think they'll settle for this downward spiral? Or accept their level isnt what theyve built now? Absolute loser mentality that will help keep us here and not demand our management do better.

Top rated Nelson, lowest rated Skipp No idea why we bother with subs, they just weaken the side. What the hell has happened to Fatawu? Started the season looking sharp, now playing like Momo Sylla.

He's nothing like him. Cannon could finish, had a bit of anticipation and hung on the shoulder of the CB a lot. This guy is second to everything and has barely had a shot in 3 games. And yet is somehow still better than Patson.

Yes but no. Don't want the memories ruined by a bad spell. We're not in that era anymore and it needs a clearout at the top. Any manager until then is a puppet.

If that's our level its time to give up on the ST and find a new Saturday obsession.

Corrected it for you 👍

Linda works from home and wears a lanyard. Pretty unbelievable that anyone - let alone a supporter "representative" still peddles this sort of crap.

They're not all getting slapped with a pts deduction from the EFL.....

Yep. Moan and the word "gloryfan" gets used. Or "these new generation fans" that tagged on after 2016. Still. We could literally be in league one and it'll still be " well, we were here before!" Its unreal.

To who? Top won't be there either. The Faceless Eight are stealing a wage so they don't care if no-one shows up.

Incredibly, we're still 12/1 to go down. That's looking worth a tenner right now.

My expectations were low but holy f*** he's terrible. From Vardy to this must be the biggest downgrade since Pearson to Sousa.

This is my biggest problem game after game. The subs never make us better. He's the only manager I can remember who weakens the team with his bench players. We just do the same thing with players that werent good enough to start the game. The left backs are as shit as each other. The midfielders are all equally uncreative. The wingers all do the same thing. The strikers are all shot-shy, passive and incapable of anticipating a cross. I like the manager and the board should get all the anger for the current LCFC shitshow but the fact is 2 or 3 more 'displays' like that and there will be no alternative but to fire him. You cannot go 1 win in 10 in this division. Its a miserable, dead man league. For all the paint-by-numbers pundits bullshi++ing away about the competitive unpredictable Championship it's a doggo league with doggo football.

Focussing on the manager takes the focus off the actual problem - the board and the ownership. They'll just pay him off and replace him with another possession without purpose manager. We'll be 2m quid lighter and no better off whilst the faceless bods in the boardroom get let off again. The Rudkin chants are quieter now than they were after one game. This is like the Martin Allen season. Manager after manager couldn't take away from the fact the club was in need of a major reset at the top.

Celtic confirm O'Neill taking over as interim manager

Easily. Ask Luton, Pompey, Bolton et al how easy it is to drop and carry on dropping. The fish rots from the head and if the top of your club is rotten it spreads rapidly.

100% Personally I've have been playing Evans, even if it's Ayew in behind him, he's literally the only out & out striker we have at the club and the rate we're going we'll need assets. He needs time and games but knowing this club we'll loan him to Forest Green in January.

No I don't want any of them Devil's advocate though, Ayew can at least hold the ball up to bring other people into play - like with Ramsey's goal the other night. Carranza and Daka have zero uses. They remind me of playing Kevin Tom's Football manager game in the 80s and when your 5* strikers are unavailable you suddenly realise all you have are the two 1* losers you inherited at the start of the game.

Absoultely stoppable on their day. Dave Nugent's just signed a player contract at Anstey Nomads, he'd genuinely have more goal threat than those two

No but there are so many smaller problems, it all merges. TBH "Ok in the championship" should mean a solid, 7/10 defender with occasional assists who occasionally gets scouted by Burnley or Fulham. He's not even close to that level.

McGivern. Jesus, still difficult to believe he was in Walsh's portfolio. Spearing and Platnauer were equally terrible late 80/early 90s. Oh for a Mike Whitlow now. Solid.

Has lived off his cup final performance and one night where he put Salah in his back pocket for 90 mins for 4 years now. Since then he's had two unsuccessful loan spells at mid clubs, been kept out the side by VK (two cheeks of the same arse frankly) and developed a "long" throw. It's clear the only reason he got a new deal was because he's home grown with little or no value and 5/10 LB already here is cheaper than recruiting another replacement who ends up flopping like Kristiansen. The fact we haven't scouted/bought anyone better than this kid in the last 5 years is another black mark for Glover & Co.

Can we start unscrewing the seats that say King Power on them or do we have to wait for administration first?

O'Neil was on Sky on Monday saying the most important thing he looks at when he considers a club is their recruitment policy, as it's key to a manager's success. He's not coming here.