funkyrobot

By far our best player James out for weeks. Worst left back in the league, worst strike force in the league. Goalie confidence shot to bits - now a liability at set pieces. Only option at number 10 is in games for very brief moments and anonymous for most of the game. Our central midfield has no creativity. We are reliant on a 17 year old for our set pieces.

Leicester 0 Charlton 2 (Dykes 2 mins. Coady 90+2 mins.)

Don’t know what’s happened to Cover. I thought he looked good when he played for us. Now he doesn’t play for any team and his only 1st team appearance was the Christmas messages to fans video in December 🥴

Being ‘well off the pace’ has been absolutely no barrier to playing for Ayew tbf.

I thought it was worth using your paragraph as you put positive spin on him for your narrative as I put negative spin on him for my narrative. The fact that I have to justify on here why recruiting Gary Rowett is not a positive step for this club shows how far we have fallen and how accepting as a fanbase we’ve become of Top and Rudkin’s failure. We should be asking for more from our owners, not encouraging them to further degrade the quality at the club.

Yeh, but keeping them in the division was his task. He failed and obviously wasn’t offered the full time job!

Sacked by Birmingham, Stoke and Oxford. Had his contract mutually terminated at Millwall when they were struggling. Contract at Birmingham during second spell there wasn’t renewed after he oversaw their relegation to League 1. I get you want him but not sure why you’re ignoring facts/making your own up to spin a narrative straight out of Top’s playbook.

Don’t know any recent manager we’ve recruited who’s had that many sackings at lower league clubs before joining us tbh.

Neither ideal options, both sacked regularly. It’s not bizarre though as both play totally different styles of football with Rowett renowned for pragmatism that isn’t particularly successful. If I was forced to choose between the two I’d definitely go for Mowbray. More experience, plays much better football (his Sunderland were excellent against us despite unluckily losing at the KP when we had Enzo) and he’s not just been sacked by Oxford United!!

I’d appoint John ‘Bring Yer Dinner’ Sillet based on this classic changing room rant at Orient

So what’s happened this season then? Bottom but one and sacked. And the new manager has completely turned them around. Oxford rejects should be rebuilding their careers at league 2. What happened to Rowett at Stoke, at Birmingham at Millwall? Sacked and doesn’t even play good football whilst he’s failing.

Both have poor records and should be avoided

Rowett at Number 3. Just sacked by 2nd from bottom Oxford United who’ve seen a massive improvement in performance since he left and yet he’s your 3rd choice?

I thought he was excellent with England. Played great football and lost once.

I have, not sure you have as his name is mentioned. There’s been chat about bring Rowett in on here, hence my comment. If you go on Twitter there’s even more too. Rowett would be a terrible appointment.

I can’t believe people are thinking Rowett- sacked by OXFORD Rowett - is actually a good idea. Wow.

JJ did well but by far the best ex LCFC player in that game was KDH. We miss his energy and his ability so much. 😢

If Faes was still here Nige could also recreate the Matt Mills incident in his office too. Instead Winksy will also have to have that honour (as well as the iconic throttle) if NFP arrives with his godly big white box fresh trainers to save the day.

On to our 4th manager in 18 months. This embarrassing number confirms that the problem lies with the decision makers above manager level. Cifuentes wasn’t up to the job. Seemed like a nice guy but wasn’t able to motivate players and was ‘out tacticked’ by opposition managers most weeks. That being said, his late appointment, the lack of support for him in both windows and the embarrassing behaviour of players he’s should’ve been able to rely on like Winks means I have some sympathy for him. With the state of the senior management team and the state of the senior playing squad, only a manager with the presence and gravitas of someone like a modern day Nigel Pearson and his team could make any kind of positive progress with the club.

Yeh, Marti’s double pivot means Mavididi doesn’t have a left sided 8 to work with. He was at his best when he had quality inside him in KDH. With a 10 who tends to stick centrally there’s less connection. On top of that our only 10, BDCR is a moments player who is anonymous for the majority of games. Fatawu has a similar problem on the right without the right sided 8 he had with Ndidi. Cifuentes’ preference for a double pivot hasn’t made us more secure defensively and isolates both wingers.

Matty gets it and he’s very honest like Pipes but he’s not the easiest pundit to listen to. Repeats himself, talks in riddles, misses out words and doesn’t stop for a breath!

It’s almost like because his passing is so bad it’s assumed his defending is good but it just isn’t. He looks every bit the lower Championship, League 1 player that he’s becoming.

This thread needed bumping because Okoli’s poor performances seemed to have gone under the radar here. He’s been bullied today against Oxford, against Wrexham during the week and against Coventry last Saturday. His ragged disorganised defending and terrible passing for a player that cost relatively significant funds is a big problem.

Verstergaard’s faults are well known and well discussed on here but tbh I’m more concerned with Okoli who can’t pass and whose alleged strong defensive abilities have not been witnessed recently. He’s had a week of being absolutely bullied and outfought at Coventry, at Wrexham and now at home to Oxford.

I thought Page was one of our better players today. Took responsibility, tried to be positive with the ball and move into space. Hamza was walking around the pitch offering very little in the way of anything other than simple wall passes and had to be carried by Page. Reid was his usual anonymous lightweight self.