funkyrobot

My dad has cancelled his season ticket. I’ve kept mine and my lads but my dad has had enough. It’s a sad moment really, it’s been our thing for many years and whilst my lad has started going as he’s become old enough it won’t be the same. This is all on the club, on Top and Rudkin. Their prolonged terrible mismanagement, the prolonged lack of respect shown to the fans, the terrible, joyless football by overpaid players not putting in the effort, the erosion of the togetherness that we had when Vichai was alive, the loss of fan hope and ultimately the ending of our family tradition. All things must pass I know but what a sad way to end it. 😔

If we get relegated Rowett needs to be binned. If we somehow stay up Rowett needs to be binned.

Terrible appointment. Why the club thought a manager who had failed so recently at Oxford was going to inspire our players god knows. Same set up every match. Obsessed with certain players who clearly aren’t good enough. Same late substitutions. Same delusional post match chat. Ignores the youth. Averaging 1 point a game.

I’ve already stated that Skipp (and Winks) are not helped by the manager’s inability to change his formation. From a footballing perspective Skipp has shown us very little in his time here other than in one game.

I actually think he comes across as a nice lad off the pitch but in a Leicester shirt he hides in pressure situations and plays wall passes in pressure situations. He’s a second slower to react when he does have the ball at his feet so loses the ball a lot for someone who doesn’t really play with any risk. He’s also not got the composure to finish when he does find himself in the higher 8 position. I agree it’s a crap team and within that it’s a weak midfield with a manager who is locked into one formation (and maybe that’s not helping Skipp or Winks) but I just think midfielders need to dominate play, and I don’t ever see Skipp doing that, creatively or defensively.

Play two 8’s! The double pivot hasn’t worked all season

These willy pullers will rock up and play total football when they are already relegated

Nope. Oliver Skipp is the modern day Gareth Williams. The game passes him by. Winks plays on the half turn, plays the ball forwards, has some creativity. Skipp has no creativity and isn’t good enough defensively to get away with that lack of creativity. The very worst thing about Skipp is he hides from the ball.

He’s fluffed them mate. He hides whenever there’s potentially a risky pass that he might receive. He wall passes, rarely plays on the turn, lets anyone else take responsibility.

Based on Rowett’s ppg here and at Oxford it’s guaranteed to be 2 losses, 1 win and 2 draws. 5 points in 5 games. I’m going for LCFC v Swansea Draw pompey v LCFC draw lcfc v hull loss lcfc v Millwall loss blackburn v LCFC (already relegated pressure off) convincing Win.

Skipp doesn’t work harder. Winks tracks back, covers the full back and never hides from the ball. Skipp hides from the ball.

The idea that Skipp is the better option than Winks and plays the ball faster is more than fanciful. He’s a passenger. Wall passes, hides on the pitch and we score when he gets hooked when we are no longer playing one man down in the absolutely key area of central midfield.

Keeps playing Winks?? It’s Skipp that’s the passenger in this midfield.

Serves up the same every match. Same tired formation, same players playing the same cautious football, same subs. No doubt same bullshit sound bite at the end too. 1 point a match. Get him in the bin.

We are down, he might as well take us there. Not really sure it was ever wise to sack Cifuentes and replace him with a manager deemed not good enough by fkin Oxford tbh

Skipp is always totally redundant

If we lose this, I’d definitely let Gareth know that Blackburn away will be his last game. He won’t have the ability to manage us in League 1.

Yeh I didn’t read the whole essay my bad. I stopped at the free Chang 🤣 but 2.28/29 isn’t 2.30 mate. If you are going to have a cut off time then at least honour it. With phones and smart watches we all have the correct time so 2.30 should be 2.30. I blagged a can with a less jobsworthy steward but everyone else who was also pointing out the time wasn’t 2.30 were ignored.

I would prefer a fit James to start ahead of Skipp but he’s not available then maybe Bobby Reid. Reid definitely isn’t a left winger though! I thought Mavididi was ok yesterday. He’s a winger though, on the peripheries, if we had a more influential midfielder than Skipp playing, better opportunities might be opened up.

He was ok yesterday, nothing outstanding except for that one time he mugged the attacker off in the second half with a decent bit of footwork. Did seem happy to drop Luke Thomas in the shit with flat sideways passing that resulted in either a pressurised clearance or getting tackled. Looked less for the penetrative forward ball than Vesty would.

He didn’t help himself by pointlessly diving miles from the ball rather than attempting to run to his back post to deflect it over tbf.

Jakob’s confidence looks shot, he nearly cost us a further goal when he came out of his area when it was clearly Nelson’s ball to play back to him. My only problem is I don’t think Beggo is much better. He’s another giant keeper who seems petrified to leave his line at set pieces and has a kicking ability that’s even worse than Stolarcyck and Preston’s Iversen.

Another ref issue today m was having booked the player for the foul on Daka, he still made Patson go off for 30 seconds. I thought that if the injury was a result of a booked foul, then the victim didn’t have to leave the pitch?

If you are reading this Hughesy, would you ffs ask your players to mark opponents at the back fkin post.

Terrible ref. Really poor. When you consider the soft red BDCR got at Brum and the multiple fouls put in by multiple Preston defenders that would warranted two yellows. Another ref apparently beguiled by the narrative of LCFC dropping to League 1 and reffing accordingly.