Dan

76% possession in the second half at home to QPR, 4 shots taken, 1 on target, xg of 0.11. The ultimate flaccid team. This is the football that the owner is pushing for. Obsessed with all of the things that count for nothing.

Probably time to go for Guardiola. It's not just really happening.

This is us what feels like every season. Total farce in the lead up to this season. Pre-season 2024 was just a tour to see how many European second tier teams we could lose to. I remember Maresca's face during that ridiculous Thailand tour in 2023 as well. Our demise isn't a surprise. An absolute joke how badly we've been run.

What a disgrace.

I always remember your post prior to the 2022/23 season - aged superbly. Yet you feel like the club are almost oblivious to the trends that even fans can see. James potentially having two relegations to League One on his CV by 21 is an utter travesty. I'm nearly certain he'll have a decent PL career.

About two thirds of the way into my season and it's gone well. We'll go up - I don't think we've been amazing but the leagues very balanced and nobody else is much good, there's not a lot between most teams. We've generally been winning at home and drawing away, which is working. My best centre half has ended up retiring mid season due to getting an ACL. Spasojevic, leagues top scorer, is only on loan. I've also lost Petronijevic on a free, had my own Rudkin moment - I find the vast majority of the time in these sorts of leagues that virtually everyone is given a 12 month contract at a time, but virtually my entire squad are on two years which is actually a bit of a problem if we do go up because a lot of them probably won't be good enough and we're stuck with a lot of them. However Petronijevic only had one year and a top tier side have taken him off us.

Very borderline. Went up one or two times. Again though I was just scoping for the future - incase we ever won the league.

In fairness to him, I signed up in 2008, was waiting to see if we ever won the Premier League, biding my time, and then started supporting when it did happen. So he's right. He got me. These are the people we're meant to respect? their opinions should be totally disregarded. Cattle.

Total waste of time as predicted.

We haven't created consistent chances for basically five years - minus 6 months in 2023/24. Shit recruitment. Fixated on all of the irrelevant things tactically. Real losers.

Yet another player who seems to get worse the longer it goes on. It's time, and time, and time again. What is going on?

Biggest fear about the 'players I can trust' comment is I wouldn't be surprised if this means Mukasa comes out for Bob Reid and Ayew retains his place. If Ayew starts at Watford then Rowett should be sacked.

Portsmouth are pretty rubbish, but find this pretty striking. Trailing all second half, Portsmouth had 17 shots tonight. Leicester against QPR, trailing basically all half, we had 4. As bad as they are, we're a lot worse.

How can people not spot he's joking there. Probably the facebook lot actually.

You know how certain results just happen quite frequently like a 2-2 draw at Stoke. Well Watford 2-1 Leicester has happened many times before and it will happen again.

Said at the time it was a red flag. As unconvincing a win as you can possibly have. Needed them to go down to 10 men and tire (after not playing a friendly all summer) to beat them. Utterly rubbish showing.

The worst weekend of the season by a mile. Had the single best fixture comfortably, lost it comfortably while the others took points. I'm not convinced by Blackburn - part of me thinks Millwall have choked off the back of the possibility of automatics getting very real. But West Brom beating Hull 3-0... absolutely not a prayer this team beats Hull 3-0. Absolutely no chance. West Brom have made little sense to me all season. Performance data has never been that bad. Lots of late goals conceded. I think what is true of them is what people think is true of Leicester. They're the ones after that I actually think probably escape this first.

Was saying it about our form being reliant on James way before the injury. The form when he was actually out - scary stuff. Would be comfortably 23rd, and bottom in most normal seasons. Just a ludicrously bad side. And worryingly a manager change really hasn't done a lot.

It is genuinely weird. Two clubs there are decent examples as well - could you ever imagine a single fan of theirs putting themselves down the way LCFC fans do. Maybe a very fringe minority, but ours seem to be common.

I do get you and I felt this way myself, but think we've just got to keep on going.

14 games played against teams from 15th down. 3 wins. One of them was at home to Sheffield Wednesday. The other two were Charlton away and West Brom at home - two genuinely fortunate wins. We've been an absolute disgrace in those games.

Patrick Bamford's been a very good signing for Sheffield United by the way. A player a lot, myself included, would've been pretty 'meh' about signing. But you know what, I think he'd have come here and struggled. That's precisely the problem. Nobody flourishes.

I think this team are capable of taking it to the last day at Blackburn, needing a draw to survive, Blackburn already relegated, and losing like 5-0.

On Faes I admit I am going off match ratings somewhat which are a bit of a plague, but Monaco's results and goals conceded have been steady, he seems to be playing in a 3 and doing OK - Ligue 1 is stronger than the Championship as well. I'm just completely out of patience with our players now. I'm fed up of giving benefit of the doubt to have it thrown in our face. There is a constant pattern here and that's what needs addressing.

This club finds whatever way possible to extract the absolute worst out of just about every player, with the exception of Jordan James. It's happened too many times for this to be a coincidence. I'll never really be able to quantify why this is happening, but I know for nearly certain that it is.