8th (5th) in table

[lcfcfoz]

Incredibly after what feels a poor spell we are 8th in the league, if you take away the big 3 that are running away with the top 3, you could argus we are 5th out of 17 teams, and aiming for 1st, performances have been poor, but things could be a lot lot worse, let's get behind the team and management and who knows we could sneak 1st in this mini league of 17 and get into the champions league, for certain things could be a lot worse, even after a dissapointing draw tonight, a few wins back to back could propel us up towards 4th position. No more negativity, and lets be positive, a long time ago I only wanted premier league football for one more season, and I would of been happy, we have done that, won the league, and FA Cup, so let's dream again!

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

I like your positivity. Let’s get drunk together and turn that five to two bird into a keeper! 

[shailen]

It's a crazy season. Top 3 will run away with it and the rest will play for 4th as well as to stay up. 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

If you take away all the other teams we win every year woohoo!!

[Jobyfox]

I wish we could bake a cake full of rainbows and smiles and we could all just eat and be happy! 

Edited 2 December 2021 by Jobyfox

[don_danbury]

cant be making average pl sides looking a million dollars like that. had to work incredibly hard for a draw  

[Jon the Hat]

Its **** all to do with other teams or where we are in the league.  While we keep underperforming against what we are capable of, and making the same mistakes game after game, fans will rightly criticise.

[Dan]

It's a bonkers table and so tight to the point you can barely make any judgements. It's a league split into three parts, that second part consists of probably 60% of the league and we're firmly wedged into that. Europe is there for the taking for somebody but I've seen nothing this season to suggest it'll be us.

[volpeazzurro]

To be 8th in the league is to prove how shite the Premiership is this year. 

[Winchesterfox]

The three teams below us all have one or two games in hand, and if they draw them we are tenth.  That's probably a fairer reflection of how we've played this season.  

[Fox92]

After the top 3 the other sides are completely inconsistent.

 

On their day Liverpool/Chelsea/Man City could hammer every other side in this division by 3 or 4 goals.

[Guest Danny Clender]

There's a top 3 who are exceptional right now and a bottom 3 that are having shockers, the remaining middle band are all average seasons at the moment. 

[ealingfox]

If you take out all the teams above us we're actually 1st!

[davieG]

Well to join in with the pessimism if our players were playing at the level we know they are capable of we'd be 4th /1st out of 17 this is beginning to look like a 3rd season of missed opportunities that not many had foreseen.

 

I've witnessed many worse seasons but I don't think I've seen a team with so much ability under performing so badly and so consistently.

[Christoph]

Imagine how much further we would be if we weren't embarrassingly sh*t at defending corners. That's the frustrating part!! 

 

[davieG]

Just now, Christoph said:

Imagine how much further we would be if we weren't embarrassingly sh*t at defending corners. That's the frustrating part!! 

 

 

[fuchsntf]

5 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

It's a bonkers table and so tight to the point you can barely make any judgements. It's a league split into three parts, that second part consists of probably 60% of the league and we're firmly wedged into that. Europe is there for the taking for somebody but I've seen nothing this season to suggest it'll be us.

Its how Football Works, nothing bonkers...Too Many looking at only the foxes perspective ,Hopes und dreams...I

We  are very average with the odd individual skills,dragging us through...

[tickler28]

2 clean sheets in 21 matches and 1 of those vs Millwall. 

 

I agree that things could be worse and I'm still grateful for what we've achieved blah blah blah but I think realistically this season our best chance of any success is in a cup...can't see the league being anything other than a top 10 finish. If we could sort our defence out....not constantly go a goal behind and had ample cover for Tielemans I may change that view but we in my opinion we have to many issues at the minute and players in and out of form isn't helping 

[Jakemoore]

Unless we’re not underperforming? What if we over performed for two seasons and where we are now is just our level? 

[davieG]

Just now, fuchsntf said:

Its how Football Works, nothing bonkers...Too Many looking at only the foxes perspective ,Hopes und dreams...I

We  are very average with the odd individual skills,dragging us through...

But we've proved in the past that we're not average, we're certainly not top 3 but we've shown we can be competitive for 4-7. It's clear that the team are under performing and seem at the moment incapable of starting well or playing well for 90 mins.

 

It's not an ability issue it's a mental/attitude problem.

[Bourbon Fox]

With the signings we made, I had optimism that this season we would build upon and outperform last season, on the pitch if not in the table.

 

Now I know that our defensive injuries have been key but putting that aside for a moment we actually seem less consistent and capable than we did last season in several areas.

 

Our inconsistency is depressing, and it will need a sea change to keep us in the top third of the table come the end of the season.

 

The prospect of another post-Christmas nosedive is worryingly real.

[RoboFox]

Sorry, but another one of these threads? 

 

Ok, let's stop any objective criticism of the dross football we keep getting served up - y'know on a forum for discussion - and instead post gifs of us lifting the Premier League and FA Cup from now on. 

[Foxes96]

I think we’ll likely be about 10th by the end of this game week, which feels about right. Feel like it will be one of those seasons where we’re constantly saying “if we could string a few wins together we could get Europe”. 
 

Good to see Rodgers say after the game yesterday the target is still achieving Europe and hopefully nick a trophy along the way. Personally think we’ll probably come about 8th this year, likely behind the big 6 and WHam, which isn’t awful but probably not consistent enough to break into the European places.

 

Would also like us to have a decent go at the EL if we manage to get out of the group, considering we may not get the chance next year.

[honeybradger]

The fact that we're 8th, (10th potentially when spurs/man united play their games) and still think that we're doing alright considering our performances, just shows how bad we are and have been for 3/4 of a year now. It's only going to get worse from here if the standard of performance continues, and we've seen nothing to indicate that it wont.

[filbertway]

It's a testament to the quality of the squad that we're barely able to put together 20-30 minutes of cohesive football in a game and still be scoring so many. I don't know why teams stop putting us under pressure when they take the lead, it's really poor management from the opposition. It feels like we're a bit of a Man Utd lite (post fergie) in that teams are giving us way more respect than we currently deserve and ultimately it's what is giving us the chance to get back into games.

 

Imagine the gap between us and 6th will widen a bit by the end of the year.

 

Has a table been this clumped before? 11 pts between 17th and 4th seems mad. Assuming United and Spurs improve under their new management a clearer gap between the 2 ends of the table should open up a bit.