Relegation

[Guy]

Our goal difference may be our "kicker" but lest we forget our last relegation in 2008 to League One of course, saw us go down with a -3 goal difference. Unreal!

[Vestan Pance]

36 minutes ago, Raj said:

We don't have the mentality to avoid relegation once we are in the Top 3.

Not just the player, the fans too.

When pish comes to shove we will all be found wanting.

There wont be flares prior to kick off like Everton did.

We won't be applauding the players in 3 hours yo kick off.

We wont make a cauldron of a noise.

We are to blame as much as the players.

 

 

A fair assesment of our fanbase, utterly pathetic again today. We should be screaming for every decision and intimidating the opposition but we do nothing. I even heard about a guy being ejected from the kop for swearing today, in my opinion we should be ejected for not swearing in this situation. Unfortunately the fanbase is exactly what the club have nurtured, passionless drones.

Edited 11 March 2023 by Vestan Pance

[Metal Lover]

Rotherham away, cheaper pies, more matches, maybe less hammerings. What's not to like?

[dannythefox]

Never known fans have so little to say today. Everyone has had the life sucked out of them. Can’t see us staying up with him in-charge. Even the fans looks lost never mind the players.

[kyleolly]

If and when we go down will you renew your season ticket???

[The Bear]

I still think you'll go on another little run (probably when you play us...) and just scrape safety. 

 

It's getting tighter down there though, and every club seems to pick up results every now and again. 

[josh_baskin]

20 minutes ago, Metal Lover said:

Rotherham away, cheaper pies, more matches, maybe less hammerings. What's not to like?

Bring it on, relegation would mean huge losses to the owners and the shit show running the club, not just in financial terms but prestige, the indignity they would face next season being part of a championship club that in recent years  have gone out there way to transform the club into a business model for attracting overseas tourist fans whilst seemingly disregarding loyal longterm fans.

 

If relegation would mean supporting little old Leicester again, I would take that any day of the week over what the club has become now.

Edited 11 March 2023 by josh_baskin

[Gazza M]

4 wins, 4 draws, 4 losses to get to 40 points from last 12 games. Doesn't sound that hard on paper. It is just the bang average mid table stuff (1L, 1D, 1W) Puel did for 12 months until he lost it. 

 

This must start with getting the guy and his staff out who has sucked the life out of everything. 

 

Let Stowell or Sadler or both take them to Brentford with a bit of freedom to go and fight and express themselves. 

 

In the meantime get a guy in to have a week 10 days through the international break to get some ideas across and go from there. 

 

Relegation is still avoidable but christ it is the cut off point today in my opinion. Another Rodgers game and we are gone. 

Edited 11 March 2023 by Gazza M

[The Bear]

Can't see safety being much more than 35/36 points tbh. 

 

23 is the current cutoff with 12 games to go. At a point per game that puts it around 35 at the end of the season. I can't see many of the teams in the bottom 6 getting more than than 1 ppg. 

 

So I reckon 1 ppg would just about scrape safety for you on 36 points, given your GD as well. 3 wins and 3 draws. Any more than 6 more losses and you'll be in danger. 

[Corky]

57 minutes ago, The Bear said:

I still think you'll go on another little run (probably when you play us...) and just scrape safety. 

 

It's getting tighter down there though, and every club seems to pick up results every now and again. 

Our defence won't hold out. We are too easy to score against.

[Ric Flair]

Top and his family need to take a long, hard look at themselves if we get relegated this season.

 

They can have all the grand plans they want but it is simply diabolical that a club that's won the PL, the FA Cup and two top 5 finishes that should have been better, can get relegated a few years later.

 

If we can do that from that position and success then what's the point. Hand back in the keys and move on.

 

This demise is arguably worse than what we saw under Peter Taylor. 

[moore_94]

Straight after the Brentford game with someone lined up to come straight in is the very last chance we will get this season

 

2 weeks for them to de-Rodgers the side and probably the best run we could have with a competent manager

 

Unfortunately I think even if we got relegated Rodgers wouldn't get sacked and it would be "mutual agreement"

[FoxOnWheels]

Want BR gone but I’m past thinking are players are good enough to stay up

[Guy]

2 hours ago, Vestan Pance said:

A fair assesment of our fanbase, utterly pathetic again today. We should be screaming for every decision and intimidating the opposition but we do nothing. I even heard about a guy being ejected from the kop for swearing today, in my opinion we should be ejected for not swearing in this situation. Unfortunately the fanbase is exactly what the club have nurtured, passionless drones.

Even bringing back the clappers wouldn't be a bad idea at present to at least generate some sort of positive stadium atmosphere in such comparatively grim times!! 

[Guy]

44 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Top and his family need to take a long, hard look at themselves if we get relegated this season.

 

They can have all the grand plans they want but it is simply diabolical that a club that's won the PL, the FA Cup and two top 5 finishes that should have been better, can get relegated a few years later.

 

If we can do that from that position and success then what's the point. Hand back in the keys and move on.

 

This demise is arguably worse than what we saw under Peter Taylor. 

Indeed - but we've not fallen off a cliff over the courser of 'a few years' - it has taken slightly less than two years to do so since we lifted that elusive thing called the FA Cup! 

[Guy]

52 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Straight after the Brentford game with someone lined up to come straight in is the very last chance we will get this season

 

2 weeks for them to de-Rodgers the side and probably the best run we could have with a competent manager

 

Unfortunately I think even if we got relegated Rodgers wouldn't get sacked and it would be "mutual agreement"

Dean Smith and Craig Shakespeare until the end of the season?? That said they didn't do anything at Norwich of course!

[gw_leics772]

3 hours ago, kyleolly said:

If and when we go down will you renew your season ticket???

Hell yeah, I'm a ****ing moron. And it'll get better again one day, maybe not better than it was, or even is now, but better than it was the game before, at least once, surely 

[gw_leics772]

3 hours ago, The Bear said:

I still think you'll go on another little run (probably when you play us...) and just scrape safety. 

 

It's getting tighter down there though, and every club seems to pick up results every now and again. 

We may just bethe exception that proves the rule? 

 

[HybridFox]

Joint most defeats in the league this season with Southampton who managed to do the double over us. Tells you all you need to know

[Pliskin]

The future of this football club is bleak, very bleak indeed. 

[Jakemoore]

We’re absolute dog. Joint most defeats in the league with Southampton and they have been one of the worst teams in the PL for sometime now. 
 

Thing is though, as crap as we are and as much as I think we’ll struggle to stay up, we’re also probably the only team who could go and win 3 or 4 in a row. We just have that about us. We can easily lose 5 in a row and then win 3 in a row. 
 

 

[kingkisnorbo]

The most telling sign now is the fact that everyone down here is getting results. Bournemouth winning a game on paper that they have no right to. Everton beating a Brentford side that you know we are just nailed on to lose to next week. I think we’ll go and it will be heartbreaking. And if what I think will happen does, those at the club with a say so, the owner most of all, should be ashamed of themselves. A total circus from top to bottom. Sickening. 

[ealingfox]

Second it's confirmed I want Top outside Ashton Gate on his knees with a blank cheque. Nothing else will do, save the club.

[when_you're_smiling]

It’s been pointed out before, but we’re just not equipped for a relegation battle.

 

We’ve not won a single close game, all our wins have been by more than two goals, and of the three draws, two were only draws because we conceded in the last four minutes. When the margins have been tight we’ve fell the wrong side of it every time. There’s going to be so many tight games in the run in and no evidence we’ll get anything from them. 

[when_you're_smiling]

Double post.

Edited 12 March 2023 by when_you're_smiling