Crystal Palace (H) Pre-match Thread | Saturday 15th October 12:30PM

[CosbehFox]

You look at their attacking players and it's like krynopite to our defence. Throw a couple of big centre halves capable scoring off a set piece. Likely to be bullied in midfield as well. 

 

Yet Palace could have a bad day and none of that happens - but then they just know we will make some sort of error during the game which they can take advantage of. 

[Daggers]

**** this shit. I’ll be watching the Poppies spank Spennymore.

[raba]

6 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

You've sorted us once you can do it again.

 

I'm gobsmacked you're bookies underdogs for this. Genuinely makes no sense to me.

I have Palace as part of my weekend acca, was surprised the lads are 21/10. Probably to do with the last 6 head to heads.

[davieG]

Merc

 

Some hopefully encouraging words from Brendan Rodgers on his Leicester City players.

“They will be disappointed but we will reset our game at the beginning of the week and have a good week’s training, looking at the areas where we can be better, where we can manage the game better. We can’t make mistakes.

“They will be ready to go again with confidence. We are a team that is down there but we are not playing with a lack of confidence. We just have to manage those situations in the game where it does go against you. We have to do better at those moments.”

[Papasmurf]

17 hours ago, KFS said:

Im now hellbent on getting something read out.

 

Happy birthday Saktha Board!

 

It's defiantly doable. I remember Target shouting out somebody enjoying a dickens cider on 1xtra one Saturday night. I imagine the clubs filtering is considerably worse than national radio.

 

[LVFox]

Any idea if Papy Mendy is back for this?

[Pliskin]

15 minutes ago, davieG said:

Merc

 

Some hopefully encouraging words from Brendan Rodgers on his Leicester City players.

“They will be disappointed but we will reset our game at the beginning of the week and have a good week’s training, looking at the areas where we can be better, where we can manage the game better. We can’t make mistakes.

“They will be ready to go again with confidence. We are a team that is down there but we are not playing with a lack of confidence. We just have to manage those situations in the game where it does go against you. We have to do better at those moments.”

Not playing with a lack of confidence? What does endless mistakes and constantly tossing away leads mean exactly? 

[Tommy Fresh]

15 minutes ago, davieG said:

Merc

 

Some hopefully encouraging words from Brendan Rodgers on his Leicester City players.

“They will be disappointed but we will reset our game at the beginning of the week and have a good week’s training, looking at the areas where we can be better, where we can manage the game better. We can’t make mistakes.

“They will be ready to go again with confidence. We are a team that is down there but we are not playing with a lack of confidence. We just have to manage those situations in the game where it does go against you. We have to do better at those moments.”

These situations have been happening since the restart from Covid if not slightly before, he's making out like it's a new thing to this season. It's been happening for 2 years and he hasn't got a clue how to stop it.

[StanSP]

I hope one of the journalists asks Rodgers why he is leaving the pitch straight away at FT now? He did it at the Forest game, and I hear he did it at Bournemouth too. 

 

What's the reason for it? I want to know what his answer or thinking is. 

[moore_94]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

I hope one of the journalists asks Rodgers why he is leaving the pitch straight away at FT now? He did it at the Forest game, and I hear he did it at Bournemouth too. 

 

What's the reason for it? I want to know what his answer or thinking is. 

Probably because he knows if he comes anywhere near the fans he will get an absolute load of abuse and booing

[moore_94]

21 minutes ago, LVocey said:

Any idea if Papy Mendy is back for this?

Should be back (until we find out his leg has fell off)

 

This was before Bournemouth:

“Papy Mendy has an issue with his knee so he will struggle for the weekend. We don't think it's long term, he just had a clash of knees in training and it came up swollen. The doctor and medical team said this morning he is highly unlikely he will be involved in the weekend but will hopefully join the team after that. Everyone else should be fine.”

[filbertway]

Phew, no worries then. We're gonna reset and everything will be fine. It's good to hear the manager saying something different.

[StanSP]

10 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Probably because he knows if he comes anywhere near the fans he will get an absolute load of abuse and booing

Yep, I know that and so does pretty much everyone else. I want to know his thoughts and how he attempts to cover it up. 

[davieG]

13 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Phew, no worries then. We're gonna reset and everything will be fine. It's good to hear the manager saying something different.

Apparently he has one of these in his office

I just wonder if he's ever asked maintenance if it's working or even connected.

[oxtonfox]

54 minutes ago, davieG said:

Merc

 

Some hopefully encouraging words from Brendan Rodgers on his Leicester City players.

“They will be disappointed but we will reset our game at the beginning of the week and have a good week’s training, looking at the areas where we can be better, where we can manage the game better. We can’t make mistakes.

“They will be ready to go again with confidence. We are a team that is down there but we are not playing with a lack of confidence. We just have to manage those situations in the game where it does go against you. We have to do better at those moments.”

Mmmm... now where have I heard all that before? Probably since the beginning of last season. I fear an Eze, Saha followed up by an Édouard third to start another weekend of misery for us.

[moore_94]

4 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Yep, I know that and so does pretty much everyone else. I want to know his thoughts and how he attempts to cover it up. 

Probably needs to make sure he can run off and get his own bingo card ready for when he does his post-match - needs to make sure all his answers are generic, cliche, and repetitive 
 

Unfortunately other than Jason Bourne recently none of the regular journalists seem to have the balls to get into him and ask him the difficult questions

[Ric Flair]

I know it's not helpful to be this negative if you were the manager or players but when you consider just how many points we have thrown a way this season and the individual scenarios on how we've done it, it's enough to make you want to give up all hope and end it. That's why we need a new regime, this is irreversible from Rodgers and his staff, I'm convinced.

 

How do you take any confidence or learning and implement solutions to keep taking the lead early and then either immediately concede and often collapse 2nd half, or hold on to a lead for quite some time but then eventually collapse by the end. There's absolutely nothing to cling on to that we're capable under this regime to turn it around. The players are shot to pieces, they can no longer defend as a unit. They no longer have the mental fortitude to resist any pressure that comes with seeing out games to get results, we need to be 3+ goals to the good to put ourselves in that domain to be able to do so, that's astonishing. No longer is 2 goals to the good enough, and 1 goal up is actually the equivalent of being 1 go down based on how porous and generous we are when we do so.

 

I absolutely loathe and despise what we have become and how there is no accountability or standards that our manager is being held to. The supposed custodians of our football club seemingly not yet concerned enough to demand and expect better and to do something about it. It makes me sick, we are throwing away the best decade of our history and then we'll be subjected to all the patronising clichéd bollocks of us looking to bounce back and rebuild and blah blah blah.

 

It's game over.

[LVFox]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

Should be back (until we find out his leg has fell off)

 

This was before Bournemouth:

“Papy Mendy has an issue with his knee so he will struggle for the weekend. We don't think it's long term, he just had a clash of knees in training and it came up swollen. The doctor and medical team said this morning he is highly unlikely he will be involved in the weekend but will hopefully join the team after that. Everyone else should be fine.”

Then get him in ASAP. The only midfielder with any defensive instinct who’s fit.

 

I actually wouldn’t mind seeing Perez come in at RW, we have to play madders as a 10. It’s criminal we aren’t 

 

[davieG]

16 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I know it's not helpful to be this negative if you were the manager or players but when you consider just how many points we have thrown a way this season and the individual scenarios on how we've done it, it's enough to make you want to give up all hope and end it. That's why we need a new regime, this is irreversible from Rodgers and his staff, I'm convinced.

 

How do you take any confidence or learning and implement solutions to keep taking the lead early and then either immediately concede and often collapse 2nd half, or hold on to a lead for quite some time but then eventually collapse by the end. There's absolutely nothing to cling on to that we're capable under this regime to turn it around. The players are shot to pieces, they can no longer defend as a unit. They no longer have the mental fortitude to resist any pressure that comes with seeing out games to get results, we need to be 3+ goals to the good to put ourselves in that domain to be able to do so, that's astonishing. No longer is 2 goals to the good enough, and 1 goal up is actually the equivalent of being 1 go down based on how porous and generous we are when we do so.

 

I absolutely loathe and despise what we have become and how there is no accountability or standards that our manager is being held to. The supposed custodians of our football club seemingly not yet concerned enough to demand and expect better and to do something about it. It makes me sick, we are throwing away the best decade of our history and then we'll be subjected to all the patronising clichéd bollocks of us looking to bounce back and rebuild and blah blah blah.

 

It's game over.

Deja Vu - we all know what happened that season.

 

Could only watch the 1st half.

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

I know it's not helpful to be this negative if you were the manager or players but when you consider just how many points we have thrown a way this season and the individual scenarios on how we've done it, it's enough to make you want to give up all hope and end it. That's why we need a new regime, this is irreversible from Rodgers and his staff, I'm convinced.

 

How do you take any confidence or learning and implement solutions to keep taking the lead early and then either immediately concede and often collapse 2nd half, or hold on to a lead for quite some time but then eventually collapse by the end. There's absolutely nothing to cling on to that we're capable under this regime to turn it around. The players are shot to pieces, they can no longer defend as a unit. They no longer have the mental fortitude to resist any pressure that comes with seeing out games to get results, we need to be 3+ goals to the good to put ourselves in that domain to be able to do so, that's astonishing. No longer is 2 goals to the good enough, and 1 goal up is actually the equivalent of being 1 go down based on how porous and generous we are when we do so.

 

I absolutely loathe and despise what we have become and how there is no accountability or standards that our manager is being held to. The supposed custodians of our football club seemingly not yet concerned enough to demand and expect better and to do something about it. It makes me sick, we are throwing away the best decade of our history and then we'll be subjected to all the patronising clichéd bollocks of us looking to bounce back and rebuild and blah blah blah.

 

It's game over.

It's really concerning when the upper hierarchy have such low standards. At least if it's the manager then he can be replaced. The owner can't be replaced unless he/they choose to be. So we're really at Top's mercy at the minute and it just looks very bleak. God help us this summer. When we lose Madders and Youri. Evans will be just about done. Vardy's done.

 

I was optimistic about being able to build a new spine but at the minute I'm just expecting us to put the final nail in our coffin and send us back down to the abyss of mid table championship football. The lack of leadership and direction of the club is appalling at the minute. No communication to the fans aside from little paragraph in the programme. Yet still people want to go and clap and smile and pretend everything is fine.

[Ross 'LCFC' Turner]

This feels like the perfect game for Palace.

 

Sit in, allow us to grow in confidence by keeping the ball but not actually going anywhere then set traps and sucker punch us on the counter with their pace. 

 

I was surprised to hear Rodgers is unbeaten against Palace! 

[An Sionnach]

31 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Yet still people want to go and clap and smile and pretend everything is fine.

To the majority of our fans football team support is a a recreation not life and death. This forum tends to reflect the extreme end of opinion. This is true of every PL team's forum. A lot of what is said on here is pretty correct but the fanbase are unlikely to take it to the streets.

[Ric Flair]

39 minutes ago, filbertway said:

It's really concerning when the upper hierarchy have such low standards. At least if it's the manager then he can be replaced. The owner can't be replaced unless he/they choose to be. So we're really at Top's mercy at the minute and it just looks very bleak. God help us this summer. When we lose Madders and Youri. Evans will be just about done. Vardy's done.

 

I was optimistic about being able to build a new spine but at the minute I'm just expecting us to put the final nail in our coffin and send us back down to the abyss of mid table championship football. The lack of leadership and direction of the club is appalling at the minute. No communication to the fans aside from little paragraph in the programme. Yet still people want to go and clap and smile and pretend everything is fine.

It just makes absolutely no sense to me. Bottom line we have to cut costs going forward, we most certainly can't afford to pay a manager £10m a year long term to adhere to financial restrictions and that would still be a factor even of Rodgers was still doing OK here. But when you consider just how badly he has now gotten us, that we are now in that time frame of where managers seldom achieve anything and that the longer he stays here, the more he costs us, I just do not see why we still aren't willing to get rid of him. Especially when you factor in the very real possibility of relegation, the financial nightmare and the distinct likelihood that Brendan wouldn't be kept on anyway as we simply couldn't pay him £10m a year in the Championship even if Top still was besotted with him.

 

Just get rid of him, no hard feelings. Astonishing how much they were willing to treat Pearson as ruthlessly as they have done and Ranieri and yet this little fella is cock of the walk with no consequence.

[filbertway]

6 minutes ago, An Sionnach said:

To the majority of our fans football team support is a a recreation not life and death. This forum tends to reflect the extreme end of opinion. This is true of every PL team's forum. A lot of what is said on here is pretty correct but the fanbase are unlikely to take it to the streets.

Indeed it is, most people don't particularly look into depth and just go and watch the games and probably know the next couple of game.

 

I never really started taking a major interest into the background until I read about all the stuff Pearson was doing for us and saw the benefits. Then reading the football code I got a good insight into how the Brentford chairman operates. Once you start digging, there's so much to look at and take into account.

 

Like you say, most people just see it as something to do on a saturday and base their opinions on the results. This is why I probably shouldn't get too frustrated when people tell me I should adore Rodgers for having Leicester finished 5th and winning the FA cup. They don't know any better and are much happier than myself and others who take more of an active interest in the game

 

[filbertway]

4 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

It just makes absolutely no sense to me. Bottom line we have to cut costs going forward, we most certainly can't afford to pay a manager £10m a year long term to adhere to financial restrictions and that would still be a factor even of Rodgers was still doing OK here. But when you consider just how badly he has now gotten us, that we are now in that time frame of where managers seldom achieve anything and that the longer he stays here, the more he costs us, I just do not see why we still aren't willing to get rid of him. Especially when you factor in the very real possibility of relegation, the financial nightmare and the distinct likelihood that Brendan wouldn't be kept on anyway as we simply couldn't pay him £10m a year in the Championship even if Top still was besotted with him.

 

Just get rid of him, no hard feelings. Astonishing how much they were willing to treat Pearson as ruthlessly as they have done and Ranieri and yet this little fella is cock of the walk with no consequence.

He's a man of great words and paints very pretty pictures. Unfortunately he rarely ever backs them up with his actions. Yet people still seem to take him at his word. It's absurd.