Next up Chelsea at home, 11th March 3pm

[Lambert09]

3 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

I remember that game. My mate crashed his car getting to it…slid on the ice and bumped his car. Never made it. 

jeeez had to read that twice. I thought you were saying your mate died 

[kiwiturk]

Super important game. Will determine our faith for this season.

 

Come on boys...

 

[Ashdav86]

6 hours ago, Royston. said:

Looking at this weekends fixtures i can see important wins for our relegation rivals whilst we slump to a comfortable 2-0 defeat.

 

Happy weekend everybody

I actually think the other relegation teams all have more difficult games

[ronnup]

5 minutes ago, kiwiturk said:

Super important game. Will determine our faith for this season.

 

Come on boys...

 

 

We need to Sikh out some goals 

[fazzyfox]

You wonder if the players are tempted to contrive a 1-2 then a shot from kick off just to get that statistical Monkey off their back. OK it would immediately concede possession and give Chelsea a throw in but isn’t that what we usually do anyway with an angled ball looking for  a 7 foot 6 version of Harvey 

[surrifox]

Another defeat 

[surrifox]

9 minutes ago, Ashdav86 said:

I actually think the other relegation teams all have more difficult games

Possibly but if you have 700 million invested in players even potter can probably find 11 good enough to beat our lot 

[fox_favourite]

8 minutes ago, surrifox said:

Possibly but if you have 700 million invested in players even potter can probably find 11 good enough to beat our lot 

If Blackburn, Southampton can…anyone can. 

[ronnup]

Chilwell cross for Fofana header...

 

Sick on my own feet

[foxinsox]

48 minutes ago, ronnup said:

 

We need to Sikh out some goals 

We need someone who can deal with crosses.

[foxinsox]

I don't know which team will turn up today, the one that thrashed Spurs, or the one that rolled over at Southampton. Almost certainly the latter.

 

The grim outcome is that we save Potter's bacon, and still have Rodgers.

Edited 11 March 2023 by foxinsox

[ronnup]

Time to drop Tete, Evans in a 3 amd let Ricardo get forward. Daka with Kel, and put Mendy and KDH in behind Maddison 

[foxy boxing]

9 minutes ago, foxinsox said:

We need someone who can deal with crosses.

Or we will get nought! 

[Sunbury Fox]

23 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Time to drop Tete, Evans in a 3 amd let Ricardo get forward. Daka with Kel, and put Mendy and KDH in behind Maddison 

I can see your logic but we just never look great playing in a 3 as our wing backs play too deep and make it a 5, so we end up with no width going forward. 

 

So, I'd stick with a 4, especially if  Barnes is fit. Either way, I think we need to give Tete one more chance. 

 

If Evans is fit, though, I would be tempted to bring him in for Faes, who has been largely dreadful since the World Cup, constantly rushing forward out of position and making mistakes on the ball. People might be worried that Souttar and Evans won't be quick enough as a pair but Faes is hardly Usain Bolt himself. 

[Nalis]

I bought Fofana for my FPL team. Also bought Toney ahead of next weekend.

 

You can thank me for the 3 points at 5pm.

[Ric Flair]

7 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Serious question…are we going to over celebrate a shot on target? It has been 2 premier league games since we have seen one!!! 

The club are very concerned about the reputation we are getting that jeopardises our strong family club values. The term " shot " has negative connotations, especially shots on target. We don't use or support any language that promotes violence or gun crime.

 

We are attempting to be the 1st club that has a no shot policy.

[Chelmofox]

45 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Time to drop Tete, Evans in a 3 amd let Ricardo get forward. Daka with Kel, and put Mendy and KDH in behind Maddison 

This Chelsea team have score 4 in the prem this calendar year. Stirling is out. Do we really need 5 people planted at the back?

[Pliskin]

Who needs to win games of football when you can just wave honesty flags at a geriatrics tea party with the music of a year six disco! 

[Hamilton Fox]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

I can see your logic but we just never look great playing in a 3 as our wing backs play too deep and make it a 5, so we end up with no width going forward. 

 

So, I'd stick with a 4, especially if  Barnes is fit. Either way, I think we need to give Tete one more chance. 

 

If Evans is fit, though, I would be tempted to bring him in for Faes, who has been largely dreadful since the World Cup, constantly rushing forward out of position and making mistakes on the ball. People might be worried that Souttar and Evans won't be quick enough as a pair but Faes is hardly Usain Bolt himself. 

This - we played chelsea a couple of years ago 343 against their 343 and from the kick off Chilwell was playing left winger, and albrighton was playing as right back immediately after 10 seconds without even touching the ball - sets an awful tone for the whole game and we didn’t have a chance all game 

Edited 11 March 2023 by Hamilton Fox

[ronnup]

1 hour ago, Chelmofox said:

This Chelsea team have score 4 in the prem this calendar year. Stirling is out. Do we really need 5 people planted at the back?

 

I'm trying to get attacking players in the team that might score. Tete won't and if Barnes is injured this is the best option. Praet isn't going to score is he? 

 

Also, Chelsea will score at least one against us. Probably 2. 

[NJFox]

Flew over from the states to see today’s match, first ever trip to the KP. Will do my best to avoid pessimism prior to kickoff.

 

Also, this…

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

I can see your logic but we just never look great playing in a 3 as our wing backs play too deep and make it a 5, so we end up with no width going forward. 

...I  see that totally the other way!!!

We push the Wingbacks high up the pitch, they give no support to the back three because they are caught out so far up the pitch. If they were in their positions we would be better at defending. 

  If you remember the Villa cup game, we spent the first 10 minutes passing it around the back, as we could not get out of our half.  Ricardo and the other wingback was deployed on the half way line and anytime the ball came to them, they had to turn and pass it backwards.

[phoneticerror]

10 minutes ago, NJFox said:

Flew over from the states to see today’s match, first ever trip to the KP. Will do my best to avoid pessimism prior to kickoff.

 

Also, this…

Blimey. Hats off to you.

 

I’m travelling 2KM and am in two minds whether to bother 😂

Edited 11 March 2023 by phoneticerror

[Bourbon Fox]

3 hours ago, ronnup said:

 

We need to Sikh out some goals 

A clean Shi'ite would be great too

[lgfualol]

Least interested I've been in a Leicester game for a long time. No faith that we'll get anything. Think we'll start well then comfortably lose. Hope I'm wrong though.