It’s inevitable isn’t it?

[Dickov22]

3 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

But still only have two points more.

Bet you the gap is bigger  by May!

[Filbert Fireworks]

Not inevitable if we can recruit a competent manager. 

[Foxin_Mad]

2 minutes ago, Filbert Fireworks said:

Not inevitable if we can recruit a competent manager. 

Who the **** is going to teach Wout Faes to defend?

[Filbert Fireworks]

1 minute ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Who the **** is going to teach Wout Faes to defend?

Unteachable needs dropping. 

[Foxin_Mad]

2 minutes ago, Filbert Fireworks said:

Unteachable needs dropping. 

For who though? I think there other options are just as bad Vestergard was absolutely honking against Everton, not for the first time and Coady is a pod cast bro, so not sure who we bring in,

 

I genuinely think this squad is simply not good enough for any manager

[Filbert Fireworks]

47 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

For who though? I think there other options are just as bad Vestergard was absolutely honking against Everton, not for the first time and Coady is a pod cast bro, so not sure who we bring in,

 

I genuinely think this squad is simply not good enough for any manager

Vesty is old and slow but technically gifted enough. He just isn't fast enough to play a high line which RVN did against Everton and my criticism of the manager is after we were caught out by the first goal he didn't see it and persisted with the high line. 

 

Vesty is fine playing a low block with less space behind him. Ideally next to Okoli who does have some pace and at least potential to develop. 

 

Coady needs game time and would be better in a back 3.

 

So why not Coady, Vesty, Okoli in a back 3. 

 

RVN is rubbish he sets us up 4231 every game with 2 centre backs and a double pivot in midfield that unless Ndidi plays we can't pull off. 

 

I think our players need a different system and RVN sets us up the same with the same weaknesses each week and we inevitably lose each week. 

 

Our players look below par because we are in a tactically inflexible ground hog day with RVN. Great footballer woeful manager. 

 

 

[Uncle Monty]

It's been inevitable for some time now.

[Lambert09]

I’m ordinarily optimistic or at the worst hopeful. I’m neither this season. it’s been over all along and I’m not sure there’s ever been a moment where I’ve felt we might do it.

 

I had a moment early on where I thought we had a pretty decent side (attacking wise) but poor manager was still hindering us. And it’s never really improved.  
 

We’ve consistently been imbalanced. we’ve not been able to play our best team at the same time and quite simply the defense is far from good enough. 
 

Even with a little hope from the weekend (woyo and okoli) is crashed back to reality when faes takes one of his naps. 
 

If you were anyone neutral you’d consider us the 2nd worst team in the league and that’s where we will more than likely land. 

[Daggers]

11 minutes ago, Uncle Monty said:

It's been inevitable for some time now.

It was inevitable the second Cooper was given the nod because Potter sacked them off.

[Sly]

1 hour ago, Filbert Fireworks said:

Vesty is old and slow but technically gifted enough. He just isn't fast enough to play a high line which RVN did against Everton and my criticism of the manager is after we were caught out by the first goal he didn't see it and persisted with the high line. 

 

Vesty is fine playing a low block with less space behind him. Ideally next to Okoli who does have some pace and at least potential to develop. 

 

Coady needs game time and would be better in a back 3.

 

So why not Coady, Vesty, Okoli in a back 3. 

 

RVN is rubbish he sets us up 4231 every game with 2 centre backs and a double pivot in midfield that unless Ndidi plays we can't pull off. 

 

I think our players need a different system and RVN sets us up the same with the same weaknesses each week and we inevitably lose each week. 

 

Our players look below par because we are in a tactically inflexible ground hog day with RVN. Great footballer woeful manager. 

 

 

I think this is a nice summary.

 

You could easily flip our defence to a back three, then incorporate wing backs, with Kristiansen and Woyo. 
 

This still doesn’t negates the fact we can’t score, however we can at least try to stop conceding goals. 

[LCFCJohn]

6 hours ago, Filbert Fireworks said:

Vesty is old and slow but technically gifted enough. He just isn't fast enough to play a high line which RVN did against Everton and my criticism of the manager is after we were caught out by the first goal he didn't see it and persisted with the high line. 

 

Vesty is fine playing a low block with less space behind him. Ideally next to Okoli who does have some pace and at least potential to develop. 

 

Coady needs game time and would be better in a back 3.

 

So why not Coady, Vesty, Okoli in a back 3. 

 

RVN is rubbish he sets us up 4231 every game with 2 centre backs and a double pivot in midfield that unless Ndidi plays we can't pull off. 

 

I think our players need a different system and RVN sets us up the same with the same weaknesses each week and we inevitably lose each week. 

 

Our players look below par because we are in a tactically inflexible ground hog day with RVN. Great footballer woeful manager. 

 

 

I have thought maybe of the options, Okoli and Vestergard would be the best pairing, or at least compliment each other as Okoli has strengths that are Vestergard’s weakness.

 

Vestergard and Faes doesn’t work. Well I think Faes drags anyone down to his level to be fair. And Coady is just crap and uninterested now. 

[sharpylcfc]

Fairly certain we'll head to financial ruin and administration if we go down? Didn't we take loans out not long ago on future Premier League payments? It's not wanting to stay up it's needing to stay up.

[StanSP]

10 hours ago, Sly said:

If you were to make up a team of the bottom four teams.

 

GK: Hermansen

DL: Ait-Nouri

DC: Agbadou

DC: Doherty

DR: Semedo

LM: Dibling

CM: Aribo

CM: Gomes

AM: El Khannous

RM: Hutchinson

FW: Cuhna

That team alone would be punching to just about make it past 15th. 

I'd change it to a 4 3 1 2

 

Take out Aribo for someone else. 

Does Dibling play anywhere in midfield? 

 

I'd leave Bilal as the CAM, then have Delap with Cunha instead of Hutchinson. 

 

[Drew Peacock]

I thought this thread was about LCFC’s £10 Tuesday for a moment. Anyway, inevitably it’s back today, so all is well with the club, in particular its fan engagement. 
Get in quick for a £10 LCFC pint glass, and no, I’m not joking. 

[teblin]

11 hours ago, Sly said:

If you were to make up a team of the bottom four teams.

 

GK: Hermansen

DL: Ait-Nouri

DC: Agbadou

DC: Doherty

DR: Semedo

LM: Dibling

CM: Aribo

CM: Gomes

AM: El Khannous

RM: Hutchinson

FW: Cuhna

That team alone would be punching to just about make it past 15th. 

Personally I think a fully fit wilf is easily in that team. In fact would get into quite a few teams in the division.

[Qwerty]

I think the only way we could potentially avoid relegation is if Cunha got injured and was out for the rest of the season.  Without that happening, Wolves are going to ensure safety in the next few weeks. 

I'm certain that, like last season, the 3 promoted teams are going back down again.  Sadly the longer that keeps happening, the harder it gets for the promoted teams, because they're at such a massive financial disadvantage. 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

It’s probably been said, but given the pickle we’re in which has been said in this thread, we also lack the characters to get out of trouble. 

[Number 6]

I can only see the gap between us and Wolves growing now to be honest. Nicer fixtures, strengthened in Jan, and have pockets of quality in their side. 

 

I think the remainder of the games now only serve for us to assess Ruud and whether we want him to continue next season.

[The boy Linacre]

On 16/02/2025 at 21:28, coolhandfox said:

The fact gave won 1 and lost 9 of the last 10 and we are still only one win from safety tells you Ipswich and Wolves are equally rancid.

 

We can still escape, but we need to take the hand break off and attack, trying to keep it tight isn't working.

 

We probably need to win 4 games and draw a couple, with every game that ticks over that's become more difficult.

Problem is, we almost step out at 3pm every Saturday or whatever stupid time TV takes us too and at that second when the whistle blows, this team is 2-0 down.

So take it from there 24/25 Foxes...........

Its a tough ask

[The boy Linacre]

3 hours ago, Drew Peacock said:

I thought this thread was about LCFC’s £10 Tuesday for a moment. Anyway, inevitably it’s back today, so all is well with the club, in particular its fan engagement. 
Get in quick for a £10 LCFC pint glass, and no, I’m not joking. 

NOBODY NOBODY should be spending that tenner, they let the club and the fans downs between 1st Jan and 3rd Feb by banking £7m not investing to stay up.  Aside from the previous 3 years of debacles

Go Away LCFC Merchandise arm

[Sly]

So if West Ham beat Southampton on Saturday,

 

Then Wolves beat Manchester United on Sunday,

 

We’ll be relegated before we’ve lost to Liverpool. 

[Tomo260]

Let's face it we were relegated when Wolves beat us 0-3. The writing was on the wall from that very day.

[foxfan92]

On 16/02/2025 at 20:53, Sly said:

Relegation? 
 

We are lacking creativity and can’t score goals. We’ve averaged a goal per game this season, however we look terrible.

 

We can’t keep a clean sheet, conceding an average of 2.2 goals per game. 

 

We’ve got a head coach that has a philosophy that needs different or better players. Players that were not invested in during the transfer window. At this point I think PSR is a convenient excuse not to spend any money. 
 

Ruud hasn’t set the world on fire by any means. In fact, he’s performing far worse than Cooper was. 
 

We’ve gone from being extremely boring to watch, to being even more boring, to the point that the most exciting thing occurring is supporters kicking off at the board. 
 

Our most promising player in Buonanotte in the early part of the season, has been ostracised by our largely incompetent and out of depth head coach.

 

We’ve spent a weird amount of money on Oliver Skipp. Bizarrely, that could have signed us some semi competent defenders. 

 

So relegation, it’s inevitable, isn’t it? 

I'm beginning to worry you might be right...

[Stuntman_Mike]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

So if West Ham beat Southampton on Saturday,

 

Then Wolves beat Manchester United on Sunday,

 

We’ll be relegated before we’ve lost to Liverpool. 

All pretty likely. 

[OntarioFox]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

So if West Ham beat Southampton on Saturday,

 

Then Wolves beat Manchester United on Sunday,

 

We’ll be relegated before we’ve lost to Liverpool. 

For sheer optics I'm hoping Wolves - Man Utd. is a draw and we're relegated live on TV, plane banner overhead, Top present, Rudkin out chants audible, granny crying into her bovril.