How bad have you seen it?

[foxile5]

I caught the tail end of the Pleat 'administration' and witnessed a pretty toxic Filbo.

 

It was ugly down there at that point, before Little came in and made things hopeful. 

 

I've also seen the end the O'Niell era leading into Levein and negative Meg.

 

What's the worst it's been for you all?

[Rocket-Ron]

In top flight?

Never as bad as this.

[foxfan92]

The Pleat era is also when I started taking more of an interest in football.

 

It's been worse than now plenty of times, but we have to look at where we've got to compared to back then which makes now a more bitter pill to swallow.

[Mike Oxlong]

I cannot recall a team that is less competitive than this one relative to the division it is playing in. We’re fortunate to have the points that we do. 

[hejammy]

Baaad..... Real baad. 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Hard to say if it's this season, two years ago or 01/02.

[HybridFox]

Pre Pearson era (the first time) except we're not even a family club anymore 

Edited 22 February by HybridFox

[apollo4joe]

2001/02 was horrific. Anyone remember signing Jacob Laursen to 'strengthen' our defence??

 

This feels different though, seems most are apathetic which is worse than being enraged. At least in 2002 the ownership was gone within a year (albeit due to administration), but then it took us years to recover from that.

 

2001/02 we lost at home- 5-0 Bolton, 4-0 Southampton and 3-0 Derby (who also got relegated with us). Also 6-0 at home to Leeds in the league cup? I'm sure there's most results people could mention.

Edited 22 February by apollo4joe

[Jattdogg]

At the time, my doctor (family friend) stuck his thumb up me arse looking for hemorrhoids  whilst asking how my dad and grandma were doing. I had bloody stool so that's why I was visiting his medical office. Was the small talk really necessary? 

 

Tonight's game was worse than that experience.

 

Goodnight.  

 

 

[Globalfox]

The Mclintock episodes was really bad but this current lot may just be edging even that out. This team is spineless, gutless, unfit, over paid, badly led, the whole coaching staff, medical staff, operations staff, are shit. We need a three year recovery in the championship and everyone here at the moment needs to go and be replaced with new blood. And when I say everyone I mean everyone. 
 

[Ian Nacho]

Relative to the division we're in, I can't remember a time where we have been this uncompetitive. 

[David Hiorns]

Been going down 44 years, This is awful. I left as soon as the 3rd went in, having reluctantly decided to return to my seat after the second. Never have considered leaving a game so early… on this occasion, it was a straightforward necessity. The club is being ruined by incompetence. Fans put their heart and soul into supporting our club, although it’s reached the point where for our own well-being, we have to make choices. I never want to miss a game, although right now, I can’t watch them. It’s an abomination and until the club gets competent operators, it will only get worse. Change is long overdue and now imperative to save the club from the abyss

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Watching since Bryan Hamilton and this is the worst team - such an unlikeable set of players.  How has it come to this?

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

Pretty sure this will be the club's lowest points tally in history. This is the worst it's ever been, relative to the division.

[CrazyKopCorner]

These players are stealing a living. They should be ashamed but they’re not - says it all 

[dillonpanthers87]

This is the worst for me. Supported since i was 6 or 7 (MON days) but context or what I can perceive or remember this is the most soulless. All subjective though isn't it. I mean at least we tried to change the game with Skipp coming on. 

[kristianity77]

You watch a typical premier league game of football and you might see in a 90 minute period a couple of brain farts by either team, a miss kick or two.

 

our team this is happening literally every other minute.  The competency on show from Leicester for the money they are being paid is borderline criminal. 
 

This isn’t the worst team we’ve ever had, but this the worst team we’ve had in respect of the division we are in.

 

Ill say it now, if half of these players trot out in the Championship for us next season, we are doing a double relegation, these players are that bad.

Edited 22 February by kristianity77

[Fox92]

This season is the worse PL season I’ve seen. Thankfully just missed 01/02 but I imagine that would be up there for some.

 

But I was at Stoke when we were relegated to the third tier and at that point it felt like nothing was ever going to get better.

Edited 22 February by Fox92

[Manini]

Some abject games during 03/04. Chelsea battered us and the Villa game that I mentioned in the match thread got particularly protest’ey with the free mags given out and the pitch invader. I imagine every relegation season seems as embarrassing and as bad as the last one. Never nice things to be apart of. This one however feels the one where we’ve been most out of our depth. This club and team don’t deserve to be in this division. We’re simply not good enough. 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

2 minutes ago, kristianity77 said:

You watch a typical premier league game of football and you might see in a 90 minute period a couple of brain farts by either team, a miss kick or two.

 

our team this is happening literally every other minute.  The competency on show from Leicester for the money they are being paid is borderline criminal. 
 

This isn’t the worst team we’ve ever had, but this the worst team we’ve had in respect of the division we are in.

 

Ill say it now, if half of these players trot out in the Championship for us next season, we are doing a double relegation, these players are that bad.

This feels like a 1994 level of unpreparedness for the top flight. 

 

And that's a criminally low bar to currently be ducking under.

[kristianity77]

19 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

This feels like a 1994 level of unpreparedness for the top flight. 

 

And that's a criminally low bar to currently be ducking under.

The thing is, the 1994 lot tried.  They were bad, but at least they had a crack at it for the most part.  I’ve got no issue with being relegated but leaving everything on the pitch.

 

when your relegated and seemingly no one at the club gives a shit playing staff or otherwise, your club is in a huge downward spiral mess.

 

if Top doesn’t sell or at least shake up everything underneath him, this ends up as a similar shit show that our neighbours had down the m69 a decade ago 

 

But maybe something like that just needs to happen to force the issue.

 

I mean, we don’t have the full set yet, we still need the johnstones paint trophy or whatever it’s called these days so let’s crack on

Edited 22 February by kristianity77

[Bert]

We are certainly on track for our worst top flight season ever. I think the thing that is hurting me the most this season is that we could quite easily be sat comfortably in 12th. But with the all round poor decisions that have been made the task of staying up has been made a lot harder than it should be. Another problem of this season is that our recent premier league times before relegation were amazing and a lot of people are still expecting that. 
 

For me, worst season ever was 07/08 and the 05/06 & 06/07 seasons that lead up to it were the catalysts for that and we saw some pretty turgid stuff. 

[kingfox]

Nothing will beat 07/08 for me, but in terms of an unlikeable squad, this current one is definitely in my top 3 over my lifetime. 

[RonnieTodger]

I’ve only been going since the O’Neill days, but this is the worst I’ve known it.

 

It may be the passing of time, but you could almost excuse previous shit teams. We’ve gone from underdogs to being dopey fat cats.

 

Brentford’s wage bill will be considerably less than ours.

[orangecity23]

It's just been a relentless series of one kick in the face after another, with any time you think there might be something good, it gets snatched away immediately.

 

Get promoted with a good manager and a likeable local academy graduate as a star player and talisman?

BOOM.

Manager gone

KDH gone

Ooh, rumours of Potter for manager?

It's Cooper

Time for a pre-season - lose every game

First half vs Spurs - don't even touch the ball.

Hey - nice - an equaliser - maybe things aren't so bad...

Sign Skipp

Sign Ayew

Lose to Fulham

Lose to Villa

Ricardo finally starting vs Forest

Lose to Forest

Ricardo's injured

Fail to score past a League 2 team

Wait weeks into the season to actually win a game

Win 2 in a row - Abdul on fire!

Abdul's ACL while away with Ghana

Lose twice to Man United in a week

Lose to Chelsea with KDH brought on for 5 minutes at the end like he's a prize you missed out on in an episode of Bullseye

Cooper finally sacked!

Fail to get a manager in for Brentford away, waste a game and get smashed to bits

Actually win a game vs West Ham!

Now Ndidi is injured

Nice comeback vs Brighton

Now Hermansen is injured

Ward in goal

Lose to Newcastle

Lose to Wolves

Finally binned Ward off

Keep Losing

January finally here, chance to strengthen

No signings

FA Cup - actually winning a game - scoring 6 goals!

Nope - fog - you'll only see 3 of them

Lose to Palace

Lose to Fulham

Cannon sold, maybe we can afford to strengthen...

No signings

Alves loaned out

Keep losing

2 nil down by the time the radio stream has loaded vs Everton

keep losing

FA Cup, exciting youngster on the bench, actually taking the lead!

Lose to 6 offside players, never get to see Monga play

Actually defend ok vs Arsenal for 80 minutes...

Lose anyway

Immediately lose the ability to defend again vs Brentford. Thrashed again.

 

What a miserable, miserable season. Nothing to enjoy, nothing to look forward to, any tiny glimour of hope (Fatawu, new manager bounce, January window) stomped out before your very eyes befor you even get the chance to raise your spirits even a little.

You know if they do sack Ruud, there's no chance that the replacement would be up to it either, because the Director of Eff-all and Top will be picking the replacement, and they've failed the last 2 times they've tried that this season. Even next season is nothing to look forward to - the PSR problems hang about permanently to disrupt us, anyone good will be sold to try to fill the black hole money pit that Rudkin and Glover have dug even deeper with the likes of Skipp, Okoli and Ayew.

And even if next year, we get a new top manager in by fluke, and we rebuild something good and worthwhile, like Enzo did - it only takes one summer of Rudkin and a managerial change and all that hard work can be dismantled in an instant.

Right now, the best word to describe this club is hopeless - because there is absolute nothing to give you any hope for its future for the upcoming years ahead.

 

Edited 22 February by orangecity23