LCFC 0-3 Newcastle - Post Match Thread

[Bourbon Fox]

8 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

When Schar struck the ball there were three Leicester defenders goal side of Murphy (check out 1:11), when he finished it there wasn't a Leicester defender within about 8 yards of him. Not only are we at a disadvantage ability wise but if the players are not prepared to play with 100% effort then we're going to lose game after game.

 

https://youtu.be/0a4RThKWjio?t=71

Luke Thomas just stood there watching it ffs

[TheGoldenGod]

5 minutes ago, kingpower said:

God I love and miss a fully fit Ricky P. He showed more ability in 10mins than most have shown all season.

if he stays in the Summer then make him captain next season as he’s miles better than anything else we have at the club 

He won't be fully fit again ha!

 

Somehow Enzo managed to work with him and keep him available all season in the hybrid role.

 

Been a fan favourite since he joined, great bloke and it was clear when he came on he was trying to feed Monga to get the crowd up, he gets it for me!

[Silebyfox_89]

Genuinely ome of the worst evenings I've ever had as an LCFC fan.

Left work yesterday It took me over an hour to get out of Loughborough at rush hour due to a police incident.

Had to grab a pie at the ground for food which was genuinely one of the worst things I've eaten in my life (within 30 mins my stomach told me so).

Be served that pathetic first half performance by the players who just don't care anymore.

Upon leaving leaving I see a season ticketer I knew who mentioned that guy who stands next to me has passed away due to a bike collision last month 😪.

To top it off my gut didn't want to let me sleep last night (with food poisoning) and feeling sorry for the poor blokes family. R.I.P fella 😔

[alanf0x]

Attendance:30,403. No chance. 
 

They must automatically include all season ticket holders if they do or don’t go. 
 

Definitely looked below 30,000 

[Aleksz]

2 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Waiting for Rudkin to authorise a 6m deal for Monga to Chelsea over 3 instalments. 

We’ll be lucky to get that if he doesn’t sign a contract and goes to a domestic club. 

[Dan]

6 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Its that bad it feels like betting rigging or sabotage by Top. It's that bad. 

 

How can one manager, a bunch of players be so useless. They have premier League experience for God sake! Some have played in Europe and competed. 

 

They don't look coached, they don't lok organised, bothered or have any idea. Ruud just stands there like lemon. 

 

Honestly this club is nose diving quickly and no one seems to know what to do or doesn't want to do anything about it. Same dribble after every game, and they want the fans to back them. 

 

Give us something to back as it seems like there isn't anything left. 

Can anyone suggest if there's any potential motive for this? I'm not disagreeing either btw. This is the most astounding incompetence I've ever witnessed. To a point I'm 99.9% sure I could run this club better than our actual owners. If I was sabotaging Forest I genuinely think I would struggle to pull it off this effectively.

[Mike Oxlong]

1 hour ago, alanf0x said:

Attendance:30,403. No chance. 
 

They must automatically include all season ticket holders if they do or don’t go. 
 

Definitely looked below 30,000 

They’ve already published the attendance for Liverpool at home. 32,500 

 

 

 

[Richmondfox]

1 hour ago, TheGoldenGod said:

He won't be fully fit again ha!

 

Somehow Enzo managed to work with him and keep him available all season in the hybrid role.

 

Been a fan favourite since he joined, great bloke and it was clear when he came on he was trying to feed Monga to get the crowd up, he gets it for me!

Such a great player and very likeable.  We missed him at the start when JJ couldn’t do anything right yet Cooper was too stubborn to change it. Then gets injured when he could get a chance to feature. 

 

Him and Fatawu have been such a loss while we’ve been stuck with JJ and Ayew. I missed watching Ricardo pass and then move into space to carry on the attack. The complete opposite of JJ. 
 

 

 

[Seventyseven]

1 hour ago, alanf0x said:

Attendance:30,403. No chance. 
 

They must automatically include all season ticket holders if they do or don’t go. 
 

Definitely looked below 30,000 

It wasn’t over 25000. 

[Bourbon Fox]

2 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Luke Thomas just stood there watching it ffs

Seriously every time I watch this I get more angry.

 

The way he starts sprinting when it's far too late.

 

Why is he playing CB?

[Bourbon Fox]

34 minutes ago, Richmondfox said:

Such a great player and very likeable.  We missed him at the start when JJ couldn’t do anything right yet Cooper was too stubborn to change it. Then gets injured when he could get a chance to feature. 

 

Him and Fatawu have been such a loss while we’ve been stuck with JJ and Ayew. I missed watching Ricardo pass and then move into space to carry on the attack. The complete opposite of JJ. 
 

 

 

Keeping Ricardo on ice was one of the worst crimes of Cooper

[Richmondfox]

8 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Keeping Ricardo on ice was one of the worst crimes of Cooper

And seeing JJ and Ayew ahead. My favourite moment for Ayew was at Palace where he got the ball on the right wing, turned inwards straight away and held on until he got to the left wing and gave it away for a throw in making no progress up the pitch. 
 

Add in bringing Soumare back in as a regular which Ruud carried on.  That should be the barometer for whether the manager has more than half a footballing brain. 

Edited 8 April by Richmondfox

[Dan]

What's quite hard to tolerate for me is how big a flakiness this has exposed in this club and fanbase in general. It's the same at Southampton as well but that isn't really any consolation. To me it's the length of time that the piss taking culture has actually gone on for.

 

There is simply no possible outcome at Everton for example where this could be allowed to play out. They've had some dire teams, turned in some hilarious and embarrassing results, but as low as things get at that place, there is something, somewhere, that puts an end to it. The players know that they can't get away with taking the piss there. Whether it's the fanbase in general, fan groups, people within the club, god, even local bandits. There is at least at some point fairly soon into any shambolic period for them going to be a force that puts an end to it.

 

What has been exposed at Leicester is that we don't have this. Where is it coming from here? You have a small minority of fans trying to do something about it. Clearly nobody at the club truly cares much about it - regardless of if the reason is because they don't want to upset Aiyawatt, nobody is putting their head above the parapet and doing something about it. The players clearly don't care. The fans for the most part are happy to tolerate this.

 

The entire thing boils down to the way the pride in the club itself has been eroded in the past decade or so for me. You see signs of it on here even with the whole "we need to get at Top, Vichai's dream is dead". This club is bigger than Vichai. Yet a large proportion of our fanbase subconsciously act otherwise.

 

I never liked the KP worship even when things were good and I could never truly articulate what it was. It's become easier now things have objectively gone to pot, but something in my gut knew it was wrong. What that worshipping did was lay the foundations for exactly what is now happening, to happen.

 

And I really don't know how you fix it.

[Vestan Pance]

17 minutes ago, Dan said:

I never liked the KP worship even when things were good and I could never truly articulate what it was. It's become easier now things have objectively gone to pot, but something in my gut knew it was wrong. What that worshipping did was lay the foundations for exactly what is now happening, to happen

I think this is summed up by the video of the trophy lift that the morons are still clapping. It's North Korea levels of blind loyalty and delusion. Who stands around slapping themselves on the back for a job they did 9 years ago when the stuff you are producing now is utter crap?

 

The delusions of grandeur are real within the club and a minority of supporters who think they can do no wrong.

Edited 8 April by Vestan Pance

[blue army 1988]

8 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

I think this is summed up by the video of the trophy lift that the morons are still clapping. It's North Korea levels of blind loyalty and delusion. Who stands around slapping themselves on the back for a job they did 9 years ago when the stuff you are producing now is utter crap?

 

The delusions of grandeur are real within the club and a minority of supporters who think they can do no wrong.

I was saying to my dad last night at the game, it's what we've always complained about Forest. Living in the past with their European Cup.

[WigstonWanderer]

Thankfully only watched the 25 min “highlights”. We are so crap.

 

Edit: Monga looks a real prospect 

Edited 8 April by WigstonWanderer

[PhillippaT]

2 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Thankfully only watched the 25 min “highlights”. We are so crap.

The only highlight (lowlight?) is that they only scored 3...  Is any team going to bother giving us the jolly good thrashing we deserve, or not?

[Dan]

49 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

I think this is summed up by the video of the trophy lift that the morons are still clapping. It's North Korea levels of blind loyalty and delusion. Who stands around slapping themselves on the back for a job they did 9 years ago when the stuff you are producing now is utter crap?

 

The delusions of grandeur are real within the club and a minority of supporters who think they can do no wrong.

Weirdly I was never quite as bothered by this video as most of a similar persuasion (like you based on that) because I've no issue with celebrating history and success but you make a good point. 9 years ago now. It's becoming a bit Forest and it's even worse when things have clearly gone to absolute pot.

 

The delusions within this club are going to stop us bouncing up next season. I'm pretty sure of that. Unless we completely luck out on an influential manager with something about him.

[jim5000]

5 hours ago, kingpower said:

God I love and miss a fully fit Ricky P. He showed more ability in 10mins than most have shown all season.

if he stays in the Summer then make him captain next season as he’s miles better than anything else we have at the club 

As much as I love Ricky P, let’s not inflict any more of this horror on him.

 

As they say, “if you love him, let him go free” (but obviously get some cash rather than leave on a bosman)

[Dan]

4 hours ago, alanf0x said:

Attendance:30,403. No chance. 
 

They must automatically include all season ticket holders if they do or don’t go. 
 

Definitely looked below 30,000 

Clubs shouldn't be allowed to get away with doing this.

[RYM]

10 minutes ago, Dan said:

Clubs shouldn't be allowed to get away with doing this.

Could be catering contracts etc that if an attendance falls below X they have clauses and will owe caterers compensation.

 

Inflated attendances for these reason are very common and it’s the club protecting their finances.

 

We had the same caterers as LCFC at Doncaster and as the clauses were very harsh we just played with the figures most weeks.

[Seventyseven]

46 minutes ago, Dan said:

Clubs shouldn't be allowed to get away with doing this.

It’s the same for every club. It’s always tickets sold so doesn’t take account of no shows. But yes, seems misleading at best. 

[damolcfc]

54 minutes ago, Seventyseven said:

It’s the same for every club. It’s always tickets sold so doesn’t take account of no shows. But yes, seems misleading at best. 

Bit of a fire risk too surely, we have lost 4,624 supporters during this incident 🤣

[Pliskin]

9 hours ago, funkyrobot said:

Saying fans should be ashamed of themselves for watching their club is just wrong, I totally respect people exercising their right not to attend as a form of protest but I can tell you there were no fans clapping the rubbish last night. In the first half the players, RVN and Rudkin would’ve been absolutely aware of the disdain the fans had for them. In the second half, the change in formation and players was rightly encouraged by fans who saw a big improvement in attacking intent. At the end of the second half fans were pointedly applauding the creative players that have been ostracised by RVN and had shown some effort going forward. Buonanotte, Mavididi and specifically Monga will have been boosted by the fans and that makes a statement to RVN and the club. 

But did it? From what I’ve been told it was as flat as ever…… it’s all well and good encouraging positive passages of play, and positive substitutions, but this won’t impact the boards view and it certainly won’t make them think about any distant towards them. 
 

Vocal negative chanting towards them will (not abusive chanting), and I maintain not going will hurt KP and the board a lot more than clapping a forward pass from an attacking player. 
 

What is happening on the pitch, is merely a product of the amateur, and shocking decisions made off the field of play. Everyone is entitled to do as they wish of course, but my personal view is I see little benefit to the cause by going along and offering the off murmur of discontent, that isn’t propionate to this situation, the mistakes that are being made are possibly some of the worst decisions made at this level for a very long time, if not probably ever.

 

Going along and taking a free beer, buying a sausage roll or pie, and filling the seat merely shows KP that you’re behind them, and support their decision making and running of the club.
 

I personally do not, and as stated unless Top is prepared to sack his entire board room and appoint people who actually know what they’re doing nothing will change, and if he is not prepared to make these decisions then he needs to sell the club, because his time here is done, he has lost control of the club and has allowed those below him to run it is to the ground.
 

So, by not attending, it hurts KP more than a lot of people think, and I think is probably the most profound way to get the massage across. 

[Dickov22]

5 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Seriously every time I watch this I get more angry.

 

The way he starts sprinting when it's far too late.

 

Why is he playing CB?

Why is he playing at all. The lad is garbage and I’ll never change my mind on it. SO depressing that here we are in 2025 and he’s starting games for us in the Premier League

He has no confidence, he can’t run fast, he can’t pass it forward, he’s weak in the tackle, he gets brushed off the ball. Plays football like a crab. Honestly think he is possibly the worst player in the squad.