Preston 2-1 LCFC - Full Time

[Jordan]

Nelson was a bomb scare at Huddersfield but you bet if our CBs are going to have horrible performances I’d rather watch Nelson make a few poor plays then watch whatever the hell that was from Vestergaard today. 
 

You can learn about positional play on and off the ball, but you can’t teach a lumbering veteran how to run faster. Commentator on my coverage actually said Vestergaard was “moving through treacle” and that at least gave me a chuckle.

 

It’s early, and plenty teams have gone through much worse starts and pulled themselves back up toward the top of the table in this division. But if this season is going to be a slog, then I would much rather this be a proper rebuild than having to watch the usual suspects and their lack of heart play through 44 more games. Hell, I’m not even sure how much more I’d like watching a lot of these players even if the team were grabbing a good haul of points!

[sishades]

Just now, Gamble92 said:

The only thing that's ever worse than losing is seeing smug so called supporters on here gleeful about it.

 

Go and take up ****ing fishing or something.

They seem to be breeding quickly. I will never understand wanting our club to lose. 

[jonny_wright]

Like most relegated clubs, performances won’t improve until the window closes and the players know they’re either staying or leaving, you ain’t gonna give 110% if you’re about to move 

 

today they ain’t show the desire to run through a brick wall, lazy tackles, tracking and blocks.

 

it’s the basics

Edited 16 August 2025 by jonny_wright

[SuperMike]

28 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

I thought Okoli did ok, Monga was class, Faes looked composed.  The rest were crap

SPOT ON

[steveb]

Soumare was mediocre, made no impact whatsoever, his best game for years.

Ayew great hold up game, hold up game, hold up game, please tell him he has to pass it and why is he taking all of the corners  ?  He`s, a supposed striker,  not like any of his corners have been anything other than totally useless.

Still can`t work out if BIL  was on the pitch or not , if so he didn`t turn up today

Poor Abdul fancy getting your period on matchday.

Vestys pace, lmfao my pacemaker goes faster, lucky we didn`t lose 3/1

 

Monga, Monga, Monga, his goals are our only hope, but the cheques are already being written, so enjoy it while you can

[CosbehFox]

The first goal whilst a grave error by Jakub is exactly the ball most teams will play against us. Hit it in that channel where Vestergaard is. Jakub comes becauae he has zero trust in Thomas to do a decent job 

Second goal is a shambles. I think you put any other CB than Vestergaard thete, he doesn’t score 

 

[Goofygolfer]

Soumare failed to stop the cross for Wednesday’s goal last week? Block the shot for Huddersfield’s second and stop the cross for their winner today? The defence get a slagging every week but if they’re getting no help. Ask Wes Morgan and Robert Huth how N’Golo Kante made their life easier. Surely the management can see this.

[Jakemoore]

16 minutes ago, reynard said:

He's unlikely to sell exactly because of what you say. It is easy for us to say it but we simply don't have the same type of emotional investment in the club that Top will have. I'm not saying I don't think he should sell but just that I think it vey unlikely unless there is a damn good financial need to do so. Nor am I saying that as fans we don't have an emotional investment, just a different one.

I’m not sure I agree. The emotional attachment I have to this club goes back significantly further than his does. But sometimes you have to wake up and smell the roses.

[Guest kristianity77]

Just now, sishades said:

They seem to be breeding quickly. I will never understand wanting our club to lose. 

I don’t think anyone wants us to lose. But constantly losing is going to be the only way action gets taken.

 

Every time we win a random game every now and again it resets the thinking among the owners etc that everything will be alright when blatantly it won’t be. 
 

It’s been this way for a couple of years. Something HAS to change else we will end up dropping through the leagues.

[Beechey]

25 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Ok, we still beat ****ing Preston though. 

Fair enough, that's very true

[Suzie the Fox]

I'm not having its on the manager (yet) we were shit last season and have worse players now, what does everyone expect. His starting line up was fine. You can bleet on about picking <player A> who we all know is shit, but the only options he has is to pick the even shittier player. We could blood more youth and to an extent it seems we are, but come on you dont just start them in our 1st away game. Monga is amazing and got lots of mins last season, a real class talent but even he is coming on as a sub.  

 

For me its 100% down to the board. There has been NO support for Marti at all, I get we have issues with PSR but surely we could have got a couple of loan players in. 

 

I hate reactionary posting straight after a match but its so irksome. Unless we bring in both a striker and CM who both hit the ground running AND we dont lose either Fatawu or BEK this is going to be one hell of draining season.

 

[OntarioFox]

Guess I'm a disgrace then, but it's really hard to care when it's the same twats that turned this club into a laughing stock over the past half decade lumbering to losses at Preston, under the same twat Director of Football, answering to the same twat owner.

 

It's literally Marti, Abdul, Monga and the other untested youth I care about and feel for now. The rest of them I think I actually hate.

Edited 16 August 2025 by OntarioFox

[davieG]

If there's any consolation from today Hermansen conceded 3 and Ward and Coady are up to 5 already.

[sm1]

In all of our 3 games this season we've been out fought and out worked. It's shocking to see how slow we are to every 2nd ball and the fact we can't be bothered to tackle. It's not about ability with us, it's about having a very poor attitude. McCann was everywhere for them, strong in the tackle, first to every ball and allowed us zero time on the ball.Half these players dont want to he here and they play like it. We wont improve until they're gone and replaced by hungrier players.

[Fox85]

1 hour ago, don_danbury said:

who is stupid enough to buy the players? i think wrexham have learned their lesson 

We would be just better off cancelling their contracts and removing the rotten apples and starting again.

 

In reality we need a stance against the board.

 

Imagine if any other football club was being ran like ours have the last 5 years there would mass riots happening.

 

I can see dark days ahead for leicester I would even say league 1 awaits at this rate.

Edited 16 August 2025 by Fox85

[Jaspa]

Is boosting Luke Thomas's BBC player rating some massive meme I'm out of the loop on? 

 

Happened every game he played last season too.

[Onions]

Embarrassing, if you clown didn’t force our Steve Cooper we would be top half, looking forward to Burnley next week. 
 

Instead, we’re going to get battered by Charlton. 
 

…… but it’s always someone else’s fault. 

[reynard]

1 minute ago, Jakemoore said:

I’m not sure I agree. The emotional attachment I have to this club goes back significantly further than his does. But sometimes you have to wake up and smell the roses.

So does mine but it isn't the same as his. There is also his cultural background in which I'm no expert. I'm not saying he's right just that it isn't quite the same. If I'd seen my father build up the club to achieve the greatest sporting success perhaps of all time and then to see him die in a fireball at the ground I'm not sure I'd want to just sell up. 

The fact that he looks out of his depth and incompetent and so do the people around him is another matter.

I think you and I are on the same page but just don't think his decision would be that straightforward.

[Stadt]

When you have a load of players with a year left this is what happens. Gutless as well as talentless.

 

We’re not going up for a while.

[Filbertblue]

14 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

I think you’ll find the majority of this website pre dates the League 1 relegation. 

Maybe they are suffering from dimentia then. OK boys it Saturday today. We got apple pie with custard for pudding 

[indierich06]

2 minutes ago, Onions said:

Embarrassing, if you clown didn’t force our Steve Cooper we would be top half, looking forward to Burnley next week. 
 

Instead, we’re going to get battered by Charlton. 
 

…… but it’s always someone else’s fault. 

You don't know your onions clearly mate. Steve Cooper!!!!!!!

[EastAnglianFox]

Frightening how much we’d need to spend if we somehow shithoused our way out of this league

 

I mean it wouldn’t be far off a new squad would it?

[KingsX]

32 minutes ago, Dan said:

We're basically Stoke.

 

Stoke battered Wednesday.  We squeaked past them.

 

More than a coincidence.

[RonnieTodger]

43 minutes ago, Blue ROI said:

2004-08 levels of bad that

Only most of this lot are on 10x the money 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

42 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Not good, not good at all.

 

Limped passed a bottom half league one squad in Sheffield Wednesday.

 

No one took their chance against Huddersfield.

 

Rubbish against the most championshippy championship club ever, Preston.

 

Drain the swamp. 

 

And Marti, start making better decisions because there’s been several weird ones already. 

Different manager same shit choices 

 

obviously I am praying and wishing Marti gets things right but very concerned already

 

drop the half arsed players and just play the ones who actually want to be here