League One

[Dan]

On 01/02/2026 at 12:36, CosbehFox said:

They’ll be a bizarre sub section within the fanbase what would enjoy it. New grounds, win a few more games, blah blah blah 

Same way they were happy about dropping into this league like it was just going to be a cakewalk.

 

You don't get to have a huge advantage over the competition every time like we did in 2023/24.

 

Massive risk we just become Bolton. Ask their fans how much they enjoy League One.

[GrobyLCFC31]

‘Wycombe Wanderers, we’re coming for you’ 

 

‘Have you even seen Mansfield win the league?’ 

Nah in all seriousness it will be sh!te 

[ParkerPen]

13 minutes ago, Dan said:

Same way they were happy about dropping into this league like it was just going to be a cakewalk.

 

You don't get to have a huge advantage over the competition every time like we did in 2023/24.

 

Massive risk we just become Bolton. Ask their fans how much they enjoy League One.

 

4 minutes ago, GrobyLCFC31 said:

‘Wycombe Wanderers, we’re coming for you’ 

 

‘Have you even seen Mansfield win the league?’ 

Nah in all seriousness it will be sh!te 

can you hear the Bromley sing ?

[GrobyLCFC31]

1 minute ago, ParkerPen said:

 

can you hear the Bromley sing ?

‘147 years and you’ve won f@ck all’ at Doncaster (A) 

[coolhandfox]

Feel like some are desperate for this to happen.

[LCFCJohn]

1 minute ago, coolhandfox said:

Feel like some are desperate for this to happen.

Odd take. We have just been here before.

 

’It’ll be fine’

 

’We’re too good to go down’

 

Its frustrating to see the club and fans alike are incapable of learning from that past arrogance and showing the humility that might be needed to get out of this!

[teblin]

48 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Odd take. We have just been here before.

 

’It’ll be fine’

 

’We’re too good to go down’

 

Its frustrating to see the club and fans alike are incapable of learning from that past arrogance and showing the humility that might be needed to get out of this!

I don’t think we are too good to go down, however I’d like to think we can win 6 games between no and the end of the season.

 

but this is Leicester city we could lose them all.

[LCFCJohn]

Just now, teblin said:

I don’t think we are too good to go down, however I’d like to think we can win 6 games between no and the end of the season.

 

but this is Leicester city we could lose them all.

It’s obvious that James was carrying us. We have so little without him and it was no surprise that the minute he was out injured we conspire to lose back to back home games against relegation rivals.

 

Do I think we can win 6 games without Jordan James? Absolutely not.

[Stuntman_Mike]

I could accept L1 and "enjoy it" as a football fan and with a team to get behind like what Nige created last time, but I'd find it a real challenge without massive change if/when we drop under this current regime. It's scary how much they're setting us back.

[whoareyaaa]

The assistant we signed is going to be passing us as we fall to League one if we don't get the right manager.

 

 

 

[LCFCJohn]

In the 30 games to now, we have 10 wins. Best case scenario based on the season as a whole is say 5 more wins that would be 47 points, plus any draws we could get. 
 

In the last 16 games, we have 20 points which replicated in this last 16 would be 52. That run includes our best little runs we have had, back to back wins over Norwich and Stoke and the little unbeaten week we had in December. Our more recent form this last month (4 points in 6 and 4 defeats) is more concerning. 
 

With Wednesday getting beaten every week and the league being quite tight otherwise, this is likely to push a higher total for 21st place, particularly if Oxford also continue to fall away. 
 

Anybody who doesn’t think we are in serious bother and parrots the ‘we’ll be fine’ line clearly hasn’t learned anything from 3 years ago. Unfortunately you can tell this is the attitude of Aiyawatt and the club as a whole including the players.

[ClaphamFox]

21 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

In the 30 games to now, we have 10 wins. Best case scenario based on the season as a whole is say 5 more wins that would be 47 points, plus any draws we could get. 
 

In the last 16 games, we have 20 points which replicated in this last 16 would be 52. That run includes our best little runs we have had, back to back wins over Norwich and Stoke and the little unbeaten week we had in December. Our more recent form this last month (4 points in 6 and 4 defeats) is more concerning. 
 

With Wednesday getting beaten every week and the league being quite tight otherwise, this is likely to push a higher total for 21st place, particularly if Oxford also continue to fall away. 
 

Anybody who doesn’t think we are in serious bother and parrots the ‘we’ll be fine’ line clearly hasn’t learned anything from 3 years ago. Unfortunately you can tell this is the attitude of Aiyawatt and the club as a whole including the players.

How did you figure out that a continuation of our poor form this season is the ‘best case scenario’?

Edited 6 February by ClaphamFox

[lcfc sheff]

Tbh I think we’ll see massive improvement based on the signings made. They may be inexperienced but offer athleticism and eagerness unlike our previous options. 
 

I think we’ll stay up comfortably, understand the people who are worried.

 

still a shit season mind you and will need a huge huge rebuild come the end of the season 

[HitchinFox]

If the owners, Rudkin, players and everyone else connected with the club realise (and accept) that we're in a relegation dogfight, we might have a chance of staying up. 

 

This is serious now. 

 

If they don't – and keep, unfathomably, looking up at the play-offs line – then there's only one outcome. 

[LCFCJohn]

26 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

How did you figure out that a continuation of our poor form this season is the ‘best case scenario’?

Based on the fact our form over the last month has been significantly worse than over the season as a whole and the last 16 games that I quoted. So it’s more likely we won’t even win that many. 
 

We have been operating as a one man team in Jordan James for most of this season. Any coincidence that the minute he was out we fall to home defeats to Oxford and Charlton?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Can't wait to have "you're not famous anymore" sung at us. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

An whole new set of supporters we can sing 'Champions of England, you'll never sing that' to.

Can't wait. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

L1 was great last time but with how this clubs run and the general apathy of these players we could be down there for years and I'd definitely not want to take the risk. 

[Garns77]

Be a good reality check for some of the players when they've got to play in the Vertu Motors Trophy

[Rubbersoul]

can’t wait for us to extend Jordan Ayew and see him bumbling around refusing to pass to team mates whilst playing in front of 3500 in the Papa Johns trophy against Sunderlands u21 side 

[CosbehFox]

21 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Can't wait to have "you're not famous anymore" sung at us. 

Don’t worry I’m sure as a fanbase we will be humble enough to stop singing ‘you’ll never win that’ 

 

The same crippling ‘history’ horseshit from Forest is now well and truly in. The Clockwork Orange montage of Wes lifting the trophy did its business 

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Based on the fact our form over the last month has been significantly worse than over the season as a whole and the last 16 games that I quoted. So it’s more likely we won’t even win that many. 
 

We have been operating as a one man team in Jordan James for most of this season. Any coincidence that the minute he was out we fall to home defeats to Oxford and Charlton?

What you're describing is a very plausible scenario, but not a best case one. Yes, Jordan James will be sorely missed but he will likely be back for our last 10-11 games. And Winks' return to the fold will help to cushion that blow if he continues to play as he did last Saturday.

 

I've seen a few people lump the Oxford and Charlton games together, but I see them as quite different from each other. The Oxford performance was the last pathetic gasp of Cifuentes' ignominious reign and a well-deserved loss, but I thought there was a genuine improvement against Charlton. If Okoli hadn't have got himself sent off I think we would have won—in fact even with ten men I think we'd have got something from the game if Ayew had stuck his penalty in. It looked to me like the players were responding to King very differently to how they had been responding to Cifuentes, which raises the possibility that whoever takes charge for the rest of the season—whether that's King or somebody else—might get more out of them than Marti did.

 

Then there are the new players. Obviously there is no guarantee that any of them will work out, but I'm personally quite excited to see what impact Lascelles can have in defence, and how Mukasa and Richards will improve our speed and movement in attack. 

 

In other words, there are a number of variables at play that, if they go well for us, could easily see us put a better run together and ease past the relegation zone. Your prediction that we'll continue to play as badly and nothing will improve is not unreasonable, but a better outcome is very possible. 

[LCFCJohn]

7 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

What you're describing is a very plausible scenario, but not a best case one. Yes, Jordan James will be sorely missed but he will likely be back for our last 10-11 games. And Winks' return to the fold will help to cushion that blow if he continues to play as he did last Saturday.

 

I've seen a few people lump the Oxford and Charlton games together, but I see them as quite different from each other. The Oxford performance was the last pathetic gasp of Cifuentes' ignominious reign and a well-deserved loss, but I thought there was a genuine improvement against Charlton. If Okoli hadn't have got himself sent off I think we would have won—in fact even with ten men I think we'd have got something from the game if Ayew had stuck his penalty in. It looked to me like the players were responding to King very differently to how they had been responding to Cifuentes, which raises the possibility that whoever takes charge for the rest of the season—whether that's King or somebody else—might get more out of them than Marti did.

 

Then there are the new players. Obviously there is no guarantee that any of them will work out, but I'm personally quite excited to see what impact Lascelles can have in defence, and how Mukasa and Richards will improve our speed and movement in attack. 

 

In other words, there are a number of variables at play that, if they go well for us, could easily see us put a better run together and ease past the relegation zone. Your prediction that we'll continue to play as badly and nothing will improve is not unreasonable, but a better outcome is very possible. 

Fair observations and points.

 

Possibly I had worded my initial point poorly. Based on 1 win in 3 over the season and actually, 6 in the last 16 games as that 16 game form starts with the back to back wins over Norwich and Stoke in November, a return of 5, maybe 6 wins in the last 16 would be par and the best case, based on the season to date and not withstanding an upturn in form, depending on the manager situation and if these new signings have an impact. I hope particularly that Lascelles will.

 

Obviously the numbers to date can change and our form across January has been awful so it does need an improvement. So that is what I meant by ‘best case’. Not genuinely the best case which would be a new manager comes in, new signings hit the ground running and we storm up the table! But that is unrealistic. This season is about just avoiding relegation now. 21st will do.

[Dan]

In the most simple possible way if you bet against and doubt Leicester under Aiyawatt you'll be right considerably more than you're wrong. So I'm going to assume we'll go down.

[hinkfox21]

In all fairness, with this squad we have got. A) who would want to stay with us being a League 1 side B) who is really good enough!

A massive re build is needed regardless!

I think we will jump back up at first point of asking, and with our fan base and history if we can build a squad around a few youngsters with potential