League One

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

13 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

However looking at those fixtures, we could also grab an opportunity to gain points over some or most as all tricky fixtures 

It’s the hope that kills you!

[ronnup]

Watford are better than us. Cemented into the bottom by Sunday

[ClaphamFox]

34 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Watford are better than us. Cemented into the bottom by Sunday

Based on the table, all six of the teams we’ve played under Rowett are better than us. Yet we won one and drew three of those games.

 

The team clearly prefers playing away from home and I think on Saturday we’ll revert back to the stubborn resilience we showed at Stoke, Middlesbrough and Ipswich. It will be a tight game and we’ll probably get something out of it. Hope will be rekindled and our suffering will continue after the international break. 

[Stavros81]

It is what it is now we’re going down to league one. No point in torturing ourselves over something that’s already happening. We rebuild and we promote next season 

 

[Les-TA-Jon]

An update - we're now in the bottom 3 in each different projection 

[Foxin_Mad]

This confirms what we know. Unless the team improves massively on their application we are done

[Fox92]

We need 9 points from Preston, Wednesday, Swansea. We can do it. I still think we can stay up. I don't expect anything from Watford on Saturday but I didn't expect anything from Middlesbrough or Ipswich yet we took two points.

 

Strange results will happen, results nobody expects, that's football. Still got to believe and no point being negative.

 

Oh and stop writing "Bristol" when there are two professional football clubs in the same City.

[Les-TA-Jon]

11 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

We need 9 points from Preston, Wednesday, Swansea. We can do it. I still think we can stay up. I don't expect anything from Watford on Saturday but I didn't expect anything from Middlesbrough or Ipswich yet we took two points.

 

Strange results will happen, results nobody expects, that's football. Still got to believe and no point being negative.

 

Oh and stop writing "Bristol" when there are two professional football clubs in the same City.

I'll gladly update it if you can point out where Bristol Rovers are in the Championship table 

[ClaphamFox]

10 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

We need 9 points from Preston, Wednesday, Swansea. We can do it. I still think we can stay up. I don't expect anything from Watford on Saturday but I didn't expect anything from Middlesbrough or Ipswich yet we took two points.

 

Strange results will happen, results nobody expects, that's football. Still got to believe and no point being negative.

 

Oh and stop writing "Bristol" when there are two professional football clubs in the same City.

You're not the only one—many on here were predicting we'd get thrashed in those games, and even in the Stoke game too. 

 

The pattern we seem to be falling into is that away from home we actually do resemble a typical Rowett team—ie, defensive structure, determination, resilience under pressure, etc. We just struggle to show the same qualities at home. It’s hard to say whether this is purely a mental thing (ie, the players feel less pressure away from the KP and draw from the more unconditional support of our away following) or physical (both of our home losses under Rowett have been the 3rd game in a three-game week), or a combination of the two.

 

Whatever it is, we’re back on the road this weekend and will have had a full week to recover from the QPR game (unlike Watford who played last night). I have a feeling we’ll get something from the game and will go into the international break with a bit more optimism than we have now. There are ups and downs to come before final whistle blows at Blackburn on 2 May.

[Fox92]

33 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

You're not the only one—many on here were predicting we'd get thrashed in those games, and even in the Stoke game too. 

 

The pattern we seem to be falling into is that away from home we actually do resemble a typical Rowett team—ie, defensive structure, determination, resilience under pressure, etc. We just struggle to show the same qualities at home. It’s hard to say whether this is purely a mental thing (ie, the players feel less pressure away from the KP and draw from the more unconditional support of our away following) or physical (both of our home losses under Rowett have been the 3rd game in a three-game week), or a combination of the two.

 

Whatever it is, we’re back on the road this weekend and will have had a full week to recover from the QPR game (unlike Watford who played last night). I have a feeling we’ll get something from the game and will go into the international break with a bit more optimism than we have now. There are ups and downs to come before final whistle blows at Blackburn on 2 May.

Agreed. People also seem to forget there are ups and downs for every team along the way. Football isn't predictable, nobody would have predicted Blackburn to win at Millwall on Saturday, that's how it goes. We will be 23rd then maybe move out of the relegation zone the following week. I believe in Rowett, I've seen enough in his time here that he will do enough to keep us up. 

[Ric Flair]

17 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Agreed. People also seem to forget there are ups and downs for every team along the way. Football isn't predictable, nobody would have predicted Blackburn to win at Millwall on Saturday, that's how it goes. We will be 23rd then maybe move out of the relegation zone the following week. I believe in Rowett, I've seen enough in his time here that he will do enough to keep us up. 

And some people also cannot forget how utterly disgraceful this football club has been in recent years and it's burned in to our retina's. 

 

Bottom line is, we have all the ingredients that backs up yet another relegation. This is way past a bad run and all it takes is one seismic result to put us back on track to win our way out of this. Obviously stranger things have happened but on the balance of probabilities and the the fundamental problems we are witnessing, we are long gone. 

 

 

[LCFCJohn]

33 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

And some people also cannot forget how utterly disgraceful this football club has been in recent years and it's burned in to our retina's. 

 

Bottom line is, we have all the ingredients that backs up yet another relegation. This is way past a bad run and all it takes is one seismic result to put us back on track to win our way out of this. Obviously stranger things have happened but on the balance of probabilities and the the fundamental problems we are witnessing, we are long gone. 

 

 

Yep. We did the hard bit and got the winless and clean sheet records off our backs last Tuesday. Home game to follow up against a side who’d lost 4 without scoring in a row. Perfect opportunity to back it up. Take an early lead and approaching half time.

 

Thats 90% odd of the job done to winning the initial game and backing it up. The implosion that followed was inexplicable. How anybody can have seen the Southampton debacle and the events of the last week and have anything other than blind hope we can stay up I don’t know.

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

And some people also cannot forget how utterly disgraceful this football club has been in recent years and it's burned in to our retina's. 

 

Bottom line is, we have all the ingredients that backs up yet another relegation. This is way past a bad run and all it takes is one seismic result to put us back on track to win our way out of this. Obviously stranger things have happened but on the balance of probabilities and the the fundamental problems we are witnessing, we are long gone. 

 

 

Agree with all that but also keeping a sense of optimism and think Rowett will keep us up.

[Fox92]

40 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Yep. We did the hard bit and got the winless and clean sheet records off our backs last Tuesday. Home game to follow up against a side who’d lost 4 without scoring in a row. Perfect opportunity to back it up. Take an early lead and approaching half time.

 

Thats 90% odd of the job done to winning the initial game and backing it up. The implosion that followed was inexplicable. How anybody can have seen the Southampton debacle and the events of the last week and have anything other than blind hope we can stay up I don’t know.

If it was as easy as you just described, then football would be boring. I thought we’d beat QPR but we didn’t, not sure how people are surprised as we are a shocking team hence we’re in a relegation battle. On the other hand, everyone said we’d get battered at Middlesbrough and at Ipswich but we didn’t. After Watford we have three games we can get 9 points from. Do I think it’ll be as easy as that? No. But I have to have some belief otherwise there’s no point supporting the club. Football is all about blind hope, at pretty much every level, form goes out the window in this sport for nearly every club every week. That’s why there’s so many strange results, that’s why Blackburn go to Millwall and win, without blind hope I have nothing left.

Edited 19 March by Fox92

[LCFCJohn]

21 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

If it was as easy as you just described, then football would be boring. I thought we’d beat QPR but we didn’t, not sure how people are surprised as we are a shocking team hence we’re in a relegation battle. On the other hand, everyone said we’d get battered at Middlesbrough and at Ipswich but we didn’t. After Watford we have three games we can get 9 points from. Do I think it’ll be as easy as that? No. But I have to have some belief otherwise there’s no point supporting the club. Football is all about blind hope, at pretty much every level, form goes out the window in this sport for nearly every club every week. That’s why there’s so many strange results, that’s why Blackburn go to Millwall and win, without blind hope I have nothing left.

I know you have been saying you think we can stay up and it wasn’t a dig or anything. I agree with your views on pretty much any subject by the way.

 

It’s not as easy as that no. But it’s classic grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory stuff. Both within a single game (Southampton) and across last weeks games. 
 

Of course it’s close and we are definitely the only team (Wednesday aside) who are long overdue to string a few result together. We might find something from somewhere or the ability of the likes of James and Fatawu could dig us out. 
 

But, relegation battles are more about mental strength than anyway and we just lack it all over. The hope is we have finally found ourselves at a level where the ability, when it really counts, can dig us out of a hole. We haven’t seen it yet though. 

[Fox92]

On 19/03/2026 at 07:48, LCFCJohn said:

I know you have been saying you think we can stay up and it wasn’t a dig or anything. I agree with your views on pretty much any subject by the way.

 

It’s not as easy as that no. But it’s classic grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory stuff. Both within a single game (Southampton) and across last weeks games. 
 

Of course it’s close and we are definitely the only team (Wednesday aside) who are long overdue to string a few result together. We might find something from somewhere or the ability of the likes of James and Fatawu could dig us out. 
 

But, relegation battles are more about mental strength than anyway and we just lack it all over. The hope is we have finally found ourselves at a level where the ability, when it really counts, can dig us out of a hole. We haven’t seen it yet though. 

Honestly I don't necessarily disagree with you but at this point I'm clinging onto hope and faith we can do it. I don't think we'll get anything tomorrow but I do feel from Preston/Wednesday/Swansea we have chance of getting maximum points before tougher games resume again. Last time we were in this position we conceded very little but also scored little, but now we score but concede a lot too. Be interesting to see if Rowett shakes the defence up tomorrow.

[FoxesTalker]

If we do get relegated at the end of the season, yesterday will be another one of those games to look back on with regret.

[Pita]

The whole club is in a shocking mess and the management just can’t see it. 

[Pita]

7 minutes ago, FoxesTalker said:

If we do get relegated at the end of the season, yesterday will be another one of those games to look back on with regret.

If we get relegated it looks odds on both men’s and women’s teams will. 

[filthyfox]

1 hour ago, Pita said:

If we get relegated it looks odds on both men’s and women’s teams will. 

Hopefully Spurs will too

[Pita]

22 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

Hopefully Spurs will too

Now that would be nice. Love to see them down 

[Les-TA-Jon]

Projections

 

Run In

 

The only thing going for us really is that it's still tight (i.e 1-4 points between LCFC and safety),  Portsmouth's form nose diving and Oxford's potentially being unsustainable. 

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Projections

 

Run In

 

The only thing going for us really is that it's still tight (i.e 1-4 points between LCFC and safety),  Portsmouth's form nose diving and Oxford's potentially being unsustainable. 

These projections just seem to be getting us relegated earlier/by a bigger margin! 

[David Guiza II]

Somewhat crazy how much any kind of points deduction reprieve could have. One or two points could be the difference between staying up and going down.

 

Conversely, an additional 1 or 2 points could spell the end.

 

With the possible exception of WBA, I don't think I'd want to swap our remaining fixtures with any of our rivals. Though, I'd happily swap a few players. Easter weekend is going to be huge with how the fixtures fall. We could easily be resurrected, à la Jesus, or dead in a tomb, à la Jesus, come Bright Monday evening. 

[Blue ROI]

11 minutes ago, David Guiza II said:

Somewhat crazy how much any kind of points deduction reprieve could have. One or two points could be the difference between staying up and going down.

 

Conversely, an additional 1 or 2 points could spell the end.

 

With the possible exception of WBA, I don't think I'd want to swap our remaining fixtures with any of our rivals. Though, I'd happily swap a few players. Easter weekend is going to be huge with how the fixtures fall. We could easily be resurrected, à la Jesus, or dead in a tomb, à la Jesus, come Bright Monday evening. 

We've been here between 2 of the last 3 seasons and we are constantly let down when we need something 

 

We look even worse now if that were possible.  Why will this end differently?