Relegation inevitable

[Bezzanator89]

It was almost sad about how much hope was suddenly generated by a win against a half-hearted Bristol City, whose season has dissipated into midtable mediocrity, and I'd take that right now. They made us look brilliant, and by association, lulled a majority of our fanbase into a false sense of security. Half believing we had turned the corner and this would be our springboard to survival.

 

A squad like this suddenly don't become defensively first-class overnight. We all know that if Stolarcyzk didn't save that penalty, heads would have dropped and that momentum would have shifted. I simply didn't buy it when we lucked our way to a first clean sheet since 20th September. Our major  defensive flaws remain, and JJ/Fatawu aside, our blunt attacking prowess remains.

 

If we survive it will near enough be by a single point, or goal difference. There is time to turn this shitfest around, but we are running out of time, nor can I see it being a comfortable run in, expecially when it is mathematically out of our hands.

 

Hear that? That's a certain someone warming up her vocal chords, nearly 10 years after Andrea Bocelli serenaded us with Nessun Dorma. Oh, how far we have fallen, and it could get so much worse.

[TheGoldenGod]

6 hours ago, wardyfox86 said:

Bore off! We're as capable of winning games as the likes of Oxford, WBA and Portsmouth hence the points tally. 

 

It's sh!t, we're sh!t, but so is everybody up to about 10th in this league.

 

We might go down, but I'm struggling to see inevitability in it when there's 1 result separating 4 teams and a 6 pointer at Blackburn to come. 

Deary me, where do we find these people  

[Bourbon Fox]

6 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

You tried mocking me for not being there as if that's something to be ashamed of. And you started this back and forth not me

 

6 hours ago, Fox92 said:

You mocked my post to begin with. You brought King Power into it, pretending I am a fan of them, and included a laughing emoji.

Lads, lads, calm down. 

 

You're both *****.

[Blue ROI]

33 minutes ago, Bezzanator89 said:

 

Hear that? That's a certain someone warming up her vocal chords, nearly 10 years after Andrea Bocelli serenaded us with Nessun Dorma. Oh, how far we have fallen, and it could get so much worse.

With Aiyatwat it's always possible to sink even lower.

[wardyfox86]

1 hour ago, TheGoldenGod said:

Deary me, where do we find these people  

Explain then, how it's inevitable we go down?? 

 

"we're sh!t" so is everyone around us.

 

"we have no fight" same arguments being had on the Rovers and WBA forums until today.

 

We might go down, we might be 6 points clear come 6th April. 

[Sly]

Still hope that the appeal is successful 

[BenTheFox]

8 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

there's always one. And it's usually you

 

Go cry into your King power duvet

Sorry, he probably doesn't need or want defending but I losely know the poster you are referring to and he was one of the 250 or so people who were at the protest before the game. I know because I was there myself and I saw him. He is definitely not KPFC. 

[fox_favourite]

12 minutes ago, Sly said:

Still hope that the appeal is successful 

I think it's more likely to add a point to us. 

[fox_favourite]

8 hours ago, wardyfox86 said:

Bore off! We're as capable of winning games as the likes of Oxford, WBA and Portsmouth hence the points tally. 

 

It's sh!t, we're sh!t, but so is everybody up to about 10th in this league.

 

We might go down, but I'm struggling to see inevitability in it when there's 1 result separating 4 teams and a 6 pointer at Blackburn to come. 

Let's look at the evidence....

 

A team that is 3-0 up at half time and cruising loses 4-3. 

A team that has lost to Oxford, Charlton, QPR (conceded 7 goals).

A team that didn't keep a cleansheet in 30 games

A team that had one of the lowest XG

A team that a1-0 didn't have the mental strength so defended. 

A team that has let us down game after game after game. 

A team that can't string a set of good results together and our new manager bounce were draws. 

 

That is not a team that is staying up. WBA, Oxford and Blackburn are picking up important points...we're not. 

 

That is a team that is going down, even on the Southampton game alone shows there isn't any mental strength to do so. 

[Jon the Hat]

8 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Really starting to sink in now. Admin, liquidation, winding up could really all be on the cards.

I can only hope if Sheffield Wednesday can find new owners then we can.

[Sly]

25 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

I think it's more likely to add a point to us. 

I still find it odd that they’ve even appealed it! 

[wardyfox86]

31 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Let's look at the evidence....

 

A team that is 3-0 up at half time and cruising loses 4-3. 

A team that has lost to Oxford, Charlton, QPR (conceded 7 goals).

A team that didn't keep a cleansheet in 30 games

A team that had one of the lowest XG

A team that a1-0 didn't have the mental strength so defended. 

A team that has let us down game after game after game. 

A team that can't string a set of good results together and our new manager bounce were draws. 

 

That is not a team that is staying up. WBA, Oxford and Blackburn are picking up important points...we're not. 

 

That is a team that is going down, even on the Southampton game alone shows there isn't any mental strength to do so. 

Tuesday wasn't important? Points away at promotion chasing teams not important.

 

No, we aren't going to go on a 5 game winning run, we're crap.

 

We are capable of winning every game we have remaining, we are also capable of losing them all, that's not inevitable. 

 

It's just tiresome seeing a fan base, after every loss claiming "that's it" we're as mentally fragile as the players. 

[Sly]

2 hours ago, Bezzanator89 said:

It was almost sad about how much hope was suddenly generated by a win against a half-hearted Bristol City, whose season has dissipated into midtable mediocrity, and I'd take that right now. They made us look brilliant, and by association, lulled a majority of our fanbase into a false sense of security. Half believing we had turned the corner and this would be our springboard to survival.

 

A squad like this suddenly don't become defensively first-class overnight. We all know that if Stolarcyzk didn't save that penalty, heads would have dropped and that momentum would have shifted. I simply didn't buy it when we lucked our way to a first clean sheet since 20th September. Our major  defensive flaws remain, and JJ/Fatawu aside, our blunt attacking prowess remains.

 

If we survive it will near enough be by a single point, or goal difference. There is time to turn this shitfest around, but we are running out of time, nor can I see it being a comfortable run in, expecially when it is mathematically out of our hands.

 

Hear that? That's a certain someone warming up her vocal cords, nearly 10 years after Andrea Bocelli serenaded us with Nessun Dorma. Oh, how far we have fallen, and it could get so much worse.

The thing about the Bristol City game was that a good proportion on here called out just how bad Bristol City were. 
 

We are in real danger of going now, as this team does not have the leaders to pull us out of a hole. 

[Sly]

19 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

Tuesday wasn't important? Points away at promotion chasing teams not important.

 

No, we aren't going to go on a 5 game winning run, we're crap.

 

We are capable of winning every game we have remaining, we are also capable of losing them all, that's not inevitable. 

 

It's just tiresome seeing a fan base, after every loss claiming "that's it" we're as mentally fragile as the players. 

We are badly out of form and didn't get a new Manager bounce. We’ve lost to and been beaten by two teams that are arguably in worse form than us.

 

Clearly Sheffield Wednesday are gone.

 

However you could argue that those last two spots could be occupied by Leicester, Blackburn, WBA, Portsmouth or Oxford.

 

Oxford aside as they’re making a fist of it currently, the rest of us pick up points every now and again. We are all as bad and indifferent as each other. 

 

[Heathrow fox]

1 hour ago, wardyfox86 said:

Tuesday wasn't important? Points away at promotion chasing teams not important.

 

No, we aren't going to go on a 5 game winning run, we're crap.

 

We are capable of winning every game we have remaining, we are also capable of losing them all, that's not inevitable. 

 

It's just tiresome seeing a fan base, after every loss claiming "that's it" we're as mentally fragile as the players. 

That’s what several relegation battles in living memory can do to a fanbase.You get to read the signs.Has this squad got the fight and bottle to stay up?Comparing with previous seasons.No

[fox_favourite]

4 hours ago, wardyfox86 said:

Tuesday wasn't important? Points away at promotion chasing teams not important.

 

No, we aren't going to go on a 5 game winning run, we're crap.

 

We are capable of winning every game we have remaining, we are also capable of losing them all, that's not inevitable. 

 

It's just tiresome seeing a fan base, after every loss claiming "that's it" we're as mentally fragile as the players. 

I love your optimism, I have to say. Yes, Tuesday was important, but to make it worth while you have to back it up, and we didn't. QPR didn't out play us completely, we were just poo.Did we actually test the keeper enough to try and get anything from the game? They're passing sideways and backwards because they're not fit enough and as a team, they're collectively thick. 

 

Getting momentum is important in a relegation battle to pull yourself clear, especially as we are now 2pts cut a drift. 

 

2 years of utter dross from the players has not helped. We are clearly on a downward spiral, and as Pipes says, time and time again these players prove they are not mentally strong enough to cope with the pressure and let us down. Maybe 2 or 3 who do. We look horrendously unfit which I is another worry. If your not fit, then you won't find that extra energy when things aren't going your way.

 

Even Rowett said he needs to see who he can trust in a relegation battle. That's not reassuring, he should be able to trust the team to work together. Look at Oxford, they aren't the greatest at all, but they are showing a team spirit and fight in each game. Where's ours? 

 

That's why it's over, for me. We're cut adrift. Yes we still have a chance, but I don't trust these players to grab that chance in any shape, as been proven more than once in this season.  

 

 

Edited 15 March by fox_favourite

[Number 6]

I think yesterday cemented that there is no comfortable end to the season for us, this will go down to the wire. We're clearly a side not capable of stringing together three of four wins, and will rely on opposition having off days against us.

 

But in the same way that a single win doesn't mean we're safe, a single loss doesn't relegate us. Each game is winnable, each is loseable (our two most difficult opponents left both suffered defeats to our relegation rivals).

 

It feels very bleak after a loss, but we're in the mix with five teams who are as bad as each other. Three shit teams will survive.

Edited 15 March by Number 6

[MC Prussian]

We won't stay up. We've won 1 (!) out of the last 12 matches. That is nothing but relegation form.

And we've got only eight more matches to play, so that's maybe one more win.

Which won't be enough, because Blackburn, West Brom and Oxford all show more heart and guile than our lot.

 

The Great Escape in the Premier League was possible thanks to a shrewd manager, and players willing to fight for a common cause, proving everybody wrong that underdogs can achieve something. And boy, did we do that.

 

This time around, we've got an overpaid bunch of unmotivated, careless, spoilt individuals (for most part) that care more about the paycheck than the shirt they're donning. Mercenaries, that's all they are.

It says a lot about our recruitment strategy and attitudes in general when our most dominant senior player and our most dominant youngster are both loanees.
Imagine where we'd be without James or Mukasa. They're pretty much putting everybody else to shame.

Edited 15 March by MC Prussian

[Stavros81]

1 minute ago, MC Prussian said:

We won't stay up. We've won 1 (!) out of the last 12 matches. That is nothing but relegation form.

And we've got only eight more matches to play, so that's maybe one more win.

Which won't be enough, because Blackburn, West Brom and Oxford all show more heart and guile than our lot.

 

The Great Escape in the Premier League was possible thanks to a shrewd manager, and players willing to fight for a common cause, proving everybody wrong that underdogs can achieve something. And boy, did we do that.

 

This time around, we've got an overpaid bunch of unmotivated, careless, heartless individuals (for most part) that care more about the paycheck than the shirt they're donning. Mercenaries, that's all they are.

It says a lot about when our most dominant senior player is a loanee (as for Fatawu, his second half of the season has been mostly terrible so far), and our most dominant youngster also.
Imagine where we'd be without James or Mukasa. They're pretty much putting everybody else to shame.

💯 We are odds on for relegation. Players have given up a long time ago. You look at the other clubs so much fight and unity. I’d go as far as saying Sheffield Wednesday had more fight than us until there points deduction 

[cityfanlee23]

15 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

The actual club and the fans dont deserve this, but Top, Rudkin and the rest of the board of clowns, plus these vile players, all deserve to be relegated. The disgusting thing is that the players will no doubt move to other championship clubs when most of them deserve to be playing in the national league. 

It's a sad state of affairs, because relegation will financially ruin us even further, it could even push us into admin? But it feels like that's the only thing that would stop this board making more catastrophic financial blunders. It feels inevitable that if we somehow stay up, we will continue the same mistakes and eventually go down anyway. 

[Reynaldo]

End of the day we have a better squad on paper than the teams around us that we are fighting against to stay up. Of that there is no question.

 

But the kicker is, the teams around us have miles more spirit, determination and a doggedness to grind out results to help their cause. 
 

And that’s what keeps teams up when it comes down to it. 

We have technically better players, but NONE of the qualities actually needed to make that show through. 

[BigGibbo]

There's no more deserving relegation candidate than us unfortunately.

 

I'm still holding out hope that JJ, Fats and the young lads pull a rabbit out of the hat, such is the low quality of the teams at this end of the league, but I won't hold my breath. 

 

Shame on King Power/Top.

 

[damolcfc]

That last day away to Blackburn and we need a win to confirm safety and we are passing the ball around the back playing tippy tappy nice sexy football with no attacking intent.

Holding the ball up, walking for throw ins and corners, jakub taking his 8 seconds to take goal kicks, just to make sure the opposition are all safely back into their retrospective positions.

 

The lack of urgency and anxiety will have us all end up in a mental hospital 

 

Switch over to Oxford and wba games and they will be throwing the kitchen sink at their games

 

You can see it now.... 

 

Can't wait 🥺🥺🫣🫣

[Rubbersoul]

Braybrooke will carry us to the title 

[J.Lisemore]

5 minutes ago, Reynaldo said:

End of the day we have a better squad on paper than the teams around us that we are fighting against to stay up. Of that there is no question.

 

But the kicker is, the teams around us have miles more spirit, determination and a doggedness to grind out results to help their cause. 
 

And that’s what keeps teams up when it comes down to it. 

We have technically better players, but NONE of the qualities actually needed to make that show through. 

Only go to look at Oxford, individually we probably have the more quality but it counts for nothing when you don’t know have work ethic and everyone pulling in the same direction. Our title win was based on this ffs, yes we had quality but without the us and the world spirit we would never have won it. The culture starts from the Top and the blame inevitably lies at his and Rudkins door. Any business that is neglected and commit to seriously poor decisions ends up in administration, this will be no different. Writing is on the wall unfortunately.