LCFC 0-1 Swansea, post-match thread

[Qwerty]

4 minutes ago, Enyoueffsea said:

 

Is there a single example of a club not being purchased because fans were protesting at the previous ownership?

I just think if the fans cut off the ticket revenue, the club looks in much worse shape to a future buyer. 
 

But mainly I’m sick of being told by people on FoxesTalk that anyone who is still going to games is not a proper fan.  I’ve been taking my kids for years, and they still want to go, and why shouldn’t they?  They’re young adults now but they’ve still got all their old kits from when they were little, they were born in Leicester, they live in Leicester, they love football, they’re gutted at what’s happening but Leicester is still their team.  And they want to watch them on a Saturday afternoon.  I resent fans like my kids being blamed for the financial mess the club is in.  
 

There’s a man who sits behind us with his young son, who loves it, cheers the team, sings the songs, and is really enthusiastic.  They were in the season ticket ballot for 4 years before they got one.  Why shouldn’t they renew?  These are the future fans.  Why is their enthusiasm being blamed for Top’s mistakes?  All the “KPFC” rubbish.  Pitting fans against each other.  It’s pathetic. 
 

There are many people who should take some blame for the mess the club is in, but none of them are the fans who just pay money to watch their team play football.  If some fans have had enough and don’t want to go to matches any more, that’s fine.  But don’t be telling the rest of us that we’re traitors who are in some way responsible for the situation. 

[squidsworth]

3 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

 

Any decent professional footballer hacks him down.  Shocking lack of commitment from all involved there.  

Any decent footballer (nevermind professional) doesn't setup the opposition on a counter from an attacking free kick on the edge of the box. Utterly incompetent, amateur crap. I'm still raging we lose a game of football because of that. One we had to win, that mess is literally the final nail in the coffin.

Edited 11 April by squidsworth

[MC Prussian]

Again, no leadership on the pitch. The only one that comes close to being a leader is the guy on loan from Rennes. Bound to be the next Gerrard.

 

The rest? They're either past their prime (Ayew, Ricardo, BDCR) or shy away from taking responsibility and taking action.

 

Winks, Skipp, Fatawu, Mavididi, Daka – they have nothing mature about them. They're kids imitating grown-ups. Just look at their physique.

They sulk, they're selfish, ineffective, more a burden than problem-solvers, they don't move the team or the club forward.

 

These five aforementioned attackers and midfielders have a combined 22 goals between them in 42 games, with 9 goals coming from Fatawu. So that makes 13 goals between the other four, also some of our most expensive players, in 42 matches.

 

My guess is there's been a major rift in the dressing room for some time now.

#toxic

 

Look at the assists stats, hardly anyone wants to set up another first teamer: Again, after 42 matches, it reads as follows:

 

Bilal El Khannouss (gone) 2

Wout Faes (will be gone) 1

Boubakary Soumaré (gone) 2

Louis Page 1

Jeremy Monga 2

Abdul Fatawu 6 (almost all of them in the first half of the season)

Patson Daka 4 (will be gone)

Jordan James 4 (will be gone)

Harry Winks 2 (get out of my club)

Jordan Ayew 3 (will be gone)

Luke Thomas 5

Ricardo Pereira 1 (will be gone)

Stephy Mavididi 1 (get out of my club)

Bobby De Cordova-Reid 2 (get out of my club)

Caleb Okoli 1 (get out of my club)

Divine Mukasa 3 (will be gone)

Ben Nelson 1

 

The fact that Mavididi, Winks, Skipp and BDCR in particular have as many or less assists as two players who are no longer part of this team, is shocking.

As shocking as having your left-back providing more assists than Mavididi, Winks or Skipp combined...

Skipp? 0 assists. Zero.

#egotrip

 

A young loanee (Mukasa) has been more effective than at least four of our so-called seasoned pros (attackers/midfielders)!

Fatawu's assist contribution has also dried up since he's come back from injury.

 

My conclusion: They don't want to play together, they're actively playing against each other. Some would call this sabotage.

 

Edited 11 April by MC Prussian

[filbertway]

Again, how did every single highlight start with a Leicester attack and we lost

 

Mental.  This team may be the the most mentally feeble group of men ever. From positions of dominance they still find a way to submit

[Katy]

Still absolutely fuming over the start to finish of their goal. 
 

 

Becky V can get in the bin as well, patronising twat! 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I can still barely believe that goal we conceded and yet in the same way I absolutely can.  Too concede in that manor at any level is a disgrace but given our circumstances and the magnitude of our current circumstances for not one player to put their body on the line, make a tactical foul high up the pitch or make a lunge busting run to prevent the goal is an absolute disgrace. 
 

However it also highlights exactly why we are where we are, a complete lack of heart, desire, athleticism and most of all a complete lack of game management or intelligence. The players just don’t care enough and the management team are unable to raise and maintain the required standards and culture whether that is through their own failings or because they are not given the required backing and support from above. Either way that goal epitomised everything wrong at the club in one 17 second snapshot. 
 

Absolute disgrace and truly horrific. 

[LcFc_Smiv]

Took the Mrs who is a Sheff Utd season ticket holder yesterday, yes she was very pleased she had to miss her lot win to watch our dross. Her thoughts on it were:

-why are their some people sat their like that was ok? If that was at Bramall Lane everyone would be going mad

-she asked what the top song was about, when I pointed out where he sits and he wasn't there she said that was "embarrassing"

-on Fatawu and Mavididi who she constantly got mixed up, one of them is very good but not bothered, the other is rubbish but at least he tries

-she likes Skipp and would take him at Sheff Utd as we "lost any energy when he went off"

-Luke Thomas looks 10 times the player they had on loan and hes still sh!t (this one made me laugh)

-we should have had 3 goals in the first half (Ricky P, Fatawu, and the one cleared off the line), you knew we were gonna lose not taking one of them

-her final point which was her most damning which she actually said before the game was when you arrive everything just feels really disconnected, at Brammall Lane your going in with everyone their for the club there's a buzz, at leicester its just people getting together on Saturday afternoon, which i hadn't thought about, but then remembered I can't think of the last time I came up from the concourse seeing the pitch and that feeling you get

 

 

 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

10 hours ago, Qwerty said:

Yes but he’s not going to sell because ticket sales drop for one season.  Cutting off the money to the club will just make the club poorer.  Time and again we’ve seen greedy owners outstay their welcome, till the club goes into administration.  How would that be a good thing?  Like Sheffield Wednesday - they’ve got rid of Chansiri but at the cost of a likely double relegation. 

We’re going to have a double relegation and we’ve still got the chairman!! 
 

I’ve got to agree with the others, the chairman needs to be starved of money. The amount of idiots queueing for £7 pints and £6 pies every game makes me feel sick. 

[ClaphamFox]

Just now, Leicester_Loyal said:

We’re going to have a double relegation and we’ve still got the chairman!! 
 

I’ve got to agree with the others, the chairman needs to be starved of money. The amount of idiots queueing for £7 pints and £6 pies every game makes me feel sick. 

The key to getting rid of Top will be to somehow persuade him that handing control to somebody more competent will not be betrayal of his father’s memory, but rather the best way to honour it. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

7 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

The key to getting rid of Top will be to somehow persuade him that handing control to somebody more competent will not be betrayal of his father’s memory, but rather the best way to honour it. 

I don’t think he gives two shits about his fathers honour, otherwise he’d have done that years ago. 
 

His father would be ashamed of what he’s done in the past few years. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

11 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

The key to getting rid of Top will be to somehow persuade him that handing control to somebody more competent will not be betrayal of his father’s memory, but rather the best way to honour it. 

Betraying and/or honouring his father has nothing to do with his approach. It would be lowest priority for him.
 

This is an egotistical little **** who loves power. He is on a power trip. I know it’s nice to think he is a loving son, desperate to do well. However, it ain’t a thing with this guy. 
 

 

[purpleronnie]

There were so many weak attempts at tackles yesterday it makes you wonder if they're afraid to get injured spoiling any potential summer move.

[ClaphamFox]

11 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Betraying and/or honouring his father has nothing to do with his approach. It would be lowest priority for him.
 

This is an egotistical little **** who loves power. He is on a power trip. I know it’s nice to think he is a loving son, desperate to do well. However, it ain’t a thing with this guy. 
 

 

Where have you got all of this from? Is it based on anything that someone who has worked with Top has said? Because even the harshest critics of Top in the media seem to regard him as a nice guy who just isn’t up to the job and is clinging on out of a sense of loyalty to his dad.

[CosbehFox]

Just now, ClaphamFox said:

Where have you got all of this from? Is it based on anything that someone who has worked with Top has said? Because even the harshest critics of Top in the media seem to regard him as a nice guy who just isn’t up to the job and is clinging on out of a sense of loyalty to his dad.

I think the entourage vibe when we won the Championship said an awful lot about him personally 

[Raj]

8 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

I think the entourage vibe when we won the Championship said an awful lot about him personally 

That was pathetic.

5 coaches of influencers and no bodies waving to us plebs like they are royalty.

I'm suprised babyboy doesnt organise a relegation survival parade IF somehow we do survive.

 

[Raj]

P.S it was a great tun and finish by them.

Imagine any of our pr1cks doing that?

Mavs would fall over the ball dribbling and Daka would send it into Row XX..nice guy though...

[Mickyblueeyes]

15 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Where have you got all of this from? Is it based on anything that someone who has worked with Top has said? Because even the harshest critics of Top in the media seem to regard him as a nice guy who just isn’t up to the job and is clinging on out of a sense of loyalty to his dad.

You’ve got it from the media that he is a nice guy ? Who Dorset ? Or maybe Leicester Radio ? Those interviews were soooooo unbiased. Come on. 
 

I’ve seen plenty of sons and/or daughters honour their successful parents. This ain’t it. The fellas on a power trip - wants to be called boss. 
 

Let’s play the Kasabian pre match poem again. “Led by Top”

[ClaphamFox]

6 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

I think the entourage vibe when we won the Championship said an awful lot about him personally 

If he was an “egotistical little **** who loves power” I would expect there to be more evidence of that by now than a ‘vibe’ during a victory parade a couple of years ago. The unattractive personality traits of other football chairman such as Chansiri etc have been well documented, but you never hear those things about Top.

 

We’re in a dire situation and badly need a fresh start with new owners. Projecting ugly character traits onto Top may help some people to feel better, but it doesn’t bring us closer to the truth or provide any insight into how we get out of this mess. 

[FoxesTalker]

This was Swansea's first away win here since October 1950.

[ClaphamFox]

6 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

You’ve got it from the media that he is a nice guy ? Who Dorset ? Or maybe Leicester Radio ? Those interviews were soooooo unbiased. Come on. 
 

I’ve seen plenty of sons and/or daughters honour their successful parents. This ain’t it. The fellas on a power trip - wants to be called boss. 
 

Let’s play the Kasabian pre match poem again. “Led by Top”

Henry Winter and Jason Bourne to name just two. There are plenty of harsh critics of our owners in the media but none seem to regard Top as a bad guy, just an incompetent one who has inherited a role he cannot perform.

Edited 12 April by ClaphamFox

[Number 6]

15 minutes ago, Raj said:

P.S it was a great tun and finish by them.

Imagine any of our pr1cks doing that?

Mavs would fall over the ball dribbling and Daka would send it into Row XX..nice guy though...

If that had been one of our players they'd have got to the half way line and then turned and passed it back.

[Winstonthedog]

For me it's glaringly obvious that some players on show yesterday no longer want to play for or be at the club .... there is a culture within the players that is toxic .... and whichever league we end up in .... a full clear is the first job .... followed by a manager installed with some vision and ambition who must have full control  ..... if Rudkin is not binned off he must be gagged  .... and if Top thinks the style of football we play will work in league 1 ... he is in for a massive shock and we will be in league 1 for a while 

[Mickyblueeyes]

8 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Henry Winter and Jason Bourne to name just two. There are plenty of harsh critics of our owners in the media but none seem to regard Top as a bad guy, just an incompetent one who has inherited a role he cannot perform.

They’ve turned around and said nice guy who isn’t on an egotistical power trip ? I’ve not read that. 
 

Saying he is “doing it for dad” is simplistic and naive. It’s control and ego at work here

[Raj]

5 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

If that had been one of our players they'd have got to the half way line and then turned and passed it back.

You know what joking aside...your fecking right!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Number 6]

2 minutes ago, Raj said:

You know what joking aside...your fecking right!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's so frustrating to watch slightly promising situations open up and we turn back, recycle, and let the opposition get back into shape.