Hope

[Silebyfox_89]

This threat is pure bait.

[Groby_Blue]

Just heard from my friend who kind of knows someone high up at the club. I've mentioned who it is before but won't here. 

 

Anyway, he saw this person again recently and told me he was quite surprised how frank he was being at the current situation. Bullet points from what he was saying -

 

Pretty much everyone at the club has given up and accepted relegation. 

 

The players 'quite like' Rowett but they know he's only here short term so aren't really paying attention to what he says. 

 

A lot of them have already checked out and are thinking of their next clubs. They aren't even interested in trying to keep us up. 

 

The players coming through in the under 18s are even worse. "Spoilt brats" was the phrase. 

 

I know this is info that we've all pretty much worked out for ourselves but there it is, from the mouth of someone high up. 

 

It seems the only people clinging on to some sort of hope are a section of the fans. 

[itsaknockeart]

More likely than not we're going down but anyone saying it's a certainty doesn't understand either probability or football.

[Blueman1967]

4 hours ago, lcfcfoz said:

Will 3 wins save us? Would 2 wins and a 2 draws save us? 

 

What do we need, if we have no hope what is the point? Positive replies welcome, sarcasm not tolerated.

 

We are not down until the R is by out name. I belive if we beat pompey we could take this to the last day, get within 3 of rovers and I would take that going into the last game knowing a win would leapfrog them, and hopefully another.

I was 50 50 before Saturday, but you just had games, with teams with nothing to play for, the next three games, they have

[Livid]

1 hour ago, ceebeefox said:

Speaking purely football wise, not financially, we need to go down. Staying up delays the inevitable and next season would be more of the same. Our fan base needs more wins and it won’t happen next year in the championship and may yet not in the third tier, but it might give us a breather.

12 months ago people were saying the same thing about us coming down to the championship, we’ve not hit rock bottom yet. 

[Blueman1967]

1 hour ago, ceebeefox said:

Speaking purely football wise, not financially, we need to go down. Staying up delays the inevitable and next season would be more of the same. Our fan base needs more wins and it won’t happen next year in the championship and may yet not in the third tier, but it might give us a breather.

We need to go down, like a hole in the head, l remember last time, and it wasn't great, we only spend a season there, thank god

[SB87_LCFC]

It looks less and less likely winning any more points in the final 4 games, even with the likelihood WBA have a points deduction for breaching PSR before the end of the season, we would still be 1 point behind. 

[Chelmofox]

20 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

Just heard from my friend who kind of knows someone high up at the club. I've mentioned who it is before but won't here. 

 

Anyway, he saw this person again recently and told me he was quite surprised how frank he was being at the current situation. Bullet points from what he was saying -

 

Pretty much everyone at the club has given up and accepted relegation. 

 

The players 'quite like' Rowett but they know he's only here short term so aren't really paying attention to what he says. 

 

A lot of them have already checked out and are thinking of their next clubs. They aren't even interested in trying to keep us up. 

 

The players coming through in the under 18s are even worse. "Spoilt brats" was the phrase. 

 

I know this is info that we've all pretty much worked out for ourselves but there it is, from the mouth of someone high up. 

 

It seems the only people clinging on to some sort of hope are a section of the fans. 

Why does he think the academy players are spoilt brats?

[Groby_Blue]

7 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Why does he think the academy players are spoilt brats?

I don't know. Either he didn't elaborate or my friend didn't, but that was the phrase used apparently. 

[GrobyLCFC31]

Could we do it - mathematically yes but let’s be honest a record of 1 win in 16 isn’t suddenly going to become 3 wins in 4 - which in the form Oxford are in looks like it’ll be needed

 

When I look at us going forward I can’t think of many ways that we score the number of goals we’d need to stay up

 

Fatawu from range 

JJ late run into the box 

Defensive mistake 

 

If you flip it when I look at the different types of goals we’ve conceded this season there are so many ways for the opposition to score against us and most of them without high level quality or brilliance, we leave no stone unturned to find ways of throwing games away!  

[CruzNoir]

Mr McCarron was at the training ground today 

 

it appears our new Sporting Director has started

 

[Foxin_Mad]

We have two kinds of hope Bob hope and no hope 

[Chelmofox]

21 minutes ago, GrobyLCFC31 said:

Could we do it - mathematically yes but let’s be honest a record of 1 win in 16 isn’t suddenly going to become 3 wins in 4 - which in the form Oxford are in looks like it’ll be needed

 

When I look at us going forward I can’t think of many ways that we score the number of goals we’d need to stay up

 

Fatawu from range 

JJ late run into the box 

Defensive mistake 

 

If you flip it when I look at the different types of goals we’ve conceded this season there are so many ways for the opposition to score against us and most of them without high level quality or brilliance, we leave no stone unturned to find ways of throwing games away!  

Couldn't even put one of those away on Saturday. Fatawu tried to do the perfect curler rather than making sure it just went in.

[plinchiestincture]

It's the hope that shills you.

[woollett the bullet]

Still time for a couple of twists and turns , unlikely  yes.  .  .  .  .funny old game football 

[Ashley]

If anyone could do it, it is us. I dont think we will do it though. 

 

 

[GrobyLCFC31]

6 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Couldn't even put one of those away on Saturday. Fatawu tried to do the perfect curler rather than making sure it just went in.

Yep, guilt edge chance that you have to take, he’s gone right off the boil at just the wrong time! 
 

[Frankel1981]

Hope in 100 years we’ll all be dead

[adejo92]

5 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Why does he think the academy players are spoilt brats?

You only have to look at the facilities and how much they are mothered.

 

I know its the same at most clubs, but we're on another level. They essentially live at a 5* luxury resort. 

 

 

[Chelmofox]

1 minute ago, adejo92 said:

You only have to look at the facilities and how much they are mothered.

 

I know its the same at most clubs, but we're on another level. They essentially live at a 5* luxury resort. 

 

 

Doesn’t mean they are all spoilt brats though. Seems more like a sweeping generalisation. 

[dayday]

Even the manager has admitted defeat 

 

 

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

9 hours ago, Blue-fox said:

We need to win all 4 games, you have to think the other teams will win 2 of their 4 games left. It’s a very, very tall order. 

They probably won't win two of their four games left. They're down near the bottom for a reason, that reason being that they're basically crap.

Unfortunately exactly the same applies to us, and we need to win two of our last four. (If we did we might well stay up, especially if one of the two was Portsmouth, but it's hard to see happening. Stranger things have happened, of course...).

[sylofox]

So one games against a team fighting for automatic promotion

 

Another against a team fighting for the play offs.

 

Portsmouth fighting for survival.

 

Then but it will be over Blackburn.

 

 

Then us that would surrender to a park team.

 

HOPE you say?  I'd book into rehab if I was the OP.

[lcfc sheff]

I will suck teet of my nans cat if we stay up 

[Clever Fox]

You have to have players who want to fight and we haven't seen any evidence of that to date.