Hull home pre match

[Groby_Blue]

When was the last time we won three games on the spin? Maresca days? 

 

And yet some hold onto the hope that we can do it now - including against a team in great form pushing for autos. 

 

I remember the last relegation to L1 and it was the worst I've ever felt about football - and I was at that Swindon play off final. 

 

I don't really feel anything about this relegation, other than slight annoyance and a bit of sadness. I just want it done now so we don't have to have to listen to and read any more false hope and permutations about how we can do the Great Escape II.

 

This season is done. It's now only about what happens next.  

[RedSoxUK]

This is quite obviously ending in a draw.

[Les-TA-Jon]

3 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

This season is done. It's now only about what happens next.  

Spoiler alert for our next journey under KPFC: 

• Canned response from the club, with conspicuous lack of the R word, promising a review and improvements going forward
• Spend first half of the summer figuring out who the heck to appoint - with no consensus on what kind of manager we need, then appoint the 3rd or 4th choice / whoever is desperate enough to take over this basket case
• Meanwhile conduct firesale of anyone worth more than a couple of quid, getting depressingly low amounts for our 'best' players and struggling to move on players with longer contracts (Kristiansen, Mavididi, Souttar, Okoli, Skipp)
• Promote far too many youth players (prematurely) out of necessity, just to make up the numbers
• Sign a few players on frees and loans in the last week of the window
• Manager and club say all the right things about 'resetting' the 'culture and mentality' 
• Some OK results in opening weeks, then regress back to being crap. 
• Nov hear rumblings of new EFL charge/points deductions/cost plans
• Dec/Jan results are poor and manager should go but club delays making a decision
• Results now so bad they have to make a change, but they have no plan in place for a replacement. Waste 2-4 fixtures with an under-qualified caretakers. 
• Appoint someone who is no better or even worse than the outgoing manager
• Finish mid-table or worse depending on if EFL can get punishments to stick

[Eskay]

I reckon one of our bozos gets sent off tonight.

[Dmitry]

I bet the players are crapping their pants. After Hull scores their first goal, it's OVER. 

Whether being on this LCFC squad will mark these players as untouchables for potential buyers...I hope so, but that's just the schadenfreude speaking.

Manager has nothing to lose: he knows he's a second tier skipper at best, and had just made it certaIn to the press that he's ran out of arguments and motivations with the squad.

 

So sit back and enjoy. 

 

[lfu]

0-2 win for Hull, I can see it now.

 

Luke Thomas will give away a stupid free kick in the second minute by shoving their right winger over on the edge of the box. Lundstram will be left unmarked at the far post for an easy header. Andrew Hughes will applaud another job well done from the touchline. The heads of our players will drop as they trudge back upfield to take the kickoff, except for Harry Winks who will be engaged in a shouting match with a spectator telling him to fuch off back to Hertfordshire.

We will have zero shots on target by halftime. Rowett will make no changes in the break, telling the team they can at least win the second half and a goal would swing the match wide open. 5 minutes into the half, Jordan Ayew, in a rare occasion he is actually in the opposition box, wins a very soft foul that makes you think the referee gave it out of sympathy for our situation. He, being the bearer of our prestigious #9 shirt, decides he'll take the penalty. It's a panenka. It goes straight into the waiting palms of Ivor Pandur. Spectators have seen enough and return into the vomitories in droves.

In the 80th minute, Rowett sends Vestergaard up front again, and as stoppage time begins (+9 because of a lengthy injury treatment), Patson Daka is suddenly through on goal. With Monga and Fatawu to his left and a Hull defender closing in, Daka has the perfect opportunity to thread a pass to one of them. Instead, Daka tries the shot. He's 25 yards out. And it's from a tight angle. He skies it. Fatawu squares up to Daka while Pandur takes the goal kick. McBurnie beats Ricardo for pace and slots it neatly in the bottom corner, past Begovic who makes a half-hearted effort to dive.

Most of the remaining home fans leave the stadium at this point while a lone few invade the pitch to confront the players. The referee blows his whistle 2 minutes early. Nevertheless, a contingent of our fans clap the team off the pitch to acknowledge their stellar efforts; the players (those whom who didn't flee immediately) don't even bother looking up to the stands as they meekly clap in return before disappearing down the tunnel at the earliest opportunity.

[lcfcfoz]

Souttar and James to fire us to safety

[Officer Doofy]

9 minutes ago, Eskay said:

I reckon one of our bozos gets sent off tonight.

Hopefully Hamza or Thomas or Mavididi or Daka or Ricardo or Winks or Skipp or Fatawu or oh **** it I hope they all get sent off. 

[South Shire Fox]

47 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I've got 33/1 on a Hull win, Hull to have more corners and Leicester to have the most cards.

Ive done similar to this but swerved the corner stat, changed it to Fatawu 1+ fouls instead 😂

[ClaphamFox]

Rumours on social media that Top will be there this evening. Operation Promote to officially launch with fireworks and a brass band straight after the final whistle? 

Edited 21 April by ClaphamFox

[Les-TA-Jon]

There been a press conference for this yet?

 

[cityfanlee23]

1 hour ago, Chelmofox said:

I keep forgetting to bring this one up.

 

What a f***ng load of shit that is. Bullsh1t music (for my taste anyway), and totally panders to these pu55ies. Would actually prefer it if they put who the player that requested it was so we know which ones really like the really bad tunes.

 

Play some 90's rock/brit pop that most of them will hate.

What is the pre match music? been a couple of seasons since I've been (simply cba to make the effort to travel multiple hours for this club) 
I always liked Club Foot, first time I heard it at a match I think was when I went to Norwich Away in the early 00s and thought it was a good atmosphere, we had it for a while and thought it worked well with the pre match flames and atmosphere. Gets the crowd up for a fight. 
 

Edited 21 April by cityfanlee23

[stripeyfox]

It may not be completely done yet but it likely will by tonight

 

Even if we were to miraculously win the last three it still probably wouldn't be enough, right? Even if we got to 50 pts (max possible) Blackburn and West Brom already have 49

 

Do we HAVE to win all three as it stands to have any chance?

 

@Les-TA-Jon you're the stats man - whats your take?

[FoxTrott]

29 minutes ago, Eskay said:

I reckon one of our bozos gets sent off tonight.

They’d have to give a shit for this to be the case, unlikely to happen. 

[Vindaloo FOX]

Top in the building !!! 

[lcfcfoz]

2 minutes ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

Top in the building !!! 

Hope he brought the monks in

[fazzyfox]

In the days leading up to the Portsmouth game Rowett spoke about changes, firstly about being tougher and secondly a hint at a formation change specifically for home games. Don’t know if it will happen, right now if feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Just stop handing a free pass to start matches to  those who don’t put in a good shift, Mavididi is approaching Josh Low levels of doing f*** all in games and still getting picked next week. Winks shouldn’t be involved on form alone whilst giving minutes to Page, Aluko and Monga can only be beneficial to our future.

 

There will be bickering in the stands, we are, despite the evidence before our eyes, somehow divided, just remember for some their perceived “being in with the players” is all they have in life, they wouldn’t stop clapping even if they ridiculed us, laughed and swore at us. Oh hang on, they have. But when these fans argue and abuse the ones criticising Rudkin just as aggressively as the original point it feels like a powder keg waiting to go off. 

Just remind these people they are  22nd-24th in the stats for everything and 24th in the unofficial stats for bottle, effort and integrity despite us having the biggest wage bill.

[Chelmofox]

20 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

What is the pre match music? been a couple of seasons since I've been (simply cba to make the effort to travel multiple hours for this club) 
I always liked Club Foot, first time I heard it at a match I think was when I went to Norwich Away in the early 00s and thought it was a good atmosphere, we had it for a while and thought it worked well with the pre match flames and atmosphere. Gets the crowd up for a fight. 
 

During the warmup they play 'tunes from the dressing room' where players request their own songs. Its stuff like Drake and none of it is the sort of music to get you going. From slow beat / bass heavy.  Started it last season if i recall.

Edited 21 April by Chelmofox

[Les-TA-Jon]

14 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

It may not be completely done yet but it likely will by tonight

 

Even if we were to miraculously win the last three it still probably wouldn't be enough, right? Even if we got to 50 pts (max possible) Blackburn and West Brom already have 49

 

Do we HAVE to win all three as it stands to have any chance?

 

@Les-TA-Jon you're the stats man - whats your take?

Yes because 3 wins puts us on 50pts and Charlton (50), West Brom (49) and Blackburn (49) already have almost that many. 

 

to stay up we have to win all 3 remaining games and have multiple other results go in our favour - at the very least those 3 rival teams would need to remain winless, with West Brom and Blackburn needing to lose 2 and draw 1 (at most) 

 

We could get relegated on 4 separate days this week, depending on various results. 

 

But what's most likely is we lose tonight and that's that. 

Edited 21 April by Les-TA-Jon

[Blue ROI]

14 minutes ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

Top in the building !!! 

Got here early.

 

Must be a big teddy bear delivery.

[Raj]

[Les-TA-Jon]

10 minutes ago, fazzyfox said:

In the days leading up to the Portsmouth game Rowett spoke about changes, firstly about being tougher and secondly a hint at a formation change specifically for home games. Don’t know if it will happen, right now if feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Just stop handing a free pass to start matches to  those who don’t put in a good shift, Mavididi is approaching Josh Low levels of doing f*** all in games and still getting picked next week. Winks shouldn’t be involved on form alone whilst giving minutes to Page, Aluko and Monga can only be beneficial to our future.

 

There will be bickering in the stands, we are, despite the evidence before our eyes, somehow divided, just remember for some their perceived “being in with the players” is all they have in life, they wouldn’t stop clapping even if they ridiculed us, laughed and swore at us. Oh hang on, they have. But when these fans argue and abuse the ones criticising Rudkin just as aggressively as the original point it feels like a powder keg waiting to go off. 

Just remind these people they are  22nd-24th in the stats for everything and 24th in the unofficial stats for bottle, effort and integrity despite us having the biggest wage bill.

Disagree - I want to see 90 mins from all our worst/most toxic players tonight - so they have to slog through a humiliating defeat and the horrible atmosphere and be there on the pitch to take some 'feedback' from the crowd. 

[Manwell Pablo]

Is Top honestly turning up tonight. 😂

 

Been missing for the best part of the season and decided to turn up to the one game I’d actually advise him not to go to. 
 

Mind boggling. I hope he has a good time. 

[LcFc_Smiv]

39 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

There been a press conference for this yet?

 

I don't believe there is one, they tend to use the sound bites from Saturdays post-match for some Tuesday games. The club has put an article on in the past hour with comments from Rowett ahead of tonight but it all seemed rehashed info from the other day. Nothing on the BBC Sport Leicester twitter account either.

[lcfc278]

Just now, Manwell Pablo said:

Is Top honestly turning up tonight. 😂

 

Been missing for the best part of the season and decided to turn up to the one game I’d actually advise him not to go to. 
 

Mind boggling. I hope he has a good time. 

The sad thing is, he probably won't get any s**t knowing the majority of our fans