FT LCFC 2 - 2 Stevenage

[James and his giant peach]

3 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Anyone else bemused at the Lundstrum substitution? 

 

 

No he was poor. He shouldnt have taken Alves off though 

[FrankieADZ]

11 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

Well it wasn't was it? The result is poor and disappointing but we were the better team by miles

How many points did we get then for being the better traam?? 

1

We wasn't miles better, if that was the case we'd have won etc, 

Our defence is honking to say the least as wwll

Also 1 point from the Burton, Oxford, pboro and now this, 

Try and defend RM more 

[James and his giant peach]

4 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

It’s a game of opinions… but to think that was a “fine performance” is an opinion, and a level of expectation that I find difficult to comprehend.
 

Glad you enjoyed the game though

Well we did play well. You're confusing result with performance. If we win that 3 or 4 1 like we should your perception would change. We didn't defend well for the two goals but we played well created lots  and were easily the better team. If we keep playing like that we will win more than we lose

[Zear0]

Should have kept Alves on as he had their LB on a toast when he was on a booking.

 

Sums this team up that performance, did enough to win but then the absolute puddings at the back just knackered it.

 

salt in the wound was my son saying Luke is his favourite player. Was actually decent going forward today but it’s still not what any parent wants to hear.

[James and his giant peach]

Just now, FrankieADZ said:

How many points did we get then for being the better traam?? 

1

We wasn't miles better, if that was the case we'd have won etc, 

Our defence is honking to say the least as wwll

Also 1 point from the Burton, Oxford, pboro and now this, 

Try and defend RM more 

I'm not defending RM I'm talking about today's performance being good and we should have won. It's a very disappointing result and bad defending letting us down again like at Luton

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Just now, Zear0 said:

salt in the wound was my son saying Luke is his favourite player. Was actually decent going forward today but it’s still not what any parent wants to hear.

 

Edge lord behaviour from the boy

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Fell for it yet again and was let down, yet again.

[st albans fox]

2 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

I'm not defending RM I'm talking about today's performance being good and we should have won. It's a very disappointing result and bad defending letting us down again like at Luton

 But this is the problem 

I’d rather be playing crap and winning 

we NEED to promote !

 

There is too much emphasis on playing nice and neat football and not enough on winning games. League 1 clearly isn’t a league where nice and pretty football is well rewarded.  Shock 

[Brizzle Fox]

50 minutes ago, kingfox said:

That went well.

It's the Leicester way. It's just that the shite, past it rubbish we put on much too long contracts, just get more poverty as each year passes.

[Pliskin]

There no point analysing it, this will carry on whilst Martin is in charge. The team just isn’t set up properly, doesn’t function properly and is being asked to do something it can’t do. 
 

 

[CosbehFox]

Get settled in, we are here for a while. 
 

Even when we look half right going forward, Martin will soon extinguish the momentum and he can’t organise a defence either 

[kiddo]

14 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Anyone else bemused at the Lundstrum substitution? 

 

 

No, he wanted to get Smallbone on. Same with Burns and Chaplin, it doesn’t matter what the score is or who comes off, as long as he gets them on.

[CosbehFox]

22 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

Because we played well and gave everything 

Didn’t give everything defending sadly, hence why we dropped points 

Edited Saturday at 17:57 by CosbehFox

[5waller5]

14 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

Did you watch the game? Can you explain how they didn't give everything then and wernt the better side? 

Yes absolutely. 
 

When I think of “giving everything” I think of games like the play off finals in the 90s, where the running, tackling, effort, 50/50 challenges, running with and without the ball, are clearly lung bursting levels of effort.

 

I think of players throwing themselves at a far post ball with 2% chance of getting it, putting their body where it hurts, doing anything to block a shot, never thinking of anything other than winning.
 

I think of Les Ferdinand knocking himself out heading the ball then defender, and when he smelt the smelling salts asking if it went in.
 

At the final whistle, seeing them drop to the grass unable to muster the energy to walk to the changing rooms. 
 

Being on your feet throughout the game urging them on, hoping that your noise, your positive energy is helping them to keep digging so deep. Appreciating the super human levels of effort, imagining players running through a wall if the manager asked them to.

 

I’ve not seen us give a performance where we’ve “given everything” for several years.

 

Today was so far away from that it feels like a different sport. 

Edited Saturday at 17:58 by 5waller5

[Happy Fox]

Has he not been sacked yet? Stevenage were dogshite and we couldn’t even beat them.

[Officer Doofy]

Just realised we are as pointless as Wigan 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Not good enough 

[TSFox]

Not a bad point.

Bits of performance were encouraging.

Fans were poor again

 

[Richmondfox]

2 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

There no point analysing it, this will carry on whilst Martin is in charge. The team just isn’t set up properly, doesn’t function properly and is being asked to do something it can’t do. 
 

 

Sadly we have to expect to see Okoli attempting to be a play maker and Thomas. If they are insisting on playing down the left constantly, they need to replace Thomas with a player that can pass forwards and wants to take a player on.  If it’s not in space and he’s running, Thomas will always stink it out by passing back without even attempting anything. 

[Brizzle Fox]

14 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Should have kept Alves on as he had their LB on a toast when he was on a booking.

 

Sums this team up that performance, did enough to win but then the absolute puddings at the back just knackered it.

 

salt in the wound was my son saying Luke is his favourite player. Was actually decent going forward today but it’s still not what any parent wants to hear.

Feels like a DNA test might be in order.

[Happy Fox]

2 minutes ago, TSFox said:

Not a bad point.

Bits of performance were encouraging.

Fans were poor again

 

What planet are you on? 

[5waller5]

13 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

Well we did play well. You're confusing result with performance. If we win that 3 or 4 1 like we should your perception would change. We didn't defend well for the two goals but we played well created lots  and were easily the better team. If we keep playing like that we will win more than we lose

I just have way higher aspirations and expectations. 
 

I want a soft, giant, juicy fresh peach off a tree performance, not a withered, dry, crunchy unripe supermarket one and then pretend it doesn’t taste of nothing 

[Zear0]

3 minutes ago, TSFox said:

Not a bad point.

Bits of performance were encouraging.

Fans were poor again

 

Hard to criticise the fans who are doing their best staying awake watching Souttar take 10 mins to make a decision that is always go sideways and never forwards.

[Groby_Blue]

4 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

Yes absolutely. 
 

When I think of “giving everything” I think of games like the play off finals in the 90s, where the running, tackling, effort, 50/50 challenges, running with and without the ball, are clearly lung bursting levels of effort.

 

I think of players throwing themselves at a far post ball with 2% chance of getting it, putting their body where it hurts, doing anything to block a shot, never thinking of anything other than winning.
 

I think of Les Ferdinand knocking himself out heading the ball then defender, and when he smelt the smelling salts asking if it went in.
 

At the final whistle, seeing them drop to the grass unable to muster the energy to walk to the changing rooms.
 

Being on your feet throughout the game urging them on, hoping that your noise, your positive energy is helping them to keep digging so deep.

 

I’ve not seen us give a performance where we’ve “given everything” for several years.

 

Today was so far away from that it feels like a different sport. 

Pass it around a bit. Play a few nice looking through balls. Run around. Panic at the back. Make a few mistakes. Concede two. Ah well. 

 

#gaveiteverything 

[DerbyshireFox]

I have to say that’s the first home game I’ve been to since Oxford. First twenty minutes were quite encouraging, great start with the early goal. Then for whatever reason we took our foot off and let them into the game - complacent. Silly mistake for the first goal, switched off for the second. A game we should have won, but sloppiness and poor substitutions cost us three points. 
 

Stevenage were bang average, didn’t put us under loads of pressure. A game we should end up winning, we drop two points. And in reality, that is because we have become an average third tier side under this ownership, and certainly under this manager. 
 

This supposed 90pts target we have set ourselves is becoming less and less achievable given the start we’ve made.