Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:34 am  

Biff Tannen wrote:

part of me is rooting for WBA to beat Brentford to second. can't do with Frank and all the massive sky love in for them at the minute. they are a mickey mouse club with a mickey mouse fan base and the PL has far too many of those clubs already.

Agree but all i care about is that Leeds get promotion as quickly as possible but I do hope West Brom get there not Brentford.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:21 pm  

Awful tonight and the loss of Phillips was as I feared but we dug in a got 3 points. We are not the same team without a good defensive mid.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:40 pm  

awful performance but big 3 points. could be up tomorrow if the dog botherers can hold west brom.

i wish Bielsa would not move white when phillips is out why we don't just bring shackleton in that role and keep everything else the same i don't know way too much tinkering tonight. Struijk looked capable he shored it up when he came on. i would play him there on sunday at Derby.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:07 pm  

Agree Biff.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:47 pm  

It's within touching distance now. So close. Poor performance, but winning titles is as much about winning when you don't play well as anything. It shows the mentality is strong.

Not sure who I'd want to come up with us really, living in nottinghamy it would be nice for them to be in the premiership, but they feel a very average team.

I can't see whichever of West brom and Brentford doesn't go up automatically making it through the playoffs

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:25 am  

Biff Tannen wrote:

awful performance but big 3 points. could be up tomorrow if the dog botherers can hold west brom.

i wish Bielsa would not move white when phillips is out why we don't just bring shackleton in that role and keep everything else the same i don't know way too much tinkering tonight. Struijk looked capable he shored it up when he came on. i would play him there on sunday at Derby.

Said the same thing Biff.
Too much tinkering unsettles the team.
Why put Ayling in the middle when most of our success has come down the right from Ayling.
Strujik or Shackleton to replace Phillips and Douglas in for Dallas who has looked poor these last 2 games.
Barnsley must have had Bamford up front as they created so many chances and looked better than us.
They also have a good young team and decent manager shame they won`t stay up.
We have 2 wingers who can`t cross a ball and a centre forward who can`t score goals yet we still got the 3 points.
Play like that against Derby and even Charlton and we could lose both.
Yes i`m the ever eternal pessimist but it is LUFC were talking about.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:39 am  

Yeah I’m hoping we don’t need anything at Derby.. but I doubt we’ll play that badly again. Bielsa will learn from it. Interesting that Bamford said nerves played a part. We’re under extra pressure playing last. Difficult set of cards dealt as always

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:54 am  

thankfully Derby have nothing to play for and are not a very good side on recent evidence. having more time to reflect you pay credit to Barnsley they were fantastic last night god knows how they are bottom. i could see them staying up if they replicate that for the next two.

tough games for WBA and Brentford over next two days, Huddersfield and Stoke away neither will lie down we could be promoted and champions without kicking a ball

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:00 am  

Wonder what the EFL are going to do when they finally lose their big cash cow?

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:34 pm  

Willzay wrote:

Wonder what the EFL are going to do when they finally lose their big cash cow?

Deduct us 12 points for being Champions