Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:53 pm  

17th place would be a massive success this year, the only real goal is to stay up. What happens after that is a bonus.

23 points means that with 17 more (maximum) we would be safe. Could be less....

That’s 21 games to get 17 points. If we got 5 draws that leaves 16 games to get 4 wins. I’d be putting my money on now if I were a betting man.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:23 am  

Read an interesting piece on how Spurs basically managed Phillips out of the game.
Most of our play comes from Phillips and they stuck Ndomble on him and starved the feed to our wide players thus nullifying how we play.
Now not all teams will be capable of doing that but I guess that`s now down to Bielsa to work out how we overcome this if it does happen again.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:10 am  

A few of the better sides have done that to us with Philips. Man U, Leicester, Spurs etc. We don’t have the quality to adjust when it happens at the moment

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:46 am  

We do look ponderous at the back and are getting done for pace quite a bit in our final third.

But then again we do have x3 centre backs out and are very much ad-hoc at the moment.

Hopefully with troops back and a sensible transfer window we can get back some steel in the defence.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:22 pm  

1 point per game and we are safe as houses I think

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Tue Jan 05, 2021 1:09 pm  

I’m gutted football hasn’t been suspended. We’d have been nailed on for being champions after the break....

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Tue Jan 05, 2021 2:45 pm  

Sheesh, I mean, do these "pundits" all sit in a room and pick a crap opinion and then they all have to rote learn it and use it every time or?

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:14 pm  

They must do!

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:28 am  

Thoughts on today?

We’ve a wretched streak in the FA Cup.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:56 am  

Couldn't care less about the cup this year.