Relegation rivals MDT thread

Plymouth play at Home Park for those who like a drive at the weekend.

We haven't won in 8 games and have hovered around and about where we are now by pure luck as, OVERALL, other teams have been as crap as we are but are getting out of it one by one with fkn VICTORIES!!

We need to finally step up now and can't rely on others anymore to help us or we DESERVE to be relegated....

Very simple now for us, 6 out of six needed.

Truthfully can't even justify us staying up, weve been so catastrophically poor over the past 2 months, a situation brewed up by poor leadership from the top down.

Whatever the outcome of this season we need a complete overhaul and clear out of our overpaid and underperforming squad.

Well done Forest 10 points from their last 5 games. Arsenal were poor and lacked imagination against a team more determind for the win more than them. That said I was hoping Forest would lose today and give us better chance for survival as two from four much better than two from three.

After Everton's late point against Wolves they will likely finish with 36 points disposing of a Bounemouth team who reeached safety after a stunning 15 points in April. I really hope we play with as much grit and desire to stay in the Prem as we saw from Forest today and those who were also in the mix at the beginnng of April.

However we do now need a max 6 points to add to our 31 to finish ahead of Everton. And, as M'lud has already stated not impossibel but ....who knows !

It's in our own hands, a bit like it's in my hands to go out and successfully chat up beyoncè and marry her and live happily ever after. Neither are impossible but both are highly unlikely.

Unfortunately, I think the Fat Lady is starting to warm up her tonsils.😪

Well done arsenal you bottlers!

Can’t see Leicester not being relegated. Then, hoping that Arsenal beat Forest tonight, it’s between Forest, Everton and us.

Everton equalise 99th min ffs, 2 wins and were safe. Easy

Surely with Big Sam in charge we will be fkn flying into West Ham in the first 15mins.... like our old legends would have done.

They won't be up for it then and all of their pampered foreigners won't be going in for any tackles....

We should target Declan Rice, without injuring him, player by player and they won't want to know....

Got to be good for us----they wont get relegated and the Wet Spammers will want to avoid injurys before the final---its all in our hands--hopefully Forest & Everton will both trip up but at the end of the day-2 games-2 wins-6 points and we are safe-😉--Praying to the great ganja god lol

West ham won tonight.

Is this a good thing?

They safe on 37 with a decent goal difference.

They get 9 injuries tonight?

Hopefully they get stoned or the clap on the way home from Holland tonight.

Haha Kiwi but unfortunately the only reason we're not down already is cause other teams are as bad or worse than us!!

We keep relying on them to fk up and they do!

Perhaps if we relied on OURSELVES to get a WIN we'd have a chance of staying oop. We HAVE to go for it v West Ham whatever the other results the day before....

Just hope Big Sam plays a side to WIN and not just defend and hopefully nick one from a set piece....

Summerville, Gnonto etc need to play to create chances to score.... we CAN play football and CAN stay oop

TC-please let me hang on to my last straw lol 😥

Too much feel good factor on here and time for us to come back down to earth.... if Forest and Everton win on Saturday and we lose on Sunday, we're fkn relegated!! 😲🖕🥊🤬

m.lord----its in our hands---4 points and i reckon were safe--not impossible now we know Firpo wont be playing--need Rodrigo and Gnoto to start

Now let's hope forest and Everton lose on Saturday before we spectacularly thump WHU, come on Leeds! (Wolves and Arsenal!!!)

I'm oddly hopeful tonight.

3-0 COME ON LIVERPOOL---7 GOALS TO GET LOL

2-0 pool looks like they are settling for that

Come on Liverpool--think of the goal difference--WE WANT 10 LOL

It's why football is such a great game though and why we love it.... if every game finished with the team who's higher in the table winning, it'd be a boring game and we have the best league in the world.

Didn't we beat Citeh away a couple of seasons ago? We stuffed Chelscum 3-0 earlier in the season. We beat Liverpool away earlier in the season.... will the FA be looking into these results?

I know what is meant but surely our league has the most integrity in the world....?

My frustration, pretty much anger, with Brighton gets worse.

How do they end the title race by blowing away Arsenal in their own backyard? After submission to Forest and Everton in the last 2 weeks?

They've managed to interfere with both ends of the table in a short window by "choosing" when to play and when not to - at least it appears to me.

Integrity means nothing it appears 😡

Be great if Citeh didn't take their foot off the gas and get 2/3 more to get us the same goal difference.... that could be vital and worth a point to us

2-0 christ I wish everton had lost at Brighton

36 minutes and city not score

was hoping West Ham are going to win so they would be on the beach for Sunday but 1 - 0 down

Come on city put at least 6 past Everton today

We'll be automatically relegated anyway with a points deduction for the fkn idiot pitch invader having a go at Eddie Howe.... especially if MOTD highlight it tonight!!

After a draw, we're 1 point off safety..

here are the big games

Villa v Spuds (we need Spuds beaten to put them on the beach)

Chelsea v Forest

Everton v Man City

Leicester v Liverpool

Spammers are safe. Like others hope next weeks Europa game goes to ET and they get through. Then they can rest their big guns v us.

FFS Brighton threw in the towel v 2 relegation teams!

TC---I am too rapped about the result--they will be saving there bubbles for the final whilst we sneak up on the southerners and BURST there bubble and take 3 points----😎

Its Friday morning and will be finished at work in 2 hours---Stoned and plissed by tea-time lol---Welcome to the week-end

Great result for us tonight with West Ham winning and hopefully they'll get to the Europa Conference final....

They're clear from relegation and play us 2wks before the final so won't want anyone injured....

Hopefully they'll play a weakened team, although probably not allowed, but even if they do play a strong team we need to fire in fkn HARD for the first 15mins and they will hopefully roll over for us!!

GET INTO THEM, FK EM OOP....

Sticking the neck out her but i think we can get 5 points--DRAW-DRAW-WIN---will leave us on 35 points---i am at work so no pharmacueticals were used in this post lol-😘-------SAINTS-FOREST-FOXES TO GO DOWN

Remaining fixtures

Nottingham Forest - Chelsea (A), Arsenal (H), Palace (A)

Everton - Man City (H), Wolves (A), Bournemouth (H)

Leicester City - Liverpool (H), Newcastle (A), West Ham (H)

Leeds United - Newcastle (H), West Ham (A), Tottenham (H)

Southampton - Fulham (H), Brighton (A), Liverpool (H)

Time to believe!!!

I cannot see Forest getting any points, Everton may get 4 points, Leicester 3 points, Saints maybe 1 point.

I am sure we can get 6 points minimum

Table would then be

Everton 36 points

Leeds 36 points

Forest 34 points

Leicester 33 points

Southampton 25 points

I've worked out on my super predictions computer that Leicester will get 2 more points, Forest 3 points and Everton either 4 or 6 points.... this will mean we have to get 2 wins and 6 points to relegate Forest on goal difference.

I thought we were definitely down but other teams are as crap and inconsistent as us.

I think we COULD get a point v Newcastle, a win at West Ham if they're concentrating on Europe and who knows which Spurs team will turn up whether they're going for Europe or not!

I'm a bit more positive than I was before I saw others fixtures but on our day we can play many teams off the park....

It's doable but only in our own hands to get the wins ourselves.... that could be where my argument falls down!

I call for a investigation into the Everton result. Both teams i this game did a full reverse in form.

Sorry BB but if we can get 184m for the players you have named then I'd like you to be in charge to sell them.... I agree those players will leave but my valuations would be:

Meslier.... 10

Koch....10

Rodrigo.... 5

Gnonto 20

Llorente.... 5

Adams.... 20

James.... 5

Roberts....2 but will probably stay!

Costa, Shacks, Poveda .... Free

I think Strujik will stay but if not 5?

Add in Sinesterra 10

Summerville 8

Firpo.... 3

Bamford 8

The thing is are the youngsters good enough!?

If we bought in a few would the youngsters even get a chance!?

We would have the most transfer kitty to spend in the Championship with incoming fees, parachute payments and, hopefully, the 69ers money but....

Tough decisions to be made....

I really hoped this thread would be surplus to requirements by now and we would have stormed up the league but at this rate it won't be needed soon as we will be officially relegated and won't give a damn how Forest are doing.

What a shambles of a season, well 2 seasons really.

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Time to consider which players would stay wih us if we go down.

Doubt many will give us one more year.

Ayling, Cooper, Dallas, Forshaw (contract renewed) + some U21s who know they will now get chance - Greenwood, Jospeh, Perkins, Geldhart, Gray, Gyabi, Hjelde, Bate, Cresswell maybe Drameh too.

Then the rest will see who wants them before the decide. Most will not find anyone.

Can see these going - Meslier £25million, Koch £20million, Llorente £10million, Struijk £15 million, Adams £25 million, Harrison £25 million, Gnonto £35 million, Rodrigo £10 million, Costa £5 million, Shacks £1 million, Roberts £2 million, Poveda £1 milion, James £10 million = £184 million

If we are skilled negotiators, which we are not, these players could bring in £240 million.

At the lower end, it would give the manager £80 million to spend in the summer.

I may not ever wanted Sam to get the gig but I think he could get us up with that kitty.

We keep relying on other teams to do us a favour but never rely on Leeds United to do us a favour!

The other teams round us will be paying Big Sam backhanders to stay with us....

Just unbelievablely shocking how we can spend millions on Bielsa and a long term plan and less than 2yrs later have Western Mackenzie taking long throws from the RB position....

We badly need soton to somehow get an equaliser as even a win and 2 draws won't keep us up....!!

Think we may need 36 points minimum. Beat Barcodes, Spammers and Spuds and we have 9! It really is that easy.

What a crap day of football Fulham do their job Brighton throw it and Southampton well

.. And so it has come to pass...after Everton win tonigh. The P1ss poor recruitment from Victor with Radz inactive throughout the process, (just hoping for the best) gambling on bargain basement buys. Total lack of strategic thinking with choices of management. This is what has cost the club is premier status and likely cost Radz 300m.

F...ing furious ! We all saw this one coming a long time ago they for some reason didn't.

Radz out!

No doubt Forest will beat Saints tonight, just to compound the misery!

Everton..... oh sweet mercy.

2-0 up at the Amex...

Leicester lost 5-3, were 5-1 down so clawed something back on GD (a loss is loss which is all we needed really)

Now for Brighton & Saints to pick up their 3 points and its been a good Monday for LUFC

TBF west ham were never really in "trouble", now that they have all but secured survival id say Moyes will want to wrap his players in cotton wool for their European fixtures, so good luck to them on that score, That penalty shout right on the stroke of HT in the game just goes to prove that football is rotten to the core, a fcking blind would see that ffs, but it was against one of the big boys so play on???

Saints must beat forest tonight if forest win that's our death nail as i don't see us "winning" any game from the next three, draws yes but no win sadly. I think the most we get is 32 points, so we are dependent on other teams losing their games in order for us to stay up.

How just how did this squad of players let it get to this? i still reckon something happened in the dressing room at HT in the Palace game and the players haven't been united since.

So looking at the table, if things go horribly wrong tonight then we could be 2nd bottom by 10pm!.

Have to hope Saints beat Forest now

West Ham lost

Assuming Southampton are down, I have worked out Everton, Leicester and Forest will all definitely lose 2 of their remaining 4 games....

They all have one winnable game and a draw.... that means we need at least 4pts to make sure on goal difference!!

A win and a draw for us v West Ham and Spurs.... if we could somehow manage to get a point at either Citeh or Newcastle that could be vital.

Jeez, I've just realised what I posted above! 🙈😲🤔🙈

So after the disaster at Dean Court, is anyone even watching tonights' matchup between relegation rivals Leicester and Everton?

I will, but not sure if it matters any more.

good results Saturday for us but I still think we need 6 or 7 points from last 5 games to stay up ..hopefully Leicester Everton is a draw with loads of injuries & red cards! ..

We need he win on Sunday v Bournemouth then we have 4 games where we would be lucky to get 2 points.

Everton, Foxes, Saints and Forest all have 1 winnable game and 4 difficult ones too.

It may be settled by goal difference.

CHINK OF LIGHT!!!

Everton getting whupped at home

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Marcus Tavernier - Bournemouth's top scorer has just limped off, visibly upset..... looks out of our match...

Trying to find the positives

Doesn't matter if we can't beat another straggler Sunday.

We were going to be safe by now by beating (mainly at home) all the detritus around us in April.

Come on Newcastle, keep it up..

If we have to pay another 4m for a Gnonto appearance, then why is he on the bench.... it's a lose lose situation as will piiss the fans off when he's not brought on even when we're losing!

That 'ploy' by the owners etc simply will not work for another 5 games.... I'm sure that's not the case

Who's watching the Southampton game tonight, don't know what I want to happen really. I mean if Southampton win then we beat bournmouth we would go above them.

Forest gave it their all last night but it was a bloody good time to play Brighton after the cup defeat.

We would have probably still lost though.

I have no hope of us staying up. If we can beat Bournemouth then it gives us a slight slight chance but I don't think we will.

Team full of fannies, mentally and physically ( maybe not all of them but you know who I mean).

If Gnonto plays (If If If the doylum in charge picks him) then that will give us a lift.

Because of Citeh heavy run in and trying to get silverware in 3 competitions they'll play a weakened side against us which should mean we'll get at least a point as Walker, Laporte, Foden, Mahrez, Alvarez will be playing.... and maybe even Kalvin!

So the large lady is clearing her throat backstage for a few teams, and tonight will make sh*t real for 2 more teams.

Ideally Boringmouth and Barcodes to win tonight, with brentford to beat forest on Saturday, Newcastle to beat Southampton on Sunday & Everton to beat Foxes on Monday, but none of that matters unless we ACTUALLY WIN our game against bournemouth on Sunday.

Personally its down to pride now and while i was watching City/Arsenal last night my brother told me (forest fan) the Forest players never gave up even when they missed a peno and went one down they never let the heads drop

WE CANT SAY THAT about our players and they need to show what fight they have left for our jersy otherwise they can all be sold in the summer (no exceptions) and start afresh with new manager and new squad in Championship (probably end up in L1 doing that but fck it if the people in the Club CARE about LUFC i personally think thats the starting point for anyone associated with our great Club).

I want to stay in the PL dont get me wrong and i firmly believe this squad has more than enough quality to stay up but quality accounts for little if desire is in short supply.

Sadly tho as i look across the fields the dark clouds are gathering overhead and i fear LUFC wont be highest ranked team in Yorkshire next season

PROVE ME WRONG PLAYERS,

PROVE ME WRONG

Can't expect everyone else to keep losing...they won't as evidenced tonight.

Got to get our own shi'ite in order and win games.

It's looking bleak.

I can't see hammers getting relegated much as I would like them to so if either team has to win I would rather it was them. We don't want saints getting 3 pts.

Like you say we just need to be concentrating on forest and Palace at home.

So looking at the bottom 9 teams this weekend and the games they have

Ideally Fulham and Spurs win, keeping Boringmouth and everton below us for a start.

then possibly a draw for palace and wolves will keep another 2 teams below us (forest & foxes)

Then whats best for the hammers/saints game? a draw keeps both below us but that would mean 4 teams below us all pick up something from the weekend where realistically we wont get anything against Arsenal, do we really want teams stacking up behind us or would it be better to have 2 teams cut adrift and take our chances to stay out of the dreaded 18th spot??

For me id take 0 pts on Saturday in the hope that we take all 3 against Forest next Tuesday night.

Nerves are beginning to build up

Palace losing 2-0

Like TC I wold start Gyabi. He is quicker, more mobile and more physical than Roca.

But Roca has "experience"

Florists are doing ok at the City Ground (11th in the home table) and yes i think barcodes are way better than them but they might manage a point come 10 o clock tomorrow night.

Again we will be hoping for Spurs, Villa, City, Arsenal & Chelsea to do us a favour and win thier games but it really wont matter much to us if that happens and we dont take the three points on Saturday.

Forest v Newcastle next up. Would be a great start to the weekend if Newcastle win but it will be a tough task.

Haway the lads

Everyone in bottom half playing a team from top half at weekend...except leeds v wolfs.

Should be mid table by Sunday evening 🙄