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Reply | Just back
at 08:48 25 Jan 2026
I think that would have been very good foresight.
However, to be fair, Mbengue has lasted the duration in every game he has played until now and so there were reasons to believe that he should have been a bit more careful
What pissed me off was that we didn't really get a right back in when it happened
I'm not actually sure that the team was rearranged into a 4-4-1
I would have liked to have seen Daniel Bennie go in there immediately - but we just kind of played on, but without a designated right back [Post edited 25 Jan 8:49]
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 00:12 25 Jan 2026
Marti was a great fit. He found a way more than a few times when we looked to be in hot water. Seems to be going the other way under JS's team. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:50 23 Jan 2026
West Brom are in a spot of bother, aren't they ? They need to get an experienced head in there. Is Tony Mowbray still on the manager merry go-round ? [Post edited 23 Jan 21:52]
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Reply | Madsen
at 16:51 21 Jan 2026
Agree with your disagree.
A lot of the improvement is down to the fact that he is now playing deeper where there is more time and space to pass accurately, with the corollary being that his passing has less impact on our play in the final third.
His all round game has improved a lot, I agree, but our best player ? Nope, doesn't stand out for me |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 16:16 19 Jan 2026
I don't mind him replying to threads - because his replies usually get drowned by the large majority of realistic replies.
What really gets on my tits though is the barrage of antagonistic threads he starts, seemingly only ever with the aim of negatively criticising what he happens not to like and seemingly never praising any of the many good things about the club. [Post edited 19 Jan 18:22]
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Reply | Mbengue
at 19:04 17 Jan 2026
He's fine, we don't need to get on his case. The red cards haven't materialised as everyone foretold and he is consistently putting in solid performances. An automatic starter every game. |
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 18:59 17 Jan 2026
I think Alfie Lloyd will be on the bench. It was evident today that we don't have the pace to get in behind and we never really looked like scoring. I know he is gangly but Alfie Lloyd can take a defender on with pace. Today we never looked like scoring and it will have brought it home to the club that what we need up front is pace, pace and more pace. |
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Reply | Playing 11 a side football
at 17:50 15 Jan 2026
I've run a Sunday morning team for 26 years, playing for about the first 10 or 12 but only managing since about 2012 as I found it difficult to come to terms with the fact that my legs had gone (speed-wise, not in terms of stamina). If I have to come on at all these days (due to no shows, injuries etc.) I get incredibly frustrated that I can't keep up but having run the club for 26 years I'm pretty good at denying any responsibility if I am at fault for any goals being conceded. I've also learned that you want players who are going to stick with you 100% through thick and thin. Probably works like that at professional level too. |
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Reply | LFW Message Board Glossary
at 10:52 14 Jan 2026
'The game's gone'
Sweeping, all encompassing generalisation for anything new which doesn't chime with the Corinthian spirit in which watery eyed nostalgists think the game should be played
Usually forgotten as soon as the next 'game has gone' occurrence comes along |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 21:30 9 Jan 2026
Brilliant news. Brilliant addition. Loved his contribution last year. Him and Jim are going to smash it. |
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Reply | Daniel Bennie
at 21:08 8 Jan 2026
He's much more orthodox than many of our attacking players. The one strength he has got is his physical strength. He makes significant progress against U21 defenders due to his strength and he isn't scared to battle 1st team defenders in 50:50's. Plus he can get a shot away. In a year or two he is going to be a useful target man and front runner. [Post edited 8 Jan 21:09]
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 20:21 6 Jan 2026
Yeah, he was decent. Particularly for his age (18). We kept him pretty quiet but one of the tricks he pulled out on the halfway line was absurd. |
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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 19:56 4 Jan 2026
I thought Varane was OK the minutes that he was on. He's quicker than Hayden (and Field) and has a good knack of nipping in and nicking the ball off opposition players.
Regarding Bannon, is it any wonder that he looks shot ? He's had to play every minute this season while all else around him has been falling apart. I admire him. |
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Reply | Retiring from football
at 18:01 2 Jan 2026
Very interesting article. Really well written. I think he is going to get a lot of work as a sports psychologist. |
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Reply | Goals conceded around Half Time - Mentality Minions?
at 23:52 1 Jan 2026
Interesting reading
I agree we have a problem with conceding goals around half-time, particularly at the re-start.
I think it's just a matter of some of the players not being fast enough after a 15 minute break in a warm changing room and if I was the manager I would get the fitness coach to make them do a minute of shuttles on the pitch before the second half kicked off. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 23:43 1 Jan 2026
I don't think the comparisons with former players are hugely relevant. We are where we are in terms of players and the fact that we have had to recruit our front two from Wycombe and Burton cannot really be changed.
The point I was making is that Norwich had our formation and game plan worked out from the first minute to the last and even when the substitutions came, nothing changed because Poku and Saito came on and did exactly the same as what Demebele and Smyth had done. So Norwich just had to carry on the same, safe in the knowledge that we would have no shots on goal.
What he could have done, at some stage was to get Kone or Burrell off, bring Kolli on as a genuine no. 10 and try 4-2-3-1 and playing through them from 40 yards out. But we just kept plugging away with our predictable 4-4-2 and the same happens on a regular basis when we cannot get a breakthrough. [Post edited 1 Jan 23:45]
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 18:57 1 Jan 2026
I don't think it was all down to the mentality of the players. I don't think he is telling the full story. For me, Norwich were totally comfortable with our two up front all game and thereafter they just had to keep track of our wide players. I would have liked to have seen him change to one up front and three behind during the course of the game and to try to knit some moves together from outside the box. We really didn't play much in the no. 10 area at all today. |
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Reply | Angelo Balanta
at 18:37 31 Dec 2025
We got Angelo Balanta from a local grass roots level. I think he has done alright for himself, making a career out of the game and continuing until his mid-thirties. This was no Premier team prodigy who fell off a ladder. He was a local boy who stepped up from the base of the footballing pyramid. [Post edited 31 Dec 2025 19:32]
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Reply | Smyth
at 18:33 31 Dec 2025
Delighted with this. He epitomises what I like to see in any footballer. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 21:23 29 Dec 2025
I'm beginning to worry that it's all a bit random with JS. Sublime one minute, dirge the rest and he doesn't really know why. |
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