Would you take two wins and keeping Brendan Rodgers, or two defeats and sacking him?
Jordan Halford: Take the points!
One thing I've never understood is people actually wanting their own team to lose so the manager gets sacked, so definitely not. Our current malaise is far bigger than the future of Brendan Rodgers, it's about the security of our football club.
It seems like one step forward and two steps back after the Bournemouth defeat so it's imperative we get six points from our next two home games. If we were to lose them, we could be marooned at the bottom of the table and potentially without a manager or any direction.
One thing is certain is that something needs to change and quickly otherwise we could be looking at a relegation battle, if we're not already. If we can get 10 points from the first 11 games, whilst not spectacular it would allay the fears a little bit.
I'm still not in panic mode, but if we're still in the bottom three by the start of the World Cup alarm bells certainly will be ringing.
Becky Taylor: Get him gone!
For me, two wins won't keep us up, but sacking Brendan Rodgers will (give us a fighting chance). Two wins would be a bit of additional paper over the huge cracks we have.
Don't get me wrong, I never want us to lose a game, but if it was a question of choose one with no explanation it'd have to be the latter.
I see it as the classic 'short term gain - long term pain’ vs, ‘short term pain - long term gain'. For how much pain there's been inflicted watching us for the majority of the last 18 months, the pain of two more losses, which feel inevitable anyway, for the guarantee of a change in feeling and mentality around the place for the rest of the season, I think I'm in.
Chloe Dexter: Take the points!
As much as I cannot stand Brendan, I can’t bring myself to wish that we lose. The next two games are vital, and if we were to lose both then we’d be so far adrift that our survival hopes would be basically gone.
That being said, if we do win both I have no faith that it’d be a corner turned. I think it would just paper over the cracks (again) and, ultimately, it’s gone too far for Brendan to turn it around here in the longer term.
Helen Thompson: Get him gone!
See, even the hypothetical questions make it feel like there's no good end in sight for this club. That or the editors are sitting there murmuring 'for the greater good' in response to the second option.
I'm not sure I can watch us suffer two more defeats if it means more crumbling mentality and ridiculous defending but honestly, something has to change and while Brendan isn't responsible for everything wrong in the club (see the under 23s getting annihilated a la Southampton), he doesn't appear to have much remaining influence to bring such change either. I'm tempted to say this second option but only as I'm struggling to see us stringing consecutive wins together right now anyway.
You should never want your own team to lose even if there is a bigger end goal in sight, but two more wins wouldn't guarantee anything. It could be another flash in the pan, papering over the cracks in the short term, like the Forest game. At least it would give us some respite from having to listen to the same press conferences answers stuck on a loop.
Iain Wright: Take the points!
I've never been in a position where I want us to lose and don't intend to start now.
It's clear for all to see that a parting of the ways is coming, it's just a matter of time - Sunday if we lose vs Palace, stretching all the way to a 'mutual agreement' in the summer if Brendan somehow turns this around, as I'm still not convinced he actually wants to be here. This will be his last season regardless in my opinion.
In a relegation battle (which this absolutely is now) every game is vital. Therefore, we have to WANT to win as we can't let even more games tick by in the hope of a change later.
Elliott Butlin: Get him gone!
The next two games are home games against Palace & Leeds. Both are very winnable, both should be won by Leicester. Both need to be won by Leicester. In the interests of short-term thinking, the answer would be to take the two victories and gamble on them generating much needed momentum to start climbing the league. Two wins would see us move up the table, and probably out of the relegation zone, and give us a chance of some positivity around the club, which has been lacking for obvious reasons recently.
However, where it becomes more complicated is how keeping him affects us long-term. The victory over Forest and the feel-good factor lasted a few days before reality bit against Bournemouth. Gambling on two victories to generate momentum would fly in the face of the evidence so far this season. Considering our problems are 18 months deep and so entrenched it would feel like the stickiest of sticking plasters if we did win back to back games. Forest should have been the turnaround, Forest was not the turnaround. The same issues resurfaced yet again, with the manager apparently clueless to stop them.
Two defeats but losing Brendan would give a new manager 27 games to get us to the 40 point marker. Given the quality that is in the squad, it is not impossible that under a new regime we could string some results together and climb out of danger quickly. One win against a terrible Forest team does not change the fundamental issues that we have at the club. For the good of the club over the long-term, Brendan has to go, so as much as it pains me to say it, I would take two defeats if it meant losing him.
Elliott Butlin
Matt Jedruch: Take the points!
As tempting as it would be to take two defeats in exchange for a managerial change which could benefit the club in the long term, the next two games are at home against the sort of opposition we need to beat if we are to stay up (I can’t believe it’s come to this). That must be the priority.
Yes, it would likely extend Rodgers’ tenure, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t seem like the club is going to budge after our ‘season-changing’ performance against Forest.
In an ideal world, the two wins would be the ugliest smash and grabs in recent memory, just to remind the board that the same old problems still exist.
James Knight: Get him gone!
We are going down with Rodgers as manager. Sacrificing six points now is worth it to have a chance for any fun, enjoyment, or wins over the 27 games afterwards.
For the greater good!
Jamie Thorpe: Take the points!
Two wins. My days, if you offered me two guaranteed wins right now, against two sides that are very much in the bottom half of the table then I would bite your hand and likely most of your arm off too.
The problem is, is that this squad is completely bereft of confidence. What was most telling throughout the Bournemouth fixture was a complete and utter lack of fight or conviction from, well, anyone at all. What momentum we had all hoped to have generated from the Forest win disappeared into the South Coast sky without so much of a whimper in protest from any of the Leicester players.
And it’s that word, momentum that is so, so important given our precarious position. It’s what you need in order to cobble together by hook or by crook, those precious points.
In reality, Leicester’s target for the season is the magic 40 points (which in reality is more like 36 on average), meaning they need about 9 wins in order to stay up. To be offered two of them, on a platter, is something that they really cannot afford to turn down at the moment as let’s be honest, you wouldn’t back us against at least 19 (well 18) of the Premier League’s other teams.
Ryan Hubbard: Take the points!
Given the board's unwillingness to take any action so far, I'd take the victories any day.
Jonny Evans said after the international break that the players were relieved to see Rodgers still in place; if that's to be believed, they really aren't keen on a change at the helm. While a change of manager might kick the team into gear, there's also the worry of how some of our better players - the one we really don't want to be losing in January - might take it.
If we can win the next two, it may also mean that he's found a solution to the team's fragility. Not that I've got much hope for that.
But to turn this around he needs to start accepting the harsh reality of where we find ourselves, and his own role in us being there. We may have a side capable of challenging higher up, but we're at the bottom because we deserve to be - and his decisions have contributed to that.
David Bevan: Take the points!
I'll take the wins, thank you. There are lot of very average teams in this league, as evidenced by last night's game between Forest and Villa. I didn't watch it, but I had multiple messages from people who did saying how poor both sides were and that was no surprise. A couple of wins to get us up into that pack, both in front of a home crowd, would make things look very different.
If we lose the next two, we're starting to get into miracle territory already because our next four after that are Manchester City (write-off) and three away games (which are, these days, also write-offs) before the World Cup.
Of course, we might end up losing two and keeping Rodgers judging by the club's current approach but let's see how a toxic home crowd goes down with the owners if that happens.
