Raspeir

Just listening for the first time - fantastic work guys. Very insightful and brilliantly articulates the experience of being a fan over the last few years. Great insight into the malaise that surrounds the club as a whole at the moment, and so much common sense in there that I just wish the senior leadership would listen to!

Spot on. Fitness, strength and athleticism are everything. Not only from a physical point of view, but a psychological one too. If you know you have the strength, pace, energy and power to outperform your opponents, then it's a massive boost mentally as you feel you can bully them in the game. If you know they'll shirk a challenge, you'll go in harder. If you know they'll get knocked off the ball, you'll be more direct in a challenge. That's what's happening to us every single game. It was something that Pearson and co were acutely aware of, and built a mentality around. We've developed a soft underbelly and shirk away from things rather than stepping up and getting aggressive. Footballers play so much better if they have a bit of bite in their game, but without the strength and power there can be none of that - we've developed a culture of softly softly that simply doesn't work in L1. We need an O'Neill or a Pearson to really start making demands and pushing the boundaries of what the players believe they are capable of physically. There have to be higher standards.

One of the main issues is we keep promoting from within for senior business roles. We need a full reset and some outside ideas to really look at the business and be ruthless when it comes to the major failings. The core leadership team need their marching orders and we need successful business leaders to build the new structure. Rudkin has a monopoly on the whole situation and whilst he is untouchable cronyism will rule. Top desperately needs independent guidance, not more people serving their own and their masters’ benefit.

This is the first time in my life I've really started to worry that the club could genuinely go out of business. Even during the administration years I always felt that it as a club would survive and be turned around as the city got behind it. Now, in such a fractured environment, the mismanagement at the core of the entire structure is decimating the long term prospects of recovery. We're way over leveraged and in a position where without immediate improvement on the field prompting a strong recovery, combined with new investment, we could genuinely find ourselves in very serious trouble.

Very very glad to see the back of him. I was appalled when he was give the armband and it summed up the lack of true leadership, professional pride and accountability within the club. Originally had the potential to have been a very good player, as there was raw talent there, but his attitude and behaviour off the field was very much in tune with the lack of professionalism within the club over the last few years. Another bad apple on a wage way above his contribution that we now finally have rid of.

Wishing the lad well. Really hope he makes a solid recovery, even if it’s a long road. Hopefully he sees common sense also and signs a new deal - if the club have left it on the table of course. Would be a show of faith from him and the club, although I appreciate we haven’t the finances for philanthropy. Often it’s over 12 months recovery so it wouldn’t do him any harm to have a bit of security and be able to make a solid rehabilitation plan. In the meantime though I hope the operation goes well and they have a good plan for him in place.

Just a heads up for any Leicester fans who subscribed to the Foxes Hub “Audio Monthly Game Pass” to go check your bank/PayPal accounts. Despite the season having ended and there being no more fixtures, my subscription has just auto-renewed and taken another payment. Worth checking in case the same has happened to you. This may be the same for video passes too but I'm not sure? I’ve contacted StreamAMG to request a refund and cancellation. If useful, I got ChatGPT to write a template message you can send to them at: [email protected] ---- Subject: Unexpected Renewal Charge – Leicester City Audio Pass Dear Sir/Madam, I’ve just noticed that my Leicester City Audio Monthly Game Pass has renewed and charged my account, despite the season having now ended and there being no remaining Leicester City fixtures covered by the package. The pass description specifically referred to access for Leicester City Championship, Carabao Cup and FA Cup matches, so I do not believe this latest renewal charge is appropriate. Please could you refund the most recent payment and cancel the subscription so that no further charges are taken. Kind regards, [Your Name] ---- Hopefully saves a few people getting caught out paying for something they shouldn't be charged for.

Only possible positives I can see are: The ending of several contracts of overpaid and toxic characters whose contracts we can feel pretty confident the club now won't attempt to renew. The fact that the wages of other bad apples who remain will hopefully be on a lower basic wage, meaning we'll now hopefully be able to move some of them on and out too - so often the barrier to getting rid of scumbags in the dressing room has been that we are paying them more than anyone else would ever be crazy enough to. If they've had their wages halved twice over the last two seasons (wishful thinking perhaps) then at least those wages may be within the ballpark of what other clubs higher up the league would be willing to pay. We bring in a coach that will give some of the talented youth a chance, and can use the opportunity to build a foundation for them so we have some players to be proud of again and who can bring some revenue back in to the club in the long run through earning moves at a higher level. We get chance to finally clear the decks enough to finally re-set the energy of the club and make it enjoyable to go to games again. I'd take a less-talented team that fights and tries hard, giving the blood and sweat that we would give, over the bunch of overpaid and entitled fashionistas we have at the moment, as I'm sure would pretty much all.

Couldn't agree more with everything you've said here. It feels as though the club has lost its heart and soul. I mean that as much in a literal as well as a figurative sense. The thing that made it special and that made miracles happen. The core of everything. Pearson, Shakey, Walsh - along with Way and the rest of the team were all people that had slogged their way up the ladder. They weren't fashionable, they weren’t cool, they weren't entitled. They were real, solid, honest pros that valued their opportunities and gave everything. They worked their absolute backsides off and found innovative and forward-thinking ways to take players that had been ordinary as individual athletes (as ordinary as any professional footballer can be) and turn them into a team that was truly exceptional. Combined with the incredible recruitment that plucked the occasional superstar out of nowhere too. Vichai saw that, because he'd build his business in exactly the same way. You're bang on that the club has neglected those key elements of the infrastructure that were the foundation to everything. It has been filled with people that are way too comfortable. The people here now have been born into comfort or become incredibly comfortable through the complacency of time. Lost is the raw desire that comes with professionals who have a point to prove, people who don't feel they 'deserve' to achieve, but who desperately feel they 'have' to achieve. Fighting as though their livelihoods depended on it, as it so often did. It feels like the club needs to re-discover that, and everything you've said here would be important steps on the way forwards.

So, years of mismanagement, years of complacency, years of appalling fiscal planning and a complete naiveite when it comes to forward thinking strategies to manage worst-case scenarios. We all are witnessing the absolutely gutting scenario of the team we force ourselves to watch every week being humiliated again and again. I often look at the business, and the club, and consider what I'd do if I was in the thick of it, and could actually influence the decision making going forwards. So, my question to everyone is what would YOU do if you were handed the reigns of the club tomorrow. I'm talking from say a DOF standpoint. If Rudkin was finally unglued from his supposedly immoveable perch, and, in a flash of Championship Manager / Football Manager'esque brilliance, you found yourself parachuted in to the top job. What would be the key points you'd look to change, both immediately, and in terms of long term strategy? A stringent wage cap? Would you pay someone to take a heat gun to all the faded blue seats? How would you re-connect with the fans? Would you look to re-jig the squad's use of the training ground in order to create a bit more professionalism? What would you look to do with the management team and structure? There must be a bunch of people on here that run successful companies, in various different fields. All with different experience of tough economic times. There must also be a bunch of young and enthused young people that see the world through new and innovative eyes. There must also people that see things from the front lines of the workforce and can see where the people up top are getting it wrong. I'd love to know what you'd do if you were given that top job.