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2 hours ago, SecretPro said:

Just so those who keep tagging me in the Rohl and New Manager threads are aware...I can't currently post on either thread so as a result of that I shall be keeping shtum! 

Has any reason been given for this? 
 

Has someone at the club been on to the mods/owner of the forum?

If it’s between waiting another week to get Rohl or getting Wilder in today, I’m waiting another week, maybe even two.

Some of you lot need to have a long hard look at yourselves. It’s driving some of you insane, you’d happily take Wilder or Hassenhutl? Jesus wept.

As good as our squad is for this league I just have this horrible feeling the season is going to hit us like a steam train.
 

There must be some complacency at the club with how well we did in 23/24 that we’ll be there or thereabouts again but it’s becoming almost negligible now. New manager should be in day 1 of pre-season to set the tone and standard for the season. 

3 hours ago, FOXYTALK said:

Why was this photo taken in 1973?

22 minutes ago, em9999 said:

The toilets have been worked on and the seat's have been individually cleaned (within tbe time limits the staff have had),  unfortunately through the faded ones have not been replaced or only some of them have 

I’m sure I saw a video on Twitter or Tik tok where you can recolour the seats with a blow torch or something, surely they can pay some handy man (or men) to go round the stadium blowtorching the seats back to colour?
 

Unless I dreamed this in which case ignore me 

2 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

My own personal experience of the club and its strange behaviour regarding social media content was last season when I did my 5km runs each and every day to raise money for Prostate Cancer, I completed a run at the KP and the club were brilliant in making it happen, even had Filbert run round with me on a lap or two, before hand whilst on my health & safety lap the club shared a planned social media post they had written to help raise awareness and also heavily promote the support club had given to me, if would also include a link to my just giving page. I even had confirmation of the planned date it would be published and had to confirm final approval. &nbsp
 

anyway the planned day of publication came and went and when I chased my contact at the club he embarrassingly had to confirm it had been pulled by someone higher up. 

Wow. I wonder why they did that?

The cynic in me thinks that they cancelled it in case people saw the club being helpful and supportive and then had more requests to do the same for others = more work for them longer term. Sad times.

Wow what amazing news!

Foxes Reignite the Fire: Vardy and Pearson Return to Lead Leicester Revival

VAR-Fetched News, Midlands football correspondent, Nick Mashiter reports:

In a sensational double coup few could have foreseen, Leicester City have stunned the football world by announcing the return of two club legends — Jamie Vardy and Nigel Pearson — as part of a bold bid to claw their way back to the Premier League at the first time of asking.

After a torrid 2024/25 campaign that saw the Foxes crash out of the top flight with barely a whimper, the King Power faithful were in desperate need of hope. Today, they got it in abundance.

Jamie Vardy, the talismanic striker whose rags-to-riches rise from non-league obscurity to Premier League champion became the stuff of footballing folklore, has signed a new 12-month deal with the club he calls home. Now 38, the evergreen forward has vowed to give it one last push, determined to fire Leicester back into the big time.

But the surprises didn’t stop there.

In a move that sent shockwaves through the East Midlands and beyond, Leicester also confirmed the return of Nigel Pearson — the man who twice guided the club to promotion and laid the foundations for their miraculous 2016 title triumph. Appointed on a 12-month contract, Pearson has been tasked with nothing less than a top-to-bottom reset, with a clear remit to sort the club from top to tail: first team, coaching setup, and academy all included.

Supporters, who had grown disillusioned after a fractured and feeble campaign, have reacted with unbridled joy. Social media lit up within minutes of the announcement, with hashtags like #VardyReturns and #PearsonComeback trending across the country.

One fan wrote: “It feels like we’ve got our club back. Vardy’s back. Nige is back. Let’s get this place rocking again.”

I hope they don’t have any of those nasty baby s**t green tracksuits for training this season.
 

I remember seeing a picture of Steve Cooper in them at the beginning of last season and thought to myself, if you saw you’re gaffer looking like that you’d hardly be motivated to run through walls for him. Obviously he wasn’t the best looking geezer anyway and it’s a superficial take I know, but it just looked horrendous on the guy. 
 

46 minutes ago, Heskey2011 said:

Grow up man, we are owned by KingPower, them going bust impacts us.

We're owned by Top and his family, not King Power

1 hour ago, AjcW said:

I imagine it'll be taken personally rather than a genuine offer for help. 

 

I've sent loads but general gist of things....

 

- Don't post content just for the sake of it, the days of having to post every day, ten times a day are gone, every single social platform values quality and engagement over quantity.

- Produce quality, engaging, insightful content that is human and relateable, even vulnerable at times, give fans access to things they can't normally see. Gave the example that interviews with players can be seen ANYWHERE, but a day in the life of a player from home to training and beyond... can't

- Involve fans, spend the summer posting polls and asking what content they'd like to see, then do it!

- Don't be scared of fan forums, use them and learn from them, create an account, nothing stopping you! Find out information and form a marketing strategy around it. 

 

That sort of thing...

Some good suggestions definitely!

In this kind of situation I imagine people in their position will either turn their noses up and think they know best or, like you say, they’ll take it personally and think you’re having a pop at their efforts (which I think the average joe bloggs leicester fan can see is crap). 
 

I hope they take on board even just one of those suggestions and their content will instantly be improved from what we’re getting at the minute. 
 

12 hours ago, AjcW said:

Again, it’s an improvement, but why does it just end? Why no calls to action or what we want to see? 
 

I contacted two senior marketers at the club today and offered my services for free to sort out the mess they’re creating. It included clear points on what could change simply and almost overnight to get fans back on board. 
 

Just felt that letter needed an ending…

Be interesting to know if you hear anything back from them or if they take on board any of your points. Are you able to share any of your suggestions to them?

So many comparisons between how King Power and Leicester City have both seemingly been ran and there's one big common denominator.

Now he's been moved on to a mickey mouse position at King Power, hopefully it's time for him to wake up and see the state the club's in as well. 

I genuinely feel like when the season finishes and the players go off on holiday etc. that Top sees it as he is also finished for the summer and gets to go off on holiday, play Polo and not worry or think about the club until preseason starts. It's the same thing every year.

I think he thinks that's just how it is for the players and as he's 'more important' in his own eyes, he feels like it's also his holiday time. 

I don't think he sees this club as a 'serious' or 'proper' job, it's just something that gives him some credit with people back home in Thailand.

1 hour ago, Electric Yetis said:

Gagging for a week in the sun with the kids.

 

Last few years we've done All Inclusive for the kids more than anything to sort the food/drinks/snacks etc.

 

Looking at the prices this summer they seem to have skyrocketed more than normal and change in work situation means I can't afford the usual.

 

Considering self-catering as the prices are obviously much lower but not sure where to look. We've done Crete and Majorca in recent years with Jet2. Would still probably prefer All Inclusive.

 

Any recommendations on anywhere for a maximum budget of around 2000-2500?

I'd done all inclusive in the past and then moved to self catering holidays and for me there is no going back at all. All inclusives are so restricting a) in terms of the food you eat which is the same 3 meals a day, b) you have a subconscious feeling of being tied to your hotel (like you have to get your monies worth), c) the beers are always either crap or served in small plaggy glasses and d) there's just a general feeling of being at feeding time at the zoo with the same people everyday for your entire holiday.

Go self catering and you can properly get out and experience where you go, eat in actual real restaurants, eat local food, eat where and when you want plus the beers are better in a nice ice cold glass etc. 

This is with kids as well. Unless you have loads of kids who literally need to eat something every 10/15 minutes I don't know why you would do one after experiencing it once.

55 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

Latest theory is that RVN is due to go July 1st with Dyche lined up, hence why it has been pretty quiet on all fronts. 
 

Dyche will get us promoted, but it won’t be pretty. 

I don't know how you can be so optimistic. 

Driving down Narborough Road and seeing a fully grown man (probs around 35) driving in the opposite direction who just casually shoves a load of receipts and used tissues out of his window on to the road.
 

Surely at that age you should be beyond that kind of behaviour. 

19 minutes ago, FOXYTALK said:

Seles going to Sheff Utd then. 

Interesting to see where he lands. 

Probably either Manchester or Leeds/Bradford airport, I think they're probably the two closest

Just now, The Year Of The Fox said:

Think myself it’s more a case of the pilot retracting the flaps accidentally and not the landing gear

 

 

Isn't there lot's of fail-safes in place to avoid something like this happening? And doesn't the pilot have like 22 years experience? I just don't know, it just looks like something has failed rather than human error but we'll see. I hope it's not the latter.

A few different potential cases for the Air India crash reported here. Could potentially be an extremely rare double engine failure, maybe even caused by bird strikes to both engines. Extremely rare however as they say, if something can happen then there's going to be a point in time where that thing does happen. That and a chap walking away from it, its almost unfathomable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626y121rxxo 

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8d1r3m8z92t
 

Appalling plane crash in India, very likely Brits are caught up in this too. First ever loss of a 787. 

This is horrible, just saw a video on X of it going down too. I wonder what went wrong as it just seemed to have zero power and drifted down.

3 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

So flogging hotels, car parks etc to themselves has given Chelsea massive room in PSR then

 

Can someone explain this to me like I'm 12...does this mean Chelsea can potentially make a loss of £299m and still be within PSR guidelines, Burnley however have to make a £20m profit?

The moment we knew we were going down (in fact much sooner as the writing had been on the wall for weeks) the club should have been preparing and have a plan for this summer. The fact they’ve not even spoke to RVN before the last game, especially with all the press basically confirming he’s leaving, is just embarrassing and incompetent from the people that ‘run’ our club.

Regardless of whether you rate the new manager at Soton or not they’ve gone out and got a manager lined up, got a new back room lined up and just look like they’ve got a good head start and they’re prepared to have a good refresh this summer. 
 

Would not surprise me one bit if Rudkin only sits down next week to start planning for next season. 

15 hours ago, Dames said:

As much as he is our goat theres just something that doesnt sit right with me with him effectively deciding he doesnt want to play in our last game of the season. We pay him an huge wage that has possibly hindered us this season the least he could do is be professional. 

 

The very least this could have been handled behind closed doors. 

Deal with it.