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Wonder how much stock they have to bin every year. They wouldn’t even donate it. 
 

After all the grief, it’d be a quick PR win to donate it to the charity shops across the county. Wouldn’t cross the misers minds.

They only do any charity stuff under pressure after making avoidable **** ups

1 hour ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

Please note to gamble responsibly and only bet on what you can afford to lose.

I don’t think you fall under the gambling commission’s remit  

Fan zone type things seem an absolutely dreadful way to watch football to me

18 minutes ago, Corky said:

It isn't about a coup or a big name (which is debatable with Martin anyway). It is about finding the right fit with what we have and what we might bring in.

 

He will either have to bring in virtually a while new first team or spend the summer training the players into playing his style. So he will either be frustrated that he cannot do the former and the players cannot do the latter.

 

Strikes me, yet again, of a club trying to look effective and not being.

I don't think they're at all concerned about optics. It's more Rudkin or Top think Martin is the bees knees because they like possession obsessives and he's the most extreme example.

There is no process, no shortlists, no whittling down, All they know is going back for the same targets like with Potter and Maresca. They've got their man, if/when we sack Martin they'll be at a loss.

Kept that one quiet 

2 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

Yes I don’t disagree with any of that. You are correct. But that has no relevance to the point I made. 

I have exaggerated the pro-Puel sentiment obviously but the sentiment that amounts to he actually, if you squint, did a good job for us just isn't true. Generously, his tenure can be given 5/10, its just in contrast the poor managers since have retrospectively made him look better

I like nuance, I'm usually a considered and analytical poster but I'm 100% against any Puel revionism, he was a handbrake for a talented squad.

1 minute ago, RumbleFox said:

“Puel wasn’t quite as terrible as some people say and despite him clearly not being great he did leave us in a decent state in some senses” ≠ “Puel was amazing I want to kiss him and this viewpoint makes me better than you”.

He left us in a decent state because we had a good young squad. His input was singing Rachid Ghezzal for £12m and experimenting with phasing Vardy out for Demarai Gray. He was crap, what did he do well?

He was the first manager to play some younger players but in hindsight blooding Chilwell and Barnes wasn't revolutionary at all, they were obvious talents. "He transitioned us to possession football" but that wasn't an immutable Puel trait, plenty of other managers could have dome that.

It's just bizarre he is assigned the credit for what came after despite Rodgers instantly getting far more from the same players. He was a cheap, crap, myopic appointment like most of them.

People praising Puel are publicly wanking by doing so. They think, ah this is counter-intuitive therefore I am very smart, I have a superior footballing understanding that you, a pleb, doesn't.

Dyche's Burnley beat us to 7th whilst we had Vardy, Mahrez, Ndidi and Schmeichel in their prime years. The football was totally awful. Somehow Eduardo Macia being our last good HoR has led to this revisionism Puel was actually good for us - or that even more bizarrely Puel would make a good director of football?

He was a good manager in France, since he left for England he's yesterday's man and getting worse. 

Nice finished 4th last year and finished in the relation play offs this year.

50 minutes ago, Cropwellfox said:

Braybrooke Smallbone and Page wouldn’t be a bad midfield 3. 

Far too easy to play through because of a lack of defensive ability/physicality.

They’ve managed to appointment a manager that even if he does well I’ll still hate the appointment. Bravo.

It’s taken them weeks and weeks to appoint a free agent again - we’ll need 10+ signings but likely get 7 or 8. Sclerotic club.

On 12/06/2026 at 13:47, Patrick said:

Thai Princess has died, that means the Khunt will be even more absent and KPFC will be getting ready to pay their respects at the first home game

Laughing at the idea of that being booed  - obviously won’t happen but they deserve it 

Factually incorrect about being in L1 under the Thais before. He’s a mouthpiece like most of the title winners - a stronger allegiance to an idiot who happened to be there than with the club itself.

7 hours ago, Jordan said:

Again, you have no good reason why it is especially important that Burton Albion have to be in a division above or below Leicester City for either team to get what they need to get out of this friendly game.

 

Please just spend one minute thinking about what the main purposes of preseason friendlies are.

I’ll side with the conventional wisdom of other club’s over Leicester City’s

52 minutes ago, Jordan said:

You still haven’t given any good reason why this matters.

Why don’t other teams do it then? Outside of contracted games abroad 

29 minutes ago, Jordan said:

Why does it even matter what division the opposition is in? It’s a preseason friendly.

How many times have people said “why does this matter” over the years and - in fact - it has mattered?

It’s a bizarre thing to do, to me this smacks as if LCFC proposed this prior to when it was apparent we would be relegated - such is their lack of foresight 

Us not signing any frees at all so far is a sign of things to come. There is no good reason not have a few lined up to pack put the squad where we need it.

14 hours ago, TheLittleBigMan said:

Considering how desperate the club is going to be to get out of league 1 straight away, I worry they will be less interested in playing youth in favour of signing more proven players. Hope i'm wrong.

They don’t have the competence/bandwidth to sign 12 players so thankfully we will have to play some young players 

19 hours ago, Libertine said:

 

New Hull home shirt.

Oli has been a Halford's Beverley colleague for 15 years, after leaving the education system his journey began as a shop assistant helping motorists, holidaymakers and families alike. After working through various roles in-store, including as our in-store bicycle technician. Oli completed the Halford's management programme in 2022, since then he's helped mentor store colleagues Kyle an David as co-assistant managers.

11 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

He’s also suggested we can recoup £83milluon from our squad. 
 

Even if you say that includes BEK at £25m, that’s some bold estimation. 

We probably could just eke something like that out if we managed to sell absolutely everybody which is obvs never going to happen.

He’s a nice lad but this role is too much too soon

Schmeichel

Pereira

Huth

Elliott/Evans 

Fuchs

Kante

Tielemans

Izzet

Lookman (feels a stretch)

Vardy

Mahrez

Keller, Berner, Morgan, Cambiasso, Lennon/Gibson, King, Perez ffs, Okazaki.

We’ve done so much better out of Northern Ireland vs the republic. Not much out if the Netherlands or Spain relatively - Turkey and Nigeria disproportionately good.

13 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

Can't wait for us to sink our entire TV deal for the year on sacking BTEC Brendan in November

November will be too soon. Rudkin’s boys get chopped early like Cooper but Top lets his play out way too late e.g Rodgers, RVN.