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90s throwback is harsh on Dyche. His teams press better than he gets credit for, they counterpress high before settling back into a lower block. There are smatterings of Enzo's squad but it's a disparately assembled team.

I want him to walk as it'd be the clearest sign to the rest of the world we're abysmally ran.

On any sort of online poll you pretty much always have 1-3% completely nonsensical responses. Of those I guess they think BEK and Fatawu are good signings which is sort of defensible - if they aren't just voting errors.

It’ll still be picked up by the media, fans and club employees, that’s where the impact comes from - unlikely Top wouid ever see it in person.

It’s maddening dealing with this sort. They’re just low information fans that barely know anything about how clubs operate, nor will they have it that you might, just might know more than them.

Rejoined Camra and looking through the What Pub listing, I've drank in 34% (266/772) of the pubs in Leicester & Leicestershire (discounting the separatists in the East). Lots in the City's southern suburbs I haven't done including Oadby, Wigston, Whetstone, Countesthorpe, Narborough, Littlethorpe etc. I can probably clear 300 sometime this year with Sileby, Barrow, Syston, Shepshed and few more in Loughborough yet to do. Not sure if this is impressive or alcoholic, I only really got into pubs in my second year of uni which was ~7 years ago.

That in itself is really telling though.

Ashby has the best concentration of good pubs in the smallest vicinity of the Leicestershire towns

He'll have a Paul Cook showsec goon knocking on his door soon if he keeps asking... pertinent questions

But if STH don’t buy stuff and they do a bad job of getting tickets on general sale the lack of catering revenue sends a message. Not that they’ll listen but you can’t churn out the same offering at bigger losses.

Guess who have accumulated fewer xG than them!

I'd not even really thought about the anti-fan angle of PSR, you're totally right. Especially as revenues have plateaued or even peaked because TV rights have. Plus it massively incentivises academy sales which is soul destroying for fans, selling local prospects because they disproportionately free up more funds to amortise - it;s not Roy of the Rovers stuff.

But even so the stewards are pretty useless, complain, even mildly and they'll let you through. It's agency staff being better inconveniences than security operatives.

Fundamentally the match day experience and footballing ineptitude stem from the same place - the owner is useless and doesn't hold anybody accountable. If you look after the little things you tend to get the big things right. The fact is the directors and the management are in their ivory tower and they refuse to listen to the fanbase. None more so than when the fans universally said no to digital tickets, yet they persisted with them unashamedly anyway - and oh, by the way, it's not a cash grab it's for charity - so there. They're beyond complacent, they're just negligent.

He’s just shit, not spread too thinly - his other roles pale in comparison to being the DoF.

He's a man child. Never see or hear of him doing anything, it's just gallivanting, occasional game, polo etc

If we expanded the ground to 40k plus in time perceptions would have changed. Ground size and attendance are one of the main drivers of club size. This is really difficult thing to articulate and I've been struggling to write it down. Other fans just don't have the same attachment or investment, they can see the highpoint and think 'that's great, wow success, I wish my club had that' and at the nadir they're only at the same level as now anyway. It's a zero cost option to wish they were in our shoes. Also what other fans don't get is our resources are (or were) significantly higher than the tranche of comparable clubs (Sheffield clubs, Derby, Southampton). Going down with the 7th or 8th highest wage bill isn't as scandalous as it is for the more esteemed clubs with the bigger grounds. If we had 42k in the ground every week, consciously or subconsciously other fans and the media think, that's a lot of fans in a way they don't with 32k. There's also a notion that northern clubs are just proper in a way midlands and southern clubs aren't too.

Completely agree.. You could just pay Ted Knutsen (statsbomb founder, exited recently) about £100k in consultancy fees and he'd appoint a top 5 analysis team in the world - probably what we pay Ward in wages each year. Football isn't that difficult, even this bunch of f ucking morons had us in the top 5 twice. Top is some combination of being stupid, lazy and negligent. If he was lazy or negligent, just appoint a better DOF and it makes your life easier! The Leicester job in some ways would be amazing for the right DoF, you have so much autonomy (probably too much), you could run the club how you want. Instead we have a crap/lazy owner and a crap/lazy DoF, what a doozy.

Just one or two stitch in time decisions would have prevented a lot tbh. If we sacked Rodgers and appointed Emery around the time Villa did, despite everything else we'd probably be competing for a top 7 finish. Such is the mismanagement since, we might be lucky to compete for a top spot 7 in the championship next season.

It's just staggering the lack of proactive thought. Rodgers was on borrowed time, except for that he wasn't - they genuinely had no plans to sack him even when it was apparent he was taking us down. You could almost forgive how long it took take sack him if they did have something lined up. But no, failure after failure. The weight of failure is so great you just forget how bad some of it actually was.

I looked the other week, Ward is at -2.45 goals (or something) prevented PER 90

They're so unimaginative. I'm fed up of the idea we appointed Cooper because of looming points deduction. Given we spent what we did, the club would have known we'd pass. Cooper fits with the KP lazy recruitment model. Pearson (worked well), Shakespeare, Puel, Cooper and RVN were not extensively researched appointments.

Top would be absolutely clueless when it comes to replacing Rudkin. Rudkin is supposedly the football 'brain' and we still had to use a recruitment firm to pick up Glover. If the penny hasn't dropped for the just sack Rudkin brigade that Top is a moron - it never will.

Also when sides are already down they spring a couple of wins

Everybody I know says the latter