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Because the people enjoying it are out having a drink or having fun

Won’t make it then, sick by E Coli

No proper source on that article and they aren’t a reputable source

There's a season from four years I think where we'd be Champions by now

I’ve just heard rumoured time. It can **** off.

Saturday 3pm - probably the last until August. Enjoy

£19k worth of donations to charities for 13 months ending 30 June 2023 - that makes me sad

Which is my biggest concern. All well and good saying they remain committed to the cause of LCFC. When your revenues take such a hit though and remain deflated, then it's simply a game of cash flow which means you have to cut costs.

That's correct - it's simply a numbers game. Someone like Rochdale could have 100 fans - and that accounts for 5% of their match going fans. We need to compare how trusts operate for PL clubs and bigger championship clubs. Look at recent campaigns by Spurs on Over 65 age pricing and Chelsea on compensation for a fixture change. Other trusts target a more community based involvement - highlighting charities etc. There's a lot in my opinions that fans want to be heard on in a purely fan engagement basis before we even get to concerns of safeguarding on LCFC Female Team and poor communicative measures from the club

Isn't that the modus operandi of any business? You hold the standard high to drive up the performance of the operation. I get the general point of your post. There's always someone to upset. But it's this sort of comment what sticks with me. One of the reasons I think we are in this situation is that for years now any criticism of LCFC as been viewed as moaning rather than a constructive drive to improve. The upper echelons want the warmth of it being easy. On the playing side the club have held a post for too long of 'that will be do' - ie the season where the fuel of Rodgers was evaporating as we finished 8th. Off the pitch, well I'd bore everyone to tears with that. When you get the top like we did, you have to constantly be looking at ways of improvement. Whether that's playing or off the pitch. You evolve. When you do that and you get fans buy-in, when the shit hits the fan, you have a softer ear. They forgotten all about the off the pitch stuff and when it's gone wrong on the pitch, the fans are already agitated. That's what happened at Bristol City - the ignition was just finally set off.

In absolute stinking form at the mo. The strongest player Teddy Allen is an absolute liability - recently banned for two games because he received two technicals, then had a go at the ref in changing rooms and sent him abusive messages on instagram!

Hilarious that the Saints player came with a huge rep and transfer fee

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39865587/why-hiring-director-football-hard-man-united-dan-ashworth Very well regarded journalist - includes the following DOF also needs to be an expert dealmaker. In fact, it's so important that some clubs even have specialists who do this on behalf of the DOF. The skill is getting the right player at the right price, both in terms of transfer fee and wages/contract length. That requires information both objective (How much do they earn at their current club and what would they want if they come to us? How much of a transfer fee would their club want?) and subjective. (Would they settle in at our club? Do they have off-the-pitch issues that we can help resolve or would we aggravate them?) And, of course, there's a whole reverse process when it comes to shipping players out. How do you get the best possible fee for the guys you move on, whether you're trying to offload them or whether they're being targeted by others? The best DOFs have hefty contact books and trusted sources of information. They can smell bull a mile away. Part of the dealmaking side can also take you to some unsavoury places. Few deals get done without a gaggle of intermediaries these days. Sometimes, they provide valuable services in advising clubs in deals. Sometimes they're just there as "bag men" to solicit commissions (essentially, de facto bribes) that go back to club officials who sanction a deal or family members who push their promising player in your direction. DOFs need to figure all this out and do what's best for their employer. There you have it - Rudkin’s failure to do his job properly

Equally though Wolves failure meant they didn’t have the same revenue levels as us. The squad thing is a red herring because Rodgers over played the players at his disposal.

they’ve got off with just a fine. Pretty incredible really - and can see that one rumbling on

Also if Top had true commitment to the club like he’s saying, they’d be digging in the ground for the stadium extension. Reality is more like they aren’t cash rich enough to fund it without PL money to loan off ala Seagrave. Whatever guise FFP is in, revenue is still the king and infrastructure investment is excluded.

And where are the respective clubs now? They’ve cut off Mendes. They did a piece of work in the summer flogging a player off way over his true value to Saudi Arabia. Rudkin et al didn’t have the vision to do such a thing

Anyone who was there in January would tell you its a genuine rivalry. That we had fans leaving the ground that day saying it didn't matter isn't half ironic now.

Just remember Wolves chased after the European places at the same time as us but they still had the back-up plan of player trading and not being so bloody stupid when it came to building a squad.

You won't because simply the top rank of King Power, hierarchy of the board and possibly even deeper to suggest the Royal family of Thailand are all about maintaining reputation and keeping themselves. To admit error is to admit defeat. When they got panned for the sacking of Ranieri by media, general public and at events they attended, they absolutely hated it. Every managerial sacking has always had in their minds - how does this look to everyone else? If they weren't embarrassed by relegating one of the strongest ever squads from the PL - are they going to be further embarrassed by this? I don't know but it's pretty maddening from a fans perspective that they can't probably engage.

People love to start throwing out extremes of ownership as though every set of new owners can be like that whenever it gets questions that King Power might not be this 'best owners in the country'. Clowes has come in paid off a **** load of debt and put the club on a sound financial footing. Oh well an extra season in the League 1 but they are looking up, uniting fans and establishing something. Exactly like Cov are too. That we are talking about financial resources of owners is laughable really because a lot of the clubs you mentioned have financial resources but they don't know to use them and in the process, use lose the proper custodian care of your football club. Step forward Mr Boelhy of Chelsea.

A person such as David Clowes, the Derby chairman would be the dream. There’s three clubs on your list what have moved on from poor ownership to decent ownership.

Pure numbers alone is the first issue. Need bigger numbers to give yourself the position. UFS will admit themselves they’ve haven’t been backed by other parts of the fanbase and that includes those are supportive of them when it comes to the crunch. Club can utilise that the fan groups look weak in numbers or they aren’t universally accepted by everyone. Strength in numbers first gives you the platform and then you take it from there

It can if uses resources appropriately in my personal opinion

No it immediately drops. This partly why Forest have failed so badly