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His football is known to be extremely negative and overly structured. He’s also too stubborn to change. The most important thing long term is to develop a much better style of play. Benitez would be a very poor appointment for this reason. He also has previous in this situation and was unsuccessful at keeping Newcastle up.

People seem to be missing the point here, it’s a spectator sport, if you’re not being entertained, there’s no point in going. You’re not obligated to go. I’ve never got the non-league argument for that reason. The atmosphere is poor, the standard of football is very poor, and you have no affinity to the club. It doesn’t interest me any more than watching the Champions League on telly (which is not at all). I think a lot of fans would be better off giving football a rest and taking up more fulfilling hobbies. Either it makes you happy and feels meaningful, or it doesn’t.

Me neither Dion, for the past 2 years.

This is the problem with all of them unfortunately. The same happened with Shakespeare. Great interim appointment. The players respected him and he got the best out of them for a couple of months to steer us to safety. Then he tried implementing his tactics and it went downhill. It was clear we should have been looking for someone else in the summer. But our club thought he had potential for some reason. Wasted another season with a slow start and could only attract a sub-standard manager. It’s the repeating of mistakes that makes the running of this club so poor and I’ve no doubt that if we stay up the manager will be given time, even if it’s clear he isn’t fit for a long term appointment. We will waste another season. Repeating ourselves but waiting so long means we are left with only poor options. It’s clear we need one person to keep us up and another for long term rebuilding but the club do not have that sort of sense.

I just don’t see why the board would think Marsch is qualified for the job. It’s clear they hadn’t thought about the possibility of sacking Rodgers at all and have done no research whatsoever. Are they allergic to trying someone without Premier League experience? Because apparently that experience, even if it’s bad, is the only criteria for our next manager. It’s astonishing. How to destroy a football club 101.

We should have listened to Liverpool, Celtic and Southampton fans. You don’t have to defend the bloke because he might end up being our manager. We’d do well to give him less leeway than the previous one.

Perez the worst value for money signing ever in my opinion. Slimani was bang average but not actively a hindrance, and Musa cost half as much.

We need a motivator to come in before the next match or we are done. These two caretakers are absolutely useless (negative line-up and no changes for 70 minutes) and the players are lacking in any self-belief or fight. Which has been drummed into them for a long time. We needed the antithesis of Rodgers tonight and we got pretty much the same thing. We are just waiting to lose. If that antithesis doesn’t walk through the front door before the next match, there will be no picking this team up after.

Mixture of the good and very bad. Need to show a bit of character and go for it a bit more. Letting them have the ball just gives them more opportunities to expose how shaky and slow we are at the back. Clearly it’s going to take a bit of time to build these players back up and recoach them, they look mentally fragile.

There was that game on October when he said it was really hot.

It’s a good question. Brendan has formed a team in his image - mentally weak and refusing to take responsibility. However, a good man-manager now can still make all the difference. We’ve seen it before, the team looked much the same when Ranieri got the sack. Never looked up for the fight. Even under Pearson in 2012/13. Things can change. I think we’ll know the answer within the next week. If we don’t see the fight in the next 2 games - losing a poorly performing manager and (hopefully) gaining one who can motivate them, then I don’t think we’ll see it at all.

It’s not even extensive, either. Newcastle at home 4-0 down, then we started trying with 5 minutes left and scored 2. Villa in league cup where again it just felt like we didn’t want it enough. Which is such a common theme. Another passive, pathetic game was the 1-1 against Norwich in December 2019. This was the first sign of his bizarre management - we are massively on a roll so he subs Iheanacho and leaves him on the bench for the rest of the season, he still ends up our top scorer. We looked like we were playing for a draw in that game. He changed our style of play when we were doing amazing, for no reason at all. It went massively downhill after that and we never consistently looked that good again.

To all the ‘he was great for 2 years’ people: Did I imagine the collapse in the 2nd half of both his first two full seasons? He was great for about 4 months, inconsistent for the next 18 months, then awful for the remainder.

I’m genuinely so happy. Relegation or not, this manager proves that there are more important things in football and life than what league your team is in or if it’s successful. If you get no enjoyment in watching the team, and if the pride in the club wanes because the club itself thinks it’s beneath one man, then it is not worth supporting. I am not confident we’ll make the right appointment, but this sacking is so much bigger than that because it removes a truly negative influence from Leicester City.

Potter is not a narcissist who is willing to destroy everything in his path to save his own reputation.

Then contradicted himself by saying he’s a top manager 😂

Great post. He fascinates me in some ways. We played such great football for a few months at the end of 2019. There’s no way he wouldn’t understand that deep down. But he still chose to change it, because he needed to show everyone that it was all about him. It was HIM and HIS style of play and HIS signings (ahem Perez) or other players that only HE could see were underrated (ahem Ward) that made the team successful. I think people play down just how bad our form was in the 2nd half of that season. It wasn’t just towards the end, or after the lockdown. The signs were all there by the end of that season.

This. I don’t necessarily want them to sell, it’s a complicated business and there are much, much worse people (and I don’t just mean in a sporting sense) that could buy our football club. But some of the deifying from our fanbases and totally unbalanced comments on this thread are well over the top. I’ve never understood worshipping companies or mega-rich CEOs, especially when the club has felt more like King Power FC and then Brendan Rodgers FC in recent years. Our success was always more down to excellent management and shrewd recruitment and that’s backed up by the wage figures. But those days are gone. For quite some time we’ve been regressing on the pitch and Top has failed to do anything about it. He’s doing an objectively terrible job right now. The club he owns is sinking and worst of all a lot of the fanbase doesn’t even care.

I’m amazed at how many people are clearly annoyed and clearly care, but aren’t willing to do a simple protest outside the ground/training ground which can’t be drowned out by the happy clappers and might actually get some attention. We have put zero pressure on the board. It happens all the while at other clubs and particularly in other countries. Why do we not do it? Do people think it’s impossible? I don’t understand the mindset. Have Union FS considered it with their influence and numbers? I’d genuinely like to know why it hasn’t happened, because I’ve said several times that I’d join in. Even if we could just get 50-100 people one evening or Sunday morning or matchday morning it would make a difference.

I also sent an email and got no response. I also messaged someone on here because they were trying to organise a protest at the ground/training ground (NOT in the stands on matchday which risks being drowned out by happy clappers). It never happened. Plenty of people on here annoyed, very few willing to do a simple protest that would actually get some attention.

Lol this got 21 likes 8 days ago. If it was posted today it would have 21 laugh reacts.

Great post. I’m sick of all the happy clappy nonsense. It’s reflective of society. We should be demanding change both at games and outside of them. Not waiting for things to get worse and cheering along. Things are not going to get better with this style of play and under this manager, no matter how raucous the atmosphere is. We are a poor side. If you think this then you simply did not watch the matches. it's completely false. I'm a bit fed up with correcting people on this. We did the exact opposite of what you are suggesting - we tried to change to a more ‘considered’, possession based style of play (probably because we lost Kante) and that is why we nearly got relegated. Shakespeare came in and changed it back for a spell, resulting in us beating Sevilla and a dramatic improvement in form. To be clear, the key components of our 2015/16 style (and of pretty much every good side nowadays) is a high press and a high tempo with emphasis on pace. It's not necessarily just long balls in the channels and it wasn't when we won the league either. We won the ball high up the pitch and got near the goal as quickly as posible, that is how you win games, statistics have proven this.

No no no. Nonsense, this has always been nonsense. We were never found out under Ranieri until he changed it in 2016/17, beginning with the first game against Hull. (which games in our title winning season are you referring to? Cos we had some of our biggest wins towards the end, 4-0s and 3-1s). After that we started trying possession football and THAT is when we got found out. High pressing high tempo football has never been found out (unlike slow possession football) because it is impossible to truly stop on a consistent basis. You will always be under pressure if you are the opposition.

Alan Shearer: ‘Leicester have got it right this half’. Alan, that was our first shot of the game. Good goal, but don’t pretend we’ve battered them.

Brendan is the luckiest manager to ever live.