Kitchandro

In the context of West Brom’s recent results and Portsmouth’s game in hand, this is a bad point. Looking very bleak.

Daka can’t be serious. He should actually just refuse to play up front. I’ve never seen someone so allergic to putting the ball in the net. It’s embarrassing.

Ade Akinbiyi I mean he probably just plays in the garden with his kids but he’s still better than what we’ve got up front.

Do you know who I trust as the absolute gospel having watched every single game we played under Ranieri myself and witnessing the way we played under him and under Pearson the previous season when we nearly got relegated? Leonardo Ulloa.

Who else has said that?

The play-offs was the only thing I still liked about football, so of course they’d go and change it.

These threads aren’t funny.

Reminds me of 2023 when we drew with Leeds, Everton and Newcastle. Most people on here maintained they were good results, but they were the games we needed to win. We can’t afford draws when we’ve gone in front against poor sides.

Nah, I wouldn’t be dropping citeh.

Several kits were all blue with gold trim, no white trim (shorts not shown on that graphic). The year we won the league being one example. I didn’t say they banished white completely , but they did reduce it in favour of the gold, which has been more or less a constant fixture to the extent where it could be viewed as our secondary colour. I’ve seen many people claiming metallic gold is now part of the club’s identity, that it’s associated with success, that they are, no joke, actually ‘nostalgic’ about it. Also I see people often get confused and say ‘we had gold before them’. Well, we had that ‘Fosse Gold’ on one away kit, which was basically beige. We’ve had a beautiful goldy yellow trim / away kit in the 90s as a one off, which still featured white. This specific metallic gold, however, was completely invented by King Power, and it’s often replaced white instead of just accompanying it.

While we’re on the subject and I’m finally allowed to vent about it - yes, the gold on the kits too. When I think back to us winning the league, it’s probably the worst kit we’ve ever had. Whenever you see images associated with it I think; those aren’t my club’s colours. People always tried to make out it was a minor thing. But it’s not. Identity is the whole point of supporting a club. There will be people who know us purely because of that season and they will associate us with that disgusting metallic gold rather than white. They’ve never respected the badge. I just don’t like them and never have.

He’s proven himself to be an average Championship manager, yes. What you’re looking for is managers who haven’t proved that yet, managers who COULD be the next big thing. Granted we’re an unattractive proposition for established managers now, but not necessarily ones who need to make a name for themselves and have the talent to do so. If Rowett keeps us up then he’s done his job, but let’s not make the same mistake we made with Shakespeare. We know his ceiling. The obvious problem is you’d have to be desperate to work with King Power but we all know King Power aren’t going to appoint the right man anyway, so us coming up with a shortlist would just be for fun.

Please, please, please just give these players a bollocking. If he’s planning to be nice to them we are goners.

Perhaps, but if you’ve grown up with Leicester City, that’s the club you have an emotional attachment to. I mean I hate the club but I still waste my time posting about them, you never really change your club.

I’d almost prefer tbh. If it was fan owned and ran it would have infinitely more meaning. Maybe we could even get a nicer ground one day with a proper standing kop, banish gold from the kits, make it affordable for everyone and all have an actual say in important decisions.

It’s also quite lucky no civilians on the ground were killed for such a reckless disregard of safety. There was never a good reason for having a helicopter take off on the pitch over a busy area, it’s just something rich people do to make a point.

We League One long time

It’s the reason I gave up on any sort of positive change at this club years ago. No one cares, no one’s gonna do anything, no one’s going to protest or risk a ban or risk missing games against Bromley. It takes most people 3 years too long to see what’s going on - with Rodgers, with Rudkin, with Top. Meanwhile they mock those that see it sooner. Well everyone who did care and wanted change is apathetic by now. It’s just easier to stop caring and replace football with a passion you can actually contribute to. I’m mildly annoyed when we lose and that’s it. The fanbase has lost me as much as the owners have. They’ve made their bed. Collectively, our fans deserve this.

I don’t disagree with any of that. I was always a Pearson fan. My criticisms of him in 2014/15 don’t diminish that. What I take issue with is that he takes credit for Ranieri’s title winning tactics - which he didn’t generally employ himself. You don’t pull off what we pulled off, with largely inferior players, without being tactically astute. That was never Pearson’s strong point and as much as I love him, we’d never have finished higher than 7th with him. Just some respect on Claudio’s name would be nice on this forum. For the poster I was quoting to say that he didn’t ‘do well’ is obviously false. Seems a cultural trait that we just repeat this Pearson worshipping because it’s a comfortable narrative until it has rewritten history. Pearson had his limitations, and even for a long-time KP hater like me, I can accept Vichai made more than one correct decision (even if more by luck than judgement!). Ranieri did well, not because of what Pearson did, but because of what Ranieri did. It’s as simple as that.

There was that other bloke that won the Premier League, forgotten his name. It’s extremely weird that Pearson gets a pass for underachieving with a great side and being in a relegation scrap, yet the manager who masterminded the greatest overachievement in the history of English football doesn’t, and is even actively disrespected by our fans. Meanwhile we’ve got some trying to argue Puel was a success. Up is down, black is white. Disclaimer: This is not to be considered a defence of Vichai or any of his subsidiary children.

It’s more concerning to me that people would try to convince themselves all these excuses are valid just to do something that is obviously really unenjoyable. That’s the bit that gets me. It’s a rip off experience and people just lie to themselves. I find it almost offensive that people would accept this level of insult from what are essentially just a load of self-interested rich people. They are the same kind who simp for rich people in other contexts. They have no self-respect. It makes our fanbase look utterly embarrassing and our club small-time. The reputational hit to the club by accepting and supporting this level of decline makes us look a small club. It reduces pride in the whole institution, which reduces the meaning of the act of supporting a local club. Without pride it’s just paying rich people to bore you, annoy you, and even take the Mickey out of you. Anyone who retains that deep feeling of pride in the club they’ve had since childhood is ashamed to be associated with the fanbase for saying ‘we’re a small club and deserve to be below all these clubs that love mocking us’. There’s no rule that you can’t spend time with family outside the football. Or watch other football matches. There might be the odd person who is struggling so badly and they have found no other effective distractions despite trying, or those who can’t really get out of it because it isn’t their choice (such as the example on the previous page). But let’s be honest, these are a tiny minority. It’s not 10s of thousands of people. What it is for most people is a misguided belief that being a ‘proper fan’ means always turning up, a refusal to analyse the situation, or a force of habit. I don’t demand people protest. It’s perfectly valid to feel football has largely lost it’s meaning to you, that there are more important things than football to put such energy into (socially as well as personally), or that you wanted to protest years ago and have to begrudgingly accept we don’t have enough hard line fans willing to make a real impact. Protesting outside the ground for hours sounds a great idea, I support it, but I suggested it weeks ago and people decided to just attend the match and shout a bit instead. If you don’t live in Leicester, travelling there and hoping that our fanbase magically grows a pair would be a waste of your time. But the vast majority of people who make excuses to go (even those who convince themselves that a few disorganised and disparate bits of shouting inside the ground will send enough of a message) are embarrassing themselves and the club. The optics make us look a loser club. If people attend and there’s a real disruptive protest that the media and owner can’t ignore then brilliant. But nobody who attends genuinely believes that will happen, that’s not why they are going.

People will make excuses like ‘we should protest instead!’ or ‘I can’t possibly bond with my second cousin anywhere else’ when in reality they are just as spineless as the players.

I hate these threads. Just pointlessly sadistic shite.

We need someone with a particular set of skills to keep us up. Now I’ve not actually watched Taken but my understanding is that Liam Neeson just kicks everyone’s arse for 90 minutes. So if we hire him to manage these cretins I’ll be happy. Plus his mind games and man-management of Ralph Fiennes when he was causing problems was Fergie-esque.

I’m sure this thread was a parody but it’s difficult to tell on the internet. We do need a proper manager though.