Kitchandro

I was just thinking, when’s the last time there was a ‘you’re not fit to wear the shirt’ chant?

Really? Because I remember that side being very talented but extremely soft and fell apart at the first sign of resistance. We were never a spirited or mature side under Rodgers. It was basically our thing to hammer opposition that was in disarray but suffer embarrassing defeats against worse teams with more spirit and organisation. We had annual collapses that lasted months. The seeds of failure were sewn in those years with a weak mentality and lack of fight.

Some of us could see it coming, although to be fair this is true across all football clubs in the modern era. It was already happening under Mandaric. Even back then I could see that football was drifting away from what I believed it was supposed to be - and the clappers, goal music, standing-shaming, gold on kits, social media tone, stadium rebranding and prices should all have been red flags over the years.

He also managed to lose finals he should have won by trying to be too clever, Chelsea in the Champions League final springs to mind. Still, I do agree that he would keep this group up. Not because he’s an exceptional manager, but because he’s an above average one. Managers with personality and a tactical plan can get a few results out of an average squad and can change the atmosphere in the dressing room to do that. There just aren’t many of them in employment because the sport is obsessed with hiring ex-players instead of thinkers and leaders.

Worst team we have ever had and it’s not even close. The Leicester teams Holloway, Pleat and McClintock managed would have hammered these. Considering the quality of the opposition and the ramifications of not winning, this is arguably the worst result in our history.

Disgusting result

It’s possible for both the players and the managers to be crap. No one can say we have a worse group of players than Sheffield Wednesday. If we’re blaming the players, whom the club recruited, well, the club also recruited the managers. It makes sense that we’d be consistently crap at employing the right people. If we can’t get a win against these Rowett should retire.

This is unacceptable.

This is what happens in a system where the strongest can accumulate wealth exponentially. Football is reflective of society and all other industries. People talk of wages being the problem, that’s true but the root cause is the amount of money that the biggest clubs accumulate. Lesser clubs cannot realistically compete by spending within their means. It doesn’t have to be that way, we could regulate it or even prevent it from being a business at all. But ‘yeh, but…’ is always on behalf of money, not people. Like everything in society, football has been ruined by money. I would argue that it’s such a farce, so corrupt, its competitors so removed from the average person, that only the most ostrich-like can convince themselves it has any human meaning or value anymore. Sport, unlike society, should be competitive. But that competition should be played out on the pitch alone, not on paper and in boardrooms. This was inevitable from the moment we decided to let football become professional, though the Premier League and Champions League sped it up. Greed always wins in a money-oriented world.

There should have been far more pushback against the Vichai statue. What kind of self-respecting club defines themselves by a billionaire who turned up in 2010, never played for the club and never picked a starting 11? He was not a football person, he was a businessman. It was weird then, even when we were relatively successful. And now it’s humiliating.

It’s incredible to see a team capitulate so often. They deserve prison time.

We’re shit. Never mind about them, we need to make ground on them and we’re absolutely crap. How many must-win games have we had? Or are we just believe they haven’t considered we might go down yet? Yeh, actually, that’s what Top always says, I cannot only assume all the players assume we’ll be fine.

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.