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11 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Yes - we’re shit. The board avoid accountability, plenty of players are bellends and the club is a mess. On top of that, the atmosphere online and in the ground has become properly toxic. I find this really quite sad because the club has pulled me out of some dark places in my life.

 

For about five years I've thought there are three warring camps at Leicester City:

 

• the board
• the players
• the fans

 

Each camp blames the other two and thinks they don’t need to change themselves - it's the other guys' fault. If they changed, we'd be fine. Each mindset feeds the spiral. Every 4 months we sack a manager as a sacrificial lamb, and the three camps continue. I'm not saying each camp is equally to blame - I'd say 50% board, 35% players, 15% fans. The maddening thing is that if any camp improved, the others would too - but no camp is willing to change.

 

Just look at this place: months/years of posting hate threads on Ayew (103 pages), Winks (171), Rowett (179), Kristiansen (49), King Power (338). Be honest - how much new is being said now? Will posting a 339th page find a billionaire to buy out King Power? Will a 172nd page on Harry Winks find a club to take on his wages. There’s already multiple negative threads about Russell Martin and the poor sod's been in post for about two days.

 

I’m not saying stop criticising, just that endlessly piling on the same targets creates a circle of toxicity that clearly hinders the club. We’re still Leicester City fans, and we’ve seen plenty of times when we've pulled out of dire situations with a bit of unity. I don't think it will happen when we're just relentlessly moaning - especially about things that can't be changed or players / managers that have already left the club.

 

This thread will probably die on its arse after a few laughing emojis and snippy replies, and maybe I'm wrong and that's the 'right' way to support the club these days. But personally, I’d rather try to reset the tone more to the club I fell in love with as a child than keep adding pages and pages to the same old hate threads.

 

Anyone else up for that?

I agree with a lot of what you say but there'll be nothing 'poor' about Russell Martin by the time he leaves the club - well - not financially speaking anyway!!

48 minutes ago, lookwhaticando said:

Why wouldn’t he? We just handed someone a three year contract on presumably top level Championship wages. We’d probably pay more in wages than Burnley was. We must be paying a fair amount or why would Russell Martin with all his experience in the top two divisions want to drop to the third tier? 

 

And you’re right - that bin fire of a list would have wound people up no end if any of them turned up here. But the point remains - one promotion from the Championship to the Premier League does not make this appointment some kind of coup. 
 

Promotion is the absolute minimum objective for the season. It’s a financial imperative. But promotion alone won’t be enough to consider the season a runaway success - anything less than champions is our lowest ever final position in the league. 
 

I’m operating under the assumption he will get us promoted. He has to. How he does it remains to be seen. And whether he sees out his three year contract is the real marker - if he’s any good, he’ll still be here in May 2029.

 

Definitely some hyperbole about how bad the appointment is, but you can’t really blame people with all the warning signs that exist. 

Indeed, the bare mimimum for Nigel Pearson in his very first season with us was to achieve immediate promotion which he did with a great aplomb, the same can only apply to Russell Martin now too, anything less will be deemed as a massive failure. Howveer I fear we don't have anywhere near the quality of squad now in L1 as we did last time in 2008-09 when we romped to the title!

11 hours ago, Soar Fox said:

I forgot he was previously at Southampton before he came to us. 
 

So this will be 2 managers, 1 Goalkeeper, 2 defenders, 1 midfielder and a head scout we have had from Southampton in the last 9 years. 

Yes, it was a bit uncanny that he was also at Southampton before he came to us! Also strange that Puel had Saints in a league cup final the season before he came to us (which I think they lost to Man. U.) and got them to 8th in the Prem. only to be sacked in the summer to follow! A bit like how he was treated here to be honest...!

3 hours ago, Vulpine Victor said:

I was disappointed at having to give up my season ticket, that I had held for over thirty years due to health reasons, but with the prospect of Martin Russell as Manager it is a delight. The owners have clearly got a one tract  mind. Appointing someone who has been a serial failure to the position is in keeping with promoting Rudkin, who with the inept backing of Top has got us relegated twice and ruined the progress that had been made under Vichai. This appointment is probably the most unpopular one in LCFC’s history. I have no wish to watch players who are incapable of playing possession based football being beaten week after week by teams, possibly less talented but playing effective football. In Division One you need players who play direct football with a good physical presence similar to those in Nigel Pearson’s team.

I think his appointment smacks of Claude Puel's in 2017 a bit!

Positives are that we haven't re-hired Steve Cooper, Van Nistelrooy or Cifuentes! 

18 hours ago, Unabomber said:

Said it as a joke before but genuinely now just get Nige back 

Martin O'Neill at 75 went back to Celtic and that worked out well so why not Nige?! 

16 hours ago, Pliskin said:

Any reason why Leeds didn’t get this kind of heat? 

Rhetorical question?! If not then it was because the rules now in place about 'spying' on opposition in training weren't when Leeds under Bielsa were found guilty of the same thing seven years ago, albeit just the one time apparently as opposed to multiple times like Saints!

34 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

The fixation with the retained list is bizarre. All it will show is which players remain under contract, which we already know. It's mildly interesting to see which academy players have been let go, but apart from that it's always bit of a non-event—and in previous years has been regarded as such. It's weird how this year it's become such a big thing for some people.

 

Rowett was pitching hard for the job in the last few weeks of the season. If he'd been offered it, he'd have accepted it and we'd know by now. The reason the club hasn't announced that he's leaving is because they're clearly not 100% confident they'll get somebody better in and are keeping Rowett in the background as a back-up plan, which is worrying but not surprising.

 

This managerial appointment is absolutely massive for the club. Get it wrong and the consequences could be very serious. IF the delay is because they're working hard to bring in the best possible candidate, I'm ok with that. If we have to wait until July and it ends up being Russell Martin, I will be very much not ok with it.

 

As others have said on here already we need another fortuitous appointment like Nigel Pearson (and his awesome backroom staff!) in 2008 this time around for League One! I don't know what the general consensus was on Big Nige at the time 18 years ago when he was first appointed (having kept Saints up at our Championship expense of course) but I think many at the time were so beleaguered at being in the third tier for the first time in our history after the mess of a season that had gone before it that there wasn't all that much opinion/ at the time IIRC. We struck gold, looking back but the pessimist inside me says I doubt it will be second time lucky this time around with whoever else! The Challinor or Schumacher shouts are justified, given the logic but as others have also said, it all depends on the play offs outcome.

20 hours ago, JonnyBoy said:

30 days i think since last game of the season, still no communication around a forward action plan, list of retained or released players and just any genuine communication 

 

it really is incredible isn't it 

Same as a year ago really, it's just that the Championship finishes a lot earlier than the Prem. Ruud's "sacking" wasn't even official until the end of June! 

On 15/05/2026 at 10:42, davieG said:

I've waited 60 years to win the FA Cup never even thought about winning the League as I started watching when winning the FA Cup was probably seen as the cream of domestic trophies.

 

My only regret, I wasn't there to witness it.

Another example perhaps as to how Covid really screwed things up, esp. us/King Power in 2020, with it's legacy arguably still being felt now, 6 years on!

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10 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I thought the same thing, I think Wellens is being quite clever, realises he has taken Orient as far as he can and this will engineer his exit whilst massively raising his profile. 

They were definitely a classic case of the season after syndrome of missing out on the play offs promotion the season before - much like Walsall in the league below Leyton O. this season! 

On 30/04/2026 at 19:44, 21st Century Fox said:

So to summarise this thread:

 

maybe, maybe, no, maybe, maybe, yes, maybe, yes, no, yes, yes, no.

Definitely maybe (not)! 

3 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

When did they announce that Ruud was going? I seem to remember that it dragged on after the season finished. 
I don’t want Rowett here next season. 

 

 

Not until right at the end of June! 

...and so ends our worst ever season - with,  fittingly a meaningless win!

It was on the money basically...but probably won't persuade the elephant(s) in the whole club to depart sadly if he/they heard the broadcast (probably not) - Rudkin....or Top!

2 hours ago, TheLittleBigMan said:

Please god no.

I think Russell Martin is likely to still be waiting in the wings re being given the task of awakening the "sleeping giant" - unfortunately!

People bemoan Enzo leaving when he did for our present mess, plus Brendan Rodgers' final season (albeit people cited his time here as an overall failure apart from the FA Cup 2021 triumph played out in mostly empty stadiums of course re Covid restrictions!) but for me the rot really set in when the same set of players (mostly), were trying to hound Cooper out at their Christmas party event last season of course with the infamous We Miss You Enzo banner.

Fast forward to more recently and the present time then Rowett and Marti should really be largely absolved from blame for this wretched season. The squad(s) they all inherited (and Ruud before them, as hapless as though he was as a manager here after some of Cooper's dud signings also), were/are woeful and although both were to blame for consistently picking the likes of Ayew and Daka over others (like Richards!) and Marti for his ponderous possession based tactics, then at the end of the day they only had a pretty useless squad with an equally bad attitude to choose from! Consistently starting Ayew probably explained why we've barely managed to score in the last few games, with only a win over Bristol City since the fortuitous one in early January over West Brom (who duly sacked their manager shortly after we beat them, as did Bristol City!). The rot truly started in December 2024 for me....

17 hours ago, MattFox said:

One of those wins was against West Brom who absolutely battered us for 90 minutes 

Although it's all about putting the ball in the back of the net more than the opposition to win games (a la the above game) when you break it all down then admittedly we did 100% steal that game, if that wasn't a sign of things to come re the woeful way we played in it under Marti though, then I don't know what else was! It still remains debatable if we'd be where we are now under Marti though, at the end of the day his style of football was dull at best and his tactics were poor and his situation had he stayed would've been tempered by the injury to our only really influential player this season in Jordan James soon after.....not to mention the six points deduction!!! 

15 hours ago, Qwerty said:

Yes but he’s not going to sell because ticket sales drop for one season.  Cutting off the money to the club will just make the club poorer.  Time and again we’ve seen greedy owners outstay their welcome, till the club goes into administration.  How would that be a good thing?  Like Sheffield Wednesday - they’ve got rid of Chansiri but at the cost of a likely double relegation. 

We'll probably have that double relegation now and yet Top/Rudkin will still be here though!!

We're easy to get a minimum of two points off, so we must be likeable to most (opposition)! 

3 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

Not sure how other results went our way. Portsmouth got a draw away to Norwich which is a much tougher game than Preston at home. The others either drew or won as well

Fair comment, what I meant was at least none of our rivals won apart from Blackburn - which was crucial IMO  

A must win but turned into ANOTHER draw! Lucky it wasn't a defeat though I guess and that the results pretty much went for us elsewhere, barring Blackburn. Hopefully if they're safe by the final day though then they might feel like fielding a weakened side at their place against us - albeit we could be down by then of course at this rate.... 

2 hours ago, Pliskin said:

Or the fact we didn’t recruit a manager for the best part of a month….. probably has more to do with it, considering the 6 point deduction didn’t really change things all that much. 

Yes, King may as well not have been there to be frank! That Southampton capitulation at home in the second half was horrific! 

2 hours ago, ThorpeAstleyFox said:

I believed this too. I think that we need 13 points from our final 7 games. I looked up when we last did this, believing it to be around February 2024. We actually achieved this between November and December THIS season.

Bring back Marti, lol!