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While I wouldn't level anywhere near the same accusations towards Top as I would at Chansiri's time at Sheffield Wednesday then if we're not careful then he could well be leading us down the same rocky path, which we're arguably heading towards at the rate we're going! This is so like 20 years ago under Levein right now it's untrue after the fall out from our then relegation in 2004, etc!

Although we struck lucky with Nigel Pearson's appointment shortly after he'd kept Saints up at our expense in 2008 of course (and we got relegated with something like a -3 goal diff.!), as you say going down to League One 17 years on from the last (and first ever....) time we did will, I fear yield very different results this time around for all sorts of reasonably see through reasons, should that happen, perish the mere thought!

This home fixture against this opponent has a similar vibe to it as it infamously did for Martin O'Neill in 1996! However that was the turning point for him/the team, I doubt today will be for this lot, 29-30 years on!

Kind of inevitable after employing Cooper to replace "a work in progress" in Enzo IMO! Complex I know but that's the Leicester way!

My mates at the time ("who knew - nothing"! - and supported other teams), used to jest "What Izzet?!" and thought he was bang average, lol! Basically the polar opposite to what he was for us, when on loan from Chelsea in the Championship's crucial run in to the play offs under O'Neill in '96 and then in the Prem. for those few successful years - and then back in the second tier for that one successful season under Adams in 2002-03 of course! Hope our present loanee can emulate him (JJ), if he sticks around! He's not got anywhere near the same quality "rough diamond" players around him though.

Yes, I thought we did better business with Kasey than Cannon! Cannon showed potential under Enzo but wasn't really given a look in during our previous Championship winning season and was then seen by most on here as just another failed attempt at a long term Vardy replacement I guess when he was then sent on that season long loan to Stoke last season (by Cooper?) where he was scoring for fun initially, although I think he was very hot and cold, as well as being injury prone - which might explain his falling off a cliff drop off in form since being at Sheffield United rather than his actual ability that many seemed to criticise on here - even now when I posted a "deleted" post on here about him on Saturday just gone, albeit in the wake of the negativity swirling around the forum after the latest (Blackburn) defeat. Anyway yes, Kasey was a tryer but ultimately dog sh*t and how we got the fee from Ipswich that we did is a .... mystery!

Was at both fixtures we won too! Fitting!

The thing is would any prospective manager come here, knowing that is what he will be told as soon as he is appointed or will the board lie to him again should Marti get the push...??

The Enzo season apart then we pretty much have 'sat down' ever since!

The early KO jinx strikes again, clearly these players aren't morning-early afternoon people, lol!

Yep, in many regards we'd have been better taking the points deduction hit last season and keeping both if possible rather than Chelsea taking both - seeing how the season turned out anyway (disastrous!), all without any FFP points deductions!

Coulibaly? - I'd forgotten all about him, lol!

I just got slated for starting a Tom Cannon thread a short time ago and had it closed down by the mods in record time as if it was toxic! It was only because I couldn't locate an old one on here about him to revive and then add to ..... I hasten to add! Although I got immediate pelters then as I said he still couldn't be any worse than what we have up front now as a Vardy replacment of sorts and at least he was banging in goals at this level when he first was on loan from us at Stoke. I don't know what's happened to hiim since being at Sheffield Utd in January but my point was he couldn't be any worse here than what we have now liek Daka), had we kept him! Whether Daka does stuff off the ball or not more than he scores then the fact remains that he hasn't scored for us since last December in Ruud's first game! While the late pay day comers like Ayew. BCD Reid, continue to be er, super shite!

I know he's hardly been pulling up trees since he left us but does loaning him out to Stoke and then selling him to Sheffield United make us look (even more) foolish now?! Surely a better alternative up front after Vardy left to what we have now, effectively sod all!

With his being an ex player there then I think R.Martin might well be Norwich bound if Liam Manning ends up getting the push anytime before too long....

Indeed - your "Scandi" player was none other than Finnish star 'Pukki' of course. However it was Jamal Lewis who scored against us in their 1-0 win shortly before Covid in the reverse Carrow Rd fixture! No wonder we bottled Champions League in the end after a team like that taking four points from us - but I still think we'd have done it had it not been for the Covid disruption.

The Liverpool reverse fixture on Boxing Day was one crack for sure, as was the Norwich home game before it from recollection....

Or six years ago when we put 9 past the Saints at their place on this Friday coming, 2019!!

Unless I'm mistaken I don't think he has scored since the false dawn win at home in Ruud's first home game versus West Ham last December!

I'm not putting the boot in here as I think Marti needs to be given more time still but I was left wondering why WBA didn't want him towards the end of last season that then left him in a bit of a situation with QPR of course when WBA then opted for a relatively inexperienced choice in Ryan Mason, who just had caretaker roles at Spurs previously to my knowledge...

The scary thing was Cooper was only given until November 23rd last season when, whatever you thought of him still had us out of the bottom three at the time (albeit only just!)....and you could see the same thing happening at this rate to Marti at a similar time this year if we're not storming the league by then! Then a rinse aand repeat, RVN style by then appointing R.Martin!!

Lol, damning indeed. I'm assuming we lost that game then?! It was a well known fact at the time that O'Neill had more of an eye for great bargain buys but was woeful when it came to spending big! Overall his signings were great but the longer he was here for then they became a wee bit strange for sure. The obvious masterstrokes (your Steve Claridges, Matt Elliots, Spencer Priors, Kasey Kellers, Ian Marshalls, Neil Lennons, Muzzy Izzets, and Steve Guppys), to more than get us promoted with some of the signings and the rest to well equip us to stay up once in the Prem......were mixed in latterly with some strange ones like the aforementioned Fenton (albeit who appeared to be an inspiring one to begin with but who just never got going), along with say an Arnar Gunnlaugsson! Robbie Savage, Tony Cottee and Gerry Taggart were the more inspiring latter signings after he'd been with us for two seasons though....

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Indeed - the Russia World Cup was the missed opportunity for that really from the get go, instead he just bought Vardy on for that cameo v Croatia towards the end of the semis to then be up front with a knackered Kane by then from memory . Not saying we'd have necessarily beaten France in the final (although the Croats put 3 past them in that!) but certainly starting Vardy in that instead of as a sub may have meant we'd won!

A shame he didn't get more game time with England in a way thanks to a certain former LCFC loanee but then that extended his effectiveness and longevity with us really - of course!