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Honestly don't care if any of them go, there are a few players we will probably get stuck with like Skipp, but he was never on monstrous wages even in the prem, estimated 50k, so if those rumours are true he will likely be cut right down to 20k in league 1, which would be big, but doubt we will get bidders and he has been one of the few players to find form this season. Nelson will likely go but we should attempt to keep him and only bring in a manager who will play him, Page, Evans and Aluko need to be priority next season. Begovic will be 39, but if he can stay fit and will take a wage cut/new deal, he will be more than good enough for L1 and is multiple levels clear of Jakub imo, or if Vietes is willing to stay give him a try. Coaches also need moving on. Quite literally every other player can go, I really don't care, this club needs a FULL reset where we let go of everyone on over 20k in wages and focus on free transfers and loans. The only real saving grace for us being in this mess, is that if we can keep the lights on, we are the absolute pinnacle of League 1 facilities, and if any player has options in league 1 for example premier league players in need of a loan, we will be where they go over anyone else, and we will be the preferred destination for those top clubs given our facilities, we need to take full advantage and bring in atleast 5 loan players to protect our finances. There are plenty of cheap players who have decent potential who would move to us from European 2nd division teams such as Jocelyn Janneh who I flagged in the summer who has made 22 starts for Bastia this season and is a hard battling defensive midfielder. We can also start scouting foreign leagues with a bit less risk, places like Norway/Sweden who are producing decent talent at Championship/lower prem level who may be able to be snatched up in league 1 at the beginning of their journey. We have to be ruthless.

Seagrave will look nice as a Center Parcs

I think it's too late to even bother gambling now. Unless we can convince Torquay to lend us Warnock with payment being us loaning them a couple of players. If you gave me the option of Warnock right now I'd head down to Torquay this evening.

Only name I'd have any faith in right now is Warnock.

We could have got Charles for £1-2m upfront in the summer. I was screaming for it. This club is an embarrassment.

Players are the common denominator, that doesn't mean the manager is good enough, Cifuentes was completely out of his depth, a lot of it out of his control as you can't force players to care, what you can do though is drop the ones who don't, he consistently chose the old guard who kept putting us in the mess and omitted players who wanted to run. Rowett has fallen into the exact same trap. Often when teams try to play youth and get themselves into a mess, it's logical to then bring in the experienced heads to steady the ship. The issue for Leicester has been the opposite, it's experienced players we are the ones throwing us under the bus week in week out, and Rowett has continually chosen to pick the likes of Ricardo, Mavididi, Skipp/Winks, he keeps bringing on Ayew who just slows the game down instead of taking a gamble and throwing Mukasa upfront or even bloody Vestergaard. Rowett cannot be blamed for ANYTHING other than his own decisions, and his decisions are very hit and miss. We've run around a bit more, worked a bit harder and that's about it, he really hasn't shown anything to suggest he is the long term answer, he can barely get us fired up to be solid for the first 5 minutes, that's predominantly on the players, but GR is failing to fix that at a time we desperately need fire and hunger. I genuinely believe we'd be mid table under Ruud with half of these idiots gone.

I think it’s a mix of things, but as usual it all goes back to the top. We’ve lost leadership throughout the club. Under Pearson, there was strong leadership everywhere. From the ownership with Vichai, to the manager, to the senior players, everyone set standards. There was a balance: they could enjoy themselves, but when it was time to switch on, they were serious, disciplined, and playing for the badge and fans. Now all of that is gone. Vichai’s gone, Pearson’s gone, the leaders in the dressing room are gone, and even the coaching structure has lost that authority. Over time, it feels like the club has allowed player power and cliques to take over. We've heard about meetings behind the scenes, the standards that made us successful have just eroded. I’ve been one of the people calling for a change in style of play for a while, but honestly, right now I don’t think that even matters. The priority has to be a full reset of the club’s mentality. Until that’s fixed, the football itself is secondary. If we stay up, there are a few managers I’d like us to look at from a style perspective, but more than anything we need someone who will come in and take control, a proper no-nonsense figure like Pearson. Someone who can grab the players by the scruff of the neck, challenge the board, and set standards again. Ideally, a well-run club has a clear blueprint, and everything from the manager, the players, the style fit into that. Pearson understood that. Right now, it's become clear the ownership don’t have that vision and even if they do, they have absolutely zero ability to create it, so we need a manager who can come in and impose one. I hope the new TD is also not just another yes man and will impose standards again.

Can he REALLY be as bad as this? How is he not getting a single minute?

BCFC fans are absolutely fuming over this, many on the OTIB forum are liking this to Nige being sacked where they’ve effectively gotten rid of a manager that seemingly was given an impossible job, got shafted in January and with the tools he had was showing signs of being a good coach. Might be worth looking out for if we can somehow pull of a minor miracle. I’m not 100% sold but looks an interesting one for where we are.

I did chuckle also, there are multiple "water points" around the circuit for fans to fill up their water bottles for free, and all of them had signs on them "Must be the cold water" and "Must be the hot water"

IIRC I think it was the pre race b-roll that F1 play during the build up (i've slept since then) but one of the clips shown was what looked like the crowd for one of the pre race shows they have on stage with presenters in one of the fan zones, the crowd looked like a world cup final at hyde park, it seemed to go on forever.

Yep, in previous years it would take 3-4 laps to get close enough for the DRS to work, most tracks even with DRS you needed to be within 0.3-0.4s to have a chance of an overtake, so you could be within DRS for 3 laps before you could strike, Yesterday we saw George overtake Lewis when he was 0.9s behind him at the start of the straight. It does create a bit of a "yoyo" effect where one car uses his battery, the other lets the pass happen and simply takes him straight back, but i'd rather that than past seasons where we've seen cars not be able to overtake for 10 laps despite being within DRS.

What a great drive from Kimi Antonelli, great performance and very mature despite the lockup mistake, fully deserved, big future ahead!

It's a sad state of affairs, because relegation will financially ruin us even further, it could even push us into admin? But it feels like that's the only thing that would stop this board making more catastrophic financial blunders. It feels inevitable that if we somehow stay up, we will continue the same mistakes and eventually go down anyway.

These cars really seem to suit Lewis' driving style compared to previous generations, he's really showing great racecraft so far in the 3 races we've had, I think most fans expected he'd lost his edge and Leclerc was now the faster driver, the first 3 races beg t to differ.

Slept on it, and I just cannot accept the fact Rowett went with Ayew to start, and said he cannot justify starting Lacelles over either Okoli or Nelson, at the very least Nelson needed hooking at half time, he was rocky as hell and progressively getting worse. I can also understand Rowett saying that right now he needs to probably focus more on experience rather than just throwing the youth on, but we needed an injection of energy far sooner than he took to make it, and his constant refusal to make subs early is frustrating to see. We have improved, but the PPG is not good enough, and i'm concerned we are on the egde of freefall and seeing another RVN style run. I just can't get my head around Ayew and Lacelles decisions though, really concerning and makes me second guess GR massively, if he somehow keeps us up, I'm thinking maybe we look elsewhere. Hoping I'm wrong.

Great restart for the Ferraris, hopefully George will struggle with his tyres for a while to atleast give us a bit of excitement before he inevitably gets back into the top 2

Thanks mate

The problem is as a sport we want teams to have freedom to create their own version of a car within the rules, but we don’t want them to need 6 months to make changes to catch up because of a budget cap, but we also can’t allow teams like Ferrari and Merc to just outspend everyone like before. I don’t know what the solution is to the team domination issue we suffer from every time there’s new regs, I’m beginning to wonder if reverse grid is the middle ground to give us good racing without 1 team just careering off into the distance the moment they get clean air.

What happened to the McLarens btw?

Being guaranteed a good first 3 laps is a good foundation for fans just need Ferrari to pull their finger out on race pace vs Merc!

I'm in a bad place gents, I was at a friends last night seeing his family and ended up staying awake for the sprint, went to bed at 4.30, up at 6.30 for qualifying, and now I'm deep on 2 hours sleep and my eyeballs have been subjected to Jordan Ayew jogging around the pitch during another capitulation. Please F1, please give me something tomorrow. I'm so sick of this club.

Players are to blame, but that doesn't excuse his management in this game, subs needed to come earlier, Ayew needed to be dropped, and Lascelles 'cannot be justified' to start ahead of Okoli. This isn't on the manager completely, but he's contributed by not being proactive when it was absolutely obvious we were capitulating.

He started Okoli again who has been shakey, Nelson has had a shocker and was getting worse as the game went on and nothing changed, Rowett said he "can't justify" dropping Okoli to play Lascelles, that is the biggest red flag I've ever seen from a football manager. Ayew has jogged around the pitch and offered nothing for the 134th consecutive game, Daka is a donkey but he runs and tries hard. It was absolutely obvious when we went to 1-1 we needed to make a sub at half-time. As usual Rowett refuses to make a sub before 60-65 mins and the game went exactly as so many of us watching along on BTG said it would.

Total capitulation, Rowett has managed this game awfully, so many mistakes from both him and the players. The club is on a knife edge and so are my emotions, 10 minuts into this game I'm thinking "Yeah we have improved under Rowett, he could be the stability we need in summer", 50 mins later he looks like he hasn't got a clue how to manage this game, the players are ultimately letting him down, but for gods sake, why does it take 60 minutes to make any subs, it was obvious by 35 mins we have multiple players on eggshells and multiple players playing poorly. Really disappointed in Rowett today.