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I think given they’ve been down in the bottom 3 all season most fans won’t have really understood what’s going on at that club, most won’t even know who was there at the start of the season and know that Danny took over in one of the worst positions I’ve ever seen someone recover from. The job he’s done there is incredible. If we had stayed down and Wednesday went down also, I’d not hesitate to give Danny a crack at us. They had a bit of a blip and they’ve thrown some games away, but for him to come in with Wednesday what 10 points adrift from safety or was it more? With genuine league 1 quality squad and to pull them together and rally the fans around him, spectacular work.

Danny Rohl has to be in the mix for manager of the season. What a job!

I’ve heard about the “Player only meeting” called by Vardy, but I’ve not listened to the interview yet, was it sanctioned by Enzo or just Vardy just take it upon himself? I wonder if anything was discussed beyond what Albrighton said. I would maybe doubt there was anything malicious towards Enzo as the players seem to like him. I just really don’t think it’s a good thing that they needed a player only meeting to discuss what it means to the club etc etc.

He achieved what I expected us to achieve, so well done and thanks for getting us up. We got over the line eventually and that’s all that matters now, we could very well have been financially destroyed if we had failed. Really wish he didn’t gamble the future of the club on his system when it was clear we needed to shake things up during games etc, but that’s by the by now. I hope he gets an offer at a bigger club with the money to build, unfortunately we cannot afford to rebuild with Enzo and even if we could I don’t trust Rudkin to bring in the players needed to make it work. Thanks for promotion, but I hope he walks. it’s frustrating because I do really like the bloke I enjoy listening to him most of the time, but IMO he will never make it to the top unless he completely reverts on his stubbornness and learns to be more pragmatic.

If that’s me getting carried away I must come round yours for a wild night on the shandy’s 😂 Yeah I think you’re right on the performances but I felt like he often just hasn’t fit what we are trying to do. I’m not sure possession football suits him at all

He doesn’t have numbers in terms of goals and assists but he’s been professional this season and done what’s been asked of him, he’s played a simple game and often played it quite well. I know we’ve been in a situation where club and player needed to move on a couple of windows ago, but I do like Praet and I don’t think he’s done much wrong as a professional, it just sometimes felt like a square peg and a round hole. Hope the injury isn’t a bad one and hope to see him feature in the final games. I expect he will go on to another team in Europe and do okay.

Has anyone got the "you've been fatawoo'd" meme handy?

I'd need to watch the Mahrez goal back, but I got flashbacks of a goal vs Blackpool in Fatawu's cut inside goal tonight

Did not see that coming at half time. Great performance, 33% possession well managed from Enzo today, once again Southampton are absolutely awful. We took them to task with ease in the end.

You’ve won the forum with this, cracking effort mate 😂

Im on my phone and I was smiling before I even opened this link as I knew exactly what it was going to be before seeing it, not disappointed at all 😂

When I see this I imagine Bruce Forsyth or some other 90s gameshow host saying "Here's what you could have won!": But instead we end up going home with a toaster

If we got promoted, I'd like to see us go for some ambitious targets, unlikely to work but I'd love to see Paolo Fonseca in the premier league, AFAIK his Lille contract runs out in summer and he plays an attacking style which is quite exciting to watch. But it really would depend on whether we get a points deduction and whether he would have confidence in finding some cheap gems from France to come. The likelihood is he would end up at a mid table squad that wants to push for Europa League.

The way I’m looking at it, we need promotion to atleast delay a financial meltdown at the club, but in the summer we need a complete overhaul and need to be looking at going back to the foundations left by Pearson and Puel, cheap players that we can sell for a profit. This will likely result in relegation from the premier league but the return to the championship will be on a much sounder financial footing where we can still compete and try to get promoted again. So for me it’s about going up now, and bringing in a manager who is pragmatic, young and hungry and basically give them a free hit on relegation (providing we look like we are building/progressing) Then if we get relegated we will have a manager capable of building and getting us back up. If McKenna doesn’t go up with Ipswich and we get promoted, I’d happily give him a few seasons and allow him to get relegated and rebuild in theory.

Honestly this season on so many occasions I’ve hated him, watching him lazily walk around the pitch and seemingly not caring. I’d love to see Cannon get some game time given we will be relying on him next season if we don’t go up, but right now we need experience. I’d play kel. It can’t be worse than 50p head.

There were quite a few polls/threads regarding where people thought we would finish at the beginning of the season. Thought this would be interesting for context of a lot of people’s expectations. Could have done with a bigger sample size tbh

I’d need to fish it out to be honest there were some polls done ages ago, can’t remember the results

I did. Top 2 was absolutely on the cards. Many others felt the same was achievable too.

Is this because we don’t actually have any money in the bank or because we have already exceeded our fair play limitations? If it’s because we have money in the bank but we’ve exceeded our limits then just pull the trigger, we are already going to get a deduction if we stay down.

I assume you’re joking but to be honest given our predicament I’d take him. If Top is obsessed with possession football, then Puel is atleast someone who knows how to find a good player for relatively cheap which is something we are desperate for. I’d atleast have confidence in him not to financially destroy us trying to get promoted if we fail this season. He would also give Nelson, Braybrooke, Alves etc a good run.

This is something I’ve been feeling recently. We’ve collapsed from a position of strength, the literal future of the club is heavily reliant on promotion, and we very well could tumble down the league into league 1 if we have to sell everyone and get a points deduction, with this in mind, every single time Enzo plays this boring, predictable and toothless brand of football and refuses to change, he is quite literally putting his own ego ahead of the future of our football club. His ego is more important than the badge.

Yep I think you’re completely right. So all we can do is hope someone can come in and drag us through. Danny Röhl is currently working in a very similar situation, that squad and club has absolutely no right to be on the fringes of safety, the club is rotten at the top but Danny has come in and almost built a seperate entity where the dressing room is a fortress and he’s shielded the players from the circus, players were not even being paid when he walked through the door, but he’s a really likeable guy and the fans have got behind him and his players whilst completely revolting against the ownership

It’s not a case of not being able to though is it? I think we have the money to be able to sack him, it just puts us further in breach of financial rules, but I think monetarily we can do it right?

Issue is, if they really don’t intend on selling then we need someone like Nigel in the club to offset their clown show. I’d like to see someone like Pearson come in and manage us, but if we can’t do that someone at board level like Claude Puel as DOF. If the ownership aren't going to sell someone has to come in to babysit them. Would be sad to see Pearson come in and his legacy be tarnished this time around, but we might just need him or someone like him next season if we spurs this.

The crazy part is, Kristiansen has done far better in the Serie A than Justin has in the championship, if we had kept Kristiansen and played him as a traditional full back as he wanted, we would have had Mavididi being overlapped by Kristiansen, and Fatawu being overlapped by Ricardo. Literally the best left and right flank combo in the history of this division. Instead we are fixated on inverting them into central midfielders, which congests the middle of the pitch, but also nullifies our own wingers as they have no support. Tonight’s goal was a perfect example. Ricardo was in midfield, and the goal came from the exact place he would have been defending if he wasn’t being inverted. Instead we ended up with nobody at right back and Faes backing off his man and giving him space to shoot. Don’t invert Ricardo there and we likely don’t concede. Obviously doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t have then conceded a different way, but it’s just so easy to break us down, we are so predictable, everyone with eyes can see we are massively exposed there except Enzo and his fan club.