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Jordan Ayew 

48 minutes ago, Ricey said:

It's almost not about whether he'd get us out of League One, it's the bigger picture. Our fans were calling him a willy puller at Bournemouth two years ago. He plays a style of play that is clearly detested by the majority of our fans and isn't very scalable. It might be ok in League One, but the minute our squad isn't better than the rest of the league, it all comes crashing down.

At a time when one of the clubs main objectives should be reconnecting with the fans and trying to build some form of hope for the future, why would you do that? Why would you create an uphill battle before we have even started by hiring a deeply unpopular manager? Have they learnt nothing from Cooper?

I would question whether our squad is any better than the others in L1 given the amount of turnover we will experience this summer.

4-2-3-1 slow possession based football has been proven (by us) not to work in any division unless you genuinely outclass the opposition playerwise, and have a coach that actually knows how to coach it.

L1, like the championship, is a very physical league and if we continue our style of play, every club will just sit back against us, soak up our ‘pass it slowly around the back’ play, and beat us with a corner in the 80th minute.

Since the last season of Rodger’s spell at the club the style of play hasn’t worked, it was only when we had Enzo and PL quality players in the championship that it did work.

Brussels isn’t Enzo, and we have L1 quality players at best next season - it will be a train wreck if we insist on appointing someone to play a style of football that has seen us relegated 3 times in the last 4 seasons

We need a complete reset of style and players, like when Pearson came in last time and rebuilt the squad

Glamour friendly with Notts County from the division above us pleas 

8 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

It’s just absolutely essential that whoever it is is here early so we can get actually give someone a fair crack at shaping a squad. The preparation last summer was the worst it’s ever been at the club 

It’s Rudders that shapes the squad, not the manager 

6 hours ago, davieG said:

Story by Jordan Blackwell

 
Gary Rowett said he could be “exactly what the club needs” as he made his biggest appeal yet for the Leicester City manager’s job.

Rowett rounded off his 14-game contract at City on Saturday, earning his second win, a 1-0 success at Blackburn.

Now City have to decide who they want to lead them for what will be just their second-ever season in League One.

And while Rowett has overseen the club’s fall into the third tier, he set his stall to remain in the role, saying he could be the man for what is a “fantastic opportunity” at the King Power Stadium. He said brave decisions need to be made as the rebuild gets under way.

“I see a fantastic opportunity here,” Rowett said. “There’s going to be some big decisions. It’s going to need someone who is brave enough to make those decisions.

“This team needs to look very different, the culture needs to look very different. But it’s a great opportunity so of course I would like that opportunity.

“But what’s more important is the club getting it right, because it’s a fabulous football club.

 

“I’ve enjoyed the 14 games. It’s been tinged with frustration and disappointment that we’ve played well in a lot of those games and lost four of them. We shouldn’t have lost that. We should have won a lot more. But it’s easy to say that.

“It’s important the club get it right, whatever decision that is. But of course I’d like this opportunity to rebuild this. I think I could be exactly what the club needs.”

Rowett took 14 points from his 14 games in charge, and believes it could have been more had City had a killer instinct in both boxes.

They showed more of that on Saturday at Ewood Park, helped by another excellent performance from Harry Souttar at the back on the Australian international’s second appearance of the season.

Rowett said: “If you look at the games, we’ve conceded silly goals. They were almost comical at times. You can’t win games of football with that.

 

“We created the second most chances over the last 14 games but if you can’t take those chances, you’re not going to win games of football. That’s been the biggest frustration.

“The first half was a bit of us in the 14 games. We looked nice, we looked good, we were comfortable on the ball, we build well and get into good areas, but in both boxes we’ve lacked that killer instinct that someone like Harry Souttar has.

“Even our corners he’s getting his head on everything, so you can see the difference he potentially would have made.

“But there’s no point crying over it now. It’s nice that he’s back. He’s had a long period out of the game so it’s nice that he can play the last two games. Now he’s got a big summer with Australia. It’s really nice for him, he deserves it.”

The killer instinct "that someone like Harry Souttar has" - That is damning. Our manager sees a perma crocked defender as our most dangerous player

7 hours ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Threw away so many points in the last 8 games. Won 6 of the 8 on xG. The draws against Watford, Sheff Wed, Preston and Hull were particularly frustrating. In all of those games we were comfortably the better team but couldn't get over the line. 

That's on Rudkin watching Vardy age and leave, and arogantly thinking Daka and Ayew were good enough, despite implementing a system that didn't play to either of their strengths.

11 hours ago, sdb said:

Surely the best right back we've ever had. 

Technically, yes. But Danny Simpson won the Premier League. 

6 relegations in his career, including back-to-back with us 

He’s a league two manager at best. Amazing how some thought he was the man to turn us around.

When was the last time we kept a clean sheet in the league?

1 hour ago, Lesterlad said:

Will Daka become a goal scorer when he leaves 

Haha! Good one, I needed a laugh this morning 🤣🤣

42 minutes ago, Livid said:

 

The PL and the so called are big six must be delighted as our demise sends a shot across the bows of Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth  etc to what could happen if you dare to step up and don't stay in your lane.

 

We had a model and it fell apart, players wised up and just went through the motions of playing out their contracts to get a better deal for themselves when they moved on. We bought badly, offered ridiculous terms and  contracts to players just let us down badly. 

 

I find it incredibly hard to have much a connection to the team or the club these days, Professional football at the top level just really doesn't do much for me anymore.

 

I'll be there next year but a part of me thinks what is the actual point anymore, we're never going to match the revenue streams of the major clubs regardless of how well we do. 

Our model didn’t fall apart. Top changed the model and the new model didn’t work 

3 hours ago, TheGoldenGod said:

One thing I've not seen too much of is that when Ricardo goes, we NEED to get the next captain right and has to be English without question...someone that gets IT.

It will 100% be Choudhury as captain and Thomas as vice-captain next season

Not sure if they are any good with computers tho…

Need a goal to save relegation, bring on Choudhury 

Line up is almost irrelevant. Other than James, we don’t have a single player that can get the ball forward from our half.

Watch us needing a goal with 5 minutes to go, to avoid relegation, and Vestergaard and Laceslles knocking it about between themselves 

Nice to see next season’s captain, Luke Thomas, getting more minutes 

1 hour ago, jayfox26 said:

They could go full on piss the fans off mode by announcing Rodgers as the manager of the opposition team. 

It’ll be Coops

22 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

How is no manager capable of getting this team to play 

The slow, pass it round at the back while the opposition sets themselves, possession based style is too ingrained in the squad.

Needs a complete reset, the likes of Vestergaard binned off, and a new style embedding that isn’t based off Man City tactics from a decade ago, without the players to play it

Luke Thomas on £60,000 \ week

Need a complete reset of playing staff and style.

Luke Thomas will be our captain next season