Jobyfox

This squad is definitely in the worst three in the league. We are where we should be. I don’t think it’s worth yet another managerial change this season. Would I keep him for next season? Probably not. I think we’ll need a reset and a fresh approach.

Arrggghhhh….. somebody make it stop!!!!

Nope. That was the Wolves game and probably cemented with no signings in January. Losing to Arsenal is completely predictable. We’re just dead men walking from here on in.

I think that's it. Across the board there is no evidence of change or evolution. This even manifests itself in supporters groups and official communication channels. You learn in business that even the most successful companies need to evolve and change to stay relevant. There are multiple examples of those that don't do this withering and dying in the face of new competition. We were the club everyone wanted to be a few seasons ago. Now teams like Brighton, Brentford, Fulham, Forest and Crystal Palace have all moved past us. We're not trying to compare ourselves to Liverpool and Man Utd or clubs that operate in a different financial reality. We're grateful of what the current regime have achieved here, but now it's stagnated. Evolve or die and, as the thread title says, it feels like the time for a reset is now!

Unfortunately this fella comes across as a club sycophant rather than representing supporters. I think fans accept the difficulty of a new season in the PL, the financial constraints that we were under and that it won't be easy to re-establish ourselves. The point he's missed is that we were a very established PL club and a serious of glaring errors over multiple seasons is the route cause of our current predicament. Fans might be more accepting if they could see that the club was learning from these errors and were embracing changes in approach, learning lessons and incorporating them (e.g. change in club hierarchy and management structure, new investment strategies or revenue streams, better communication with paying fans, transfer strategy etc.). What we've had this season, however, was a muddled approach to appointing a new manager (who was subsequently dismissed), a flawed transfer strategy and an absence of proactive communication with fans. A so called "review" of the failings led to no changes in the people running the club and no public visibility of what this review found. I usually consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic supporter. I'm conscious of LCFCs position in the food chain and perhaps more accepting of failure than most. It's reached the point, however, where I can fully understand the frustration that's led to this more direct action. As a very minimum the club needs to communicate more effectively and glib statements from people who are supposed to represent supporters are going to do nothing to assuage people's concerns.

0-8

Easter Sunday traditionally

They’re not the worst players that we’ve ever had. Far from it. But as a transfer strategy it’s about as unimaginative and uninspiring as it could get. Whether different signings would have had a greater output, have more future potential and have some resale value is a matter of conjecture. I just know I wish we’d tried and would have been more forgiving of failure

Still money we could have used on somebody decent.

Ayew, BDCR, Skipp and Edouard were dreadful signings. I know this because even an amateur like me knew that they would be. At their peak they were mediocre players at established, lower to midtable, PL sides. The teams that were now letting them go. They were never likely to make the required difference in quality at a newly promoted team. If we’d signed younger players from the Championship or foreign leagues, who were hungry to make the step up, I’d have been more forgiving. No signing is without risk, but at least we’d be left with players with high potential in the lower league. Instead we’ll go down with highly paid, aging, journeymen who probably won’t make the difference in the Championship and that have no resale value or future potential. BEK was the exception in a transfer window that was otherwise the dictionary definition of poor. Our performance since has been depressingly predictable

Thanks. Much appreciated If anything the January transfer window was irrelevant. The real damage had already been done in the summer window. The winter window is always notoriously difficult to do business in, but you have a chance if you’re building on the previous window. If anything we needed to undo the mistakes of the previous window whilst trying to add quality that would make a difference to the first team. Always a long shot.

Thanks John!

OK - keep it open then, but just have it link to a large ‘on screen’ message: “NOTHING TO SEE HERE”

The Nicky Maynard one was a real saga. We kept offering Bristol City more and more money £3m, £4m even £6m was rumoured. BC, with new investment, were insistent that they “wouldn’t sell to a rival” and would only sell to a PL club. Nicky Maynard never signed another contract with Bristol C and they had to let him go to West Ham (a Championship club) for a fraction of the cost we were offering. Even though West Ham got promoted that season NM never really cut it as a PL player. In retrospect: we shouldn’t have offered so much, Bristol City should have taken our offer and Nicky himself was never in such demand again. He suffered through injuries and gradually went down to the lower levels of the football pyramid and was at League 2 Bury by the age of 32

Just for clarity if you’re disagreeing then you’re saying that performance was worse than the Everton game? Are you sure you disagree?

Hmmm.,, Worst Leicester performance since…. ….. the last game!

If that’s the answer than god only knows what the question is

Time for McAteer to prove he’s not just a League Two level player

Really?

I don’t know. Because it’s his first game in months?

No. Squid games is available

That’s a new level of desperation

Sir. Harold Maguire

How’s Soumare doing?

They’re not very capable of passing anyway