Ricey

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He didn't play once in January and then on the 1st of Feb he was back. After the Liverpool match, once relegation was confirmed, he came back out and did a lap of honour on his own. I thought at the time whether that would be the last we see of him.

I suspect this is the case and if it's proven, either by fresh investment or a full sale to another Thai billionaire, then I'm done.

Only just watching back the highlights. That’s second goal is peak Faes. Charge out to close someone down, get nowhere near, leave a huge gap, opposition exploit the gap to score and then Faes turns around and waves his arms in the air like everyone else has let him down.

A lot of our fans have no idea what he does. I guess none of us do really. ’Sack the board’ feels more apt and I wonder if more people might join in with that as it’s broader? Certainly around me I hear some people join in with that, whereas there is nothing for Rudkin.

What a football club. That’s the second manager in two years actively trying to get sacked and goading the club to do so in the press. Plus Enzo who took some persuading not to resign, prior to Chelsea coming in.

If the club are actually choosing between Dyche or Martin, it just proves how doomed we are. Two managers with wildly different playing styles, both of which will be unpopular with the fans.

That’s not the point though, if you read the rest of the post. He’s a bad manager, who has failed miserably, but when you look at the bigger picture there is no point paying him off and then hiring someone else terrible who will rebuild the squad and then also be paid off at some point in the next year. That sets us back another couple of years. Save our money until Top, Rudkin, Glover and co aren’t the ones making the decisions.

I’m warming to the idea of not sacking him, but only if there is a chance that there will be changes at board level and new strategy (is there one currently?) put in place over the next few months. If we sack him now or in May, it will be Top and Rudkin choosing the next lamb to the slaughter. It will be another case of looking at what CV’s happen to fall on the desk and who is being touted by the one agent the club is currently enamoured with. They’ll be ranked by how high profile they are and the club will put way too much emphasis on the interview. Style of play will be irrelevant. We may strike lucky, but the chances are slim. Next season is likely to be another shitshow either way, especially with points deductions. We can’t afford to sack Ruud, hire another management team, let them rebuild the squad…and do all that via the current leadership and without a blueprint or long term plan. It will be throwing money down the drain and will only deepen our PSR problems. Put all the energy and money into hiring the best Sporting Director, Performance Director, CEO, Head of Recruitment etc. A fresh group, committed, driven and innovative. Let them lead the rebuild, even if it means sticking with Ruud for a bit longer and playing more Academy players to plug the gaps from sales. Short term pain for, hopefully, long term gain.

I don’t think he will sell. He’ll try and bring in new investment, shuffle the board around a bit and claim it as change, when the reality is that won’t even scrape the surface.

Right thing to do, but what an awful way to go out. He actually started the season pretty well, but since Ruud abandoned any semblance of attacking it's been fairly pointless playing him. It makes me even more angry that the club has allowed his story to end like this.

Stop playing him. Play Skipp and give him a run of games.

This is it for me. We need to implement a style of play that is manager agnostic. Something that a new manager can slot into it. Dyche would create a squad that very few other managers would be able to do anything with, especially if we want to establish ourselves back in the Premier League.

I’ve long assumed that if the current owners do sell, they will only do it to another Thai businessman. This isn’t about Leicester City, it is about Thailand.

Where are these rumours coming from?

It’s ugly. He had plenty of opportunities to change it at Burnley but didn’t, same goes for Everton. Kompany got Burnley playing a totally different way instantly.

Nigel Pearson, Steve Walsh and then Eduardo Macia masked an awful lot.

Carsley, like RvN, is another risk without enough experience behind him. A name being thrown around just because of a high profile Caretaker spell. Very little club experience, only a period as England U21 manager to judge him by, which is as far removed from club management as you are going to get. Personally I was massively underwhelmed by his time as Caretaker with England. I don’t think he communicated very well, I don’t think he had the air of a leader about him and he showed real tactical naivety in some of the matches.

I remember the widespread anger towards the Gang of Four. What King Power are doing blows that out of the water…and yet, there’s barely any sign of anger at all. I just don’t get it.

Weird, I was sat in the West Stand and was looking out but never saw it.

I missed it as well, what route did it do?

It's good to see the Trust being more active and setting the club actions. Long may it continue.

Without a doubt. I just know that our relegation is going to be greeted with clapping the players off.

Not a chance he would come here. He's destined for big things.

All managers talk well in interviews. I would talk well in an interview because it's all hypothetical.