Freeman's Wharfer

Ryan, I appreciate you didn’t have a great time offering your experience to the Trust. I get it, and I can emphasise to a large extent. But you have to ask when your personal experience is preventing you from doing anything other than throw shade? I’m sure from your involvement, you know that Lynn is one of the board members that is more than happy to call the club a spade when they’re falling short. She’s also the one on the board who was taking time to go along to the Union FS night last year and has been very open and welcoming (almost to the point of pleading at times!) for more people to join and help the Trust. If you’ve watched the whole video then I’m sure you also heard her talk about being one of the three board members who attended the Project Reset protest march. Being one of the Trust Chairs meeting Susan Whelan and attending a march that the club would have hated should tell you enough about the balance she’s trying to strike being in the room but also saying when things aren’t good enough. It’s delicate to say the least. In the past week we’ve had two steps in the right direction (albeit baby steps, I appreciate): - The Trust giving completely transparency in the form of an Open Letter calling on the club to freeze or reduce ticket prices (dependent upon what league we’re in) - One of the Chairs going on a Leicester fan channel to talk about what the Trust is and why it has an important role (also acknowledging its far from perfect) In both instances you’ve thrown cursory acknowledgement of each step and then gone on to hammer the Trust. I appreciate you’ve been supportive of us new board members (that’s appreciated) but I think your frustrations are preventing you seeing any potential for change. I know we have to win people like you over (for what it’s worth I think it’s a shame not having you more involved), but give us a chance mate! It’ll take time.

Have you read the letter? Exactly what has been asked for…

Exactly this. I’m wondering if many people commenting here have actually read the full letter. If Union FS had released the same letter, pushing for the same kind of protections for fans, would the reaction be the same as we’re seeing here?

I’ll just say here, credit to @CosbehFox who did a lot of work on this and was a big driving force behind the Trust taking this approach.

It’s on here, social media and has been shared with local press. If you go back to the original post, the Trust article linked there provides access to the letter that has been sent to the club in full openness and transparency.

How are you channeling your feedback to the Club on key issues? Or are you not doing so at all?

This is nothing to do with any meetings with the club. It’s an Open Letter. Literally The Trust being as transparent and open in pushing the Club as it could possibly be!

Against all my better judgement, now after one ticket for this!

There’s still tickets available on the website Ric

He’ll leave with the all-time record for most distance between him and a Leicester away end or vocal section. Strides on, shakes the ref’s hand and does one. No appreciation for the fans at all even though he talks a good game in the press conferences.

This and on for the record for most second tier titles. Leicester City’s DNA is to be a yo-yo club. I’ve resigned myself to the inevitability of that a little now.

The class clown was never asked to be a prefect. You can’t be a proper leader whilst jumping out of a hedge dressed as Spider-Man or squawking “ooh Danish friends”. Our GOAT but not a leader.

You know what, I think you might be right about it being the ‘noisy minority’ protesting. But, guess what? It was the noisy minority expressing disappointment and frustration at us missing out on the Champions League from seemingly unassailable positions because they knew they were sliding doors moments, whilst the rest were saying “but we were in League One 13 years ago”. It was the noisy minority expressing concerns over the failure to qualify from an easy-ish Europa League group and the league form in 2022/23 because it hinted at a staleness and decline, whilst the rest were saying “but we reached a European semi-final”. It was the noisy minority saying that Rodgers needing sacking and it doing quickly in 2023/24, whilst the rest were ripping ‘Rodgers Out’ signs out of people’s hands and giving him a free pass because of the FA Cup. Maybe it might be time to listen to that minority? You know, before they’re proved right yet again on this one? Just a thought.

He’s a real problem for us. Ruud seemed to understand this and dropped him when he first came in but for some reason has now gone back on that understanding and I’m not sure why. Faes is very often doing something poor when you look at goals we concede. Even if not an obvious mistake, he’s often out of position or has switched off or has made a half-hearted attempt at something. Vestergaard and Coady lack pace and are by no means world beaters but I’d sooner have either of them in the XI than Faes. I’d happily see him never wear the Leicester shirt ever again. Absolute clown.

Seeing as we clearly breached PSR (and only escaped punishment via a loophole found by a mega expensive lawyer), were unable to spend in January, are being warned about the legitimacy of a front of shirt sponsor we took on, have had fan outrage about things like a £25 charge for season ticket cards (wildly out of proportion with every other club) and have had 5 managers in 3 seasons… can you please define ‘a relatively healthy state’?

Quite a few mistaking this protest as the in the ground bit. In reality, it was the hundreds marching to the stadium who made a noise and got the protest being talked about: job done.

Club’s ticket policy really not helping. ’Bring your whole squad to Arsenal at home’… basically just results in ‘buy a ticket for that bloke you know who supports the away team but is prepared to sit on his hands for 90 minutes’. Away fans getting through the door easier than a local fan if they know someone. Seen a few mentions of away fans in the home end today and someone made an unwise decision to celebrate Arsenal’s first in L1. Fair to say he found out in a very brutal manner that he’d made a mistake.

That’s as close to an endorsement you can get from a manager on something like this. Speaks volumes.

Real argument for it being when the likes of Simpson, Okazaki and Fuchs left the club. Rodgers talked about bringing ‘winners’ in and I thought he’d seen that the mentality had been lost as those lot departed. His response to that was to sign Daka and Soumare who were only winners in the sense of being from successful teams in sub par leagues. What we really needed were the likes of Milner, Dawson & Lallana. Uninspiring but solid professionals. Whilst overseeing many declines, one of the worst Rodgers was culpable for was the decline in grit and know-how amongst the squad. Nice boys playing pretty football landed us right in it.

Foxes Trust are definitely looking for input, and active involvement, from supporters. Are you a member and have you shared feedback through the Trust?

How many of these young players get poached and then never go on to make a mark as well? Chelsea used to do it a lot and a few who probably would have eased into a ‘smaller’ club’s first team and then gone on to have a decent career at the top level got lost amongst the masses. Take the case of someone like Harvey Barnes. Good youth prospect, couple of successful loans, eased into our first team and eventually got an England cap. If he’d gone to a Man City or Liverpool at 15 would he be a Premier League player? We can’t know for certain but I actually think it was beneficial to him and England for him to come through here rather than be poached. This is an area where I think our club is falling short at the minute unfortunately. We struggle to get players successful loan moves and we’re not savy enough. I’m convinced we’ve had a couple here (Casadei and Kane) where it’s been written into the loan that they have to play a part in every fixture. Yet we’re sending Braybrooke up to Dundee with nothing similar? And if you have the likes of Andy King around the club, use him. Get him talking to the kid and his parents every week. Connect Monga’s parents with the likes of Chilwell and Barnes’ parents to hear their views. Get Vardy putting an arm round him. Go find the kids that went to big clubs and never made it and ask them to be a case study. A bit of initiative here could be worth millions later down the line.

I would assume this isn’t a one and done kind of thing. The first one might get 50 people, the next 100 etc. If people want change then they should be less preoccupied with picking holes in what @ProjectReset or any of the fan groups have/haven’t done and more so with just turning up and showing their support if they care enough to do so. The first one doesn’t have to be anything fancy to get the clubs attention: be at a place on a date and time and vocalise your discontent.

We were growing into the premier league in that season, much in the way El Khannouss has this season. Unfortunately that’s about the only instance in which that scenario applies, as this time round we’ve clogged our team with declining premier league plodders like Ayew, Decordova-Reid, Vestergaard and Coady.

Good to see this is still going ahead so that those who wish to express their dissatisfaction have a peaceful way to do so. All talk and no walk would be disastrous for our fan base right now. There’s already large scale apathy and the club has taken many decisions that show disregard for the fan base. The club need to see there is desire for change strong enough for people to join something like this.

Leicester fans didn’t have a special relationship with Vichai. The tragic circumstances of his death triggered grief buried within people for people they actually knew and it took on a Princess Diana esque spectacle where it was, quite frankly, ridiculous to see people crying in public over someone they never knew. Leicester fans couldn’t recognise his voice, tell you his birthday (despite the free doughnuts) or anything else significant about him as a man. He was as private and shady as a man gifted a monopoly by the king of Thailand should be. The co-ordinated grief and brain-washy type slogans like ‘Always In Our Hearts’ and ‘The Boss’ pushed by the club are superb examples of how you can manipulate the majority of people into thinking a certain way. This is now actually harming the club as accountability for the current owner is lacking due to association with the former one.