Freeman's Wharfer

It’s a bit crap, isn’t it?

Would go down well in the stadium right now

Exactly what KPFC would say…

“We always knew this year was just about survival”… Well this just shows that to be utter nonsense.

Not seen it discussed or confirmed elsewhere but I wondered if part of the proceeds going to LCFC In The Community was to actually keep some people in a job that they might not otherwise have. Personally, I don’t want to contribute to the Vichai Foundation after the £25 Loyalty Tax went there and we’ve never heard anything since about where that money went and how it helped.

Which questions did you think were loaded/leading?

It’s funny, what I’ve seen in recent months with the protests and the surveys is this absolute desire for some to be ‘proved right’. ”Protesting like that, it’ll never work - you should do it x/y/z way”. “The only way the club is going to listen to the protests is if you paint the stadium red, stage a sit-in protest in the changing room and stop giving the club your pocket money”. “Good luck to those protesting, but Aiyatt won’t care one bit mate”…. Trust mobilises some form of action and offers up FREE MEMBERSHIP - like a membership tier WHERE YOU LITERALLY JUST NEED TO GIVE YOUR NAME DOB AND EMAIL ADDRESS - and people are like “ah, don’t think the club will listen to the Trust”. Trust runs a survey that tries to cover the vast majority of issues affecting supporters today and you get people going “bit long isn’t it?” despite it taking 5-10 minutes to complete. They then spend at least 50% of said 5 minutes writing critical posts about how the survey takes too much time or won’t make a difference. There’s a whole heap on fans who would rather be able to say “told you so” than actually do even the smallest inconvenience to try and do something/anything!

He was still when they met Rudkin

I reckon he’s here come the start of next season. Clubs won’t want to take a gamble on him injury wise and particularly not on the wage they’d have to pay to match his Leicester one.

Genuinely knocked me a bit hearing people actively cheering him. I understand if people don’t want to boo, or don’t agree with it, but to actively clap and cheer a guy that has disrespected and harmed the club and abused the fan base… They must think it makes them some perfect fan or that they’re doing a good deed in support of the team, but have a brain FFS! Might as well start chucking flags of Dennis Wise or Wes Fofana up around the stadium.

Forcing change to happen at the club will require a range of methods and approaches. Each of which will have their own merit. Not sure how you can equate clapping the players to filling out a wide-ranging survey that gives supporters the chance to express their frustrations through a more formal channel.

I’m going to defend Steve here and challenge the notion that he was speaking on behalf of the Trust. He was just down there having been out and about for hours distributing leaflets for the Trust End of Season Survey and then watching the game and going round to the protest gathering post-match. An in-the-moment encounter that he never expected, and hadn’t prepared for, popped up as Top came out. He was asked who he was (again you wouldn’t expect) and he mentioned that he’s on the Trust board in his answer to that question as well as saying he’s on several fan channels. He was not there to speak on behalf of the Trust and I don’t think it’s fair to take this interaction as him having done so. Believe me, the Trust is pushing the club and trying to hold it to account. The Trust does have subgroups in areas like Finance & Operations, Communications, Membership and the Women’s Game. These are all working day to day to help the Trust function but are of course only as strong as the number of helping hands. You’d be more than welcome to come and get involved and help any of those areas get better?

There’s a lot of competition right now, but the Communications Director might just about be performing the worst out of all the executives at the Club….

That’s the spirit!

Maybe I’m responding to this because I’m one of the volunteers at the Trust who has contributed a lot of time and effort to getting this survey up and running but it’s a bit disheartening to hear people criticising the number of questions. There were a group of over 10 people with whom the questions were vetted. Where we got to with the end result was a set of questions that gives us the best chance to know over the next year what LCFC fans are thinking and feeling and hard data to press the club direct but also share with local and national media. The most time it will take anyone is 10-15 minutes (depending on your answers to some questions, you’ll not actually even see others as they are not relevant to your responses). It’s not much to support an effort to do something and the time taken to criticise and moan on here does far less than that taken to respond to a survey that the club will see.

As supporters, we should all have a vested interest in the Fan Engagement Framework and how those within it are representing us (at the end of the day, that’s what they are there as: representation of a wider group). You can tell them what you think about how they’re doing: [email protected] I mean it’s club employees who see that email inbox - and FAB reps don’t have direct access to it as far as I understand - but, of course, you’d hope the club will pass constructive feedback on… If these minutes (and previous ones) do one thing, I hope it’s create more scrutiny on the Fan Engagement Framework and how it’s serving us as Leicester City fans.

A serious team does not concede from a corner a couple of minutes into the match. Forget what came after, and our inability to breakdown the worst side that has ever played at this level, that start tells you everything you need to know about this bunch and where they're headed. Today confirmed we’re utterly done for.

Beer and a pizza for less than £20

Bump

As a wise man once said. “What have protests ever achieved?” Come on, large scale protests here could achieve a hell of a lot. At the moment, Aiyawatt still thinks he’s welcome here (I can’t quite claim with absolute certainty that he’s not based on what we’re seeing across the fan base atm) and the vanity project that owning this club has become for him is still intact. That penny needs to drop for him that he’s not and that ownership of this club is negatively affecting his image before he’ll even consider selling. Right now, I think he thinks he’s adored.

Bumping this. Just over one week left for Trust members to take advantage of this offer (tickets must be bought by Monday 6th April).

“Grandson, in a football stadium, there are going to be some naughty words - many of which you won’t understand at the age of 10. If I hear you using any of them away from the stadium then [insert appropriate punishment that will resonate with a 10 year old]”. Thats how it used to work, isn’t it? I don’t personally sing that chant because I just don’t think it’s productive for getting people on the same page. There are a lot of, let’s say “fans of a certain age”, for whom that word is far more significant than anyone under the age of say 30. Have a little browse of social media, go to a comedy gig or sit beside a group of young people in a pub and you’ll hear it very casually used. It’s lost its gravitas as a swear word in popular culture in the UK but there’s a whole chunk of our fan base still viewing it how it was used 20/30/40 years ago. Funnily enough, they’re the ones out of sync with social norms, not the people singing it in a football stadium. But, as I said, that doesn’t mean people should sing it if we’re trying to get as many people on the same page about this issue of Rudkin.

Add to the list of signs that there are cash flow problems…. Desperate for people to chuck some money in upfront now to keep things going until payday.

“Several clubs interested” but we still couldn’t get him out of the door (and even then only a loan with an option to buy). Add to the Rudkin masterclass list. It’s also interesting to hear him openly say that at the end of last season - whilst he still had plenty of time left on his contract - he knew it was time for him to leave the club. How many others have also had that realisation/hope and are sat still playing in our first team whilst longing for a departure? These are the kind of things that lead to what we’re seeing now: a load of players that have checked out and don’t believe they’ll be here to deal with the consequences of relegation. In actual fact, relegation probably furthers your aim to leave. How mad is that? That the likes of Winks and Mavididi probably want their next move and know they will get it easier if we drop. Are they really going to give it 100% effort?!

Not a fan of the “minus 6 who gives a ****” chant. Because I really do - it should never have happened. How about: Minus six, because of you You then promote the responsible two You want to get closer, to the fans Then hide in Thailand, sat on your hands You show you’re a fool, with “we promote” Sell the club, like the family boat