Freeman's Wharfer

Forest away Jon Moss special. A nothing penalty against Mills for handball and then sending Schmeichel off for throwing the ball back to the halfway line.

Wrote this for The Fosse Way: https://www.thefosseway.net/viewpoint/leicester-city-ruud-rudkin-january-2025 For those who think Rudkin is doing a good enough job, it would be interesting to hear what a minimum acceptable January would look like? How many players in/out? By when?! Then we can all look back on 1st February and determine if he’s done enough…

A few people need to separate head and heart in this thread. He’s only ever been a standout player in a side far too good for The Championship. If you think that is the answer to our problems then you’re wrong.

I know there have been some people that didn’t receive the AGM notice despite being members (for whatever reason). Just to mention, if you want to join online you need to email [email protected] before 10th January. Hopefully @Foxes_Trust might also be able to provide some clarity here for people on the resolution and proxy voting process in case people have missed.

I think he’s so far up Top’s rear end that he daren’t sit on the front row when Top’s not there. Like some weird kind of deference.

Genuinely amazed there’s seemingly more or less a 50/50 split on RVN. Our season will not be defined on games like Newcastle away, Liverpool away and Man City at home. He’s had an absolute stinker of a fixture list to walk into as a new manager with no transfer window so, for me, I’ll place more emphasis on performances right now. Wolves and second half at Newcastle aside - which as I’ve said further up this thread are anomalies due to Danny Ward - we’ve performed pretty well. He’s doing things tactically that Steve Cooper could not even begin to comprehend and I think a large chunk of our fan base, particularly those not watching inside a stadium where you get an appreciation for these things, cannot either. We have a good manager here, we just need to help him in the January window They deserved the support they got at full time today with being clapped off. To quote James Maddison…

I don’t think it’s necessarily incompetence. I actually think it’s negligence. His attendance at games in recent years is patchy at best. When he is here it’s a vanity project and he has one hundred Thai hangers on with him. He enjoys the attention that comes so easily thanks to a gullible fan base associating him with his father’s success. Him turning up to the Forest home game in the relegation season for the first time that season and later shooting disapproving looks at Union FS urging the board to act before it was too late were were prime examples of him being so far out of touch that he can’t possibly be in it day to day. Now I don’t doubt that, were he properly involved, he’d still be incompetent. As others have said, this is just a rich kid that has inherited a play thing and never had to learn the unteachable lessons that a founder learns on the way up in building a huge business. But fortunately I don’t think he’s even that ‘in it‘ to be able to make things even worse (I dread to think). If the night that helicopter went down we’d have been sold to ABC Corporation, and you were judging their record since then, you’d be attributing the FA Cup win to a hangover from the previous ownership and absolutely livid at the demise that had followed under the new ownership thereafter. There’d be an overwhelming majority wanting them gone and pining for King Power back. Unfortunately 90% of our fan base can’t detach themselves from the emotion around Vichai to view things as rationally as seeing that Top-owned LCFC and this new era is ABC Corporation.

He’s made one mistake: 135 minutes of Danny Ward. Take that out of the equation and it’s a win against a decent calibre West Ham team, a spirited draw against a strong Brighton side, 1-0 down to a strong Newcastle side and still in it at half time and giving top of the table Liverpool a decent run for their money. Now that error is pretty huge. You’d hope any Leicester manager had done his due diligence to know that Ward is miles off it at this level. But I think he had a decision to make on his principles (the risk of Ward, and stay true to what he’s trying to get his players to buy into, or Iversen and abandon playing out from the back) and he paid a price. The good thing is that he learned that lesson sharpish and has bombed Ward completely out of the squad at the next possible opportunity. He’s working with a horrendous squad, thanks to injuries to some of our best and poor recruitment, and probably needs 3 in January to stand a chance. Would you trust our DOF to get those 3 over the line and to do so quickly to give RVN the best chance of success?

“Support for away ticket collections to be reconsidered (similar to season 2022/23) – support agency staff to be used.” Sorry, what? Support for this from whom? And for what reason when there have been no major incidents in the season and a half since they stopped this nonsense?

I get that in your scenario. This is a house that is quite clearly vacant from the photos however - so it’s literally just on the estate agent. I’m also perfectly happy with my house as-is and only looking to move if I find something that I feel is an upgrade and worth the upheaval. Compare to the car market where you couldn’t view a car if you hadn’t yet sold your current one. It seems like estate agents have it a bit too good if they can turn away potentially decent leads - which would lead to the question: why are they needed at all?!

Anyone had experience of getting viewings without their house on the market? My situation is that I’m happy where I am but if the right house pops up I’d explore. I’ve kept an eye on the market for the last couple of years and seen about three houses in that time that I’d be interested in (one of which I got a viewing on but wasn’t quite right). One of them has just come back on the market (assuming another sale fell through) and the estate agent is “prioritising viewings for people who are proceedable”. I get the estate agent doesn’t want to waste time with lots of speculative viewings but this is also a house that is clearly vacant so there’s no issue around the seller having lots of people looking round being disruptive. My mortgage is up early next year so it provides a good opportunity to move if I find something worth moving for. Am I supposed to just put my house on the market and/or sell it with nowhere to move to and on the off chance something pops up that makes me want to move?! Or do I just lie to get the viewing and then tell them the real scenario once I’m wanting to do something?! It all seems a bit broken to me as an industry. As an estate agent you’re there to sell the property and someone wanting to come along and view one that has stood empty for months is surely in the sellers interest regardless of how inconvenient it might be for the estate agent

Obviously a Christmas party but I don’t think the sign happens without them having a hunch Cooper was going. If stories are to be believed that a senior player had a word with the owner post-match, I imagine they might have left that discussion with an idea of what was going to happen next and shared that with the rest of the team. They’ll probably have woken up today and regretted the sign a little but if that’s the biggest controversy or regret that comes out of a Christmas party then we’re doing alright.

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The whole Kane vs Vardy stuff is cheap and tired now. No need to turn this thread into that kind of Talksport/Twitter nonsense. I can see Vardy doing another year here if we stay up. Still has so much to offer the team.

That stadium clapped our team to the most disgraceful relegation ever and round the pitch after it had just been confirmed. A bit of accountability is fine by me.

Are the club going to hold a memorial service annually for the rest of eternity? I mean, after 6 years it’s a bit weird to be doing it every year. Almost a bit cult-y like he was some kind of deity. I’m sure everyone who knew him, personally or professionally, has the ability to remember him and pay their respects however they wish to. The whole ‘Forever In Our Hearts’ orchestrated stuff I find a little bit exaggerated now.

That’s the thing. I don’t think it was. 99% of our fan base couldn’t pronounce Vichai’s surname, couldn’t pick his voice out of a crowd, couldn’t tell you anything about him other than he owned King Power. They did a good bit of PR by giving charitable donations and giving the odd freebie (at a time when other clubs were also giving freebies such a free coaches to away games), but was it not just more the case that they benefitted from the success on the pitch and appreciation by association? Now, of course, they took some financial decisions that massively helped the club, and it gave us the platform to achieve what we did, but there’s been many a sign of ineptitude along the way and I think everyone just got a bit carried away with the nice story of a fan-owner relationship that wasn’t really there. A tragic event which stirred the emotions only served to exaggerate that. In the same way as when Princess Diana died.

Won’t be missed I gather. How bad can the replacement be? Over to you, LCFC!

You’re a kid from a disadvantaged background. Maybe not so far away from the stadium - somewhere like New Parks or Braunstone. Of course you can’t afford a season ticket or membership but a walk, bus or bike ride down the ground during half term is achievable… LCFC do not give two craps about you. So unnecessarily sad to see. Shame on you, LCFC.

In the big picture it was a brief showing, but it’s still possible to show a bit of willing and effort in a brief cameo. Looked lazy and half-arsed to me.

Yep - that’s exactly the point! Was perfectly capable of noticing who was on the pitch at any given moment

Never known a manager pick players in offensive/creative positions based on their defensive ability. Ndidi and Ayew in the 10. Refusal to play Mavididi and Fatawu on the wings in favour of the likes of Decordova Reid and Ayew. It’s boring, dull, negativity.

Completed but it felt like a survey for a new stadium that has been built in a new area. There’s been a football stadium in the vicinity for more than 100 years so there’s no resident impact that shouldn’t have been known when choosing to move into the area.

So many decisions at the moment just stink of absolute desperation. Desperate times, desperate measures and all that. They must know that £10 for a pre-season friendly is objectively obscene. But if it’s one of your few chances to milk the Foxes Player revenue now you’re back in the Prem and can’t sell it weekly, and no one’s really going to check or know how many people paid to watch the friendly, and you might even be able to bang a bit extra on some income stream to meet some financial rules that are looking a bit tight… Ok, maybe there’s not anything shifty going on here and they are just completely tone deaf at the moment. But it just all seems so wildly off that surely, surely, there’s more to it than someone thinking this was a good idea that would be well-received.

Leicester “have boots will travel” City. Sacked off the US tour at the behest of Maresca - having clearly not consulted him on the plan before signing up - only to then lose Maresca a week later. It’s led to us travelling to France and Germany to play anyone who will have us and now a random game in Chesterfield. It’s a make it up as you go along pre-season schedule. Second summer in a row the man in charge of the first team has to contend with an off-pitch operation blundering their way through things.