Freeman's Wharfer

This thread shows exactly why a protest will be so hard to pull off. On page 1 there’s people citing club rules and cacking themselves the club might punish them. Part of the reason why the Sheffield Wednesday protest worked so well was that half their away end couldn’t get in the stadium. They were forced to stay outside because the inside was full and health and safety couldn’t permit more to enter. There will have been a big chunk of those outside who would have made their way straight to the seats were they let in. If you want to do the no-show protest, it needs to be an away game with a small concourse and you’d need to be in before the Coach 1/KPFC types even get through the turnstile.

He’s 27. TWENTY SEVEN. If he’s still being negatively affected by mental fragility at this point then there’s a serious problem. Perhaps it’s not confidence and he’s just not actually very good?

They held a ceremony at the stadium in the week. Which, IMO, in itself, is a bit ridiculous to still be doing as a club. What are they going to do, force many who never knew him to sit through a ceremony year after year like he’s some martyr? He passed away. I get the circumstances were unexpected and tragic but does it need a big fanfare or special event every year? Only if you’re maintaining some cult-like reverence…

Don’t feel guilty, our ‘Interim CEO’ doesn’t even bother going.

Aiyawatt and Rudkin, get out of our club Get out of our club Get out of our club Aiyawatt and Rudkin, get out of our club

Always find this point interesting. The notion that supporters should be like circus seals just mindlessly clapping along because they are supporters. Maybe supporting this club right now is actually putting pressure on the senior leadership that is dragging it down and telling these charlatan players that we see them and don’t endorse their lack of respect for our club? You’d have to do a pretty good job to convince me that no change in leadership and the continued appearance of the likes of Faes and Soumare is in the best interests of my club. So in my opinion supporting the club is doing anything that works against those parties.

Just remembered an interesting little snippet: Simpson said in January/February of the 2015/16 season, Schmeichel was telling the club they needed to tie Kante down on a new deal without a release clause.

Was the interim CEO who wants to get more involved with the day to day running of the club there to lead in-person tonight?!

Like you say, not much juice shared but that’s a result of the highly media trained modern day player and many of them still wanting a media role/club role. Have to remember it’s the first event of this kind they’ve done and as they get older will no doubt loosen up a bit more. Huth came out of it best. Really good sense of humour and could see that the other three really admired him when he was speaking. Simpson was closest to spilling some of the tea and you can tell he yearns for those Leicester days again. I suspect he’s never managed to find the happiness he did during that period of his life. He clearly cares for the club. Morgan spoke well and it was interesting to hear him say that his children are Leicester fans. He’s clearly very close with Simpson and was well involved in the social scene at the club. Albrighton said he’d jump at an opportunity to get involved with the club again and thought he gave an interesting answer to the ‘if you could play one game again’ question - the FA Cup final but at a full Wembley. Overall, it was just nice to hear and see the dynamic between them all. They’ve got their 2026 Reunion WhatsApp group and sounds like they’re all still relatively well in touch (including Mahrez and Kante). They also clearly have huge affection for the club and feel that the culture has gone awry and they could help fix that. But, yes, the auction was a bit annoying. Especially given the proceeds weren’t going to any good cause as far as I’m aware and might have just been lining the pockets of the guy who put the night on?

Fish rots from the head down. Until King Power are gone, nothing changes.

I asked this question (whether the club considered a full rebuild on the same site) in the online Q&A the club did and Whelan almost scoffed at it. It had not been a consideration discussed at all. The reality is that the concourses, turnstiles, safe-standing provisions and hospitality are also not fit for what modem stadia are offering to allow for smooth digital entry, better in-game atmosphere and getting fans to stay for longer at the stadium (either post-match or pre-match). The expansion is only really improving the outside area next to the stadium and the facilities in just one of four stands - and the one that is not going to have any material impact on atmosphere. For me, my bigger hope than this expansion going ahead is that we get a takeover with an ambitious owner that really wants to go further than the current plans and takes it on several notches rather than just delivering what’s there already. When you look at what other clubs are doing at the top level, it feels like we’re hitting another generation of stadium design, just like when the bowl stadiums became a thing. We risk getting left behind in a major way.

On that pitch last night… Players who have sat in the stand because they’ve fallen out with a manager previously: Vestergaard Winks Players who have clearly wanted away from the club or asked for a move: Soumare Faes Daka Players who are ageing and came here for one final payday: Decordova-Reid Ayew Players who are on loan and have no long-term tie to the club: Carranza James Ramsey That’s 10/16 who haven’t wanted/don’t want to be here, only want to be here for the money, or have no real skin in the game to be here long-term. You just cannot expect to get anywhere with that in a league where grit and determination is 50% of what makes you successful. I’m not having a go at the loan players at all, but what I am saying is that usually you’d be dropping a couple of them into a side that is committed to building something and you can bring them along for either part of, or the whole, ride. The clean slate that Cifuentes has provided to many of the above is what will cost him dear if he continues on this path.

This guy’s got away with murder for a lot of our fanbase. Yeah he’s neat and tidy in possession but he doesn’t want to be at our club. He’s disrespected us as a fan base and a couple of his managers. If you just turn a blind eye to that and welcome him back with open arms then you get someone you cannot rely on. A leopard does not change its spots. His lack of tracking a runner for that goal last night is appalling.

Was the interim CEO who wants to get more involved with the day to day running of the club there to lead in-person last night?!

Drop it on the Friday night after all the journalists have packed up and gone home for the week. Hope the game on Saturday takes the attention away from the reaction. Tells you everything you need to know about how the Club realises the shady nature of all this.

She wasn’t the director at the Club who dictated what could or could not be shared from any meetings with the Trust. Nor the one who worked on the terms of reference of the Fan Engagement Plan and put NDAs in place for those on the Fan Advisory Board. I suspect you wouldn’t find many on the Trust board who had interaction with her and felt she was the real or biggest problem at LCFC.

Don’t think I’ve ever heard so many individual negative shouts about a player from an away end. We’re in a loveless marriage with this bloke.

What pubs are people drinking in pre-match? Doing a bit of a crawl in the city center with this being a Friday night

Always think being Men’s 100m World/Olympic champion must be pretty damn cool. You can legitimately go round saying you’re the fastest person on the planet.

Never expect from someone else what you would do yourself. Often find the times I’m most disappointed or angry with someone is when I have expected them to handle or react to a situation in the way that I would have and they have done something else. If someone’s being a bit crappy, don’t hold them to your own standards you set for yourself and it’s so much easier to be the bigger person and move on or not let it affect you.

Okoli at 4… does this cover chances for the opposition or something?!

One of the small things I enjoy about this level is seeing an opposition player who you can see is on his way up and above the level. Rudoni yesterday was an example of this. He’ll be in the Prem sooner or later and it will make complete sense to me. I could see us going a whole season with no opposition fan looking at Soumare and thinking he’s a cut above. That, given his reputation prior to arriving and some of the clubs he’s played for, says everything. He may do one or two things a game that show some quality somewhere within him, but he’ll never be the star of the show.

Saw a quote from their manager saying they’d taken a bit of a risk with his training schedule and would have to look at how they do it moving forward. Vardy probably called the shots on what he needs/wants for a few years here and it has worked for him but not so easy to do with a a new club, manager and language to navigate.

Coventry played a system that left Grimes their only central midfielder between two blocks of attacking and defensive players. That meant there was a lot of space if Leicester could beat the press by that Coventry attacking block and this is where it was crying out for a midfielder to run with the ball and take advantage of that space. Soumare often had the opportunity to run with the ball into space (which is why people are saying he ran with the ball a lot today), but he did it so slowly and without real hunger that the opportunity passed us by and Coventry often had chance to recover. We’d have gained something had he been taken off like he was at Oxford.

He’s been decent for the last 9 months, certainly decent enough that it would be bad business to have lost him for nothing. 4 years feels a lot (3 years with the option of a 4th feels more appropriate) but at least he’s of an age that we should still get plenty out of him over that term. This is not akin to 3 years for an ageing Vestergaard. Hopefully this gives him the confidence to kick on and make that position his for the next few years.