Freeman's Wharfer

Prematch, half time and post match, the Directors Box is empty and there’s minimal live tv and radio coverage. How else do you expect the message to get across?! I doubt the players take much notice of it to be honest. And if they do, maybe there’s a few of them stood there thinking “yeah, he is a tool” because he’s hampering their success by failing to get a decent squad around them. There are a lot of people who seemingly think he’s a problem but will state you can’t chant certain chants about him or you have to be selective about when you chant about him. Doesn’t quite add up.

Christ that presenter had nothing other than the lazy lines that have been trotted out by a media utterly bought into the KP narrative

Can’t tell if this is a serious opinion. If it is, you’re part of the problem. Not to mention that if you and the other like-minded fans who felt Rudkin is doing a great job had sung up in support of him, that chant wouldn’t have been the loudest one. Struggling to get others to sing with you? Might tell you that you’re on the wrong side of this one…

They’ve played their part more than anyone else. Regularly held up banners and been consistent with Rudkin Out chanting. Nothing stopping any fan voicing their opinion without relying on a fan group to do it on their behalf.

There are so many of them, but this lad coming through when he is will add another little harmful consequence of Top’s incompetent management of this club. We should be a Premier League club with him breaking through which would mean he’d have a chance of playing longer for us before getting poached and that we’d get a much bigger fee for him when he’s sold. As things stand, the club will probably lose another £20m on the fee for him because he’ll be sold by us as a Championship club rather than a Premier League one. Enjoy him briefly while we can and then watch on as he flourishes in the Premier League for someone else.

As I was saying… Time for the likes of Nelson, Page, Monga, Alves and Aluko to be more prominently involved alongside the few senior players that do actually have some hunger to be here and help the club succeed.

That’s a big gap in number of points between bracket one and two isn’t it? 70 points between top bracket and second one and then 30 points between the others. Where’s the logic?!

He was horrendous last season. Get him gone and hopefully Ricardo can play a decent number of games with Coulibaly/Aluko filling in when needed.

Even when he was partying before West Ham away during Covid and after the dismal Forest away performance in the Cup? Funny way to show it…. Just because he came through the academy and kicks the odd person here and there doesn’t make him ‘Leicester through and through’. Sell.

And our luck with finding gems will run out. We’ve done well with Hermansen, Fatawu and BEK amongst all the rubbish but once they’re gone we’re left with a bang average squad unless we happen to find some diamonds in the limited recruitment we’ll now be able to do.

Simple discussion for Rudkin on how the release clause is paid. ”It’s a release clause, you pay it all up front and we have no choice other than to let the player go” Anything outside of that, don’t even respond to the call.

Glad they’ve binned off that cringey little video prior to the start of the second half as well that no one asked for and no one needed.

Got into L1 pretty smoothly about 20 mins before kick off as we went earlier expecting problems, but the security checks were also pretty light (probably because they didn’t want Leicester fans queuing alongside the Wednesday fans backed up outside the away end). Maybe it’s the combination of overly lengthy security checks and digital tickets that causes the big delays? Was nice to walk in without feeling like a criminal today. Long may it continue (it won’t)…

“It’s a clean slate for everybody”. How many times do we hear this from a new manager? And, again, we hear it from Cifuentes today post-match about Faes. When we’ve had the managerial turnover that we have, it’s a problem. I was sat there at half time wondering how we’d somehow turned out a starting XI with the likes of Vestergaard, Soumare, Justin, Skipp and Ayew who have all either contributed to our demise through poor performance, said/shown they wanted out or a combination of both. We then see Daka, Winks and Faes stepping onto the pitch to whom the same applies. Meanwhile Alves, Nelson and others that haven’t had a crack at it are sat on the sidelines. The truth is we’ve had a cancer in this squad for the last few years that has eaten away at the culture and success of the club. And it’s being given new life each time a new manager comes in and utters that phrase. The best we can hope for is that Cifuentes learns quickly about these guys, but it concerns me that any of them are being given a chance to play a part again. Where are our standards? And how can we expect any player who doesn’t take to Cifuentes to think anything other than “I’ll sit this out until the next new manager and clean slate comes round”?

You’d go against your new manager’s wishes and show the rest of your team mates that you don’t want to be part of the group? Remind me never to have you on my team.

Great protest by the Wednesday fans and then a real top away end turned out thereafter. If you’re one of the hundred or so in the seats from kick off, how are you not ashamed of yourself? If you can’t miss 5 minutes of the match when your club’s future is under threat, what is wrong with you?

Straight off down the tunnel at full time when Cifuentes had asked them all to go round. That says all you need to know about him. Anyone claiming he’s our best defender or a top class Championship defender is forgetting the dire stretch he had when we lost form under Maresca. Not sure anyone who was in the away end at Plymouth that Friday night would agree with either statement. I don’t think anyone questions the ability he has in his feet, but, like Soumare, the problem isn’t his feet, it’s his head.

I’m still maintaining that the biggest problem with digital ticketing is the number of turnstiles at our stadium. Out stadium was built for manned turnstiles and that means in L1, for example, there are just two turnstiles for people to enter via for the whole section (as you’d previously have had to pay someone to operate it). Modern stadiums are built with several turnstiles and when you rock up to an away end that holds 3,000 or whatever then you have the option to enter via many more turnstiles (as the stadium was built knowing you don’t have to pay someone to sit on them). Entry is not as quick as a human pressing a pedal to release the turnstile because people have to scan and wait for the tech to recognise the ticket, add up that extra 1-2 seconds and multiply it by hundreds/thousands and you have long queues. Even more so when the tech doesn’t work at first or the person doesn’t know where they need to scan etc. I think the only thing stopping absolute carnage today is that we all know how useless this could be and many will purposefully get there earlier (something we shouldn’t have to do).

9 could have been left vacant for a year or two. Not retired but gives it a bit of time. Another small example here of how the club don’t make it difficult enough for unwanted players to stay. Wout Faes should have been given something like 53 as a number and re-allocate his 3 to someone more deserving. In the same way we take these guys on tour and keep them in first team training at the lovely Seagrave, letting them keep their preferred numbers is another small missed opportunity to make life a little more uncomfortable so that they might get on the phone to their agent and say “get me out of here asap”.

I understand the point (and FWIW I wasn’t massively keen on that being brought into the game at the time) but that was a case the league decided to support en masse as opposed to an owner determining it was a cause their club was going to be used to back. At least when the league supports something there are the checks and balances that a certain number of people have to be in agreement that it’s a cause to support. The dividing line here with this case seems to be less about the actual conflict (which not many of our fan base will be clued up on) and more whether you’re not ok with the club being used to promote a message of an individual’s choosing, or whether you blindly support it because you think that’s what a supporter does or through some mistaken faith to a multimillionaire owner.

Which military conflict would you like the club be used to support next, mate?

He has precious few years of his career left. Let him know that, if he stays here, his career has ended today. If he wants to eek something out of his final years being able to play professionally, he needs to find somewhere else to do that.

Bit of an acid test for the Fan Engagement Framework. Do they call the Your 90 Minutes session and allow fans to have their say direct? Do the FAB fan reps discuss and drive any change from the survey results? And will the club be able to show by end of August what they have done with this feedback? If the answer is ‘no’ to all of these then the Fan Engagement Framework would be clearly failing at what it’s there to supposedly do. Ball’s in the club’s court now.

It will be unfortunately. Huge section of our fan base with little imagination on chants.

Can we just all make a pact that it doesn’t include “he drinks Estrella” or something rubbish like that?!