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Their crap little captions on photos/Instagram posts are irking me. Just little phrases that make no sense and sound like they’re written by someone who has no idea what they’re saying but are trying to say what they think someone who did would say. Saw one just now with a photo of Luke Thomas near the touchline and it says “down the lines”. What is that meant to mean? What does it add to the post?!

That’s more like it Ryan! Bookmarking this and printing hard copy too To answer your question though, we don’t know if the club will be on the webinar. They are welcome to sign up if they wish to, they know when it is. We do, however, have a meeting with the club to talk through the survey results with them. We’ve insisted that this should be after the webinar (as we want parity for everyone in hearing the initial results and key findings) but given them the chance to meet before the 60+ page results report goes out in-full on Friday 11th July. They have taken up that opportunity.

This Charli XCX is just the bridge between real life music artist and AI. Just shouting things into an auto-tune, gyrating round on stage and the most basic of lyrics. Give it 10 years and it’ll be a robot on stage churning out the same rubbish as this.

People have to be realistic about what the Trust can achieve (and what other fan groups are achieving across the country). If there’s a fan group out there that got a Premier League club from last season to reduce ticket prices behind where they were two seasons ago then the Trust will get in touch with them to find out how! But, although ticket prices in this country are pretty extortionate, and although the club is getting lots wrong at the moment, the introduction of a couple of cheaper categories is - as the Trust says - a step in the right direction. Let me repeat that: a step in the right direction (not a leap, not a huge stride, a step). There’s also a point here on what you want from the club-Trust relationship. Previously there was not much being won, and now, even when the wins are small, people criticise the wins not being good enough! If the Trust continues to hammer the club when there are small wins, how do people expect us as a fan base to get to the big wins?!

It’s not about it being uncomfortable, I just know there are a few people who want to try and channel some positive energy into change that have worked really hard on this end of season survey. The result has been progress. Small steps, but progress. They don’t need a medal or expect a miracle. But probably also don’t deserve people trying to undermine what they’re trying to do because of whatever personal gripes/history they have. Appreciate the luck, and don’t doubt we’ll need it.

Honestly, if you believe nothing can ever change then you might as well just save your energy from ever commenting on it. Because, after all, if nothing will ever change, then it’s not worth getting pent up about, is it? It would be wasted energy to just continually follow round the threads where people are trying to drive change with your pessimism, wouldn’t it?! Shouting into the void. You offered your services to the club, they didn’t want them. You got involved with the Trust rather than the Trust Reform, you got frustrated and quit. I don’t know why these organisations won’t listen to you, but I’m starting to think you might not be able to view either with any kind of objectivity!

3,137 with a couple of days left…

This was one of my biggest takeaways from the article too. Sounds like basically just getting a favourable nod opened up the multi-million empire for Vichai. There’s a still a skill to being in that position and it’s people skills: influence, rapport and networking. He was obviously good at that from what those who encountered him tend to say. But it also points to a potential lack of ability to organically build a business to the size King Power became. And therefore perhaps not much to instill in Aiyawatt and co.

It was a charity football tournament and everyone involved was a volunteer. There should be no gripes. Whether you won it or lost it, there are a million more important things in life. Even getting a trophy as the winners is more than enough, never mind anything for runners up. There was a guy in one of our games swearing at the ref and telling him he’d been bad every game he’d referee’d. There wouldn’t be a tournament without that ref giving up his time. If you get genuinely bothered or upset about any kind of amateur football, your priorities are wildly out of kilter.

Had a team playing in this and it was a great day. Organised really well, plenty there for people that weren’t actually playing and the vast majority of games we played were done so in great spirit as well. Whilst a lot with our club is not right at the moment, in Union FS we have a fan group to be proud of who are doing great things for our community. Decent amount of money raised for Loros yesterday as well as a bit of LCFC fan spirit

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There was a significant enough drop off for the club to notice. It’s just that there were people waiting in the wings to replace non-renewers as they haven’t been able to buy season tickets for the past x number of seasons. But everyone who bought a season ticket this time round because someone else checked out is a lost membership or match day ticket purchaser. There’s an impact somewhere along the chain, even if season tickets show as 100% sold out.

Unfortunately this is so far removed from Rudkin’s ability as a DOF. If they haven’t got Premier League experience, are a name 90%+ of English fans would know or aren’t brought to him by an agent, they’re not in the reckoning for the Leicester job. The pool we fish in with managerial appointments is so small.

Pretty amazed at that. Fan base awaiting some kind of communication from the top, radio silence on all the important club matters and they go with direct quote from Whelan on a plane crash!

Hasn’t, arguably, the academy become more productive since he stepped out and into the DOF role?

How have some of the procedures involved with flying not evolved in decades? I know if the cabin pressure falls an oxygen mask will drop from above my head. I know there is a life jacket located underneath my seat. I know in the event of an emergency I must leave all belongings behind and make my way to my nearest exit which may be behind me. I think the rest of the plane know this too. Yet, in supposedly one of the safest modes of transport, where if something goes badly wrong I don’t really have much hope of getting out alive, why do I have to endure this safety demonstration every single time and not be allowed to just crack on with listening to my podcast or music?

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People say King Power have a system or a plan as if it’s some considered philosophy that runs through the club. In reality, a clueless owner looked at the best team in the country at the time and went “be like them”. Not accounting for the fact that took a hell of a lot of money and a generational talent of a manager. Funnily enough, the game is moving on from that style. More direct and faster counter attacking football is making a comeback and we’re about to appoint a manager so rooted in that style that everyone has sussed out and is moving on from.

Coady (got plenty to say when a microphone is around), Faes, Soumare, Kristiansen and Ayew all refusing to take their medicine at full time and getting down the tunnel sharpish. Van Nistelrooy nowhere to be seen of course. Talks in the press about planning for next season and intimating he’s be open to staying yet hasn’t shown any bit of leadership or appreciation for the fans. They’re cowards. Mindset/mentality is a disgrace and the least they could have done today was to come and let the fans give them a bit of feedback on their efforts (or lack of) this season. Instead, they let the kids like Monga and McAteer front it up. Club needs a big old broom through it this summer.

It would be an appointment completely lacking in imagination and nous. Another decision taken because we’re hamstrung financially because of how poorly we’re being run off the pitch. Another guy appointed because we have no clear succession planning or Director of Football across the up and coming managers of European or world football. An appointment that you’d have to go back on the minute you were promoted rather than someone who can build to be here for the next several years.

Henry Winter referencing the Trust survey today. Starting to get some good coverage - now just needs LCFC fans to play their part in completing it.

Drinkwater got a good reception from L1 just after he’d passed and swivelled so quickly to come back and acknowledge it. Get the sense with him and the things he’s struggled with mentally since leaving that he probably needed that a little bit. Probably came today hoping for a sign that he was appreciated and hadn’t ruined his title-winning legacy.

Club have used sustainability to block in-stadium things in the past and insist on digital tickets but handed out 30,000+ flags with plastic poles. The flags had that awful JV9 logo they’re trying to sell tat via the club shop with. The string banners at either end were just printed rubbish with no imagination or creativity. No message or meaning besides ‘GOAT’ to anything. It was night and day between what the paid agency churned out today and what UFS pulled off last season. To make matters worse, they’ll have spunked a load of money on that today and could have just enabled UFS to do something fan-funded at little to no cost to the club.

They did a decent job with the exception of two things: 1) The pre-match display was naff. Not a patch on Blackburn at home last season. 2) Current squad (bar anyone who’s played with Vardy for a few years) should have walked round at full-time if you were insisting on a ‘lap of appreciation’, gone in and had nothing to do with the Vardy presentation (deserved the “you’re not fit to wear the shirt)