Xen

thats what ive used in the past but just comes up with an error for me now nvm, my broadband seems to block it. works on my phone hotspot

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He’s just a very run-of-the-mill championship player. Nothing wrong with that - it’s where we find ourselves - but given our recent history and the supposed quality of our players, it feels like a downgrade. Our supposedly better players all putting in dog-muck performances or having attitude problems really has lowered the bar, but Skipp is doing alright and I’m happy to keep seeing him in the starting XI for now. His price tag was bonkers but that’s not his fault. Hes one of the few non-youth players who I’d be happy for us to keep whilst we rebuild, tbh.

Knee injury for Soumare. Not sure on monga

A goal would do it!

Need to get through to half time and do something to pick the energy up a bit

What?

Was stonewall. It was weak as anything, but it was still a foul in the box

Jinx

Hate that kind of penalty, but hey, it went in so no complaints good start so far

Puel did the same. Was what we needed to stop some of the rot, but the football was still dire in the meantime. If Marti persists with this approach and the likes of Winks/Faes and a few others are shown the door then he may well see us through to the end of the season. But he's not exactly been inspiring so unless he turns that around, I cant see him being popular long-term.

Direct football works. Whod'v'e thought?

SKIPPY

Thomas needs to seriously speed up that move where he drags it onto his left to kick it up the pitch. He was caught at least 5 times against Sheffield Utd and he's already been caught like that today. It's so so pedestrian and easy to intercept

Thats what happens when you have runners in the box and not just a winger running up the pitch with no support. Lovely stuff from James, put on a plate for BDCR. Even Mavididi up there as well for another option.

Bobbbyyyyyyy

Reid at least puts in effort whenever he plays. Ayew has bad games and we definitely need an improvement, but he's not the worst offender in the squad. Winks and Faes have been omitted, Nelson is starting and there's space on the bench for the youth players we've been crying out for more of. Realistically much more upheaval than that was never going to happen.

Oldham is my closest league club, FC United is the closest non-league. Thought about going along to either, but I can't find the enthusiasm for it. Maybe I will at some point, but it wont be the same. It's Leicester or nothing. In terms of being a match-going fan, I fear 'nothing' is winning that particular battle at the moment when I consider all the travel and time it takes, as much as I hate the idea of going back to being an armchair fan...

Feels like it'd make perfect sense to bring Sammy back here in Jan and recall Cartwright to send him in the other direction. HC gets a loan to a club where he'll be more likely to play 90 week-in week-out, Newport are happy because they get a mostly like-for-like replacement and we get to utilise one of our most promising academy talents. Of course, that being the sensible choice means that instead we're more likely to leave Cartwright there where he'll fall out of favour, recall Braybrooke and fail to get him a loan elsewhere/integrate him into the XI and he'll play u21s again and Newport/Fuchs refuse to deal with us for the near future.

Reckon we'll scrape a win, but it'll be like the Stoke game where it was a generally miserable affair. Meh. I've long since stopped caring.

Amazing character, if he can show some tactical nous as well then he'd definitely be one to keep an eye on for a future role here. Not every ex-player makes a good manager, but he's got the charisma to nail the man-management side and his business intelligence would suggest he's got a good, pragmatic head on his shoulders for the rest. Hopefully he does well there. Probably good news for Sammy and Nathan, hope we see a couple more go that way in January - particularly if SB gets a move to league 1

I wonder whether this the the overhaul we’re hoping, or whether this is just the next step in bringing in Yes men now that Susan is out the picture…

Good effort to get 7.9 despite being on the losing side. He’ll have his fair share of options in January, for sure. Hopefully something league one.

That's Graeme to a T, really. Always keen to get involved with any fluff piece/token gesture the club do, and anything on the BBC, and won't do anything to jeopardise the benefits that come with those roles. Maybe he's just genuinely concerned about the level of chanting - which is an extremely valid point - but its a classic case of picking up on a very selective portion of the facts and missing the bigger picture and context. Either that or its fully intentional deflection to talk about anything other than the failures of the board. You can condemn the specific chant and the disgusting nature of it, whilst also acknowledging that it was a very limited scale and clearly not an actual threat, so using it as a straw man to talk about hate crime isn't really necessary. The FAB was always just the club putting in yes-men to say that they're doing 'something' with the fans, but its completely ineffective. It could be a worthwhile endeavour, but the club needs to distance themselves from the appointments process and just focus on the communication/workshopping side of it. Ironically, it feels like thats exactly what the Foxes Trust - a publicly open, democratically elected group representing fans - would be perfect for instead of the FAB.