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The system for the back 5 will be more or less the same whatever the personnel involved, and Stol will have plenty of time with all of them in training. It's not like he's our 3rd choice/youth keeper - he was our number 1 for a good part of last season in the premier league. We're fine to tinker. It'd be criminal not to give Nelson more involvement in a game like this (unless we're going to trust him enough to put him straight in against PNE). A who.e new back 4 for this game might be excessive, but we don't need to stick with Sunday's setup which was all over the place at times.

As much as I'd love to see them all involved this season... thats basically like putting out our u21s. A good blend of youth and experience will be good, but i think thats too far in that direction. I'd temper that slightly and instead go: Begovic Justin - Nelson - Vestergaard - Thomas Winks - Page McAteer - Alves - Monga Ayew Then bring on Aluko, Joseph, Evans for the final 30, whilst taking off a couple of the other youngsters. Manage their introduction to senior football, get them playing alongside some of the older faces who are likely to be in our usual starting lineups in the league, and integrate rather than overhaul. Maybe Choudhury in for Page to begin with if we want a bit more grit in the midfield but still allowing both Alves/Monga to start, or move Monga to the middle and put Mavididi out wide so we can give Page a full run out in a position we desparately need more options in, to see if he can hack it.

I'd rather a youth player come in, give their all and make mistakes, rather than play with Soumare bumbling around in the middle of the pitch offering absolutely nothing and actively hampering us. Or put Hamza back in the side, even if he's seen more as a RB now. Or just pull a random bloke out the stands give them a go. Surely Soumare cant keep getting away with stinking out the place. At least the likes of Faes and Vestergaard have some redeeming qualities, I'm struggling to think of one thing Soumare does well that wouldnt be easily replaced even by shopping in league one...

There were a lot of occasions last year where we conceded directly as a result of his error, and every single time he'd immediately look around and throw his hands up in the air as if it was everyone else's fault. Id imagine that's at least part of the reason why he's disliked by some.

The brilliant thing about the English language is that words can serve multiple purposes

There's enough wickets left that we can still afford to be a bit aggressive in our batting. Shame he couldn't connect with that one properly but its not disastrous at this stage. If we were 4-5 down I'd perhaps start to get twitchy, but we need less than 10 per wicket remaining.

Thought it was broken but the guy has just picked up what I thought was the hole

Oops...

Bit of ice and rest and should be OK then if so. We've done well to restrict the chase, so hopefully we can reach it without him being required and risk upsetting the niggle any further

Five-fer for Green. That's a great effort, that.

And that in itself is incredibly telling...

Even under Vichai, there was still a lot of pushback on here for anything gold on the kit, some of the forced Thai influence around the ground, support of the royal family etc etc. Its not something new, its just escalating. And with explicit political/military support, its gone way past the threshold of a general annoyance to something that has no place in our (or any other) football club. The issues people have with Top and the board are related - itd be foolish to say otherwise - but even looking at this in isolation its something that we should be aggrieved by and pushing back against.

Gutting.

Why would you spill weetabix over your table?

Looks like we're batting again first.

My sentiments exactly. When Mavididi has been poor, he's looked frustrated and tried too hard to make things happen solo. When he's been in a good run of form and seems happier, he's a much, much better player. If Marti can instil some confidence in him (and put a half decent LB behind him...) then he's got an incredibly high ceiling and will be one of the standout players in the division. Winks... Meh. If he plays and puts in effort I'll support him on the pitch as I would all players, but I'm certainly not going to shed a tear if/when he leaves.

Finally. Now, whats the next disastrously-handled thing we're all going to be up in arms about?

Winks fully at fault though.

Now that's a game of Shag-Marry-Kill I want no part of

Yes

Perhaps with the club opening their own temporary (now permanent?) shop in the highcross, JC is no longer viable?

If every single match-going fan bought a shirt, that'd be just shy of £2million in revenue (32k*£60). Lots of fans dont buy the new shirts every year, and whilst we will have some fans buying shirts who dont go to games it won't be a huge number - its only the top, top clubs which shift shirts en masse to a wider audience. So on balance ~30k is probably a fair estimate. That's revenue, mind. Profit will be a fair bit lower (although I imagine its a very hefty margin). The right sponsorship deal will likely bring in more than that*, especially as we're going to be on TV a ridiculous number of times this season. 8 of our first 9 games will have a TV audience. Sponsors will want the fans' shirt to be the same as the players', and especially so in the launch promo materials. Knowing our club, though, some intern probably forgot to schedule the social media launch and we'll end up finding out by someone seeing it quietly go live in the online store (but in the wrong section). *And it only needs to bring in more than the deficit in sales from a delayed launch, anyway

I'd be interested to know what goes through the head of the <10% people who are engaged enough to join in with the survey, but somehow blind to the way the club is being run... Overall, sounds like a really promising step forward from the Trust, and hopefully the webinar continues that. As others have alluded to, directly and publicly inviting representatives of the club (the board, the fan engagement team, even the FAB) to join and watch would go a long way towards rebuilding some faith (or conclusively the opposite effect if its rejected).

That's devastating. Just like that. RIP. Thoughts are with his wife and kids, and rest of his family.

Not sure why you brought up Pride in relation to the quoted post, but FWIW there's definitely members within Foxes Pride - several on here who I've spoken to - who have been vocal their grievances at the way that the group (and on a larger scale, the club) is run, and in particular how certain individuals seemingly are more interested in freebies/player meets (or a place on the FAB...) etc than actually running a group representative of the LGBT fanbase. Foxes Pride can sometimes feel similar to how the Trust used to be, and how the club as a whole is, in that its more about the those at the top than the fans/community they actually represent. I've largely stopped going to FP meets, I know others have done the same as well.