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Get Ayew and Skipp on.

Are you sure he's out there?

Good defending there from Faes.

I had the weirdest dream the other night. Vardy signed for Ipswich Town on a free. For some reason I was somewhere around their training ground, exchanged a few pleasantries with their fans and saw Vardy sitting up at a bar on his own. I went over to him, sat down, introduced myself as a Leicester fan, thanked him for everything, offered to buy him a drink. He blanked me, ordered himself a drink, necked it and walked off. Not a word from him. Which I thought was a little rude. Never meet your heroes!

More likely to be here to say goodbye to RVN once relegation has been confirmed and give Rudkin an instruction to go get another manager until the end of the season. Also suspect that once relegation has been confirmed, he'll want to be around for an announcement on Jamie Vardy's future.

Taking a long term view, I've no issue with Leicester City playing in the Championship. What I do have an issue with is not fulfilling potential. Life is a mixture of opportunity and difficulty. Sometimes there's a little more difficulty than opportunity, sometimes there's more opportunity than difficulty. We were gifted a fantastic opportunity to cement our place in the top half of the Premier League for years to come but the upper management of this club made a series of poor decisions and when needing to act, they failed to do so. It's the worst combination... Don't do anything and when you do, get it wrong. I don't think we would ever have been a club competing for the league year in, year out but we should have been secure in our premier league status with a squad capable of good domestic cup runs and the odd European adventure here and there. Instead we are now getting relegated for the second time in three seasons. The situation we are in was completely avoidable.

Cricket really isn't my thing so I don't know what you're all on about. I have vague recollections of the team turning up drunk at Downing St or something after the Ashes but can't say it particularly gripped me. The drama of the final lap in Brazil for Hamilton's first championship was great, Andy Murray winning Wimbledon was super-special (an honourable mention to Emma Raducanu winning the US Open), the Rugby in 2003 was awesome (and I'm no rugby fan either). I think the rugby would have been more special if it wasn't played at 5am or whatever time it was. It's also the 40th anniversary of that final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, although there won't be many that remember it, it is still talked about.

Forest will do a Leicester. Top 4 all season and then drop to 5th on the last day of the season. They just get that bit of luck that means 5th is good enough.

No stopping us now. We're back!

100% Rudkin has to go. He runs the football side of the club which is a disaster right now. He has caused the problems, not Ruud. Ruud might not be the answer but Rudkin has proven that he's not. Rudkin leaving will not change things overnight but Rudkin not leaving will change nothing for as long as he's here.

Clearly a relegation break clause. He knows it's coming, he'll be gone in a couple of weeks.

No way does Vardy get a pass. There needed to be a plan to replace him/phase him out at least three years ago. There wasn't and here we are. Tonight though, doing absolutely nothing puts you above Daka.

I'm probably one of Daka's bigger fans but OMG that was one of the worst first half performances I've ever seen from a professional footballer. Awful.

This game is crying out for Skipp to come on.

He's hated us since 2016. All season he was hoping and praying that we wouldn't win the league. There were comparisons at the time between us and the Norwich City team he was part of that went close in the 90's but fell away towards the end of the season. He couldn't bare it. Then Rodgers left his precious Celtic for us and he hated us even more.

I'd be on board with this. Would guarantee that we wouldn't go 7 games without scoring. But there it is - the players are too comfortable.

All this baby talk is frankly nonsense (assuming the baby is fit and healthy). If your chosen career in any field, not just football, sees you have the ambition to operate at the very top of the industry globally, in a hyper competitive role that a good proportion of the population would give their right arm to have the opportunity to do, then you have to make sacrifices. You can't just do whatever you want, you have to dedicate your life to your chosen trade. Harry Winks, I'm sure has dedicated a big portion of his life to be a Premier League footballer. I'm sure he'd say that he has made lots of sacrifices throughout his life but the fact is, that level of dedication has to remain - even with a baby. Some players can be footballer and father without any difficulty, others know that they won't be able to spend as much time as they or their partner might like them to in a family setting but I'm sorry, it comes with the territory. Ask any footballer who has a newborn, lives 100 miles away and plays in the National League if they would like a contract with a Premier League club (or even Championship) with the unwritten expectation that they may have to stay in a luxury hotel room once a week at the ground. I'd think that they would sign without a moment's hesitation 100 times out of 100. I don't know the exact reasons for RVN wanting him to stay over, but the mention of a 100 mile commute suggests to me that he is either turning up late, turning up tired or is itching to get away at the end of the day. Maybe all three. The reason really matters not. Nobody told Winks that he was not allowed to buy or rent a home closer to his workplace. The team is in a very poor state. It's terrible. There seems to be a certain level of laziness and lack of caring throughout the squad, which makes me sick. If RVN is trying to raise standards and sees this as a reasonable request to make, then I'm fully behind him.

I can't even be bothered to type a sarcastic "Buzzing for this" or "Must win!"

This. And if Kasper was commuting but arriving on time, staying to the end and performing to the maximum there's no issue. Winks has been an absolute waste of space this season and if RVN wants him to stay at the training ground or move closer, the multimillionaire, elite footballer Harry Winks should take some responsibility for his performances, acknowledge the privileged position he holds, suck it up and make arrangements to put an overnight bag in his car once a week.

As poor as the results and performances are, RVN isn't the biggest issue. Not even close. People might say that if Maresca or even Cooper had stayed we'd be better off, or if we sacked RVN and brought in this manager or that manager then things might be different. I doubt it. Maybe we would have scored a couple of goals here or there but we'd still be far from safe and relegation will still be a certainty. There is no upward trajectory with this club until there is a complete overhaul of the playing squad. It's rotten to the core. RVN might not be the answer, but he can't polish a turd and has to work with the tools he has. Get rid of him and the next guy will have all of the same problems, maybe they would be able to get an extra 10% out of the players, but these players giving an extra 10% is still nowhere near good enough. Whoever the manager is next season, even if it's RVN, they need to plan and be backed for a multi-season project to get to where we should be. And that multi-season project will be a difficult thing to watch for at least two transfer windows, regardless of who picks the team.

And keep using Google and Meta. There's really no alternative.

They don't have all have a poor mentality, but lots do. In a team sport, that's fatal. Too many are professional footballers who have reached their ceiling in terms of where they go next. They're not going to be winning trophies, they're not going to play Champions League. If we get relegated, they might get a move to another bottom half Prem team, or go back to some European league that might suit them better. They've made enough money to live a luxury life for the rest of their lives and too many of our squad lack ambition to push the extra yard. If one does, they soon get dragged down to the level of the majority.

Same writers as Lost and a fair few similarities in my opinion. I've finished season 3 and it's one of those shows that actually gets better through the different series. Can't wait for season 4.

Depends who we play in pre season friendlies

Trump putting America first and treating the rest of the world as America's raw materials, expecting us to just roll over, because, you know, it's America. I'm not sure it will go as smoothly as Trump/Vance/Musk thinks it will. It's bonkers!