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One positive is that Daka could fulfil his potential and rip up the league next season. If he gets a run in the team.

The crowd need to be the 12th man tonight (or at least the 3rd or 4th in anticipation to most of the players not bothering to turn up).

No they won't. Top already thinks the squad as it is should/would be good enough for Premier League promotion. There's no way they think we need anyone to get us out of League 1. He will think we'll be winning every game. I'd be super surprised if there are any significant incoming transfers before the season starts, and by the time we land in League 1 with a bump and figure out it isn't as easy as we thought, the transfer window will close. Nope, Top and Rudkin are actually looking forward to a quiet, relaxing summer break.

#Relax

Err hello! This is Leicester City we're talking about!

Comparisons with Cov are a little unfair. We were an established Premier League club, falling from grace and dealing with the financial legacy that brings, whilst hoping (that's hoping, not planning btw) that a swift return to the PL will maintain the wage bill. Crashing into League 1 is a disaster, burdened with a huge wage bill and an underperforming team. Cov on the other hand have been away from the PL for 25 years and have, over the last 3 or 4 years been a Championship team trying to make it to the PL in a sustainable way. They've managed to build an overperforming team on a modest wage bill. It's something that you can do over a 3 or 4 year period. If it takes 5 or 6 years, fine, but there's no rush. Unlike our situation. Now Cov have a new set of problems (good problems to have). If they are serious about anything near a 50k cap for players, then guess what? Their top performers will leave as soon as there a couple of offers on the table that at least double their wage. So they'll need to adopt a new model for a sustainable PL existence: Buy low, sell high and expect star performers to move on after one year. Difficult, but possible (we should know). But making the transition to an established mid-table team will require them to blow that wage structure out of the water.

He needed to go. If he had stayed we'd be about where we are now, but it would have been even more toxic. He would have been the focal point of fan anger, with levels turned up to 11. It's the Top and Rudkin playbook: Let the anger build towards the manager, until the anger spills over and starts being aimed more at Top and Rudkin, then give the fans what they want, sack the manager and bring someone else in for a bit. It gives Top and Rudkin a few weeks/months out of the crosshairs. Rinse and repeat. At some point we really should just stick with a manager. Rowett will be gone at the end of the season and a new guy will carry the can next season.

Let's get real here. Some people will say statistics don't matter and for sure, some can be a little anomalous, but when they are presented here, together, it tells a damning story. These stats are basically "how do the players compare to their peers from other clubs". The really frustrating thing is that pretty much all of those stats can be rectified with some basic effort and application. They can be grouped together and categorised as "The Basics". A multitude of managers that have been through Seagrave in recent seasons must know, as every football fan knows, that you have to get the basics right. That's your platform, that's your foundation. Get the basics right and build from there, but the basics of running (quickly at times) and not giving the ball away, are non-negotiable. This isn't a new thing. Manager after manager has overseen this lack of effort. Do we even have a fitness coach? The problems with this squad run deeper. The culture at the club (set by the senior leadership) must be one of chill out, relax, enjoy yourself and count your money. It isn't one that sets out it is a privilege to be a professional footballer and a privilege to play for Leicester and train at one of the best training grounds around and that 100% effort and attention are required 100% of the time or we will find someone who will deliver that. The whole club is moronic. Getting back to the Premier League could take decades unless someone slams the brakes on immediately and starts fixing everything that's wrong.

Handball.

Be very careful what you wish for.

BDCR having one of those games today.

I have a feeling it was West Brom and I think we were 3-0 up. It was the weirdest thing and I agree, there was a shift in mentality after that.

We could quite easily be down by Tuesday night.

Lol

BIG part of the problems.

I just don't see it. He has a long way to go. The irony is, he probably needs a season playing in League 1 for his development.

I'm sure you would be as shocked as I was to find that they were MIA.

Saw his interview after the game. Said a lot of good things about not giving up, fighting, having spirit, cutting out mistakes. His face though... told a different story - he's utterly lost and not even he believed a word that he said.

Vichai bought the club, not Top. Top doesn't want it, doesn't know what to do with it, has nothing more than a fleeting interest in it, but keeps it out of honour for his father. He relies too much on Rudkin who has stolen a living for well over a decade and has a track record of incompetence. The club lacks vision, direction, clear leadership. Until that changes, nothing changes. But I don't see anything changing... From a financial standpoint, I can't see Top selling up in League One, the ROI would be catastrophic for him. I'm really sad to say that the strategy of closing his eyes and hoping everything will be OK will continue, but it won't be OK. We're a beached whale and dying fast. My only hope is that when we get relegated, it's by more than 6 points because the last thing we need is the leadership hiding behind a technicality.

If Portsmouth win their next two, we can't catch them. Let that settle in.

Would be well happy with Fuchs. Don't even really care about results at this point, he's just a cool guy to have around and would lighten the mood.

I 100% agree that the squad should be nowhere near relegation. We should have been good enough to stay in the Premier League. My point is more that the players are under performing. It's difficult to point the finger of blame at the manager because the last 6 months of Brendan Rodgers, followed by Dean Smith, Steve Cooper, RVN, Marti Cifuentes, Andy King and Gary Rowett - and even Maresca outside of his first 6 months have all struggled. Say what you like about all of those managers but all eight of them are career football guys who know football, who see the players up close in training, speak to them in meetings, discuss tactics on an almost daily basis have they not been able to get this group of well paid, elite sportsmen to perform to anywhere near their collective potential. I can only conclude that the problem is much deeper than it simply a manager issue. Evidently changing the manager doesn't work. It's hard to fathom how much further we can fall through on pitch activity, so we should be open to sticking GR whilst we try to stop the rot. New managers are good for one thing at the moment - taking the heat off of the ownership and governance of the club.

I'm not sure I'd go that far. We've seen around half a dozen managers fail to get a tune out of this bunch and this is the weakest squad we've had in all that time. The squad will likely be even weaker next season regardless of which division we're in. I'm not sure the miracle manager that everyone wants is out there and within reach. Maybe what we need is a bit of stability and consistency, whatever that looks like. I'm not advocating that he should definitely stay, I'm just not taking the option off the table yet.

It's an interesting question. I do wonder if Rowett wasn't given a longer term contract because we need to see where we are. It's a bit ironic really that the thing that will most likely get him the gig on a permanent basis would be relegation. Honestly believe that if we stay up, Top and co will genuinely think we're on a promotion push and probably won't fancy Rowett at all. Personally, if we stay up, I'd being looking at a three year project before challenging for promotion. We have to stop the rot, have a mass clear out, save some money and stay in the division, before starting to add a bit of quality here and there. I'm not sure Rowett is the man to build a squad to chase promotion, but I think he would keep us up, if he stayed.

5 games ago it was 2 to be relegated from 5, now, with 5 games to go it looks like 2 from 3. WBA and Blackburn likely not to be caught after picking up 9 and 8 points in those previous 5. Us and Oxford both have six points from the previous 5, Portsmouth just 2. Oxford probably have the easiest run in, accepting that there are no "easy" games. They also don't play anyone in the relegation scrap ( they do have Sheff W) so they just go and do what they do and see what they end up with. Can they score more points than us from the next 5? They need to because of the goal difference, but it's definitely possible. Portsmouth need to start picking up points quickly. They're sinking but even with horrible form, they have a lifeline with a home game against us. If they win that, I think they'll finish above us, any other result, I think we outscore their points total from the other fixtures. So, don't lose to Portsmouth and match Oxford's results and we'll scrape it. How on earth has it come to this???