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Unfortunately this isn't as unfathomable as it should be. The media has - of late - used the teaching profession as a political punching bag. This has resulted in the general public smelling weakness and undermining it with the service users - the students. The public perception of teachers hasn't been lower and parents are prepared to be aggressive towards teaching staff. It was bound to translate to students feeling comfortable doing so. Doubtless the criminal, here, will have some form of 'trauma' that provides a handy excuse.

Not sure if this isn’t a retrograde step. Refs in the UK are directed to stop play only for head injuries because of the amount of time wasted with players rolling around like they’ve been shot. I’m not really sold on the fifteen seconds, thing. The VAR one is an excellent development.

Looking for the Hollywood ball and not the sensible one.

Possession matters in the sense that it's what you do with it yields the result. If you have 70+% and you use all of that to punish the opponents then you're laughing. If you use it to just have the ball then the other 30% is danger. Last night we used THEIR possession to make them pay. That's what you want. All the time we had the ball it was punishing their time with it. That's the ideal outcome. Can't score when it is just kicking around at the back. This isn't an assassination of the ideology but a moment where it should become apparent that the usage of possession is not as important as the intent of the possession.

His technique is his strength in my opinion. It masks poor decision making in this division.

For me his area for improvement is aligned with Jeff Schlupp. Very very gifted but doesn't seem to make the best of his talent mentally. Seems to overthink what he's doing and maked odd choices. Either he thinks too little or too much.

I think his post match comments about not controlling the game were worrying in a way. Accept that control looks different game to game. We didn't need possession last night. We needed what we did. Don't be craven to possession when winning will do. He's done a good job but I can't accept that we should be slaves to a system that doesn't guarantee.

Was that the last truly great performance that he turns in? Fatuwu got the plaudits - rightful too - but Vardy was so intelligent in his play to allow that to happen. It was a privilege to watch.

I hadn't noticed his reduced role until this thread. How long has he not been doing it regularly?

Does he take credit for last night, too? He needs scrutiny, for sure, but we can't lay blame for all our woes and ignore when it goes well. I would love to know his overall influence on the club.

That's a rather reductive point of view. A) calling it -managername- ball is ridiculous. He's setting tactics. It isn't some wild revolution of thought. It isn't that revolutionary. B) it's possible for football fans to know what they see. I've consumed this product for decades. I do know what I'm talking about. It's possible to spot flaws in a philosophy that aren't apparent to the manger. He isn't a polymath operating at a higher level. Statistics bore this out. We had possession that isn't aligned with our usual style of play. So that isn't 'enzo ball' as it's previously been. You can't blanket credit when there are pronounced differences. It was a different game plan that worked. Unless you're confusing winning with the philosophy. Don't be so craven to dogma. He managed THAT GAME very well. But this isn't a total justification of his overall philosophy. It's a successful implementation of a game plan.

That was a great performance. Anyone in the stadium saw one of the last great games from Vardy. Fatuwu was awesome

The booked hourly slots at the gym weren't a bad thing and removed the folks that sit around examining their work-out notebooks and listening to music. You don't need to make notes on your work-out; it isn't a disco.

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The club begging for folks to turn up early on Twitter seems... Misguided.

This just has to be satire

Having thought about it - at it's core is disgraceful profiteering. The club want to force those sharing tickets into getting a membership each OR pay the 25. It's win win for them. It's not just the control of surveiling the fans it's also the 'getting em at both ends' attitude. I've got a mind to **** off mine.

'load of greedy bastards' coupled with a supporters not customers banner.

As another poster alluded to - suddenly they've found themselves with a waiting list and they're pushing the supporters around a bit. This kind of price gouging wasn't happening when we were getting 25k in the Championship for years. Those couple of trophies and they don't think they need the local supporters.

They're not trying to fool you. It's plain as day - if you want this then you can pay over the odds for it. The supporters dared to voice a preference and the club have treated them with complete disdain and contempt in order to make them regret that choice. I've always tried to be objective and understand that my club must occupy a dual position as a community asset but also a business needing to be run. Just recently, however, it's been very difficult to see the community asset element of this. The club actively dislike the match-going fans. They want all the kudos of running the club well seemingly without any of the dissenting voices. It's like they occupy an odd space whereby they're wanting use to have the support profile of, say, Chelsea and not acknowledging that we're Leicester. We aren't a tourist attraction. The supporter base will be 95% from Leicester.

It's time to be challenging the club now. For so long they've enjoyed the support of the fans with very little challenge. A lot of recent changes smack of 'we've got 'em now' as though this is just a given. I'm not a customer. I resent being treated by Leicester City how Ryan Air treats the folk using their service. It's not a one-way street.

Wasn’t one of our operational staff head-hunted from Tottenham.

Those in the pink High-Vis actively boil my urine. I had one ask me if I ‘knew where to go’. Based on her looks I was going to the football at Filbo every week before she even existed. Why do they think that supporters need directions into a stadium from teenagers? At the time - and since - I wondered if it were a footstep towards attracting tourists to the ground rather than locals/regulars. I can’t see any argument against this in the year and months since that that it isn’t the case. Of course locals know how to get into the football ground. It’s just not them that the ‘match day experience’ is trying to attract and retain.

As with a lot of stuff - it’s the thin end of the wedge. How long until we’re charged for the NFC ticketing? We’re charged a frankly ridiculous booking fee on tickets already. The club is becoming more and more aligned to the horrendous financial chicanery that we normally associate with the likes of Tottenham. It’s saddening but, ultimately, unsurprising.

Nowt to do with the game; he's just realized that he's got to get the train back to Coventry.