An Away Move

I was at the game. The away end was utterly incredible! Never seen anything like it.

Am I the only one thinking we should keep him? Chopping and changing again is not going to help us.

I was told that you can ‘legally’ order one pint at Scraptoft Valley WMC at 15. It went like this, Barman: Can I help you? Me: I’ll have a pint of Bass please (pronouncing it as in bass guitar)! Barman: I can’t serve you that 🦆, but you can have a pint of Bass!

I felt the urge to not let go today, but stuck by my decision not to renew. I miss so many games anyway living outside the city, so thinking of the money saved on the ST, petrol, trains, occasional hotel stay overs, booze and meals out helps!

How many of you who answered ‘no’ in the poll are sticking with your decision, like me?

I am having an emotional wobble in not renewing because I really enjoyed The Championship last time. I also have the best seat imaginable. Row behind me pay £2300 more than I do for padded corporate seats. Will never get a ST in a better location again. All that said, I’ve made my mind up and not renewing.

There were plenty of people here who could see the value of Maresca’s system. I was one of them. Re: the style and how we would have done if he’d have stayed one just has to look to the Bournemouth FA Cup game last season, which we won. It would have been tough, we might have still got relegated, but we’d have been more competitive.

I think Enzo would have kept Nelson and Alves around too, which would not have weakened the first team and links academy to squad, which is important for development of players and financial assets. .

Indeed. And let’s not underestimate how bedded in Maresca’s style was. To go from that to Cooper ball and RvN since has been catastrophic. This is why Rudkin should lose his job. No joined up long term succession strategy.

I think so too. I think this is the strongest Premier League there has ever been. Even the average clubs have become miles ahead of even the best promoted teams. This season and last proves it. All three that came up are going down.

This season has been an abomination. How different would it have been if Chelsea didn’t knee cap us on arrival into The Premier League by poaching Maresca. I think it really ****ed us up. The fantasy is that he might have kept us up if he’d stayed. But you have to look at Ipswich who kept their highly rated manager and barely doing better than us at the moment.

Totally agree re: transfer business. He did set us up in a way to try and stay in games, which we largely did. Under RvN we are getting battered.

RvN is this awful new breed of manager. He has a philosophy. If we get battered it’s because we don’t have the right quality players to make the philosophy work. Give me an old fashioned manager who starts off making his teams hard to beat. Sorry Cooper. Captain Hindsight tells us you were right.

I am up for giving RvN a chance to rebuild, set his standards. He’s barely had any support. Not even his own backroom staff for much of his tenure. We need a clear out and a change of culture. Sounds like he’s up for it. That’s admirable. If he adds in a bit of pragmatism on match days rather then being wed to a dicking ‘philosophy’ which seems to be trendy now, no matter the results, he might come good.

I hate it too. Literally a small minority of men in a boardroom proposed this. If there was a poll of all supporters affected up and down the land I wonder how many thousands would be against it.

Remember when you couldn’t go to a game and simply passed it on to a relative or close friend? Now you can’t do it without some friction. The person you pass it on to has to be registered with the club. That’s enough for me to be out for next season. But I think it’s worse than that. Might they have to have memberships too?

Exactly this. It’s a glaring omission.

It feels like the Foxes Trust, by the line of questioning is doing some outreach for LCFC on this. I’m pretty sure the data will say that many fans weren’t really aware that this was a EPL thing and not solely an LCFC thing.

Done. I don’t care if it is the EPL or LCFC. I’m just not having digital ticketing for football imposed on me. I’d love to know the name of the individual at the EPL who decided/proposed this is the way football is going to be. Because I don’t think that person realises what a massive change to football fan culture this is. ST holders have been trusted to manage season ticket cards in their family and friendship circles for generations. Worth mentioning I use NFC regularly and enjoy using it in other spheres of life. I’m dead against this though and have given up my ST next season as a point of principle.

I emailed the club asking them to cancel renewal. They confirmed they have. I would have presumed they cancelled direct debit.

The LCFC app has just thanked me for renewing when I categorically have not (have the email to prove it). Anyone else?

Still makes me angry. Sliding doors moment. We could well have made The Champions League that year if not for this. It cost us points.

Too late. **** them. They didn’t listen before. They only acted because the sizeable amount of people not renewing must have shocked them. That just makes me more angry. Them talking about listening is just double speak.

I'm not renewing. Absolutely gutted to lose 'my seat' though. Will never get it back. £2300 cheaper than the hospitality ones one row behind me.

I like him as a person but he’s choosing dogmatic systems, over just putting players in positions which suit their strengths. Amorim is doing the same at Man Utd. Enzo at Chelsea - what they call ‘the idea’ or the ‘philosophy’. It’s become a trend. It’s certainly not working for us. With hindsight you have to say Cooper’s approach with these players was the correct one. I vehemently wanted him out. Sorry Steve.