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On 07/03/2026 at 17:50, marketharboroughfox said:

They looked hopeless at the back against Cov today. Got to be going for the jugular here.

We're going for the jugular with a furry dice and a condom as weapons 

Of course we get a manager in who we could have got the day after Marti left. Brilliant. 

Sean Dyche has either just been paid a lump sum £10m or is still on the books at Forest at approx £90k a week. No way he's giving that up to come here. He will take a few months off and land a decent job in the summer. There is no chance we can attarct anyone like that. 

They changed it at half time and it absolutely did us. They pushed up on our full backs and stepped ten yards up the pitch (hardly a tactical masterstroke) but Marti and the players just couldn't react. There was space all over the pitch in behind their full backs and not once did we look to play there. All we did was retreat, retreat, retreat and never tried to proactively change what we were doing. Typical formulaic manager who does things by his book and if that doesn't work he has nothing else. 

Football cannot be fully planned and you will never eliminate all the unknowns no matter how much the textbook says you can. Football will always be chaos and you have to react accordingly. Marti doesn't have the tools or knowledge to react and he certainly doesn't have the players to force his style and we come out as winners. As much as our players are poor (we do not have one genuine premier league quality player imo) Marti is the problem. 

I am worried. Genuinely. 

We are awful . Truly. We don't have any fight in us. We don't have a striker at the club. We have no money to change it and we have a poor manager.

We had a bit of fear factor first few games being a prem team coming to this division. We have lost that now. If Cov played us tomorrow they'd batter us. 

If we were to get a 9-12 point deduction takes us to 8 - 6 points. I cant see where wins are coming from. Not gonna lie i'm bleak. Am i wrong? 

Genuinely depressing how far we've fallen. 

8 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

except of course for the larger transfer deals, Susan handled the negotiations..

Mainly transfers out of the club. Rarely did she get involved with incomings except for payment structures. It was never her say on who we should sign and how much for. More about how the deals were structure. Hence the "are you sure John" every single year. 

If I was manager I’d be saying to Daka, Soumare, Souttar, Skip and others you’re not part of my squad. You’re not good enough.  You can’t train at the fancy training ground. If you want to play football you have to look for a move.
 

Fair play to Enzo and Pearson back in the day. They forced squad changes. That’s the type of manager we needed. We have to force players to either not play and train or find a move. Fair too easy for players to pick up massive wages, train at one of the worlds best training facilities and still play and be no where near the standard this club needs. 

I dont think we'd get relegated under Dyche in the championship lol. I wouldn't be so confident with RVN or some of the other clowns linked to the job. 

Dyche is a safe appointment and at the minute I am happy with safe. We can't afford to take a risk. At least Dyche will know how a club should be run and could offer experience to those at the top. 

1 hour ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I really am struggling to understand why anyone would be gravitating towards Sean Dyche, given our current squad and circumstances he is the absolute opposite of what we need right now. 
 

His style of play and philosophy does not fit with the club or our playing staff, we are crying out for a progressive coach who can build a team around the academy and young hungry players. 
 

Dyche is so far away from this, some liken him to Pearson, but he is nothing like him, Dyche’s answer to being progressive is to make players train in shorts and shirts in middle of January to replicate match day, he is a yesterday’s man, the game has moved on. For me he is more of an underdog manager not the man for a progressive club with a £100m state of the art training ground and a flourishing academy system. 
 

Which is why I will keep saying it Richie Wellens is the man we should be bringing in, young, progressive, plays a good brand of football and has worked wonders at Leyton Orient with largely young players to take them from league 2 to within 90 minutes of Championship football, he knows the club and has worked under Pearson so knows what can be achieved at this club within a good structure. 
 

He is the type of manager that would commit to a long term project and would be the type that you could see still being here in 3 or 4 years time to bring back stability and continuity to the club. 

I think the argument for Dyche is due to the need for someone 'who knows what they are doing' at the top end of the football club. Dyche would know how a football club should be run. It would be hoped he'd help guide Top in structuring the club to start working. I'm not a fan of Dyche but I can definitely see the need for a bit of competence and experience at a top level in this club. 

12 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Looks like my ex's fanny 

On 24/02/2024 at 00:40, ConnFoxUS said:

I’m really not. I just can’t figure out any statistical or logical reason for the irrational amount of sh*t he gets from our supporters compared to others on the squad who ACTUALLY continue to stink up the pitch. We were spoiled by prime Vardy. We likely won’t see a player like him at his peak in an Leicester shirt again in our lifetimes.

 

Daka will never be Vardy. But he’s not trash. He’s the best striker currently in our first team. Show me stats that say otherwise. He certainly doesn’t deserve the slagging he gets on here week in and week out, while he scores goals, assists, and does all the little things that make players around him better. Does he miss sometimes? Sure. If he didn’t, he’d be playing in the Prem for a top 6 club! 
 

I would encourage the Daka haters to come off FT and check out other footballing social media. There are plenty of supporters of other clubs that would love to have him. 
 

Basically, he’s not peak Vardy or Harry Kane, but he’s more than serviceable in the Championship and he’s helped win us a few games. He’s nowhere near as bad as some would like him to be, no matter how many times you say it. 

He really is as bad as everyone says he is. 

The biggest issue with this club is recruitment. its so so poor. Players like Daka are the reason we are in such a mess. Awful player, on a long contract, on massive money. Repeat throughout the team. 

10 hours ago, mkaiser1 said:

In my head this would be awesome to see and hear.
 

To the tune of Titanium (David Guetta ft Sia). We should also wild over the Doo Doo Doo’s (like the Let’s Pretend We’ve Scored A Goal chant):

He’s taken aim

He’s scored again

Fire away, fire away

He’s number 10

He’s scored again

He is James Maddison

Doo Doo Doo 

Doo Doo Doo

Doo Doo Doo 

Doo Doo Doo

Doo Doo Doo 

Maddison…

I can definitely see this working 

35 minutes ago, Donut said:

It depends what they actually want in a manager.

 

If they want someone who wants to change the style of the club, then go and bring someone to do it, but then sack him anyway, then what do they want? a manager to do the same as the previous manager but not be the previous manager?

 

Just seems so obvious that one day in the not too distant future, the whole thing is going to fall apart, Wes Morgan and Danny Simpson will still be in the team, and we will be relegated with 18 points.

I think the owners are looking for a manager with the conviction to change things.

Its clear we need a change. Personnel, style of play, tactics etc. But change is a difficult thing for people to handle and will only happen if the people required to change have confidence in the people making changes. Change requires believe, knowledge, character and communication. I think Puel has the first two qualities but not so much the second two. Would you be inspired to believe in change with Puel as your boss? We don't know what he's like behind closed doors but his mannerisms on the touchline during games isn't one of dynamism and to me doesn't get the response he needs to initiate change during 90 minutes let alone over the course of a season. You can only initiate change when people are willing and able. Clearly, presently our squad are neither so therefore you have to slow down your quest for change until you have the right personnel in place to make it work. His style of play should have been more precedent at the start of next season with new players in who can do what he's asking. No good manager would ask Danny Simpson to play as an attacking full back and no good manager would as Wes Morgan to be a ball playing defender. This is not the sign of good management.

Big Sam can positively change a football club in a short space of time. Rafa too. Whether either of these would ever consider us is another thing but we need a PROVEN manager who has done what we need in the past. Puel won't be the man to succeed I am sure of it.

https://bhappy.wordpress.com/

Enjoyed reading his match report on the Watford game.

Usual Monday morning for me.

*Checks 'do they mean us thread'

*Gets wound up by some idiotic, uninteligent opposing fans

*Checks Premier League table

*Smiles uncontrolably and chills out.

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Who even cares what Adrian Durham thinks? His opinions to me are about as valuable as my mate Tim's. Tim by the way is a scientologist and genuinely believes we are descendant from aliens and is the sort of guy who thinks the Matrix was a documentary.

I tend not to worry what the crazies think of Leicester.  

I often see a clubs history as a burden in some cases based on a clubs current position. For example when we were in League 1 because of our 'history' I was quite embarrassed to be there. It was a fall from grace relative to our clubs history. 

For me its always about the here and now. When we beat Villa did I care they used to be good? Nope. All i cared about is that we are/were better than them at the current moment in time. 

It must be awful being a Forest fan for example. Based on their history the club should never be where they are now. It's a fall from grace and therefore its hard to have pride in 'yeah but we used to be good line'. Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville were pretty big in the 70s and 80s but you wouldn't be a member of their fan clubs now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34419479

Interesting article. Worth a read

To and put some tangible basis behind why i have reservations about him are;

IMO 

Twice dragged out of position against Sunderland 

Two rash challenges

Didn't seem to communicate well with others 

Widely recognised that he will receive more than his fair share of cards

He cost £5.5 million 

If there is not a lower league centre half who is not better for similar or less money I'd be shocked. 

Quite happy to be proved wrong and I have every faith in the scouting system. Lets be honest Marcin is a similar type player except older and slower and I have grown to love him (Only because if there was ever a chance he had heard I didn't like him I don't think I'd ever be brave enough to walk around the city ever again).

Can we use ben Marshall's chant for Okazaki? Always enjoyed that and it fits