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Our fullback positioning and play has been diabolical all season and cost us again today. Kristian den is no where near the players he should be covering. Yes part of that is the player in front of them neither mcateer or Madvadidi worked or tracked enough. Justin and Choudray are both constant cowards constantly turning their back on shots man up for gods sake. The whole team today was totally disorganized and lacking in work rate. You do not mind losing but there must be effort and it was completely absent today.. RVN does not escape leaving Buonanotto out big error.

I think we may not know what his job is these days. He has not been seen since the Brentford away game which surprises me. You would have thought the new managers first two home games the director of football would be front and center even more so when the Chairman has been absent. With his other KP roles maybe he is no longer a DOF in the way we think about it. I think the one aspect that undermines him is he looks weak, a lot of decisions look weak, maybe this role is just too challenging for him or he has lost focus. It’s easy to do when you have a boss who pulls you in multiple directions. I believe that the big weakness as well is we keep rewarding service not always talent. Too many former players given jobs. The club has become too inward looking so cannot see or address its challenges. I believe the owner is too close to the players that’s an error. They need to understand they are employees and performance rules.

Had not given this much thought but Tuesday it struck me how bad this announcer is. His team introduction was just flat as if he cannot be bothered. Surely somebody better could be found. I almost wonder if anyone takes the time to monitor clarity around the ground because it seems very poor. That cannot be the infrastructure as that was in place for previous people.

Spot on the exercise is to look at the variants and provide feedback to the club so they understand which version is preferred. Location is a separate question I believe.

Do what you want hospitality can be good and actually the atmosphere in some parts of hospitality is better than some ordinary seated areas. Do not go to Weller Lounge, Fosse Lounge is OK, Champions Club you will see the man of the match after the game, food is good you will be on a shared table doable to mix with other fans. Despite what many think there are many ‘ordinary’ fans in hospitality not just corporate freebies as some would make out. You will find it closer to standards at US Venues we know we were also season ticket holders at Houston Dynamo, Houston Astros for many years.

There were three filings and it is change as the previous party of significant control was a company now it is Top as an individual. It is part of a trend I previously pointed out. The articles of association were earlier changed to reflect that Top on his own can make any decision. His club, his board, now his shares so he does what he wants and does not have to consult anyone. Now what else does this bring? Nothing he already had total control this is just another step in overall clarity. Of course in the event of serious financial problems it does remove King Power and its assets from the equation. On the question of the five years that is irrelevant as this is by subtle nuance a change today. Maybe this weekend having fired Cooper he is on a bit of a power trip. My club so I am making it clear it’s my club. Anyone who ever doubted that is misguided.

Based on observations of the communications director, the overall lack of true journalists and the clear use of social media conspiracies by media outlets I cannot see that the club made any such comment on or off the record. I believe that Cooper has never had dressing room support and Vardy probably had a right moan at the owner post Chelsea driving an action that was already on his mind. The body language of the key people was very negative well before the end of the game on Saturday. It was never going to work supporters me included hated the man for his past coaching failures and his declared love of Forest. Perfect storm with the likeliest outcome.

I think the answers should be stronger no I am not secretly happy I am ecstatic and hope they are serious long term injuries so they miss multiple games against us constant abuse of all of them even when watching a replay yes they are all dead to me the second they are gone , they don’t exist as human beings they are pond scum clap, jump up and down, celebrate if you don’t do all these I think you cannot consider yourself a fan only a spectator

Then that is unacceptable I for one will write to the Trust today citing voting intimidation and demand it does not occur at the AGM unless they are paid up members. The independent running elections needs to ensure free and fair. Nothing against the club or the individuals but no outside influences should be allowed unless they stump up and be part of the trust.

Can it be shared with all fans to understand the arguments and proposal bases. On the surface it seems L1 has not been considered and it would be interesting to understand that.

Surely only Foxes Trust members can attend or else what’s the point. If staff or club employees want to attend surely they must become members.i would expect that all entering are validated as true members of good standing with the right to vote. The elections are supposed to be proctored by an independent appointed election official. Since this is likely to be contentious this time around this is crucial.

This is a bigger question about our apparent inability as a club to develop talent. Seagrave has all the infrastructure but do we have the coaching ability. I feel we wait too long to blood talent. Nelson should have stayed and been utilized. We need to have players out there earlier or gone. This is not an isolated view I have been to;d by youngsters who have left and their parents that coaching frailties is an issue that drives them away. This inability drives us to invest in ageing or someone else’s developments often over priced and over rated. Fatawu has talent but is not being improved I feel the same will be the case with Bilal. I can tolerate the poor performances if there is hope. Let’s be honest there is no future beyond a season in Ayew, Eduard, Vestergaard etc. Daka is a good example of we never had an ability to improve him. I feel it’s systemic as we have suffered this under multiple managers/coaches.

Pre season I had us nailed on to go down. A lot of our play has been atrocious. However we are at a better point than I expected. So let’s see the next 4 games if we can pick up say 3 points maybe, lose them all probably in trouble. I hate to say it but let’s see. The one nailed on thing is it is not going to be pretty.

The reality is that Soumare is completely and totally rubbish and offers us nothing and never has. It is the single most stupid thing that confirms that Mr Cooper is clueless. Even in the Championship he could not compete we should just use him to sell programmes. Sorry but I can no other use for him.

Great point and I would say in the aftermath of our Premier League win the profile of Leicester City ballooned and most anywhere in the world people recognized and wanted to talk about the dream. In Africa people now asked for Leicester City shirts alongside the big names. In America especially with proper football fans from South American backgrounds it was the same. I don’t class the MLS as real football (sorry to those offended). I am sure to some degree in the Clough era Forest saw something similar but it has long faded into the mists of time. Sadly I am sure the same will happen to Leicester but we have the memory advantage of social media and while we are in the Premier the highest valued national competition. Maybe the new FAB heritage group can reignite global interest.

Was the same here chased them got an email the next day not accepted for interview. Clear that the process has gone on just cannot meet deadlines.

I think it is just the math we have 3000 away seats, 23000 season ticket holders and 3000 hospitality seats so pretty much 29000 paying spaces accounted for out of a potential 32000.. That leaves maybe 3000 paying spaces to play with spread over 4 diverse areas of the ground and probably 12 cost/sales opportunities. Displacing say only a thousand disgruntled customers and relocating to somewhere amenable is not so easy. Southampton did it at substantial revenue reduction wait until you see the numbers. They had more spaces to play with which helps. I think it’s more about revenue loss in the challenge. To me make the rear rows of the Kop safestanding. Ask people to register and prepay by say March 31st. Thus you know how many rows to install. Come up with a 2 year incentive for those displaced. In the away end first 5 rows seated rest safe standing. 10 year ban then for anyone standing in a seated area. Probably the best you can do and the club get ear ache from someone whatever they do.

There is no doubt that football has changed but so have all sports. I used to go to football, rugby, cricket, motor racing and horse racing and now they are all different. None have the experience I seem to so fondly remember in the 70’s, 80’s and even 90’s. The world has changed the availability of spare cash moved sports from a local loyal based approach to a middle income occasional experience. Ladies Day at Ascot used to be sophistication but now is a middle class rabble. Money talks it’s that simple and if you want to participate at the pinnacle you need to shell out. We can reminisce but the train has long departed and may never return. So go and moan or adapt. I have adapted now I expect different things from a day at the football. Farewell to the old memories hello to the new ‘experience’. Clubs needed fans but that is no longer the case the ‘client’ experience at least in the EPL is now the norm.

Sorry to say your math forgets increased costs you are only talking income. We cannot sell out current corporate so very optimistic to get 2m new, after costs even if you sold all seats probably 1.5m at very best, arena have big doubts it’s too small and needs an anchor tenant I cannot see. A hotel making a 50% profit that is way too optimistic more like 15-20%. Apartments sell or rent? Sales one off margin, rental 13% yield. Car park will be even at best remember it will only be full maybe 200 hours a year. You build the outlay to get this done and it’s a bad investment with too much risk.

This is standard if you look Wolves do the same with the same bank Man Utd do the same with Bank of America. You know why rich people stay rich is the never use their money until they have to. Interest is deductible as a business expense so can be useful to reduce tax. Each business should finance itself once established and that is all that is being done here. At a smaller level it’s called invoice factoring. The way Premier League payments are made hinders cash flow as TV money comes in lumps at the end of a season. These charges give you cash now to pay wages etc. It’s just like your agreed secured overdraft. It’s good business sense. Chill folks.

Face recognition is too unreliable to handle thousands of recognition request in short time as would be required in the 15 minutes to kick off. 10% failures on a 60000 crowd would leave 6000 challenges about 25% of those in that 15 minute window. Chaos and violence would ensue. In general there is nothing wrong with NFT it works in lots of applications. It’s humans that mess the system up.

OK don’t shoot the messenger but I believe and to some degree know that these discussions take place outside of a single clubs influence. The police and safety authorities nationally point to an uptick in criminality at football and often those caught are not first purchasers (owners) of tickets and our own banning list supports this to some extent, Second big clubs see thousands of tickets per game on the secondary market at huge prices. Digital overall as we see with flights, trains, supermarkets and a wide array of others reduces the need for human staff so reduces costs. Our world has changed do I agree that digital will solve all these issues no but I am a realist the train has left the station and it’s not returning the only thing is pace of change. I shared a while ago that the EPL wanted all away tickets to be digital very soon guess what it’s mentioned, I shared that the wanted 70% by the end of the 25/26 season if not faster. Clubs are adapting individually but mark my words 100% digital not far away and if they can get face recognition to work your photo to buy and auto comparison at turnstile is not far away.

It makes sense to hold off now let inflation stabilize see if we can stabilize in the Premier. The one factor none of us know is how confident would we be to fill another 8000 or so seats. Is there really another 4000 odd people who will commit to a season ticket. We all like to think so but I am not so sure is it worth the risk. King Power just spent a lot on property in Thailand which needs a return. I run the numbers and to be honest over a 20 year period I cannot see the return on investment without the additional as yet not detailed or approved hotel, apartments etc. That is most likely the scenario that the calculators say no. Even with the extras is a City like Leicester going to generate the high end income required. We are in the Premier and not all hospitality for the season is sold out.

You are correct hold out as long as possible. OFGeM says they are safe. The report from GCHQ into are they hackable especially by the Chinese sits on the fence it says that as far as they can determine they are OK not an outright OK. They tell you they mostly come from a Spanish company but follow the money they are all sourced from China. What better way to mess with a country than have the ability to remotely turn off the power.

The worst fact is it’s about a 1.47% response rate based on last Saturdays attendance at the game. It is therefore statistically insignificant. You can read into this that many fans are happy with things, you could interpret that the majority of fans don’t care. It is truly a disappointing response so maybe the Trust is not as engaged with supporters as it thinks. Is it maybe that Leicester as a city and county is just not that vested in football in a tribal way say a Newcastle is? I don’t believe there is enough substance in this survey to draw any conclusions.