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28 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Celtic losing again

 

Hearts could genuinely win it 

If they do we will never hear the end of it but I’d love to see someone else win it. 

6 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

edinburgh derby tonight, always fiery with an amazing atmosphere.

I was at the REAL Edinburgh derby today, Spartans vs Edinburgh City in the away end. Good times. If it weren’t for a 15 point deduction we’d be challenging for promotion. Think we have enough to escape relegation anyway. 

Except a few individual runs we’ve looked pretty poor so far. Very unwilling to put a foot in when defending and not much ideas getting it forwards. 

SPL is there for the taking this year, if any of the contenders were good enough to mount a challenge to an extremely average Celtic. Hoping Hibs can but based on what I’ve seen so far, defence is too leaky. 

58 minutes ago, ALC Fox said:

I wasn't saying that there aren't problems with King Power. There are, there really are.

 

But Mandaric was a different kettle of fish and was so incredibly amateurish in comparison.

 

This iteration of King Power since Vichai's passing has made a lot of mistakes. In fact, I don't think we've ever really had a coherent plan for running the club where a manager fits into the system rather than the manager dictating what the system will be. And, yes, even though the different managers has meant we've swung from one approach to the other in terms of style of play and recruitment, we have also then, at times, recruited badly for those managers.

 

But, for me, this current malaise still stems from the approach made under Rodgers. We abandoned the sell-to-buy policy so Rodgers could push, we maxed out our wage bill (and more) and watched assets depreciate, the squad stagnated and had no fresh injection of quality as we recruited badly to fill out the squad. We pandered to Rodgers and paid him too much as he hung on and we hung on in order to save a few million quid and avoid PSR issues. In the end, we pulled the trigger, meaning we lost yet more money, did it far too late so we had a poor choice of managers to recruit from with very little time to turn things around, and then got relegated, spent too much in the Championship and the problems kept being pushed further down the road.

 

King Power have loads to answer for. They have 100% made very costly errors. But this summer window is a glimmer of hope that they know how to turn things around. It remains to be seen whether they can do it, especially with it now being so difficult to become an established Premier League club again. They may not be able to. There may be things down the line that prove my optimism in them to be utterly misguided.

 

But, I think, short of running the club into the ground and winding it up, or relegating us back to League One, there isn't much I think King Power can do to convince me that they're worse than Milan Mandaric. We were a laughing stock under him. Under King Power, we're a bit shady, we've made mistakes, but we are a serious outfit - just about 

Great post, and whilst I’m as annoyed and disillusioned as many posting in this thread I’m far from convinced we’d be better off with a new owner. And so much of what we are living with now is the hangover from Rogers. 

12 hours ago, Spanner73 said:

I’d take Mandaric back over this clueless clown we’ve got. 

87 year old Mandaric? Interesting choice. 

- Ruud was purely incompetent, but likeable. The meekest manager we’ve had. 

- Taylor was incompetent whilst making a lot of changes to the squad, dismantling the team by accident. And he was a tw*t. 
- The end of Roger’s reign is the worst for me. He was competent, perfectly capable of managing us out of the mess, but deliberately played weakened sides, blamed the players and got us relegated. Threw his toys out the pram and cost us a decade of progress. 

Took my wee lad down his first game at Easter Road at the weekend. Hibs aren’t a bad side, they should do well this season. Some tired legs after their extra time defeat in Poland midweek. Good fun reminded me of Filbert street in many ways. 
 

id love to raise him a Leicester fan but we will get to a lot more games locally. 
 

just need to tell him the legend of Conrad Logan now. 

Prediction - we sell BEK and Fatawu and sign no one.

Nightmare start for Mads, should've saved 2 of them

68% posession and xg of 0.1! Will we never learn!

On 19/07/2025 at 16:11, Kinowe Soorie said:

Simon Grayson was fairly rubbish,

 

Wash your mouth out!

23 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Today’s the day

COULD BE MEGSON

Our squad is a mess

We have no money

We may have a points deduction and or transfer embargo

We have a bloated wage bill and misaligned contracts. 

The club is extremely unpopular with the fan base

We are in desperate need of stability - a manager who can be here for 3 years, rebuild trust in the club, get us back to an established premier league team. 
 

Who knows, Rohl may well end up being the better choice here but he is certainly a bigger gamble than Dyche who has done this before, actively wants the job, and is less likely to jump ship if he becomes a maresca esq media darling. 
 

It depends on what question you are trying to answer - if it’s ’who will stabilise the club, overhaul the squad and get us back to prem mid table’ I’d choose Dyche every day. If you want excitement and risk then go with Rohl. 
 

But after the shit show of the last 3 seasons I would definitely choose stability and overhaul. 

Conrad Logan. loyal club servant. Probably not a very good goalkeeper. 

It’s Mads, our goal difference would have been south of -100 without him. 

Do it after he retires. 

Said it in the other thread, but winding up Samir Nasri to the extent that he got himself sent off was just brilliant. 

Getting Samir Nasri sent off vs Sevilla. Absolute gold 

I don’t get to many games since I moved to Scotland 15 years ago, but I did get to that Sunderland away game in 2016, where it was a stalemate for so long and Vardy won it with two breakaway goals. Just iconic. 
 

Dropped the players who dont want to be there

I think Dyche, and I think he will be good for us, rebuild the squad and faith in the club.