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Enzo system Ricardo/Hamza can do the inverted RB thing. Veste, Okoli can be the CBs Nelson can do the LB that becomes LCB Winks can sit James/Ramsey/Page/DCR can be the two 8s Fatawu and Mavididi wingers Daka up top. I'd say with our lack of 10s we are more than capable of playing the Enzo way

I also want to know. My fear is that it's either Winks and Vesteguard in the match day squad. We've not seen Winks for weeks then Vesteguard disappears and Winks is in the squad. I really hope I'm wrong and we've secured him a move for money

David Speedie. What a name to pull out the bag 😂 From villain to playing a big part on our promotion season. Even getting sent of in the play off semi final turned out good for us as we silenced the rams. That name has cheered me up a little.

You'd think relegation from the Championship would look pretty rubbish on his CV. Perhaps he will play a bit between now and the end of the season. After all he wants away and if he can't get a move right now he needs to secure a team for next season. I'm not sure how many clubs would be that interested in him.

The second half is a chance to see who wants to play for Leicester City. I'm fed up with a lot of these players. But it will take a lot to raise themselves for the second half with so much against them. We will see who actually has some fight.

If Vesteguard is off we might have chance to actually buy a player or two. Hopefully, the last weekend I have to endure seeing our team looking so weak. My fear is Vesteguard and Winks have fell out and it's one or the other on match day.

We need an O'Neill. A wise old head that can get a tune out of the players we have. Someone who knows who needs a nudge and can take a nudge or who needs a hug. We need someone to come in and simplify everything. To build a base the next person can build upon.

Heart: Yes- I want him to sort out the players Head: No- We haven't the depth of player replacements (and can't replace them in the transfer market) to back Nigel when the fallouts happen. Conclusion: Now is the wrong time. If he comes back it's from the moment we are safe from relegation so he can look at the squad and reshape it in the summer.

I don't disagree at all. Some of the players and their contracts have been continuously ridiculous. However, I'm dismayed to see what the rules are doing to competition. For instance, Wolves have totally given up and are now selling up ready to comply in the Championship. It's January! However, they might be lucky in some respects as their decision is done. There race run. However, what should Forest and West Ham do? Spend, don't spend, or sell up? You could argue if they don't sell and are relegated they won't be able to comply in the Championship.

I'd argue both

Could it be the case that if we are relegated through a PSR points deduction, lets say the doomsday 27 points mentioned earlier, that we would then automatically fail the following year as well as our outgoings would continue to be much more than our incomings without players contracts being terminated which cannot happen without payoffs etc. You are also failing to get a fee for the player as well. PSR is a joke. It seems a sudden relegation and you are in a real mess with no hope to comply. It simply needs to go away. The issue we have as a club is our situation is unique until say a West Ham or Everton are relegated and they too can't comply. I go back to the reasoning for PSR which was to prevent clubs from going bust. It seems with our loans etc that PSR could actually make us go bust! If only we had spent big in January, completely broke the rules, sacked Rogers, survived, took the points deduction the following season and survived the following season too (Forest and Everton). If only...

That's easy. You buy/find a 9 that can be a threat down the middle of the pitch to occupy the CBs and have a 10 that can play between the lines and drift wide to occupy a FB. At the moment we have no real threat down the middle so teams double up and keep our wingers wide knowing that a cross into the box isn't going to amount to anything dangerous.

I'd go Mark Robins. I've suggested him before previous appointments and I've seen nothing to change my mind. Former player. Knows the league. Needs an opportunity at a club that could actually get promoted. Did a lot of the ground work for Lampard at Coventry without the money to spend. And he has done it again at Stoke.

Aluko and Thomas Or Aluko and Fatawu Or Aluko and Ricardo and play Soumare CM. Or Ricardo and Thomas. None are great options but you keep the central area of the pitch crowded and give support to Page.

I'd have gone 352. We've 3 CBs starting Ricardo Hamza and Page in the middle. A couple of wing backs A 10 And a 9. You flood your weakest area which today is CM.

So many possibilities 1. He has already been relieved of his position. 2. We can't pay the players. 3. The club knows our points deduction and it effectively relegates us. 4. Lots of players leaving once the transfer window opens. 5. Players not willing to play as they hope they will get a move. 6. A big dressing room bust up. 7. The club has been put up for sale. Who knows but it's worrying when all the above is a possibility.

I thought he was very poor this evening.

Don't get it. Never have. Thomas seems to be unfairly got at because he hasn't developed into another Chilwell. He is one of our own. He started when we won the FA Cup. He was often asked to play out of position (left centre back) in a terrible side last season. Yet got on with it and at times was one of our better players. Thomas is more reliable than Kristenson. His attributes are more of an asset than Kristenson's and he is a more solid defender. He wasn't poor against Watford. No player makes absolutely zero mistakes. And he wasn't consistently beaten either. Far from it. Without Thomas we are left with Aluko who isn't ready. He needs 20mins here and there to develop. His 'new contract' gives us stability. We clearly can't buy in the transfer market and if he'd left we'd have been in a mess at LB with just Kristenson and Aluko. And he is only 24. We could still get a transfer fee for him. Thomas isn't the problem. If you look at us in the final third we don't have the players to cause chaos in the box. We are a striker short. There simply isn't a player to cross the ball towards. We desperately need a proper striker. Hopefully, someone big and powerful that poses a threat for crosses. Then I think the whole side will look better

This. I was thinking about how MON managed Parker and how Winks could be similar. If Parker wasn't fit/didn't run he didn't play. MON played Savage over 'stars' repeatedly even though we were booing his name on the team sheet. He sticks with players. Especially, youngsters. He simplified the game for Savage. Get the ball and pass it to a better player. Which gave Savage a career on ability he probably didn't deserve. I think MON would do wonders for our Youth. I can't see him needing to buy players for a while. So we need a man manager to work with what we have. I also believe, if we were fortunate enough to get MON, everyone around him would have to step up. If he couldn't make it work I don't think we the fans would be as quick to look at sacking the manager but really get on the players and hierarchy's back. I simply think he'd be great for where we currently are. And if he isn't I can't see what we lose. Another season in the Championship; which I don't think would hurt? Relegation? A lot of us are stressing about that possibility anyway.

Where does Walsh fit in? ;)

Why I want the club to go all out to get Martin O'Neill. 1. He has Championship, Premiership, International and European experience. 2. He calls a spade a spade. If things are bad behind the scenes he will tell us. 3. It will united the fan base. This will give him the time needed to turn it around. 4. Our players will respect him. If they don't they are fools and should be finished as players here. 5. If O'Neill fails it won't be as easy to blame him the manager.

We are not getting anything out of the game. He is simply protecting players from injury while giving minutes to those who need them. If he put on Riccardo and he got injured we'd all be pissed that he played him.

No they weren't. I sat watching us at Plymouth. GK boots it out. Our Striker goes up for a header. It falls into midfield. If we win it a couple of sideways passes and it was back with our CB who passed it back to our GK to repeat. I've never seen us so inept.

The rest of this season. It's actually massive. We've got to survive the points deduction, survive the Championship. Sell/allow the high earners to leave and begin the recovery. Then I want to see a promotion push with financial backing.

I'm sorry but I'm not lost or mentally ill. My brain is free thinking and my own. I simply have a different opinion to you. And yes I do remember Levein. And I am careful what I wish for. I also remember success that I couldn't even of dreamed of. And due to remembering that success I'm prepared to wait and see. I'm prepared to allow the people who brought us that success the time to turn our current mess around. I'd also much rather have owners who roll the dice than sit and watch us simply survive season after season in the Prem.