BenTheFox

Greatest player in our history but I can't get my head around him putting Simpson over Ricardo is his best Leicester team.

****ing state of me, sobbing at work

Our greatest ever player without any shadow of a doubt.

So far I can't stand the financial advisor bloke from the brothers pairing.

There are people that would rather we go for Tony Mowbray, who has just been sacked by West Brom, than Sean Dyche?Good lord.

It is irrelevant because the calibre of manager they've got is well out of reach for a club that have just been relegated to the championship. Let's not be fooled by a manager coming in and doing well in the early stages of a job (he's still only been there for four months!). He will have a rough patch and there will be people that turn against him. Dyche's ceiling is hovering above the relegation zone in the premier league, but if he was able to achieve that with us I'd be delighted at this stage. I do actually think we could field a starting 11 in the championship from the players that we have that could somewhat resemble a Sean Dyche team. The prospect of appointing Sean Dyche is not a particularly appetising one, I get it. More than anything, I think he wouldn't tolerate any nonsense from the players and we would have a team that is honest abd hardworking. That's how low the ****ing bar is right now.

What do you have to back this up though? In some respects he hasn't been given the opportunity to properly 'build' something, even though I'd argue he did to some extent at Burnley. By Premier League standards, Burnley had no financial pulling power. At Everton the situation he inherited was pure chaos and was constantly putting out fires. Neither were optimal environments for building something like Big Nige was able to do here just over a decade ago.

Sorry, but that is completely irrelevant. Their fans are happier that things are going well under a manager who is well out of reach for us. I mean, so what? Everton would have gone down had they not appointed Dyche when they did. Also, Moyes and Everton are still somewhat in the honeymoon period. Don't forget he had times at West Ham where he looked like it was over for him. Just before the 2022 world cup, a lot of West Ham fans wanted him gone.

I'm not sure I agree with you actually. He was at Burnley for 9 years and in that time they made a lot of improvements to their training ground and academy. Also, at Everton, what he left behind was far better than what he inherited.

I too found Maresca's football boring, for the most part. However, that was far from my biggest issue with him. I don't think his football got the best out of our squad. We lost 11 games in the championship under him.

Burnley for the most part this season have been boring to watch. I would 100% take the season they've just had.

Genuinely, is anyone actually that arsed about whether we are good to watch or not? Can we just win some ****ing games please?

For what it's worth, many people who went on the protest, myself included, have condemned personal abuse towards Rudkin, most notably the depiction of him as a clown. I think it's uncalled for and is bad optics. However, because someone decides to depict Rudkin as a clown doesn't mean that the protests are invalid in any way.

I went to school with that guy.

I remember the last home game of 07/08 against Sheffield Wednesday when we were about to go down to League One. I was sat by the family stand and you had people in the family stand throwing season tickets at the pitch and going mental about how bad the situation was. The contrast to now is remarkable. I don't think it's just that we've all become zombies, people can just never turn against this ownership. If the club was sold 4 years ago and thos had happened under a completely new ownership, there would be far more visible anger.

As someone who doesn't have tattoos and doesn't really want any. That's class.

I think Cov will win both of those games. I think Cov have got the beating of both Sunderland and Bristol City, and given Sheffied United's form, I'm worried Cov will go up.

And we're not asking to flood a whole team of under 21 academy players at premier league or championship level. It was a complete strawman if ever I've seen one. All we're asking for is to see a clear pathway for 3 or 4 academy players to be bedded into the first team squad.

It's such a shame that the actor who played Hugh Abbot turned out to be an actual nonce. He's one of the best comedy characters ever.

I can accept that he wants to maintain a good relationship with people that he worked with at the club, especially in a professional capacity. However, it genuinely amazed me how inarticulate he was for a man who was in that position. A lot of buzzwords like 'passion', 'hunger' and he was not able to complete a sentence without saying 'so called' whilst also using that expression in completely the wrong way. There was no insight from him as to what they expect from academy players from a technical point of view or why the club would choose to loan players to one club over another (he didn't have to name clubs, he could have given examples of scenarios) and how they look to create a pathway for those players to move into the first team.

I listened to the podcast whilst out on run. I'm not gonna lie, the 'so called' guy made me want to rip my ear buds out and throw them at a bus. I don't blame the lads for having him on, but he was a very frustrating listen. I'm glad that Jake offered atleast some pushback and I get that he had to do it in the most polite way possible.

Unpopular opinion, but Ayew and BDR will be decent options for us in the championship. I'm not saying they should start every game, but they can certainly contribute. No one is taking them off us so we may as well make use of them.

I don't get the clamouring for him. We lost 11 championship games with him as manager and we almost blew promotion. Also, he would not have the budget this time out. We have fewer assets that we could sell for big money. It's all immaterial anyway because he is not coming back.

I watched Lineker interview Dyche and it sounded like Lineker really wants Dyche to get the Leicester job.

We'd get shithoused in a few games, whether it be from a set piece, a breakaway or getting caught overplaying, but I think we'd win over 25 games with him and would therefore make the playoffs at least.