BenTheFox

Also, Sheffield Wednesday have looked like a functional football team now they've got a decent manager in. I think they'll stay up actually.

A bit bland. At least it's authentic though.

I'd absolutely take a draw at this stage.

I will also point out that I was incredibly disappointed by Evans last season and at times the season before. His captaincy embodied everything wrong with the club during our decline. I just felt that in terms of ability I think he was the best central defender I've seen at Leicester. I just won't remember him so fondly for the reason stated above.

Yeah that was my point. I would take Huth too for what it's worth. I just felt that Evans was just good at everything.

I've justified my position on this one if you care to read it. In terms of ability, not so much contribution or legacy, he was. I've also referenced Taggart, Walsh and Elliott in my justification, which might give you some indication of my age.

I meant it strictly from that point. Morgan and Huth were far more limited footballers but will go down as legends, whereas Evans was a very good player whose Leicester career ended on a very sour note. Perhaps one way of putting it is that Evans was the best centre-half I've seen at Leicester, but Morgan and Huth were the greatest.

He was the complete package. You could make the case for Huth strictly as someone to defend the box, however, Evans was much better on the ball and his sense of time and positioning was brilliant. Morgan contributed more and will be remembered more fondly but if you take both players on ability, Evans was better. Maguire was a full England international when he was with us, but Evans was a better defender. Fofana had/has the highest ceiling but he's yet to reach it and may never reach it. Soyuncu was well too inconsistent. Then in my lifetime you had Walsh, Elliott and Taggart. All great players for us but limited footballers who would struggle in the modern game.

Evans in my opinion was better all around. Huth was an exceptional 18-yard box defender. However, Huth couldn't have played in the side we had in 2019-20/20-21, whereas I think Evans could have played in title winning side.

The best centre-half I've seen in my lifetime supporting Leicester. He went completely missing last season when we needed him though.

On par with West Brom and Wolves despute geographically being our closest game?

Oh I wish we were far less sanitised, for sure. However, there's no way I'd trade seeing is win the biggest honours in English football, seeing Andrea Bocelli sing at our ground, european trips and seeing top class players for near extinction, home games in Northampton, home games in Birmingham, league Two and league one promotions and a play-off final defeat.

That is especially bizarre. There were times in that decade where they genuinely looked like their club could cease to exist. We have become more sanitised in part because we have had success over the past decade. The same would happen to them. Are they essentially saying that they never want success?

I grew up in Wigston. I didn't know a single Forest, Coventry or Derby fan growing up.

Coventry have been down to the fourth tier of English football and have had to play home games in Northampton and Birmingham and yet I still think them leaving Highfield Road for their current stadium is the worst thing that has happened to them (I know those things are actually linked btw). They had a ground with character near the city centre and traded it in for a flat pack stadium miles outside the city next to a retail park. It's the equivalent to if our ground was at Fosse Park.

See, the way you feel about Cov is the way I feel about Derby. That's probably because the big games in the 90s against Derby were just a bit before my time. Coventry certainly care more about us than they do the West Midlands clubs apart from Villa, who really don't care about them. Coventry is our closest away game and on a good day you can go from ground to ground in just over half an hour.

I really don't understand our fans trying to play the 'we don't care about Cov, just another game' card. I'm already nervous about it.

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UFS really do deliver value for money. Many UFS tifos cost less than £1500 and look so much better than that.

Is the man a twat? Obviously. Am I at all offended by it? No. I see it as being pitiful more than anything else.

Something that I think goes under the radar is the minutes he's given to players that have come through our youth setup. He's handed out first team debuts to Stolaczyk, Marcal, Nelson and now Maswanhise. He has also given Kasey McAteer regular first team football and he would have played even more game for us had he not been injured. I think we would have also seen Will Alves and Sammy Braybrooke by now had they not just been coming back from injury.

If we can't get anyone in then I'd play Hamza as the inverted full-back with Ricardo as a number 8.

I don't see a standout player in Kasey but he's been useful for us this season. He's gotten himself into some very good positions and his finishing for the most part has been strong. He's also demonstrated that defensively he can be trusted in this team. He's good enough to contribute to us at this level but I'm not convinced that he's a premier league footballer. Prior to this season I didn't think I would see him get regular first team football for us and he has. Not every academy player who breaks through into our first team has to be a regular for years to come. The purpose of the academy is to make the club money, not just to supplement the first team squad.

I wonder if we'd look to play him as the inverted right-back and push Ricardo into midfield. Ricardo has looked effective when he's been deployed in a more advanced role this season.

He was a solid player for us before getting injured in the 2020/21 season, but honestly I'd take £200k from Torino at this point just to get him off the wage bill.