Drew Peacock

The usual talking over the interviewer before the question had been fully asked, in the post-match interview last night, and then the harrowing words ’We keep playing like that and we’ll be fine.’ 🤯

Doesn’t seem right that by the time we play, it will have been 5 weeks since a home league game, this early in the season.

Here’s one block. Never seen anything like it with the amount of RV seats.

All blocks are open I think and about 480 left, spread across all of them. A massive amount of those left are restricted view though.

Appreciate that bud. If only the club could truly understand the psychology of fan engagement and understand why the tribal identity of being a football fan is so important to so many. Like many others now, I feel a total disconnect from the club, yet still crave that identity despite not wanting to. 5 lads and their guests on the pod over the last few years have provided that feeling of belonging.

I can confirm that it definitely wasn’t a set up. 🤣 Just a stupid user name I chose over 10 years ago, which I now regret if I have anything serious to say. It was after reading a supposedly true story where Mr and Mrs Peacock named their son Drew, before realising he’d be laughed at for the rest of his life. 🤣 Touched by the mention though @Ric Flair. 🦊💙

Appreciate that mate. That would be great sometime. The pod is genuinely something that means a lot to both myself and my son and what I said is long overdue.

Yes, great summary. Dom on regularly would be brilliant.

It surprised me how sad I felt when I heard that Jake was leaving. The lads aren’t my mates, but it somehow feels like that they are. This isn’t really a place for emotions and I know that sometimes people over express them for attention, but I wanted to briefly mention something, purely as it adds strong context to what I wanted to say. We all live with the possibility that life can change forever, overnight. That happened to my daughter. The trauma of that and the ongoing practicalities of accepting a ‘new normal’ has taken over a decade to work through and is still ongoing. She is still very ill and 99% bedbound at 18 years old. Following Leicester is my one escape. Time wise, choosing to do this means there isn’t time to do anything else, apart from work. You might think I enjoy trauma saying it’s my escape, but it is. Match day traditions help keep me sane and the paradox between feeling the identity and belonging of being a Leicester fan deep within still, despite the team, club and owner making me feel the exact opposite mostly, is very real. Although the BSLB pod isn’t obviously on a match day, I consider it one of my few important traditions. It’s the LCFC pod I most relate to and connect with and the only one I listen to now. I still remember the much needed therapy it gave me after Leeds away, the season we won The Championship under Maresca. At that time it was the worst I’d felt after a game for years. It’s like listening to mates chatting in the pub after games, helping to process everything on and off the pitch. Although it’s rightly been a general theme recently with everyone thanking Jake, I just wanted to encourage Jord, Rick and Godders, as it must feel very strange. It’s just a new ‘Holy Trinity’ or ‘Unholy Trinity’ carrying the pod forwards and will become and feel the new normal soon enough. You all have unique gifts, so just bring who you genuinely are and it will remain authentic. No one should be expecting it to be a copy of the exact same chemistry. Finally, often people are never as popular as when they leave somewhere on good terms. It shouldn’t need that for people to be thanked for what they do. I’m glad it’s given me a chance to say thanks though. Your work is much appreciated and will make a difference to others in many ways that you may never get to know. ‘Football isn’t important in the scheme of things’ is an often used comment. The truth though, in many different circumstances, is that it really is.

It was mixed. Fair few applauding but a fair few criticising, with both viewpoints causing some verbals with each other. Players came over to applaud the fans, but it was understandably a bit uncomfortable. Personally, it didn’t feel like an away win normally does. A positive at the end was Lundstram already looked like a leader. I feel he could be a much needed character.

‘Sold out’ just refers to the club’s soul. There’s thousands of tickets available, currently locked.

‘Was’ 🤣 It will be on sale for members before hardly anyone has bought tickets at this rate.

It’s a start. Hopefully they’ll also eventually learn to open more than just the worst 2 blocks every game, but I doubt it. Maybe Thursday/Friday sales will start properly.

Yes, these open blocks total the number of seats in our allocation, so that will be it. Approx 390 seats available at 4.25pm, including a few on the back couple of rows which I think are restricted view.

Barnsley has had some memorable away days. Julian Joachim’s wonder goal there in the FA Cup in 1993 I think, in front of what seemed like half of Leicester. I didn’t get into the ground until well into the first half, as so many were queuing.

Totally agree with this. Watson wasn’t on the pitch long, but long enough to see he looked hungry, committed, fast and seems to have some real quality about him. Everything Mavididi isn’t at the moment.

They are doing their best to.

Just need to wait until 9.10am now for 4 staff to turn up and manually turn a massive key to open the next block.

We can all guess a valuation, but Charlie Methven’s experience and knowledge is worth listening to. As has been mentioned above, his educated guess is a much lower figure and can be heard directly from him speaking on the latest BSLB podcast, which is a fascinating listen.

They always say this, but when better blocks are released, sometimes they are opened with half of the seats already greyed out, like with Notts County sales. Presumably for player’s family, staff etc. These blocks are never going to be sent back to the home side, so I just wonder why it is not possible to open them up initially?

Predictably, only two blocks open initially and the worst ones, stuck in the corner. Sales will be on a go slow for days.

At least our ticket office is getting closer to the standard of league we’re in now. A few more relegations and it should match perfectly. No email or message from the club to say these are going on sale today and I can’t even see it on the LCFC home/ latest news page. I know they hardly communicate anything of importance going on inside the club, but just silently adding games to the ticket section on the first day of sales is baffling.

You’re right! It was as a player he helped them get promotion in 2018/19, joining in the winter window 2019. Became the manager fairly early the next season.

I’d go even further and say even his talking a good game doesn’t sound authentic, especially when things get tough. He has a way of deflecting blame from himself onto the players, but in a way that makes it sound like he’s being sympathetic to them. In terms of just bringing a much needed change of culture to the club, I think he’d be a disaster.

Exactly this. If the club read the room then no way would they even consider him. The problem is they rarely ever do. I know Martin had success in the lower leagues, winning promotion with MK Dons in League 2, but personally I’m sick to death of that style of football. Also, I’m not able to describe why, but everything Martin ever says, his body language and stroking of his beard every 5 seconds, irritate me and give me the creeps in equal measure.