Hammo

Soumare has been the living embodiment of this club’s dramatic decline. The only good season we have had since his arrival was the one when he wasn’t here. Maybe the healing starts now that he has gone. Here’s hoping… 🤞

I am sensing that a ‘Russell Martin - NO!!’ thread is imminent...

Any manager who comes in and ditches this unwatchable, predictable sideways and backwards ‘possession for possession’s sake’ s**t in favour of energy, versatility and something to actually get the crowd going gets a nod of approval from me.

Hurrah! Good job we didn’t snatch another last minute equaliser yesterday. You wonder whether that would have given Top and co another excuse not to do the bleedin’ obvious.

I didn’t use my season ticket seat today because I knew exactly what was coming with this wretched manager. As do all the other opposition managers. Which makes us so easy to play against and beat. Even for a team in the relegation zone. He has been useless from day one, improving nothing and no one, just making everything and everyone worse and forcing long-serving fans like me to give up on his appalling brand of deathly dull, anti-entertainment football . The only reason he has survived this long is because those in charge of the club are just as incompetent.

I stayed at home to do the ironing. Sounds like a good call.

I honestly can’t face watching another 45 minutes of that garbage - especially with our one decent player off the pitch.

‘nothing from the manager’ is concisely put. He is utterly clueless when it comes to changing the momentum of a game. I actually can’t quite believe how inept he is at in-game management. An awful awful manager.

What did you honestly expect? Hardly a first offence.

This is a movie we are all far too familiar with. It will never have a different outcome until this pathetic excuse of a manager is gone.

This is what happens when your manager is not up to the job

Luke Thomas - weakling

Terrific first half. Energy, skill, fortitude, collective linkup play. And a lead. For once, though, can we please put in a 90 minute shift? The onus is now on Cifuentes to keep the players fired up and aggressive and not to dwell on the ball given Cov’s press… and of course to make the right substitutions.

Spot on. This always brings to mind the ‘loyal supporter’ who used to sit next to me (mercifully he has now moved seats). After we won the Premier League, he actually - I kid you not - bemoaned the fact we did so when we were struggling the following season because he said the fans had got ‘above themselves’. “I knew this would happen” I frequently heard him mutter disdainfully under his breath. I can only imagine there are many thousands like him (the ‘happy clappers’ for want of a better description) to whom sustained success is anathema because it’s not what they signed up for when they first nailed their colours to the Leicester City mast (rather than supporting a ‘big club’) Somewhat like the Four Yorkshiremen in the famous sketch, they would rather display their holier-than-thou ‘loyalty’ to the club through levels of suffering - even if that means applauding the club into the abyss. I have no time for these people.

The weather argument makes me laugh. Ten years ago we willingly froze our b*****s off repeatedly at this time of the year. The reason I and my son didn’t take up our season ticket seat last night is partly down to it being on a Monday night (we both have a fair way to travel) but mainly because the team is now practically unwatchable under this ownership and manager and we have had enough. And we wanted to show solidarity with fellow fans who feel exactly the same. I think that qualifies as a ‘boycott’.

Can we please have the best of both worlds? A last-minute winner AND a new manager.

Our players are patently unfit. Can’t handle all these games in quick succession. Second to almost everything.

I have watched Leicester City for over 50 years. I have never seen a team in the second tier as consistently gutless, weak, inept, unmotivated and frankly unwatchable as this. Nor one so badly coached and managed at this level. Ten years after the highest of highs this really is the lowest of the low.

Sustained neglect and incompetence inevitably lead to decay. And ultimately ruin.

Dream on…

Park player. Rich park player.

The usual dross. I sincerely wonder if it would be possible for any other manager to make this group of players any worse. Cifuentes is beyond useless.

He was terrible today but we know he is talented - and that, unlike many others, he actually gives a s**t. What he needs is proper coaching to develop and vary his game so that he is less predictable. He is young and impressionable and needs firm and sustained guidance. I’m pretty sure that particular penny hasn’t dropped with this lamentable set-in-his-ways manager, who just asks and expects him to do the same thing every game - even though the opposition managers always double up on him (and the other winger) knowing that our full backs rarely if ever overlap. I blame Cifuentes.

Which has been the case pretty much all season under this incompetent manager.

How low do we have to sink before the board cotton on to the fact that Cifuentes is incompetent and out of his depth? Since he has been at the club not one player has improved whereas several have got worse. I didn’t take up my seat today because I could see this happening. I have zero faith in his ability to motivate or inspire the team, or react positively to adversity. He’s just useless and has to go. Now.