Gamble92

Sums up pretty much how they've acted in the face of every revelation. Even the first relegation, Top's attitude was just 'how dare you criticise me, look what I did for you all.' There's a real stench of that attitude from all of them. No accountability, arrogance and petulance from all of them.

@Babylon?

New thread idea - if you could give anyone on here -12 rep, who would it be and why?

Thought this was going to be a moan about getting rid of it

This is a great point but you also need to factor in the mental impact of starting on -12 compared to -2. Unlikely you'd have the exact same results.

Might be why they have Hume in goal

You can't tell me all these small things don't add up. FBS and BC GAME looking absolutely awful (before we even found out how dodgy they are) on the shirts. Just felt like a tone was set at start of each season.

Why was I certain Albrighton scored in this?

I do love the Foxestalk tradition of a player suddenly getting a wave of complimentary posts when they score after hundreds of pages of abuse. I don't think there's one player that doesn't fall into that category.

It is, but you look at the charge sheet for us and no one can focus on that this time. The club were quite clever last time around with the language in their statement, wanting to create a siege mentality. If anyone falls into the trap of making this about the EFL and not about our owners then they'll just keep getting away with it.

Why is it they become criminal masterminds when it comes to wiggling out of the absolute shit they've put themselves in but no one comes up with anything proactive? They've operated like the mafia for years. The sponsorships, the dodgy deals, Tops coats. It's disgusting.

More to the point why we being charged with two completely avoidable charges like failing to provide a plan and not giving the accounts in time? How can they be that incompetent?

You make a great point about marketing. I don't think we quite realise what an opportunity was there commercially after the Premier League win. But everything about the club was focused on the brand of King Power/Thailand. There was no attempt to maximise the potential. The main issue was still the wage budget though as you say. Rudkins negotiating can be seen a mile off by everyone in the game. Coady getting 70k and many other examples have absolutely crippled us. It wouldn't be so bad if there was any attempt at fixing that in last few years but he's doubled down if anything.

Why don't we do this btw? Instead of having Top do his token debt gesture every 2 years after Rudkins ****ed it all up again.

Might not be a choice between non league and Leicester soon Bilo

We don't though. Punishes us more than anyone.

Imagine actively wanting 12 points taken from a team. They should be doing everything they can to make sure the competition stays on the pitch, yet they're arrogant enough to think they can effectively relegate who they want. Then there's Man City who will just pay off who they want. Not excusing out shit show of an owner, but it's disgusting what PSR is doing.

So typical of the club's statement to be all about their success against the appeal with a quick mention that they've actually failed PSR again in the last paragraph. Even worse than this kind of spin still works with the happy clappers.

I agree, but there's no denying the club have seen this as a perfect opportunity to divert away from the deserved toxic atmosphere they'd have otherwise received this weekend. They already get away with so much because of so many happy clappers. Still annoys me they got some claps last time we got relegated.

I'm sat crying. I am not ready for this. At all.

Obviously I don't begrudge him it in the slightest but I'm surprised the club have agreed for him not to play the last match. Assuming he hasn't waived the £100,000 for that week in return.

Every single decision that's been made post Super League fiasco has been to appease those teams. Not a chance they'd ever do anything like this sadly.

Enzo asked them to get Winks. Was one of his first requests. Hermansen was actually scouted and was then picked by Enzo out the few they recommended to him.

They'll charge Rudkin that just to meet them in a cafe in London. He'd agree to buying the coffees too.

Add hermansen and winks to that from same window. Even someone as abysmal as Rudkin can manage to recruit well for this level with our budget. The issue last couple of windows was wage budget so I'd expect us to have a much higher ceiling this time too. It's not all doom and gloom. Beep beep