Golden Fox

Firstly, I'm not a fan of that noncy pattern on the Leeds shirt. Secondly, there is a big difference between a two colour blue and yellow shirt v's a three colour blue, yellow and white one. And thirdly, I started following the club with the Running Fox, so that was our badge to me, and then as soon as we changed the badge, we had a run of this... I thought we owned disgusting shades of yellow! The designer of our current badge has admitted he took a lot of inspiration from the Leeds badge, which actually makes this the least Leeds kit we've had in 30 years...

I think, if I'm honest, I've been waiting my whole life for this shirt... I was boycotting, but the b******s have gone and broken me with this.

Did I miss an announcement on the sponsor? Does no-one external want to touch us, so we're back with KP (as in that mock-up) or are we going sponsorless to start with again while we look for the best money laundering offer?

I just don't believe this statement. And neither does any club in the top 2 divisions looking for a manager.

Martin O'Neil had been successful where he'd been previously, so, yes we were impatient. (and I was part of that: in the Kop that Sheffield Utd game). This guy is a fraud, and that Championship season, Enzo exposed him completely. The fact the next 2 seasons have seen him sacked and barely registering a win, and him refusing to even admit he has a problem have simply proved our view of him. If ever there was a time for our fanbase to be impatient, its now. We need to do a Rangers who got him out quickly enough to recover from his mess of 3rd bottom to still finishing in the top 3.

Bump!

New CFL starts tomorrow!!! The off-season is bonkers... it looks like teams try to get as many players as they can from anywhere: free agency, the Canadian draft, the International draft, college football, the UFL, off the street, to build a squad of around 100 players... and then have to cut them down to 45 in very little time. (Some player might get 2 days of training camp and then be gone!). The draft is crazy as the best players are the ones most likely to get NFL contracts, so they may be drafted and then just disappear. And of the 74 players drafted, only 30 have actually ended up on active rosters. Pre-season games are a joke, that you can get basically get a team full of players who are gone the next day. Even scoring a hatrick of TDs in a 20-14 win doesn't make you immune (JerJuan Newton)! And then obviously, teams will snap up players released from other teams for even more roster churn. The Argos started the off-season in a deperate mood after a 5-13 season, with Ryan Dinwiddie walking out to go to Ottawa and having a couple of swipes at the organistion along the way, and the team giving up 3 home games for 2026 while the World Cup is at BMO. But on reflection (and the Argos getting a shocking coaching score in player questionnaires), it felt like Dinwiddie's intensity had run its course (feels very similar to Jim Harbough's reign at the 49ers with 3 spectacular years of at lease the NFC Championship game, and then the whole thing falling apart in year 4), and new Head Coach Mike Miller brings a calm, considered voice to lead the team (and in the background, the appointments of Jim Jim Barker and John Hufnagel have added some real gravitas), while the roster has improved. (And actually having Chad Kelly fit is bigger than any big name signing). So they aren't getting much respect from pundits, but there is a quiet confidence there. So I'm excited. Will the Argos end their 1 year Grey Cup drought, or with the Ti-Cats end their 26 year drought??? - I'm ready, and so are all the teams (well 6 of them: 3 teams start with a bye, including the Argos, which is a ridiculous way to start a season!)...

Niners didn't need that in their division.

I've worked for 1 of these companies, and my current company has a project with the owner of another. Both companies are well run: know what they do and do it well. Neither would touch a football club with a bargepole, so a bit of wishful thinking with most of these names.

Clicked on this thread for a laugh and didn't disappoint. We've just had the worst season in our history. Genuinely scarring. And people giving up season tickets and not returning. But a bit of news on Enzo, and the usual lot are climbing over each other to tell us again how bad that season was. This season wasn't boring, but I'd rather never go through it again, thanks!

Only so many ways you can do the 3 stripes until it gets boring... and making it all blue makes it more boring still. This would be such a breath of fresh air. Edited to add, it would be crying out for a white version with blue trim as the away kit.

Cambridge United away please. Oh, wait, that will be in the league...

What is the best way to follow this? I can't find it advertised on any of the channels, so do you have any recommendations for dodgy streams? They really don't help themselves by not making it easily accessible.

The problem with forums like this is that they become echo chambers with people bullying others to agree with them and drowning out alternative views. Those that get don't align to the herd tend to get fed up and drift away to other places. A poll like this is good, as it is a chance to see what people think without them necessarily having to write a post and be hounded for it. And find out there might be a more balanced view across the fan base. But as soon as you get to the comments, it's more of the same: criticising others for having a different opinion. For the record, I'm all 4 out as we need a complete cultural reset, but I don't know how the politics work and who overrules who on what decisions. Top might have been badly advised but still is heavily invested in the vlub, and may still be able to provide the funds. Glover might not be as bad as the record suggests, as maybe he's not been able to do his job properly and our culture can destroy any player's confidence. But I'd like to hear expalantions for other opinions and not just have them shouted down which is becoming more and more frequent on this site.

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As more of the post mortem on the shambles of this season: where we went wrong and what we need to change, it would be good if the muppets in charge of choosing kits could do kits in 3 different colours. The fact we had 2 blue/navy kits this year meant we couldn't actually play Portsmouth in a full kit, and had to look like a shambles with socks that clearly didn't match the kit. Players do actually care about what they wear (probably the most traditional unis in all US sports - the New York Yankees - were in the news this week as the players are speaking out asking them to change it up), so the s**t decisions that are continually made on our kits will have an impact (even a small one) on performances. (No surprise we lost this game!) It should be a simple matter to get the basics right, so it would be nice if anybody at the club was listening, that they could start making changes there...

This feels so different to 2008. I grew up, and knew where Leicester sat in the scheme of things. We'd bounced between the top 2 divisions. We'd never won the big prizes, which was OK, but we'd won the League Cup, and had a 2nd place league finish & those FA Cup finals, and could look in Fossils and Foxes that we'd played in Europe. But I was most proud of never having been outside the top 2 divisions, as very few clubs could say that. And it felt like that Oxford United escape on the last day of the season was one of the biggest days in the club's history to preserve that. Then the good times came, with MON, with the league cups and top 10 finishes and Europe. They were incredible, but still felt like we were in our place: just right at the top end. So 2008 hit really hard. We'd gone outside of our place in the scheme of things, and had lost the big claim to fame that I could point to. I had a feeling of almost guilt that during my support, the club was lower than any time my Dad and his Dad had ever known. But the journey since then... - to win the League for the first time. To see us play in a European Cup Quarter Final. To sit with my 2 sons watching the FA Cup Final on TV and us winning it. Now those were outside of everything we'd ever been and anything I;d dreamt of, but this time, the right way, and it sort of made the shame of playing in the 3rd tier irrelevant! It was like a full circle moment, to have been both worse and better than we'd ever been in such a short space of time. So this time? I'm not upset about playing in the 3rd tier as we've been there and done that and I've made peace with us being at that level. It just feels like another dip on the rollercoaster. There is nothing like that shame. What I am upset about it the stewardship of the club. The lack of financial sense, the clearly disinterested players. The way they treat fans, and just the overall arrogance. (and the real possibility of going out of business). I never dreamt of feeling like this about a relegation, but if it means a wake up call and a chance for a reset and the club rethinking how it operates, and certainly to get those high earners out the door, then it might help me reconnect with the club a bit more. But that feeling of the World ending I had in 2008? - Not this time.

The sad thing is what they said on the Sky commentary, that most of these players won't be here next season. It will be everybody else that has to pick up the pieces.

Been a great season for the Sharks. Just to be in the mix at the end was a massive achievement. (and not sure it would have been a great end to the year to get destroyed in 4 games by the Avs...). Its been a painful rebuild, but Celebrini is phenomenal, and along with a supporting cast has completely reinvigorated the franchise. I'd given up even watching highlights for the last 3 or 4 years, but really back into it the 2nd half of this year. Big offseason coming up though. With such a long tank job and so many skilled forwards as high draft picks, the trick is to know what to cash in and when to get Defence. The Oilers and Maple Leafs have both shown you won't win cups (or playoff rounds) without balance. But I've got the taste for hockey back, so enjoying the playoffs as a (semi nuetral) for the first time in years - the 5 minute recaps on NHL.com are a great way to watch what's happening without too much time investment.

April home game against Swansea while in the bottom 3??? Lets roll it back and go for a 2-0. Andy King can bring himself on to get the 2nd...

I have never supported Leicester City because I like them. I support them becase I'm Leicester born and bred, and my Dad did and his dad did, and he took me when I was 8 years old and its been in my blood ever since. It hurts when we lose. It hurts when we get relegated, and it hurts like hell to see the tailspin the club is in. The easiest way to cope with that is to pretend you don't care. You could feel it on Friday: the sense of detachment and the sense of apathy, and the sad shake of the head in resignation as another shot was spannered over the bar. But... we got one back and the whole place lifted, and (as someone else mentioned) once Vestergaard was thrown on, just like that, the passion was back as we steamrolled forward (only to be crushed by the awful Fatawu corner and awful Winks cross), but it shows that it doesn't take much to switch it back on again. At the end of the day, the most important thing for a football fan is whether your team is winning or not, and if we start winning again, all these things won't feel quite as abhorrent. Living in Cambridge at the moment, and after getting relegated last year, with Cambridge now at the top end of League Two, the place has been buzzing just at the prospect of getting back to where they were last year! Following this club as been a consistent part of my life for over 40 years, and I'm not going to let a spoilt little rich brat, a PE teacher, a current crop of overpaid incompetents and countless self-important jobsworths at the club take that away from me. I don't support the club because of them. So no, I can't think of much that is likeable about us at the moment, but its still my club, and I'll stick with it, and it will come back again. And most people on this site probably do feel that way underneath - otherwise they wouldn't still be coming on here to let other fans know just how much they don't care!

Just found out MLB have stopped their "Free Game of the Day." It was rare that the Giants would come up and coincide with an early game, but was usually good for 4 or 5 games a year amd sometimes more. Enough to keep in touch. Greedy f******s mean I won't be watching any baseball this year. When does the CFL season start?

Never enjoy watching the Giants lose. Never enjoy watching the Yankees win. Never enjoy these games taking place overnight and with no way of watching them. But other than that, a great start to the season!

Stupid article on BBC sport today about Kings Park Rangers (a non-league Suffolk team). Who invited a gamer alsong for a team talk as he'd managed them in Football Manager 26. They highlighted his achievements in the game: Yes, we're so s**t at the moment, we're even stinking out fictional games...

That is quite special: Time for Rudders to bring him home!