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There are only 3 televised games this week. Clubs DO NOT have the rights to show the games on their club channels, so there will no coverage or available streams of any games other than the 3 below: Tonight Fulham v Spurs Salford V Leeds Tomorrow night Doncaster v Everton

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This performance shows that despite good coaching in a structured system if you don’t have the calibre of player to play that way it can break down pretty quickly. We are lucky that the Championship is so forgiving with the amount of easy chances we give the opposition

What a goal by Ramsey. So unnecessary KDH didn’t even need to make a pass.

I’d play Conrad Logan all day over Ward.

Tell us more Ric because…

Fab has confirmed it 😀

My feelings about the Cov game. https://youtu.be/ebZv590mBTw

Rudkin is the bogeyman. Every horror story needs one.

Promotion in one season may be fanciful with a squad, still full of players that showed little appetite for the fight last season. I believe in Enzo but he’s not a miracle worker.

Balanced synopsis. It is a collective responsibility for our relegation, it is not just one individual. There have been a number of glaring mistakes over the last couple of seasons and as DOF, Rudkin must take his fair share of the criticism and accountability. My personal view is he should be at Seagrave focused solely on getting the signings we need over the line and, offloading players we don't want, for the new season. What we don't know is Top may have insisted he joins the tour in the Far East. Rudkin cannot refuse despite the poor optics.

It feels like we've ground to a halt in finding exits for some of our deadweights and wantaways. There could be a firesale in transfer deadline week or possibly worse, players not wanted sulking and stinking the place out for another season. Arsenal / Arteta took the decision in 2021 to jettison Ozil and other deadweights - at a cost. The club should be brave and give Enzo the same consideration.

Farcical, Maresca must be pulling his hair out.

I know a number of Everton fans and they are all saying the same thing. I am told he is good leader which is something hugely lacking in the current squad.

He’s talking about Brendan Rodgers right?

While still struggling to come to terms with relegation and how the hierarchy have royally fcked our recruitment in the last two seasons. I want to get excited seeing some young and up and coming talent giving their all for the shirt next season. They cannot mess it up three seasons in a row.

Balanced post. Jon Rudkin is a classic administrator. Administrators support the smooth running of an organisation. The difference between a Director of Football and a Football administrator is the Director is the one making the decisions and creating the vision that supports the owner and manager. I don't believe Rudkin ever had the skills of DOF, his role has always been doing what he has been told to do. I concede he deserves credit for his 'administrative' work in getting LCFC Cat 1 Academy status. I know first hand this was hugely appreciated by Vichai, but Vichai trusted Rudkin as his administrator, his gofer. Vichai was the decision-maker and visionary force behind much of Leicester's success, he just pointed Rudkin in whatever direction he wanted when he needed dirty work doing. We will probably never learn the truth of what decisions were being made behind closed doors these past 18 months, but my inclination is Rodgers was given too much power and was both a defacto football manager and DOF. We had an absent owner, who understandably needed to focus on getting the King Power business back on its feet after COVID. Top's failure however was probably to trust, without question, Rodgers and the LCFC Executive Team. When the chickens came home to roost at the start of the season on FFP and the parlous state of the club finances, we all saw how Rodgers reacted with his unprofessional comments that appear, on the face of it, went unchallenged. Rudkin and Whelan failed miserably to act, as did Top. Vichai would never imo given Rodgers so much power or allowed him to get away with saying the things he said. Rudkin as DOF is ultimately accountable and responsible for this mess, but unfortunately, he remains a trusted administrator to King Power and Top, and is likely to lead the review of what went wrong. I can't see him critically marking his own homework, can you?

It’s time to ask the questions of who signed off the contracts on Rodgers abysmal signings. It easy to blame Rodgers but where was the due diligence at the senior level in the club. Heads must roll. Is it too much to expect Rudkin to fall on his sword?

This. Somehow Leicester have managed to make me feel even more depressed about the team and club and we’re not even playing!

This is on the money. So far attention has been focussed on Rodgers rightly so but this Board has fallen asleep at the wheel and caused a 50 car pile up.

It’s a horrific feeling of numbness, of feeling everything and nothing at the same time. I think the anger and bitterness will kick in though at the plight the club has put itself and us the fans in. The anger will rise because it was staring us in the face for 18 months.

Pay the fine, just like Reims do. But you’re probably right, I am sure the Premier League are more stricter on this sort of thing.

Will Still