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Close thread, I'm off for a relief tug

The ground will be half empty by January if we're not up there.

Careful with that shortlist, Rudkin can't read as you well know. He'll be up the graveyard with a shovel to sign our new Academy manager.

He really is the Jon Rudkin of city mayors - thinks he's the dog's doodahs, but in reality he's ten years (and then some) past his sell-by date. Nobody else wants anything to do with him, even Labour. And the city will continue to be the sick man of the region for as long as his Juche complex means we miss out on shared investment.

I was going to crack mine open when I retire, but i noticed a small leak in the cap when i got it out after moving and I'm not sure I'm willing to chance it after another 30+ years 😭 It'll probably be fine, but more likely that it gets drank for the 10 year anniversary next summer.

The results of Emperor Soulsby deciding for himself that Leicester wanted no part in a combined East Midlands authority, folks. We will continue to rot while Derby gets the benefits of working with, rather than against, Nottingham being the centre of investment. As for @kenny's claim, that doesn't hold up when the morons in Leicester East gave the Tories their single electoral gain from Labour in the entire country at the last election, and they also lost Leicester South to a single-issue muppet. Make no mistake, the stubbornness of the people in charge here is why we can't have nice things. There's a complete lack of acknowledgement of how things have moved on, and while others are getting with the times we're left with power-hungry nepotists doing nothing of note to benefit the place. It's scarily similar to the football club when you think about it.

I love our current badge. Not least because it flies in the face of the corporate trend to simplification and 'scalability' which has dumbed down oh so many team's crests in recent years. It's actually a minor miracle our owners haven't tried something to bland-ify it.

They're having kittens on the Rangers forum over his impending appointment. https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/new-manager-discussion-thread.297006/page-848

sideways move to be fair

Rudkin is a shocking DoF who should have been sacked at the same time Rodgers was, and has overseen a truly embarrassing on-field decline, while being the one responsible for our disgusting wage and transfer structure. Top is a useless owner running the club into the ground, and failing to take the "tough decisions" required to correct our terminal course to financial and sporting oblivion. Both can be true at once.

Well, it's now * June * Monday * The afternoon We're not hearing anything again are we?

Wilf's profile screams Everton to me. He'd fit Moyes' approach of being asked to mop up and not do much else. Plus, the Toffees love throwing money around at average players, and Wilf has been decidedly average for three years now. I'd have said he'd be first on West Ham's list under any other manager, but I can't see Potter being keen on somebody who can barely manage a five-yard pass without skewing it to the opposition. If Wilf is still ours by January and Graham's got the boot, they'll be in for him.

Cunha to Man Utd is the most 2025 Man Utd signing imaginable. He's going to absolutely implode in that set-up.

I'd honestly rather have Baldrick as DoF right now. His cunning plan surely can't be any worse than Rudkin's.

If you don't laugh, you'll cry. Thanks, I'm crying.

Been screaming it into the void alongside yourself and many others pretty much since the decline post-FA Cup win. Possession isn't a dirty word - possession at the expense of everything else is. Okay, it's a dirty phrase but you get the jist. The best teams (Liverpool and Man City domestically, but there are examples all over the top leagues) play a hybrid style nowadays where they can both hold the ball and then spring a quick break once the opposition presents a gap. I actually think, when we played well, we saw that under Enzo. It's what Vestergaard, for all his shortcomings, was most important for - feeding the channels and putting us on the front foot once the opponent went to sleep from our boring hypnotic sideways passing. Just because we don't have peak Vardy anymore doesn't negate the fact that in Fatawu, Ricky P, Bilal, Mavididi, even Thomas and Justin on their day, we have pace to burn, certainly at second-tier level at least. We shouldn't be blind counter attack merchants, but we have the players to at least make it part of our game. The problem is that we haven't bothered to do so except on rare occasions since the title win. I'm going to pretend Daka doesn't exist, but he was signed to do that too. Which sums up what a joke our scouting has been for the past few years, if we were hell-bent on moving away from relying on raw pace. Of course we'd go for a player who has nothing else in his locker. It's criminal that we've not utilised the team's other strengths properly for the best part of half a decade. Even when we did (West Brom at home springs to mind) we had Rodgers publicly dragging the team for daring to deviate from the slow and steady anti-football. Ultimately, if you can't execute that change of tempo, possession footy is utterly pointless, and you see a steep decline in the quality of play and ultimately the results (Claudio, Puel, Rodgers all saw this, and so did Enzo from February onwards - he was just lucky it took us seven months to get figured out).

I'd rather have Steve's Nan in the dugout. Perfect peacemaker between the stone island crew and coach 1.

Honestly I know it's probably just forum wibble due to the complete lack of communication from the club... but if Ruud really does leave without an NDA and exposes the shitshow we all know is happening behind the scenes, he'll be my second favourite manager ever behind Pearson. On-field performances be damned, a media bombshell from him that brings the regime's face-saving deck of cards tumbling down and helps bring the King Power era to a close would be the best thing to happen to us since the FA Cup.

Don't give Rudkin any ideas

We're a pathetic club. This isn't even the first time we've sat on our hands and left a manager in the dark. Between RVN and Smith, any manager with an ounce of self-respect wouldn't touch us with a 20ft bargepole. Just really damages our prospects, both in terms of getting some certainty in place and in giving the chosen manager the time to begin to communicate with the board and line up transfer targets (embargo notwithstanding).

There's always the might of Blurbejkraften Scheissenspiele. Get on board now and you'll be clued-in just in time to watch them dunk Forest out of the Conference League.

Didn't realise people still use Xitter for serious discussion,

Izzet then Dickov were my first heroes as a kid, though my earliest memories are of Gran banging the tea tray every time 'her little Cottee' scored. In order for me in 'my era' Super Stevie Howard, Waghorn, Nuge, Kingy, Wasilewski, Vardy and Albrighton. Of the current crop left, it's only really Ricky P I could make a case for. Squad's rotten.