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This needs sharing everywhere. Finally puts it all into context for people who aren't as invested in it as us lot here.

I mean we have Scooby Doo and Shaggy at centre back, he's got a plentiful supply if he wants it

I'll never be mastered by those FoxesTalk bastards!

I hate this club

Give it 3-4 years and 'we used to play at the Withdean' will be Brighton's 'we used to be in League One'

It's the little things that just speak to a complete lack of imagination on the corporate side. Case in point, while I like Kasabian and appreciate they are Leicester 'through and through', they've taken the relationship to the point of overkill, presumably based on some half-baked assumption that they're all we want to hear. Club Foot before kickoff is fine. We don't need Serge's poem. And I recently realised they've replaced 'The Boys Are Back In Town' with 'God Bless This Acid House' when the warm-up starts. Why? It's like that one relative who vaguely knows you're into something, so buys you absolute shite themed around it for Christmas for the rest of your life. I guess it's still preferable to that awful trumpet pop they forced on us, but still. EDIT - Oh, and I definitely heard them (very quietly) playing LSF over the speakers after the Palace defeat. Read the room!

Yeah we ain't seeing eye to eye on this one lads, think I need a day off FoxesTalk 'cos I'm already wound up from the state of the club without arguing over semantics.

Just like Forest, we live in the past

fair point I guess the point i was trying to make is that if we want the atmosphere to be its best, we'd be better to stick to songs that might just get fence-sitters on board. And if I'm having second-thoughts about certain ones as one of the people who regularly looks like a twat singing when everyone around me can't be arsed, maybe those ones aren't the right ones to choose. Sidepoint, but the rich tea brigade were more than happy to join in when Ruud made that pathetic double-sub on Saturday! Maybe that's the answer

Literally anything else Vichai Had a dream, Ring Of Fire, C'mon Leicester Boys, LCFC The Boys In Blue, When You're Smiling, even just Blue Army, or a bit of Leicester, Leicester, Leicester. We have so many songs, even about Forest (I mentioned 2 in my last comment). But sorry, I'm not joining in with the one that somehow suggests we're not being absolutely humbled by our local rivals right now.

They're going to build a giant, spread-eagled Danny Ward to welcome you to the new stand when it's finally built. Apparently it will make access easier, just pass right through his legs or fingertips to get to the concourse.

He's alright. No Mads, but he's a fine deputy. Kept us in games during his run in the team, which is all you can ask with a defence about as useful as the Maginot Line in front of him. Think he should be the number 1 if we go down, because we'll 100% lose Hermansen in that scenario. Unless Rudkin really has it in for us, we should now have seen the last of Ward as his pisstake of a contract expires in June. Promote another one from the youth, have Iversen as backup. Don't waste any money on another keeper, he'll be absolutely fine at Championship level and our squad has way, waaaay bigger issues that need addressing.

Fair enough, I can see I seem to be in the minority of hating blue flag at this point in time. Carry on by all means, I'll keep my mouth shut until the chant after it because it's just embarrasing. Unlike some others here, I'm happy to call Rudkin a C-Nut though. Issue is, I can't be the only one that thinks it's a ridiculous one to sing when we're in the position we're in - if I don't want to sing it as someone who actually bothers to contribute to the atmosphere even when those around me can't be bothered, you're really going to struggle to get fence-sitters up for it. It'd be wise to use that energy for something that's going to get more buy-in, because it snowballs and you'll have fence-sitters joining in when they hear it around them.

I think everyone can see the irony in the "greatest team" chant, like you said everybody sings it up and down the country, regardless of history or their place in the pyramid - but nobody is singing blue flag ironically. They sing it because we hate Forest, not out of some weird form of self-deprecation. They probably haven't taken even a second to think about what they're singing. And the reality is, some people are thick as pig shit and haven't looked at the table, or recent results. Sing that "we hate Nottingham", fine, sing "build a bonfire", fine, but don't persist with the direct comparison while we're in this embarrassing position. I get new wrinkles from cringing every time I hear it. Unless by some miracle we win at the City Ground in the spring, we shouldn't be hearing it again for a while.

Something I meant to mention a while back but which has been getting on my nerves more and more - who on earth is still singing "Blue Flag Flying High?" You're idiots. Look at the table. We've been "mastered" for at least two years at this point, and were humbled on our own turf earlier in the season. Right now it couldn't be less self-aware. Embarrasing hearing it sung by anyone right now. At the very least suck it up and change Forest to Derby until the day we're above them in the pyramid again.

Derby away olé olé Preston away olé olé Oxford away (olé) Millwall away (olé) Swansea away olé olé

Rate it's going, they might be wise to ask us

just in time for a new manager bounce against us

We could do it today and Rudkin would still fail to get anything over the line before deadline day. It took us 16 days to sign Coulibaly and even then the moron lost his paperwork down the back of the sofa and he couldn't feature yesterday. That boat has sailed, I'll be amazed if Ruud's able to get anyone in, let alone an incoming manager.

It was pinned yesterday evening, wonder why it isn't anymore...

The more I look at our current situation, the more I can't help but draw parallels with the parlous situation our club faced in 2003-2004. I was slightly too young to fully understand it at the time, but from my memories and what I've learned since, this is what I now know: From 2001 - 2004: We signed a manager who was highly rated, and started out well, but who quickly turned out to be an absolute charlatan who filled the squad with talentless mercenaries on big wages We went down, something that would have been unthinkable even a year before We ended up in a financial mire (administration, transfer embargo) We struck gold with a manager who had a clear plan and got us back up at the first time of asking (Adams, albeit via having been Bassett's assistant) We came back up but ultimately with a weaker squad than the one that went down, and with many of the same personnel issues we had before We were relegated without much of a fight From there, a depleted squad spiralled further out of control and ultimately ended up sinking to its lowest ever position in League One within 3 seasons. From 2019-2024: We signed a manager who was highly rated, and started out well, but who quickly turned out to be an absolute charlatan who filled the squad with talentless mercenaries on big wages We went down, something that would have been unthinkable even a year before We ended up in a financial mire (PSR / threats of point deductions and transfer embargos) We struck gold with a manager who had a clear plan and got us back up at the first time of asking (Maresca) We came back up but ultimately with a weaker squad than the one that went down, and with many of the same personnel issues we had before There are a few key differences. First up, the financial situation was obviously way worse in 2003. I'm not going to gloss over the mountain Mickey Adams had to climb to get that team back up at the first time of asking - something that Enzo, as deflated as we all were, had a far easier job doing, especially as he was able to sign the players he wanted. Secondly, there was no goodwill from any sizeable section of the fanbase towards the ownership, that helped gloss over the obvious shortcomings in the boardroom. The Gang Of Four was still fresh in the memory and there was valid anger that the club had been reduced to charity to stay afloat. Rightly or wrongly (and here on FT at least, we know it's wrongly), there are still a frustrating number of "casual fans" who think King Power can do no wrong, and who are blind to the chronic mismanagement and, frankly, dumb luck in the courtroom that has kept our heads above water. Lastly, Mickey Adams retained the goodwill of the crowd - again I was young at the time and may just not have realised, but I don't have any recollection of any huge demand to see him gone. We acknowledged the poisoned chalice he'd been given and knew he'd over-acheived already in the circumstances with a team not cut-out for the top flight. Here, we've had no stability and made an absolutely honking first appointment after Enzo left, which has actively harmed our survival bid with an already crap squad. Oh, and a fairly pertinent one right now... There was no Director Of Football role responsible for the recruitment side of both players and managers. We wouldn't get our first new-fangled playing-side dictator until 2011. But beyond that, am I wrong that this season may as well be a carbon copy of where we found ourselves 20 years ago? The parallels are there for all to see. The financial mismanagement, the decimation of a talented squad, the immediate return providing a false sense of security, but ultimately a poor-quality team incapable of competeing again in the top flight? One thing's for certain - the morons who use "we were in League One once" as a reason to excuse the omnishambles of the past few years will be delighted to know that all signs currently point to us being right back there by the end of this decade. Discuss!

Probably thinks we've been singing 'Rudkin and Khun Top, lé Olé'

You certainly make a better point than the other poster going against the grain - there certainly should be an acknowledgement amongst all of us that this is two years too late. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it though - if anything it makes it more necessary, because the tone-deaf higher-ups clearly underestimate the level of unrest in the fanbase after how 'nicely' we handled the last relegation.

He'd still done more in two seasons before then in the top flight than Skipp ever has to warrant the obscene price tag. Had the gonads to help drag us through the Great Escape for starters, something I can't see Mr. Skipp ever doing. Seriously? What has this man ever done to warrant £20 Million +, besides happening to be part of a Greedy Six squad? Again, should clarify it's not Skipp's fault - it's the combined fault of Cooper, his scouting team, and most of all Rudkin for spaffing money we're in very short supply of on someone who I'd struggle to even call average.

Anyone got some paint, posts and stakes? Could bang a banner up outside the training ground entrance in the middle of the night.