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I mean the style of play is ultimately a net gain across the whole season, even if it causes the odd disaster like yesterday.

You should watch some grassroots youth football! It happens all the time there. A kids team having a goal kick is the most dangerous situation there is. He will. It goes with the territory, playing this way. Keepers at the biggest, richest clubs do it every now and again. As long as it's once (twice at most) a season, it'll be a net gain. Especially if he chooses games we win to do it!

Maybe not much better. After 40 games we had 89 points, so this current team is only four points behind with a game in hand.

You just need to look on here - there's no agreement about who's our best striker. We have: Vardy - one of the greatest finishers ever, and who will give everything but who simply doesn't have as much to give as he used to. Iheanacho - capable of moments of genius, and a good finisher, but very inconsistent and not someone you can rely on to put in a shift both pressing and dropping back to link up. Daka - someone you can rely on to put in a shift both pressing and dropping back to link up, but who you can't rely on to put away a chance. Cannon - unproven, looks like he can finish, and works hard, but doesn't appear to have the nous of Vardy or Daka's speed or quickness of thought. I think Maresca's probably right to have concluded that Daka and Vardy are the best two we have.

People who are insanely cash rich generally don't get to be that way (or stay that way) by spending their own money.

I'm sure (ok, not sure exactly, but I think I remember) third from bottom was involved in the playoffs here when they started...

I like the idea of third going straight into the final. But I'd just have fourth and fifth play each other for a place in that final, 6th and 7th should miss out.

This is a fair point. Although looking at football club owners generally, there are worse things than points deductions and transfer embargos (bad though they are). It would be very easy to end up with someone who is an absolute con artist and only wants to milk the club for short-term profit. Or an outright crook. Basically we could get an owner who would be better for our current situation, one who would be worse, or (probably more likely) one who wouldn't really make a lot of difference. The biggest problem is that it's pot luck and we (the fans) have no say whatsoever in who owns the club.

Well, unless you're us, that is!

Way back in the 1990s the playoffs gave me two of the worst (Blackburn, Swindon) and two of the best (Derby, Palace) times I've ever had watching Leicester. They're probably the most fun way to get promoted, and definitely the worst way not to.

Hopefully. But still...

Can an admin change it? If Deb sees that it would be really upsetting.

@FoxesDeb I can hardly even begin to imagine what you and your family must be going through. Even though we've never met, as a parent of a 20 year old son myself your post affected me more than I would have expected; all I can do is send you all the love and sympathy I have - and the certainty that one day the pain will become less unrelenting, although I know it won't feel like that's possible at the moment. So very, unexpressably sorry to hear of your loss. Thinking of you and yours.

That'll be one of the reasons Maresca wanted Casadei then.

It's not the cashiers' fault, or anything to do with their attitude. They have to ask, because money laundering. Obviously it's all a bit pointless, because not many money launderers are going to say 'yeah I'm laundering some drugs money' when asked these questions. But don't blame the cashiers.

Well I'm certainly not going to tell either you or them how to support your club, and I wish more people would just let everyone else get on with supporting however the hell they want to. And it's not too simplistic a view. It's a particular response to a particular point. It's not meant to be an entire philosophy of football supporting.

You say this as if you think it's some kind of insult. If they'd still be there in League 2 and you wouldn't, they're arguably more of a fan than you are.

Goalie is a funny one though. There has to be a backup keeper who hardly ever plays, so someone has to do that job. It's not like all the outfield positions, where there's every chance you you'll come on as a sub, or someone will get injured and miss a few games. Keepers hardly ever get injured and never get subbed, so every club has to have someone who's happy to be second/third choice, possibly for many years.

Of course they do. And why shouldn't they? It's their job. Nobody would expect an accountant, or a teacher, or anyone normal, to move to a job that pays half as much.

Yes, like all the other clubs do!

I get what you're saying, but I will be beyond amazed if Maresca suddenly abandons everything he believes in and starts lumping it forward to a big man up front.

We're not talking about a handball, we're talking about a trip. The laws clearly say that if a player trips another player by being 'careless' (among other things like reckless, but Doyle's would clearly come under careless), it's a foul. No mention of it having to be deliberate. Handball is a different kettle of fish, and even more crap. Handball used to have to be deliberate and everyone knew how it worked. Now there's all the nonsense about making your body larger and nobody really has a clue. They should just go back to deliberate or not.

Or maybe they both got docked a point for every £10m or part of they were in breach, and Everton got an extra four points docked for providing incorrect information.

Best way to be, to be honest.

I don't find it depressing tbh. No, it will never get better than 2016. But it can't. Nothing in the history of football has been better than the season we had then. Probably nothing ever will. I'm just happy beyond measure that it happened - and it happened to us!