LCFCJohn

These types of posts piss me off. Whether you go to games is not a measure of how much you care for the club or support the club. There are many factors such as distance, finances and other commitments in life. There is no other supposed entertainment sector area that I can think of, that charges so much when what you are getting is so unguarenteed. The state of the cost of living in this country has put people into a position where they have to make choices and things like paying £100’s to watch this shit, drops off. I have a suspicion that those who make comments judging people who don’t attend as not real supporters, are probably from a generation or two a bit back where progression at work was handed in a plate and large salaries (relative to the time) were easy to obtain, as well as lovely big houses available at a much lower salary/cost ratio. For the younger amongst us, that is not the case. We have to graft so hard to get those opportunities and even (as with myself) at a position I am happy with, and having to able to buy a nice home at 23 with my wife, we still notice the cost of living. And we are above average so I am clued up enough to understand the position others are in. I can only speak for myself. But I went home and away for years as a child into young adult. I missed the MON glory years. I came in at the the end of the Taylor era, administration, relegation, years of what we are seeing now and then L1 (may favourite season even over 2016 for enjoyment). My time with my wife and daughter and money to fund this, are now my priority. I’m not giving my time and hard earned money, to watch completely tools who earn more in a week than most of us do in a year, show once again they don’t give a f*** and take the piss out of those in the stands week in week out. More fool those who do.

In their defend, Reg did mention L1 in a post further up so it was a full house, just not in one post.

I mean Doyle can’t get in Wrexham’s side so I’m not sure he is the answer…

Newports manager announced his own sacking in this post match so you never know https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20kgdje3zlo

Shit post. How many times do you people need to be told it’s not about the league we are in or league position as to why people are pissed off? If we were behaving like a proper football club, like we were when we were actually in League 1, fans would be understanding, as we were when we were in L1.

Haha, so predictable! Thomas, Winks, Faes. Take your pick! Game over anyway. Can see where it’s going. Glad I only had time to catch the first 5 minutes before I have to out anyway.

Can’t agree here. Marti is crap but a few things really; You're giving Aiyawatt/Rudkin too much credit to think he will be sacked anyway. If he is sacked, a new manager is not a magic fix. You may get a couple of results in the immediate term but it will be the same old type of manager and chosen by the incompetent ones above. A manager change doesn’t fix the fundamental problems at this club. Whether it’s Marti or another, all we can really do this season is try and get to 50 points plus what we might need on top to avoid relegation in the event of the deduction. This isn’t a Marti in comment. It is a case of I’d rather hope we just get 3 points any which way, rather than hypothetically hoping for a defeat, to hypothetically want the manager sacking in the faint hope things might improve. All when the goal is just avoiding relegation.

I don’t dislike him. I just get the gut feeling that he won’t really work well elsewhere. But that might be unfair as he do well at Oxford and Northampton before he first went to Sheff Utd (years ago though) and he hasn’t really been elsewhere much since as Sheff Utd come running back so quickly every time they drop him.

Isn’t it 5 loans you can have in the matchday squad? I’d imagine we get a couple of loans in before anyone permanently. Anyone we shift, fees and wages off the books will just go into the black hole of our finances. Daka won’t go. He may sign a pre-contract elsewhere but if not, he will likely stay around until the end of the season. Skipp, far far too much on the amortisation on his contract for anybody to approach us for him. And Vestergaard. He is the managers first pick on the team sheet and has until summer 2027 so he won’t be going anywhere.

Marti was the wrong choice. So would Wilder have been.

It doesn’t. But it gets to a point they will give up. Look at Chansiri. But our fans are too indoctrinated by the regime so we are a long way off that.

He also talked up Nelson a lot. Marti has pretty much proven that what he says is not what he does. I also expect the fans to be on his back as many have written him off based on Tuesday. I agree about the u21’s. But if he is not going to play much for us, a loan to get experience would be the better play.

Based on Nelson’s treatment, I can’t imagine Aluko will be given a chance again in the near future. He will be used as a scapegoat by Cifuentes and fans. It would probably be better to try and get him out on loan in January so he can be playing regularly. Ideally top end of L1 as no doubt we wouldn’t send him to a competitor in this league.

Yeah, if it did happen (it won’t), yo could be that the ground would be an expanded Bramall Lane (central to the city) unless it was a newly built one somewhere. Hillsborough would’ve pulled down.

It feels like this is a certainty and we are just waiting for it to come around so we can move forward. And it doesn’t bother me. The club will still be there and the club is he community, not any owner, manager or player. If you did one of them quadrant matrices for clubs that have got into bother by profile of club and end result, the biggest profile club I can think that has dropped furthest would be Bury. Portsmouth went to L2 and came back. Same for Bolton. I think there has been a few non-league clubs that have ceased to exist (Chester?) but nobody of our profile. Whatever happens, I do not believe we will go out of business or cease existing. We may drop a couple of levels and have to come back with an administration to our name.

It’s Leicester City FC (not the official club one) and there is a post about Marti, Rudkin and KP, who should go. Of course they all want Marti and Rudkin out but Aiyawatt to stay

Just checked and it was 13th August 2010. After we had finished 5th. Obviously it doesn’t happen overnight and yeah of course there’d have been stuff going on in the months beforehand. But league positions fluctuate and the facts are, we got promoted from L1 and finished the season in 5th, before their takeover in August and subsequently removing Nigel and his team. We then went on to finish mid table (10th) in the full season after, brought Nigel back part way through the next season, I can’t remember where we sat when Sven was sacked but we improved to finish 9th. Then play offs again and won the league. It’s a stretch to claim they were not a shambles in the first couple of years before going back to Pearson. And we certainly weren’t in a worse position, unless we recover to finish 5th or higher this season.

You joke. But the criticism Aluko is getting for getting sent off when the reasons the others haven’t been, is because they get beaten before they can get close! Faes, Thomas and VK the same. Vestergaard is usually ambling around looking for his dog in the centre circle as we concede!

We had just finished 5th under Pearson and lost to Cardiff in the playoffs hadn’t we. With a strong back room set up, finances in order and a strong culture around the club. We are absolutely in a much much worse position now, throughout the club, than when they bought us.

It’s not about him being 18 for me anyway. It’s about the consistency of the rules. If you ask yourself, do players week in week out, who commit two similar offences, get sent off consistently, the answer is no. It’s an issue with the consistency of refs. If the rules would state both of those should be yellows, then there should probably be more red cards every week. But some refs try not to ruin the game and show more leniency. It reminds me of the Vardy red card in that West Ham game in 2016 (Jon Moss gate). He absolutely deserved the yellow for the dive and the dissent and you wonder why he did that on a yellow already. What never really got mentioned, was how soft the first booking that day was.

You see grappling like the second yellow not given all the time. I had actually stopped watching the game by then. When I saw the comments on the match thread, I was expecting a really poor challenge where he has hacked his man down, maybe more like the first yellow. My thoughts were more about his experience and being shafted by Fatawu for the first. When I saw it on the highlights, I actually thought it was really soft and you see them go either way. Certainly not a stonewall yellow that would be given all the time.

Ah ok. I had seen it was mentioned it would be shut down by the league and regulator. I hadn’t seen that the owners had denied it. True or backtracking after seeing any backlash?

Yep. You know what, from a business point of view, it probably makes sense. It’s a big city but how many other cities sustain two clubs of that size. Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham. London of course. Most cities (Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle etc) have one, or some with 2 where one is quite a bit smaller such as Bristol and Nottingham (sorry @spacemunky). Sheffield is more unique in not being a powerhouse city like Manchester or Birmingham and Liverpool the clubs are just huge clubs. Maybe one club could put Sheffield (the home city of football) into a more powerful position. But business point of view does not take into account over 150 years of history, from both, the fan bases and rivalries. For that reason, it’s a none starter and shouldn’t be considered.

Not seen a mention of it here but allegedly, Sheffield United’s owners have contacted Sheffield Wednesday administrators, enquiring about purchasing the club, with the view to merging them into one Sheffield club. Gross.

@The Year Of The Fox will have a field day when he sees them