João Miguel da Cunha

Rob Apter is tidy for them along with Campbell on the other side, albeit being a bit raw and inconsistent. Watched the majority of the home games and a small chunk of their away games last season concluding with the Play Off Final. Will comfortably stay up but have their limitations with the two holding players and over reliance on always going wide even if the wingers aren’t firing. Predict a rather limp performance from us with what we’ve seen so far, sigh.

Indifferent bordering on plastic levels of contempt slightly papering over the fact we’re back in the SkyBet so we might pump the odd team on occasion.

How many mentions of ‘this football club’ will he hit on his signing video? Good riddance la.

This is Nicky Maynard for the jilted generation. I don’t have the mental fortitude to endure this episode

Blue Tinted Glasses is cathartic when we lose and they have the Australian lad on. Then the big boys podcast when I’m feeling like an adult, few and far between.

Bye bye Luton! Gary Sweet’ had a mare. Had every chance of staying up in the Prem but tried to Poundland their way to safety… whoops

Nathan Jones, God willing.

One that sticks out the most is QPR away in the Watford redemption season. Direct from a goal kick, Nuge wins the flick, Vardy’ first touch with his chest completely retired Richard Dunne, bang! Like an arrow across goal, straight to the corner flag to have it off with the home fans. We’ll never see us again soak up pressure for him to run off the shoulder and bag, I can’t speak.

That Friday night game against Wrexham in August without him is going to be nigh on interminable. Getting over Fryatt was hard enough. Cba.

Fingers crossed my man. Can’t be having the ‘Norfolk Cafu’ manage us, can we?

Thorup out at Norwich. Wonder what flavour of the month out of work manager goes in..

Going to watch Lowestoft Town take on Leiston tomorrow. -103 GD for Lowestoft and counting… really tough to see how Lowestoft want to progress in the years to come, they’ve fielded a lot of young players through a partnership with the local college which in theory was a neat idea but they haven’t half struggled with the step up.

Reid & Ayew, absolutely, contractually negligible and naive that in 2025 signings like that are being ratified. With Enzo gone and Cooper now unfortunately in place, I’ve watched enough football at the highest level and going down the pyramid to know that Steve Cooper is not going to even attempt to maintain and develop that style of play a level higher. Hence why the players are stuck attempting what they knew under Enzo whilst trying to attempt whatever Cooper did with them in pre-season (look how pre-season) went. The writing was on the wall a million miles away. Enzo somewhat built a relationship because ultimately he won enough games to ensure what we all, expected, there’s that awful word. If some fans didn’t like how Enzo played or found it boring, then guess what, don’t go? You can’t sit and tell me despite how Enzo played, fans ‘expected’ more exciting and attacking football. As supporters we’re not ‘entitled’ to a certain brand of football, you can only hope the people employed to make decisions directly linked to football operations get it right, more often than not. Over time I think you could argue ours have. The owner of a football club mid-season or a director of football isn’t going to come out publicly and say ‘yeah got that wrong sorry’ then now with the power of hindsight, again come out and say ‘we got it wrong again, but even worse x1000’ sorry hehe with regards to RvN. As much as we all want players like Jordan Ayew to run around pretending to care about the badge that he represents, have you watched Jordan Ayew play for the last 13/14 years? I appreciate I’ve probably come at this at an obtuse angle mentioning entitlement and how I perceive certain sections of the fanbase or sections of the media’s vague interpretation of where we currently are as a football club, but not caring is still caring, somewhat, and I get annoyed that what’s going on with us annoys me. Ultimately I’m powerless to make any difference unless just accepting what a poor job is being done, with the hope that they get something right in the next few years. New season starts tomorrow, hopefully.

@Sol thewall Bamba Hi mate, genuine question, when Cooper was appointed, his recruitment, the financial restraints of PSR, potential points deduction, the sale of KDH, the obvious year upon year improvement of even the most ‘average’ of PL sides, what were your expecting, if anything? You can dangle a carrot of having the worst top flight season in the clubs history, fair! Come August not a single person will care, inside or outside the ground about these arbitrary things the media throws out to create headlines and steer narratives this way or that. Football moves on.

I wish I had the intelligence and vernacular to go with you all the way but I flip so easily from annoyance to apathy to revisionism, I’m all over the place when it comes to Leicester. Comparing success to the likes of all the clubs you’ve mentioned above is the problem.