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Audi driver here. Get out of the outside lane unless you're overtaking. It's as easy as that. Cheers, thanks, all the best for the season.

Our social media account constantly showcasing the glory days of *checks notes*, Gerry Taggart and Frank Sinclair, tells you everything you need to know about the mentality of our fanbase. Most of us would be much more comfortable with little old Leicester staying in our yo-yo box, with players that are ours for 10 years plus. Ambitious teams require players with elite potential. Players with elite potential aren't going to stick around forever. Same with managers. We'd be lucky to act as a stepping stone in our current state.

Just stuck 2 tonne on this, so you better be right. Nah only joking, appreciate these things need to be taken with some trepidation as you say, and even if the info is spot on, nothing is ever done until it's done. Appreciate the info and at 2/1 it's a decent payday if it comes off.

Not sure HR would be thrilled

A broken clock is right twice a day

Don't feed the pigeons. Don't indulge his itk fantasy.

To be fair to the club, it's difficult to communicate a vision and/or a plan, because there isn't one. Even if they were the best communicators going, what would they tell us? How Top's latest polo match went? An outfit of the day video filmed by Jon at the beach, posted to Tiktok? I hate the lack of communication, but I wouldn't mind it half as much if there was recent evidence of us quietly and efficiently going about our business.

Quite impressive how consistently you offer up odd takes on such a wide variety of topics. Hope for your sake you're on the wind up.

Top's not gonna shag you mate

No, but I like to. I can't control when the comps are and I can't control when the weather turns. I don't expect perfect weather every week but it feels like bad luck when 11 weekends into the season I haven't managed a single calm day. Especially since generally our weather hasn't been too bad.

My golf comps are on Sundays. Sundays are always windy, and cooler. Apparently. Every. Single. Fvcking. Sunday. That calm weather in May? I missed two weekends as I was away. Yet to experience single digit wind in a comp so far this season. Sick of it.

One of the few positives of relegation is it likely improved our chances of keeping this guy. His prospects of playing time went through the roof, and so did the likelihood of him staying. Other positives include that it will have hurt our moronic board, who deserve it.

It's just galling to see our board quick to release a note of platitude but totally absent where communication is actually required. A more cynical person would be inclined to suggest they're happy to align themselves with heartfelt messaging, but won't have anything to do with associating themselves with the reality of our failures. As with anything, nobody values the 'thoughts and prayers' of organisations anyway. Look, it's harmless. Pointless, but harmless. I'd be totally heartless to suggest they shouldn't say anything. But for goodness sake if releasing a statement is that easy for them (and so quickly, by the way), where is their communication with the fanbase?

Rodgers didn't get us to the promised land. Frank did with Brentford. Rodgers did a good job of re-igniting a trajectory that we were already on. At the risk of undermining achievement, Rodgers got a recent Premier League winner to 5th, twice. It's decent, don't get me wrong. But it didn't exceed expectations. Two seasons which would have produced Champions League football without back to back bottle jobs, by the way. With a squad and a wage bill built for Europe. He achieved par for a couple of seasons given our squad, wage bill, and expectations at the time. Thomas Frank has taken a small club into a new league, one they'd never previously competed in, and has consistently had them punching above their weight since, improving all the while. Nigel Pearson did the same for us, in promoting us from League One to the Premier League (over a couple of stints, yes), and then kept us up in our first EPL season in over a decade, and laid the foundations for us to go and win the league. Our fans hold him in the same high regard as I'm sure Brentford do Frank. Brendan Rodgers is, was, and always will be whatever derogatory name our fans want to call him. And that's just his personality. His unprofessional downing of tools led to our relegation to the Championship last time around, and we haven't recovered since. That holds so much more weight than a failed push for the Champions League with a squad that was invested in to the tune of European expectations. The cup is the cup. Great for the fans, great achievement. But if we're honest, we more than rode our luck. Again I don't want to undermine a great achievement, but to put that win down to managerial genius, or a masterclass, would be fanciful at best. Cup wins don't speak to the quality of managers when achieved in isolation. Just ask Ten Hag and Ange what their cup wins did for their prospects. Rodgers got a very good squad playing well, for two half seasons, and ultimately failed. Then he relegated us with pretty much that same squad. In the context of the history of Leicester City and his impact on the trajectory of the football club, Brendan Rodgers wasn't just a failure. He was the failure which sent us into a tailspin that, without starting again from scratch, we aren't going to recover from. I'm as anti our board as the next person, and yes they have a lot to answer for. Nobody made us spend £25m on Oliver Skipp, for example. But we have never recovered from the deviation from our proven business model as demanded by Rodgers. To cripple us financially with those demands and to then relegate us in spite of benefitting from the luxury of keeping hold of most of our key players is totally unforgivable. Especially as a manager of Leicester City. Our managers shouldn't be expected to act as Directors of Football, but we have known for a while now that that is the case. Rodgers oversaw what happened that year, not just as a football manager but as an orchestrator. Reminder if it were needed that Rodgers managed to get a squad with Vardy, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, KDH etc. relegated. Yes we had our issues at the back, but try to imagine any other club getting relegated with that kind of firepower. It's the most expensive squad to be relegated. Ever. But we should be treating Rodgers with the same hero's legacy that Brentford's sole architect for their best ever period will receive? Have a word.

The void has been breached! We have communication from the CEO!! Club statement!!! Oh, it's about a plane crash in India. As you were. Priorities. I know it sounds insensitive, but our ownership will do literally anything but address our current plight.

It pays to remember that the internet is faceless and without barriers to entry. 'Itk' posters have as much chance of being 13 years old as having genuine insight if they don't have a track record.

Are we alone in that? Do other sets of fans have to put up with this lack of transparency and direction? From what I can tell, most owners give some indication of what's going on. I'm just trying to work out how unusual our experience is. Obviously we'd all like our owners to be a shining example of how to manage a football club and a community, but if somebody told me that our experience is not totally uncommon, it might ease my frustration a little. Wouldn't make it right, of course.

Can somebody with more football knowledge than I comment on whether there is precedent for the radio silence we've experienced this season? How normal is it to be relegated and 6 weeks later know the square root of fook all regarding the future of the manager, the ownership's thoughts etc etc? While actions will always speak louder than words, doesn't it seem like common sense that even a token reference to even an ounce of accountability would provide a little reassurance? I'm usually pretty laid back about club correspondence. I never really pay too much attention to manager interviews, for instance. But this radio silence during a time of crisis is irking. Doesn't sit well at all.

Nah. I remember being 15 very well and I wanted to play at as high a level as possible. Often played in men's games at that age. Whenever I went up a level, I loved it. I was thrown into some big games (obviously nothing like professional football, but it's a question of dealing with pressure), and I loved the occasion and the pressure. If you told me I'd be playing for Leicester I'd have been over the moon. No pressure anyway, nobody expects the world of you at that age. The fact we were already relegated before he was given minutes means even more so there was no pressure on the lad at all. The point about having the right people around you is as true of 18 year olds as it is of 15 year olds, if not more so. At least when you're under 18 you're not able to go out getting on the juice!

Nice of Soumare to give us something representative of his time here to remember him by

Lost for words. What a bunch of hilariously thick cvnts we have for a board. Like Manchester United, the clowns running the show deserve everything they get. Even if (and it's a big if), we somehow win promotion, in what world do we prosper under his leadership the following season?

We need to hit a new low for it to really hit home for the sad majority. Bring on League One. The sooner the better.

The worst thing about the whole thing for me is that we appear to operate carefully at all the wrong times. We've consistently breached PSR anyway, so why were we so bothered about spending literally nothing in the first relegation season? You'd understand more if we'd been consistently careful to stay within the rules since. Would have been so easy to stay up that year re-investing a little more of the Schmeichel salary savings and Fofana money. Then the following summer we spunked silly money on Winks, Coady, Fatawu (who tbf was a good signing), etc. Then after spending inflated sums on these players wouldn't give Enzo a penny in January, which very nearly cost us promotion as we ended the window weaker than we started it with Casadei going back. Not to mention the contracts we handed out to the likes of Vestergaard on promotion back to the PL. The way we're operating achieves the worst of both worlds. We're limiting ourselves in the transfer market but also breaching PSR (causing issues with recruitment of managers and players last summer and likely this). Either run a tight ship and stick within the rules, avoiding controversy and deductions. Or 'do a Forest', take the points hit on the chin and build a competitive squad. I'm consistently baffled in life by how thick so many people are. These are senior board members we're talking about. Why can I, a relatively casual fan with zero experience in football see this, and they can't? I'm sure there's more that goes into these decisions than I'm making out, but we seem to be the only club managing to strike quite such an awful balance season on season. It's genuinely at the point that if the objective was to run the club as poorly as possible, I'm struggling to understand what they'd be able to do differently to make it any worse than it already is.

Just really winds me up how often his pass forces the recipient to slow down or even go backwards. It's basic stuff. Thought he was having a shocking game and then had a good shot hit the post before finding the net with his next. I feel bad for being harsh on him. Local lad, tries hard etc. I just don't think he's good enough. Happy to be proven wrong but I'd prefer if he didn't have the chance.

Would be amazed if there were boos today. Certainly not sustained. We've been relegated for ages, and as good as relegated for even longer. The anger has already been processed by many, and with two relegated teams and Vardy's send off, it will have a very end of season feeling about it. Maybe if we're getting pasted 3+ goals to nil it could turn, but otherwise I can't see it.