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In unrelated news, I had a 'Sabrina Carpenter IN' plane fly over the Co-Op live when she played there last week. Haven't heard from her yet but I'm pretty sure she's convinced that I'm the man for her.

What will come across as a minority wanting completely rid of KP, is not going to wake anybody up. It'll be disregarded as reactionary, entitled, fickle rubbish. (I know that it isn't that, but that's how it will come across and how it will be reacted to). Instead of caps, can 'Top' be underlined? Or as with your proposal example, the word 'Top' being a different colour to the other words?

This is the level of intellect behind the King Power Out message. What a waste.

Apart from it being completely ineffective as a message, can we talk about the fact that King Power are not going? It isn't happening whether you want that or not. Too much money, too much legacy and sentimentality. We can't control that. Focus on what can change. The personell surrounding the organisation. 'King Power Out' doesn't change things. It's swatted away like an annoying fly. Rotten From TOP to Bottom stings. And leaves the door open to action to address what will be perceived as a bigger majority believing that Top isn't fulfilling his duties competently, in the shape of the staff he surrounds himself with. The buck stops with Top, but the problem is unwavering trust in the inept Jon Rudkin and Susan Whelan.

By that logic it wouldn't have changed to King Power Out in the first place.

Yeah, sorry. Let's not let mob mentality take over here. You lose any momentum and potential respect if you go straight for the jugular. It devalues the whole thing and immediately looks like some lone wolf with some cash to burn. It also doesn't generate meaningful conversation. It creates division. We already have that and look how far that's taken us. There's also a fine line between personal attack and generic tosh. 'LCFC - Rotten From TOP To Bottom' is perfect. ✓ Associates Top with the problem in a way that will cause him personal embarrassment. ✓ Succinctly communicates the grievances with the structure of the senior team at the club, generating more thought and conversation within more casual fans Look, I'm not necessarily against ruffling feathers. But it isn't the most effective route. It would just go down as coming from an entitled and disgruntled minority, and Top would brush it off as such. We need to keep people on side here. Power in numbers.

Yeah this is better

Maybe we need to get a bit clever then. 'Top ambitions. Amateur decisions'. Plausible deniability. Can't remember exactly on the poll but if you edit the topic there should be an option somewhere to add one.

Yep, in. And put Tops face on it if that's possible. No clown hat or make up. Just his face next to the word amateur ought to mean something. Pride, honor and dignity mean a lot in Thailand. Sometimes you have to hit people where it hurts to land a message. Only a tenner each if there's 115 of us. Is it worth a poll to see how many are up for it? Anyone thinking of contributing might be more likely to if they see it's as affordable as a tenner, or less even.

Hasn't really kicked on since Swansea, probably a better shout than Ruud at this point though.

Says it all when your best player is Luke Thomas playing at centre half.

I've not played Football Manager for over 10 years, but I bet this guy doesn't have a single attribute over 12. Beige footballer. What is he good at?

Can be alright when he can be arsed. He's checked out now. Body language perfectly aligned with the performances he's now putting in. Unprofessional doesn't cover it. Remember when we used to recruit based on personality? That was nice.

I do think he should go. The idea of a manager sticking with one formation regardless of opposition or circumstances, to me, wreaks of inexperience and incompetence. He'd rather play Okoli at right back than (heaven forbid), try a different formation. However, it's all a bit immaterial. Would we have won more points under Moyes? Yeah, probably. Would it have been enough to stay up? I'm not so sure. Everton actually have very good centre halves in Tarkowski and Branthwaite, and that can't be understated. You simply can't be competitive with such poor centre halves. It's the spine of your team. The base to build from. We're all the while second guessing ourselves going forward as we're so aware of the weakness behind us. Every time one of our air heads at the back makes another mistake, which is every game, you can just see the rest of the players literally deflate. Must be so demoralising to know that no matter how well you play, it doesn't really matter because we're guaranteed to concede at the other end. It's all for nothing, and it's evident how demotivating that is. Added to this, from an attacking standpoint we've gone from last season's midfield and wingers consisting of: Pereira KDH Fatawu Their replacements? Soumare: Had some good games but ultimately still switches off too often Bilal: Shown promise but still raw. A good signing, but not yet reliable for a return of goals to build a team around Ayew: Defender's dream. Meanwhile, we have Kristiansen and Justin starting every week at full back. Two players Enzo had absolutely no interest in using in the Championship. Added to that, Jamie Vardy, who was rotated in the Championship, is used for 90 minutes every week at a higher level, another year older. It was a Championship squad that limped over the line, and we are significantly weaker now than we were then. RVN does need to go, but we never stood a chance. Heads. Must. Roll.

Speaking as somebody who works in advertising... Only a fraction of people will have the patience to read through a website. Advertising offers mass reach. It's important the message is communicated succinctly and powerfully without being watered down by personal insults. As someone else mentioned, 'Premier Ambitions, Amateur Decisions', is great. The rest, not so much. It's a missed opportunity, but credit is deserved for mobilising the effort and getting organised.

Around the time of that 2021 West Ham game in the run-in for UCL qualification. Maddison broke COVID rules and was left out of the squad and tipped up at a golf club instead. We lost 3-2 in a game we didn't show up for until the last 20 minutes, by which point we were 3-0 down. Signalled the end of us acting as a serious football club. Everything has felt unprofessional since that moment, and it signalled the beginning of the end of our challenge that season. It has only gone downhill from there, felt like that squad and management never recovered mentally from bottling it for the second consecutive year. We just about managed to find another win or two to clinch an FA Cup, but it was clear we were in freefall by then. Meanwhile the state of affairs off the pitch since then, as has been documented at length, has only gotten more stale since. Whether we gave up when the Rodgers love-in died or our owner and his staff somehow grew more stupid, I'm not sure.

And I've used a knackered, old Srixon Soft Feel for my last few rounds of golf, but if someone offered me a tenner for it, I'd gnaw their arm off. We don't need anybody, least of all somebody as devoid of quality as Kasey McAteer.

This just doesn't wash though, does it? Even if we forgive the money spent this year which has placed us close to the PSR line in the first place (we shouldn't), what is the point in avoiding a points deduction for next season? The alternative is relegation and a likely embargo once we're in the Championship. Throw the kitchen sink at it. Ideally not £25m on another Skipp, and while we're at it, can we make it priority areas that need to be addressed? Is that asking too much? Forest took their points deduction and continued to sign good players. Now they're a good bet for Champions League football. If we were to get relegated, at least if we identified key areas, did our due diligence and signed well, we'd go down in a strong position to bounce back up. Now? We could be relying on the same squad (minus El Khannouss, probably), to lead us back up. Utterly, utterly depressing. Just a bunch of total morons running the show and it's infuriating. So difficult to get behind us. I hate everything about what we have become. It has reached the point that I actually want these clowns to fail. The thought of Top parading around the pitch following the game on the final day of the season if we somehow stayed up is nauseating.

A lot of people have said we're run by people who don't care. I disagree. We're run by blithering morons. Who in their right mind turns down £15m combined for Thomas and McAteer? And that's before we consider the context of our PSR troubles. Just when I thought we couldn't be run any worse, this. I'm lost for words. Truly flabbergasted.

When you've lost interest on FIFA so you just keep pressing square...

Don't worry, we still have all our signings to bed in and turn it around for us...

Thought Ruud was the second coming of Christ when he dropped this fvcking liability as his first order of business. What changed?

Please do not dilute the board out message with noise around the manager. The best manager in the world would, at best, paper over the cracks for a temporary period. That's not to say I agree with all of Ruud's decisions, but it's all a bit inconsequential, really, isn't it?

It's at the point that individual matches feel inconsequential. Even seasons. Say we stay up this season. Are we having a great summer and kicking on next? Even the most optimistic fan would be hard pushed for a positive outlook there. There is no hope, no future with this ownership. We are not the club that was once lead by Vichai. Sack the board.

Here's an idea. PSR breaches to lead to senior board members being removed from their post and served bans from operating in similar roles in the sport. Punish incompetence at source and watch clubs fall in line. These things should never influence the competition element of sport. Makes a complete mockery of the product as a spectacle, not to mention fans should not be punished for financial mismanagement (any more than on-field consequences such as having to watch the like of Danny Ward - again, that is.)