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This is set up perfectly for Blackburn to win, isn’t it? All the big build up for Cov.

Best case scenario (other than staying up obviously) would be going down with Oxford. Sheff Weds, Leicester & West Brom as 3 teams going down are all heavyweights for League One. Would leave absolutely no margin for error in promotion you’d expect (assuming Sheff Weds sort themselves out by then). Possibly the biggest/strongest 3 clubs relegated from the Championship in a single season?

Was the idea of Seagrave not to attract top players? Leicester needed something to set themselves apart from the bigger clubs in the PL as they’re not able to offer the same prestige or financial packages so I assumed the thought process was to offer them the best facilities? You’re right though. The only way in modern football to tackle the Sky 6 is to have a world class high capacity stadium with lots of expensive corporate hospitality.* *Although Tottenham are currently doing a wonderful job of disproving this.

Partly true. We’re not looking to sell as we don’t need to but there are some players that are likely to want to move on and we’re realistic that we can’t pay them what they want to stay. You’re right though. FFP is massively holding us back, not even from enormous spend by the Saudi’s as they have shown no indication they would do that, but just from progressing and keeping up year on year. Same with Villa too. FFP has never been about stopping clubs going bust, there are multiple examples of clubs going bust despite FFP. FFP is only there to preserve the interests of the status quo.

I mean it should’ve been fairly obvious what a rotten apple he was when multiple managers froze him out of the team. The fact he’s currently starting week in week out is criminal.

Is there a single example of a club not being purchased because fans were protesting at the previous ownership?

The decision to appoint a substitute teacher on a deal until the end of term to manage a classroom of unruly children was never going to see many GCSEs achieved. It was clear as day Marti was not a long term answer and they should have had a contingency in place when it was needed. An upcoming young manager from the continent who could inspire the players and get them bought into his methodology. If they absolutely had to go for the caretaker route, you need someone who will command respect like Warnock (who coincidentally walked into Torquay and turned them round).

If ever there was a post to summarise how modern football is in the bin, this is definitely it. Eat a ****ing pukka pie man.

I think the key point here is in a road race Rowett is driving a Ferrari and Bloomfield a Fiat 500, the fact you’re still in a relegation fight tells you Rowett has under performed. This Leicester squad may not have the quality and personality to get promoted, but there is enough talent in that dressing room to be way beyond a relegation battle.

Oxford squad value - £37.65m Leicester squad value - £145.15m If you went on squad cost… Oxford squad cost - £3.91m Leicester squad cost - £186m Or maybe wages… Oxford annual wage bill - £14m Leicester annual wage bill - £42.6m Yet a few loan signings and free transfers in January have made all the difference?

If your lass stopped washing herself, paid tens of thousands of pounds for expensive items you don’t need and can’t resell putting you at risk of bankruptcy/losing your house whilst inviting 11 men round every Saturday to give her a huge seeing to… would you get a divorce?

Depends on relegation. The record sale from League One is what, £10m? Knowing that, the fact he’d probably want to agitate for the move and your financial position… £12m-£15m? Assuming you stay up I’d add an extra c.£5m on that. Transfermarkt (although not a science) has his value at £20m so seems to stack up.

I’d have him at Newcastle as I think he fits exactly what we need… Young, ability to grow/improve, can create a goal out of nothing (something we severely lack), wouldn’t demand huge wages, also likely to be very cheap in comparison to his value if you go down. A bit of an opportunist buy, like Barnes was.

Oxford have 3 wins and 3 draws in their last 7 games, taking 12 points. Only lost to in form Southampton. Leicester have not achieved 12 points in the whole of 2026. Oxford will be the team that stays up imo, unless Pompey pull a rabbit out of a hat. They’ve got Sheff Weds at home, they’ll win that easily. That means they’ll only need to find 4 more points from Watford, Derby, Wrexham and Millwall. They also play Millwall on the final day, who will no doubt be rotating players for the playoffs. Not a chance in current form Leicester get more than 6 points.

Leicester 2-2 Swansea Pompey 2-1 Leicester Leicester 0-3 Hull Leicester 1-3 Millwall - (relegated) Blackburn 1-2 Leicester

Local derby with Notts County to potentially look forward to though… Cannot really make any solid argument as to how you survive from here. Remarkably bad.

They don’t have a game in hand either. Stockport do though, if that factors into anything.

Agree. I just don’t understand what he thought he was possibly trying to do there, braindead.

Don’t understand how there is any debate there, he jumps in with a scissor action, absolutely nowhere near the ball. Could’ve easily broke a leg or did ligaments as a result of that, just a really bewildering challenge. Based on the definition of serious foul play: a tackle or challenge for the ball that uses excessive force or brutality, endangering an opponent's safety Think it describes the challenge perfectly, tbh. Edit - should point out that view is based on modern day football as opposed to what would usually have been given.

Anyway, good luck today lads Cannot see any scenario where this doesn’t result in a win, but, this is football and it’s not played on paper.

Think this fairly well summarises your lack of knowledge on a subject you’re keen to express an opinion about. We’ll end this here, bizarrely, on you proving your own opinion wrong.

You deciding something doesn’t necessarily make it true. Ashley left due to a combination of reasons including: a. The negative impact long term, consistent negative protests had on his own business. b. An acceptable offer. Negative fan reaction also caused a number of decisions during Ashley’s dreadful tenure to be reversed or a change of course, including, as one example, the renaming of St James’ Park. To suggest fan protests had no impact on him leaving Newcastle or Rangers is simply wrong and misinformed. The only way you could get this so wrong is if you expect an owner to leave a club the following day after one protest. It takes significant and consistent protest. Sharing a post I shared in December on here, maybe you’ll want to consider all of these scenarios whilst claiming fan protests do not lead to any change: An empty St James’ Park is the most powerful message this fanbase can send to its owner, the Premier League and the rest of the world. It is the single most authoritative act we can take. Because without fans, there is no Mike Ashley’s Newcastle United. As we enter the next chapter of this dismal era, scrabbling around trying to understand what our purpose is, and what effect we can have, in this perpetual battle against self-destruction – it is vital to know that other fanbases have tried and succeeded in stadium boycotts. It doesn’t have to be taboo… because it’s effective. In recent seasons, it’s difficult to look past seasiders Blackpool when it comes to deliberate and effective vacancy. For a good three seasons, supporters swapped Bloomfield Road for the beach, leaving behind wave upon wave of orange plastic: a palpable vision of a malevolent regime headed by the ultimate donkey: Owen Oyston. The achievements of the ‘Not A Penny More’ (NAPM) campaign, led by the tenacious and unrelenting Blackpool Supporters Trust, were recognised nationwide and ultimately made a difference to the club they loved. Their efforts provide something that the Toon Army should take inspiration from, especially given the positive outcome which eventually arrived at Blackpool. On the 11th of February 2017, only 2046 home fans rocked-up to see Blackpool play out a feeble 0-0 draw with Crawley Town, which represented the Tangerines’ sixth consecutive League Two game without a win. Perennial Football League journeyman Neil Danns was on loan at the time; he whacked a penalty wide in the first half. Little else happened, but that wasn’t the story: the real story was the attendance. Blackpool hadn’t experienced turnouts this low since their dismal days at the foot of the old Division Four in 1990, where barely more than 1000 were turning-up to see them flop to miserable defeats against the likes of Aldershot and Scarborough… two sorry eras which barely differed in their shades of desperate. The club has risen and then fallen spectacularly since then. Recently, the action taken by the Blackpool Supporters Trust was necessary and – alongside their admirable battles in the courtroom against the Oystons – demonstrated the significant impact of organised protest. Notably, the Crawley game was played only seven years after Blackpool’s unlikely Premier League campaign. In 2011, Bloomfield Road was accommodating over 16,000 fans which were – amusingly – hitting decibel levels of 85, apparently the fifth highest in the league that season! But, following their immediate relegation, supporters were soon remonstrating as the Oystons ‘illegitimately stripped’ the club of £26.77million – money dropping into their salary packets and conveniently into other businesses under their control. This despicable behaviour came at the expense of Blackpool rapidly tumbling through the divisions; its identity muddled by a board and fanbase in conflict. Numerous non-attended football matches later and the Oystons are gone, after a court ruled that the club enter receivership on account of the financial misdemeanours. Regardless, the Blackpool Supporters Trust – and their NAPM campaign – established themselves as an example for other supporters to follow – including Newcastle ones. The Tangerines actually ended their 2018-19 campaign on the wrong side of a 3-0 battering at home to Gillingham but, like the Crawley game, the scoreline wasn’t the story: the real story was the quadrupled attendance. 9,571 people – who presumably sat glumly as Gills’ Tom Eaves notched a quick-fire brace to put the visitors 3 up at the break – knew, above all, that they’d got their club back. Now, I know the obvious point to counter this is the disparate club size between Newcastle and Blackpool. But these major protest events aren’t only feasible in the lower leagues. For instance, in March 2014, Serie A superpower Lazio played in front of an empty stadium as fans protested against their president – Claudio Lotito. Bad form. No transfers. A neglecting owner. Banners read “Lazio is ours and we will leave it to our children.” The message was ultimately the same as ours to Ashley, only this one packs a punch. It really hits home. Since then, Lazio have qualified for the Champions League and Lotito has sanctioned impressive signings like Stefan De Vrij, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Ciro Immobile and Joaquin Correa – to name a few. Lotito remains at Lazio and is still unpopular (things flared spectacularly with the bizarre departure of Marcelo Bielsa after four weeks in charge in 2016), but strong and definitive supporter action has made a difference to the immediate fortunes of the club. Elsewhere in Europe, Borussia Dortmund and their famous ‘yellow wall’ protested against Monday night football (no, not you, GNev and Carra) by vacating an entire stand for games against Wolfsburg and Augsburg in February 2018. Well over 20,000 of their noisiest supporters decided to take a stand because they passionately believed in overrulling something that they felt wasn’t right (it doesn’t always have to be ownership issues!) Come the end of the calendar year, the German FA discontinued the Monday night fixtures. Immediate boycott results. Back to Italy (and club ownership), in April of this year, the Fiorentina Supporters Association – which represented several thousand supporters – didn’t appear for 45 minutes of a game against Bologna – making a stand against their owners – luxury shoe magnates Andrea and Diego Della Valle – due to a lack of investment. Impactful, meaningful, notable protest. There are more examples in Europe. The soon to be demolished San Siro has witnessed both Inter and AC fans boycott their respective clubs’ matches. In Spain Valencia fans did the same. All of these are massive and important clubs at the centre of their communities, with unhappy supporters who are entitled – perhaps even duty-bound – to attempt to make a difference. In order to really emphasise the point (that disgruntled football supporters really do speak the same language, wherever they’re from and whoever they support), let’s go even further afield and consider Kerala Blasters, of the Indian Premier League. This well-supported team normally see attendances of 20-30,000 but played in front of a virtually empty stadium in December 2018, after a long run of really poor results. Their fans, the ‘Manjappada’ (Yellow Army) held up banners during a 0-0 draw against Jamshedpur FC reading: “Supporters, Not Customers. We Deserve Better.” Doesn’t that sound familiar? But let’s not forget ourselves: in April 2015, thousands of Newcastle fans took a stand together and avoided the Spurs game. A few months later, we had a new manager with a transfer budget of £80million (author note: choice of manager irrelevant to wider point…) These things work. When football fans make a stand together, they can make a difference. Let’s learn from these examples, Newcastle fans. Let’s be like Lazio. Let’s be like Blackpool. Let’s be like Kerala Blasters. Let’s be like Us.

Just totally wrong. Ashley was booted out of Rangers due to protests and it significantly helped his departure from Newcastle.

Oxford still have a free pass of Sheff Weds to play though. Although admittedly their other fixtures are probably the toughest of the lot, Oxford winning keeps them level on points but with a guaranteed win to come against Wednesday, would be playing catch up with them too.

How would it ever be a red card? The Preston player hasn’t denied a goal scoring opportunity because the referee played the advantage and the goal scoring opportunity was carried out (but missed). It wasn’t serious foul play, it wasn’t a particularly bad challenge, he attempts to get the ball but Daka gets himself in ahead of him and he fails to get it. What rule would ever make that a red card?