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Out rowetted. Again! 🤣🤣🤣 Good night. See you season after next!

Nah, with Coburn off we’ve got no one to hold the ball up and bring others into the game. Ivanovic cannot do that, and we only have Langstaff on the bench as another striker. He presses well but the Championship is one league above where he should really be. Need to press higher in the 2nd half and up the tempo, otherwise we can forget 2nd.

Disappointing half from us. Looks like the dull atmosphere and the lack of Leicester players wanting to score is bringing us down to your level. This is looking like a goalless draw or Leicester will nick it towards the end. I hate Gary Rowett!

Well, this is going well for us at the moment! 🤣 Its the Rowett factor coming back to haunt us, as I knew he would!

You’re right, there is no consequence to either those players or owners who have no affinity to the club or, more importantly, the fans, who are the lifeblood of any club that needs future generations to support it. I’m sure all football fans, whoever they support up and down the country, fume when they see poor to mediocre players (and I’m sure Leicester City fans think they have their fair share of crap playing for them) unable to do the basics (like making a five yard pass successfully to a team mate, or being able to trap and control a ball) yet they can earn millions and be set up for life whilst barely producing the goods on the pitch. Those type of players are extremely lucky they’re not paid on their performance. Just think how much money clubs would save annually if that ever happened? That’s why football needs a salary cap. Sure, you’ll always have your Rooney’s, your Messi’s, your Ronaldo’s - players who’s feet can produce magic on the pitch, but most footballers are average, honest to God pros who just have that little bit more talent that you and I, as fans, don’t have, but that doesn’t mean they should be earning millions each year for producing, what is, essentially, entertainment. We’re not talking about noble professions here, like surgeons, who’s skill lay with their hands and their knowledge that can help save a life, we’re talking about 22 blokes on a pitch kicking a ball and lumps out of each other, all in the name of sport and getting one over on your rivals on a Saturday afternoon. Deep down nothing will change, however. Football, like any other profession, is a free market, and cream will always rise to the top and clubs will pay handsomely to lick that cream up, even if they have to pay through the nose to sup from it in the first place.

Yeah, I get that about the players turning it on being too little, too late, but as a famous pundit once said, “Football’s a funny old game…” So, you never know, Rowett might try to instill some semblance of pride in the 11 he puts out and you might get the sort of performance you saw in the last 20 minutes of last nights Hull game. We shall see. Even if we beat you on Friday we’ll probably mess it up at home to Oxford on the final day! Appreciate the sentiment re promotion but unless Charlton can beat or draw against Ipswich tonight, or Southampton can beat or draw against them next week, it really is in Ipswich’s hands to mess this one up and hand promotion to either us or Southampton. Really hope Leicester City Football Club can bounce back to the Championship at the first time of asking. You’ve achieved promotion from both league 1 and the Championship before, and look where it took you, ten and five years ago: Premier League Champions and FA Cup winners. You just need new owners who know how to run a football club and you’ll be back. Good luck for next season.

Condolences on your relegation. As a Millwall fan I’ve seen enough relegations to leagues 1 and 2 during my lifetime supporting the Lions (over 50 years now) so I know the hurt and anger you must be feeling towards the players and management/the board for failing to play/act both on and off the pitch! If it’s any consolation, I think you’ll beat us on Friday. Your players will now be playing with more freedom and the shackles will be off. Plus, Rowett seems to have the hoodoo over our manager, Alex Neil, as he has never beaten Rowett before in a competitive game of league football. January 1st 2025, Alex Neil’s first game in charge at the Den was against Rowett’s Oxford United. They beat us 1-0. This season, we were 2-1 up, with less than a minute to go, when Oxford (again under Rowett) scored an equaliser. Once again, this Friday, Rowett holds our promotional hopes in his hands. Will he want to spoil the party against his old club? Absolutely he would. He’ll want to get back at all the Millwall fans who sang, “Gary Rowett, your football is S%it!” when we were losing away to Norwich City, and before he finally threw the towel in and left. It’s a guaranteed certainty that, at the very least, Rowett will get Leicester City a hard fought draw on Friday evening.

Millwall fan here in peace. I regularly go on Foxestalk forum (as I do other Championship clubs) but even more so since Rowett became your manager, due to the fact that he was our manager for four years. In that time he managed to steady the ship after our then previous manager, Neil Harris, left us the first time. At the beginning of his tenure with us, Rowett (along with his No. 2, Callum Davidson) started well. He wasn’t afraid to change tactics, formations or players in a game if he felt it was slipping away from him/the team. It wasn’t until after Davidson left to manage St. Johnstone (having been Millwall’s assistant manager for less than 1 season) that the cracks in Rowett’s management began to show. He stopped changing tactics and he stopped changing formations. What he didn’t do was change the players (sound familiar?) As a club, we were seen as being mostly long ball merchants under Harris, although we did have a few players during that time that could play a bit of football. That continued under Rowett and Davidson, until the latter left, and then Rowett went all defensive. The football became dull and dire and it soon became apparent to the Millwall supporters that it had been the wrong man that had left us. That seemed to be borne out when Davidson won the Scottish League Cup and Scottish cup double in his first managerial season at St. Johnstone. Rowett’s philosophy at Millwall was always “safety first,” in that he would set up his teams defensively to not concede, whilst hoping to nick a goal on the counter attack and get a win that way. That worked many times and even though the football was depressingly dull and boring, in his first season with us (2019/2020) we finished a respectable 8th. In his subsequent seasons he had us finishing 11th (2020/2021) 9th (2021/2022) 8th (2022/2023) and 13th (2023/2024). Last game of the 2022/2023 season we were at home to Blackburn Rovers. We led 3-1 at HT and we were guaranteed a play off spot, only for us to capitulate 2nd half and lose to Rovers 4-3. The following season, we lost away to Norwich, 3-1 and it was the first time our supporters started with the “Gary Rowett your football is s#it!” comments. Two months later Rowett had left us by mutual consent. So when he joined Leicester I felt confident that he would help shore up any defensive frailties you might have had, and he would install a good work ethic into your players (as he did at Millwall) that would keep you in the Championship. Rowett was Birmingham manager when they were relegated but seemed to bounce back at Oxford, helping them to survive in their first Championship season and I thought he could work his magic again at Leicester City. Sadly it seems whatever Midas touch he had with us (and to a lesser degree with Oxford 1st season) has deserted him at your club, and he doesn’t seem able to rally the troops to mount a survival challenge. I know that the majority of your troubles have been with the board and the players, but you would have thought that having one relegation on your CV (Birmingham) would be incentive enough for Rowett not to want to add a second to it with Leicester City, which is why I am at a loss as to why he isn’t pulling out all the stops to prevent that. He must realise that if he helps to relegate you, his career as a Championship manager will be over. With two relegations to his name, the only clubs that would likely take a punt on him after Leicester City would be those in League 1 and below. Having said all that, you play us in a couple of weeks time, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Rowett helps you get your 2nd win under him. Rowett’s Oxford beat us 1-0 at the Den, 1st January 2025 (Alex Neil’s first game in charge of us) and this season he managed to secure a last minute 2-2 draw when we thought we had the game sown up, so who knows? A win against us might just keep Leicester City up!