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Great play, been all over them since the second goal. Cain's being helped by Brighton apparently not playing full backs today. Another goal and we won't be the lowest scorers in the division.

Apart from a few pundits talking them up like a fallen Real Madrid who think the City Ground has been a packed cauldron of noise for 25 years, they're getting the same level of patronisation we had with the "organised" and "hard to beat" tags that we earned under ONeill. Whilst both things are true, Arsenal would love to have Elanga and Hudson Odoi and Wood in their front line. Such a shame we didn't get NES here.

In a division where all but two teams sat back against us and took 30 games to work out how to not get beat by 3 or 4. The boring games were just trying to find a way through two banks of 5 where there was virtually no jeopardy. Would have been good to see how that style worked for us in this league where there would have been more risks. At least the players had bought into it. They've accepted nothing that Cooper or RvN have tried to do.

Ipswich away, January 1st 1995. Didn't get out of minus figures all game, pitch like a rink, lost 4-1 early McGhee relegation season. Barely a song out of our hungover support. Went there by bus, could easily have used Huskies and a sled packed with supplies.

Probably the same as the topics on this forum This squad is a disgusting mess When did you realise we had bad owners? Would you have Enzo back?

People moaning about Enzoball after this season are very strange. Boring? Sometimes. Predicatable? In the end? But look at some of the goals we weaved together last season. I'd have the beautiful bald bsatrad back in a heartbeat.

Where half the games this season have been on TV anyway and weekend trips to Plymouth and Pompey get moved to Friday nights for a laugh.

Yes for the social aspect more than anything. Although having left before United even finished celebrating their 3rd the other night, I'm no longer committed to staying till the bitter end. I was happy to stop there for the sake of just wanting to boo these utter mercenaries but it makes no difference other than to get me wound up by their attitude.

They would have been accepted the same as Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater, Maguire and the rest. Everyone knew our policy, we were all comfortable with selling players who had done their best for us for massively inflated fees to idiot top 6 clubs with no scouting network. We may not have made as much from those two in particular but it would have been better than giving Youri away for nothing. It was that shit or bust policy that led to us being unable to spend for three windows running and that led to relegation. We went down because of that change in recruitment policy made by the people at the top. Maybe Top got greedy, maybe Rudkin made a bad call, maybe Rodgers convinced them he could get Europe if we didn't sell, maybe collectively they all just decided it was worth the gamble. But whatever happened, the people running the club made poor decisions that led to relegation.

Pretty much where I am. If Rudkin and/or Whelan are replaced in the summer, there's no reason to lose King Power at all. Certainly don't agree with all their decisions or the creepy on-pitch family circus at the end of every season but a plane banner would be better aimed at the board and Rudkin rather than the family. Odd call to change it after the donations started too.

Then you re-invest like we used to do. Sell one big name, buy 3 more. The lack of investment came about because they decided on a shit or bust strategy. I'm pretty sure Top even mentioned this in either programme notes or wome sort of press release. Since the initial overspend under Sven KP have never bankrolled player transfers at this club. Our net spend since the Pearson promotion has been very low. By not selling Tielemans or even Maddison in 2021/22 and extending the deals of squad players we buggered up our next two or three windows and made relegation come true. Recruitment, strategy and player retention all massively screwed up soon after Vichai's death and Top being handed the reins.

If I throw in some huge benefit of my huge doubts, Vichai had a plan, if not a dream. Get up, stay up, stabilise then build. Seagrave was part one of that and I think had the crash not interrupted everything we'd have had an extension too. Managerially, they've been all over the shop. Sacking Pearson, Sousa, Sven, pissing cash up the wall for him. Even the Shakey/Puel switcheroo was badly handled. And the last two years have been aimless. I credit their investment but they haven't put their own money into transfers, our net spend when you balance each the big sales is pretty low.

It's just a breakaway from the original messages on the van, there's no continuity and it doesn't target or implicate the right person. Given how many have disagreed with the message I'm not so sure it's the most popular option either. King Power themselves aren't making the day to day decisions that have led us here. Big opportunity to target the board is being missed.

Silence throughout the match tbf. KP aren't blameless but we're highlighting the state of the club. Turning it on KP specifically let's the directors off the hook.

Not as keen on the King Power out message, it strays from the point and isn't as catchy. Premier Ambitions, Amateur Decisions was more punchy and about how we've fallen. King Power out completely eliminates Rudkin’s culpability and won't bring people onside. Shame if it goes that way.

Title day. Of everything the squad achieved that season, the records, the goals, the individual stories.....the chairman put himself on the cover of the programme. Every achievement since with the final day parades of 100s of Thai hangers on just leaves a circus feel around the place.

Totally undecided. The only reason is the social aspect because the mate I sit with is the only time we actually see each other. I can cope with not seeing these mercenaries every other week but we haven't decided whether we just go game by game. The digital aspect is also a huge thing because the tickets are under his name and I don't actually exist as far as the club is concerned.

And to think Nuno was available when we were struggling under Rodgers. Plays boring defensive football apparently 😑

Does that apply to Coady too? Getting dropped for Wout Faes would get anyone pushing for a move 🤣 Seriously though, Bilal needs to start showing some form. Young player perhaps but his talent isn't being backed up by numbers in the last few weeks.

Brentford have done well out of them. Maybe they just scouted better Danes?

. Every single club is two bad transfer windows from relegation. We proved that two seasons ago. Look at United's plummet. Without the current gap between the Prem and Championship their demise could be far worse.

No. We only have to wait a short while and Rudkin's failings will see the club needing to phoenix itself from the Ryman League anyway.

TBF most of the issues covered here are in the other topics and most of the individual player threads. A lot of them are still here owing simply to the fact we pay them too much. You mention we turned down bids for Iversen but three clubs all pulled out of deals because they couldn't meet his terms - ie 50k a week. Same with Ward who even told his international manager he was prepared to gamble his squad place because of "his situation". Our horrendous wage bill is a big reason we'll continue to either breach PSR or walk the tightrope every season. And as others have mentioned, this collection or overpaid rejects and mercenaries was assembled by one man, not just just assembled in some cases actually re-signed.

I cannot imagine why anyone would want checks coming back at away games. That seems to go against most things you see on forums and socials where people felt targeted by it and the stewards doing the checks were on a power trip. Every time I see feedback from these meetings I'm convinced this club has lost its soul. It's becoming more and more difficult to just be a match-going fan.

Again, you've (both) missed my point entirely. I'm not expecting people to stop going at a certain age just simply that our demographics are older than other fanbases, certainly in the away support. It's not difficult to look at the people around you and judge how old they roughly are, and whether the majority are in a certain age bracket. It's not a Yougov poll, it's an opinion you form from using your eyes. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm mid forties and have been going to aways for near on 30 years. Over the years, mainly through family priorities and work, I have gone to less and less away days, if you look around the country I think you'd generally find more away crowds being younger because the younger age brackets have less commitments, more free time, don't have health worries in a lot of cases. It's not a strange concept.