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1.) Did I say they should give it up? I just said they're still there. We have a lot of older fans. Look round the King Power. There's a lot in the 50-70 bracket. They're naturally less vocal than say the 20-30 bracket. 2.) We're missing out on a lot of younger fans as they've barely been able to get a ticket in the last decade. The same 24k STHs renew, the same Priority 1, 2 and 3 bands take most of the away allocations. No new blood strangles a fanbase. And do tell, when was the atmosphere good? Seville home? Preston Away?

And yet are still expanding next season

Always find it incredible at awaydays that the same faces from the 90s are still largely there. Bus 1 on Fox Travel is pretty much the same as it was the day that Martin O'Neill rocked up at Filbert Street. It's partly this that keeps us being sitters, keeps us slapping a clapper at home games and means the club could drop to the National League Northern Premier subdivision and people would still say King Power are great owners. We have the same people in the same seats over decades. Even during the League One days it was hard introducing new fans and new blood to the experience because there's a solid block of 500 or so that have never given their tickets up and - as I understand it - have their seats reserved in our allocations because of their loyalty. Until we get a reset from the club itself people will continue being sheep, the clappers will never be taken away, like kids in Primary School that still wear nappies or have dummies that never got toilet trained.

I could understand it if it was cheap enough but it's £11 for a bag of King Power coffee. £120 for a coat. Take the club badge off it and Adidas are selling it for half the money. The prices for a family orientated club are insane but completely in keeping with a business that doesn't like general sales, likes charging for signing sessions and thinks £25 for a piece of plastic that costs 47p to make is reasonable.

The biggest issue I have with the show is too much waffle. The reason I barely watch MOTD now is that Sky's highlights have ZERO analysis. I don't need the same thing replaying 6 times, the same old tired tropes about VAR - when it was that show that demanded we have it and chastised refs every week - and the quippy jokes about the teams the pundits are pretending to support this week. Hopefully it gets a new lease of life when Lineker is put out to pasture.

Awful game Awful kick off time Empty seat-a-rama

They're not making another change this season, it'd affect the financials which are clearly more precarious than anyone's letting on. Totally agree he's the wrong man wrong place wrong time but theyre accepting the disaster will happen with or without him being here.

Incoming..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/ce9n915vgjgt?post=asset%3Acd4037fe-fb1a-4b08-888b-c0c26fc79f47#post

Not sure what sort of a hybrid this can be described as.... the last time I saw this many spare parts being thrown together to make something else, Frankenstein was an up and coming scientist.

A bit like the players who got pelters on here and then actually did well when given a chance? Nacho? Booed on and cheered off in 2020, got us to the cup final almost single handed in 2021 Vestergaard from crap to player of the season to crap again. There's countless more examples over the years but it says where we are as a fanbase that we're excited a young player we sold that's doing badly is worthy of a thread on its own.

Depends where you live but in the 90s it was just us and them for about 5 or 6 years.

We struggled to spend 1.3m in January. It reportedly cost £10m to get rid of Cooper and co, you'd imagine similar money, even half of that to get rid again and then bring new staff in. Break clauses work both ways, if you put one in place that benefits the club the agent will want a similar one allowing him to talk to other clubs. And then fans moan. We're broke and anyone worth a punt on isn't coming here to ruin their reputation in a March relegation scrap with no chance of fresh faces.

Thanks Dave Rennie

Effort's one thing but his scoring record is shocking for a winger. 1 goal in the last year.

Harsh tbf He barely played and when he did Puel was bringing him on as a sub for Matty James. Another one who was decent everywhere but here.

There must be 10 of these topics on the board, one a season for the last decade. Vardy isn't the issue in the team and even if he was our only current solution is Daka and that's like chopping your foot off to solve an ingrowing toenail. The back four look like strangers on a park. The midfield has the creativity of pre-school fingerprint session and our wide players are either too slow or too inhibited by the manager possibly dropping them again. The 38 year old up top may be the only one left on the pitch who actually gives a sh1t . Replacing him with a bloke still living off one good night in Moscow 4 years ago is a terrible idea.

This. 2013/14 they were doing kids for a quid for the low grade matches. That's been abandoned since they started milking fans for every penny. They're even reluctant to go general sale these days and even then you need a booking history. No kid would go near this club right now, they need to start realising what an utter mess they're creating and the toxic atmosphere around any statement or update they give out. They're alienating fans week by week and pricing out future generations. And talking to them about honesty flags and Pukka Pies doesn't cut it.

See Luton for details

Soul destroying. Turning off at HT. There's just no point. May as well play the academy lads and get some experience in them than persist with this cesspit of a team.

I feel like I'd already read that without opening the link. Wholly predictable and depressing at the same time. With every sentence I felt more and more disconnected from the club and by the end was about ready to give up the STH and just listen on the radio. The Trust and the FAB in general are a complete waste of time. The soul of the club is dying and you're there discussing honesty flags and where the Pies are from. FML.

There's a coherent sentence in there somewhere

Bizarre timing. Has it taken him 3 months to notice they're crap?

Doing better it seems

Relegation and the title sewn up by mid Feb. Even Sky will struggle to make the run-in interesting. 3 months of dead rubbers and "the race for 5th"

There's not a single manager would turn down a 15-20 goal striker in that league. It's the wages that would be the issue. BTW for anyone celebrating Ward going, isn't he here till 2026?