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International breaks were already infuriating but Abdul getting injured in a jungle clearing for yet another pointless international fixture is beyond a joke

I think he means Geoff Peters. Loves to go with the minority our Geoff.

This thread and the stadium atmosphere thread and others about fan engagement and disinterest are all interwoven. It's not just a Leicester thing, the game as a whole is fading. UK football especially has jumped the shark. Too much, too expensive, not a working class sport anymore, people just don't feel like the game belongs to them like it used to for so many decades. People don't want fireworks, funfairs, light shows and the rest. Every stadium now is doing the same thing and apart from one or two outliers they're all sterile. Our club ticks all those boxes. I still look forward to match days as it's the only time I see one of my best mates but we don't even try to get away tickets anymore. The expense and hassle combined with all of the elements above mean it's just not worth the effort.

Reminds me of final-season-couldnt-be-less-arsed Mahrez

He's been fine with Okoli, had some decent performances at home. He looks nervous next to Vestergaard because he knows he's the only cover.

He'd be better suited as a wing back because he likes getting forward but we haven't used that sort of formation in yonks. Him and Justin have been exposed all season. Desperately need at least one experienced full back in Jan.

Against "10 man relegation favourites" Ipswich. One effective sub appearance doesn't cover up him being utterly gash for 3 years.

Definition of a confidence player. If he doesn't score or doesnt pull off a trick his head drops. After that Leeds miss last season he vanished for a month. But dropping him has never helped. Enzo admitted that last season, brought him back after a couple of games and then admitted it was a mistake. United away isn't a place to play your way back into form.

They're the worst United side since the one that got relegated in the 70s. No leaders, no ideas, no identity. So they'll obviously win 3-1.

New Years Day 95. Sub Zero temperatures - first ever away game - got smashed 4-1 - pretty much confirmed relegation 5 months early. Never been as cold in a stadium. Genuinely have no idea how this will go, expecting another pummeling of shots on goal.

I'm never sure why some managers are considered risky. You only have to look at Brighton with the risky selections of Potter, De Zerbi and now the Prem's youngest ever manager in Fabien Hurzler to see how far risk can take you. Time and again "proven" managers don't make it at the top level. Wenger was risky for Arsenal.

Because if they simply don't play ANY matches they're more likely to get their agent to sort a move or accept wages drops elsewhere. Giving them 3 or 4 games a season where they're completely unmotivated to even try just keeps them here reeking of mediocrity. I'd rather see a tonking where a few kids make their debut or make an impression than see any more of Ward, Soumare or Reid. Boils my piss that the likes of Braybrooke go on loan and Alves rots a year of his career away when these frauds are pulling on a shirt.

There will be people working at the club who aren't even aware that he played here. The - required - disinterest that the middle management have for the playing side has reached new levels. It's a business that sometimes has football matches played in it's back garden.

I think as well the 90 minutes of chanting isn't relevant when it's just general singing. We sit a couple of blocks away and honestly half the time I couldn't tell if we were winning or losing. The songs are the same. It needs to be more reactive to what's going on on the pitch. The only time there's any "C'mon Leicester" or just "Leicester, Leicester" it comes from Sk3 or 4. Not sure we've ever had the whole ground involved even Filbert St the mains stand and orange seats were dead but we can do more to get an end back again. All the stuff about moving Sk to the family stand is for the birds, the club don't want that.

Because they're two sets of fans that hate each other and spent 14 consecutive seasons in the same division with the same core of support that built up sitting in and around each other having banter and taking the piss out of themselves. We had that to a point in about 2014, then the Great Escape and title season buzz in the crowd was special. It's gone. I don't want to have to reset or spend a few years out of the top flight but I don't know how else we re-ignite the fan base. I hear the conversations from people around us and on the concourse, people turning up for a handful of games or lending their tickets to family just so they can retain their places. Woman behind us for Everton didn't even know who Mavididi was, thought he was "that lad from the reserves". Turns out she hadn't been down since Puel was here and didn't realise Albrighton had left either. I'm not going to go OTT on UFS because they're doing as much as they can but unless the whole of SK1 and 2 goes back to standing, unless we mix the songs up a bit (it's got to be more reactive than just a drumbeat for 90 mins and Leicester Boys Are We starting EVERY game) and unless we get some youth in the stands (our average fan age must be 50+) it's just going to die a slow death.

Slowly coming to the opinion that it might be for the best. The club is drifting, just sleepwalking through seasons. The finances getting out of hand, the lack of fan engagement, the delays in redeveloping the East Stand, the people in place in middle management being out of their depth or inexperienced at this level, the absolutely stale atmosphere round the place...all points to one thing. Change is needed. But honestly, the last people that are going to ask for it are the people in love with King Power FC. Top - or the KP paymasters - will need to make the call himself.

It's stagnant. That's the only word for it. That post about least engaged fans had it right. The same 24000 season ticket holders for the last 10-12 years. No new injection of younger fans post-title win, no progression through the ranks. The same turgid matchday routine for what seems like a decade now. Funfairs outside, library inside. 100 guys in the corner, slow-paced pounding drumbeat drowning out some mumbled words about ole ole, we won stuff, yeah? In the block next to them some old ladies with blankets on legs half-heartedly clap along to what - for all they know - could be a song about the joys of Islamic Fundamentalism. Even from the relegation season this is just major drop-off. The atmosphere sums up the club - sleepwalking and I honestly have no idea bout how it changes without a 2010-style reset clearing out the deadwood.

I've heard players booed coming on. I've heard groans and even some muttering. I've never heard the collective sigh when he came on tonight, it was a genuine I don't even know the value of him coming on. It's not even rotation at this stage, we're not even ten games into the season. Skipp staying on the bench instead of this turd must have him wishing he'd stayed at Spurs.

Do I think Coady can solve our defensive issues? no. Do I think he's worse than Okoli? Also no. But if Steve thinks Abdul has had to tweak his game to play in the Premier League then I'd suggest he drops Okoli for a week or two as well. I'm not sure Coady gives an absolute oil tanker like Wood space to turn for their second like Okoli did and I'm also not sure he makes that cock-up for the 3rd either.

I thought that. Gotten used to Top attending fewer and fewer games over the years more so now that he's started a family himself but you'd have thought the rest of the family or at least his brother would have been there to represent them. It's making it less and less of a surprise when the Purple Bricks board goes up outside of the ground. As for being fan-owned, about 30% of our fans don't even own their seat for 90 minutes let alone chip in to their hobby club.

If you watched Bournemouth or Everton or even right the way back to Spurs, you know that scoreline was coming. I'm not going mad on the Cooper out stuff, nothing he can do about our comical defending but we'll learn a lot about this side against Ipswich. Lose that and Cooper will lose a lot of the fence-sitters

We wouldn't have to keep turning it round if he picked the right players on the right positions to start with, that's the point.

I'm not sure people actually hate him, I certainly don't, I just don't like the way he's trying to reinvent the wheel and not playing to our strengths. Seems a nice guy, seems to have the players backing, but that goes by the wayside when your selections and tactics start us off on the wrong foot every week.

Lovely that the club is trying to make their heroes accessible to younger generations by having a signing session. Not so lovely that it's £10 per head. They're doing similar with the men's team. If they'd charged for that when I was a young fan I'd have gone and followed a different sport. Paywalls don't help engagement, it's just basic customer relations being torpedoed by clueless profiteering.

He's the latest off their scouting conveyor belt. MacAllister, Trossard, Caicedo, Cucarella etc....its the thing we used to be good at, find it cheap, win a trophy, sell them high. He's not staying here unless we're top half, have a ton of cash and Brighton lose their minds.