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Think they'll have Friday off

You mean that Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllll thing? Just like the cup game there's gonna be half a dozen bell ends doing helicopter impressions and numerous clowns in Stone Island gear looking like Football Factory extras. It's a throwback ground and not in the Turf Moor way. I will say though, anyone following the police advice route to the ground is braver than me. Roman Centurions wouldn't take their garrison through Surrey Quays on a Tuesday night 😂

Think Enzo would look at this instead because he does have a soft spot for Praet. Also not sure why Hamza gets the inverted role instead of Justin. I do have issues with Justin but better to have him dropping into midfield with Winks than Hamza needing to learn defensive instincts which he's shown a couple of times recently he doesn't have

Please tell me we haven't given him and his mates £35m! That would be insane.

Bizarre for me that a top club hasn't picked him up. Destroyed us in the cup last season and he's gone to a different level this year. Could have been an option at 8 for us if we were somewhere near solvent.

There's a memey-type video thing going round a couple of the online football troll sites that shows a game on FIFA where the player makes the ref follow his goalscorer round the pitch for a good couple of minutes so that he doesn't book him. Just comically walking round behind him like a Benny Hill sketch. Watched the ref yesterday when Stephy took his shirt off and he does the exact same thing. Follows him, tracks him down the side of the pitch, walks back with him to the centre circle and waits for his shirt to go back on before issuing a yellow with the most attention-seeking flourish you can imagine. I thought Keith Stroud was bad but this guy should take a bow as the worst of the season.

Looks likely we'll lose Vestergaard and in that case he'd be ideal to bring inside as the ball playing CB but it's whether we can afford him.

Steve Walsh and Steve Walsh.

Two rows behind us. Seemed to trip on the steps but as the steward was chatting to him he seemed to be fading in & out and looked like he was losing consciousness a bit. He was talking to them and taken away in a chair so hopefully okay ( in truth it didn't need 9 or 10 medics, the guy was a bit embarrassed by the attention)

No he means the Richard Hughes sporting director who's turned things round at Pompey. Same name different guy.

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Exactly this. Some of the whingeing is nothing short of pathetic. There are still people moaning about not making subs early enough. He made one at half time! One of the others bagged an assist. I don't rate Daka but he got an assist and forced a save from the keeper. We're back on top with a game in hand at the end of a horrific week for the club. Have a beer and enjoy it FFS.

Looked out of sorts in the warm ups. Normally pinging balls and looking lively but he was noticeably misplacing passes and mistiming headers.

Haven't been bothered about them for about 20 years, though their fall through the leagues after wishing us into liquidation has been funny to watch. The two clubs are at different levels these days and they're forcing it a bit because they don't have another genuine local rival to be bothered about. Like with Forest and Derby, it depends where in Leicester you live. If you're out towards Melton or Loughborough etc you might not be arsed about them at all. If you're more round the Earl Shilton or Narborough areas you probably see a few more of their lot around and it's more of a thing for you.

Counter-productive right now. The only priority is getting up. 90 mins of noise and backing the team. You could give every fan a loud haler and the board would still be here on Monday.

Which was the first time I'd known the FT do anything worthwhile. If there was genuine representation of the group at a senior level in the club, I'd join in an instant but as it stands you could have 2000 members, all with differing ideas about objectives and no guarantee anyone would be listened to. I'd want to see positive results of the group influencing the club before subscribing.

And also not true, Chang supply the beers as part of their sponsorship round the ground, even the coconuts were a drinks company freebie. Anyway..... My problem isn't with Top. Yet. Don't get me wrong I have huge issues with his leadership, especially since the cup season but he's the owner. The football club board run the club. Whelan as CEO and the 7 or 8 underlings who do their various advisory bits. It's these people that have screwed us over and given Top such horrific advice, he should be sacking them all on 5th May. The very least that should happen is Whelan goes as CEO but We have a financial director (a new guy tbf not the one that was here for several seasons) We have a strategy director We have a football operations director We have an operations director We have a general counsel (no, me neither) These people - by title alone - are responsible for this utter fiasco. If this mess, following relegation, isn't big enough to get them sacked, nothing ever will be. If no-one is held accountable then you have to question Top as an owner. At this point, the King Power board and shareholders must be putting pressure on him to get this sorted out. It's costing them money and taking their brand into the gutter. The only focus for us - as fans - is to back this club as much as possible from the stands to ensure we get back up to the land of milk and honey and get some revenue back into the club. As soon as the season's over, questions have to be asked - and answered publicly this time, not with a secret meeting - about how we go forward and restructure this club. After administration we should never have been in this mess again. Don't get me wrong I have huge issues with his leadership, especially since the cup season but he's the owner. The football club board run the club.Whelan as CEO and the 7 or 8 underlings who do their various advisory bits. It's these people that have screwed us over and given Top such horrific advice, he should be sacking them all on 5th May. We have a financial director (a new guy tbf not the one that was here for several seasons) We have a strategy director We have a football operations director We have an operations director We have a general counsel (no, me neither) These people - by title alone - are responsible for this utter fiasco. If this mess, following relegation, isn't big enough to get them sacked, nothing ever will be. If no-one is held accountable then you have to question Top as an owner. Also, despite this financial disaster, look at Sheff Wed, Reading, Pompey, Derby and many others over the last decade. Right now we're under-pinned by an owner/company with an interest in keeping their brand in the spotlight. The next owner may not have any of those or the club's interests at heart and I'd hate for a Dai Yonng, Chansiri or Venky type owner to be the next one through the doors. At this point, the King Power board and shareholders must be putting pressure on Top to get this sorted out. It's costing them money and taking their brand into the gutter. The only focus for us - as fans - is to back this club as much as possible from the stands to ensure we get back up to the land of milk and honey and get some revenue back into the club. As soon as the season's over, questions have to be asked - and answered publicly this time, not with a secret meeting - about how we go forward and restructure this club. After administration we should never have been in this mess again.

The ones against the EFL and PL? Nope. Mentioned by several outlets already that - unlike Forest and Everton - we're still working by the timescales of the original PSR hearings that took Everton months to get a hearing and 4 months more for an appeal. Forest's 4 point deduction was dealt with quicker because that was under the newer set of rules brought in at the end of last season to ensure pts deductions were given within the same season. Even if they did speed it up, the season barely has a month left and we would be sure to appeal meaning the play offs would be massively disrupted.

At the back end of last season I mentioned to Ian Bason on here that the Foxes Trust was set up to avoid this sort of situation happening again. They were supposed to have representation within the club's meetings, to put pressure on those in charge of the club to be transparent and to ensure that we weren't relegated because of incompetence in the board room rather than on the pitch and was told "many of our members believed we were doing relatively well on the pitch so no change was required" When the FT then attended the last meeting with the club and selected fans a few months ago they asked for explanations and they got no answer and (to my knowledge) still haven't from the board members who conducted their own review into (their / the club's) failings. At no point since this group was formed have they done anything to ensure strong governance at the club and rather than keep an eye on the people running it, they got drunk on our success and failed to hold anyone at any level to account. They're as toothless as the utility regulators who watch energy bills rise & fall with no sense of control over them, and yet somehow demand a fee for joining so that you can not only sit idly by as the clubs runs itself into the ground, you can also pay to do so. They're just another supporters club and just as pointless. You may as well sign up to Only Fans as much as the Foxes Trust, and at least you'll get some enjoyment out of that subscription.

Wasn't that what the lawyers sorted out the other week when they made the EFL admit we weren't under their governance and didn't need a business plan? Effectively all they could then do was put us under an embargo, it was the only punishment left open to them. The lawsuits against them last week basically ensure that the proceedings will go to some sort of tribunal and nothing can now happen until those hearings take place after the summer. Everyone knew we'd post a loss. The scale of it is the surprise but relegation and loss of revenue would have made a minus figure inevitable. The thing we have to look out for is the double whammy. If we go up and get a deduction we then go back down and the EFL hit us in two seasons time.

Basically yes. They would have had these figures pencilled in since last summer. You look at the squad we had left and think shit or bust. If we stay down we're going to make multi million losses for every year without TV money. So you go out and buy several million pounds worth of talent. Mavididi, Coady, Winks, Hermansen, Cannon etc. and handing out deals to the likes of Wanya and Hamza to keep up their value. All the time knowing if you get up you may have to pay a fine to the EFL (again) but at least we won't be losing as many millions and if we don't get up we have assets to sell. Then the PL committee starts handing out ACTUAL points deductions not fines and you shit yourself.

The Leeds wage bill will be far far lower because they only had 2 or 3 seasons back in the top flight and at no point were they ever pushing on for European places or competing with top half clubs for players, we spent 10 years giving everyone at the club incremental increases in wages and ridiculous signing on fees with their new deals. They also never wrote off £190m in players given away on free transfers. They'll have losses but nothing like the catastrophic figures we put out.

That's horrendous, no other words for it. Whoever made the financial and strategic decisions that got us here should resign. Immediately. Don't hide behind the relegation excuse, just resign.

We'd have gone into the season with Vardy, Nacho and Daka. One nearly left in August, 2 were going to AFCON leaving us with one 37yo striker for January. As it happened Vardy and Nacho were injured in December anyway. Other clubs were interested in Cannon and if we'd wanted him later on he'd have cost more than getting him from Everton's u23s. It could be that by July he's our ONLY striker and the 6m or whatever we paid will be good business.