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Can't decide if this is a 0-0 borefest or a repeat of the battering we gave them up here. Not sure what Coady is thinking right now.

Their game at Cov is now in the final week too and Cov are likely to need a win. Can't call it. The last month has been bizarre even for this bunfight league.

No they didn't. Burnley didn't have Leeds, Ipswich or Saints anywhere near them. And had we not got Leeds and the phenomenon that is Ipswich right now, we'd be well clear of most other clubs. Everyone says it, this will be the first season where potentially 3 clubs have +100pts and that's a massive factor in opinions. It used to be tight with play off clubs being all on 75 or 76pts but the top 3 are hitting new levels. To say they're a decent football team is wrong too. You can't look at their form this season and believe that. The Championship IS turgid. Everyone from about 5th down. Even Leeds aren't THAT great. But that's the best/worst thing about it. Teams drag you down to their level. Look at Boro's last 6 games Vs Rotherham, 1 win. Yet people would have Carrick here in a heartbeat.

Nope. There's quite a few people on here that will only be happy when we're back playing true Leicester-ball under a Levein or Kelly and stuck in mid-table and you can pick your seat in a crowd of 19k against Preston. The rest of the moaners? Won't be happy with anyone. Ranieri "had to go" Puel "bores me to death" Rodgers "is a fraud" and Enzo is a "stubborn" "Poundshop Pep" who "holds us back". Managers need time, especially younger ones. We're starting to sound like the moaning cvnts who want Moyes out at West Ham. This season could have been far far worse so, genuinely, fvck off with the constant moaning.

The criticisms after we lose are ridiculous. How anyone thinks the club are going to fire him whilst a) top of the league and b) with no pot to piss in baffles me. I get it, a lot don't like him. Oh well. Managers need time. Young managers need even longer. Is he stubborn? Yes. Has he made mistakes? Oh yes, loads. But this constant "sack him" whine after any defeat is pathetic. I don't really care if that triggers anyone, it's pathetic. I'm as pissed as anyone by how we've thrown a massive lead away, even more pissed by that display last night but tearing into Maresca after every bad result is pointless. Teams lose games, teams play badly, teams far better than ours have done far worse and caved in under far less pressure. I got it with Rodgers last season, it spiralled, he lost the plot and most agreed he had to go. But whatever the circumstances, however frustrating it is to not have a gap to 3rd anymore, we're top of the bloody league. It's the Championship, this is what happens. The last two weeks show that no-one knows what's coming next. But we seem to have this bizarre wish to shoot ourselves in the foot. Whatever happened to that idea pre-Norwich of getting behind the team and getting us over the line?

The match threads dwellers have camped out in the pre-match threads too. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine 😆

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.