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I've no problem with a plan B or C if we're losing but Deane, Ferdinand, Dublin et al would be lost in this set up. Hoping Cannon is a bit more versatile than Nacho and offers us more as a finisher rather than a creator.

It's not deriding it as to mock it but you said it yourself "it is obvious that is not how we play" and "that type of football back in the day". That Adams side was great at what it did when it did it but even if he came here tomorrow we couldn't change to that style with these players. My point was not to deride but there's no point being unnecessarily negative about what you perceive our style to be and wishing for a type of football fewer and fewer teams adopt. We've gone for this possession-based style for 6 or 7 years now. We're not going to be clipping it into the channels for Vardy or Nacho, much less hitting a long one for Nacho to flick on to McAteer or Wanya etc. We have two old guys - Statler and Waldorf mimics - sitting behind us moaning for 90 mins every home game about it being too slow and why are we going backwards. I have no idea what they expect. Who are we supposed to go direct to? What's your plan B guys? If there's a bus parked in front of the opposition box, lobbing it forward to our 5'9” strikers isn't workable is it? People know the style, know the aims, yet still seem surprised when we aren't playing Vardy from the start and going more direct.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion including the ones you think are being oh so clever. But there's a lot of lazy assumptions including that Enzoball and Rodgersball are two cheeks of the same arse and that we're knocking about with no progression or purpose. We had a very short pre-season interrupted by that stupid tour and the transfer window shenanigans with a new player added every few days can't have helped either. Hull has dampened spirits but the team is progressing game by game and the next month will give us far more idea of where we're headed

There are people in this thread absolutely dying to have Brian Deane and Jamie Scowcroft flicking it on for Paul Dickov.

The cinquefoil 1919 one Colours in our hands Football the Fosse Way Maybe not in that order but I preferred all those to Dogs Of War. Controversial 😁

I'm their biggest critic but this last paragraph has a fair amount of truth to it. However, their membership numbers haven't changed very much over the years. Even in harder times the number of actual members wasn't much higher than it is now and at just under 500 (at last check) it's still a fair voice for a club our size. Also if they're seen to be doing more, and have more eyeballs on them in the media and press, more will join them simply through awareness. It's not always numbers that put pressure on the club anyway. UFS have had success in singing section trials, Tifos and charity collections just through simple dialogu and if anything FT should be more public on getting things like safe standing re-introduced and a public announcement about where we are with the ground extension.

Or that bingo announcer guy on the stage who doesn't realise the microphone amplifies his voice and he doesn't need to SHOUT EVERYTHING