BigGibbo

We are managing to collect a band of the most lesson learning averse people ever compiled. Birds of a feather flock together I guess.

Also a full house in Southampton failure bingo.

Our only hope is that League One is actually his level and we get a lucky start. 🤷‍♂️ 🙏🤞🍀

Can't say anything that's not already been said... Just drifting into ennui now...

2 hours ago, Pita said:

Living in a make believe land never happen

I know. I had a momentary lapse of hope.

It is what should happen though.

This is probably too big a car wreck for Challinor, or any one man, alone.

We need a manager to take care of training and match day and a director of football to deal with the rotten culture and putting out all of the fires.

7 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

It isn’t going to happen given we have only just appointed McCarron as sporting director and no way Pearson comes back until Rudkin clears off. 

Yea, our situation is so dire that's it's just a necessary no-brainer to get someone in who understands the culture and what it takes to build it back up from scratch.

McCarron is too green for this assignment and we all know about Rudkin, so I guess I'm just clutching at straws in hopes we'd hire the right people that would allow us to move forward in spite of Top and Rudkin.

I've basically accepted that the only way is down until Top and Rudkin are gone, but it's the glimmer of hope that kills you.

Challinor with Pearson back as director of football would be a pleasant surprise. Two serious men in the building for the first time in 5+ years that combined would be capable of rebuilding the club.

That's probably our best case scenario right now.

I, for one, wait with baited breath to find out which mercenary or complacent old head is going to keep Aluko, Braybrooke, and, whichever other young talent we are lucky enough to keep, out of the team.

Whoever agrees to attempt to play tiki-taka football out of the options lying around on the floor at the end of July I expect.

Martin is probably their most ambitious attempt and the basket they will put all of their eggs in, but he will almost certainly be put off during the interview process and leave them floundering for another month plus. A la Enzo last year.

Everyone is still just on their scheduled breaks, aren't they? Well deserved time off they probably think.

Business as usual. No planning or anything happening. No emergency protocols, and certainly no communication.

Just continued rewards for continued failure. The same mistakes on repeat ad infinitum, until we go pop.

We're going to be the last team to hire a manager in the football league...

12 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

He won't even be here next season. 

 

If you think he's this terrible human who drinks loads and hates us all then I don't think him saying "I'll stay" outside the ground to a bunch of Lidl shoppers in jogging bottoms is exactly waterproof. 

The only way we get rid of him is via loan where we pay 50% of his wages I fear. Probably the same with Winks and several others.

I would not be surprised if the weekly wages we are still paying to loaned out players next season amounts to more than the entire wages of most match day opposition squads we'll face.

Such a shame.

If Dykes turns out to be true, we are going to be out of the Championship for longer than I already thought...

Getting more annoyed by the day that I can't go to this. Would love to have taken my grandad if I could stomach putting another penny in the King Power coffers.

52 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

There was a whole thread on LTLF forum with over 100 pages about how many Leicester shirts you see in Nottingham around 2021. 

 

It always comes round. I'd be less bothered about Forest and Coventry having their era of "success" if ours wasn't such a fall off. 

 

I love the idea of an area like Hinckley "falling" to Coventry like they're ****ing Vikings or something. I think one look at Hinckley will tell you it "fallen" a long time ago. 

We're the first line of defence against them Warwickshire w@nkers I'll have you know. Now we have to suffer the indignity of being served by men in Cov shirts (bar Yo-ey who refused until he took it off 😂).

😆👎

3 minutes ago, Gazza M said:

The fans are always there. The club colours only come out when winning. We are in hide mode at min. Its like in the north part of county. Forest fans have appeared in full bloom. They will go back to sleep after a Vitor Pereira pre season. By all accounts Wolves were in terrible shape fitness wise in August. 

The Cov colours will be too after they get pummelled most weeks. 

Hopefully. This does feel different though. There has never been a time in the last 50 years that Cov fans felt so emboldened as to wear their shirts proudly in Hinckley regardless of the difference in league positions and now half the new pub owners/managers seem to be wearing Cov shirts. Think there's something in that...

1 minute ago, BigGibbo said:

I think this generation are already lost. The border of Coventry fans used to be Nuneaton/"wrong side of the A5", but now Hinckley has basically fallen to Coventry as well in my recent experience.

For reference this didn't even happen last time we were in League One by the way. Even without what now is a prestigious history. Everyone knows we are an omnishambles going nowhere, but down it seems.

42 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

The concerning part of all this is the lack of basic understanding that these continued poor commercial decisions is driving a massive disconnect with your fanbase, which becomes such a huge problem and financial hit to the club the further you drop. 
 

Awful decisions regards sticking with Adidas for the ‘prestige’ when they churn out dog shit template kits, our continued pursuit of morally bankrupt partnerships with random and obscure betting/crypto companies, our ticketing policies, the way the genuine fans have been treated on important days like the championship trophy day when the pitch was taken over by day trippers, guests and influencers, the political messaging at the pre season friendly and the ongoing transition of the stadium branding from LCFC to KPFC. 
 

All the above have contributed to the disconnect of so many of the legacy fanbase, the disconnect is massively affecting the commercial revenues of the club, matchdays with empty seats, hospitality not full, boycotting of the club shop and merchandise all contribute to drops in revenue and most importantly cash flow. 
 

The club need a very sharp wake up call because this forthcoming season, sponsorship, hospitality packages and partnerships will be a lot harder to sell when the quality of opposition has dropped off the edge of a cliff, day trippers and tourist fans will be visiting other more fashionable clubs, so it’s back to the loyal fanbase you have pushed away, because empty seats don’t buy food and drinks, disconnected fans don’t buy replica shirts and merchandise. The next generation of fans and future lifeblood of the club go elsewhere. 
 

The club needs to get its act together like yesterday otherwise the future will be very very bleak and a whole generation of Leicester fans could be lost. 

I think this generation are already lost. The border of Coventry fans used to be Nuneaton/"wrong side of the A5", but now Hinckley has basically fallen to Coventry as well in my recent experience.

They're genuinely all on holiday and it's business as usual, isn't it? They'll all turn up sometime in July then wonder why all the good manager & player deals have been done and marvel over how every one else has got the jump on them again? Like it doesn't occur to them that they could possibly be proactive now because holiday.

It's like we are literally run by the least productive, most ossified institutionalised guy at work who has the same exact start, finish and break times like clockwork regardless of events and spends most of their time running down the clock and thinking about the *insert boring hobby* collection waiting for them at home.

I would be pleasantly surprised if we get any update before July, such is my disdain for this 'leadership'.

They're probably all on holiday now as they are all just clock-in clock-out, regardless of performance, gravy train riders lead by captain do nothing Rudkin.

They are pathologically incapable of learning lessons from prior mistakes, so we'll be well into pre-season with no permanent manager and unfit players, many of which are still hoping to leave, as usual.

Is he gone yet?

Like we would have won if anything was riding on it 😂

Final spit in the mouth from these lily-livered pansies. Just praying by some miracle we only have the under 23s to come back to next season.

I wonder how much they offered him to bring his announcement forward to before the last home game?

Bet the players are pissed he said no as they then had to put that 45 minutes of effort in to placate our fans.

2 minutes ago, Raj said:

Yep the hierarchy  are crap at mostbthing but brilliant  st deflecting on field issues and relegation by ensuring they get a marquee player to announce their retirement.

 

Almost like Trump starting a war to deflect from the Epstein files.

 

No matter the loyal fans there today will applaud them all off and give Ricardo a special appreciation  for his role in consecutive  relegations 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Glad someone else can see how cynical they are. Next year the chickens finally come home to roost though, and I can't wait to finally season and fry them. 👌