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Looks like another terrible signing.

We've already dropped down the leagues. Another relegation would make us even harder to sell.

5 minutes of effort at the start of the half and then nothing.

Huge half coming up. Really need to show some spine and at least try to make a match of it. More of the same though and we could lose by 5 or 6. Players need to show more desire and fight and fans need to have some hope. None of this on show in the first half.

That interview and the current one they are replaying illustrate the real problems at the club. Just a blind following of a way of playing that we can't play with the players we have.

Should be the end of Rudkin too who has just said he has overall responsibility for all football at the club including the women's team. All going well in his eyes probably!

Rudkin interview on Radio Leicester show he is totally delusional.

He is though, very poor.

It might do but the upper echelons of the club are so wedded to this way of playing that it won't make any difference. The problem is far far deeper than the manager though. Yet again recruitment hasn't been good enough. Just no leaders in the squad. the defence is just hopeless. Relegation looks a real possibility right now.

I suspect they will get a points deduction which will mean they will finish lower mid table this season, a massive fine and a transfer embargo for a year or two and that will be that. I can't see them being expelled from the Premier League as where would they play? What they have done is change the whole financial set up the Premier League by inflating their earnings according to this report so that they could buy players and pay them wages they could not really afford. And in so doing leading to other clubs following along in the fear of being left behind. Personally I'd like to see the owners declared unfit as owners and the club put up for sale. I'd also like to see the government start taxing the income of the premier league at a higher level. If they can impose windfall type taxes on banks etc then they could apply a similar ruling to football. The earnings are completely obscene and need to be addressed.

The vast majority of match fixing in tennis has been found to be in the lower levels of the sport in say 15k tournaments where the prize money is so low that it is worth taking the risk. And usually connected to betting scams. Whilst there have been a few high cases of drugs in top players not so much in corruption and match fixing scandals largely due to the prize money etc being high.

Right now it is hard to see us as league winning contenders. There just isn't the quality in the team. Plus the manager doesn't seem to be able to set them up to play attacking football. I'd also say the keeper doesn't look that good as well as we basically carry no attacking threat at all from the forward players. We can pass the ball around ok at the back and in midfield but don't do anything remotely creative with it most of the time. Their attacking play reminded me of when I played under 9s football many years ago. Basically kick the ball as far forward as you can and hope you had a player quicker than the other side to run after it. Currently look like a bottom half side rather than a top half team. Two wins against the two worst teams in the league so far. Come up against the first half decent team they have faced and they just looked hopeless and outclassed. Hopefully things can change but I can't say I'm that hopeful given the talent available and the poor manager.

Thanks God the guys are getting better at crochet.

What are the substitution rules. Anything to stop all 4 being subbed in the first ten minutes?

Anything interesting or just their usual rubbish?