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That won’t happen. As others have pointed out, banner that says ‘King Power Out’ is going to be hugely divisive among the fans. The majority probably won’t like it and many will respond by by expressing their support for Top on social media and in letters to the club etc, thereby creating the impression (within the club at least) that the protest is just the act of a tiny minority. This will just strengthen King Power’s position rather than weaken it, which is a shame as there is a lot to be angry about. I get that the organisers have made a conscious choice to be bold and divisive and that is of course their prerogative. I just think it’s a missed opportunity to build a more powerful protest by expressing something that the majority can get behind.

They're probably reluctant because there isn't anything new to say and they're sick of ranting about the same things every time. However, I'm with you - I'd love another 120min dose of rage from them. I've tried listening to a couple of the other fan podcasts but it always feels like being given methadone instead of heroin. They just don't quite do the job.

I've said this before but it bears repeating: when Maresca left, the top two names on our shortlist were apparently Graham Potter and Steve Cooper - the former representing a clear continuity from Maresca, the latter a clear departure. Two completely different types of manager. Had Potter accepted the job, we'd have likely targeted the same or similar players to those we would have targeted had Enzo stayed; as Potter turned us down, however, we went in a completely different direction with Cooper. The subsequent signings of BDCR, Ayew and Skipp would almost certainly never have happened if Maresca had stayed or Potter had taken the job - they were signed for Cooper. Then a few months later Cooper was sacked, immediately rendering those signings pointless. The fact that the club was prepared to go into two completely different directions with managers (and by extension player transfers) is symptomatic of the mess we're in. That would not have happened at Brighton, Brentford, Fulham or Bournemouth - all clubs that have historically been smaller than us but are currently in a much better place because they have a clear sense of identity and a coherent approach to manager and player recruitment. We look like rank amateurs in comparison.

What reason did they give for banning you?

Story of our season…

Highly unlikely.

And they still show no signs of being able to lay a glove on Trump. I know it's still early days and everything, but as yet the Democrats aren't showing any signs of being serious about holding him in check. Grim times.

I find this an entirely plausible scenario.

It will be so us if Man City are relegated and we finish below Ipswich to gift them the lifeline... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/relegation-and-resignations-expected-as-man-city-trial-verdict-imminent/ar-AA1B8NhA?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=5669bffa9bd44445831b3c1fe946a98d&ei=15

As stated on another thread, if it doesn’t prove to the club beyond any doubt that we desperately need a proper DoF, then nothing will.

It’s going well on the socials…

You may be right. It's possible that I'm in denial because the prospect of our board not grasping the gravity of our situation is too terrifying for me to contemplate...

We signed six players last summer and one in January. Of those seven players, only one - BEK - was deemed good enough to start last night despite all of them apparently being fit. The most of expensive of those acquisitions, Oliver Skipp, did not even make the 20-man matchday squad. This is an utterly shambolic state of affairs - no newly-promoted club can hope to survive with a recruitment strategy as disastrous as this. If the penny doesn't now drop that we desperately need a proper Director of Football, it never will while KP are here. However, I have a hunch the penny will have dropped and that we will see a new DoF before next season.

The club usually announces manager departures on social media, so they would have been told by now if RVN had gone this morning.

Maybe I'm naïve, but I suspect we will see some kind of change behind the scenes this summer. I'll be very surprised if Rudkin is still DoF next season, for example. Whether the changes are enough to get us back on track is another question, but I think there will be new appointments in some key positions over the summer.

Weird - I can’t see many saying that. I’ll have to look closer…

Who’s saying give him next season?

Well thank heaven for small mercies!

We need Dyche like we need a hole in the head. Appointing him would provide a near-enough guarantee that we'd 'get it wrong again'.

How would we benefit from doing that?

You would hope that the board has learned from the mistake of trying to appoint a manager on the cheap.

Rodgers was a successful manager when we appointed him. Maresca and RVN were unproved but neither had been tainted by a spectacular recent failure. Martin's terrible record with Southampton in the PL completely overshadows the fact that he got them up via the play-offs. We need somebody who will get us back up and has the tactical intelligence to keep us up next time - Martin has proven he is not the man for that job. In addition, appointing him would go down like a bucket of cold sick with a fanbase that is already becoming dangerously disillusioned. So it would be a catastrophic decision both from a football perspective and a commercial perspective. I know that people are depressed and very down on the club, for understandable reasons. But this idea that we're about to recruit Russell Martin is insane. It is not going to happen.

That was in November when our season could still be saved (theoretically at least). We're as good as relegated now, so no major advantage in moving now rather than in the summer. Plus there may be a clause that enables us to part ways with no compensation once relegation is confirmed.

So you think the board will just ignore Martin's spectacular failure in the PL this season with Southampton, and his total inability to organise a defence, and recruit him anyway because his teams play pretty football? Such a decision would go beyond mere incompetence - it would be deliberate self-sabotage. And while I accept that our board is incompetent, I don't believe they are actively trying to destroy the club.