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Bournemouth? Brentford? Fulham? The self-flagellation seen on here is almost as pitiful as the "football" inflicted on us by Messrs Cooper and Van Nistelrooy this season..

The same Pen 2 that was either shut or allocated to away fans for most of the 1980s?

Like Fatawu you mean???

HC would fit in well at a mid-table Championship club. But we should be looking at players (even fringe ones) who can lift us higher than that.

In the words of that noted Fox Andrea Bocelli, it's "time to say goodbye". Some Championship clubs pay their entire squads less than we pay Vardy. At a time when we desperately need to cut costs, it makes no sense to fork out more millions on a striker who can no longer score.

The Blackburn situation is completely different. Their current ownership is not the one they had when they won the league in 1995. Their sugar daddy died and the club was sold on. Many of their fans have never taken to the club's Asian owners. Whether this is solely due to their record in charge (which is at best indifferent), or if other factors are involved, is not clear.

A lot of the applause (at least from the main stand) was for the effort most players put in today to come close to a point against the leaders and champions-elect. It wasn't like Filbert Street in 2002 when confirmation of relegation was greeted with a standing ovation from all sides of the ground!

We've just become the FIRST team in the history of English professional football to go between Christmas and Easter without scoring a single home goal. Let that sink in. In 2025, that's the baggage Vardy will bring to whichever club he plays for next season. Like Rudkin and RVN - who have both indulged him far too much - he needs to leave before any kind of rebuild can begin.

Vardy's the one being paid megabucks, despite his advanced years. So he has to start every game for which he declares himself fit. As so often previously this season, today he was a pitiful tribute act, a pale shadow of the force he once was. Even many of his former fanboys are starting to realise his days are numbered. He deserves to be thanked for his past services, but now is the time to move on. If another club want to take a chance on him and fund the soap opera his career has become, then let them.

The same Cooper who made RVN look like prime Ferguson on both of his trips to Old Trafford? We sacked him for a reason. That reason still stands, however much of a calamity RVN has been.

As would I, but he isn't available. End of. We need a young, hungry Pearson-type figure willing to speak truth to power about the changes our club desperately needs.

Hasenhuttl is the saints' equivalent of Rodgers. Keeping him for too long (even after a SECOND 9-0 hiding) was what kicked off the decline there. And, like Rodgers (for now), he seems happy enough in the league where he is. There's no chance of him quitting Wolfsburg - a settled, stable Bundesliga club - for us.

Beaten FOUR times in a season by a team run by insects? Wow, we really have sunk to new depths.. 😯😟

Ranieri raised Vardy, Mahrez and many other members of Pearson's squad - including fringe players like Drinkwater, Albrighton and Simpson - to levels they never even looked like reaching under NP. He also signed Kanté - a player unsure about moving to England - and helped make him the world-beater he later became, when NP may well not have done so. Sadly, Ranieri was undermined by a string of horrendous signings during summer 2016, in which Rudkin proved to be way out of his depth as a director of football, as he has done on many occasions since. King Power's successes came largely through managers (Ranieri, Puel, Rodgers and Maresca) being proactive and seeking to use City as a vehicle for their own ambitions. When they themselves have had to make the running, as with the last two disastrous managerial appointments, they've come badly unstuck. They need to cut the cronyism, dump Rudkin (or at least offer him early retirement) and bring in a replacement who is genuinely up to the job.

You missed Vardy, a Championship player (at best) these days on Champions League wages, from your list of shame. Rudkin's decision to give him a new deal, while a popular one at the time, proved to be a huge factor in our impending demise. Yes, he scored a shedload of goals last season. But Sammie Szmodics scored even more (while playing in a far weaker side) and has also sunk within trace at a higher level. I'm at an age to have lived through 77-78, 94-95, 01-02 and 07-08 - four of the most dismal, depressing seasons this club and its fans have ever endured. Yet in three of the above cases we found the strength to bounce back with promotion the following year (the fourth time, under Jock Wallace, took as long as two years). This time around, though, the problems seem far more deep-rooted. City, both on and off the pitch, have sunk to depths on and off the pitch that even Derby never reached in 2008. In the 17 years since, the sheep have rarely threatened a return to the top flight and currently seem likely to be returning to League 1 next season. They're not likely to escape lower-league drudgery any time soon. Given the toxicity levels hanging over us right now, their fate is one that could very easily befall us.