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About 70 in attendance tonight - 30 online, the rest in the Keith Weller Lounge. This is a big increase on previous seasons, but still a miniscule proportion of the fanbase. We haven't yet reached discussion on the motion tabled. My guess is that it will be passed and thus put to ratification by the entire Trust membership. Update: no vote will be taken at the meeting - the motion will be put straight to the membership online or by post.

Especially as he missed a couple of months of that season through injury. Without that, we might have stayed up - which would have been an incredible achievement given we had the lowest transfer budget in Premier League history.

As was said in his thread, Barnes had an injury. Doubt he'll be moving on anyway, at least not in this window.

Was a 0-0 - first home game after the title season. This of course was the same Clattenburg who refused to send any Spurs players off at Stamford Bridge in order to keep the title race going in May 2016. Fortunately, Eden Hazard ended it anyway.. 🙂

Especially as our current "captain" played a leading role in throwing Ranieri under a bus - and has done the same to several managers since, including Steve Cooper.

Which is what happened, apparently. Still worrying there are saddoes like this among our fanbase though. 😟

Which means they'll probably be looking forward to taking 6 points off us again next season.. 😟

If you'd been to the Amex you'd know why folk leave games there early. The infrastructure around there is not the best, especially for evening games. In fact, Brighton are so dependent on trains to transport fans to and from matches, they cannot host games on Boxing Day when the trains are shut down.

No surprise to see the lynch mob out in force again for JJ, while Vestergaard gets largely a free pass for setting up Villa's opener. But it was such an annoying defeat, when even a point would have taken us nearer to Everton or West Ham, neither of whom (on the evidence of the MOTD highlights) are in any better form than us right now. Hammers have lost their two main strikers and have a defence even weaker than ours (!), while Everton are so dire in attack their top scorer over the last 10 games is Wolves defender Craig Dawson. We're not completely adrift as we were in 1995 and 2002. Survival is still possible for us in a league as lacklustre as this one (Liverpool apart). But it needs far better recruitment than we've had in the last two transfer windows. And the club's management need to step up and take some big decisions. Not convinced that either Rudkin or RVN are capable of delivering.

Vile haven't lost a home league game since August. We don't keep clean sheets, even when Hermansen plays (especially if he has his completely clueless compatriot in front of him). If there is to be a 2015-style revival (doubtful as there are no Cambiasso-type figures in the squad), it will have to start with the home double-header in the middle of the month.

Reality is, even in form and with a full-strength squad, we'd have struggled for a result at this venue. Yesterday was five years to the day since Liverpool came to the KP and won 4-0 against a City side that was many light years ahead of what we have now. As then, they look a class above any other team in this league and only injuries to VVD and/or Salah can stop their march to the title. Given we had a keeper making his PL debut and a striker making his first start in TEN MONTHS (though, true to form, the lynch mob on here make zero allowance for that), the performance, unlike that in the previous game, was broadly in line with expectations. While Justin might have done more to stop the equaliser, he was also left horribly isolated by some colleagues who could have closed Gakpo down far more than they did. In overall terms during the match, there wasn't that much difference defensively between JJ and the supposedly "world-leading" Alexander-Arnold. We move on to Sunday and a game which looks rather less challenging that it would have done a month ago. Doubt Man City, in their current enfeebled state, will find it as easy to recover from a goal down as Liverpool did.

On my planet, I saw Vardy miss FOUR clear-cut chances yesterday which cost us any chance of claiming anything (even a goal) from yesterday's shambles. If Daka or Ayew had had a game like that, the lynch mobs who still lurk on here would not have let them (or us) forget it. It's not just a one-off occurrence, either. In the previous fixture, Vardy spent the hour he was on the pitch in the pocket of the mediocre mid-table plodder Dan Burn. While he can still provide glimpses of the old magic, as he did to save the Brighton and Spurs games (2 games out of 16), the reality is we need far more than he can give us to survive this particular relegation dogfight. Sadly, neither the club hierarchy nor the fanbase seem ready to recognise that. Instead, they (we?) seem ready to indulge him through another relegation, and maybe even one after that?..

Don't agree with the central theme of this thread. Most PL fanbases - including Wolves's yesterday, as they made clear both during and after the game - would kill to have the success we've enjoyed during the King Power era. And the circumstances of Vichai's demise mean his family will always have an emotional and spiritual bond to the club, and to the City of Leicester in general. Even if a crazed Musk-style billionaire was to make a generous offer to take the club off Aiyawatt's hands, it's far from certain he would accept. That doesn't mean, though, that Foxes should passively accept the crap that's been thrown at us at recent times. Changes are needed. Both the chief executive and the director of football are no longer fit for purpose and should be moved on. That is a message that any self-respecting external consultants would have given the owners, if the root-and-branch "review" promised post-relegation in 2023 had actually happened. Seagrave is a monstrous white elephant, a vanity project which the owners should not have approved, at least until the club was able to fund it adequately through regular Champions League appearances. We were so close to reaching that level. But over-investment - financially and emotionally - in individuals (note the plural) whose ultimate lack of belief held us back at crucial times. And since these errors have not even been recognised, let alone addressed, they are continuing to this day.

A Mr Skipp and a M. Soumaré would like a word.. None of the 2016 signings were true duds, but it was clear that not a single thought had been given about how they would integrate into the squad on or off the pitch. As a consequence, the seeds of our decline (and Claudio's demise) were sown.

Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham (among others) have all managed the transition well enough in recent seasons.

Highly unlikely, given the payoff the saints will have given him - roughly equivalent to a rollover lottery win..

Southampton. Ipswich. Wolves

Did you see the Palace, Bournemouth, Everton or Fulham games in the run-in that season? Didn't see a lot of commitment from Maddison then. It was almost as if he'd mentally checked out. As with Tielemans, he knew he'd be moving (in his case, because of FFP), whether we stayed up or not.

It was Maresca who wanted them binned. Don't remember an uproar on here, or anywhere else, when Sadler and Stowell were given the push. In fact, the words "good" and "riddance" came readily to mind, especially after the mess they made of the Bournemouth and Villa games. The Bournemouth match - a must-win game in which we barely managed a shot and conceded the softest of winners - was every bit as dire as the dross we saw today.

Isn't Souttar even slower than Coady, Faes or Vestergaard? There is a reason why neither Maresca nor Cooper trusted him. His red card last night did not suggest he'll be the answer to our many defensive woes.

I saw plenty this afternoon with the attitude and commitment that fans enjoyed. Sadly, Buonanotte apart. they were all wearing red and white stripes..

The same JV who's thrown several managers under a bus during his time with us? He's now added Cooper to his list. It hasn't made him a better captain, though.

To paraphrase the late, great Caroline Ahearne: "Lucy, what attracted you to the millionaire football manager Russell Martin?"

Rooney won more major medals under Van Gaal and Mourinho at Man U than Vardy has in his entire career.

The Vestergaard fanboys conveniently overlook the fact that he plays in a back five for Denmark, so is bound to look better in that system. Would they want Cooper to deploy a back five at City? Naah, didn't think so...😄