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1 hour ago, Fossway Fan said:

I finally enjoyed some football again.

Can't believe their owner bollocked the manager on the pitch. 

 

Our team came to life when Monga finally came on.

He has to be first pick ahead of McAteer.

Pretty sure there are FA rules limiting the number of minutes 15-year-olds can play.

Even if not, there are likely to be stamina issues, especially given the intensity of Premier football.

2 hours ago, Lineker's Left Foot said:

Hoping for a Vardy 1-0 win to get his 200. 
 

This is the team I want us to beat; who gives a 💩about Cov.

A reminder that Vardy has just TWO league goals this year - against Spurs (reserves) and Southampton.

Forest, despite dismal recent form, are slightly tougher opposition than either of those sides.

He also didn't pull up too many trees (pun intended) on his last visit to the swamp in 22-23.

Hoping for the best, but fearing the worst.

2 hours ago, Soar Fox said:

Tyrone Mings being a thug as per usual. 

How the VAR let him get away with a jaw-breaking challenge defies belief.

It was far worse than the one Walshy did back in the day which ended up earning him a TWELVE-game ban.

Think at least four Premier clubs, as well as Bournemouth, will be pressing the FA for a review of this incident.

This of course is the same source that did so much to destabilise our fanbase with tales, repeated for months on end, of a non-existent points deduction.

Dyche wasn't good enough for us in 2023 and he shouldn't be the answer now.

But anyone carrying the Rudkin seal of approval is by definition not to be trusted.

13 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

33 years and you’ve won **** all. Couldn’t even win League One. 

They only got promoted from that because Ken Bates got Leeds a points deduction for financial shenanigans.

Without Rodgers messing up on our last two visits there, they'd still be languishing in the obscurity they deserve.

8 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Hmm maybe but our fanbase is largely small time. Look at the way they sing their anthem, when you’re smiling comes on and people are more arsed about looking at their phones. They unfortunately have a big club mentality as a fanbase and ours is way off it. 

The difference is, they have Paul McCartney, we have a pub singer whose version of WYS is basically drunken karaoke.

Check out the Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong versions (among others) and you'll see what I mean.

Don't care if Jersey Budd is "OnE oF oUr Own". So is Jon Rudkin, and I wouldn't want to hear him singing over the tannoy either.

2 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I don’t think Top and Rudkin are that brave to go for a youngish manager who doesn’t have the experience or doesn’t have a big name reputation. 

But wasn't that exactly what they did two years ago with Maresca, who had very little management experience or wider reputation?

Was tempted by the idea of Tom Cleverly, who did a better job at Watford - a real basket-case club where even Pearson and Ranieri failed - than their league position suggests.

On balance, though, it's probably best to give a swerve to anyone with Manyoo connections..

9 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

It was the former Chairman when KP took over I believe.

He went to Vichai suggesting he was too hasty in Sacking Pearson over the away trip to Thailand.

Vichai met with Pearson and they agreed they were both hasty in their actions and agreed to give it another go.

The rest is history as they say.

Mandaric had moved on to Sheffield Wednesday long before then.

It would have been far easier for him to take Pearson back there than to suggest that he moved back to Leicester.

2 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

I can't think of another premier league club (ahem) with a worse songbook than us.

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..

3 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Not really. 8/10k in Filbert St made more noise than the KP.

 

Everyone was together. Pen 2 was awesome.

 

OH and no Rudkin.

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

26 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

No more African forwards, PLEASE!

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.

7 minutes ago, Parker Pen said:

About time the mainstream media woke up to see this  massive car crash of a failure. To bounce back first time last season and to publicly rip up your get out of jail free card this time around is nothing short of disgraceful. Getting it wrong on every level since Enzo and KDH were pinched by Chelsea. Cooper and the pre season matches especially should have rang alarm bells before replacing a really poor appointment with a half time raffle winner!

Top is in the last chance saloon to get things right before we become the next Blackburn Rovers, and I bet their fans never expected their stagnation since winning the league!

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.

17 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

Clapped off by some after over half a home campaign without scoring a goal on the day we got relegated! It’s hard to fathom

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!

4 minutes ago, desertfox2 said:

If he goes, I hope it's to Saudi, and he earns an obscene amount of money to finish off his career after starting relatively late playing in the prem. I couldn't take seeing him play against us in a Wrexham shirt if they get promoted. It's probably time but not to another team we could play. 

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.

7 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

The man is 38 years old and yet this season has been flogged week in week out, last season when managed properly he bagged 20 goals, this season despite us being the pits he has still scored 7 and 3 assists in a team that has scored 27 league goals all season, he is nowhere the issue in this side. 
 

The fact he starts 90% of our games and is the captain is a damning indictment on how piss poor our recruitment has been in recent years. Pretty much every attacking player has dropped off the edge of a cliff since Ruud’s first two games. 
 

Personally if he agreed  to a sensible contract I would have him here for another season, to support the large group of younger players coming through and to be a rotational and impact option. He would still bag double figures next season. 
 

He wouldn’t be my captain but he is still effective and he gives a 💩 about this club, you can see how much this is hurting him. 
 

My issue with Vardy and how he is managed is at the club not the player, this season has been a disgrace in terms of neither Daka or Eduaord offering any semblance of a challenge or an alternative and so we have persisted with running Vardy into the ground. 

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.

6 minutes ago, Bilo said:

He wouldn't be my first choice necessarily, but I'd have him over Dyche or Martin.

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.

12 minutes ago, Bilo said:

We could do a lot worse. 

 

Pressing, quick transitions, plenty of counterattacks and high intensity.

 

He was in the dugout for the 9-0 loss to our good selves, but he did seem to learn from it when everyone expected a battering of that magnitude to be fatal to us. 

 

 

This is an interesting analysis from a few years back.

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.

1 hour ago, dobbylcfc said:

No a few moths in caretaker charge at Man U doesn’t make u a good manager.

Beaten FOUR times in a season by a team run by insects?

Wow, we really have sunk to new depths.. 😯😟

20 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

No I don’t. But without his building of the club we’d have been stuck mixing it in the Championship.

 

It was a perfect storm. Pearson wouldn’t have had the temperament to keep calm and probably not the tactical nouse. But Ranieri wouldn’t have won it without Pearson’s squad. Ranieri was a better tactician and kept the pressure off and did a great job.

 

But you can’t compare the recruitment of either manager with the likes of Brighton in terms of credit to the ownership.

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.

28 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

The worst thing is, we have got even worse at making clueless off the field decisions since going down. Not only did they not learn from it, they have doubled down. If you list the main culprits  that are classed as deadwood or financial burdens:

 

Signed/contract extended since relegation:

Vestergaard

Coady

Ndidi

Winks

Ayew

BDR

Skipp

 

Signed before

Ward

Soumare

Faes

Kristiansen

 

Obviously Faes and Kristiansen were signed during the relegation season.

 

There’s just not sign of things even improving which is the worst bit.

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.

On last night's evidence, Alves is some distance away from being the next Harvey Barnes.

Foxestalk:  "Rudkin is useless and needs to be moved on".

Also Foxestalk: "Seagrave [devised and overseen by Rudkin] is bursting with world-class talent who, if given the chance, will turn Leicester City into the next Barcelona".

Only one of the above statements is true.

Most sensible readers can work out which.. 😄

On 15/04/2025 at 17:31, PAULCFC said:

Sounds like going to Twycross to get a pic of the animals!

Which animals would these be? Chimps perhaps? 🙄

Or gorillas?

Thought this site had moved beyond that kind of talk..