Matt

I'm not for one moment claiming a conspiracy of "the players did their own thing" but that players only meeting towards the end of the season and the improvement in results, form and performances were quite the coincidence. It was probably as simple as a few home truths and a "Come on, let's get our shit together" meeting but even so. As you say at the beginning it was something different, but it soon got found out. It was very predictable. You've gotta mix it up.

Enzo (Chelsea) 0-2 (Celtic) Rodgers. HT Bet it's a thrilling game...

This has been my bug bear for a very long time. So the club wanted to go down the route of possession, yet we continued to sign players suited for a fast counter attacking style. Managers get appointed and/or instructed to play a certain way but get hamstrung by given players who are suited to the opposite. I do believe Cooper is most likely to be able to adapt, work to strengths and get the best out of what he's given though rather than the previous few managers - not saying it'll be successful but he won't be as stubborn and he'll atleast try something different.

No need for apologies! It's your (as a collective) time and i'm sure everyone can appreciate that! Totally get where you're coming from.

Hope you've all had an enjoyable summer ( ...what summer?!) so far, but with pre-season in full flow and the season approaching hope we'll be back into the pods again soon?

Poor bloke, he's gone from having 20 odd signings, few of which were his choice thrust upon him to being promised signings but getting few.

Astounds me how much people take from friendlies. They mean absolutely nothing. All about fitness. Man City lost to Celtic, Chelsea drew to Wrexham. I think some of our best seasons have come off the back of 'bad' pre seasons and some of our worst seasons have come of the back of 'good' pre seasons - Not a rule of thumb, but the point being take nothing from them.

This is the thing. Whether people rightly or wrongly want to criticise Cooper, what he brings or his football are one thing, each to their own, everyone is entitled to their opinions but with that with come jibes about him or the Forest links. By my own admission my criticisms of Rodgers and his football turn into bile and vitriol, but unfortunately Coopers onto a loser before he's even started and will get such petty insults thrown at him for little to no reason.

Has anyone actually managed to select their charity of choice yet? Just seems to be going round in an endless cycle of the puzzle.

It makes you question how bad has it really got to get?!

Precisely.

Wasn’t Leicester the only club to vote against proposed PPV during Covid?

May as well go Barwell and watch the reserves for £6. Money much better spent and supports a club who actually need the money.

Many people may use their phone to pay, I don't. Much like "a load of individual cards" you can also misplace or even break your phone and in my case my phones battery hardly last over half a day without needing a charge, if i'm out all day, there a chance that doesn't last. And my 1 experience of Mobile Ticketing? I took someone as a guest last season and had to have it on my phone (shame because the person I took as a guest wanted a ticket as a keepsake) I sent them in on my ST Card as their ticket was on my phone, I scanned my phone, didn't work, I then had to run down the ticket office where they printed me a ticket. Atleast the person I took as a guest got their ticket to keep! Also, last Friday's "IT Glitch" should perhaps be a lesson to the world - (I appreciate in that case the technology probably wouldn't work whether it were a card or mobile ticketing but even so there does seem to be a difference between the two from the stories you hear and read about the mobile ticketing failing) Ultimately and quite simply, I just don't want it, as many others clearly don't.

They’re really pushing for Mobile Ticketing aren’t they. I’ve had 2 emails in the last 2 weeks inviting me down to “try it out”. No. I don’t want it.

Sure. The point i'm getting at is it's not what Chelsea are exactly striving for or become accustomed too.

Chelsea consistently and constantly raiding Leicester and Brighton then the whole world act shocked when they turn into a mid table team. Who'd have thought it.

I'm glad i'm not the only one with these thoughts. I mean he's good and it's a replacement we could do without the upheaval of but people talk of "World Class"...give over.

Surely we could have put a clause in the deal with Chelsea for Maresca that they can't sign any of our players for atleast a year, or they could only sign one of KDH/Hermansen/their choice. Maybe I'm not realistic but i'm sure i've heard of such deals in the past with other clubs/managers, it's certainly common practice when DOF/Scouts move. For the record from what i've seen of Stolarczyk (Which isn't much), I like the lad, felt very comfortable with him in goal whenever he's played, anyone know why he wasn't involved yesterday? Has he even travelled to Evian? I'd be keeping Stolarczyk over Iversen and it goes without saying, Ward.

Oh no, I get that and I appreciate how it comes across me saying "You! Organise something!", but with respect I don't have the following or backing to organise something as such and to make a statement, it needs to be en masse up and down the country. As I said in my original post, there will still be some who blindly follow and see no wrong and ever if it took off with largely empty stadiums, one weekend wouldn't make any difference, but it'd make a statement and get people talking, it'd be a start.

I know i'm living in dreamland and this will never happen because there will always be some who blindly follow their team and see no wrong but its about time fan groups around the country got together (Even if the FSA), set a date/weekend to boycott games up and down the country.

We'd already have a few in there if it wasn't for Profit and Sustainability Rules forcing us to sell them. It's still beyond me how selling players who come through your academy, usually local, usually support the club and don't want to leave is sustainable.

All I keep reading is "He wants to go to Roma". Whilst i'm under no illusions no-one other than a Leicester fan would want to play for us and 'it's just a job' or 'a stepping stone' for any player, this coming season more than ever we need players who are fully committed and want to be here. Players who were already engineering moves and making eyes at other clubs is one of many contributing factors to the mess we've found ourselves in, in recent years. Move on.

Before I start of course I want England to be successful. Without actually have any success in terms of winning anything, Southgate is the most successful England manager in most people's lifetime. After Rodgers and the state of how we were playing I got alot of "you're entitled", "he got European football twice", "he won the FA Cup" from Leicester and non-Leicester fans. Whilst I obviously want decent, exciting, entertaining football and England to be successful I'm not that bothered or invested in England and so that allows me to be able to afford to have have a more flippant view than most and that now give that attitude back. It might be dull as **** but I think that's more a football problem than necessarily a England/Southgate problem and besides would it be any different under another manager? The FA want a yes man, this is what the FA want. I don't think any other manager would be allowed to do any other. I think the FA would go for Potter - and he'd be exactly the same as Southgate, that's one of the reasons I really didn't want Potter here.

I mean I literally credited Spain in the original post you seem to have took umbridge with. Some the long passes, pinged balls (I’ll refrain from using rhetoric like long balls in fear of upsetting the natives) last night and throughout the tournament were excellent, blended with front footed forward passes. Spain used to be dull as ****, albeit successful but they have changed for the better and proved it can still be successful. Credit to them, I was pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile the other teams I credited, who are/were very few and far between played well, I appreciate it's a little bit 'easier' for them as they had nothing to lose so could afford to go all out but some extent it worked for them, they did better than anyone expected and left with their heads held high.