murphy

10 hours ago, tinpot_fox said:

Another relegation battle…

I woukd hardly call this one 'a battle' 

8 minutes ago, Tuna said:

All it would have taken would have been signing a sensible striker FFS

This

A sad story, but he was another one of Taylor's flops.

On the few occasions he was fit enough to play he was just average.   The Oliver Skipp of his day.  

Wout The-f**king-hell-was-that?

Stephy Mava-deary-me

Jannick Lost-a-yard

Jordan Temu

4 hours ago, sly1 said:

Top what have you done to your dad's club

It's our club. 

On 09/04/2026 at 11:19, OntarioFox said:

Because I'm a sad bastard, I've just gone through every season in our history for the sake of pinpointing just how bad this year is, and barring us somehow winning 5/5 there are only two comparable years in terms of league finish - 90-91, when Tony James kept us up on a sheer technicality (there were 2 relegation places instead of 3 that year due to the league restructure) and of course 07-08, when we went down on the final day with 52 points. I'm discounting the League One season which is objectively our worst league finish ever, not least because next season could very easily eclipse it and then some.

 

That 90-91 season is our worst ever, with a points tally of 50 in the second tier - in the era of 3 points for a win - and a bottom 3 finish. We currently have 41 points with 5 games to spare, and the absolute maximum we can get is 56. We need to find 3 wins from somewhere to ensure this is not our worst EVER points return at this level, whether we survive or not.

 

Why am I posting this in the King Power Out thread? Should be obvious really - this is only the third time in our 142 year history that we've been in this position with five games left, and on both occasions we finished in the bottom three. It's not normal however much the 'we were in League One once' weirdos like to dismiss it as some sort of return to normality.

 

The only difference this time is that, if our record low points tally is broken, it's very possibly going to be due to the points deduction our ownership led us to through their mismanagement. That's never happened in our 142 year history in any position, but Top Rudkin and co. led us here.

 

Part of me is torn - on one hand, if we go down within that six-point margin, the finger SHOULD be pointed entirely at the ownership for bringing the deduction upon us. On the other hand, there are enough morons already crying foul about selective justice that it might galvanise them and have the opposite effect, serving to insulate them from further criticism (a kind of 'oh they took the punishment, how unfair, now we rebuild with Top' rewriting history kind of thing). I absolutely would not put it past the ownership to at least try that false narrative rather than falling on their sword and selling the club as they damn well should.

 

If we somehow fail to pull three or more points from our remaining games, it's a moot point anyway - deduction or not, it's our worst season ever. At this point though, I think if relegation has to happen it needs to be within that six point deduction. As godawful as this squad and management have been, it gives people someone else to blame - a kind of 'oh it's not Top, it's the players, it's the managers, they would have gone down even without the deduction' while wilfully glossing over who was responsible for bringing them all to the club in the first place. No thanks. There should be nowhere for Top, Rudkin, KP and their sycophants to hide for what they've done to our club.

 

*Sigh* ... bring on Swansea I guess.

Regardless of the final points tally, class if 26 beats the 91 and 08 sides by a mile because of relative wage bill and transfer fees. 

Easily the worst and most revolting Leicester side in history. 

I can't think of a single thing. 

It'll be rowett

4 hours ago, sylofox said:

Summed up best by Watford fans.

Class

What shall we call the phoenix club? 

My vote goes for Leicester City Fosse

3 hours ago, Enyoueffsea said:

 

Think this fairly well summarises your lack of knowledge on a subject you’re keen to express an opinion about. 

 

We’ll end this here, bizarrely, on you proving your own opinion wrong.

Weird tetchiness. 

I'm offering another perspective and I will bow to his knowledge regarding his own club.  Yes, it disagrees with mine but I don't really care about being right or wrong.  There too many people that will cling to a losing argument because of dumb pride.  I couldn't give a toss. 

I will just say that in my experience I have seen a lot of protests in football against incumbent owners that have achieved nothing, so I am very sceptical about it 

You disagree and that's fine.  

5 minutes ago, Enyoueffsea said:

 

You deciding something doesn’t necessarily make it true. Ashley left due to a combination of reasons including:

 

 

 

I'm not "deciding something", I'm simply expressing an opinion the same as you.

I'm sure you make a lot of good counter arguments in your post that I can't be bothered to read.  I've just spoken to a Sheffield Wednesday supporting mate and asked him if he thought protests made a difference.  His response was "It made a difference" (man of few words).

10 hours ago, MPH said:

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it’s actually the protests and refusal to spend money on match tickets and in the club shop that forced Wednesday into administration and therefore Chansiri out of the club.

That's a very simplistic view.  Wednesday went into administration due to years of financial mismanagement by Chansiri (sounds familiar).  He was first charged in 2019 regarding clubs accounts.  12 point reduction (reduced to 6) in 2020, transfer embargos for three windows.  It all caught up to the extent that they couldn't pay wages last year.

7 hours ago, Enyoueffsea said:

 

Just totally wrong. Ashley was booted out of Rangers due to protests and it significantly helped his departure from Newcastle. 

 

Ashley was at Newcastle for 14 years.  I'd say he left at a time of his choosing. 

It is 'totally wrong' to say that he was booted out of Rangers by the fans.  A fan's group partially bought out some of his shares (less than 9%) There were board room disputes, high court cases, dual ownership problems, and his shyster merchandising deal.

32 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

 

Notable differences on the pitch ? We literally gave away a goal on Friday by a midfielder misplacing a pass.
 

We literally are fading and getting lazy, we giving up goals from a position of strength. We’ve been leading in six of Rowett’s eight games and let teams back in. 

 

Late goals against us by Stoke, Ipswich, Norwich. We were hanging towards the end of the sole victory against Bristol City. The players notably faded from minute 30 v QPR. 

 

I don’t doubt that the games in January under Cifuenties but we had two runs of form we’ve got nowhere near under Rowett which was when Marti got rid of Winks coincidentally and began to introduce Page more. With Monga starring in August as a really good prospect. Rowett has insisted on playing Mavididi week in, week out. 
 

If Rowett’s name was Gario Rowetto, it would be different but he’s successfully cut himself out to be this fix it man with the championship and everyone is playing along with it. Yet he’s making the same tactical and selection errors as those before him 

I think our problems are deeper than selection and tactics.  There isn't a formation that will change things around. 

Our problems are confidence and mentality and that's what we needed a new manager to inject, but it hasn't been enough.  I'm not convinced that this team fixable by anyone.  

Let's not pretend that protesting ever got rid of an incumbent owner - Mike Ashley, the glazers, chansiri... 

The only time I can recall protests being successful was against the ill-fated super league but it doesn't work as a means of getting unpopular owners to basically sack themselves. 

The idea that everything would be fine if only we could have a few more banners or boycott is foolish but getting wound up and turning on fellow fans about it is more brainless still. 

Protests will make a point, show the powers that be what we think of them and give voice to anger but won't achieve much beyond that. 

We have won one game since 5th January.   These dossers could not be trusted to beat Oadby Town. 

1-1

33 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

Nah, that 07/08 team were much better defensively. This is definitely the worst defence we’ve ever had.

It is isn't it? And I remember Brian Carey 

When we go down, it won't be because Rowett had a weekend away during an international break. 

I get it though.  People are missing their weekly spleen venting.  So am I.  Don't worry, the weekend will be here soon.