Les-TA-Jon

He's not a miracle worker. Clear improvements in a short period of time in that first week. Squad (lack of) quality and systemic issues will take longer to address. People hope to finish 15th-17th but then also seem to forget what that looks like - teams that finish in those places generally have poor seasons, barren runs and the occasional spanking vs the big teams. We've probably got to win 1 in 4 of the remaining games to stay up - 75% of the time it won't be particularly fun.

Genuine question - how many leagues games have we won, with Ward starting? Edit: 8 I think - which is much higher than I thought it'd be...7 out of 9 wins in the relegation season.

Well only if he’s out for a significant period of time

Interested in your stats source, as Wikipedia has him on 191 goals and 465 appearances

Arthur Chandler - 1923-1935. 419 apps, 273 goals Arthur Rowley - 1950-1958. 321 apps. 265 goals Jamie Vardy - 2012-. 465 apps. 191 goals According to wikipedia. Although some here saying he's on 195 or 196 goals. Don't see how he'll score 70 more goals, so will stay 3rd. But obviously highest in 'modern era'

Wolves loss might mean they have a new manager bounce vs us though…

Anyone got a link?

Wilf injured!?

Yeah it was Arsenal not Spurs - winter 2019, after Emery left and we were doing well - including 8 wins (I think?) on the bounce and the 9-0 vs Southampton

Sure, but he played ahead of Thomas, so he didn’t get treated too badly did he?

When was this?

Vardy is currently on 141. His premier league debut was at age 27. Even if he'd started at 23 years old, he'd have had to have scored 30 goals in each of those extra seasons, to overtake Shearer...

The PL has voted to bring it in this season, but it's delayed because (for some unknown reason) the tech isn't ready

You about held him hostage!

Inconsequential but the ref didn't give us about 3-4 freekicks that looked stonewall fouls - two handed pushes in the back, Antonio pulling someone over etc etc

It doesn’t really matter how good Maresca is or not. It’s not like we sacked him; he was poached. FWIW I think he’s a top manager and we’d be looking a lot better had he stayed, but it’s a moot point

Well, Puel, Rodgers and Maresca suggests a pattern...

Talk of a potential ban? Said something about Coote to the Ref on Saturday?

Except, is the DOF the chief negotiator when making signings? Can't imagine NP has any experience of this, nor would he get on with other executives and agents.

Missed this; what happened here? and is there a clip?

Those things aren't mutually exclusive though? Ultimately, our longer term strategy has been a mess - in terms of board level decisions, spending, PSR, and recruitment - since we won the FA cup in 2021. Whilst that persist, any manager we have will struggle. But Cooper was also awful and very likely taking us down. So we change the manager to give us an improved chance to stay up. I think most sensible people here were always expecting this season to be a bottom 5 finish.

177% win rate - GET HIM IN!

Don’t know about all of them, but note this ownership has always appointed people with previous experience of English football

Are we talking about the Mavididi incident? Looks like a pen real time in the ground, but not a pen for me at all. Barely any contact, which is only instigated by Mavididi, Fofana doesn’t even make a challenge.