Dan

There's always some excuse trotted out about it relating to a PSR reason as to why we can't sell and then we just fail PSR anyway so we end up with the worst of both worlds, over and over again.

Very good article. Few errors including: - Rudkin getting credit for implementing the scouting originally. That was Pearson and there is no way that anybody who oversaw this initially would be capable of serving up what's happened since. - Winks contract is now expiring in 2027, no? - Fatawu PL interest after 2023/24 - maybe but we hadn't bought him by that point, maybe that means 2024/25. I'm being very picky though. The gist of it is completely correct.

Spot on. Nothing will change. Their whole attitude of "we'll be fine" isn't going to change upon the opposition becoming Leyton Orient and Stevenage. There's more to come. They will just arrogantly assume it's impossible for us to not finish above them (we've just finished below Oxford United) and plod on. Nothing to see. It'll be OK. How the **** do people blindly back this lot. It's fascinating.

Leicester City

He's been bafflingly bad all season.

I don't think we needed experience under Cooper. We had as much PL experience as any promoted team has ever had. It was a huge error to go up that route. And one they continue to go up.

Even in the 'good' days there were still some completely dumb wastes of money.

I was willing to back Aiyawatt given I thought Vichai had done a decent job. I thought the Puel to Rodgers move was really encouraging and a sign that he was serious about it. He's turned out so bad it's barely believable. We're the combination of the worst run club in the country with an astounding number of fans that aren't willing to do anything about it. My confidence in him plummeted early in 2022/23 when Rodgers survived the first 7 games. It was a strange feeling - I was so, so sure he was going to be sacked after the 6-2 loss at Tottenham going into an international break and there were literally zero signs that it had even crossed their minds. I really do mean my confidence plummeted in quite a short space of time. It was that international break where I became convinced he was an idiot and we were in real trouble. The final chance at redemption for me was the summer of 2023 where he had a chance to admit the wrongs. Make drastic changes at the club. Rudkin and Whelan out. Get serious about fixing one of the most unnecessary fumbles in my lifetime. He totally blew it - he let those two mark their own homework. From that point he was at the point of no repair for me. The probability of him all of a sudden realising his errors were tiny from that point. I knew he'd eventually take us back to League One after that point but I have to say even I didn't realise the speed it would happen. He oversaw the most pathetic top flight season in our history and then followed it up with the literal worst season in our history. You would've been considered a psycho for suggesting what has played out, would play out. Even I would've done, and I've definitely got a bit of doom in me. The last two seasons have been worse than a disgrace. If it wasn't for the extraordinary goings on at Tottenham we'd be the laughing stock of the country and we probably are even despite that. He's done so badly that it makes me wonder if I could still make it in the game. I think you could've put more than 50% of this forum in his position from that point and we wouldn't have turned out this bad. We have overpaid players relative to their ability and a culture at the club that does not incentivise high performance. Quite the opposite. Nearly everyone who gets out gets their career back on track. There are no consequences at Aiyawatt's Leicester for failure. It's actively rewarded from the very top. So when there is an even weaker squad next season, given the ability to underperform, given they're able to finish below teams like Oxford United, Portsmouth who pay a very small % of what we do in wages, then why does it stop in League One? They have proven they are capable of falling below teams you would've laughed your head off for suggesting we could fall below in the last 12 months - so I don't see why that stops now. He's an absolute utter disaster.

Lineker's sadly a perfect reflection of our fans in the mainstream - happy to be pushed around. Shearer would never accept Newcastle being dragged through the mud.

It's so many that you wouldn't have expected to fall into it as well. So many people are staunch KP who just wouldn't be of the same sort of persuasion if they supported say West Ham. It's completely gone. Irreparable. I'm really sad to concede that but it's true and more and more people will realise this.

4-2-3-1 please

Tells you everything about those subservient losers. I bet Winks thinks they're absolutely pathetic.

There has never been a divide on this scale in a fanbase in England. Absolutely convinced of that. I was so ****ing right about this. I was saying this a while ago. I knew there was something very abnormal about it all. There are things that have happened in the last two years that have made me realise I have absolutely nothing in common with any of these people. They're not on the same side as me, and they haven't been for far longer than I realised.

It's been a horrid signing but it's never really because of anything he's done on the pitch for us and he's rarely had any opportunity. I'd definitely sooner we'd have gone with him than players like Vestergaard and Faes.

Genuinely our best CB

Crap like this are 3rd and we've dropped with two to spare my word.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

4 years in total. It got extended to three years for the second thing. Then to four for the social media post. Which was admittedly not a nice post - but again, not a regime stooge, so fair game for whatever in their eyes. I really believe this now.

And making Seagrave a complete waste of time. I wasn't anti-Seagrave but we have seen absolutely zero benefit so far.

Got a year ban for being in the vicinity of a smoke bomb, with no proof I'd done it, despite no previous track record. So literally a ban for existing. Appealed it and upheld. Got it extended a year ago for trying to go to a game. I'll own up to that one. Then again I shouldn't have been banned so ultimately, still mostly their fault. In hindsight this was a great decision as I'd have had to have watched most of the 2025/26 season. Got it extended by another year back in January for something posted on social media. The fact they've completely crashed and burned on the pitch is quite funny to me tbh. Quite self-assuring.

Yeah I really have been in a strange position. A mate did point out what would I have done about this if they'd done it in say, August 2016 - and I found it hard to answer. But I also think this is a symptom of the rot and it simply wouldn't have happened back then.

Is this not just sort of inevitable though at every club. You're not likely to have everything set up how you want it and I kind of enjoy just installing that everywhere. To me that's a part of it. I do wonder if the next save I do I might mix it up a little and do something a little different. I could happily just do the same as this all over again in a new country but unsure if to branch it out a little and go to another continent. Maybe even another crack at the pentagaon as my laptop actually flies through this. In reality I'll probably just end up in the 2nd tier of like Slovenia.

There's nothing like it at any other club. I've never heard anything like it.

Skill issue

I don't think I've ever used anything except for encourage. I used to use fire up a lot when I was Andorra because Andorra.