Dan

Heard from numerous people that those either side of SK1 were basically goading them when we went 2-1 up the other night I know that Blackburn fan on here made a decent post but there's nothing like this place. It's mental.

To which they did the most predictably half arsed, tickbox job they could've done as well. I fully expected to get banned at some point. It was 2022/23 where they took the anti-fan sentiment to a new level with some bans to people of my sort of ilk. I seem to remember someone getting a ban for tweeting about Rudkin & Whelan being ****s - in the midst of a relegation battle. This was also the period of time where they introduced the ticket spot checks at away games. Where they chose to inconvenience people during an already crap time, despite it being something they're guilty of doing themselves. I know of somebody who was selected at least four times (the odds of this would be well in the thousands) as well so again, clearly, this was personal and not 'random'. Like I said earlier, listen to the bloke after me as well. It's not the same thing but it was another example of anti-fan sentiment they have. It's one thing to do this to people anyway if you assume there are thousands ready to replace them, but the fact they do this when it's clearly no longer the case. They're a dreadful, dreadful club with their fans now. It's not even a tough decision for me to not want to hand over money for that crap. They've broken my habit and cycle a bit. It will not take a lot for me going forward to save my money and keep doing what I'm doing now even if I have the alternative option. I'd also say I'm likelier for one off games to go to away games anyway than home.

It was never this bad IMO. It was never perfect but it's gotten ridiculous now. There are ways a team can go down and it not be a disgrace. Oxford United this season for example - I could forgive their fans clapping their players off on Saturday. They haven't disgraced themselves. Leicester have completely disgraced ourselves 3 years in 4 and the reaction has been timid. We've actually normalised catastrophic performance.

Noticed that. My Dad and sister were on it at one point and both looked miserable which was a relief

I think team talks are pretty easy anyway once you've got the hang of it - too easy in fact. But you're right and I've never even really thought to just say nothing if we're 3-0 up at half time (which is not often nowadays mind).

"The fatal mistake of telling his team he's pleased" made me smile. It's so true. I'd far rather be 2-0 up at half time so that I can tell them "it's good, but you can do better" than 3-0 where I don't get the option. It could be a subconscious thing regarding tactics but I've often had 2 or 3 reliable ones in hand so that I can switch it up if I need to and I've nearly always felt like I've had an initial bounce. But then I've often targeted particular games as well which goes beyond tactics - team meetings prior to winnable games rather than trying to raise morale only to have it shot down again by a loss at Partizan etc

After January's window and the subsequent agent fee announcement I'm now about 95% convinced we don't actually do any scouting and just let agents do everything for us. It's why we never actually address weaknesses in the team and just seem to get a lucky dip of players arrive in deadline day. They're so, so pig-headed to reality and just think everything magically fixes itself. X club fixed itself, so we will fix ourselves, failing to take into account why X club actually fixed themselves. Lascelles was the only signing I could really see the logic in and that was never a sure thing by any means - a risk with his lack of gametime. Hasn't really improved us. Hasn't really played a lot anyway and often when he has we've had to waste a sub because he can't hack 90 minutes. Mukasa looked decent early doors while fresh out of a football club with a winning mentality but has soon become very much a part of the rot - he's been Leicestered and probably wasn't even worth bringing in. Aribo and Richards - predictably both a complete waste of time and money and have somehow offered even less than Soumare and Carranza. But it's OK. It's the same people. The "we'll be fine" mentality is a self-fulfilling nightmare because the further we sink, the less likely they are to take it seriously. They won't think there will be any effort needed to overcome Stevenage or Leyton Orient. They've had their noses bloodied by clubs you would've absolutely ridiculed people for suggesting we could finish below 12 months ago, so I've no idea why more of the same couldn't play out. Rudkin has thrown the towel in. It's remarkable to me how he gets through the day. I have instances where I cock up myself and would at least try and rectify it if I'd fallen behind. This lot just seem to feel further empowered the worse things get. TLDR: No, they will not have a clue and they will turn to the agents as per.

I flick between two tactics mainly anyway and think I probably need another. I think a bit of a key was fooling the AI into thinking I would play one when I was going to play the other and that is particularly what caught out Radnik Sudurlica for example. The performances were never as bad as the results. I think we finished 3rd or 4th in the xg table. I put the majority of it down to a total collapse in form of my goalkeeper (with the backup coming in and doing even worse, very Stolarczyk/Begovic) and something I should've addressed but Mirosavljev just simply dropping off. He's retired in the summer. Spotted another bug regarding him - his 'staff' page actually makes him a good scout and I wanted to retain him but the board never let me, and as soon as he's actually retired and left the club, his attributes are now pretty crap and isn't someone I would bother hiring. Why have his attributes changed? We ended up being a bit too mish mash of a team. A combination of assuming I was going to get money to spend, not getting it for another year, bringing in a load of loanees and about 8 players who couldn't play in Europe, drop off in form anyway, a fairly key sale that I'd overlooked as a big issue in the summer, loads of players at once deciding they were exploring the possibility of leaving. I did do a lot of things wrong but ultimately haven't paid the price and think I'd been a bit unlucky anyway in a lot of games. It shouldn't have ever gotten as close as it did, but we got through it and keeping three relatively comfortable clean sheets at the end is a sign of a return to the old. £3mil in Serbia is huge money. Forgot to mention as well the wage budget going from £13k a week to £36k a week as well - the fact Serbian players demand so little money means wages are basically not going to be a problem for us for domestic players, it's just convincing them to actually come. What I'm a little worried about though is it seems to be hard for us to buy younger prospects and sell them on for good money - virtually everyone demands a release clause and the wages are so bad here that there aren't many options for signing these wonderkids. Forget raiding South America over here. I'm still only scouting Eastern Europe because it seems pointless at the minute to go any further. The good news is they've announced a new stadium is coming as well. I don't know if this is really factored into the game but we were never very good at 'home' (Pancevo, not our actual home). It would be quite cool in a way if they had factored that in as an obstacle. Maybe it was. No announcement on date but get us back into Vrsac. Our average crowd was about 800 last season.

Last 10 games form table, of the 5 sides that were being spoken of as a part of it... WBA - 7th, 17 points Oxford - 9th, 15 points Blackburn - 10th, 14 points Portsmouth - 14th, 12 points Leicester - 21st, 8 points In that period, we have played the teams who are 17th, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th and beaten one of them. The other four have finished well. All of them went with a fight. Oxford have gone down fighting but just fallen short. Leicester were an embarrassment and a disgrace.

We got everything we deserved. We'd have finished bottom most seasons - a completely staggering level of underperformance. You think we'd go 0-3 up at Sheff Utd with the pressure on like that? We'd do absolutely **** all. They absolutely twatted us home and away. Oxford are going down as well but their relegation couldn't be more different really. There's no real disgrace in theirs. Frustration and sadness but nothing disgraceful at all. They've probably got the second lowest wage bill in the division, so it was kind of inevitable. Hope they finish above those rats masquerading as LCFC 'players'. Although would like to see Wednesday get to 0 points too so.

We had Jagiellonia Bialystok in the round of 16 but went out 4-2 on aggregate which is not a horrid effort again. It feels underwhelming given some of the teams we've beaten, but they're not a bad team to be honest, better than you would think. In an era where even then the Belgrade clubs offer little in Europe, let alone anyone else, this was some effort. It would've been nice to have thrown everything at them but the league situation was becoming a bit critical. I did think even if we dropped we wouldn't be in a terrible place, but it's such a massive step back to take which should never happen. I thought we finally had that win and clean sheet away at Radnicki Nis, but in stoppage time, the dreaded equaliser arrived. This team just feels immune to winning. Following this were narrow defeats to TSC and IMT. What was really bizarre was we just never seemed to get hammered. Bar one collapse at Cukaricki, we hadn't lost a game by more than a goal all season. We had a goal difference that was around 0 due to a couple of big wins early doors, we'd drawn loads and lost 1-0 or 2-1 so many times it was beyond belief. These losses were a huge worry for me going into back to back games against Vojdovina and Partizan. But finally, finally it arrived. Vojvodina seemed to be our saviour this season and we finally held on for a 1-0 win. Our first win in a miserable 16 games and our first clean sheet in 19 games - absolutely horrific stuff. For a team which rose on its defensive solidity, this was a massive kick in the balls. But at least we had something. Obviously we'd lose 0-1 to Partizan. But they're walking the league and the performance wasn't horrid. April was where we finally showed something as we made it 4 wins in 7 games, crucially beating Radnik Sudurlica 0-4 (who were also right down there) and Napredak 1-3 with two injury time goals. In May we kept 3/3 clean sheets with the most dreadful 0-0 draw at Macva Sabac on the penultimate weekend mathematically securing survival. A tough and largely miserable season. Seriously special how you can win 8 games out of 33 and finish the season with a positive goal difference. Plenty were out of contract and plenty were on loan. We were given a, by Serbian standards, enormous budget of £3mil for the new season. We've earned this. Lets get a good team together.

Also - I'd be intrigued to know if anything happened to those involved in that video at Sheffield United this season. You know where there is actual first hand evidence of wrongdoing. I'm not calling for those involved to be banned necessarily, but I'd find it very interesting if they weren't. That would suggest blatant bias that you could only possibly link to their allegiance to the ownership. They were doing it 'for' the regime so it's fair game.

I've been pretty public about it and I did think I would have some backlash but I've actually had basically nothing - even somebody on here who particularly seems to have it in for me was sympathetic. 32 years old so pretty much bang on there. It's quite a tough distinction to make for me because I don't think it's like... instruction from the very Top to have me banned (although who the **** knows at this point). But I think the bans that me and the others got were a symptom of the rot as much as anything. My point is I'm unsure if it would be overturned with new ownership and I'm unsure if there is really any precedent for anything like that. After all it's a club ban rather than an FBO. The current ownership have no incentive to unban me because I genuinely am not going to that ground again or giving them any money until they have cleared off.

It can only be something like this, at this point.

Yep. He's shit until proven otherwise. Crap track record and plenty of red flags - I'm not pussyfooting around this shit anymore.

There's never been anything like this in football ever. I'm convinced of it.

I agree with this. I wish every non-league club in Leicestershire well and I'd love to see one of them make the EFL (although at this bloody rate they'll pass us). But it could apply to any of them and that's in itself the problem. I have no particular allegiance to any one of them in particular.

You can't. This town ain't big enough for the both of us. Sportswashing in its purest form. Phoenix club.

There isn't room for both of us. We need an alternative club.

I wouldn't get your hopes up. Chris Davies or Lee Johnson. And they'll be shit obviously.

Biggest decline you will ever witness. Worst owner in England.

If he is, then he'll be straight out of here.

Supporting Wednesday would depress me less than this in 2026. Despite absolutely everything they are going through. They at least have togetherness. They aren't a totally fragmented fanbase. Their players try. These fundamental things matter more to me than finishing 1 place higher in the league. These things will help them repair in the end. We are not only screwed but haven't a single thing to cling onto that tells you it will get better. Literally - not one thing. There is no good fight.

I completely get your point and maybe there is an element of this. But I still think the biggest issue has been nosediving form of my goalkeeper and everything else just seems to have followed. We're bad for getting done down the flanks and teams scoring cutbacks against us. But this seems to happen regardless of system. I play both an aggressive high line system, and a deeper low block. The same issues seem to arise. We were never 3rd in the league for ability but we're underperforming this time around. There is no doubt about it. I think we need to simply get through that season without dropping, which Napredak's dreadful form gives us a decent chance of doing, and then rebuild massively in the summer. We will have the 3rd biggest budget in Serbia - even if we go down.

Just so, so fed up of being gaslit. What the **** have those two got on everyone?