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I imagine they are all a bit weird. Why would you be involved in something where you pretend to have impact but don’t have any. A totally pointless organisation. Their meetings though would make great TV.

I think we should not sell Maddison now and so then at the end of next season we can blame the club for not selling him in this window. We could say he never put the effort in as he was on the last year of his contract. Or the alternative would be if we sold him now and then blame him for jumping ship. Either would provide us with a good reason to have a go at either the club or the player.

You say you know at least one player loving it away on a golfing holiday. So the very words you use there suggest you don’t approve wank stain

So are you saying he shouldn’t go on holiday now? The thing is whatever they do you would find a way of having a go. If you had seen him in nandos you would have said he should not be out enjoying a meal out. If you were a delivery driver giving his takeaway you would be saying he should have cooked it himself. It doesn’t matter what they do when they finish the game, you and others always find a way to point a finger

100% this. The player has decided to run out his contract, and fair play to him. Too often we moan at the likes of Maguire and Fofana for jumping ship, but then we moan when they stay and see out their terms. The player can’t win whether they stay or go. And the club can’t win either unless they get a huge salary.

This is all playing out like a bitter divorce where anything that the other person says is criticised. He could have offered everyone a gold bar and people on here would have asked why he hasn’t given everybody two. Maddison hasn’t spoken yet, but if he did he would get picked to shreds. Honestly on here it’s like listening to scorned women. Some poor sod put something on here about everyone’s thoughts this Monday and people can’t wait to highlight his error that it is actually Tuesday or to say his thread was pointless. Just goes to show how people react when things go wrong.

My current thoughts are. 1. Calmness about relegation, my anger happened weeks ago, so just getting it over with makes me calm. I am looking back at an incredible chapter and hope we can build a new one. 2. Although I am calm about what’s happened, very nervous as to how we resolve the situation now. We didn’t prepare for this, so the club are starting today with a “ now what happens” situation: Manager, players, budgets etc. We are behind other clubs with regards to planning. Planning doesn’t seem our strong point based on the last few seasons.

The idea was that the one they had been wearing wasn’t exactly a lucky kit, so wearing a new one might be the better option for the last day.

I’ve not had a clean break for months

I agree. Tielemans being called a wank stain on this thread. The bloke got us a trophy that has evaded us for 100 years. Also continued to play to the end of his contract. Take a look at the championship level players and then look at Tielemans and Maddison and they are at a completely different level. If people don’t value those players, then their heads will fart even more when they see the level of player we will be buying next season. From £100k a week players to £10k a week.

I just see the tension in owners minds at the moment when they talk about them. My colleague was going on holiday and was talking about stopping off en route to the airport for half an hour so that he had enough power to get back home after his holiday. Last night I had a meeting with a company and they had to stop at a premier inn out of town as he needed a charging point. You could see the cogs going around his head working his journeys out. It’s not for me yet. I have one that does like 25 miles on electric and the new model will do 60. So I play around with it without any thoughts on stopping off. It’s a car journey in the end, not really wanting to think of plan it all out.

As a landlord I have stopped increasing my portfolio and invested elsewhere. It’s fine if governments are trying to discourage landlords to buy, but when you have a vacant property you literally have people fighting for it, so there is an obvious need for rentals and good landlords. Yesterday I got an email asking me to pick a tenant from a list of those that want one of my properties. You literally get tenants selling themselves to try and be the lucky tenant. It’s a tough one as I get the issue that you will get landlords that then think they don’t have to bother with the property or tenant, so this is a real problem. However if decent landlords move their portfolios on due to the legislations and poor yields, then the housing problem gets worse. It’s a difficult one to solve I believe as driving landlords away isn’t the answer, but insisting those that remain do the right things is needed. I recently had a conversation with someone who is looking for investment opportunities and wanted to go through housing with me to see what I do with the intentions of mirroring the model. He decided against it and went in the stock market instead.

My current thoughts on cars 1. The new Aston DB12 is launched today. Interested to see this. 2. Not sure on electric cars yet. Not sure they will be the future. My battery went on my Range Rover, which if outside of warranty would have cost over £10k. I just can’t see us having the infrastructure in 20 years never mind 10. I think it won’t happen like governments think it will. Everyone I know who gets a fully electric have to plan and think on journeys, their minds constantly ticking on how they will complete long journeys. Do we have the resource for the batteries and will we ever? I can’t see this happening, not in my lifetime anyway

We do know do we? Then educate me on who instigated the signings, each and every one please? Let me know the detail with regards to the Vestergaard signing and what involvement Kasper had? Its all good saying we do know, well if you do then inform us all on here. Like I am fascinated on whose idea it was to sign Tete as an example and whoever instigated it, what thoughts did Rodger’s have on this etc. Be really interested to know as you have the knowledge and I don’t. I think we will find you don’t have the knowledge and so this “ I’m not going to do your research for you” is you just trying to pass off that you haven’t a clue on the signings either but don’t want to admit it

One of our biggest errors. Turning our family orientated club into a fractions. We have gone all Man City when we aren’t a huge club. Look what the likes of Luton, Bournemouth and Coventry can do with group /siege mentality. But now that won’t be there ever again with this facility dividing the club up.

Let us know the detail on what he has done wrong versus the others, then I will let you know if I’ll join in. In other words, nobody knows which bits are his decisions, which are Rodger’s, which were Susan’s and which were Tops. Another thread of let’s find someone to blame and throw them under a bus when we don’t actually know what everyone does. I heard Vestergaard came in because Kasper wanted him in, his idea. So who do we blame here, Kasper, Top, Rodger’s or Rudkin? You wonder why they sometimes don’t like engaging, players, board etc, it’s because they know that when something goes wrong the crowd turns on them.

My thoughts on Nige. 1. He created the most incredible group mentality. If you didn’t fit in the group, you were gone. Huge praise for creating what he did. 2. The group he created consisted of players better with regards to budget than most other teams. You have to remember we had to pay the league £500k for FFP irregularities, so the team that took us up may well have had funding above our competitors, so it’s hard to judge how he would have been on a level playing field. 3. Bristol City is more of a level playing field and he’s doing okay. Just okay. 4. In the PL I think the group mentality he created basically won us the Premier League. We were so together as a unit and he has to take great praise for that. I don’t think he got enough credit for what he created when we won the league under Ranieri. 5. I personally thought he was great for us. Creating an identity, always taking pressure off the players, a character and one of my favourite ever managers

I haven’t said it has not been mismanaged. I said without us wracking up debt it is unlikely we would have won the FA Cup and enjoyed the delights of players like Tielemans. Maddison didn’t move to Newcastle because they wouldn’t pay his wages, so that tells us the avenue we headed down. We were outspending versus our rivals. You carry on doing that you get in a financial mess like we are in now. I am just saying I prefer for us to be in that mess now but have had the delights of players like Maddison and an FA Cup, rather than potter along with lesser players and not win anything. As a business it has been grossly mismanaged, but without that I doubt we would have won the FA Cup and enjoyed Europe. The last transfer windows show how much of a mess we are in, that has come about from overspending for several years. If it was my business I wouldn’t do it no, but I’m glad they did it as I never thought we would win the FA cup

Oh right then, so if we work on these figures on their own, why did Brendan come back to the surprise in June that he had no funds to spend? Why did we have to sell Fofana to avoid FFP? There is obviously much more to the situation than net spend figures else we would have bought players to get us out of a hole or sacked the manager earlier. Financially we are in a right mess - fact, and the transfer windows recently have proved that

Really? So why couldn’t we pay Brendan off? Why did the likes of Teilemans and Maddison come to us? We have massively overspent and are in a financial mess? King Power writing debt off, how did that debt come about if we didn’t overspend ?

Like a pack of wolves, a good proportion of the Leicester loyal turn on their club. Top who was the hero, suddenly it’s his fault. Rudkin, well he has always been there to be shot at. Then there is Rodger’s, he will get it from the proportion that don’t blame Top. The bottom line is we over invested in the club, huge contracts for the manager and massive wages to keep the likes of Kasper and Vards. For me, I’m not having it. I understand we will go down, but mismanaged? Depends on how you look at it and I’m looking at it in a different way. If we had lives within our means there would have been no Rodger’s, no Tielemans and certainly no F.A Cup win and no Europe. We have acted like a lot of people, huge credit card bills, big mortgages, but they have had some great holidays and drive nice cars. Playing it the way we did it was bound to hit us hard, and I think the next good few years will be extremely bumpy, probably a great deal more bumpy than anyone can expect. But blame game, nah, we kept Vardy here instead of Arsenal, we went on European tour, we massively overspent and now we are in a huge mess. But I am glad we did it, I am glad we invested in Rodger’s, I am glad we beat the sensible spenders to the likes of Tielemans and Maddison and I am so happy I have been on the journey. I ain’t blaming anyone, not least Top who sanctions deals and Rodger’s for getting us to a fantastic trophy win. I sort of don’t care what is going to happen, we have had a great time and we wouldn’t have done it playing it the sensible way. I much prefer what we have done than just potter along, I ain’t blaming anyone. I am going to look back at a fantastic era I never thought possible. I personally get disappointed when people get turned on, got to blame someone, you always have to find someone to point at. Not me, it’s been great, and I am so happy it happened. Fasten your seat belts, but don’t expect what we recently achieved for many many many years. Those days are gone, but look back with fondness rather than hacking people down who made that dream possible

These are really rare. Basically we needed a third kit for a certain game, and so what wasn’t needed for the players were sold in the club shop. I remember seeing them, but can’t recall why I didn’t get one. Luckily Garry Mills gave me his number 10 before the great escape game. I met him in the car park prior, but only just managed to get there in time. I wore it for the match and afterwards ran on the pitch with thousands of others, he saw me and gave the badge a kiss and said “ I told you we would stay up didn’t I” This all came around from a conversation after the Ipswich game where we wore red. I didn’t know I would get his red shirt. But after the Ipswich game I told him I thought we were down because results went against us. He told me not to worry. Great player, great story and a great shirt. I also have number 8 that Dave Kelly threw into the crowd, and I paid £100 for it from the lad who got it. I think I have number 3 too, a player sold me that one but he never wore it. Incredibly rare shirt, I still don’t know why I didn’t buy one when I saw them in the club shop, but luckily I have the above ones. That Garry Mills moment was incredible, great guy, really really nice chap

I tried to post a pic but the file was too big. I’ll try again later. I agree you should never compare with others, and I remember a guy telling me that. But it’s so frustrating and slow for me. I really get annoyed and that’s an issue I have to overcome. You have a really valid point there, comparing is a real issue. Get over that and you can enjoy the moment. I suppose though I have seen people new come into it, and they have grasped it easier than me and that’s when comparing starts.

Okay, so I may contradict myself here, but I’ll just say it how I think it. So I have new guitars, I have a vintage 65 strat and I have a reliced 65 strat. Now as I’m still like not very good, I sit there and play a lot without the amps, so I am talking purely feel here. So straight away that might blast any credibility out of the water. 1. vintage strat - owned by an excellent musician, flat frets, best feeling guitar ever, like it’s lived with someone, which it has. Absolutely amazing feel to it. 2. Reliced 65 strat masterbuilt - so the board isn’t reliced, but picking it up it feels old and worn and like you’ve had it for years. I never study it, I never look at what they have done, I just love picking it up as it feels like I’ve had it years. 3. New guitars Suhr, Fender etc - they all feel great and I enjoy them all, but it’s just the reliced seems like an old friend. They all sound great through the amps, however I am more interested in learning to play rather then tone at the moment so I prefer to comment on feel and sort of picking it up value rather than the tone. So I was dead against reliced guitars, thought they were ridiculous. I just got the master built as I didn’t want to play the vintage one too much as it’s like really special. When I got it it just felt like an old friend. I don’t put dings in it, but it doesn’t matter if you did, so it’s kind of nicer to pick up. Hope that makes a bit of sense, but as I say, if you want a better opinion you need to speak to someone who can play properly. im not that bad, but it took me a year to learn “ I need you tonight” by zz top. I’m proud as hell, but others could probably knock that out in a month or whatever. I literally took one year to do it

I go there, great place and decent people, like amazing people.