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“Think it was more getting them with kids. First real big clear opportunity for a generation to become season ticket holders.” That’s what I’ve done.

Nothing will make him change his ways. He was worse than Cooper and Ruud in the Prem. He ‘coached’ Rangers into not being able to defend. He’s taking on one of the worst defences in the history of the club and someone the club think this is the man to fix it

We’ll continue to recruit Southampton cast offs

That identity is an infinitely shitter version of what Enzo did. He’s a ****ing fraud.

No one wants this to fail. It’s actually that no one wants the players to be humiliated through an ill planned and executed event. We want the legacy of that achievement to be protected and treated with respect. The planned match is not a fitting tribute. The calibre of the opposition is not fitting. Our best ever squad have the honour of facing a squad which have no tangible connection to that season. We can honour the legacy in so many other ways which cost a fraction of the money but create a huge amount of goodwill. We could easily do a Q and A with the squad in the great hall - tickets would be free - followed by a signing session in the shop (if you wanted to claw some cash back you could sell replica shirts and various tat that people could buy to sign). There could then be a gala banquet in the evening for the squad to celebrate. (Again, if you then wanted to claw some cash back you could charge for a small group to attend that meal). Finally, at the end of the meal, you’d unveil plans for a statue in honour of Claudio alongside an annual 5000/1 award which the club would present to a local person who has done something incredible for charity or the community. What you wouldn’t do is tarnish their legacy by getting them to play against former Stoke City journeyman in a half empty stadium.

Sometimes nothing is better than something. they’re about to humiliate the members of the 2015/16 squad because no one has the guts to say this isn’t going to work.

That message suggests they don’t know how many they’ve sold which almost seems impossible to believe.

I’ve already done that and they can’t help.

Has anyone got through on the phones yet. Still stuck in the purgatory of trying to purchase children’s seats over the phone. No replies to emails, no way to purchase at the ground, no one on the ticket phones, no one manning the lcfc help phone.

Everything still screams a lack of leadership and paralysis at every level of the club. The simplest tasks now appear insurmountable obstacles. Common sense tells you this match must not and should not go ahead. We can still celebrate 10 years though a series of smaller events, QandA sessions, video montages, prize draws, meet and greets etc. I suspect our delusional management structure at the start of the season envisioned a match between the current all conquering squad fresh off the back of winning the championship v the 2015/16 squad as we all cheered and clapped. As the season slipped away paralysis ensued; the ‘we promote’ next season mindset guided everything and now we find ourselves preparing for a reality that never came to pass.

I’m not sure we’ll have passed if this time either

We’d have never gone down if they’d kept him.

I’m in exactly the same position. You’re penalised as a parent because they’ve built a system which benefits only those who are old enough to be purchased online. Anyone with a child is forced to ring up to buy a ticket for them but they’ve done nothing to ensure you can actually get through. To then remove the option of buying tickets at the ground further benefits those who are buying for adults.

While I’m moaning, the other staggering thing is that the club haven’t advertised that season tickets are actually on sale! It’s supporters who’ve stumbled across this fact.

Because I can’t get through in the phone and because I can’t buy two additional seats online for my young children I thought it’d bring the mountain to Mohammed and go directly to the club to buy it in person. Having got to the ground turns out they don’t sell tickets at the club. You have to phone up! The very nice staff have fed back a few days ago that perhaps they should have ticket staff available to help in person but nothing has happened. utterly predictable

Same here. Empty seat that was next to me already gone. Now I’m going to have to move. Can’t do any of this online and the phones are permanently busy. Shambles

Lord knows. Utter shambles

An email was sent out last week. Though seemingly at random. It’s a cluster****

I’m also trying to inflict this misery on my kids but the club are trying to make it as impossible as they can. Not only did they not email me to offer me the chance to purchase two additional tickets (even though I’ve have a season ticket for 29 years), they have then not emailed me to say my applications made via the link they sent to my dad have either been successful or not. The phone lines have been busy all day too. So a club haemorrhaging supporters, in dire need of income are somehow managing to make it impossible for one of the few morons left who want to actually give them money to actually give them money!

Get rid. next years task is monumental. So much expensive deadwood needs shipping out. A brand new team needs coaching and moulding. It has to be promotion at the first time of asking. the team that brings us up will then need dismantling and most likely the manager moved on too.

I’d still sell, just as I’d sell any current player. Not one of them represents value for money either in terms of the fee we paid or the wage we pay. All could be replaced by cheaper alternatives

Whatever this seasons failing are, Fatawu is so far down the list as to make it almost bordering on hipster to think he’s been part of the problem. To rely so heavily on a 22 year old coming back from a serious injury once again highlights the failings at the club. The natural dips in form which you’d expect, not just from a 20 year old who started the season with less than 100 starts but also from a player of any age returning from injury, have have had to be persisted with where any other club would rest and rotate. I can think of almost no occasions where he’s scored thanks to the hard work of others. I can think of almost no occasion where he’s been able to play with anything resembling a striker in front of him to pass to, play off, or learn from. He’s not the issue. He’s never been the issue. He’s not been perfect or consistent but Christ alive just look at the absolute shower playing with him.

The most damning thing about the whole situation is that a man who has played no football for over a year and who is not even match fit can look better than any of the absolute shower of shit that have turned out in defence these past 24 months. How can that be allowed to happen? How can standards be so low that an unfit, injury plagued centre back look fitter, stronger, more bothered than anyone else?

I’d appreciate a message to direct my attention to proceedings

It’s Bruce.