Ric Flair Live & Direct on BSLB Podcast

[Rubbersoul]

24 minutes ago, Libertine said:

Great pod again, guys. Excited for the 24hr pod! And please for the sake of all of our sanity, keep it going as often as poss during the summer. We need your hot takes on Trump's World Cup and the inevitable floods of ins and outs at our club. (Not forgetting the summer bangers ofc) 

 

 

Haven’t listened to the new episode but I’d definitely listen to episodes that weren’t really even about Leicester 

[BenTheFox]

I can’t pretend that Charlie Methven isn't a bit of a knob, however, he's one of the best guests you've had on. In essence, we're screwed. 

[RoboFox]

I wish I could beam this episode directly into the cerebral cortex of the KPFC “be careful what you wish for” divs. 

[Suzie the Fox]

6 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

youtube version:

 

a hell of a pod

Kin ell... thats a grim listen too. I knew it was bad but listening to Charlie Methven's views, didn't realise it was this bad. 

 

Edit to add; I know at lot was based on opinions and hope to god he is wrong. Sadly fear he is going to end up being bang on. fml

Edited 3 May by Suzie the Fox

[RoboFox]

I thought Jamie was excellent too, but I disagree with his view that it’s a shame some people have left the Trust over its direction post-reform. If they take issue with it no longer being an old boys’ club cosying up to ownership, then the Trust is better off without them.

[markko]

Listened to this. Really informative. Worth 50 minutes of time. We need to get some plans made and then act quickly. The club cannot afford to sit on its hands. There is going to need to be significant cost savings.

[Nolucklcfc]

It’s interesting he said that there’s a lot of medium size clubs up for sale. It does beg the question of who the hell is stupid enough to buy us in this state? It’s going to take administration isn’t it … 

[Beachyboy]

Surely from Tops perspective like Methven says paying someone to come in and sort the mess out pays for itself as the club is worth more, you can sell it then if saving face is the Thai way getting us back to a top half championship team, is where we historically have been and where we were when KP took over, get us back there balance the books and it has to be a net positive with the League and FA Cup wins. First priority would be to rent the training ground out to someone else, get the right manager in and get a strong captain in. 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Beachyboy said:

Surely from Tops perspective like Methven says paying someone to come in and sort the mess out pays for itself as the club is worth more, you can sell it then if saving face is the Thai way getting us back to a top half championship team, is where we historically have been and where we were when KP took over, get us back there balance the books and it has to be a net positive with the League and FA Cup wins. First priority would be to rent the training ground out to someone else, get the right manager in and get a strong captain in. 

This is why him doubling down on Rudkin, Davies et al really makes this current ownership untenable. He had one last chance to really prove he knew what was required to save us and he's done this.

[Ric Flair]

This is the kicker, no getting away from it

 

 

 

 

[markko]

1 hour ago, Beachyboy said:

Surely from Tops perspective like Methven says paying someone to come in and sort the mess out pays for itself as the club is worth more, you can sell it then if saving face is the Thai way getting us back to a top half championship team, is where we historically have been and where we were when KP took over, get us back there balance the books and it has to be a net positive with the League and FA Cup wins. First priority would be to rent the training ground out to someone else, get the right manager in and get a strong captain in. 

That is one thing I did not agree with. We have always been a yo yo club. Arguably too good for championship but not good enough for the top tier. We certainly have not been a bottom half championship team. Don't disagree with your points. The biggest issue is getting some of the high earners out. I doubt anyone will compete with "Generous Leicester" for some of the dross we will have left.

[izzymuzzet]

5 minutes ago, markko said:

That is one thing I did not agree with. We have always been a yo yo club. Arguably too good for championship but not good enough for the top tier. We certainly have not been a bottom half championship team. Don't disagree with your points. The biggest issue is getting some of the high earners out. I doubt anyone will compete with "Generous Leicester" for some of the dross we will have left.

Yep, I’ve been a supporter since 1992 and in that time we’ve finished in the bottom half of the second division or lower six times. And five of those were in a row 2005-09. 
 

Aside from that a very interesting interview with Methven. He came across as a bit of a plonker in the Sunderland documentary but clearly knows his stuff.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Another great guest lads, but I can't listen to it despite knowing how good it'll be. I've totally had my fill of hearing how fvcked we are. 4 months off of LCFC has come at the perfect time.

[coolhandfox]

6 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Another great guest lads, but I can't listen to it despite knowing how good it'll be. I've totally had my fill of hearing how fvcked we are. 4 months off of LCFC has come at the perfect time.

Think most of the fan base need a breather! 

 

Best thing about this season is that fact it's over! 

[splinterdream]

5 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

This is why him doubling down on Rudkin, Davies et al really makes this current ownership untenable. He had one last chance to really prove he knew what was required to save us and he's done this.

Does Aiyawatt understand the meaning of loss, risk and consequence? 

To understand the way Aiyawtt runs things, I think you have to understand his psychy, what is it like to be a billionaires son, how does that affect your judgement?

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Interesting that Methven mentions the club got in touch with him re: his comments on that Business In Sport appearance that was quite widely circulated; but that their only stance was challenge, challenge, challenge. Never any introspective reflection with this lot. If enough people are telling you you're doing a shite job, if the constant noise is letting you know something is terminally wrong – stop being so ****ing defensive and sort it out you fat idiots. They must be hearing what people are saying if they're reaching out to a neutral party on the basis of a podcast appearance.

[Dan]

Methven's top drawer.

[Dan]

16 hours ago, sdb said:

 

Not quite as dramatic (or unfair) but I got an 18 month ban for selling a ticket on here (at face value) to a game I couldn't attend in 202..3? Was a Thursday night PL game and I just couldn't make it. Thought it was a nice touch giving it to a fan (at a time when KP tickets were in demand!). I'd never done it before and it was before official resale stuff was widely known about. They were total assholes about it. 

 

We barely won a PL game at the KP after that. In fact, take out the Maresca season and we're probably in single figures for league wins at home since. There is a weird sense of comeuppance in that respect, but it's also just massively depressing. 

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you simply couldn't destroy a football club this deeply and quickly if you tried. From top to bottom, we are just rotten. It's really quite the achievement. 

 

Not tried out the podcast before but going to start now. 

Said it on the foxes trust survey when answering about your feelings on the club but I feel a way about LCFC now that I thought was basically impossible. Like as somebody who went to probably 90% of our games home and away between 2008 and 2024 if they offered me a free season ticket for next season and an unban I'd seriously have no interest in it. That's a U-turn I didn't think was possible. I built way too much of my life around this thing and simply don't want any part of it in its current form. I'd like to think one day that this blows over, the ban expires, the club is run properly again and we can talk about it as a truly low point - almost how covid and lockdown was to general life (which I'd say being unable to go to football was one of the biggest losses for me at the time, by the way).

 

But in its current guise it's just absolutely dreadful and what's annoying is it's so bad on the pitch that people just think it's because of that, when I'd say that's a symptom of the way the club has been run. We were talking about the potential aways next season - in normal circumstances I'd be all over Barnsley, Blackpool, Huddersfield, Peterborough etc.. away.

 

I also consider what's happened to me, and you, and plenty of others before and after me and you, as symptoms of the dreadful ownership. It wouldn't have happened to us everywhere. I hear stories about clubs in genuine hardship and the fans pulling together to 'save' the club and yet I think the club has mistreated its supporters so egregiously that every one of them has every right to tell them to get ****ed.

 

We're the worst club to support in England now - certainly in the 92 anyway. Wednesday's takeover has cemented this but even during this season, as helpless and miserable as its been for them, they've at least managed to acquire players who do their best. We can't even manage that. We actively reward players for not doing this and we have a sizeable number of fans with such a chip on their shoulder for not playing ball that they're willing to support the club, and the players for doing exactly this. Like how the actual **** do you fix that?

 

I genuinely can't remember the last time I celebrated an LCFC goal and again - that was just totally unthinkable once upon a time.

[Rubbersoul]

I don’t know much about Thai culture but always been worried that the “pride” you hear about will mean he basically refuses to sell 

Edited 4 May by Rubbersoul

[The Year Of The Fox]

7 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Interesting that Methven mentions the club got in touch with him re: his comments on that Business In Sport appearance that was quite widely circulated; but that their only stance was challenge, challenge, challenge. Never any introspective reflection with this lot. If enough people are telling you you're doing a shite job, if the constant noise is letting you know something is terminally wrong – stop being so ****ing defensive and sort it out you fat idiots. They must be hearing what people are saying if they're reaching out to a neutral party on the basis of a podcast appearance.

That was my observation too

 

I was quite surprised the club got wind of it and listened to it, never mind then responded to it

 

God forbid they front up to the fans though 

[Katy]

I made the mistake of trying to listen to it before going to sleep because I woke up to the dulcet tones of Darude not long after 😆  The Charlie stuff was fascinating and terrifying in equal measure, bloody well done for getting him on 👏🏻 
 

 

Don’t cry Ricky P 😭

[Nolucklcfc]

Never has it been so important to join the trust. 

[ClaphamFox]

8 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Interesting that Methven mentions the club got in touch with him re: his comments on that Business In Sport appearance that was quite widely circulated; but that their only stance was challenge, challenge, challenge. Never any introspective reflection with this lot. If enough people are telling you you're doing a shite job, if the constant noise is letting you know something is terminally wrong – stop being so ****ing defensive and sort it out you fat idiots. They must be hearing what people are saying if they're reaching out to a neutral party on the basis of a podcast appearance.

It was his comments on the relegation clauses that clearly pissed them off. He suggested we don’t put them (a claim that has been repeated across social media). To be fair I don’t really blame the club for correcting this if it isn’t true because it’s actually quite important. 

 

What isn’t in dispute is that the club has been taking loans from Macquarie to meet day-to-day running costs. As Methven pointed out, you only do this if you have to—nobody would choose to pay loan interest if they were in a healthy enough position to wait for the parachute payments etc to come in when they were due. The club’s complaint to Methven that this is ‘normal’ is much less convincing than the factual correction about the relegation clauses. 
 

Methven admitted that he doesn’t know what our cost base is this season or will be next season. He clearly suspects it will prove to be unsustainable in League One, but nobody outside of the club knows the true picture. Things are clearly bad—we just don’t know how bad. It’s a shame the transfer window doesn’t open for another six weeks because I’ll feel a lot better if/when we start offloading our remaining high earners in addition to those whose contracts have expired…

Edited 4 May by ClaphamFox

[teblin]

Great pod, 100% up for doing the Leicester half for Lamp. Doing the great north run the month before so hopefully my 47 year old legs hold up.

[Muzzy_no7]

3 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Never has it been so important to join the trust. 

Or even just do the bloody survey which thousands aren’t bothering with