LCFC - What would YOU change?

[dmayne7]

3 hours ago, Gazza3 said:

Pretty much everything 

Without being flippant, this. It isn't just the demise on the pitch or the financial mess we're in that has caused so much outrage, it's the fact that a week doesn't go by when you don't hear some story that infuriates you about how the club is run/decision making away from football.

 

Obviously I'm sure there's plenty good but it really does feel like the negative stuff has seeped it's way into every facet of the club.

[Channy'sboots]

The kit. I want white shorts AND socks again and while we’re at it let’s switch The Kop and the family stand 

Oh, and the owners. Almost forgot that bit

Edited 14 April by Channy'sboots

[FoxFossil]

I'd get Foxes Trust, Big Strong Leicester boys and Blue Tinted glasses in Seagrave hotel for a weekend and thrash out a credible strategy and detailed 2 year and 5 year plans. Our problem is one person, Rudkin, controls every aspect. Strategy needs to include moving to a different ownership model, like German community model, to stop this happening again.

[Foxin_Mad]

3 minutes ago, FoxFossil said:

I'd get Foxes Trust, Big Strong Leicester boys and Blue Tinted glasses in Seagrave hotel for a weekend and thrash out a credible strategy and detailed 2 year and 5 year plans. Our problem is one person, Rudkin, controls every aspect. Strategy needs to include moving to a different ownership model, like German community model, to stop this happening again.

Speaking of Seagrave hotel, to make it viable it needs to be opened up as  a public facility. Have business days, golf days, spa days, school/community sports events, experience days etc rent it out. Build a shed on on one of the training pitches for the first team with cold showers. 

[JJD_LCFC]

Owner - incapable of running our club 

 

Jon Rudkin- useless in all aspects

 

recruitment- appoint a new scouting department. Why did we go for the guy from Southampton to head scout?  Cant remember Southampton being known for excellent signings. Back to the model of decent championship players and build from this. We had the most success with signings domestically and for some reason massively went in a different direction. 
 

playing style - does it always have to be 433. After 40 games maybe try something else 

 

players- I would literally only keep Nelson, Monga and Page. 

1st team manager who has authority and vision for the future. Has to get the best out of players available. 
 

other than this we are in a good position. 

[Stadt]

It's beyond just a DoF, even if we had one that got 100% right (never going to happen) there just isn't enough the accountability from the owner.

 

For clubs to be successful you need alignment between different functions and before that you need an owner that gives a shit, gets the right people in and drives results. FSG at Liverpool aren't football experts but they appoint people who are and hold their feet to the fire. Bill Foley the same at Bournemouth.

[Tommy G]

Aside from the obvious new ownership we need a collection of experience at board room level who understand and have ''been there and done that'' on how to run a business properly, until this is in place it's like starting a sprint race with a pulled hammy.

[Gazza M]

Get rid of this "club coach" idea. Hughes would have been binned 18 months ago. Just lingers on. Let each gaffer bring in own staff. Ruud had just this clown and King for the 1st couple of weeks.

[Ashley]

3 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

I'm not really informed enough to make a call on it. But i imagine as time goes on, it gets harder and harder to recruit players on those models, especially if you are desperate for reinforcements and you think you are challenging higher up the table. If Villa/Newcastle/Palace etc are willing to offer guaranteed contracts, or even the remaining big 6 are happy to hand out silly long contracts just to have more bodies available, performance based ones become more difficult to negotiate.

 

I imagine contract negotiations are not Rudkins strongest point at the best of times. 

But surely with that model there would be a baseline? 

 

Say x amount for player at 'x level' where club is at. Then as you go bigger or try to get better players the base money goes up then does the incentive based stuff too? 

 

Depends if a player wants to play or be happy on a bigger contract and probably a bit part player too like you said above.

 

 

[Pita]

3 hours ago, beepee1984 said:

The owner

the board

the manager 

the coaching team

the players

the scouting team

the sponsors

the financial team

the marketing team including social media

the admin team

the beer

the medical team

Any Agent connected to the club

The list is not exhaustive, just a starting point! 

That a good start 👍

[indierich06]

Honestly, nothing changes until the ownership changes - in any kind of meritocracy there is no way this cretin would be deemed fit to run any business, let alone a football club. He's already run a duty free empire built on cheat-mode into the ground. If he were just an idiot, that would be one thing, but he's also got the fatal character flaw of being a fragile idiot. Instead of hiring more competent people than himself to help the club succeed, he prefers idiotic bootlickers and yes men promoted far beyond their station, because it makes him feel like a big clever boy. The rot starts at the top, and there isn't a single bit of this club it doesn't touch.

 

If I could wish one thing for Leicester City now it would be for the ownership to sell up, and for new owners to bring in an entirely new c-suite, and - of course - remove Jon Rudkin from this football club, never to return. I would also massively downsize Seagrave as well. Do we need 14 full size pitches? And you can sell the golf course immediately. The running costs for this white elephant would be a burden on a Premier League club, let alone a club on the verge of relegation to League One.

 

Regardless of the outcome of this season, release any players at the end of their contracts, and look to actively sell the overwhelming majority of the first team - purely because of the complete breakdown in relationship between players, club and fans - perhaps keeping some of the younger players who we will have to rebuild the team around.

 

Then, depending what league we are in, we will have to heavily focus on data and smart recruitment to find extremely cheap & low wage signings.

 

Of course none of this will happen, and the best we can hope for is years of utter misery with the club hopefully still in existence, all signs show that this is not a given and we may well no longer have a club to support before too long. 

[stevostadium]

Drastically  change the model.

Revert to similar type of Pearson, Shakey walsh et el.

In short, massively reduce the wage structure.

Adopt a model similar to those of, Brentford, Brighton and Bouremouth.

 

There structure works and is so defined that in fairness whoever  manages (within reason) will succeed.

[Phil Mitchell]

How we’re transparent in the wrong areas.
 

The structure upstairs should be transparent, easy to understand ie. who’s doing what whereas the first team should be harder to read, unpredictable and difficult to break down.

 

It’s the complete opposite. The board room are hard to read, unpredictable and difficult to break down and the first team are transparent and easy to work out.

 

Phil

[StanSP]

7 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Them sausage roll t shirts. 

Agreed, bring them back! 

[CrazyKopCorner]

6 hours ago, beepee1984 said:

The owner

the board

the manager 

the coaching team

the players

the scouting team

the sponsors

the financial team

the marketing team including social media

the admin team

the beer

the medical team

Any Agent connected to the club

The list is not exhaustive, just a starting point! 

I was going to say ........ keeping the ticket office twonks! What a mistake 

 

Also, surely a new communications officer! 

 

Also, new goalkeeping coach / team and set piece coaches as well 

[FoxFossil]

6 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Speaking of Seagrave hotel, to make it viable it needs to be opened up as  a public facility. Have business days, golf days, spa days, school/community sports events, experience days etc rent it out. Build a shed on on one of the training pitches for the first team with cold showers. 

Murder mystery events, who killed Filbert Fox?

[TamuffFox]

6 hours ago, Channy'sboots said:

The kit. I want white shorts AND socks again and while we’re at it let’s switch The Kop and the family stand 

Oh, and the owners. Almost forgot that bit

Yep. Totally agree and any gold can be ****ed off too

[Globalfox]

10 hours ago, Raspeir said:

So, years of mismanagement, years of complacency, years of appalling fiscal planning and a complete naiveite when it comes to forward thinking strategies to manage worst-case scenarios. We all are witnessing the absolutely gutting scenario of the team we force ourselves to watch every week being humiliated again and again.

 

I often look at the business, and the club, and consider what I'd do if I was in the thick of it, and could actually influence the decision making going forwards.

 

So, my question to everyone is what would YOU do if you were handed the reigns of the club tomorrow. I'm talking from say a DOF standpoint. If Rudkin was finally unglued from his supposedly immoveable perch, and, in a flash of Championship Manager / Football Manager'esque brilliance, you found yourself parachuted in to the top job.

 

What would be the key points you'd look to change, both immediately, and in terms of long term strategy? 

 

A stringent wage cap? Would you pay someone to take a heat gun to all the faded blue seats? How would you re-connect with the fans? Would you look to re-jig the squad's use of the training ground in order to create a bit more professionalism? What would you look to do with the management team and structure?

 

There must be a bunch of people on here that run successful companies, in various different fields. All with different experience of tough economic times. There must also be a bunch of young and enthused young people that see the world through new and innovative eyes. There must also people that see things from the front lines of the workforce and can see where the people up top are getting it wrong.

 

I'd love to know what you'd do if you were given that top job.

 

Redesign the club top to bottom defining each role then make everyone apply for their current job in its new format and justify what they will do better to secure it. I believe almost all the management would fail this so new bold. I expect all the coaching and fitness staff to fail so new blood. Sell the women’s team, scale back Seagrave. Establish a budget aligned to income and make not breaking it a metric for everyone. Tell Top to keep his beak out and ban him from talking to players and staff. Remove all current contractors and suppliers making them bid anew on new work scopes. Talk to the fans not at them, explain things not hide from them. Return to football, publish a footballing ethos and hire a DOF to deliver. Remind everyone it’s about entertaining and winning. Deliver on building a sound fiscal basis through improved customer experience and delivery. Run the club on 30% less staff than currently. Be honest no new stadium. And a structured delivery on affordable improvements. Sell or rent Belvoir Drive. Tougher on academies cut those not making the grade faster. That’s all for week one.

[Sunbury Fox]

Change our name to Leicester Fosse, so we can be the top ranked LFFC in the league.

Edited 14 April by Sunbury Fox

[Clever Fox]

7 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Speaking of Seagrave hotel, to make it viable it needs to be opened up as  a public facility. Have business days, golf days, spa days, school/community sports events, experience days etc rent it out. Build a shed on on one of the training pitches for the first team with cold showers. 

You've definitely hit on something good going forward. In the short term what you've suggested would help with the financing of Seagrave. 

It's a prime facility being under utilised I expect of the accident and our downward spiral under Rudskin. 

We need to get a few top Coaches with experience of working with young players. Then search the world for top young talent. Invite them to Seagrave develop them and keep or sell them when appropriate. 

The sale of Paige, Monga, etc could pay for the running of Seagrave for years to come. Then with a group coming through every year it can become self financing. 

But it needs the right quality Coaches to make sure it grows and prospers. 

[Vacamion]

 

First thing Pearson did was shunt out the troublemakers and attitude monsters.

 

If any player gets the hump with the club, and refuses to work, train, play or adhere to the manager's reasonable instructions (or if they want to use their place of work as a dog kennel  ), or if they repatedly breach standards of behaviour and discipline, they should be dropped, they should be shunted to train away from the main group and they should be moved out asap.

 

Even if the amounts realised from sales disappoint our accountants, the cost of keeping poisonous employees at the club, forgiving them, selecting them again and allowing them to undermine the management and damage group morale and performance will be more in the long run.

 

It's been horrible during our demise to wstch certain players rip the p1ss out of the club and be allowed back into the fold.

 

[indierich06]

2 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

First thing Pearson did was shunt out the troublemakers and attitude monsters.

 

If any player gets the hump with the club, and refuses to work, train, play or adhere to the manager's reasonable instructions (or if they want to use their place of work as a dog kennel  ), or if they repatedly breach standards of behaviour and discipline, they should be dropped, they should be shunted to train away from the main group and they should be moved out asap.

 

Even if the amounts realised from sales disappoint our accountants, the cost of keeping poisonous employees at the club, forgiving them, selecting them again and allowing them to undermine the management and damage group morale and performance will be more in the long run.

 

It's been horrible during our demise to wstch certain players rip the p1ss out of the club and be allowed back into the fold.

 

Send them back to Belvoir Drive

[oxtonfox]

8 hours ago, Simonb said:

The owner. Once that happens we'd see changes all the way through 

That’s the start but it’s like asking the King to hand his crown and his train set over to someone else. Might need a Russian Revolution style change from the people/supporters but based on the general apathy to these well intentioned protests it needs some real togetherness. 

[Parafox]

That awful Chang and the atrocious massively overpriced "food".

 

But I do get what you're saying.

 

So much needs to change at so many levels.

 

Every director of whatever they're directors of starting with Rudkin, closley followed by finance director, director of hospitality and onward until we get to the director of plant pots.

 

Even he/she is at risk.

 

 

[PhillippaT]