LCFC - What would YOU change?

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

My pet peeve is the living in Nottingham thing. Players more or less told from the get go 'dont live in Leicester it's a shithole' sets the tone.  

 

Funnily enough,.players should take even more pride in backing local businesses of an unfashionable area. 

 

I don't think it's a coincidence that players who live in an area bond with it too. Ranieri in Stoneygate. Wilf in Cropston. Youri in Quorn. Vards a.bit further away but still local initially. 

 

A club needs to sell the life, the responsibility and not just the wages 

 

In our case, championing a relaxed lifestyle in Rutland, Harbourogh, Stoneygate, Woodhouse, Quorn Kirby Muxloe, Newton Linford should sell the concept of buying in to the community....much in the way the Manchester clubs 'sell' living in Cheshire 

 

 

 

 

Totally with you on this. The only time those players come into Leicester is on the day of the game. When they went Belvoir Drive, they had to go through very normal streets to get there. 

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Thing is Nottingham is equally a shithole. I honestly don’t get the hype about it. It’s one of the worst cities in the midlands and generally full of obnoxious bell ends whenever I’ve been.

 

Leicestershire has some nice areas, as nice as anywhere. The only thing it doesn’t have is sea. 

They all live in West Bridgford. Effectively the Stoneygate of Nottingham with a few more shops. Woodhouse Eaves is probably better and as good as located for Seagrave. 

 

Most of the pro cricketers and rugby players (and LCFC women players) in Leicester all live towards Market Harborough or Stamford. 

[Pliskin]

I’d ban the happy clappers. 

[MattFox]

6 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

They all live in West Bridgford. Effectively the Stoneygate of Nottingham with a few more shops. Woodhouse Eaves is probably better and as good as located for Seagrave. 

 

Most of the pro cricketers and rugby players (and LCFC women players) in Leicester all live towards Market Harborough or Stamford. 

Leicestershire as a county overall is far nicer than Notts

Bar a few villages south of Nottingham City and a small area around Southwell most the county is as post industrial as you can get

 

Nottingham must be the worst of the self proclaimed core cities too

 

Edited 14 April by MattFox

[Sting]

Change the owners,  A new club is born. It feels like it's the next natural step. Let's hope it happens.

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Leicestershire as a county overall is far nicer than Notts

Bar a few villages south of Nottingham City and a small area around Southall most the county is as post industrial as you can get

 

Nottingham must be the worst of the self proclaimed core cities too

 

Pretty much my feelings as well. As a county Leicestershire easily wins the best in the midlands. 

[alanf0x]

Boot Rudkin out 

[The Year Of The Fox]

Everything 

[demon_dog]

17 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

They all live in West Bridgford. Effectively the Stoneygate of Nottingham with a few more shops. Woodhouse Eaves is probably better and as good as located for Seagrave. 

 

Most of the pro cricketers and rugby players (and LCFC women players) in Leicester all live towards Market Harborough or Stamford. 

We have a couple living in Market Bosworth.

[Dan]

Very boring and done to death but the owners. They're a combination of utterly useless, pigheaded yet worshipped by a portion of the fanbase - the most dangerous possible combination imaginable. It's why staggering levels of failure have now become the norm.

 

I would rip literally the entire thing up and start again. Every coach, every player - every single one of them gone and undertake an unprecedented level of rebuild with a totally different mindset from the off. The club comes first and **** pandering to any individuals. If it's not for you, then off you ****. This sounds drastic, but we're in complete crisis as a club and have now been relegated in abject fashion three times in four seasons. Literally anything is preferable to what is currently playing out.

 

Just running the club at 5/10 level would have us at worst, a strong Championship side.

 

I'd have Pearson involved in some form. Maybe a director of football sort of role is what he would be up for now anyway - I could be wrong but I'd imagine he'd like something more hands off. He's somebody who really understood what it meant to build gradually by adding the right characters to the club over a number of years and he was relatively well contacted, albeit he was pally with Ferguson who is no longer involved. It doesn't even necessarily have to be Pearson himself, but he ticks a lot of the boxes as somebody who will leave a club in a better place than he found it and even his naysayers would have to admit his judge of character was always spot on - I mean he had no time for the likes of Rudkin and Stringer from very early doors, which tells you a lot.

 

Impose a wage cap. Nothing too drastic but a figure that will allow us to get our finances in order whilst not totally limiting ourselves. This obviously can be increased incrementally with rising up the league. Generally this will mean aiming for younger players, but not to totally overlook the occasional older head as well.

 

Get rid of absolutely everything related to King Power with the exception of the Vichai statue - which I'd move to the memorial garden. In time our zombie element of the fanbase will remember that there was more to this club than those who currently occupy us and that there is far more to football than the insular delusion of the current regime.

 

A club policy of high tempo, high pressing football. I'm absolutely convinced at this point that part of the club policy in recruitment is to sign weak and small players because the owner can relate to it. Build a totally new image and bin off this complete madness.

 

Scout as far and wide as possible. Really learn value for money all over again. No dealings with sycophantic agents who we currently essentially work for by paying for their utter crap.

 

Honestly, most of these things are just basics. But we've been starved of them so long.

 

Just start acting like a football club again and not an arm of a tumbling foreign business. People will soon remember that football doesn't have to be permanently rubbish.

[lcfc278]

I think it's probably currently right down the pecking order in terms of priorities but if we go down, which we likely will - we need to start cutting costs.

It's complete madness that we have that huge training complex at Seagrave and yet the Women's team have Belvoir Drive. It's a nice story to say our Women's team have their own dedicated training ground etc. but in reality it's absolutely bonkers that we're paying for two training grounds, when we literally have one of the biggest and also probably one of the top 5 training grounds in the whole country where they could easily be accommodated.

 

Sell Belvoir Drive to some property developers as soon as possible.

Edited 15 April by lcfc278