James McCarron

[davieG]

20 minutes ago, lfu said:

He spent most of the interview waffling about "young players bringing us energy" and "there's a real energy about the place at Seagrave"

He's thoroughly bought in to the Russell Martin way of thinking ffs

So why has Russell opted for more experience?

[Freeman's Wharfer]

9 hours ago, Dan said:

Martin was their plan all along. They just brought someone in who'd play ball.

 

He's everything I expected. Another fraud who needs out. Glover needs to go as well.

Exactly.

How could the managerial appointment be the most important priority and then end up being a guy the incumbents were already wanting to appoint?!

 

He’s simply a yes man and what’s the point in having a Sporting Director if you then let the manager just sign all his old mates or you bring in Wes Burns because he’s good mates with Chaplin?

 

Waste of a wage at a time when the club can’t afford to pay people unnecessarily. It was always just a way to look like doing something without fixing the real problem of Rudkin.

[SafewayFox]

Offloading players signed to play in the Premier League when in League One isn’t an achievement.

 

He’s simply cleaning up the mess.

What I take umbrage with McCarron’s interview was his complete fabrication of his use of data, we’ve signed Martin’s mates in the main with zero evidence of data.

 

[kingfox]

Quite surprised his comments haven’t garnered more attention tbh, his comments are seriously concerning imo. 
 

When we appointed Steve Cooper and the recruitment that followed, you had a feeling it would set us back years, but I don’t think we quite envisioned being in League 1. 
 

But here we are again, with no lessons learnt, just a fancy new Sporting Director from City Group, who you just knew would come with ideas that no Leicester City fans want. We have had yet another transfer window that could set us back years, either languishing as a mid table League 1 team or worse, League 2. 
 

The group of players that have been signed on the back of their history with Russell Martin, plus the likes of Chaplin and Burns, it’s just lazy unimaginative recruitment that could yet again hinder us for years to come. When Martin gets sacked, we’ll yet again have a bunch of players on unnecessary contracts that we’ll probably struggle to get rid of. 
 

McCarron, Rudkin and Glover have blood on their hands. 

[cityfanlee23]

Pep Guardiola is one of the worst things that ever happened to Leicester City... 

Edited yesterday at 12:32 by cityfanlee23

[Cincinnati Fox]

Scary interview….

 

this tied with Martin I don’t see how we stay up and not getting promotion this year probably means liquidation 

Vid from 1.45-2.45 is insanity 

Edited yesterday at 15:12 by Cincinnati Fox

[Globalfox]

Having listened to his interview again I am really worried.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

1 hour ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

Scary interview….

 

this tied with Martin I don’t see how we stay up and not getting promotion this year probably means liquidation 

Vid from 1.45-2.45 is insanity 

That’s wild. And you could just imagine it’s the kind of thing that’s being said behind closed doors when Martin’s reeling off stats about the number of shots the team has had when he’s engaging with a fan.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

The quote have gave yesterday basically confirms his own role as redundant. They've been chasing Martin for ages, this guy comes in and they just ploughed on with the "plan" they had before he arrived.

[l444ry]

Just an under qualified shield for Jon Rudkin.  

[AjcW]

My main disappointment isn’t actually signings. It’s that we haven’t appeared to implement any strength and conditioning changes which is his background and strength. Players still look lazy and knackered after an hour. 
 

No changes at all to that team, either sackings or appointments, no sports science etc brought in yet

[trooky]

8 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

Exactly.

How could the managerial appointment be the most important priority and then end up being a guy the incumbents were already wanting to appoint?!

 

He’s simply a yes man and what’s the point in having a Sporting Director if you then let the manager just sign all his old mates or you bring in Wes Burns because he’s good mates with Chaplin?

 

Waste of a wage at a time when the club can’t afford to pay people unnecessarily. It was always just a way to look like doing something without fixing the real problem of Rudkin.

I'm not sure why your surprised by this?

 

Rudkin and Top aren't goint to employ anyone who contradicts their vision for the club.

 

He's here to recruit players for the Topkin philosophy of slow laborious possession based football. 

 

Nothing will change untill King Power and Rudkin go. 

[inckley fox]

I'm just surprised that an appointment made by people with a dreadful history of making appointments, and a habit of appointing people to high positions who do little other than tell them that their deluded ideas were right all along, was in any way anticipated as a positive.

 

In that interview he implies that Russell Martin was successful in Scotland, League One and the Premier League, which is possibly the most misleading and demonstrably wrong statement I've ever heard from anyone in football. I've been relatively nice on here, apologetic at times perhaps, towards our board and managers, but you can't get away with that level of straight-up nonsense. When you say something like that, you're so obviously a part of the problem rather than the solution that it's painful.

 

In 2017 we were told, by many of these self-same people, that the only way of sustaining success was to about-turn on everything Pearson/Walsh/Shakespeare/Ranieri (the people that actually created the success, as opposed to KP, whether you like them or not) had set up. Nearly a decade down the line, after the most spectacular collapse ever seen in the game, it's bordering on comical that they're still finding yes men out there to tell them that they were right all along.

 

When, in reality, the degree to which they were wrong is so evidently, in-your-face obvious that it's untrue. And every time they have a review to see where they went wrong, the conclusion seems to be that - for the most part - they were right all along. Followed by, invariably, another massive, avoidable and predictable downturn precisely because of that 'back-slapping culture' they've fostered.

 

If you want to realign the club, and have something saleable which will entice investors, then a good starting point would be to disavow all these massive preconceptions which they, and pretty much only they, held which led us to ruin. Who on earth would want to buy a club which is plummeting as badly as ours, with a fanbase as disenfranchised as ours, when there is zero interest in addressing the obvious problems? You have to fire the manager, his coaches, and list half the playing staff before you get started.

 

The board are just itching for us to pick up a result or two - which we probably will - and justify their insane decision-making on the grounds that there's a glimmer of hope. But sides that expect to win a league (even though we leaked to the Athletic that our targeted points total was actually lower than would guarantee automatic promotion - such is the depth of our incompetence!) tend to demand results that would allow that to happen. With our board, the bar has been set way too low for Russell Martin.

 

If they fail to sack him now, they are very transparently failing to demand the standards that allow promotion to happen. But they can't sack him. Because you can't be that outspoken in defying a fanbase by appointing him, and then wheel out your DoF and SD to say that you're fully behind this brand of football, only to sack him 24 hours later. They have put themselves in this position, yet again, whereby they can't make the most patently easy and necessary decision in the world.

[Blue ROI]

Another Rudkin x Nepo Baby no mark.

[Chelmofox]

Walked past him at Barnsley away. Looked like many a middle management consultant wet wipe I’ve seen throughout my career. I’m sure he spends most of his day saying yes and being as unaccountable as possible. 

[Edingleyfox]

It just seems to me that the club hierarchy have put far too much faith in Martin not just his style of play but the signings of new players many on 3+ year contracts. Can anyone say that the squad is much stronger with the exception of Emil Riis and several

players have been really disappointing.A lot of this is not on McCarron but I wonder how much discussion has gone on in private about a plan B if results don’t improve after say 10 games.

[inckley fox]

At times, it feels like the priority is for them to prove that their ideas were right all along, rather than doing whatever is best for the club. If they can't sack this manager now - because of their defiance in appointing him, or their bullishness in interviews this week - then that really would underline everything that's wrong with the club.

 

None of their internal reviews seem to address this core issue that you can't run a club in a way which disregards its identity. Their ongoing trope that we were practically a non-entity before they turned up is hardly going to help either. It all smacks of a massive disrespect for the club and its culture. And that shows with the general feeling of disengagement among fans too.

[DezFox]

9 hours ago, DennisNedry said:

I listened to his interview with an open mind.

 

I thought he actually sounded like he had a few brain cells, unlike Rudkin.

 

We all thought that his transfer business was good. A lot of deadwood cleared. Some good (on the face of it at least) signings.

 

However, he seems to be completely and utterly wedded to Russell Martin and his turgid style of play. Huge red flag unfortunately.

Sorry did we all think his transfer business was good? I thought it was honking? People gave him far too much credit. Old Crocked players who turns out are not leaders. 

[cityfanlee23]

So essentially as long as McCarron is here we are in massive trouble. We are not going to sack Martin because McCarron is absolutely wedded to this style, and Martin is the best candidate that would come to us that plays this style. So unless someone like Thiago Motta has a fall and hits his head, we are stuck with Martin until it's too late, and then we will take a punt on a random manager nobody has ever heard of from an obscure league in Europe because he plays this system. 

It really feels like our only hope is someone is stupid enough to buy us, yet intelligent enough to kick these frauds out. 

[cityfanlee23]

3 hours ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

Scary interview….

 

this tied with Martin I don’t see how we stay up and not getting promotion this year probably means liquidation 

Vid from 1.45-2.45 is insanity 

Never seen this before. The way this guy talks reminds me of 90% of the corporate D*ckheads you see on LinkedIn. 

[CosbehFox]

He will be wedded to Martin. The links are obvious. 
 

Jason Wilcox appointed Russell Martin to Southampton. The same summer Joe Shields arrived from Manchester City. Wilcox from the City Group too. 
 

Who worked under Wilcox and Shields at City Group? Our good man James 

 

All a big ****ing clique 

[murphy]

We now have two Rudkins.

[fazzyfox]

9 minutes ago, murphy said:

We now have two Rudkins.

Can’t wait til it’s “Goodnight from him and a goodnight from me” time!

[Oldblueyes]

13 hours ago, AjcW said:

My main disappointment isn’t actually signings. It’s that we haven’t appeared to implement any strength and conditioning changes which is his background and strength. Players still look lazy and knackered after an hour. 
 

No changes at all to that team, either sackings or appointments, no sports science etc brought in yet

Our sports scientist is Barbara  behind the food counter at Seagrave, her reply to fitness is "do you want peas or beans with that".

[VLC86]

Just listening to this. I’ve said it elsewhere, but they 100% did this before a run of Peterborough, Doncaster and Bromley thinking we win easily and it’s absolutely gone to shit immediately. Quite funny really from that point of view, complete chancers.