About the start of a football season in my life than this one. Just looking at the fixture list and then glancing over at the PL kick off next weekend and I think I’m still staggered at what we’re doing in this division.
How on earth we’ve conspired to be playing Coventry City while keeping an eye out for the Leeds v Cardiff fixture is utterly beyond me and speaks volumes of what a shambles of an ownership we have these days
I feel like I couldn’t care less anymore - I’m just utterly facking depressed about returning to this shiiiithole of a division after watching us finish top 5 and win the FA cup 2 years ago.
This isn’t the club it was and I doubt it will be again without new ownership. Let’s hope we can hit the ground running because if we don’t - I’m not sure I can stand another 10 years of oblivion
I’ve never been less excited
posted on 5/8/23
I completely get that 99 and I don’t think you will find many of us that do not agree that there are issues and failing at Boardroom level and with certain personnel, we all know that Rudkin is useless and unfortunately untouchable and that last season the board were left wanting week in, week out.
I don’t quite understand how hiring Maresca is a ‘grandiose’ move as he was being linked to a few clubs at this level at the time, plus I would throw it out there that we are not ‘seduced into accepting this situation’ as we are fully aware of the failings but that a majority see this as the opportunity of a reset and fresh start and are excited about a new manager and a new way of playing, hopefully with players that show fight and pride.
That’s just my take on it, I would be interested what others on here think as I may be in a minority of 1 obviously 😂😂
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posted on 5/8/23
Hiring Maresca is a massive gamble. He has little managerial experience and none at Championship level. It's aimed at competing at the top table when we get promoted. He doesn't have the players he's used to dealing with. Nor is he going to get them.
It could all go disastrously wrong. I absolutely don't want it to, but it could.
posted on 5/8/23
I’m in that camp DUTAC. I’m not convinced we’ve done enough in the transfer window to start with a bang but I’m optimistic that under Maresca we can at least build this year and arrest the decline that we’ve seen under Rodgers for the last 3 years.
I really hope that we can do it. But it’s the hope that kills you isn’t it!!!
posted on 5/8/23
BTW I hope I'm being too pessimistic. I really do.
posted on 5/8/23
What I don’t get is the excitement when nothing at the top of the club has changed. What’s to be excited about? Surely it’s only a matter of time before the same failings re-appear if they haven’t been fixed in the first place - Maresca or not
In the same fans got obsessed that Rodgers was the cause of all our woes, some are now getting fixated on Maresca being the man to rebuild the entire club. It just doesnt work like that. If the cake tin is dented, every cake you bake - no matter how many times you start over, is going to have a dent in it
posted on 5/8/23
I really don't like being in the same camp as 99p. I really don't. I'd much prefer to be 'excited' by the coming season, and looking forward to us smashing the league under Maresco. I just don't think we're heading in that direction. I seriously hope we're both totally wrong.
posted on 5/8/23
Looking forward to us being on top of the league tomorrow evening with a 6-0 thrashing of Cov. Maybe.
posted on 5/8/23
comment by 99 Problems (but Rodgers ain’t one) (U12353)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
What I don’t get is the excitement when nothing at the top of the club has changed. What’s to be excited about? Surely it’s only a matter of time before the same failings re-appear if they haven’t been fixed in the first place - Maresca or not
In the same fans got obsessed that Rodgers was the cause of all our woes, some are now getting fixated on Maresca being the man to rebuild the entire club. It just doesnt work like that. If the cake tin is dented, every cake you bake - no matter how many times you start over, is going to have a dent in it
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But the cake can still look nice and taste amazing even with a dented tin…. 🤔
posted on 5/8/23
comment by Don'tUpsetTheAppletonCart (U13248)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by 99 Problems (but Rodgers ain’t one) (U12353)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
What I don’t get is the excitement when nothing at the top of the club has changed. What’s to be excited about? Surely it’s only a matter of time before the same failings re-appear if they haven’t been fixed in the first place - Maresca or not
In the same fans got obsessed that Rodgers was the cause of all our woes, some are now getting fixated on Maresca being the man to rebuild the entire club. It just doesnt work like that. If the cake tin is dented, every cake you bake - no matter how many times you start over, is going to have a dent in it
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But the cake can still look nice and taste amazing even with a dented tin…. 🤔
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Ok - it wasn’t the best illustration granted. Let’s say if you keep building a house on a foundation made of quicksand then eventually it’s gonna sink again
As a club we don’t have that solid foundation the likes of Brighton and I’d even say Forest do. Forest in particular are now getting it right upstairs which is influencing their direction on the pitch (look at where they were under Fawaz before Marianakis got hold of them). They’ve learned from their haphazard recruitment strategy of last season (got rid of Chandler) and have aspirations of developing the Brighton approach.
We need to get it right from the top because hiring Maresca alone, no matter how good he is, will never be enough. Do you want to lose a talented but frustrated manager? Or if Enzo is the messiah some are believing him to be, do you want him to build a successful team and guide us back to where we were? He can’t do it on his tod.
posted on 5/8/23
comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
I really don't like being in the same camp as 99p. I really don't. I'd much prefer to be 'excited' by the coming season, and looking forward to us smashing the league under Maresco. I just don't think we're heading in that direction. I seriously hope we're both totally wrong.
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It’s not a camp I enjoy either. I reckon people think I want Leicester to fail. Nothing would make me happier than being totally wrong about the direction of a club. If I thought we had learned a SINGLE thing from our relegation experience I’d be delighted. I don’t see we have.
The Athletic reported that Maresca had been approached after Rodgers was sacked. He was always going to come here (if he wanted to). We ended up with Smith because he wanted to finish the season with Man City. We’ve been relegated and still hired him - that shows no thought process for the division and situation we’re in. It just means we carried on regardless. It might work - it might not.