To repeat what I just said on the match thread:
"If I remember correctly, it was the Birch who said years ago, that there was a smell of relegation around a club. I think that smell has permiated us this season and it has tainted everyone associated with LCFC. I don't think you can blame any one individual, the collective is to blame. It's a case of who holds the baby when we go down. Maybe we bring back Holloway who was unfortunate enough to be holding the baby when we succumbed to the trauma of relegation to the third tier."
I have not felt so low about my team of 60 odd years since then.
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comment by Bowstring (U17642)
posted 4 minutes ago
To repeat what I just said on the match thread:
"If I remember correctly, it was the Birch who said years ago, that there was a smell of relegation around a club. I think that smell has permiated us this season and it has tainted everyone associated with LCFC. I don't think you can blame any one individual, the collective is to blame. It's a case of who holds the baby when we go down. Maybe we bring back Holloway who was unfortunate enough to be holding the baby when we succumbed to the trauma of relegation to the third tier."
I have not felt so low about my team of 60 odd years since then.
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It’s a horrible feeling. I said in the summer that we could go down. That ridiculous summer transfer window of no investment in the squad was always going to be catastrophic, alongside the ongoing failure of Top to address the manager issue - now leaving it far too late for anything to be done
The club just screams relegation had done for a long time. When you’re a shambles at board level - it always catches up with you on the pitch. Those fans (and they know who they are) who have had their heads in the sand with regards to the ownership are about to get one hell of a shock, because relegation will be the easy bit
It's simply the end of an era.
A very sad end to our football fairytale.
It feels like we are relagated now, after watching two hapless coaches try and direct headless chickens around a football pitch. No quality on the ball, resigned to counter attacks, silly mistakes costing goals. Relegation fodder.
8 players out of contract, the players didn't want to player for BR, hence not signing contracts. Our two best players know they are leaving in the summer. How do you manage a dressing room like that. BR owns the biggest share of this mess, the owners bought into him, hook line and sinker, the footballing messiah on 10m a year.
There is still hope if we can get a strong leader in for the rest of this season, but what of our chances next season without Maddison, without Tielemens. It's hard to be positive right now.
Top is the only person responsible. He’s responsible for the financial mess. He had every chance to dispense with Rodgers and go for someone like Dyche and failed at every turn. He’s responsible for the mess with player contracts by allowing an incompetent board to continue its dysfunctional tenure. He’s responsible for the fact no one wants to manage a club with no short or medium term prospects. He’s responsible completely for throwing away his fathers legacy. He enabled, encouraged and handed over the reins to Rodgers and for that he should never be forgiven
I think these Tweets from Jason Bourne sum it up pretty well:
https://twitter.com/JasonBourne1986/status/1643518665009033217
"A club that's dug itself into a huge hole because of their inaction. Sticking with Stowell and Sadler isn't a plan. It's a lack of options because of supposed loyalty to a manager that wasn't cutting it.
All clubs - from Arsenal to Rochdale should have an idea about who their next manager will be.
If Arteta left tomorrow - Arsenal should know who they want. Leicester may well have a list - but their faith to Brendan Rodgers means it's no longer viable. What a mess.
If - as expected - S&S stay in charge on Saturday then how do you attract someone for 8 games Interim? Can they even make an impact in that short time? Someone permanent? Slim pickings for anyone as they don't know what league they'll be in. Wait to the summer? What a mess."
What a shambolic way to totally mismanage a football club and destroy a great man's legacy in one fell swoop.
I get it though Foxello. It sounds like Top, the club and players backed Rodgers to sort it out. They were wrong.
Thing is, he has done it before after really bad spells so I get why they waited, but it is evidently now a huge mistake.
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comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 5 hours, 18 minutes ago
I get it though Foxello. It sounds like Top, the club and players backed Rodgers to sort it out. They were wrong.
Thing is, he has done it before after really bad spells so I get why they waited, but it is evidently now a huge mistake.
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You almost make it sound like this devastating mistake which has serious ramifications for the future of our club was entirely understandable
The start warning signs were there even as far back as the FA cup game against Forest last season. This season - any other manager who had lost all 7 opening games in a row, as Rodgers did, would have been sacked. The way we were performing was alarming
Even after we picked up, Top has had 4 months since the end of the World Cup to act. 4 months to assess what has been blindingly obvious to every Leicester fan - that it’s broken and it’s not going to get better
Even if you want to somehow diminish the seriousness of the mistake and say you can understand it - you surely can’t argue that this isn’t the first serious mistake from our chairman. The financial gamble of 2021 was another serious mistake which now threatens the clubs short term financial future. The way player contracts have been allowed to drift under Rudkin is another serious mistake under Tops watch
You always seem sympathetic to a man who is demonstrating gross incompetence on an alarmingly regular basis. Do we have to be playing in the Vanarama conference before you’ll finally dare to criticise Top?
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posted on 4/4/23
To repeat what I just said on the match thread:
"If I remember correctly, it was the Birch who said years ago, that there was a smell of relegation around a club. I think that smell has permiated us this season and it has tainted everyone associated with LCFC. I don't think you can blame any one individual, the collective is to blame. It's a case of who holds the baby when we go down. Maybe we bring back Holloway who was unfortunate enough to be holding the baby when we succumbed to the trauma of relegation to the third tier."
I have not felt so low about my team of 60 odd years since then.
posted on 4/4/23
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posted on 4/4/23
comment by Bowstring (U17642)
posted 4 minutes ago
To repeat what I just said on the match thread:
"If I remember correctly, it was the Birch who said years ago, that there was a smell of relegation around a club. I think that smell has permiated us this season and it has tainted everyone associated with LCFC. I don't think you can blame any one individual, the collective is to blame. It's a case of who holds the baby when we go down. Maybe we bring back Holloway who was unfortunate enough to be holding the baby when we succumbed to the trauma of relegation to the third tier."
I have not felt so low about my team of 60 odd years since then.
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It’s a horrible feeling. I said in the summer that we could go down. That ridiculous summer transfer window of no investment in the squad was always going to be catastrophic, alongside the ongoing failure of Top to address the manager issue - now leaving it far too late for anything to be done
The club just screams relegation had done for a long time. When you’re a shambles at board level - it always catches up with you on the pitch. Those fans (and they know who they are) who have had their heads in the sand with regards to the ownership are about to get one hell of a shock, because relegation will be the easy bit
posted on 4/4/23
It's simply the end of an era.
A very sad end to our football fairytale.
It feels like we are relagated now, after watching two hapless coaches try and direct headless chickens around a football pitch. No quality on the ball, resigned to counter attacks, silly mistakes costing goals. Relegation fodder.
8 players out of contract, the players didn't want to player for BR, hence not signing contracts. Our two best players know they are leaving in the summer. How do you manage a dressing room like that. BR owns the biggest share of this mess, the owners bought into him, hook line and sinker, the footballing messiah on 10m a year.
There is still hope if we can get a strong leader in for the rest of this season, but what of our chances next season without Maddison, without Tielemens. It's hard to be positive right now.
posted on 4/4/23
Top is the only person responsible. He’s responsible for the financial mess. He had every chance to dispense with Rodgers and go for someone like Dyche and failed at every turn. He’s responsible for the mess with player contracts by allowing an incompetent board to continue its dysfunctional tenure. He’s responsible for the fact no one wants to manage a club with no short or medium term prospects. He’s responsible completely for throwing away his fathers legacy. He enabled, encouraged and handed over the reins to Rodgers and for that he should never be forgiven
posted on 5/4/23
I think these Tweets from Jason Bourne sum it up pretty well:
https://twitter.com/JasonBourne1986/status/1643518665009033217
"A club that's dug itself into a huge hole because of their inaction. Sticking with Stowell and Sadler isn't a plan. It's a lack of options because of supposed loyalty to a manager that wasn't cutting it.
All clubs - from Arsenal to Rochdale should have an idea about who their next manager will be.
If Arteta left tomorrow - Arsenal should know who they want. Leicester may well have a list - but their faith to Brendan Rodgers means it's no longer viable. What a mess.
If - as expected - S&S stay in charge on Saturday then how do you attract someone for 8 games Interim? Can they even make an impact in that short time? Someone permanent? Slim pickings for anyone as they don't know what league they'll be in. Wait to the summer? What a mess."
What a shambolic way to totally mismanage a football club and destroy a great man's legacy in one fell swoop.
posted on 5/4/23
I get it though Foxello. It sounds like Top, the club and players backed Rodgers to sort it out. They were wrong.
Thing is, he has done it before after really bad spells so I get why they waited, but it is evidently now a huge mistake.
posted on 5/4/23
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posted on 5/4/23
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 5 hours, 18 minutes ago
I get it though Foxello. It sounds like Top, the club and players backed Rodgers to sort it out. They were wrong.
Thing is, he has done it before after really bad spells so I get why they waited, but it is evidently now a huge mistake.
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You almost make it sound like this devastating mistake which has serious ramifications for the future of our club was entirely understandable
The start warning signs were there even as far back as the FA cup game against Forest last season. This season - any other manager who had lost all 7 opening games in a row, as Rodgers did, would have been sacked. The way we were performing was alarming
Even after we picked up, Top has had 4 months since the end of the World Cup to act. 4 months to assess what has been blindingly obvious to every Leicester fan - that it’s broken and it’s not going to get better
Even if you want to somehow diminish the seriousness of the mistake and say you can understand it - you surely can’t argue that this isn’t the first serious mistake from our chairman. The financial gamble of 2021 was another serious mistake which now threatens the clubs short term financial future. The way player contracts have been allowed to drift under Rudkin is another serious mistake under Tops watch
You always seem sympathetic to a man who is demonstrating gross incompetence on an alarmingly regular basis. Do we have to be playing in the Vanarama conference before you’ll finally dare to criticise Top?
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