RevidgeBlue

If I was running another Club apart from Leicester I dont give a flying one about them but I'll do anything I can for my Club So if my Club goes down because the EFL haven't deducted Leicester the maximum number of points possible for what I perceive to be flagrant and repeated breaches of FFP Id like to think Id be sueing the arse off the EFL. Similarly If Im running Leicester I'll do everything I possibly can to avoid relegation. Therefore I'll argue that the imposition of the maximum deduction is overly harsh if that's what sends us down. Or if a lesser deduction still sends us down I'll argue that the sporting integrity of the competition has been skewed because we played the last four games thinking at the time we only needed three points to stay up as opposed to the nine we with hindsight needed due to a six point deduction imposed after the season finished. Don't think you can blame any Club if they were to appeal in those sort of circumstances. The EFL should have sorted it earlier and maybe there should be a rule that points deductions can't be imposed later than a certain date in the early part of any season.

The EFL must just be crossing their fingers and hoping that Leicester stay up by at least 10 points then they can just dish out the maximum 9 point punishment either just before the end of the season or as soon as it finishes then Leicester will just accept it and no-one else has any recourse. Any other outcome and I cant see how the EFL dont get sued by someone.

Yep. It's a bit like if we went down by one point and had lost two due to the Ipswich abandonment. Is it unfair ( that they didnt just replay the last 10 - 15 mins under the same conditions) ? Probably. Is it our own fault - definitely. No-one outside of the 2 Clubs will be shedding a tear for either of us though.

I know - they might "turn over possession" deep in the opposition half or something. Just think of the damage that could do to those possession stats. Obviously far more of a cardinal sin than pissing about in your own penalty area and giving a completely needless goal away. As long as you tried to play it out "the right way" that's all that matters!

Fill the manager's vacancy and a squad place in midfield . Double bubble. Anyone have facial recognition software? 😆

If it's the one Ive seen it's really good, fascinating stuff, particularly the early footage from Scotland but as you would expect we're relegated to an honourable foot note in the closing titles! 😂

Eddie will be happy.

2 centre forwards who both know where the back of the net is Leave 2 up front at corners Genuine wingers who can cross a ball and beat a man with a bit of skill Players in general who can beat a man with a bit of skill as opposed to simply outpacing them. Something a bit more creative than simply "over-loading" ie. just trying to get 2 players on one Players with a bit of technique who can hit the back of the net as opposed to row Z if they try a shot from 25 yards. Defenders who think their primary job is to keep the ball out of their net and not try and be Michel Platini Never ever give a goal away pissing about with the ball in your defensive third of the pitch. Keepers who have re - learnt the long lost arts of narrowing down angles, catching the ball instead of punching it and thereby not giving it straight back to the opposition and commanding their 6 yard area. And above all realising they're also there to stop the ball going in the back of the net, not to try and be Lionel Messi. Stupid I know. Will never catch on.

That's a fair point isnt it. We might look slightly more attractive to potential candidates with Championship status guaranteed.

Nope. I dont believe there was some sudden sort of big bust up but Ismael tanked from the moment he arrived. They should have had contingency plans in place months ago.

I can't tell if you're deliberately trolling there but go on Ill bite. I couldnt care less about the Kean link. Allardyce also worked with him and most people would have him back. I just think Coleman is a really poor Coach. Serial failure. In 3 of his last 6 jobs he's had win ratios around the 25% mark plus in a 4th one (Sunderland) 17 %

What would that be? 15% of 56 m - £8.4m? "We'll give you 10% - £840,000" "Robbie?" "You still there Robbie?"

It will also feel like that if Coleman is appointed tbf. Im pretty confident that link is a wind up/red herring but let's see.

It certainly feels that way most of the time. But then why bother sacking Ismael at all? If they really wanted to stick it to us they'd have just left him in charge and saved themselves some money.

Ive no idea why either. We occasionally get linked with lower League managers (Wellens/Richardson etc) but they dont seem to be the best we could go for

Why would I judge him by anything other than his spell in the same League that we're in? What he may or may not have done in the Lower Leagues in France is frankly completely irrelevant. Not sure what he's done in Ligue 1 but obviously it didnt translate over here. Edit: It would appear from Wiki that in Ligue 1 he took over a team that had finished 7th the previous season and left them in 8th a year later. Sounds solid rather than earth shattering.

He's already done well at Macclesfield tbf. Then again so did Ince.

It's been pointed out. ☺️

Was surprised to learn earlier on today a billionaire owned Rochdale. Then again no-one could ever possibly buy us

Don't get the love in for Will Still though. Comes into the "Don't touch with a bargepole" category for me after his performance at Southampton.

Lot of doom and gloom about about the possible identity of the next man but lets not forget if he manages two wins in his first fourteen games that's still better than Ismael managed in his last 14.

You're right. I stand corrected.

Just by way of illustration his very first game was away at Oxford I think and we went one up, retreated into our shells as was Mowbray's tendancy, and ending up drawing 1-1. Stuart (formerly of this parish) went absolutely ballistic and was giving it "What the **** has he done to deserve to be even anywhere near this job etc etc" I thought that was harsh for his first game and rememember leaping to Mowbray's defence. The bigger point is that he had plenty of chance overall to get us out of it, the two games we eventually won at the end turned out to be too late and came after a run of no wins in seven I think. But as we keep saying the relegation wasn't all his fault or even primarily his fault.

Yes, our level of ambition really only suits an unemployed desperado keen to get back into work of some sort. Lambert/Coyle/Mowbray/Ismael etc. The outliers were JDT and Eustace -they were also unemployed at the time but their careers weren't on downward trajectories.

There's probably no more foundation to it than the Coleman links. Without blowing anyone's trumpet on this site O Rourke has probably had a look on here at some point and thought That's a good suggestion, "I can get plenty of clicks out of that" Same with Coleman, someone's probably either on quite an ingenious wind up or has seen the early betting odds and has made 2 +2 =5. It's only day 2 of the search most of the earlier names linked are invariably complete nonsense. I can barely remember Ismael's name being mentioned until Nixon said he was on a shortlist of 2 with Wagner a day or two before it happened.