S-Clarke

To be honest if we get 9 points and get to the City game on 38 points, I'm pretty confident we will be ok.

That's where I sit, it's obviously within the realms of possibility for a team to win the next 3 and end up on 38 points, but how can we do that? We've only won 2 games since November..!!!! We have 0 momentum to carry.

Blimey, you still believe! I think we're already gone tbh.

I think it's because he has an uncanny knack of just changing the team, game by game, for no real reason. With us he used the excuse of EL football, but he's chopped and changed the Leicester side in exactly the same vein. There's no denying that he was a disastrous appointment for us and he sucked the life out of football. As most people have said, the issue has come with us not replacing him correctly. Sacking him was the right decision as there was no way forward with him.

I honestly don't think he will ever play for us again.

How can they hold the realsitic ambition of being a top 10 premier league club, when we are staring down the barrel of the NPC. Our ownership is so disconnected. As someone has said, there is a huge void at the top and it's simply just filled by Ralf's hot air.

Poor Leicester. What a downgrade that would be.

Wouldn't expect him to ever play for us again tbh.

He did a good job with us, we had a good team and he walked into a well-financed outfit.....but better managers would have failed. Not getting first in L1 was frustrating, but a lot of that was due to our start (not with Adkins). Our run at the end of that season was incredible. He fostered a good team spirit with a good bunch of blokes. He didn't fail.

The difference is that they didn't have any big/powerful centre backs. He struggles big time against powerful centre forwards, just doesn't have the physichque. Thankfully neither do Bournemouth...

He's obviously a bit flawed mentally if he can't hack the tough times, bit of a negative mark against him really. I don't doubt he'd do well in a side that was flying, but you also need to have the ability to muck in when it's not. He's not interested in that side of it, like many of our players. That's why we can't get out of this slide.

I don't understand our recruitment since Koemans 2nd season really (Clasie, Juanmi, Cedric, Hoedt, Gabbiadni, Boufal, Hojberjg)- it's like we've forgotten we're a PL team. Just sign loads of technically gifted, yet physically lightweight players, sell all your power, pace and leaders and expect to do ok in the quick and powerful PL. Weird.

In a sense we're guilty of signing another 'big club' cast off, there's obviously reasons he hasn't made it elsewhere. I think he's got genuine quality, there's no doubting that....it's his mentality and application which needs to be questioned. He certainly doesn't look as dynamic or as quick as he did in the early days (Palace away for e.g.). He's obviously suffering with confidence as per the rest of the side, but if anything it again shows that he's not really of the right mentality.

It might work out, but I'm not sure it's always wise going back and I wouldn't want to ruin the memories of those years. I still think the likes of Richardson, Butterfield, Chaplow, Lambert, Hammond, Morgan, Fonte, Puncheon (when not in trouble), Connolly (when fit!), Davis, and Chamberlain were really good championship players in L1, so even though he inherited a weird situation we always had the ability to get going eventually at that level. Being able to then go up, keep them together and add the likes of Fox, Cork, Jos etc was only going to improve us. His positivity helped us, but so did the mass of leaders we had in that group. There's no surprise we are where we are now, I don't think we have a genuine leader out there. Leadership type players can sometimes be underestimated, they don't always need to be the best players in the world...but it's the mentality which sets them apart.

Positional sense is poor, reading of the game is poor, slow as hell, weak as ****, passive and non-vocal, clumsy and has very poor coordination. Apart from that he's great.

Hoedt is a complete bambi on ice. I honestly cannot see anyone coming in for him in the summer, I’ve not been impressed with him at all. Looks like his legs are too long for him to manage half the time, and his height doesn't benefit us as he's not physically strong enough to win aerial duels anyway. And add to the fact he is another passive player, not very vocal and certainly not a leader. Another win for our great Ross.

I think sometimes people are a bit blinded by the past, it was the right time when we had him in the past and he inherited a phenomenal team for L1 level - then carried on the momentum into the Champ, of which the players that we had in L1 were already Champ players anyway. No discredit to Adkins as he will always leave fond memories with me, but that team in a sense could kind of manage itself. Stacked full of leaders with Fonte, Hammond, Lambert, Jos, Butterfield etc. He wouldn't have anywhere near the luxury with us this time. I think we'd need a stronger personality if I'm honest.

I was thinking more along the lines of players we have atm, who will be desperate to do one.

They had a bumpy first season back down, but they invested heavily on proven players at that level and experience from the level above (Snodgrass, Chester, Jedinak, Hogan, Kodjoa, Terry etc). Wolves also invested heavily on Neves, Costa, Boly, Jota etc. (they're a bit of an extreme example though)

Good listen. Also worth noting that everyone’s transfer business will have to be rammed into a single month, as the transfer window shuts before the first game of the season. (Pretty sure this applies to all English leagues). Given that we have the world cup between June-July (players will be with their national teams by the end of may), that leaves around a month from mid-July when the players are back from their holidays to get their houses in order. That will certainly focus some eyes...

TBF, if anything, more at home will probably end up being a hinderence rather than a positive. They'll get 3 points out of that lot though, if by draws or a win somewhere. And that will be enough.

The sad thing is that they will probably all get gigs in a top flight league, as they do have ability. They're just not leaders, none of them. So when the chips are down and the going is tough we wilt, no one grabs the team, no one brings it together. It really is pathetic to see and whilst blame will lie with the players, the recruitment team should shoulder a lot of it as they have managed to assemble this leaderless bunch of players that will never, ever gel together. It all needs to be ripped up and started again and I don't want the people involved in putting this lot together anywhere near a 'rebuild'.

We need to win the 3 games to put ourselves on the front foot, you're probably right in that 38 points will be enough, but if we go into the City game with less than 35 points then it's game over. We need to go into that game with our head above water.

Let's be honest, we've got to win the next 3 games to put ourselves on the front foot here. If we go into the Man City home game with any less than 35 points then it's done. Can't see it to be honest. We just cannot win football matches, it's a very horrible slide to get into and very hard to reverse.

They should give them away for free to people who have been going for the last 2 seasons. Actually, no, they will need to pay me. I think that's fair.