"This season's performance could have a seismic effect . . "

[fleabane]

"This seasons performance could have a seismic effect on the club, and what they're about to do in the future" - Austin Healey.

It's about time somebody said that.

Ben Kay awfully quiet.

What plans are being scuppered by the dire performances we've seen?

[RagingBull]

Nothing has been scuppered.

He is on about Tigers and going down the rich club route like Glous are.

[Mark62]

Nothing has been scuppered.

He is on about Tigers and going down the rich club route like Glous are.

Which may need to happen if we are to compete. Maybe Mr Kingpower has some spare bart floating around

[TigerCam]

Nothing has been scuppered.

He is on about Tigers and going down the rich club route like Glous are.

Which may need to happen if we are to compete. Maybe Mr Kingpower has some spare bart floating around

After the Foxes game to night he may well have considered changing games? If he did, after Paris, he will now dismiss it as 'senior' moment

[fortysix]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the :censored: hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

[TigerCam]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

Johnno, Deano don't want an invite. Austin - no disrespect but I hope not?

[RagingBull]

Johnno would come back for a board spot.

It wouldn't attract the media attention a DOR post would.

[RagingBull]

Would try to bring back Pat Howard as director of perfomance type role or something (board role).


Would bring in a proper CEO with a history of running a sports club, is there a football CEO who might fancy a change into rugby like Clayton did?

[jgriffin]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

Twaddle. If you go back to before 2010 we had doom-mongers going on and on and on....all it proves that in sport, as in life in general, if you go on long enough you get a chance to claim you were right.

[Mark62]

But also where is the leadership group on the pitch.
I know he is an exception but at 19 Itoje was captaining the Saracens A team to a competition win. We have no one even approaching that

[TigerCam]

But also where is the leadership group on the pitch.
I know he is an exception but at 19 Itoje was captaining the Saracens A team to a competition win. We have no one even approaching that

Sarries have planned well and been really patient in bringing on their young players in a good work ethic

[Cagey Tiger]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

Twaddle. If you go back to before 2010 we had doom-mongers going on and on and on....all it proves that in sport, as in life in general, if you go on long enough you get a chance to claim you were right.

+1

[mol2]

But also where is the leadership group on the pitch.
I know he is an exception but at 19 Itoje was captaining the Saracens A team to a competition win. We have no one even approaching that

Even if we had a star youngster do you think we would have picked him ahead of the establishment other than for injury cover? Beyond Manu I don't recall it.
Will Evans perhaps being the only recent youngster to get game time and injuries may have forced that.

As for leaders on the field we have been sorely lacking since Corry retired.
A bit of organisation from Anthony Allen perhaps.

Is that because players have felt unable to show leadership or is it because the coaching regime has discouraged leaders? Probably a mixture of both.

This season has been a slow motion crash in the making for a number of years, possibly as far back as Pat Howard's departure.

Tigers have not looked the sum of their parts for a long time, the difference is that that perhaps got masked because we had the quality of players to get away with the team not functioning. This season has cruelly exposed the lack of quality in key areas, compounded by injuries to many of the better players. These days there simply isn't the cash to bring in quality players & talented youngsters seem to be reluctant to come here, perhaps because they don't feel that being the best player in their position will be enough to get them regular game time ahead of the establishment.

Why are we not the sum of our parts? We have stale in-house coaching set up and a capacity to loose key players who perhaps challenged the establishment. I suspect we lack the money to afford top players, let alone for less money than other clubs as the Kudos of being a Tigers player is not what it once was.

[h's dad]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

What a thoroughly bizarre, ill-informed and contradictory post

[Crumblies]

Despite all the Happy Clappers pontifications over the last few years, all the negatives Doom Mongers have intimated over the last few years has come to pass-------on a truly massive scale.
We are now a very very average team, with a few ''stars'' who dont always perform when the hits the fan, and a whole schebang of average journeymen. Triers but not up to the ghosts of our very illustrious past
Time to clear out most of the Board and the Coaching staff, half the squad, and start afresh.
Johnno Healey Richards as priorities.
Wellsy wont come back

What a thoroughly bizarre, ill-informed and contradictory post

Politenes and respect for someone else's opinion dictate that you should qualify your response with 'IMHO' (in my humble opinion).

Since you haven't my response to you is 'Bozo' & I'm being polite