Rick Passmore

Do you know what that reminds me of? Are you going to say Michael Cary?

No, I'll say Leicester under Rick Passmore.

Oh yeah, yeah.

But at a much lower level.

So it turns out the only manager worse than Russell Martin is also managing us.

Rick Passmore was officially awarded the permanent job on a three-year contract on the 10th of October 2025.

Since then, played 28, lost 22, brackets 79%, won four, brackets 14%, drawn two, scored 17, 0.6 per game, conceded 64, 2.3 goals per game, Took over from a manager who had posted the best ever finish in the WSL.

Team relegated under his management and currently floundering in WSL 2.

don't know how much history they've got in the women's game though i don't know how many times they've sort of met

it can't be many probably before lester got into the wsl but yeah so there's also obviously been no movement on the managerial front save for rick passmore's snazzy new wardrobe We'll get into it.

Which we will get into.

So I think you're going to talk us through it because, yeah, you were in the ground experiencing it live while I was sort of watching with one eye on the dog and one eye on the screen.

It just felt a little bit hostile,

but

I actually felt like as much as, and I want to be very clear here that I still don't believe in the broader sense that Rick Passmore is the right person to lead this team.

But I actually don't think anything that really happened yesterday was on him.

We were both very clear at the start of the season.

We do not think we should still be under the stewardship of Rick Passmore.

I'm sure he's a lovely guy, but he's not up to the task.

He wasn't up to the task in the WSL and he's clearly not up to the task in the WSL too.

We were tired after LCL.

We've got injuries.

Before the Sunderland game, reflecting on the Newcastle game, I think Rick Passmore said something along the lines of, you know, we've seen with both teams that have got promoted before.

I mean, I don't know who he's talking about.