The Curse.

[Buce]

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

[Fox92]

I'm happy anyway.

 

We haven't moved in the table. We're 8th and nobody can go above us.

 

The only worry is we have tough away games coming up within the next 4 weeks so we have to win our home games.

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

If we had won today we would have still been 8th and you wouldn't have seen this forum turn into the Samaritans inbox. Swings and roundabouts no point moaning about the odd result. Look how buzzing everyone was after Southampton away

[Matt]

Having drawns to the Mancs and taking their noisy neighbours to penalties was seen as a success.

 

I certainly wasn't dissatisfied and i'm delighted we're 8th.

 

What I am dissatisfied in is not taking games against the likes of Palace and Watford (And such games) in the circumstances and form they are/were in and losing to them.

 

Unacceptable.

Edited 26 December 2017 by Matt

[lifted*fox]

I've been feeling pretty satisfied for the last few weeks since Puel joined - we've been better and look to be going forward.

 

I've been proud to be down the KP again after feeling like I was losing interest towards the end of Shakespeare's time. 

 

I'd still be furious about some of the shit we're seeing even if we hadn't won the league. 

 

For me, it's not the results against Palace and Watford that have me fuming - it's the fact that we have these shit results because we're being lazy, stupid or because it's yet another glaring example of our inability as a club to address ****ing issues like set-pieces and buying decent ****ing players, in good time; in the ****ing transfer window - so we don't have to rely on players like King (god love him) when our first and second choice are unavailable.

 

I'm not looking for us to win the league again but I'm wondering why someone isn't sorting these obvious, glaring issues out. 

 

40 god damn years will go by and I'll still be sat there saying 'why can't we defend set-pieces, why didn't we buy a RIGHT BACK FFS'.

 

I literally don't think LCFC will buy another right back EVER. 

 

 

Edited 26 December 2017 by lifted*fox

[Sir Shep]

It’s not losing so much that bothers me, it’s how we lose. Quite a lot of tall people support Leicester I assume as they certainly ride high horses. 

[Matt]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I'm happy anyway.

 

We haven't moved in the table. We're 8th and nobody can go above us.

 

The only worry is we have tough away games coming up within the next 4 weeks so we have to win our home games.

 

Maybe not a bad thing, might make us take them seriously and turn up.

[Fox92]

Just now, Matt said:

 

Maybe not a bad thing, might make us take them seriously and turn up.

Dunno. 

Liverpool are very strong at home, Chelsea seem to be comfortable at home and Everton are a tighter ship now.

[Webbo]

Even if we are cursed, winning the league was so worth it.

[Jimothy]

I'm not overly worried, although losing to Watford and Palace was annoying when we've been in decent form and they haven't. We brought a new manager in between transfer windows and he's improved things with what we have. Now there's a transfer window coming up, and I don't expect him to sell every player he doesn't want or sign every player he does want, but it's now time for him to start shaping his squad. Let's see how things start to change.

[AyewJoking]

This is probably the mid table mediocrity a lot of us would have wanted 3 years ago.

Win, lose, draw. Play well, play crap.

 

Dream of Europe, worry about getting sucked into a relegation battle.

Edited 26 December 2017 by Royston.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Think I'm the opposite. A loss like today might have pissed me off or annoyed me more before the title win. Nowadays I can shrug it off a bit easier knowing that I've experienced the best it can ever get.

 

Almost like I cashed out on caring at that point because I feel like I've completed football.

[murphy]

1 hour ago, Buce said:

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

 

Speak for yourself.

 

I wouldn't trade the title for anything and I'm still wallowing in it to be honest.  As long as you understand that it was a miracle and can only happen once in 5000 times (according to bookmakers) it shouldn't affect your enjoyment or expectations for the future.  

 

Some people are never happy.  As Dr Seuss said - Don't be sad because it ended, smile because it happened.

 

 

[Gerard]

1 hour ago, Buce said:

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

 

An ancient Chinese curse:

 

"May all your wishes come true."

[Buce]

3 minutes ago, murphy said:

 

Speak for yourself.

 

I wouldn't trade the title for anything and I'm still wallowing in it to be honest.  As long as you understand that it was a miracle and can only happen once in 5000 times (according to bookmakers) it shouldn't affect your enjoyment or expectations for the future.  

 

Some people are never happy.  As Dr Seuss said - Don't be sad because it ended, smile because it happened.

 

 

 

Actually, I wasn't speaking for myself.

 

It was an observation based on the hysterical reactions after some games.

[Kitchandro]

1 hour ago, Buce said:

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

The two things aren’t linked at all.

 

We’re employing boring managers who play boring football and don’t get the best out of the players.

 

The reason the Man City match was a total failure was because that Man City reserve team wasn’t that great and yet we played our reserves instead of trying to win a trophy.

 

If our league win meant anything now then people wouldn’t be bothered about the league cup. But they are bothered, and the manager wasn’t. So people are annoyed.

[bovril]

Unless you support one of the richest clubs, I think Premier League football is, for the most part, pretty dull. Everybody from 8th down prioritises staying in the league. Even Everton, who had designs on breaking into the top 6, got Allardyce in with a view to surviving. They won't get anywhere near the CL in the next few years, they'll continue to finish 7th-12th until they run out of patience with Allardyce and start the cycle again. 

So you've got 1 club bankrolled by an actual country who will probably walk the league for the next few years, a few more bankrolled by obscenely wealthy people, and then 15 or 16 other clubs, owned by not-quite-as-obscenely wealthy people, who might occasionally break into the top ten, get the odd win against a big side and may go on a cup run, if they play their first team. Pretty boring. It's impossible to try and implement any American-style things like salary cap to try and create parity, it's too far gone, until the mega-rich break away to form a European league or something.

 

As Webbo said, it was worth it. For one glorious, mental season we broke the cycle of monotony that most mid-to-lower table clubs face. Nobody can ever say it couldn't be done. I can die a happy man now. As long as we play reasonably entertaining football I'll be satisfied, if we go down it'll probably more entertaining trying to get back up. I can't get some of the meltdowns that people have over it. 

Edited 26 December 2017 by bovril

[stripeyfox]

2 hours ago, Buce said:

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

Our utter damnation is to become like Forest fans for all eternity banging on about our glorious achievement.....

 

Worth it though....

 

[Monsell1976]

It’s not losing, it’s how we lose

[murphy]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

Unless you support one of the richest clubs, I think Premier League football is, for the most part, pretty dull. Everybody from 8th down prioritises staying in the league. Even Everton, who had designs on breaking into the top 6, got Allardyce in with a view to surviving. They won't get anywhere near the CL in the next few years, they'll continue to finish 7th-12th until they run out of patience with Allardyce and start the cycle again. 

So you've got 1 club bankrolled by an actual country who will probably walk the league for the next few years, a few more bankrolled by obscenely wealthy people, and then 15 or 16 other clubs, owned by not-quite-as-obscenely wealthy people, who might occasionally break into the top ten, get the odd win against a big side and may go on a cup run, if they play their first team. Pretty boring. It's impossible to try and implement any American-style things like salary cap to try and create parity, it's too far gone, until the mega-rich break away to form a European league or something.

 

As Webbo said, it was worth it. For one glorious, mental season we broke the cycle of monotony that most mid-to-lower table clubs face. Nobody can ever say it couldn't be done. I can die a happy man now. As long as we play reasonably entertaining football I'll be satisfied, if we go down it'll probably more entertaining trying to get back up. I can't get some of the meltdowns that people have over it. 

What a bleak and dismal outlook.  Football is about dreaming not about accepting your lot as an also ran.  It doesn't matter who you support, the start of each new season is a time for hope and optimism just with different goals whether you support Man City or Macclesfield.

[Father Ted]

4 hours ago, lifted*fox said:

I've been feeling pretty satisfied for the last few weeks since Puel joined - we've been better and look to be going forward.

 

I've been proud to be down the KP again after feeling like I was losing interest towards the end of Shakespeare's time. 

 

I'd still be furious about some of the shit we're seeing even if we hadn't won the league. 

 

For me, it's not the results against Palace and Watford that have me fuming - it's the fact that we have these shit results because we're being lazy, stupid or because it's yet another glaring example of our inability as a club to address ****ing issues like set-pieces and buying decent ****ing players, in good time; in the ****ing transfer window - so we don't have to rely on players like King (god love him) when our first and second choice are unavailable.

 

I'm not looking for us to win the league again but I'm wondering why someone isn't sorting these obvious, glaring issues out. 

 

40 god damn years will go by and I'll still be sat there saying 'why can't we defend set-pieces, why didn't we buy a RIGHT BACK FFS'.

 

I literally don't think LCFC will buy another right back EVER. 

 

 

I think we used our right back quota up when Martin Allen signed 7 of them in one transfer window. 

[Donut]

 

5 hours ago, Buce said:

 

As brilliant as it was to win the league, things will never be the same again. If it hadn't happened, being 8th, having just drawn with one set of Mancs and taken their noisy neighbours to penalties, would be seen as success.

 

It's like we sold our soul to the Devil to experience one glorious season, and the price is eternal dissatisfaction.

Sold our soul to the devil to experience one glorious season?

 

I dont really get it. We won the league which is beyond any expectation of leicester city. So is an fa cup. So is a league cup. Better teams than leicester compete for them.

 

The league title stays forever on the honours board.

 

In terms of being upset by individual defeats.... not really unless its a humiliation.

 

Were improving under puel. Were just as capable of taking points off liverpool as losing to watford.

 

There is little to no difference in quality between say 7th or 8th to probably 19th (swansea apart)

 

Its probably the curbishley effect. Charlton got bored of him and as soon as he had gone it all fell apart.

 

Miracle season apart we are about where we predict wed be so dont understand why we would moan or feel flat being where we expected to be. Unless you pull that highly unexpected season out the bag which by its very nature is the exception not the rule.

[Koke]

Football is generally closed shop. The winners in is decade prove it.

 

Non-big clubs who have won the League Cup since 2010:

 

Birmingham

Swansea

 

Non-big clubs who have won the FA Cup since 2010:

 

Wigan

 

Non-big clubs who have finished top 6 since 2010:

 

Leicester 

Newcaste

Southampton 

 

Its hard to win a cup or break inro the top 6. We are where we cos we are not a huge club and we are not bankrolled by a country. Our keeper will make the odd howler and our midfield will go missing from tine to time, thats our squad. Enjoy the wins and don't have big meltdowns over losses  (unless we lose 6-0 or something). 

Edited 27 December 2017 by Koke

[Benguin]

I'm still dreaming of being champions league again.

[sylofox]

Looking at the title I thought Puel had just won MoM.