Are the losses easier to take since the title win?

[lee7]

5 hours ago, fox in the sox said:

I know  a few supporters who take the losses better.

 

Possible reasons?

 

-we know that we have experienced something amazing so it is now difficult to get too angry.

-whatever the results, it will never be that exciting again.

-we are very much a mid-table side now so a few losses here and there don't make much difference.

-or maybe it is the current manager, supporters are indifferent about him and the style of play, some are losing interest.

After winning the title I thought that this would be the case but for me it hasn't changed.

i still get p*ssed off for a day or so when we play poorly or don't get the result we should/could be getting. 

[W88DY]

3 minutes ago, sylofox said:

End of the day we are leicester

Not Chelsea man City or utd. Some need to grow up and get real. 

We are who we are but with quality international players,  didn`t the owners come in and say they had a 5 year plan and want to see us finish in the top 6 in five years time? We only won the title cus the bigger teams wasn't picking up points and we were!

It was a one off and we will never see that happen again in our lifetimes but this season I expect better things to come just as long as he plays one of his new cb`s instead of Morgan ffs... 

[ajthefox]

I can get pretty annoyed at the time, but then I start thinking about other things and get on with my week.

 

I think the above probably covers half the board and the other half are still foaming from saturday and wearing out the P,U,E,L,O,U & T keys on their keyboards.

Edited 8 October 2018 by ajthefox

[Golden Fox]

A bit of a lame example, but you know what its like when you have a computer game that is flippin' hard, and virtually impossible to complete, but you play it and play it - you have that burning desire to persevere - and then one day, it all falls right and you complete it...

 

Satisfaction. Job done. 

 

So you move onto other games. You still enjoy playing it, and you might go back and have a go at that game once in a while, but you know that it is just for a bit of fun, as you won't put the time in again to get anywhere near to completing it as you just don't have the drive as you have proved you can do it?

 

A lame example as following football and Leicester City is such a massive part of life, you don't give up and move onto other things...

 

...but you know that feeling of having completed the game so that burning desire is extinguished a little as you have proved that you can do it? 

[UPinCarolina]

I think that they are in some ways more frustrating because you've seen the sublime.

That being said, Everton was a tough one to stomach only because I feel like we've done more to harm ourselves this season than anyone else has.

[Guest Manini]

If you think it’s easier to take then you’re looking at it in the wrong way IMO.

 

I think what you need though, is a bit of perspective and to look at the bigger picture. The title win is gone, end of, we’ve all accepted that. Losing, I accept, it’s part of sport and every team in the history of sport has lost sometimes. However it’s the performances that piss me off more than anything sometimes. We’re a good team, a very good, established premier league team with some bloody good players, but when it’s just obvious they’re not at it and the effort isn’t there that’s what ****s me off. Every single one of us would give our yearly salaries to put that shirt on and play for Leicester city and sometimes these ****ers are getting paid what I earn in a year a week and they still can’t be frigged, that’s when I get angry. 

 

However on the other hand, I haven’t been as pissed off this year so far when we have lost because in general, we’ve played pretty well. Everton at the weekend, we were sharp, a nightmare at the back but Rome wasn’t built in a day, but we looked good on the attack again and scored a great goal. We’re playing the best attacking football that we’ve played,  I think, since we had those 5 or so unreal games in the Sven era. Even in the title win it was direct and fast attacking but not really technically brilliant. And I’m happy with that, I understand that with that in mind, you’re going to lose games. It’s the constant all or nothing attitude on here that winds me up. We lose and it’s literally meltdown central, nobody seems able to dissect a game and analyse certain parts of the game anymore, it’s literally we’re going for a europa league spot, or we’re sacking the manager in a relegation scrap. I’m not saying I like losing, it still does grate on me, but I can see that we’re trying to build something here, and to implement a style of play besides get the ball to Vardy in behind every time and i accept that. We’ll probably win and lose equal games this season with a few draws thrown in, it’s the way it goes but calling for the managers head after every loss is just the wrong way to look at it. Somebody on here was almost disgusted that Bournemouth are above us in the league, yet they’ve stuck with their manager and his philosophies and kept hold of a youthful squad - There’s a blueprint there to follow I’m sure! 

 

PS. I’ll caveat this by saying i’m aware we don’t always get it right in attack and we’re not the finished article, we have work to do but we’ve improved getting Ricardo and Chillwell up there and linking with Maddison, Vardy etc. It’s better to watch. 

Edited 8 October 2018 by Manini

[ARM1968]

No. Each and everyone hurts like a barbed wire wrapped butt plug. 

[StriderHiryu]

For me yes they are. I completely understand frustration with our team but I’d never think I’d witness Leicester win the league title in my life time. I’d dreamt of us winning the FA Cup and the Europa League / UEFA Cup but the Premier League? Get out of here!

 

We also won it in such an incredible way. Man City, Blackburn and Chelsea brought their titles but Leicester earned it. I don’t want us to become a money club as it’s tasteless and vulgar. 2015/16 had so many individual stories to it it’s untrue. The great escape just before it making it even more incredible. 

 

We should all be ambitious. We should all demand more from our team. But ten years ago we were playing in league one. How the ****ing hell did we go from there to Premier League Champions!!?

 

Losses always hurt and I’d love to have that 15/16 feeling back again. But to even experience it once was incredible.  

 

A small side story from my own life. In late 2015 I gave a presentation to my team of 70 game developers based on Leicester City! I told them how Leicester were down and out but team spirit turned them around and now they were fourth. My exact words to my team were “Sadly Leicester can’t win the league.. but we can do the equivalent! We have the talent and skill!” As it happened my team didn’t create a hit product... but Leicester did win the league! So personally I really feel how impossible what our club did really was. 

 

We might have seen the pinnacle of what this club can achieve but there is still so much to be excited for. Great owners who are committed to the club. I just wished more people shared my enthusiasm.

[Guy]

5 hours ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

On the other end of the spectrum it was 4th May 2008 that made me see a bit of perspective when it came to football. When you've experienced the lowest moment in the club's history, losing a winnable Championship game didn't evoke the anger it previously had.

Who would've said to you in 2008 at Stoke "fear not, we'll be Premier League Champions in 8 years time" - after this lowest ever experience - only Martians with crystal balls surely?! What a fairytale!

[sylofox]

2 hours ago, W88DY said:

We are who we are but with quality international players,  didn`t the owners come in and say they had a 5 year plan and want to see us finish in the top 6 in five years time? We only won the title cus the bigger teams wasn't picking up points and we were!

It was a one off and we will never see that happen again in our lifetimes but this season I expect better things to come just as long as he plays one of his new cb`s instead of Morgan ffs... 

Yes you're right but judge us on the season not now. Was it not said we had more points after 7 games than when we won the league. He's building a side grow up let it happen it's 8 games not a season. 

 

Our biggest problem was winning the league. One of the reasons I hate this place. 

[lcfcfoz]

6 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Yes you're right but judge us on the season not now. Was it not said we had more points after 7 games than when we won the league. He's building a side grow up let it happen it's 8 games not a season. 

 

Our biggest problem was winning the league. One of the reasons I hate this place. 

12 points after 7 the title winning season, same as this year, although we had 12 after 6 games too and the 7th we lost to arsenal.  3 wins 3 draw and 3 wins 3 draws 1 defeat uncluding arsenal game. This season 4 wins 3 defeats after 7. And was 3 wins 3 defeats after 6.

[ClaytonS]

Losses are never easy to take.

[Hanan96]

From what I seen, it become harder instead of easier. 

Lot of people here wants the manager to get sacked whenever we lose, no matter what. From shakey to puel, whenever we aren't win, lot is fuming at them. 

 

The rest are understand our position. Majority of our title winning squad is around 28 years old, got peaked together, and will decline at simmilar timeline. Just like man utd post Ferguson, there are many player which are going to decline like fuchs, Simpson, Morgan, and maybe huth, we never know as he's injured whole year. 

 

To replace them, we have 2 choices. Spends big on player reaching his peak, around 25 years old so will shine for couple years, or buying youngsters, which are cheaper, but will take time to develop. 

 

Unfortunately we sign some player like panic buying. We brought musa, slimani, without adequate hole player. Ideally we need one so we could play slimani or vardy upfront with musa on the wings rotating with others. We end up forcing slimani as defensive forwards, musa as wide midfielder, no natural kante replacement, no adequate defender option. 

 

This year we started the 2nd choice which take time, that's why some are not fuming when we lost. We know know we lost and why, we know how did we won the title and what the quality of our team is

[ThaiFox]

5 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

For me yes they are. I completely understand frustration with our team but I’d never think I’d witness Leicester win the league title in my life time. I’d dreamt of us winning the FA Cup and the Europa League / UEFA Cup but the Premier League? Get out of here!

 

We also won it in such an incredible way. Man City, Blackburn and Chelsea brought their titles but Leicester earned it. I don’t want us to become a money club as it’s tasteless and vulgar. 2015/16 had so many individual stories to it it’s untrue. The great escape just before it making it even more incredible. 

 

We should all be ambitious. We should all demand more from our team. But ten years ago we were playing in league one. How the ****ing hell did we go from there to Premier League Champions!!?

 

Losses always hurt and I’d love to have that 15/16 feeling back again. But to even experience it once was incredible.  

 

A small side story from my own life. In late 2015 I gave a presentation to my team of 70 game developers based on Leicester City! I told them how Leicester were down and out but team spirit turned them around and now they were fourth. My exact words to my team were “Sadly Leicester can’t win the league.. but we can do the equivalent! We have the talent and skill!” As it happened my team didn’t create a hit product... but Leicester did win the league! So personally I really feel how impossible what our club did really was. 

 

We might have seen the pinnacle of what this club can achieve but there is still so much to be excited for. Great owners who are committed to the club. I just wished more people shared my enthusiasm.

I share your enthusiasm!

 

As a City fan for 50 years I've watched us under Pleat, Megson, Taylor, Bassett, Levein etc, and it hurts me to see us lose just as much today as it did in those dark days, and I'm telling those younger posters, those were very dark days, we were terrible and lost a lot, and you just don't know how spoiled and lucky you've been to watch us in the last 5 years. 

 

However, I also feel very lucky to have watched the Bloomfield side, who were brilliant. The losses in those matches still hurt today though, as we were a really good team, who unfortunately won nothing. 

 

Be very grateful for supporting us in these exciting days. It really is a golden time for our club. As one day, when you are in your 60's and I'm long gone, you might be remembering them as fondly as I remember the Bloomfield days!

 

And let's get behind Puel. Give him some slack, he's doing a very good job, rebuilding the club, bringing on youth, keeping and signing on long contracts our best players, changing our style, in the main playing good football, and keeping us safe and mid table in the process. 

 

When we lose next time, just remember, or check out, those Pleat, Levein, Taylor, Megson days...... they were truly terrible!

 

 

 

 

[Tielemans63]

It should be easier but it's harder for me, weirdly. I think that's because the title winning season was such a high, such an incredible time, I would absolutely love to experience all that again so it becomes more frustrating when we're nowhere near. Secondly, I think it's harder because we saw in 15/16 what the club is capable of.

 

Obviously we're never going to win the league again (I wouldn't have thought) but the losses are harder for me because we should be slightly better than we are right now and 16/17 was a huge opportunity missed.

[RonnieTodger]

It depends really. On the one hand I think it's ridiculous that we're losing 5-0 at Crystal Palace only a couple of years after winning the league, but at the same time it shows just how funny 2016 really was.

 

There is a general lull around the fanbase though. I don't know what would get rid of it.

 

 

Edited 9 October 2018 by RonnieTodger

[sylofox]

The Curse of May 2016 strikes again. 

[David Hankey]

It's not the occasional loss that irks me but the way in which it happens, particularly when an intervention by the manager may have made the outcome different.

 

Since becoming Champions in 2016 we all knew things would be different but we really have to get to that next level or we'll face a period of mid-table mediocrity.

[ourla]

16 hours ago, Fox92 said:

People need to lower their expectations and realise we're just an average mid table side (or one of the "best of the rest" shite or whatever it is), that's all.

I find this a strange attitude on a couple of fronts:

 

#1 You seem to be making assumptions about what expectations people have. Shouldn't they expect to beat Everton at home with the respective squads? I don't see any people claiming we should be winning the league or even finishing top 4?

 

#2 The current owners who have clearly shown they have some cash, nouse and ambition - which is quite a good combination - so if you can't have a degree of expectation now, when you could you have?

 

In answer to the opening question, for me, yes it still hurts the same, though I'm not one to sulk for too long. I'm finding the current situation a bit more frustrating than normal because I think the squad could do a bit better and a combination of things (Puel, decisions, players) is just preventing a push into the top 6/7.

[foxy boxing]

Losses are never easy to take but since we have done the impossible and perhaps will never do it again. we've had the highs of winning the league and being in the Champions League which was a first for us and we may never experience that again so losses in some cases are harder to take because we know what the team is capable of and when they fall short of those expectations we get extremely fustrated. we all hoped that we would join the elite clubs at the top competing for the title or Champions League year in, year out and not being mid table obscurity or worse still relegation candidates.

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, ourla said:

I find this a strange attitude on a couple of fronts:

 

#1 You seem to be making assumptions about what expectations people have. Shouldn't they expect to beat Everton at home with the respective squads? I don't see any people claiming we should be winning the league or even finishing top 4?

 

#2 The current owners who have clearly shown they have some cash, nouse and ambition - which is quite a good combination - so if you can't have a degree of expectation now, when you could you have?

 

In answer to the opening question, for me, yes it still hurts the same, though I'm not one to sulk for too long. I'm finding the current situation a bit more frustrating than normal because I think the squad could do a bit better and a combination of things (Puel, decisions, players) is just preventing a push into the top 6/7.

Should we expect to beat Everton at home? Yes. Does that mean we should win? No. We aren't going to win every home game against similar clubs.

 

Cash is okay if it's spent well. And in recent times we haven't spent well. Just because we've got £30m to chuck at a player doesn't mean it'll work. The correct people need to be in place too and do I think we have that? No.

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

1 hour ago, ourla said:

I find this a strange attitude on a couple of fronts:

 

#1 You seem to be making assumptions about what expectations people have. Shouldn't they expect to beat Everton at home with the respective squads? I don't see any people claiming we should be winning the league or even finishing top 4?

 

#2 The current owners who have clearly shown they have some cash, nouse and ambition - which is quite a good combination - so if you can't have a degree of expectation now, when you could you have?

 

In answer to the opening question, for me, yes it still hurts the same, though I'm not one to sulk for too long. I'm finding the current situation a bit more frustrating than normal because I think the squad could do a bit better and a combination of things (Puel, decisions, players) is just preventing a push into the top 6/7.

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[norwichfox]

I always feel down for a few days after a loss, and weeks if it was against Florist or Rams (not likely to happen again any time soon in the league). The winning season was magnificent, felt good for many weekends...and I want that feeling back and I'm convinced that it will sometime in the not too distant future if we can keep the "soon to be mega star" young players from being transferred out.

[bmt]

The defeats hurt the same amount, but my willingness to look at the current squad as something in transition, and accept that results aren't the be all, is way higher. 

[syston_fox]

Defeats don't bother me so much at the moment because each 3 points doesn't feel as vital as they have in past seasons. 

 

We've always had something to play for in the last 10 years whether it be relegation, promotion or a title. There was always a sense of looking over your shoulder or chasing the pack - wasn't there a stat that said we had only had a handful of "meaningless" games over multiple seasons and those were because we were already champions? Now say 8 games of the season, I feel that we're not at risk of relegation but I also feel that we're not in danger of challenging with the top 6 so you can afford to lose games here and there. The only time I get really annoyed at defeat is when I think the players haven't given there all or if the defeat is as a result of negativity e.g I was annoyed after Everton because I felt the subs that were made were basically admitting that we were going to try and play for a draw. 

 

Defeats in the cups still hurt, especially when some of the "bigger" teams have already exited them and you can almost picture the path to the final.