Booing your own team

[volpeazzurro]

Whilst I would never say never to booing your team in certain very specific circumstances, today was nowhere remotely near one of those days. After two understandably very tiring exploits some of the players were clearly a bit jaded. Allbrighton for example is a player that always gives of his best.

 

Today's game was always going to be played in a particular gruelling dirge of a way as it was Cardiffs best option and they did it well but, whatever the performance, can anyone honestly say that the players didn't try or give of their best? I think after their last two exploits they were absolutely gutted and deflated at the end with the result. I was hugely disappointed as I walked away from the ground.  Now as I look back,  I'm still proud of the previous two performances which will be the one's I'll remember. It would take a lot more than that for me to boo those boys. When I don't think they care or not giving of their best, only then would I consider booing, until then I think appreciation and encouragement is a better way to focus them for the next game.

[themightyfin]

Numpties the lot of em.

[nwl fox]

Wow, have we really got people offering each other out on here, grow up!

[foxfanazer]

Whilst I'm not totally against booing for consistently poor results or lack of effort from the players I wouldn't do it myself. Not even for a particular reason, I just find it a weird thing to do 

[Blanchflower78]

Is it Vardy you boo going off or what you have available to come on? 

[worthosoriginals]

2 hours ago, Collo73 said:

Your point is pal..? And try first match 82/83 ? and I'm always open to a debate in the turny pre match no problem at all ?

congratulations on confirming your gobby teenager status, with you issuing veiled threats. 

hope your Liverpool shirt fits.

[ian_marshall]

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you if you decide that there are other team's that you'd prefer to watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at the best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story. 

[The_Rorab]

Is there a distinction between booing the substitution and the player? I understand maybe the intent behind it might differ, but is there inherent concept behind it not that you're upset that Iheanacho is coming on to replace Vardy - ergo you're upset Nacho is coming onto the pitch?

[shilton_fox]

Fans round me wind me up. If anything Iheanacho or ghezzal do doesn’t turn to gold they are slated and called every name under the sun. Maddison misses a pen “oh not to worry son, keep your head up keep trying”. I just find it unreal. Maddisons’ dead ball delivery today was pathetic first man hit many a time and he drew no criticism. Don’t get me wrong I think he’s a talented lad, but I do think he has egotistical issues. But the bias is unreal. Do I watch a different game?? That penalty miss cost us the game not Puel, not the tactics. We struggled against Bournemouth at home this time of year when we won the league it ain’t out the ordinary when teams sit back! 

[Nickfosse]

8 minutes ago, ian_marshall said:

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you as there are other team's that you can go and watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story. 

I’ve ran out of reps, so just to say, spot on this. 

[foxfanazer]

10 minutes ago, ian_marshall said:

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you as there are other team's that you can go and watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story.

[worthosoriginals]

12 minutes ago, ian_marshall said:

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you as there are other team's that you can go and watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story. 

you nailed it ian

[UpTheLeagueFox]

This is nothing new, sadly.

Bloke near me when I had a season ticket in the Carling Stand lower in the late 90s used to slag Guppy off from start to finish.

People and their agendas!!!!

[City1884]

I’ll probably get slated for this, but I’m going to be open and admit I very vocally booed at the end of the game.

 

I do not agree with booing people coming on, as others have said, that just knocks confidence before a ball has been kicked, so I would never do that.

 

However, after the game, I made my feelings known because I feel it’s important that the hierarchy, especially the manager, get a feeling of the approval, or in this case, disapproval of the fans on a particular performance.

 

When we perform well, I am the last to leave the stadium, I applaud every player, I cheer and chant all their names.

If we’ve been unlucky, I still applaud the team off for their effort. 

If we’ve performed like we did against Cardiff, with poor decision making, poor execution, and (in my view) poor decisions / coaching from the bench, then I will boo. It doesn’t happen often, but it did today.

 

To anyone that says it’s not acceptable after a poor performance, I ask you this, how else would I make my feelings known to the manager / owner / coaching staff? What more suitable alternative is there? Is it better for them to think “we were just unlucky again”? That those sorts of performances are acceptable to us fans?

 

Sometimes a negative response is required to spark people into action.

 

My Hope is that the squad, and more importantly the manager and coaching staff, are sitting at home now thinking “Shit, we have great fans, we let them down today, it’s not often you hear them that upset, we need to change things and give them a great reaction on Tuesday”.

 

Rather that than just “We did quite well, if we do the same things against Everton, things will go our way,  and we will get a result”. 

Which seems to be Puel’s constant rhetoric.

 

 

 

 

[ferry67]

10 hours ago, Winsum said:

Fans are entltled to boo when they see dross served up like today

The choice of substitutions was horrendous and that deserved to be booed

Leicester’s finest !!! Not

[stripeyfox]

4 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

This is nothing new, sadly.

Bloke near me when I had a season ticket in the Carling Stand lower in the late 90s used to slag Guppy off from start to finish.

People and their agendas!!!!

The guy who sits behind me spent four years slagging off Mahrez! I don't think he's worked out who he wants to hate this season yet as he's been pretty quiet.

 

I don't think yesterday's defeat warranted the booing, especially after two great performances. 

 

I couldn't understand why Vardy was subbed, but hey what do I know? I assume the manager knows more about it than I do!

 

We were poor yesterday and Cardiff are the classic Warnock shithouse team but it could have been very different if one of those chances in the first half goes in

 

 

[Shaqq]

If you boo your own team you´re a fvcking cvnt, end of.

I wish all the people booing went back supporting Man Utd or something, cba with you guys.

[M0901]

7 hours ago, ian_marshall said:

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you as there are other team's that you can go and watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story. 

Couldn't have put it better myself. We have such a self-entitled fan base. We've just beaten Chelsea and Man City for christ sake, and we're one penalty away from making it 3 in a row. Embarrassing. 

 

Also, being at the game yesterday, booing Iheanacho really really pissed me off. Get behind your team no matter what the circumstance. 

[Dorkingfox]

You have to take the good with the bad, both on and of the pitch, the fans a are a cross section of society, some can handle the situation, some are not so good. Some have different ways of expressing their frustration (booing, which I personally dislike) but it is not surprising looking at some of the dross we have watched this season, Palace, Fulham, Brighton and Cardiff are four of the worst most boring games, I have seen in a long long time and when you see what can happen, like winning the league and Chelski and man City games supporters get very frustrated. Yes we are 8th but some of the games this season have been turgid.

[Buce]

8 hours ago, ian_marshall said:

Some of our current fan base are embarrassing. Every single person who booed today should take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are cutout to be a Leicester fan, or whether Man City, Liverpool, United, or Chelsea are a better fit for them. 

 

The title win has absolutely ruined our support. If people think sitting 8th in the PL is worthy of abusing the player's and manager, then I have no idea how these same people felt during the season we were relegated to League One. Iheanacho and Puel are like having Messi and Guardiola compared to some of the dross we've previously had to entertain in the past, yet both have been singled out for far worse treatment. 

 

I keep hearing people say it's an entertainment game and that they pay their ticket price so they are entitled to air their views. If that's your stance and you aren't prepared to support the team through the good times and the bad (not that sitting 8th in the PL constitutes a bad time) then why not do us all a favour and go and spend your money watching football in London or the North West. You'll be in good company with like minded people, enjoy yourself a lot more watching 'entertaining' football, and not annoy the rest of us by whinging and whining all the while.

 

If football is as transactional as you claim and this club is not for you, fine, no one will hold it against you as there are other team's that you can go and watch which may better suit your needs. At the end of the day no one's forcing you to pay your money to watch a team which has a long history of being highly inconsistent and average at best of times. I'm personally not a fan of Period Drama film's, but I wouldn't pay to watch one at the cinema and then boo because I disliked the story. 

6

 

I'm sure they didn't feel anything.

 

I suspect most of them only became 'fans' in 2016.

[volpeazzurro]

6 hours ago, City1884 said:

I’ll probably get slated for this, but I’m going to be open and admit I very vocally booed at the end of the game.

 

I do not agree with booing people coming on, as others have said, that just knocks confidence before a ball has been kicked, so I would never do that.

 

However, after the game, I made my feelings known because I feel it’s important that the hierarchy, especially the manager, get a feeling of the approval, or in this case, disapproval of the fans on a particular performance.

 

When we perform well, I am the last to leave the stadium, I applaud every player, I cheer and chant all their names.

If we’ve been unlucky, I still applaud the team off for their effort. 

If we’ve performed like we did against Cardiff, with poor decision making, poor execution, and (in my view) poor decisions / coaching from the bench, then I will boo. It doesn’t happen often, but it did today.

 

To anyone that says it’s not acceptable after a poor performance, I ask you this, how else would I make my feelings known to the manager / owner / coaching staff? What more suitable alternative is there? Is it better for them to think “we were just unlucky again”? That those sorts of performances are acceptable to us fans?

 

Sometimes a negative response is required to spark people into action.

 

My Hope is that the squad, and more importantly the manager and coaching staff, are sitting at home now thinking “Shit, we have great fans, we let them down today, it’s not often you hear them that upset, we need to change things and give them a great reaction on Tuesday”.

 

Rather that than just “We did quite well, if we do the same things against Everton, things will go our way,  and we will get a result”. 

Which seems to be Puel’s constant rhetoric.

 

 

 

 

Firstly, you have the guts to be honest, admit you booed, nail your colours to the mast and give an explanation. Football thankfully is still not like rugby, it's a passionate game and supporters air their feelings. Long may it continue. 

 

Now without wishing to inflame matters, i shall just give what my feelings are on a partly predictable result and the reasons why which may be in conflict to yours. I don't think think there was a lack of effort out there as much as two other issues. Against our last two opponents, albeit they have better players than us, ours are at their best when playing against the opposition  tactics employed in those games. We knew from the start what Cardiff would do and they did it and for me they executed their plans well just as we did against Chelsea etc. On both of those occasions our teams and formations were spot on. 

 

If we were to win yesterday, our team and tactics had to change to combat the inevitable Cardiff plan plus there were illness, injury and fatigue issues some of which didn't know about,  some of which have since come to light, some we don't. 

 

When I saw the team, I was quite happy with it and the formation as I could see the logic. However, we have long since struggled now against teams that sit back, we cannot deny that. We have a young and inconsistent team, these two terms have a ring of inevitability about them and they go together like hand in glove. Whilst Puels style requires much of the flair to come from wings with two defensive midfielders, I'm sure in games like this he'd like the option of a more creative midfielder as well,  but we just do not have one. For those who wish to invoke the name of Silva, Cardiff employ a big midfield and Silva just so easily gets pushed off the ball and has seemingly made no effort to address that. He hss shown no sign of a reason to play him thus far. He also like Iborra, cannot seem to adapt to the pace of our game. Iborra sounds a good option but he was poor against Man City, he hangs a leg or foot out occasionally as he is too far off the pace. He hasn't the time on the ball to spray these totally imaginary balls around he supposedly does in this country. Puel played what he considered to be his best two midfielders and added Gray. Gray wasn't enough. He started ok but sometimes appears to get brain freeze and dwells on the ball, sometimes this is due to his colleagues lack of movement. 

 

Maddison for all his supposed talent needs a kick up the pants and reminding that he hasn't actually made it yet! No more penalties son. Vardy as well as lack of support was clearly out of sorts, he's knackered and carrying an injury, but no doubt wants to play,  what other viable forward options does Puel have and when he has to be substituted, Nacho is hardly inspiring. I do think Ghezzal though in that or a number 10 role is a better option when needed.

 

Things will remain the same until we address certain issues in the transfer market and that won't be until the summer. To my mind there's little point in getting angry, whatever manager we have won't do much better and could do a lot worse until we've sold some deadwood and added some targeted quality players. 

[StanSP]

7 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

This is nothing new, sadly.

Bloke near me when I had a season ticket in the Carling Stand lower in the late 90s used to slag Guppy off from start to finish.

People and their agendas!!!!

nicely done 

[StanSP]

7 hours ago, City1884 said:

Shit, we have great fans, we let them down today, it’s not often you hear them that upset,

if that's the case I'd get the players some hearing tests booked in! 

[Harry - LCFC]

Booing is only justified when the performance has been truly appalling, or there's been a serious deficit in effort.

 

Neither of those things applied yesterday, and very rarely do they apply at this club.

[st albans fox]

unacceptable - end of