Could you ever go back to being garbage?

[urban.spaceman]

I'd probably be comfortable with a bit of 'normality' which would be easier to handle. But I'd at least be ****ing ecstatic that we helped bring about the downfall of Spurs and Arsenal.

[copunk]

If you can live through a strike force of Mark De Vries and Elvia Hammond you can put up with anything 😂

[KFS]

The inferiority complex on here sometimes tells me it wouldn’t be too hard  

 

I don’t miss scraping through in the great escape season, that was stressful. I do miss the year we won the championship though. Proper community feel that was. 

[purpleronnie]

After supporting city through some really bleak times, the idea of us not being in the top division fills me with dread, there's no way I would want to go back to those days.

[ScrumpyJack]

We’re massive now.

 

After the 2015/16 season it got noticeably quieter for a period, and seemed to be an influx of people on their phones and cockney scarf sellers. Which was a shame after 4/5 seasons of madness.

 

Definitely felt the good vibes coming back in 2018/19.

 

On a long enough timeline we’ll go rubbish again eventually but absolutely loving the club, the players and the chairman at the moment.

Long may it continue, and long-live duty-free!

 

[GlennyFox55]

While i obviously want Leicester to be as successful as possible and enjoy the level of football we play at now, i absolutely love going for the whole day out/ social side as well so will go no matter what league we’re in.

 

Last season of watching from home just reinforced that for me. 

[SkidsFox]

We've all got plenty of years of experiencing the bad times, so it's unlikely we've now become glory-hunters.

Although my second team is Real Madrid... 

[Mythyaar]

Yes. We've been mixed at best most of my life. And while I've loved every minute of this recent incredibly successful hiatus, I expect normality to resume eventually. It won't impact my feelings for the club in any way if and when we to revert to mediocrity.

[STUHILL]

1 minute ago, Mythyaar said:

Yes. We've been mixed at best most of my life. And while I've loved every minute of this recent incredibly successful hiatus, I expect normality to resume eventually. It won't impact my feelings for the club in any way if and when we to revert to mediocrity.

I think mediocrity for us will be midtable Premier League. The foundation we are building is so strong, we are always likely to attract good managers and players to this club now. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Being shite had its advantages. I do miss being able to finish work at about 1:30pm on a Saturday and just deciding on a whim to go down and pay at the gate to watch the match. 

[sheffield_fox]

I never let the football ruin a nice day out at the football

[Arriba Los Zorros]

1 hour ago, WinslowFox said:

Every season I still look at our first target being 40 points. Hopefully that goes down to 37 on Saturday.

Winslow as in Winslow, Bucks?

 

If so I live there too!

[OntarioFox]

I'm always gonna follow the team and support them with everything I've got. Leicester is a birthmark.

 

What I can't stand the thought of is, if we do go crap, turning into a Forest and dining on past successes to deflect from modern irrelevance.

 

Live in the here and now.

[KingsX]

2 hours ago, nabb7 said:

I think the acceptance that this era will one day end makes it much more enjoyable, and also helps soften the disappoints i.e. missing the top four. I really don't want to get into the habit of expecting success, just look at half the supporters of the rich 6, miserable 90% of the time. Think we're starting to see it on this forum too, which I suppose is inevitable as the fanbase grows.

 

Your point is well put and well taken.  But can I pivot from it, to speak up for new supporters?

 

I’d guess there’s only a loose correlation between how long you’ve followed the club, and your satisfaction with it.  No doubt some new supporters bring unrealistic expectations.  But some of the most bitter Rodgers-out or match thread complainers are the same ones who complain about the free beer on Khun Vichai’s birthday, and, well, most things in most threads.

 

Many people these days seem to define themselves by their grievances.  And others, unfortunately, just aren’t in a good place.  Extreme negativity correlates with worse mental health.  No football club is the cure for that.

 

I don’t think it’s newbs in particular who can never be satisfied.  Few of us came in looking for reflected glory.  This just isn’t the type of club one picks to compensate for a lack of size, as it were …  

Edited 9 August 2021 by KingsX

[SemperEadem]

Cheap tickets yes but sad thing is we actually are getting that now through the cap. You pay more in the league below.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

1 hour ago, copunk said:

If you can live through a strike force of Mark De Vries and Elvia Hammond you can put up with anything 😂

I still maintain that Mark De Vries debut was one of the great performances from a City player  He looked like Heskey and Collymore rolled into one, but then regressed to the mean and made Ian Olmondroyd look like Pele.

Edited 9 August 2021 by Wasyls Pec Deck

[SouthStandUpperTier]

21 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

Your point is well put and well taken.  But can I pivot from it, to speak up for new supporters?

 

I’d guess there’s only a loose correlation between how long you’ve followed the club, and your satisfaction with it.  No doubt some new supporters bring unrealistic expectations.  But some of the most bitter Rodgers-out or match thread complainers are the same ones who complain about the free beer on Khun Vichai’s birthday, and, well, most things in most threads.

 

Many people these days seem to define themselves by their grievances.  And others, unfortunately, just aren’t in a good place.  Extreme negativity correlates with worse mental health.  No football club is the cure for that.

 

I don’t think it’s newbs in particular who can never be satisfied.  Few of us came in looking for reflected glory.  This just isn’t the type of club one picks to compensate for a lack of size, as it were …  

This poor chap is from Cleveland. He's suffered sporting dissappointment like we'll never know.

[Corky]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I've said a couple of times to friends/family since we've been back in the Prem (starting from about Christmas 2014)  that I can't hack being back in the Championship again. 

 

It's just a fvcking awful league. All of this "the football league is REAL football, its a better league, its more competitive, anyone can win it" rubbish is just 100% abject denial and we know it. 

 

I don't care if we're crap, mid table, boring, Evertonesque jobbers in the Prem as long as we're actually in the thing. 

 

That said, I know full well that if we were actually relegated we'd all get used to it fairly instantly. It's remarkable what you actually CAN tolerate. Give it a few months of being back and it'd just be normal again. 

Agree with this. The Championship by default will always be more interesting at the top because three of them aren't in it the next year. You'll never get a monopoly. But the quality, generally, isn't great. Even the old positives of cheap tickets and better kick-off times have gone.

 

As much as we moan about aspects of it, the Premier League is where everyone wants to be. The only really appealing thing about the Championship is getting out of it at the top. 

 

Most of the Championship would swap places in a heartbeat to even be a struggler in the top tier.

 

 

 

[KingsX]

2 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

This poor chap is from Cleveland. He's suffered sporting dissappointment like we'll never know.

 

I recently met a Leicester-born supporter who lives around here.  Got a new buddy to watch a few matches with this season 

 

The very first thing he tells me?  “it’s exactly like following all your Cleveland teams” … I’m like, mate, exactly what I’ve been saying for years 

[Koke]

I may sound arrogant but I can't hack being in the Championship again. Its god awful. I'm old enough to remember being excited about signing Gareth Williams on a free from Notts Forest. I'd take 10 seasons with Sam Allatdyce hoofball finishing 13th than go down. Nothing lasts forever. Who would have thought the Arsenal Invincibles wouldn't win another title again going on for nearly 2 decades!! 

[Corky]

It's not arrogant to not want your team to be relegated.

[WinslowFox]

1 hour ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Winslow as in Winslow, Bucks?

 

If so I live there too!

 

Yes Winslow in Bucks.

 

I also go and watch Winslow United FC if I can’t watch Leicester in any way shape or form, great club with a decent loyal fan base for that level of Football which isn’t a bad standard for Step 6 of the Pyramid.

 

If you haven’t been you should get yourself down, would be great to meet a fellow Fox, not many of us in this neck of the woods.

Edited 9 August 2021 by WinslowFox
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[UpTheLeagueFox]

3 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said:

I'm just trying to enjoy every season as it comes. 

Best comment yet.

We've been sheeeite before and might be sheeeite again one day so let's soak up the good times.

Some I feel struggle to "enjoy" our current golden era enough.

I'm buzzing at how we're doing!

[Crazy Kop Corner]

3 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I don't mean this in an arrogant sense, but I feel totally comfortable dining at the top table. 

 

We've become that working class lottery winner who, at first, is gauche and uncomfortable in the VIP lounges, at art exhibitions and  charity balls...but after a while of grooming, confidence and success,  carry it all off with that easy charm that A listers can have. 

 

We take the field against anyone and anywhere now and though I don't always fancy us to win, I do know we belong and are feared/respected. Zero inferiority complex. 

 

I'm not sure I could ever go back to being a schmuck

 

 

 

 

Yes. First season McClintock relegation which has set me up for lie in all honesty. 

 

I'm loving the high life but don't think I'd ever go the way of some Man City fans. 

[Dan]

It would be hard to take but if I learned anything about football in the past year it's that the whole experience of going to games and whatnot will always reel me in. Last season I found as unenjoyable as any I can remember (bar the FA Cup final) and it made it hit home why I actually go.