Could you ever go back to being garbage?

[fox_up_north]

I'd rather be in League One, watching nonsense 4-3 games every week than scraping 1-0 in the lower half of the prem.

 

I've watched non league and lower league. I pay to be entertained and support my club with passion. I don't want us to be billy big bollocks. We broke the mould and shook up football.

 

The day we expect to be top flight is the day we don't deserve to be.

[Spudulike]

3 hours ago, STUHILL said:

I do look at Forest and Derby and think wow, that could so easily be us, if we hadn't lucked out getting these owners. 

Or Cov (shudder). SISU were looking at LCFC at one point. 

[Rsswmu]

Only been a supporter for about 10 years. Missed the league one year. I would follow even if we dropped to non league. However I think the way football is set up nowadays it will take a long time for this club to slide back even to championship level.

The gulf in money, ownership, value of the team, facilities and worldwide support is massive. It is hard to bridge those gaps. This isn’t the 70s-90s where you could back slide easily. The worldwide appeal of teams generates significant revenue. The club is one of the richest in the world and has some top young talent. It would take a prolonged period of mismanagement at this point to go down. That being said football is still football and we can just enjoy the ride, because it could (most likely will) end at some point. 

[davieG]

I've been from good/great to crap so many times that it's become the norm and expectation. I didn't expect to win the League I always wanted to win the Cup to lose the 4 times loser tag so I guess I'll continue to go with the flow until age overtakes me.

[Hoopla10]

3 hours ago, Royston. said:

I'd lose interest.

Obviously I'll always be a leicester fan but I would despise being one of those championship teams that suffer year after year of mid table/relegation battles never getting anywhere and it would be worse for us because we now know what it feels like to be amongst the best.

See this I find curious. Is your interest only in correlation with success? The day to day engagement (ie basically what we do here or chatting to mates about certain players, positions, formations, injuries, what the manager is doing wrong etc etc) along with matchday itself doesn't change (other than get cheaper lol).

And are fans of those mid-table teams suffering? Or the teams themselves?  

[norwichfox]

I didn't choose the club I support it chose me, so I will support them whatever/wherever.

[z-layrex]

Could I go back? Of course, not like we have a choice in it.

 

But I hated those mid table championship days with a squad full of useless players like Mills.

[deanolegend1989]

I’d always support Leicester but it would be a huge difference and hard to be as into it.

 

Im a supporter who, age wise, just about missed the 96-02 era. Obviously seeing bits but not old enough to real follow and appreciate.

Funnily enough my first season I started really getting into it was 02/03, so the constant heartache of 03/04 and then the dreadful 04-08 era was common practice to me and exactly what I thought was the norm.

As a teenager, in probably the worst period in our entire history, if THAT got me hooked, god knows how I’d ever not love the mighty Foxes.

1 moment always comes to mind when I reminisce - 2008/09 Brighton away.

Down there at the tinpot old stadium they had the Withdean, a shakey little stand in the trees miles away from the action.

A cold Misty night must of been middle of October/November. 2-0 up due to a Matty Fryatt brace, loving life.

2nd half, Brighton who were close to relegation zone in league 1, scored. We held at 1-2 to the 90th minute..bang 2-2 heartbreake..90+4 3-2 J Hobbs og falling over the line. Embarrassing.

Walking home just numb and muttered - I don’t think I’ll ever see us in the Prem in my lifetime(I genuinely believed that).

This was also the game that we were at our lowest league position after a game week in our entire history!(Think we’d dropped to 8-10th in league 1)..I was there!

We played Bristol Rovers a week later and we’re 1-0 down due to a Joe Kuffour wonder goal only for Matty Fryatt to again score a brace to comeback in stoppage time(1-0 down and another home loss on the cards - we were in trouble) We never looked back from this moment!!

 

After a nice little moment to remember how it was like, I can happily say I was there and it was all part of this journey and story that makes it even more special!

If you had told me that night walking back from Brighton in 2008 that in 8 years time we’d be Premier league Champions and be playing in the CL - I’d of said there’s more chance of me marrying Cheryl Cole…absolutely outrageous!

 

So a long story short, no doubts I would! LCFC for life. Saying that, it wouldn’t be as good or as hard to really get into it and feel like you have a connection and bond to the players.

I could buy dropping off into a Brighton/Norwich/Burnley type(not style but mid table going nowhere but still Prem) or maybe even a pushing Championship club(like a Newcastle/Villa) who when they go down it feels inevitable to come back immediately because they are ‘too big for the Championship’. What I hate seeing most is those absolutely deadly seasons 04-08 we had. When you get within about 6 points of the Playoffs to then fail to win for 5 games and your just in a road to nowhere every season, nothing to play for or motivate - that will be the tough levels to really enjoy.

 

The best thing about it all is with King Power and Tops long term plans(stadium project and 100 mill training facilities) clearly he has at least a fairly long term plan for us and so we should not have these worries for a long time yet! Even should he choose to sell, we will have very good potential and attract hopefully good successors(if that even happens).

As it is now, and unless we get awful owners like Pompy did, we will be alright for a long time I think.

Sure, we might not be able to keep up with the real elite/Top 6, however I can’t see how we won’t at least stay in the Prem like an Everton for a good decade with Top at the helm. Too many clubs can’t compete with us so there will always be 3 worse clubs that us and would take an unprecedented run of bad luck(bad purchases at the same time as important squad getting sold, serious injuries, bad luck and nothing being sorted in the windows in jan if struggling etc).

Mark my words, unless Top sells, I can see us beating our previous longest unbroken run in the top flight in our history.

 

Were going places boys and I don’t wanna ever wake up! 🤞.

[Dr The Singh]

Until our fans that go to games learn how to shower and stop smelling of shit,.piss and Bo, we will always be garbage.

[Mike Oxlong]

Yep. I just love the whole thing about supporting our team Even when we’re crap I can have a moan and hope for better times. 

 

What we have experienced, including our league one season and even play off heartbreaks has been beyond my wildest expectations and i can’t quite believe that across the whole of football our team has had the most sensational title win ever. 

 

I’d hate it if we became one of those entitled fanbases and would take a return to mediocrity over that 

 

In the shorter term I’m buzzing for the new season and can’t wait to get to the KP on Saturday 

[iancognito]

I don't know about accepting we'll be crap again, I've barely started accepting we're actually a half-decent side! I still expect there to be a dismal run, a poor season and at some point a relegation battle. Anyone outside that Super 6 has a general expectation of that because football is cyclical. Villa, Forest and Leeds have all shown that dining at the top table can quickly become a Harvester doggy bag. If it happens it happens, but the longer it lasts the more desperate we are to hang on to it I guess

 

[AS78UK]

Just enjoy the ride and appreciate this won't last forever...sadly nothing does.  

 

I'm fully loving this, even more then the O'Neill years, was more nieve back as didn't realise it would end as suddenly as it did, so definately appreciate it all more now. 

[SemperEadem]

We won’t go toss for a long time now.

[deanolegend1989]

Just now, AS78UK said:

Just enjoy the ride and appreciate this won't last forever...sadly nothing does.  

 

I'm fully loving this, even more then the O'Neill years, was more nieve back as didn't realise it would end as suddenly as it did, so definately appreciate it all more now. 

I mean, I didn’t get to properly follow thoroughly the O Neil era, however it’s clear we were punching well above our weight and barely had a pot to p*ss in. We moulded together a great team but as soon as the likes of Lennon and Heskey left the era ends.

 

This is different, we have great owners who have strong backing and can replace great players and spend when needed.

Im not being over the top expecting we’ll never drop off from CL pushes each year, but we are on another planet compared to back then.

If the bookies gave me an even money £1,000 bet - will we have been a mainstay in the Prem until the 2030/31 season? I’d plump for Yes.

We are in a great situation.

 

[tom27111]

Your football team is your team for life.

 

You have to enjoy the ups and hope you get out of the lows.

 

I was explaining this to my stepson in the Green Man on Saturday.

 

It may only be the Community Shield, but almost every single person in that pub remembered us in League 1. Shipman as an owner. Pleat out. Our record signing costing 350k. Craig Levien. Rab Douglas. Mark de Vries. Barnsley away. 

 

It ain't always like this. You appreciate it more and grasp every opportunity you can to enjoy it.

 

Long may it continue. But if we find ourselves in League 1 again in another 20 years, I'll still cheer every goal as if it was in a Champions League quarter final.

[TJB-fox]

After getting over the initial disappointment of relegation, I’d be quite OK with championship football. 
 

Mainly because all of the bandwagon idiots we’ve collected since getting promoted would drop off. 

[Stadt]

I would renounce my support of the club if we ever finish below 10th again 

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, z-layrex said:

Could I go back? Of course, not like we have a choice in it.

 

But I hated those mid table championship days with a squad full of useless players like Mills.

Thing is, during those mid table Championship days I didn't hate it. Looking back after what we've experienced in recent seasons it does look grim, granted, but at the time I was always optimistic that good times were coming. A win felt as good then as it does now. 

 

It was just a different type of support but I prefer what we have now (obviously) and wouldn't want to go sink back (but if we did, I'd still turn up). 

[TJB-fox]

2 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

I'd rather be in League One, watching nonsense 4-3 games every week than scraping 1-0 in the lower half of the prem.

 

I've watched non league and lower league. I pay to be entertained and support my club with passion. I don't want us to be billy big bollocks. We broke the mould and shook up football.

 

The day we expect to be top flight is the day we don't deserve to be.

We’ve got one of the best managers in the world, one of the best owners in the world, a fantastic young, valuable squad and a 100mil state of the art training ground. 
 

I think it’s fairly reasonable to expect premiership football to go with all that.

[TangledUpInBlue]

After years of being married to a mediocre, dowdy little woman who barely cracks a smile you end up in a divorce. Life has always seemed to be passing you by, and you have looked enviously at other people’s lives that seemed to sparkle in comparison to yours. The future appeared no different to the past. This was the lot that fate had cast. 
Unbelievably you take up with a smoking hot bird !!!!   How has this happened?  This was never in your stars ! The sex is fantastic , the sun shines every day. You are the envy of all your mates. This must not end . You will do anything to keep it going. 
If you mess up and it does finish , the old stable, steady but contented way of life will never seem the same. 
Now you know what you have been missing.

[STUHILL]

1 minute ago, TangledUpInBlue said:

After years of being married to a mediocre, dowdy little woman who barely cracks a smile you end up in a divorce. Life has always seemed to be passing you by, and you have looked enviously at other people’s lives that seemed to sparkle in comparison to yours. The future appeared no different to the past. This was the lot that fate had cast. 
Unbelievably you take up with a smoking hot bird !!!!   How has this happened?  This was never in your stars ! The sex is fantastic , the sun shines every day. You are the envy of all your mates. This must not end . You will do anything to keep it going. 
If you mess up and it does finish , the old stable, steady but contented way of life will never seem the same. 
Now you know what you have been missing.

2nd post 

[Spudulike]

2 minutes ago, TangledUpInBlue said:

After years of being married to a mediocre, dowdy little woman who barely cracks a smile you end up in a divorce. Life has always seemed to be passing you by, and you have looked enviously at other people’s lives that seemed to sparkle in comparison to yours. The future appeared no different to the past. This was the lot that fate had cast. 
Unbelievably you take up with a smoking hot bird !!!!   How has this happened?  This was never in your stars ! The sex is fantastic , the sun shines every day. You are the envy of all your mates. This must not end . You will do anything to keep it going. 
If you mess up and it does finish , the old stable, steady but contented way of life will never seem the same. 
Now you know what you have been missing.

Are you Swiss Tony? 

[BoyJones]

6 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

 

 

 

 

Mate, I’ve been going home and away since 1962/3, I take exception to your comment - we were never a “schmuck”. 
 

We’ve had plenty of ups and downs. It’s the downs that make the ups so great. I feel sorry for teams like Everton and Arsenal that have never been relegated; the emotions of a promotion season cannot be under estimated. You ask all the old fellows on here. For instance Portsmouth away in 1971, what a journey home on the football special. I know all you younger guys have little time for us pensioners, but we were young once. You think you’ve lived, but we have some fantastic memories. We’ve had great players over the years and great times, which ever division we have been in.
 

We knew we would suffer from time to time, but took as part of the natural cycle. Now if City lose a game or a player makes a mistake, this forum goes into meltdown. We even have a vote on whether the manager should stay of go if we lose a match!,
 

I really cringe when posters say “we’ve moved on from players like Perez”, so arrogant; the last 10 years have been magic, but if our owners left us and we ended up like Ipswich Town, going nowhere, I would still be going home and away and at least know the people going with me are true supporters, not just jumping on the bandwagon. 
 

I worry that too many of our so called supporters are becoming clones of Manx or Liverpool supporters who have a superiority complex and think they are entitled to win every game. 
 

We have the best owners around, a great manager and great players at the moment, enjoy this moment and every time you post a critical comment and slag off the team you are supposed to love, step back and remember virtually every other team in the league would swap places with us. I understand there is a place for constructive critique, but this forum normally goes way past this.
 

Sorry for the lengthy post, I’m normally a straight in and out type of bloke, but I’m this topic has got my goat.

[Vacamion]

 

 

No.  If we don't get top 4 this season, I will transfer allegiance to whichever European Super League team takes my fancy.

 

Probably Arsenal or Spurs.

 

 

 

[Koke]

Can't be having a 40k ground and a £100m training ground, and be playing second tier football.