Could you ever go back to being garbage?

[Stadt]

It was bad enough enduring Puel ball. Being dross in the championship would be disgusting, anybody saying otherwise is being naive.

 

Underachieving your potential as a club is what frustrates you. For years we knew we were capable of being a premier league side as we had the resources for it, regressing into a mediocre club would be so gutting after the highs we’ve achieved.

 

The stadium, Seagrave, and a big catchment area are near immutable characteristics of the club, even if Top was to sell, we’d have to be badly ran to truly shit again.

[STUHILL]

5 minutes ago, Koke said:

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

49k 

[AS78UK]

30 minutes ago, deanolegend1989 said:

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.

 

I don't disagree, this feels like it has more longevity to it.  But still feel like we should be savouring this time for as long as it lasts.  Life can change quickly and football is no exception.   

[Hoopla10]

8 minutes ago, TangledUpInBlue said:

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. 

And yet a part of some people can't help thinking, she's hot, but not top 4 hot. 

[fox_up_north]

32 minutes ago, TJB-fox said:

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.

Villa, Newcastle, Leeds, Portsmouth. Even the "mighty" Man City - top tier stuff in the 70s - have dropped. Leeds won the league in 90(or 91?) and were second tier a decade and a half later.

 

Look at Chelsea from a few seasons ago or Arsenal now. 

 

Don't forget where you came from and it only takes one bad season to end up there. 

[TJB-fox]

29 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

Villa, Newcastle, Leeds, Portsmouth. Even the "mighty" Man City - top tier stuff in the 70s - have dropped. Leeds won the league in 90(or 91?) and were second tier a decade and a half later.

 

Look at Chelsea from a few seasons ago or Arsenal now. 

 

Don't forget where you came from and it only takes one bad season to end up there. 

And the point is they shouldn’t have done so, because of the facilities, players, money etc they had available. 
 

 

[foxfanazer]

Yeah we need a league two title win to complete the domestic set

[Phil Bowman]

 

1 hour ago, STUHILL said:

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

 

1 hour ago, STUHILL said:

49k 

I suppose they might end up in the second tier one day.

[mohammedsaqib]

I play this Sporcle LCFC XIs every once in a while and it’s a great reminder how far we’ve come

 

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Freddie/football-xis-96-11--leicester-city

[shailen]

I think the way that football operates now, there is a real sense of monopilisation of those clubs at the top. The big six dominate so for us to be the only real club to break that since Blackburn in 1995, shows that we can sustain this success and it'll take something catastrophic now for us to get relegated imo. 

 

The money in the game only supports those clubs at the top more than it did 30 years ago when a club could win the league and get relegated the season after. We will start to command a bigger share of money once we grow in stature and if we can continue to sustain success. 

[twister]

happily the team isn't going to win the league again, and once vards goes and albrighton that type of all or nothing player will become a dying breed

 

lower league football is fun really and real and organic, maybe its the clubs natural home really

[UpTheLeagueFox]

3 hours ago, deanolegend1989 said:

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)

That was the 13th match of the season and we slipped to 6th.

That was the lowest we were in league one

We went top in the 17th game (a 2-1 win against Scunthorpe) and stayed there all season.

[HybridFox]

Martyn Waghorn on a Friday night against Bristol City. Limbs

Edited 9 August 2021 by TK95

[Arriba Los Zorros]

17 hours ago, WinslowFox said:

 

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.

No kidding, can't believe there's another fox in a town this small so far from Leicester.

 

We're massive! 

 

sure I live near the ground will come down and watch a game they seem to be mainly on Tuesdays whenever I've walked past is that correct?

[Footballwipe]

11 hours ago, TK95 said:

Martyn Waghorn on a Friday night against Bristol City. Limbs

Believe that was a £20 pie and pint game in a desperate effort to get people through the door. Other highlights include the Leicester Mercury cut out vouchers to get a £6 ticket entry for Palace home in 2009/10. I feel like they did a "bring a friend for £5" or something for one game as well. It's little things like this that show how far we've come (although the prices being like that would be most welcome. "Fans Fixutres" in 02/03 when it was £10/£5 kids were great days)

[Foxxed]

Nah. Shirley won’t return my calls anyway.

[Raw Dykes]

14 hours ago, BoyJones said:

We even have a vote on whether the manager should stay of go if we lose a match!

It seems like a lot of people misunderstand that question in the player ratings threads. It's in all of them - not just losses, by the way.

 

It's meant to just be a poll to see what % of fans are happy with the manager at that particular point in time. For some strange reason, it seems like many people read it as if you're meant to forget everything that went before and decide whether the manager should be sacked based solely on the one game just gone. No idea why we should be sacking a manager after one game, no matter how bad it is.

[Daggers]

I've never had a hangover before or since like the one I got in Southend. It was brilliant. The tedium of Stockport away, knowing we were going to be Champions at Cheltenham, realising we might not the following week losing to Milllll. The snowball fight at Warsaw, Howard's 92nd minute winner against Dirty Leeds. It was all brilliant. Never a problem getting tickets, seven keepers, and Barry Hayles. It was the best season ever.

 

 

[HybridFox]

59 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Believe that was a £20 pie and pint game in a desperate effort to get people through the door. Other highlights include the Leicester Mercury cut out vouchers to get a £6 ticket entry for Palace home in 2009/10. I feel like they did a "bring a friend for £5" or something for one game as well. It's little things like this that show how far we've come (although the prices being like that would be most welcome. "Fans Fixutres" in 02/03 when it was £10/£5 kids were great days)

Used to do whole squad signings for the family days as well. There was a charm about it tbf!

[CosbehFox]

13 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I've never had a hangover before or since like the one I got in Southend. It was brilliant. The tedium of Stockport away, knowing we were going to be Champions at Cheltenham, realising we might not the following week losing to Milllll. The snowball fight at Warsaw, Howard's 92nd minute winner against Dirty Leeds. It was all brilliant. Never a problem getting tickets, seven keepers, and Barry Hayles. It was the best season ever.

 

 

Only low point of that season was a totally crap day at Peterborough where it looked like we might have a challenge for the title 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

4 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Only low point of that season was a totally crap day at Peterborough where it looked like we might have a challenge for the title 

Not sure! Tranmere away on a Tuesday night getting ripped apart by Bas Savage was pretty low!

[Scanchez]

22 hours ago, tickler28 said:

I was there on a wet windy night at Yeovil and a balmy night in the Champions League v Porto......I'll be there wherever we are, whatever division it is....thats what loyal TRUE supporters do.

Not me.

I'll follow the Tigers if we don't beat Wolves on Saturday.

I have standards. 

[RoboFox]

When we were in League One I found the prospect of bossing it fvcking exciting. 

When we were in the Championship I was absolutely buzzing at the thought of making the playoff places. 

When we were shit in the PL,  the relegation dogfight was enthralling. 

Now we're massive, the idea of making the Champions League is intoxicating. 

 

Success is always relative and nothing lasts forever. I think I'll always find a way to enjoy it.

 

 

[The_77]

Our Community Shield barely has a fingerprint on it yet and we’re already talking about going back to League One!

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Only low point of that season was a totally crap day at Peterborough where it looked like we might have a challenge for the title 

Fortunately, like almost every match that season, I was having a brilliant time by being incredibly drunk.