However frustrated you may be

[shen]

Just now, iancognito said:

I'm really not up for booing players but I 100% booed THE DECISION today. Not really sure it's possible to say anyone was booing the player, maybe some were but all around me it was utter disbelief that Lookman - easily our best player on a terrible day for most of them - was being taking off. There were a lot of cheers for Maddison just generally because that's what you do but pretty difficult to decide where the boos for the decision end and the cheers for the player start.

No, it was very audible on TV. There were loud boos, followed by applause as Lookman went off and the boos returned as Maddison went on the pitch.

 

I would still criticise the judgement to boo a substitution regardless. Lookman coming off on 75 mins after playing in the cup makes good sense - it's consistent with our attacking subs we usually make. Our coaching team take longterm fitness very much into consideration, which we should be thankful for given how much injuries have affected our seasons recently. This is info we are just not privvy to.

 

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he was supposed to have come off at 60, but Rodgers kept him on a bit longer exactlt because he was a threat. 

[sacreblueits442]

5 hours ago, murphy said:

Hate it!  Really, really hate it.  It always makes me cringe.

 

I just hope that some of the barrackers read this and think twice next time.

 

It's counterproductive, unnecessary and just plain stupid.

.....I really believed it was due to pulling Lookman out of the game, it was all aimed at Rodgers!!!

The fact that it was Maddison coming on was unfortunate, the crowd has been restless recently, and anymore inexplicable  substitutions like this, does not help.

[Yes]

As fans we for some reason expect our players to be completely loyal to us, yet all it takes for us to turn on them is a bit of bad form, puts me off our fans so I can’t imagine what it makes the players feel.

[shen]

3 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

.....I really believed it was due to pulling Lookman out of the game, it was all aimed at Rodgers!!!

The fact that it was Maddison coming on was unfortunate, the crowd has been restless recently, and anymore inexplicable  substitutions like this, does not help.

Except it wasn't inexplicable. I'm sorry, but a teensie weensie moment of reflection should make it obvious why the sub was made. It's this total lack lf trust in the coaching staff's judgement which baffles me.

[iancognito]

30 minutes ago, shen said:

No, it was very audible on TV. There were loud boos, followed by applause as Lookman went off and the boos returned as Maddison went on the pitch.

 

I would still criticise the judgement to boo a substitution regardless. Lookman coming off on 75 mins after playing in the cup makes good sense - it's consistent with our attacking subs we usually make. Our coaching team take longterm fitness very much into consideration, which we should be thankful for given how much injuries have affected our seasons recently. This is info we are just not privvy to.

 

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he was supposed to have come off at 60, but Rodgers kept him on a bit longer exactlt because he was a threat. 

Yeah I can't really say about the ground as a whole. The acoustics are so bad it's hard to hear much of the rest of it outside our own area or Kop corner. Genuinely didn't hear booing for Madders but if others heard different then fine.

Booing a player coming on to the pitch isn't acceptable (Nacho-style I think vs Spurs in the Puelball era for example) it's just mindless but it's the sheep mentality and people going with those around them, same thing that keeps 20000 people slapping clappers every match. No doubt Lookman was shattered. About ten mins before he went off he grabbed one of those pouches from the bench that I assume are some sort of liquid energy boost. But honestly, Barnes had run his race after an hour too and was arguably far less effective than Lookman so I do get the general disbelief.

[deejdeej]

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[Duquesne Whistle]

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[Guest Kopfkino]

Conjecture obviously but the excuse of booing the decision to take Lookman off is bollocks. Had it been Daka, KDH, or even Albrighton coming on there might have been a bit of groan that Lookman was coming off but not, what sound like on TV, loud boos. In this case it was Maddison, but it probably would have been had it been Perez too, and that’s because implicitly the boos were also for the player coming on.

[Bert]

Only started this topic for rep points @Finnegan

[splinterdream]

Lookman was on fire, everything and anything that was likely to unlock another goal was likely to come through him, so it was disappointing, infact unthinkable to see him pulled, I don't think and hope maddison being the replacement was the cause of the boos. maybe Rodgers was worried about injury as he's been stung with that over past couple of seasons 

[Itsthejoeker]

Look on the bright side, if we really did get relegated some of the plastic entitled cvnts might not come back. 

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[NAKC20]

I don't know if it has been mentioned already in this thread but look at it this way. For those that boo players as they come on to the pitch how would you feel if you walked into your place of work on a Monday morning, whether that be an office ,warehouse building site or a shop floor and everyone around you started booing? Wouldn't exactly fill you full of confidence would it? Everybody goes through stages of not being perfect and I'm sure every professional footballer are their own worst critics and don't need reminding by their own fans they are not playing to well at the minute. 

We are called supporters and our aim is to support the team.

[Guest Lako42]

Funny how every area of the ground can muster up the energy to boo our own but can't be arsed to get behind them for more than 5 minutes in the 90. 

 

Bunch of arseholes 

 

It's shit at Leicester 

[Strokes]

16 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

If you pay premium prices to go to the game and get served up that, then you are more than entitled to boo.

We are 16th in ticket prices. It’s not premium prices at all. Entitled is the right word in the wrong sentence.

[CUJimmy]

I am 100% certain that Maddison is working hard and performing well in training but for whatever reason it is not happening on the pitch.  It was noticeable that at the end of the game he didn’t come over to the Kop which reminded me of Chilwell in his last season with us.  I remember one game when he had played really well but still didn’t want to come over so BR put an arm round his shoulder and brought him across.  
 

The last player I remember being booed when he came on was Nacho against Everton, just before he scored an injury time winner.  Yesterday his name was being sung from minute 1 and he looked 10 feet tall as he walked past us - that is the effect we can have on a player.

 

One thing I hope we can agree on though, Vards is back!

[drumbeat]

I prefer to think it's fickle rather than entitled. So thanks to whoever said fickle,  I like.

 

I think we possibly have a new (crest of a) wave of supporters who are used to good KP vibes and have now maybe become complacent, and will turn at the least of issues.  Perhaps too few of our fan base know the experience of rainy Tuesday evenings in wherever, or know only on paper of where we've comew from. They're too new to the fold to be entitled, so fickle does best describe it IMHO 

 

And of course there's the new social media flavour of fan (as remarked on in that excellent article from a Liverpool fan's perspective) who see a loss as cause to spew venom across the web (all from their comparatively inexperienced position)

 

Managing a team must be a complex issue. One that very very few of us (if we are honest) have any idea about. It's a real credit to a manager that they don't lose it when faced with the frankly ignorant opinions of those who think they know better. But then of course that's part of the job too; to take the shit and smile.

 

 

[leicesterseddon]

I was there yesterday…obviously impossible to tell, but my impression was that people were booing BR’s decision to take off Lookman more than Maddison.

 

Although I can appreciate for Maddison that probably doesn’t make much difference! 

[drumbeat]

Oh, and I've not booed anything or anyone in my life. I may not (always) sing but I can hand on heart say I've never booed. That's not to say that I understand every decision (be it ref's our manager's) but I don't express myself that way.

[Hollyfox]

I wonder what our players think to the crowd turning on their team names. 

 

 

The Brentford fans sounded brilliant last night, although they are in a different place to us atm. 

 

The energy that we gave the side in 14/15 15/16 obviously gave the whole team a massive boost and helped us to amazing achievements. 

 

Be great if we could get it back a bit but I'm not sure the passion is there any more 😑

[blue army 1988]

13 hours ago, murphy said:

Surely you know the difference?

 

By all means, boo the opposition.  You can go 'full on panto' as far as they're concerned.

I do know the difference.

It was mainly for the people saying that the boos hurt peoples feelings and doesn't belong in football

[blue army 1988]

13 hours ago, murphy said:

 

When it comes to footballing matters, why would you feel the need to have your opinion heard by the club?  I'm not sure what they would do with that information anyway?

 

Dave in row G doesn't approve of your substitutions Brendan, better sharpen up your act!

 

Opinions are best left for your mates or get it off your chest here.  I have always seen it that we as fans have a job to do at the ground, to become the twelfth man by supporting the team, not booing them.

Im not saying its just my opinion.

More of the opinion of the "fans". Who ever they are.

[RonnieTodger]

48 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Funny how every area of the ground can muster up the energy to boo our own but can't be arsed to get behind them for more than 5 minutes in the 90. 

 

Bunch of arseholes 

 

It's shit at Leicester 

Spot on.

 

We have the worst fans in the league bar none. Winning the league finished us as a fan base. We’re literally the FA Cup holders and are playing in Europe and that’s still not enough to deter retards in the stands booing Rodgers and Maddison.

 

So what if you didn’t agree with the Lookman sub? They deserve more slack than that. 
 

I hate this club sometimes. 

[Phil Bowman]

11 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

.....I really believed it was due to pulling Lookman out of the game, it was all aimed at Rodgers!!!

The fact that it was Maddison coming on was unfortunate, the crowd has been restless recently, and anymore inexplicable  substitutions like this, does not help.

So you reckon if Daka had come on there would have been the same booing?

[Phil Bowman]

39 minutes ago, drumbeat said:

Oh, and I've not booed anything or anyone in my life. I may not (always) sing but I can hand on heart say I've never booed. That's not to say that I understand every decision (be it ref's our manager's) but I don't express myself that way.

I’m pretty sure I’ve booed some opposition players, and the occasional ref, but never, ever, anything to do with Leicester. I’ve been annoyed, I’ve been frustrated, I’ve left games without applauding the players I was so pissed off, but I’ve never, ever booed them. Why would I? I’m a Leicester fan ffs! Fans don’t boo their own team!

[DennisNedry]

There was definitely some muted booing when Maddison came on, distinct from the loud initial booing when Lookman's number came up on the board.

 

On the subject of booing, I think the only LCFC player I ever booed was that awful washed up Portuguese keeper we had about 10 years ago who came in to replace Chris Weale and made mistake after mistake until we binned him off. Tbf I was about 18 at the time, I wouldn't boo now.

Edited 26 September 2021 by DennisNedry