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ATMOSPHERE THURSDAY

By K1FOX, in Leicester City Forum

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Corky

Corky

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30 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I'll be booing the TV very early

Savage will be on, it's fair enough.

 

Extra loud boo when he tells us to know our place and stop criticising St Brendan when we offer absolutely **** all.

sacreblueits442

sacreblueits442

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6 hours ago, ren said:

This is my fear about the expansion. The club need to recognise that a 'singing section' (cringey name) like United have is needed and it needs to be near the away fans imo. Families and kids near the away fans who mostly will give pelters all game never made sense to me anyway but the club are really going to have to face the consequences of a bad atmosphere if they don't take action. The forced family image with the clappers and only posting people with blue face paint on twitter is horrendously backfiring at the moment but they don't seem to see it at all.

....putting that section together makes coin throwing and any kind of missile passing from one area to another a strong possibility !!!

It will always be the issue at football games, hard to keep stupidity out.

Ian Nacho

Ian Nacho

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10 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

As has been commented on already, there's a fundamental difference in what we're likely to witness on Thursday night between both ends.

 

The Legia fans will be vocally loud because they see themselves as part of the club's overall performance. Their players are evidently shocking right now, but the fans themselves can still have pride in how they have performed on behalf of the club they support whether the team win, lose, play crap, play well or play indifferently.

 

Here, our mindset is "the team are poor at the minute and therefore don't deserve our support until they show us something". But, in doing that, we're also showing that we have a lack of pride in ourselves as fans because we're not willing to stick up for our club in the stands - a club we allegedly all support through thick and thin, no matter who's representing us on the pitch.

 

Now, I don't blame anybody for any choices they made on Saturday with regards to staying, leaving, cheering, booing, singing, belting up, whatever. It was a shoddy day all round where you could do nothing but shrug your shoulders to your mates about how things were playing out. In some other recent games, Rodgers may have had a point about the way fans acted - but Saturday definitely wasn't a day to be lecturing people on how they should feel and react to a performance like that.

 

That said (and, before anyone @'s me, I get that this may be more of an English cultural issue rather than one unique to Leicester) I do wish we'd lead by example in the stands and show the kind of passion and desire we say we want from the players. If the players then turn up, great - we've done our job. And if they don't, then we've absolutely earned the right to berate them for not matching our efforts on the terraces. The vast, vast majority of the time if you're expecting Leicester's on the pitch performance to be what rouses you into action then you're going to be disappointed. Anyone who's supported the club for more than five or six years should know that.

I definitely think it’s a British cultural thing. I see teams in Europe being 5-0 down at home and their fans are still jumping up and down with flares but in England the ground is half empty at that point. 

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grobyfox1990

grobyfox1990

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5 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

Problem is there's no motivation for that. The club, like other football teams, know generally what they want. People to pay the high ticket prices, turn up (early), preferably with kids, buy merch and food, enter the stands and sit down to watch the game and cause no fuss whatsoever.

 

There is no financial gain to helping improve the atmosphere (could argue about positive effect towards on-pitch performance, but let's ignore that for now.) Maybe if we got relegated again, crowds dipped low and they needed to bring back the pie-and-pint deals they might do, but like you said, that isn't likely.

 

They've shown their disdain for individual fans by moving them, not letting them sit where they want because they "isolate seats." They can come out with "incredible support" with a straight face because we're at 99% capacity for PL games and offering platitudes is what matters. There's not even been a hint that they're interested in rail seating, either, while West Ham, Man City, Spurs and the rest steam away with the concept. Meanwhile they've beefed up their corporate offering now with multiple packages and experiences for the discerning fan on home games. 

 

Corporate is not to be sniffed at by any means, it pays the bills and there's demand, but it'd be nice to see some investment in the atmosphere. A fully formed, dedicated area with rail seating that can lead the way. We know the areas of the stadium that are, and always will be stoney silent, but having a (potentially ever growing) pocket of fans making noise in their own space would be a positive step.

 

Unfortunately we are going to be back here in a few months time, perhaps the Norwich home game on NYD. 3pm kick off after many fans will have enjoyed quite the NYE party.

On the motivation point there most definitely is (or should be) a need for the clubs to promote atmosphere in the grounds. I work with a sports lawyer on other matters but when we go out for client drinks he does talk about how tv contracts are based on having a raucous atmosphere at the grounds. Therefore during the games behind closed doors the clubs had to return a lot of cash. The foreign broadcasters also value, and pay a premium for, the classic British rowdy atmosphere in traditional tight grounds with the fans on top of the players. Likewise the tourist market depends on atmosphere. There is financial gain to be had, if indeed they do overlook it, it’s short sighted 

Guest Dirkster the Fox

Guest Dirkster the Fox

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If the players give us a sniff of decent play tomorrow night, we should take the roof off with noise.

 

#backthelads

K1FOX

K1FOX

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European night under the lights 3 points takes us top of the group with a game to play. This is what we dreamed of during the dark days. If it isn't rocking today i'm afraid it never will be.

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J. James

J. James

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On 23/11/2021 at 20:30, Ian Nacho said:

I definitely think it’s a British cultural thing. I see teams in Europe being 5-0 down at home and their fans are still jumping up and down with flares but in England the ground is half empty at that point. 

Maybe we should all wear flares then... 🤔

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erlee

erlee

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we have over-achieved .. so I am happy we are having a bit of European Action against Legia Warsaw.

That should give us a fair amount of warm up for the weekend.

Guest Lako42

Guest Lako42

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I'm looking forward to us overachieving tonight for the 1st time in quite a while. 

erlee

erlee

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On 24/11/2021 at 07:30, Ian Nacho said:

I definitely think it’s a British cultural thing. I see teams in Europe being 5-0 down at home and their fans are still jumping up and down with flares but in England the ground is half empty at that point. 

didn't see any of that at Club Brugge yesterday

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adejo92

adejo92

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26 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Over 1000 Legia fans coming over apparently.

 

They are going to make one hell of a racket.

Thats besides all of the ones that have purchased tickets in the home end. They won't be denied entry, they will just be moved to the away end if they are found out.

 

Should be a good atmosphere.

hejammy

hejammy

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Sitting here at half time at the KP, I have to say their support is probably the best I've seen from away fans this season. Literally bouncing.

 

Ours...... Not so much apart from the odd... 'come on Leicester!' 

Guest Lako42

Guest Lako42

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It's ****ing wank :scarf:

 

L1 being proper embarrassed. 

 

 

Kop dead

 

 

Lazy, entitled, boring. 

adam

adam

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1 minute ago, hejammy said:

Sitting here at half time at the KP, I have to say their support is probably the best I've seen from away fans this season. Literally bouncing.

 

Ours...... Not so much apart from the odd... 'come on Leicester!' 

It doesn't sound too bad on the tele. Apart from the embarrassing goal music that comes through full blast. 

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