Is our fan base a bit over-emotional?

[Jonezy]

Of course we are over-emotional. We are football fans in the internet age.

 

But for me, the frustration and being over-emotional comes not from the results, but the incosistencies in performance even within the same game. Have we played a great 90 mins at all in 2021? The lack of progress and doing the same dumb things over and over again is a huge dissapointment for me. 

 

 

[Spiritwalker]

This needs to be a poll.

[CosbehFox]

Certainly specialise in exaggeration. 

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, Edingleyfox said:

I think it is seeing the same mistakes week after week that is doing it with not a lot of evidence of change in approach.

 

I don't think many of us expect top 6 year after year but seeing games like yesterday thrown away after dominating is enough to irritate anyone.

...nothing less than top 8 should be acceptable, nothing!!!

  The amount of money we are paying players in order for them to come here, new Training ground and facilities we are committing a lot of expenditure to drive us forward and if we do not continue to do so we are then standing still.

  We cannot afford to stand still, more and more money going into clubs we have this juggernaut in top gear which demands to have brakes fitted but we all seem to want to keep it on the road unchecked.

  We need to see big changes to attitude and formations on the pitch and until what ever practices are going on in training, are curtailed, in order to alleviate our continuing injury problems, we  will continue to be deprived of our better  players on a regular basis. 

Edited 6 December 2021 by sacreblueits442
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[KFS]

I’m not ****ing emotional, you are

[Dan]

We are but it's an emotional game.

[SpacedX]

If Foxes Talk is at all representative of our fanbase, then judging by some of the other threads on this forum, the answer is yes. 

[sammy82]

Yes I’m definitely over emotional at the moment, seeeeeeeeeething with it! That’s the beauty of football, different personalities and opinions, no one’s right or wrong! Some of us are FANATICAL FRANKS and some are PART TIME PETES 

Edited 6 December 2021 by sammy82
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[ajthefox]

I think we are generally like any other football fanbase and although we have all changed as a result of the title win, I don't buy this notion that is sometimes put forward that we are a special kind of dramatic or entitled or whatever.

 

We love our club and we get emotional, especially when, as many others have said, we see the same repeated mistakes week after week and are watching the best squad this club has ever had wildly underperform.

Of course that is going to be frustrating for people. There are a number of perfectly legitimate reasons to be pissed off and for me it's quite understandable that some people think we need a managerial change, although I'm not quite there yet myself. 

 

More to the point, this forum, like any other and the internet in general, is an amplified representation of the fanbase. We all use the forum to express ourselves, for some it is perhaps done more acutely than if it were sat down with their fellow poster at the pub and of course, that leads to more heated discussion.

[kristianity77]

I'm not over emotional to the result.  Win lose or draw its fine.  Whats not fine is under performing, no effort and making the same mistakes week after week after week. 

[Vestan Pance]

3 hours ago, SkidsFox said:

Results (and performances) have not been great, but isn't everyone here getting a bit hysterical?

Yes, the defence needs attention, but we'll soon have Justin and Fofana available.

Mid-table may be less than hoped for, but we could be a lot worse.  No reason we can't put together a string of good results in the New Year once the likes of Tielemans, Justin and Fofana are back.

If you mean some "some people here are getting a bit hysterical", then yes. Everyone, then no.

[SkidsFox]

Just now, Vestan Pance said:

If you mean some "some people here are getting a bit hysterical", then yes. Everyone, then no.

Fair comment. Not everyone, just a certain number. 

[Lambert09]

I don’t think it’s a knee jerk reaction to one game, or hysterics. Simply people have lost faith in Brendan. 
 

It’s just insulting that people on here can’t respect other people’s opinion about the manager. The majority of the fan base was happy for him to leave for man united, a few weeks later we lose in a poor fashion again and those same fans want the manager gone... how is that knee jerk? 
 

Brendan has always had faults. We’ve nose dived with him as a manager 2 seasons in a row, this year he never got us the highs to drop from. The team has visibly got worse and the same problems don’t get resolved. Whether you believe he deserves time for his achievements or not, you both have fair arguments.  Why don’t we just let people vent on a forum, it’s what it’s here for, and it’s therapeutic
 

Edited 6 December 2021 by Lambert09

[StanSP]

Yes. Generally emotional in the lead up to games. That emotion spills over during and in the immediate aftermath of a game. 

 

Most football fans are over-emotional anyway. 

[VLC86]

Judging by my Twitter account this morning, I’ve called anyone within 10 square miles of Villa Park yesterday a nonce, so I think it’s a yes from me.

[whoareyaaa]

4 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

I think it's expectations rising with results. In the last 5 years we've had a Premier League win, two top 5 finishes and an FA cup. Winning is addictive. 

Pretty much this expectations are sky high fans are in turmoil 

[don_danbury]

all good saying those will be back, but given the injuries under rodgers i wouldn't be surprised if we pick up another 2 or 3 injuries to crucial players.  he needs sacking

[purpleronnie]

Our fans don't seem particularly emotional inside the ground.

[Pick Good Name Later]

The first two pages of the majority of post match threads after a bad result/performance are raw, insulting, and not overly representative of a rational argument. That's just emotion. You then get to page 4 or 5 where the "over emotion" becomes a coherent perspective. Whether good or bad. An elite manager, or needs to be sacked. It's extremely difficult to not have emotion, whichever way in something that we all care about. 

 

There is a lot of investment by fans into this football club. However large or small, this gives an entitlement for an opinion. 

 

It's not considered over emotion when we were all gushing about how great Brendan was. How unbelievable our squad was etc etc. Is it not the same thing though? Are we not being over emotional at that point? 

 

When there is such a divide as it appears now, it's going to drive emotion that bit more. 

 

Are our fans over-emotional? Not for a moment. Are we any different to any other fan base? I highly doubt it. Do we all want to see more from our club at present? Yes. 

 

 

[LcFc_Smiv]

Definitely, I told my Mrs last night to book my birthday meal on Thursday for 6pm as I can't stand to watch us anymore. I've just rang the restaurant to move it back to 8:00

[Dan]

1 hour ago, purpleronnie said:

Our fans don't seem particularly emotional inside the ground.

This is the drawback. Yesterday was vintage Leicester away end. You hear our fans singing all over town, through the station, concourse is mental.

 

See the pitch and it falls silent. I don't get it. It can't all be acoustics.

[Guest David Oldfields Gate]

6 hours ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

I'm not pissed off by league positions or losing games. It's the manner we are conceding goals week in week out that pisses me off. Being beaten by a better team isn't an issue. We are constantly shooting ourselves in the foot, just like we did first half yesterday, by not being able to defend set pieces. This is something that needed to be addressed months ago. I think we are entitled to be pissed off.

Totally agree. If we have left it all on the pitch, physically and tactically then fair enough. It's the whimper back up the tunnel I can't stand. I was bought up on walshy and co, never say die. The last fifteen minutes of games when we're were loosing was immense, you could suck the ball into the net, but now people are leaving with ten minutes to go despite only being one goal behind, that isn't right.

[adejo92]

I think its quite easily understandable for fans to he emotional and opinionated about this season.

 

Football fans generally spend a lot of money following the club and wait all week to watch the games. To have to then sit through the same rubbish, week in and week out, of course people get frustrated.

 

As many others have said, it's not always the losing, it's the way inwhich we do it.

 

These mistakes would have been fixed at Sunday league, how they are still occurring in the top flight, at the hands of those paid ludicrously,  is beyond belief.

 

We're actually the brunt of on going jokes now to commentary teams. 

 

Edited 6 December 2021 by adejo92

[SemperEadem]

16 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

This is the drawback. Yesterday was vintage Leicester away end. You hear our fans singing all over town, through the station, concourse is mental.

 

See the pitch and it falls silent. I don't get it. It can't all be acoustics.

Its infuriating.

[Corky]

Let's be honest, we should all take it less seriously.

 

But then we all go over the top when we win a trophy or achieve something so why wouldn't we go the other way?