I just want to enjoy watching my team.

[Finnegan]

We know what's coming. 

 

"Leicester fans, what do you expect!?" Claudio Ranieri won you the league, how can you want to sack him!? What do you expect!? Brendan Rodgers won you the FA Cup, how can you want to sack him!? What do you expect!? 

 

There's this notion in the press and on social media that, somehow, neutrals know a football club more than its fans, more than its season ticket holders. That they're somehow in a position to judge. Don't listen to them. 

 

What I expect is to just be able to enjoy it. I just want a team that's fun to watch. We can lose a few, win a few, draw a few. We can do a Forest and not win anything for about five generations. I'm not too fussed. Just as long as I can turn up on a Saturday, put the work week behind me and just enjoy ninety minutes of football. 

 

This is an entertainment industry, this is our hobby, it's our pastime, it's supposed to be something we enjoy doing. Demanding trophies is entitled, demanding success is entitled, demanding world class signings is entitled. But fun and entertainment, they're things we're entitled to. 

 

That's how this works. We pay money, good money, for entertainment and we've every right to expect it. 

 

At the start of the 19/20 season, Rodgers got everything to click. We were terrific to watch, we played some of the best football I've ever had the privilege of seeing us play. But it's gotten progressively worse since then with no evidence at all that the manager knows how to stop that rot. What he's serving up is the opposite of what he should be giving, it's anti fun. 

 

We've had less than a handful of enjoyable performances this season, United at home? Maybe Moscow away? Newcastle I suppose? And that's about it. 

 

What do Leicester fans expect? What we expect is just the bare minimum from a multi trillion pound entertainment industry. 

 

I just want to enjoy watching my team. 

 

[Itsthejoeker]

I’ve never been so disinterested in football than I am right now. 
 

We’ve got a team full of potential, the best owners in the country, massive investment into facilities, and the team and management are just going through the motions. 

[Webbo]

It's never fun to lose.

[ealingfox]

I actually don't care if its fun to watch or not as long as we win. Winning is automatically fun.

[The Horse's Mouth]

This isn't entertainment, this is sport. Winning is everything, if you want entertainment get a Netflix subscription.

[Bert]

I don’t even mind losing. It’s the lack of effort that bothers me. The lack of fight and willingness to do the dirty stuff. To get in someone’s face. We need a mentality shift from top to bottom. We can’t live on past glories and expect to walk through games like many of us did today. 

[goody2028]

We’ve been in worse places than this. We’re tenth in the premier league and still in a European competition. The performances have been unbearable at times and losing to forest is shocking but try and think positive. 

[Corky]

The most entertaining and exciting games we're involved in are the ones Rodgers doesn't want- the basketball, end to end stuff.

[Mike Oxlong]

I want our players to play like they realise how priveleged they are and what the team’s performances mean to the fans who aren’t as fortunate as them

Edited 6 February 2022 by Mike Oxlong

[Nobbyburton]

Totally agree. 
 

Sometimes I demand even less than that, I just don’t want so many humiliating and pathetic performances with absolutely no fight whatsoever. Losing is fine, but the way we lose makes me hate watching football. 
 

Today combined with Spurs the other week is quite a spectacular level of sh*t. 
 

Never mind the way we’ve absolutely capitulated 2 seasons in a row before this one. 

[jayfox26]

5 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

We know what's coming. 

 

"Leicester fans, what do you expect!?" Claudio Ranieri won you the league, how can you want to sack him!? What do you expect!? Brendan Rodgers won you the FA Cup, how can you want to sack him!? What do you expect!? 

 

There's this notion in the press and on social media that, somehow, neutrals know a football club more than its fans, more than its season ticket holders. That they're somehow in a position to judge. Don't listen to them. 

 

What I expect is to just be able to enjoy it. I just want a team that's fun to watch. We can lose a few, win a few, draw a few. We can do a Forest and not win anything for about five generations. I'm not too fussed. Just as long as I can turn up on a Saturday, put the work week behind me and just enjoy ninety minutes of football. 

 

This is an entertainment industry, this is our hobby, it's our pastime, it's supposed to be something we enjoy doing. Demanding trophies is entitled, demanding success is entitled, demanding world class signings is entitled. But fun and entertainment, they're things we're entitled to. 

 

That's how this works. We pay money, good money, for entertainment and we've every right to expect it. 

 

At the start of the 19/20 season, Rodgers got everything to click. We were terrific to watch, we played some of the best football I've ever had the privilege of seeing us play. But it's gotten progressively worse since then with no evidence at all that the manager knows how to stop that rot. What he's serving up is the opposite of what he should be giving, it's anti fun. 

 

We've had less than a handful of enjoyable performances this season, United at home? Maybe Moscow away? Newcastle I suppose? And that's about it. 

 

What do Leicester fans expect? What we expect is just the bare minimum from a multi trillion pound entertainment industry. 

 

I just want to enjoy watching my team. 

 

Nail on the head 

[Hales]

Losing is bad enough but it feels even worse when we lose by playing with no fight or passion and as if they cannot be bothered

[Ian Nacho]

And this is why the atmosphere is awful at the KP because we’re just boring to watch. 

[whoareyaaa]

Simple as that.

 

It's not enjoyable watching this at all, we are toothless.. injuries aside something is not working and its time to change it.

[Tommy Fresh]

Crazy that a team with this ability is actually less likeable than any side put together under Pearson.

[SecretPro]

Not been this unmotivated at the thought of watching City since well before we got promoted. It's dilge and I'm just not that interested. 

[Buzzell]

I just want to see some bastard fight from the team. Not just collapse every time the shit hits the fan. Show us you care, that you want to put on the blue shirt. It probably doesn’t help with Rodgers shite tactics but still they should show some sort of belief and bottle when it really matters. It’s bad enough seeing us lose let alone some of the performances that we also see.

 

SORT IT OUT.

Edited 6 February 2022 by buzzer_b

[bovril]

I would like a bit of professionalism as a bare minimum. That's been lacking in 2 out of the last 3 games. I haven't seen much worse from a PL team.

[HankMarvin]

In the premier league, BR can blame injuries for dismal displays because of “a lack of depth”

Today he was truly found out, against a side with how many loan players?

whilst we had the luxury of bringing on Daka costing 23m.

 

Managers shouldn’t be judged on just results but how they are improving the players.

 

How many of these players values are dropping significantly week on week.

 

Todays result and performance is inexcusable and we pay £10m a year for the privilege.

 

 

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

I agree with the OP about it being the entertainment industry. I know others disagree but would you rather win every game 1-0 and then park the bus, every week, every tournament, in the same way for ever and ever and ever?

 

or win some, lose some but have some variety and see new things. Be style, new tactics, new outcomes, lots of goals etc…

 

I think in reality it is subjective. Personally I want to see us wallop people 10-0 whilst playing the most imaginative and creative football you could imagine.

[tom27111]

Sounds stupid, because we're arguably in the best situation we've been in ever.

 

I'm 42 and got hooked in the Pleat years, been obsessed ever since.

 

But I'm slowly falling out of love with it. 

 

Got enough shit going on in my life without having to swap days at work to watch us on TV when I can't get tickets/swap days off when I do get away tickets and my Mrs thinking "he's in a shit mood for 3 days now".

 

So hard though.

 

If I'm at work on a day we're playing, I wear my tie with Foxes on. I wear the tie clip with Foxes on. I try to avoid customers at that time so I can watch it...

 

Maybe a bit 'Fever Pitch'. We've done it all, it was a pleasure. 

 

 

[An Away Move]

That twat who punched a Forest player embarrassed all of us. Nationally. Same with the dickheads who thought it was ‘ ‘hard’ to throw chairs and tables at families. If we still have a firm they’d be embarrassed by that. If you want trouble go find opposing fans who want it too. 

[HankMarvin]

6 minutes ago, goody2028 said:

We’ve been in worse places than this. We’re tenth in the premier league and still in a European competition. The performances have been unbearable at times and losing to forest is shocking but try and think positive. 

We haven’t been in worse places with this sort of outlay or players managers and wages.

[coolhandfox]

Probably get slated for this, but it the first time I've ever left a Leicester game with 25 minutes to go.

[Spudulike]

Liverpool at home with a depleted, injury/covid hit team just a few weeks ago was brilliant. Man Utd was almost as good. 

 

I don't go to be entertained. It's a form of masochism, usually very uncomfortable to watch. But when that final whistle goes and we've won it makes it all worthwhile. I've never been to a match that we've lost and come away thinking it's OK, I was entertained.