I just want to enjoy watching my team.

[Blue-fox]

2 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

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

I’d have gone as soon as the third went in if I was there 😂 Maybe the second 

[Guest Kopfkino]

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

[Foxdiamond]

9 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. 

I agree but the drip drip effect is really hurting  so many goals conceded and in a terribly quick time. A pattern has developed and Rodgers needs to get a grip now.

[Mike Oxlong]

5 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

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. 

 

 

Not forgetting that Pleat was also hooked during his own tenure at Leicester 

[Lesta2014]

4 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

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. 

I came away from athletico second leg fairly happy. We threw everything at them that second half and i was proud to be to watch my team have a right good go in the champions league quarter final we lost but it was enjoyable and emotional at the same time knowing full well we’d never get there again!

[The Horse's Mouth]

3 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

To add to this, we probably are the most "entertaining" team in the league, have we even had a 0-0 this season? I imagine we either have the most goals in our games bar maybe Norwich?  And nobody is happy so it is a weird argument.

 

Like if it's just entertainment for you, why bother to support an actual team and just watch like Liverpool matches instead 

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

3 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

When we got promoted, a Villa fan said to me that the Prem isn’t all that. I responded ‘with all due respect, nobodies aspires to be Villa.’ No disrespect to them, great history, but at the time it was non stop, boring mid table after mid table nothingness. Year after year. I felt more emotion and enjoyed the excitement of our great escape season the whole way. 

[CosbehFox]

Wouldn’t mind see a ****ing good tackle or challenge for a start 

[FoxOnWheels]

Today was ridiculous because the players must of been aware of how much it means to the fans and after embarrassing us enough this season they could of At least showed right and aggression to win a massive game for the fans, instead they started well conceded a goal against the run of play lost their heads and arses fell out like always 

[daddylonglegs]

25 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. 

 

Excellently put

[HybridFox]

The worst thing is it wasn't even a shock

[Parafox]

12 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

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

Nah. Football or rugby or cricket or athletics or any other competitive sport should be as entertaining as it should be competitive. Otherwise why would we watch? Competition is entertainment. We watch because we want to see winners but we also get vicarious pleasure from failures.

I don't get skiing or that bowling thing on ice but I watch them because like to be entertained by watching the challenge of people in competition with each other.

[FuriousFox46]

I don’t care what style our manager wants us to play, I just want to see a team that fights.

 

or at least a team that fights in a local ****ing derby!

Edited 6 February 2022 by FuriousFox46

[kingfox]

I said the same after the draw against Brighton.

 

I don’t feel motivated to watch this team under Rodgers anymore, I’m now watching this team through habit.

 

As @Bert alluded to, and as I alluded to after the Brighton game, I don’t mind losing, I don’t mind us having an average season, but what I want to see is a team who put in effort, we’ve rarely seen that this season.

 

I currently feel how I felt at the end of Puel’s tenture, disinterested and bored.

[Strokes]

I can accept most things if there is a bit of fight, some desire to win.

Capitulation like this time and time again is just unacceptable and weak. The defence is as robust as wet paper and Tielemans recently has been a disgrace.

We don’t look too bad going forwards most of the time but we just never look like we are comfortable. He has to go.

[The Horse's Mouth]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Nah. Football or rugby or cricket or athletics or any other competitive sport should be as entertaining as it should be competitive. Otherwise why would we watch? Competition is entertainment. We watch because we want to see winners but we also get vicarious pleasure from failures.

I don't get skiing or that bowling thing on ice but I watch them because like to be entertained by watching the challenge of people in competition with each other.

The OP is suggesting it's more style entertainment rather than the competitive edge though, which is where the entertainment goes through. When you're saying " I don't care if we win or lose" then you're suggesting that the competitive part of it isn't enough for you.

[KingsX]

The run-in in 2016 was more agony than entertainment.  1-0 after 1-0.

 

Would anybody trade it for a bunch of "win some, lose some" 5-4 goal fests?

[Bert]

6 minutes ago, kingfox said:

I said the same after the draw against Brighton.

 

I don’t feel motivated to watch this team under Rodgers anymore, I’m now watching this team through habit.

 

As @Bert alluded to, and as I alluded to after the Brighton game, I don’t mind losing, I don’t mind us having an average season, but what I want to see is a team who put in effort, we’ve rarely seen that this season.

 

I currently feel how I felt at the end of Puel’s tenture, disinterested and bored.

The thing is when we’ve put the effort in (Man Utd & Liverpool at home instantly spring to mind) the atmosphere in the ground has been good, and we’ve come away with a positive result. 

[kristianity77]

It all just feels a bit Wycombe Wanderers for me.  We've had our time.  Everything came together to give us an amazing 5 years, and now everything seems to be falling apart at the same time.  

 

I hope I'm wrong but it just seems like we are watching a car crash in slow motion, yet we can do absolutely nothing to stop it 

Edited 6 February 2022 by kristianity77

[Webbo]

25 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

No rep points in that. 

[kingfox]

Just now, Bert said:

The thing is when we’ve put the effort in (Man Utd & Liverpool at home instantly spring to mind) the atmosphere in the ground has been good, and we’ve come away with a positive result. 

And that’s the thing mate, which is hard to fathom.

 

We randomly turn up and produce a performance of effort, fight and spirit, as seen against Man Utd & Liverpool.

 

Then as seen against Spurs, Brighton & Forest, normality resumes where our naivety rears its ugly head again.

 

You get the odd performance as seen against Liverpool, which pretty much just papers over the cracks.

 

You think a corner may have been turned, then bang, back to square one again where we produce a performance of piss poor mentality.

 

The problem is that it happens far too often, we saw it at the back end of last season, those type of performances have just snowballed into this season.

[cropstonfox]

It all just feels a bit Wycombe Wanderers for me. 

 

 

Exactly what it is.This will fester in to next season and relegation is a reality. 

Peter the Taylor should have been sacked

Then.......Lessons learnt?!!

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

30 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

Well put. Losing is part of football, some just can't accept that and see quite how good we've had it recently.

[Mike Oxlong]

29 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Isn’t enjoying watching your team correlated with success and relative to what you expect? Hence why you’ve chosen times that we were entertaining with wins. You’re not saying 

 

I can’t believe there’s a fan out there that would be happy if we were playing swashbuckling football but be 12th in the Championship swinging from 5-4 wins to 5-4 defeats. Nobody would really rather we were bottom of the league but playing with 100% fight

 

I wish people would just admit that they don’t like losing and we’ve fallen behind where we’d got used to being rather than dressing it up.

But good performances are more likely to lead to better results over the course of a season. I don’t see the two being separate as a rule of thumb 

[Sir Shep]

When I'm seeing the hard-core posters on hrer asking serious questions then I know it's really fvcked here. Time for a fresh perspective I think.