I just want to enjoy watching my team.

[Vestan Pance]

I just want a team and a manager that isn't coasting and taking the piss out of the club.

[when_you're_smiling]

I don’t understand the ‘boring’ thing that some trot out. We’re the sixth highest scorers in the Prem. It’s stating the obvious, but the problem is with the defence. More often then not we need to score three or four to win. Every game we’re on TV the pundits go on about how good a game it was, often because we’re too open. The exception to the ‘good for the neutral’ was probably the Liverpool game that looks more and more like a miracle.

 

In the last days of Puel a common complaint was ‘it’s so boring I wouldn’t mind if we lost if we lost attacking’. It was as bollocks then as it is now. Winning is all.

 

Much like the season after the title, the drift back to mid-table after mixing it with the top table is difficult as a fan base. I think it is something the players are struggling with as well. The hunger isn’t there and part of the dismay is it’s difficult to see how Rodgers is going to be able to get that back. 

 

Edited 6 February 2022 by when_you're_smiling

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

1 minute ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I don’t understand the ‘boring’ thing that some trot out. We’re the sixth brightest scorers in the Prem. It’s stating the obvious, but the problem is with the defence. More often then not we need to score three or four to win. Every game we’re on TV the pundits go on about how good a game it was, often because we’re too open. The exception to the ‘good for the neutral’ was probably the Liverpool game that looks more and more like a miracle.

 

In the last days of Puel a common complaint was ‘it’s so boring I wouldn’t mind if we lost if we lost attacking’. It was as bollocks then as it is now. Winning is all.

 

Much like the season after the title, the drift back to mid-table after mixing it with the top table is difficult as a fan base. I think it is something the players are struggling with as well. The hunger isn’t there and part of the dismay is it’s difficult to see how Rodgers is going to be able to get that back. 

 

Nail on the head.

 

'I just want to be entertained' is the same as I hate losing.

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, goody2028 said:

We’ve been in worse places than this. We’re tenth in the premier league and still in a European competition

 

But this is exactly my point, we're being told to tolerate what we've got because of the net outcome. 

 

I don't really care about the net outcome, I just want to enjoy the actual game. 

 

Most of us here on this forum aren't casual, part time fans that are just looking up the result and want to see that the team won. To those people it probably doesn't matter what happens on the pitch every weekend. 

 

But football is my hobby, watching football is one of my favourite things to do. I actually care about the 90 minutes of sport every time we go out on the pitch and I just want it to be enjoyable and entertaining to watch.

 

Telling me I should be happy because my club is in a position in the league that's above its historic average or because we've won a trophy for the first time regardless of how turgid the actual game is week in, week out is reductive, patronising and quite frankly moronic. It's the sort of thing people say who AREN'T fans of the sport. 

 

And that includes a lot of ex professionals paid to be pundits, a lot of guys who don't actually know what it means to be a supporter, a lot of guys who never have actually stood in the stands as a fan and experienced it from our position. I won't accept these people telling me to be happy with what we currently have because of where we are in the league. 

 

I don't care what arbitrary number of points we end the season with, I want to be entertained along the way. 

 

If a cinema goer had waited all year for a fill they were excited about to come out and it was actually shit, you wouldn't console them by saying "yeah but it grossed really well in the box office", would you? They don't care. They wanted to be entertained for two hours and got let down. 

 

Edited 6 February 2022 by Finnegan

[foxfanazer]

I feel no pride in watching us. The club is unrecognisable to me at the moment

[CosbehFox]

I’ve just dwelled on it in the car. Partly due to my own choice, partly the train service to Birmginham today, I feel knackered after 5 hours driving today. 
 

It’s not so much entertainment. It’s effort I want to see. I feel pretty disillusioned with the current squad and manager. The latter has an excuse for most stuff. The players appear out of touch and aloof. 
 

I have never been an ‘against modern football’ guy. I love all football. Go non league. Go LCFC. Both have different attractions. My love of LCFC stems from pride in where I’m from and the city. 
 

I have very little pride today. Some off the pitch stuff too. Watching  a bunch of players shirk their shoulders galore. They didn’t deserve acknowledging today. The whole away end should have left early. The connection has gone with the last remains of an era in Morgan and Fuchs

Edited 6 February 2022 by Cardiff_Fox

[Finnegan]

16 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

It’s not so much entertainment. It’s effort I want to see

 

I think some people are equating my talk of entertainment with total football or playing like Barcelona. 

 

I think there's more than one way to entertain playing football. I don't care if its all blood and thunder and thumping tackles, or cavalier exciting counter attacks or glorious flowing moves or really just high energy pressing with lots of commitment. 

 

All of these can be enjoyable. I just want to actually like watching the team, however we play. I want to see us committed, hard working, organised, professional, capable. 

 

Yeah obviously I want us to win but when we don't I want to at least come away convinced that we fvcking tried. 

 

Rodgers team isn't shit to watch purely because we play one style of football or another or one formation or another. It's shit because we're limp, weak, half arsed, lazy, slow, tired, turgid, sluggish, lacking confidence, motivation and energy. 

 

This is why it's not enjoyable and not entertaining. I'm not asking for us to play like peak Brazil every week or serve up just some Bielsa-esque Hollywood display to only get thrashed 7-4.

 

Sure, Riyad was entertaining, Ricardo skinning people is entertaining but so is Wasyl scything down Ayoze Perez to a massive ovation from a passionate crowd. 

 

I'm not being picky about how I'm entertained but just god damn I don't want to have to sit through more of this constant insipid, weak tea bullshit. 

[Dan]

I feel you. We're totally unenjoyable. Absolutely lifeless soft side that I just can't resonate with. There is talent but it needs a new direction.

[deep blue]

3 hours ago, KingsX said:

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?

Some exaggeration to fit your agenda there.  LThere were seven 1-0s all season, none of them coming in the last 6 games.

[brucey]

3 hours ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I don’t understand the ‘boring’ thing that some trot out. We’re the sixth highest scorers in the Prem. It’s stating the obvious, but the problem is with the defence. More often then not we need to score three or four to win. Every game we’re on TV the pundits go on about how good a game it was, often because we’re too open. The exception to the ‘good for the neutral’ was probably the Liverpool game that looks more and more like a miracle.

 

In the last days of Puel a common complaint was ‘it’s so boring I wouldn’t mind if we lost if we lost attacking’. It was as bollocks then as it is now. Winning is all.

 

Much like the season after the title, the drift back to mid-table after mixing it with the top table is difficult as a fan base. I think it is something the players are struggling with as well. The hunger isn’t there and part of the dismay is it’s difficult to see how Rodgers is going to be able to get that back. 

 

Seeing us score is a lot less enjoyable these days, as it's immediately followed by the thought of 'we're going to bottle this now'. Even scoring first can become boring when we are almost guaranteed to concede afterwards. It's unpredictability that makes games enjoyable and exciting.

[when_you're_smiling]

46 minutes ago, deep blue said:

Some exaggeration to fit your agenda there.  LThere were seven 1-0s all season, none of them coming in the last 6 games.

Five of the last 10 before the title was decided were 1-0s, and one of the others (Sunderland) was 2-0 thanks to an injury time goal, plus the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.

[HybridFox]

Proper f***s off my week as well.

 

Work hard during the week to have something to look forward to at the weekend as a bit of relief then we produce that sh*** again and again.

 

The fact we keep playing on Sundays makes it even worse 

[Guest Col city fan]

To all those posters who are claiming ‘I don’t mind seeing us losing, just as long as we tried’, I smell bull-shit

Lets see how long that lasts for! 😉

Football IS an entertainment industry, but it’s first and foremost a points industry… a business.

I argue that watching us under Brendan IS entertaining! There’s nearly always goals, there’s nearly always ‘incidents’ and week-in, week-out we have no idea how we are going to play and whether we’ll win or get mullered! (Is that not ‘entertainment’)?

But that doesn’t bring ‘success’…

The two are completely different. What we want (and what any football fan wants) is to be ‘entertained’, but also to WIN. 
Because ultimately, football is a points business.

What I would say is I’ve got no affinity to Rodgers or this team. There’s something about him and them that makes me think ‘image over substance’. They seem mentally and physically weak. As if they’d all fall over in a strong breeze. I was never Pearson’s biggest fan, but I had much more feeling both for him and his teams than this lot. I’m not sure why, I just know that’s how I feel 

 

Edited 7 February 2022 by Col city fan

[phoneticerror]

10 hours ago, Webbo said:

It's never fun to lose.

You’re right. But we’re losing games we shouldn’t be losing right now. And I’m sure I’m not the only one that goes through the turnstiles unconfident - and that takes the enjoyment away when the experience becomes one of anxiety over enjoyment.

 

Edited 7 February 2022 by phoneticerror

[Webbo]

1 minute ago, phoneticerror said:

You’re right. But we’re losing games we shouldn’t be losing right now.

I know, but that's not the point of the thread. 

[phoneticerror]

Just now, Webbo said:

I know, but that's not the point of the thread. 

I edited (see original post). Replied accidentally before I was finished

[damolcfc]

Conceding 2 goals in minutes.... hold that ...Conceding 2 goals in seconds now twice in consecutive games

😪

[phoneticerror]

2 minutes ago, damolcfc said:

Conceding 2 goals in minutes.... hold that ...Conceding 2 goals in seconds now twice in consecutive games

😪

Defence is weak with no passion - and Ward was f**king abysmal.

Edited 7 February 2022 by phoneticerror

[The Year Of The Fox]

11 hours 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.

We left on 70 mins.

 

Decided that long walk to the train station, paying for a train to Loughborough and then getting a taxi home to Ibstock was more preferable than waiting another 20 mins in the stadium to jump on a pre paid bus that would’ve took us straight home to our door

 

 

[Kitchandro]

Totally hit the nail on the head here. Word for word.

 

I hate the ‘it’s all about results’ attitude. I can’t understand why anyone would waste their time with something that bores them. Habit makes take an interest to an extent but like many I’ve stopped truly caring (even yesterday I wasn’t nearly as angry as I’d have been 10 years ago).

 

Football was supposed to be something for the working people to enjoy because they had otherwise dull, hard lives. It’s absolutely embarrassing to see people handing over money for negative football and claiming it’s ok.
 

11 hours ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I don’t understand the ‘boring’ thing that some trot out. We’re the sixth highest scorers in the Prem. It’s stating the obvious, but the problem is with the defence. More often then not we need to score three or four to win. Every game we’re on TV the pundits go on about how good a game it was, often because we’re too open. The exception to the ‘good for the neutral’ was probably the Liverpool game that looks more and more like a miracle.

 

In the last days of Puel a common complaint was ‘it’s so boring I wouldn’t mind if we lost if we lost attacking’. It was as bollocks then as it is now. Winning is all.

 

Much like the season after the title, the drift back to mid-table after mixing it with the top table is difficult as a fan base. I think it is something the players are struggling with as well. The hunger isn’t there and part of the dismay is it’s difficult to see how Rodgers is going to be able to get that back. 

 

Not sure where you’re getting this from, everyone knows set-pieces and crosses are the main reason we’re so defensively appalling.

 

We don’t concede because we’re too open, we concede because we can’t defend. Leaky defences being blamed on openness is a common misconception.

Again, the bit in bold may be true, but as the original post says the pundits are talking nonsense so not sure why you care what they say?

 

If the games are entertaining it’s because we are getting battered like yesterday. I said on another thread, we have the odd great game everyone remembers because we do have some very exciting attacking players.

 

Unfortunately, this is clearly not the norm and most of the rest of your post is completely incorrect. Ask any Leicester fan who actually watches the games and they will tell you that they are fed up of watching us pass it around the back slowly and rarely show any urgency or tempo in the game, even when behind. It’s the case game after game after game. That is what’s boring.
 

I can only assume anyone who isn’t seeing this hasn’t watched enough games. It’s been the case for most of the past 5 years and got more extreme at the end of Puel’s and now Rodgers’ reign. Yes the first half of 19/20 we was exciting. After that we have got more and more turgid to watch.

 

I did say quite a while ago that we were going this way and that people would get fed up with it like they did with Puel. Most people have cried enough, it will happen to you too and you will realise one day you just don’t care anymore.

[Stadt]

A lot of people scoff at Sean Dyche on here but at the very least you know he’s extracting the maximum out of his side. There’s not anything left on the table, even if they aren’t the most gifted players, they’ll graft & find whatever leveller they can to get a result.

 

We have an extraordinarily gifted squad by our standards, that’s why the “well this is still better than our historical position” sentiment is so braindead - we have a much better squad than almost our entire history, of course we’ve been in worse positions.

 

Has Rodgers got us playing out of our skin? Has he ever? Early 19-20 was great but that’s the sort of level our squad should be playing up to. A couple of purple patches in 4 years isn’t enough with the talent at our disposal.

 

Fans want to enjoy watching their team, that means different things to different people. At the very least we want a team that we can have a bit of faith in, to make it difficult for the opposition, to take the game to them. 
 

Instead we have an expensively assembled, handsomely paid team of talented but spineless bottlers.

 

We know this team is capable of top 4 finishes but we’ve managed to blow it in identical fashion twice. We’ll continue to bottle it under Rodgers because it’s’ clear it’s a hallmark of his management.

 

He’s had everything he could reasonably expect of a club in our position and he’s now taking us backwards - as one of the highest paid managers in the world.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

I reckon I enjoyed 14/15 more than this season, and that year I travelled 3500 miles before I saw my first win on the season. 

 

The spirit and mentality of the squad and club I fell in love with has totally gone.

[RonnieTodger]

Yeah I left not long after the fourth yesterday.

 

Losing to Forest under any circumstances would’ve been shit but just being in the game would’ve been something to be excited about for a brief period.

[MattFox]

We’ve basically had one good 5 month spell of football in 6 years since winning the title.

 

Other than that and a couple of new manager bounces under Shakespeare and Puel we’ve been bad consistently for a long time.

 

Home form has been awful since the title season too

 

Pretty awful if you think about it

Edited 7 February 2022 by MattFox

[Chloe_77]

2 minutes ago, MattFox said:

We’ve basically had one good 5 month spell of football in 6 years since winning the title.

 

Other than that and a couple of new manager bounces under Shakespeare and Puel we’ve been bad consistently for a long time.

 

Home form has been awful since the title season too

 

Pretty awful if you think about it

When you put it like that i have to agree👍

 

What’s worse this season, our home or away form? I can’t remember too many wins/ good performances either way