Stadium atmosphere

[Fox92]

38 minutes ago, adam said:

Next Time you go,  have a look at the average age of the crowd. Was outside sk3 enjoying my free Thai lager( sort of). The average age must be well over 50. Vast majority with faces like smacked arses even before a ball has been kicked. No excitement, no atmosphere and no noise. It was similar to the walk up to a family funeral.

In the ground, old folk being helped up the stairs to their seat. This is the problem we have. The age of our fan base is increasing.and no one is gving up their ticket which allow younger folk the chance to attend.

Also, these folk will be the first to moan about relocation if safe standing is ever put in behind the goal.

Don't mean this to sound ageist as everyone is entitled to attend, however the atmosphere will never be any good with this kind of fan in the kop.

Sorry but what is there to be excited about? 

 

These players have put the same pathetic performances in all season. They don't care. The people running this club have taken away any excitement that was left. All my enthusiasm for this season has long gone, in fact in the summer I posted that this was the first time I wasn't excited going into a season. But I still go home and away and I still get behind the players. However, for the the last two weeks now that enthusiasm for supporting them has been taken out of me. It's shit performances from the same shit players every week. 7 goals conceded in a week with 0 goals scored. Excitement?

 

Last week I went to Newcastle and passed lots of their fans that weren't "older", as you imply, a lot of banter in the pubs and those that I spoke to seemed optimistic about their chances. Yet in the ground they made fvck all noise. In fact it was one of the quietest grounds I've been to this calendar year. Atmosphere at top flight grounds is dead in this Country.

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

Oh I forget another Vardy, won more than you chant which was so painfully wide of the mark. Wolves after all three times league champions, cup four times and the forerunners for the European Cup. Some right post PL goons in our support 

Honestly it's embarrassing. The fact people sing it to the likes of Everton and Villa is even worse. 

[Raj]

51 minutes ago, adam said:

Next Time you go,  have a look at the average age of the crowd. Was outside sk3 enjoying my free Thai lager( sort of). The average age must be well over 50. Vast majority with faces like smacked arses even before a ball has been kicked. No excitement, no atmosphere and no noise. It was similar to the walk up to a family funeral.

In the ground, old folk being helped up the stairs to their seat. This is the problem we have. The age of our fan base is increasing.and no one is gving up their ticket which allow younger folk the chance to attend.

Also, these folk will be the first to moan about relocation if safe standing is ever put in behind the goal.

Don't mean this to sound ageist as everyone is entitled to attend, however the atmosphere will never be any good with this kind of fan in the kop.

You mean the younger folk who spend more times on their mobile phones playing online games or betting, or in the concourse/ toilets taking illegal substances?

 

yeah they will make a difference!

 

Unfortunately its not just the demographic of the age criteria at the moment- its almost everyone who goes.

[FLAN]

Quite the show yesterday despite the game

My SK1 entertainment started with a bloke who felt the need to shout out instructions to every player for ever pass. He was also explaining to his mate why they should be listening to him. 
once the UFS negative chants started we got the fan on fan stuff. 
one woman stood up and berated someone a few rows back for booing. Quotes included “do we boo you at work” and “**** off back to man united I’ve never seen you before*”
 

*I’ve seen him sit there for as long as I can remember 

 

then I especially love the blokes who stand up in another stand and start trying to argue from 200 yards away 

 

it was better entertainment than on the grass 

[Vestan Pance]

30 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Honestly it's embarrassing. The fact people sing it to the likes of Everton and Villa is even worse. 

He's won more than them, on a personal level hasn't he?

[Fox92]

5 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

He's won more than them, on a personal level hasn't he?

Both Everton and Villa have won the league more times than Chelsea yet our fans wouldn't sing "he's won more than you" to Chelsea.

[Vestan Pance]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Both Everton and Villa have won the league more times than Chelsea yet our fans wouldn't sing "he's won more than you" to Chelsea.

I do.

[Voll Blau]

11 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

He's won more than them, on a personal level hasn't he?

Oh, that's our excuse now? It's actually aimed at the fans in the away end who've never played professional football themselves.

 

Worra great wind-up.

[Vestan Pance]

2 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Oh, that's our excuse now? It's actually aimed at the fans in the away end who've never played professional football themselves.

 

Worra great wind-up.

I don't remember Mrs Vardy playing professional football either.

[UniFox21]

Doesn't help when we have melts like this posting as a fan account 

 

 

 

 

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Doesn't help when we have melts like this posting as a fan account 

 

 

 

 

Ironically one of the accounts yesterday happy to collect likes for moaning about fans booing etc. Make of that what you will 

[ElusiveEd]

The trouble is we have a team/squad that just "Play for Leicester City"

 

Other than JV (and maybe Fatawu who seems to be loving life here) I don't think we have a single player left that would run thro brick walls for this club.

[RonnieTodger]

2 hours ago, adam said:

Next Time you go,  have a look at the average age of the crowd. Was outside sk3 enjoying my free Thai lager( sort of). The average age must be well over 50. Vast majority with faces like smacked arses even before a ball has been kicked. No excitement, no atmosphere and no noise. It was similar to the walk up to a family funeral.

In the ground, old folk being helped up the stairs to their seat. This is the problem we have. The age of our fan base is increasing.and no one is gving up their ticket which allow younger folk the chance to attend.

Also, these folk will be the first to moan about relocation if safe standing is ever put in behind the goal.

Don't mean this to sound ageist as everyone is entitled to attend, however the atmosphere will never be any good with this kind of fan in the kop.

I looked across from SK1 and there were so many of NPCs in Santa hats, looking bored from minute one. 
 

Bizarre. 

[Lako42]

The opportunity for a change in the crowd might be nearer than we think. 

 

Can see a great swathe of the post PL winning Season ticket holders ****ing it off when we get relegated. 

 

Hopefully as many people give it up as possible.

[boots60]

2 hours ago, adam said:

Next Time you go,  have a look at the average age of the crowd. Was outside sk3 enjoying my free Thai lager( sort of). The average age must be well over 50. Vast majority with faces like smacked arses even before a ball has been kicked. No excitement, no atmosphere and no noise. It was similar to the walk up to a family funeral.

In the ground, old folk being helped up the stairs to their seat. This is the problem we have. The age of our fan base is increasing.and no one is gving up their ticket which allow younger folk the chance to attend.

Also, these folk will be the first to moan about relocation if safe standing is ever put in behind the goal.

Don't mean this to sound ageist as everyone is entitled to attend, however the atmosphere will never be any good with this kind of fan in the kop.

Possibly the most ill thought out, patronising, ageist post for some time.

[snoopy87]

47 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Doesn't help when we have melts like this posting as a fan account 

 

 

 

 

Their latest is a whopper. It's the fans fault for booing Ward after 19 minutes, after that, we lost all hope of getting something from the game. Strewth 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

Oh, that's our excuse now? It's actually aimed at the fans in the away end who've never played professional football themselves.

 

Worra great wind-up.

The legendary "banter" that atmosphere in this country apparently revolves around

[adam]

10 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Possibly the most ill thought out, patronising, ageist post for some time.

Just describing what I witnessed.

[Mickyblueeyes]

Planning for next season ? Get rid of the soft wasters in our fanbase. There is a video on X of two fans going right up to the advertising board to clap the ****ers. What the **** are you clapping - this group is as much a part of the reason we have been so badly managed as anyone else. So tinpot. 

[adam]

1 minute ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Planning for next season ? Get rid of the soft wasters in our fanbase. There is a video on X of two fans going right up to the advertising board to clap the ****ers. What the **** are you clapping - this group is as much a part of the reason we have been so badly managed as anyone else. So tinpot. 

And unfortunately this type of fan are the ones least likely to ditch their tickets.

[Stadt]

We do have an older fanbase due to the proportion of seats occupied by STHs and how difficult it is to get a ST. It does have a knock on effect on the atmosphere - it's not ageist but just the reality of the situation. There are lots of younger zombies too, in fairness.

 

What is definitely a problem - bar the family stand there's no supporter 'journey' around the ground e.g  you start in the family stand as a child, progress to the Kop or L1 to be more vociferous before settling in to the west stand, as I understand this is what happened at Filbert Street. Right now kids bounce out at the first step because of ST availability and how expensive match tickets are. We've had THE prime opportunity to expand the ground to lock in a generation of fans but inertia and poor management have probably killed expansion happening quickly enough.

[Nolucklcfc]

8 minutes ago, Stadt said:

We do have an older fanbase due to the proportion of seats occupied by STHs and how difficult it is to get a ST. It does have a knock on effect on the atmosphere - it's not ageist but just the reality of the situation. There are lots of younger zombies too, in fairness.

 

What is definitely a problem - bar the family stand there's no supporter 'journey' around the ground e.g  you start in the family stand as a child, progress to the Kop or L1 to be more vociferous before settling in to the west stand, as I understand this is what happened at Filbert Street. Right now kids bounce out at the first step because of ST availability and how expensive match tickets are. We've had THE prime opportunity to expand the ground to lock in a generation of fans but inertia and poor management have probably killed expansion happening quickly enough.

I agree with all of this but I do think we have a major mentality problem in the fanbase. Even our younger fans don’t really do themselves any favours. It just doesn’t bother people enough. Look at all our neighbours. Derby, forest, Coventry, villa, wolves, even West Brom and Birmingham have better support. It’s just weird, I don’t even know what the answer is but we do genuinely have a terrible reputation now across the country as a fanbase and it’s deserved. I’m too young to have gone filbert street but it can’t have been like this surely. 

[SemperEadem]

 

[MattFox]

11 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

I agree with all of this but I do think we have a major mentality problem in the fanbase. Even our younger fans don’t really do themselves any favours. It just doesn’t bother people enough. Look at all our neighbours. Derby, forest, Coventry, villa, wolves, even West Brom and Birmingham have better support. It’s just weird, I don’t even know what the answer is but we do genuinely have a terrible reputation now across the country as a fanbase and it’s deserved. I’m too young to have gone filbert street but it can’t have been like this surely. 

They’ve all had massive spells in the doldrums over the past decade which has led to a rebalancing of their fanbases

 

Cov had a lot of local youth start going back in League 2 for example that have stuck with them 

 

We’ve essentially been a closed shop for a Decade now 

 

Our outreach as a club is hilariously terrible too we do nothing to appeal to either natural fans in the hinterlands and outer suburbs or potential new fans in inner city areas

 

Wouldn’t surprise me if we spent more time strategising on how to appeal to people in Thailand rather than people in Corby

[ShepshedFox1884]

13 hours ago, DannyBray31 said:

The last time I remember a good, consistent home atmosphere was Birmingham City last season in the FA Cup, fresh faces, new fans and families all wanting to get behind the team as much as possible.  

 

It’s not just a Leicester problem it seems to be a premier league problem where the majority of home league atmospheres are little to non existent-

We sell out our season tickets every season leaving a very short few tickets for members/general sale every game 

 

That’s the first problem, the availability of actually getting a ticket, 

 

The second one being the cost of going, it’s ridiculous for a premier league game! Someone mentioned earlier £40 for their U16! Sickening. 

In the FA Cup game against QPR with £10/£15 a ticket I think we’ll see a good atmosphere and a good crowd, cheap tickets and I’ll assume/pray it’s gets put on general sale. Get a few of the next generation through the turnstiles

 

Sadly though whilst we’re a Premier League Club/Yoyo club and there’s still the interest there for people to continue their annual tradition of going the football like they have done for many years, sitting in the same seats, same home game superstitions/traditions I can’t see how unless we were go down to the Champ and stay down there for a couple of seasons, things massively improve

 

As I repeat I think it’s a massive problem for a lot of premier league fan bases like us that want to generate an atmosphere, it’s not a problem for the football clubs though, they’ll always be someone wanting to go the game and take your place

About your point on getting young fans in I am much younger than the average age demographic for foxes talk and I’ve seen it with mates who are or aren’t Leicester fans very few people actually go watch the team they support at their ground even the ones who support Leicester. They have very little interest in what’s going on for us at most they say their Leicester fans for a topic of conversation. You see it in our home games but also out away ground is stale because everyone witnessing last minute winners or something exciting when it does happen has seen it before and probably multiple times before. The two away days last year which seemed different where Chelsea and Preston, that big allocation allowed younger fans to get to the away days on a large scale and it produce the best atmosphere we’ve seen in our lives and some of the best limbs we’ve seen from our fans