Stadium atmosphere

[Pliskin]

[MS0204]

The lack of fight last night has just about killed me off for this season. And then Stephy ending up on his arse for the third 🤬

Myself and my boy has got Newcastle tickets, working for the next couple and then planning on the Ipswich game. But I said on the way home last night I can’t watch no more this season after the Newcastle game. I ain’t wasting a days holiday to go and watch an already relegated team because that’s what they’ll be, to spend over £100 as that’s what is spent to watch a spineless team and with a bunch of happy clappers, who in the family stand last night was nothing short of atrocious. 
after the final whistle went, I heard and saw people applause, what the actual? Never ending conversation this of it’s the Leicester way, fans etc but seeing this week in week out just brings out anger that I don’t need.. 

 

on a separate note (apart from vardy, your wife is a grass) 95% of their support last night was spot on. Support, non stop chanting, glaziers out, banners. 
we would be 3-0 up and be standing there.. 

Sad times I’m afraid 

 

and then to top it off in my hearing was young lads singing United chants under their breath and people constantly filming the United chants and fans.. 

Its happening at all clubs but don’t make it enjoyable in any way 

Edited 17 March by MS0204

[Lcfcwatto]

2 hours ago, Raj said:

Yep- sums it up, a banner made by a kid in paint(No disrespect to whoever did it)

No Rudkin out chants, no sack the board, no you dont know what your doing etc..

 

Man U fans had Glazer out banners and chanted about them , we just fell asleep wishing we were watching Countryfile!

What I would have gave to be at home watching Country File or Antiques Roadshow. 

[HybridFox]

Absolute dead when we can't even sing Jamie Vardy he's won more than you  (I should hope no one did!)

Edited 17 March by HybridFox

[Dan]

It's the most hopeless situation I've ever seen.

[Lako42]

28 minutes ago, Dan said:

It's the most hopeless situation I've ever seen.

Yep

 

The careful what you wish for brigade are too ****ing late. 

 

 

[Spudulike]

54 minutes ago, HybridFox said:

Absolute dead when we can't even sing Jamie Vardy he's won more than you  (I should hope no one did!)

Could be interpreted as a valid response given that Vardy has won more than those singing it.

[Fox92]

56 minutes ago, HybridFox said:

Absolute dead when we can't even sing Jamie Vardy he's won more than you  (I should hope no one did!)

Surprised no one did tbf, the idiots sing it at Villa and Everton.

[OntarioFox]

The last ten minutes, when the 4000 of us left stopped giving a shit and started ironically cheering everything and singing 'championship again olé olé', was the most fun I've had down there in months.

 

Even UFS had given up after the second goal. It's finished. There's nothing to sing for anymore besides gallows humour.

[jmono84]

6 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

The last ten minutes, when the 4000 of us left stopped giving a shit and started ironically cheering everything and singing 'championship again olé olé', was the most fun I've had down there in months.

 

Even UFS had given up after the second goal. It's finished. There's nothing to sing for anymore besides gallows humour.

I quite enjoyed taking the piss out of our players and being amongst several others doing the same thing. These babysat players didn’t even respond, just trudging around with their heads bowed. Absolute babies, don’t worry players, you’ve made more money in your contract than about 99% of fans there tonight would do in there lifetime. Soft babies

Edited 17 March by jmono84
Correcting sentence

[Corky]

Yesterday was the realisation that nothing we do is having any effect. Tried the support, tried the anger, tried the complaining. Nobody at the club is responding to any of it.

[CrazyKopCorner]

24 minutes ago, Corky said:

Yesterday was the realisation that nothing we do is having any effect. Tried the support, tried the anger, tried the complaining. Nobody at the club is responding to any of it.

Yep shit don't respond to oat 

[Raj]

We are such a nothing of a club at the minute opposition  fans dont even bother to goad us about relegation.

Its surreal

[whetstonefox]

People talk about football fans being gentrified nowadays but we’ve been Ginettafied. Just happy to accept crap and a free beer every now and again.

[tinpot_fox]

TIFU idea for next home match. A never ending quilt of no longer wanted LCFC tops being carried from the top tier to rows of pitch side braziers…

[OntarioFox]

28 minutes ago, whetstonefox said:

People talk about football fans being gentrified nowadays but we’ve been Ginettafied. Just happy to accept crap and a free beer every now and again.

I live in hope that the club get exactly what they deserve for treating fans like customers. Which is fans voting with their feet and choosing not to come to games next season, because the product is garbage and represents terrible value for money.

 

Calling it now - we will have at least one game with sub-20k attendance next season. Not officially, because of the bullshit way they count season tickets as attending even when they don't, but realistically it's only going to take a poor start for the hangers-on to pack it in and stay home. It's already happening now in the EPL, good luck selling out Wycombe at home on a Tuesday night.

Edited 17 March by OntarioFox

[worth_the_wait]

8 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

You can't force fans to be passionate, it's just how most Leicester fans are.  It won't ever change.

We're never going to be passionate like Celtic/Rangers, Newcastle or Leeds.    But we've had our moments.

 

We were fairly decent 2014 (promotion), 2015 (Great Escape), 2016 (Champions) and 2017 (Champions League).   But it's gone downhill IMHO, as soon as Brendan Rogers aka "The Great Fraud" took over.

 

Two 5th place finishes masked what was going on ... a change to a slow sidewards-and-backwards possession-at-all-cost sterile football, that slowly but surely sucked the life out of the fans ... and the players as well.   It took a while, and the change wasn't obvious.   But it was a slow drip-feed away from any get-up-and-go amongst either the players or fans.

 

As I say, it's very much my opinion, not fact, and I can't quantify or prove any of it.   But that's what I believe.

Edited 17 March by worth_the_wait

[cropstonfox]

Atmosphere terrible now without the Goal music!

[bovril]

8 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Atmosphere terrible now without the Goal music!

Plot twist - they reinstated the goal music at the start of the year but we just haven't realized yet. 

[bovril]

2 hours ago, worth_the_wait said:

We're never going to be passionate like Celtic/Rangers, Newcastle or Leeds.    But we've had our moments.

 

We were fairly decent 2014 (promotion), 2015 (Great Escape), 2016 (Champions) and 2017 (Champions League).   But it's gone downhill IMHO, as soon as Brendan Rogers aka "The Great Fraud" took over.

 

Two 5th place finishes masked what was going on ... a change to a slow sidewards-and-backwards possession-at-all-cost sterile football, that slowly but surely sucked the life out of the fans ... and the players as well.   It took a while, and the change wasn't obvious.   But it was a slow drip-feed away from any get-up-and-go amongst either the players or fans.

 

As I say, it's very much my opinion, not fact, and I can't quantify or prove any of it.   But that's what I believe.

I romanticise that period but in the 90s I think we had one of the best home atmospheres for the time.

[worth_the_wait]

39 minutes ago, bovril said:

I romanticise that period but in the 90s I think we had one of the best home atmospheres for the time.

In 1991-92, we were just about as good as anyone.

 

Like Southend away ...

 

 

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, worth_the_wait said:

In 1991-92, we were just about as good as anyone.

 

Like Southend away ...

 

 

**** me that season we had a totally passionate support. Pitch invasion at Swindon after a 0-0 1st game of the season - Leicester are back hello, hello, scenes at Southend, 8,000 dancing in the rain for a ZDS cup game at Notts County,  40,000 + at Wembley and so Many more. Sets my heart racing just thinking of those great memories 

[Thefox81]

24 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

In 1991-92, we were just about as good as anyone.

 

Like Southend away ...

 

 

I was only 9 at the time. Was in the seats with my dad. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Went to so many away games that season. Did swindon first game was standing in the swindon end when it all kicked off. Grimsby, blackburn, notts county, forest, cambridge twice and many more. I was hooked from that season. Polar opposite to how i feel about the club now.

[Izzy]

22 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

**** me that season we had a totally passionate support. Pitch invasion at Swindon after a 0-0 1st game of the season - Leicester are back hello, hello, scenes at Southend, 8,000 dancing in the rain for a ZDS cup game at Notts County,  40,000 + at Wembley and so Many more. Sets my heart racing just thinking of those great memories 

Looking back, I think all the Ecstasy we took in those days might have played a part (well for me anyway )

[Kitchandro]

3 hours ago, worth_the_wait said:

We're never going to be passionate like Celtic/Rangers, Newcastle or Leeds.    But we've had our moments.

 

We were fairly decent 2014 (promotion), 2015 (Great Escape), 2016 (Champions) and 2017 (Champions League).   But it's gone downhill IMHO, as soon as Brendan Rogers aka "The Great Fraud" took over.

 

Two 5th place finishes masked what was going on ... a change to a slow sidewards-and-backwards possession-at-all-cost sterile football, that slowly but surely sucked the life out of the fans ... and the players as well.   It took a while, and the change wasn't obvious.   But it was a slow drip-feed away from any get-up-and-go amongst either the players or fans.

 

As I say, it's very much my opinion, not fact, and I can't quantify or prove any of it.   But that's what I believe.

I think you make some excellent points here, but I’m interested in the bit in bold. See below:

 

33 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

In 1991-92, we were just about as good as anyone.

 

Like Southend away ...

 

 

The obvious thing to me that ties all this together is what attracts the sort of fans that support the team like this. For me it’s everything to do with a club being fashionable.

 

Exciting football makes a club fashionable to an extent. Being media darlings, constantly referred to as mad dogs, is another factor (Millwall and Leeds play up to a stereotype, as do the Scots, Geordies do by taking their shirts off etc). Old, unique, atmospheric stadiums are another factor.

 

The club is a world away from that clip. We’ve moved to a generic bowl too far from the pitch (I know that clip is an away game but still relevant). We’re advertised as a family club (AKA a corporate club). There’s no perception of a fanbase acting like a working class community representing themselves and having an identity to live up to.

 

In other words, for several reasons, we aren’t the sort of club that is going to attract the sort of vocal fans in a certain age range who are defiantly passionate about their local club…anymore. We’re not cool enough.