Stadium atmosphere

[Lako42]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

I’m not so sure that was the case back in the day. Even when we were really shit in the 80’s I still remember us getting behind the team even when we were losing badly. Maybe rose tinted specs but I think we encouraged the team more back then because we were always the underdogs and starved of success. 
I’m convinced our recent success has made some fans feel more entitled for the atmosphere to be driven from the pitch when it should also be the fans role to lift the players.

At the very least the whole ground got to their feet for a corner and sang 'come on Leicester'

 

 

Kop sits there like they are in traffic on a Monday morning 

[MattFox]

11 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Hearing the opposition sing our managers name was horrid.

 

I know Wednesday sang a lot for Pearson but at least it didn’t include him “hating” us.

Yup mentioned it before but it was a genuine low and entirely inevitable 

 

 

[Phil Mitchell]

More atmosphere during the last post.

[iancognito]

It's stagnant. That's the only word for it. That post about least engaged fans had it right.

 

The same 24000 season ticket holders for the last 10-12 years. No new injection of younger fans post-title win, no progression through the ranks. The same turgid matchday routine for what seems like a decade now. Funfairs outside, library inside.

 

100 guys in the corner, slow-paced pounding drumbeat drowning out some mumbled words about ole ole, we won stuff, yeah? In the block next to them some old ladies with blankets on legs half-heartedly clap along to what - for all they know - could be a song about the joys of Islamic Fundamentalism.

 

Even from the relegation season this is just major drop-off. The atmosphere sums up the club - sleepwalking and I honestly have no idea bout how it changes without a 2010-style reset clearing out the deadwood.

[Dan]

8 hours ago, Manc Fox J said:

I'm a big proponent of UFS, but tonight, contrary to the 4-0 in 2022 it feels like they've stifled the atmosphere in SK1 and G1, I felt like last time they knew it was a derby, tonight they've acted like it's Fulham

I've honestly no idea how people can look at that tonight and point the finger at the only block truly going for it. Where was the rest of the ground?

 

Their end was annoyingly good this year. Probably their best here.

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 hour ago, Dan LCFC said:

I've honestly no idea how people can look at that tonight and point the finger at the only block truly going for it. Where was the rest of the ground?

 

Their end was annoyingly good this year. Probably their best here.

I was in the SK1 and I didn't hear them until the 2nd and 3rd goals. 

 

The singing section gave it a really good go as always but there's just too many people that might as well be watching Netflix 

[MattFox]

1 hour ago, Dan LCFC said:

I've honestly no idea how people can look at that tonight and point the finger at the only block truly going for it. Where was the rest of the ground?

 

Their end was annoyingly good this year. Probably their best here.

Yeah genuinely mind blowing 

 

I’d honestly say their end was the best I’ve seen down here in the premier league tbh in terms of the way it went off for the goals

 

But it kind of should be really given the rivalry…

Edited 26 October 2024 by MattFox

[Chris_OGrady]

Yeah it was poor even before the second half. I swear we always suck for Friday night games. Leeds at home on the Friday night was also a massive disappointment last year. 
 

I know we’re at a low ebb and play in a soulless bowl etc etc, but it still shouldn’t be that poor. Still maintain that the family stand is more buoyant than the kop (excluding Union FS). My constructive criticism to Union Fs would be to bin off the tinpot stuff (the terraces, the palace song, come on Leicester boys etc), but obv appreciate they are the only ones trying to get us out of this mess, and apologise for even mentioning them when it’s the other 29,000 that are the issue 😂
 

I think we need 5 years in the championship, even if we are close to bankruptcy, to try and cleanse the fan base and force some kind of re-organisation of the ground. I’ve got no interest in watching pointless premier league football in a dead modern stadium.

 

As other’s have said, Forest end was annoyingly good to rub salt into the wounds.  

[Nolucklcfc]

9 hours ago, Izzy said:

I’m not so sure that was the case back in the day. Even when we were really shit in the 80’s I still remember us getting behind the team even when we were losing badly. Maybe rose tinted specs but I think we encouraged the team more back then because we were always the underdogs and starved of success. 
I’m convinced our recent success has made some fans feel more entitled for the atmosphere to be driven from the pitch when it should also be the fans role to lift the players.

Absolutely agree but we aren’t the only ones on that. It’s just the way the football has evolved. We are a unique fanbase because of the success we’ve had and it’s killed the fanbase. 

[Lako42]

The song book is dreadful and thin these days. 

 

 

[Nolucklcfc]

9 hours ago, MS0204 said:

For anyone who reads my posts you’ll know that I’m most active in this subject and I’m all for the lads at the front.. you’ll also know I probably repeat the same old thing, but when I say the song book needs updating, tonight absolutely proved it.

i actually left early tonight, can’t remember in all the years whether I ever have. But from 87 mins and them rolling around on the floor I just couldn’t watch anymore. 
within the first 10 mins and for come on Leicester boys to start was utterly embarrassing. 10 mins into a derby match, the kop end was silent, the east just sat there knocking their clappers, nobody could be bothered. People want safe standing but if that’s what’s going to happen with just people slouched against the railings then why bother? 
im a massive fan of the lads down the front, they work non stop, gear everyone up and really do try BUT and there is a massive but after tonight, they’ve got to listen to feedback from others. They are over killing the songs massively and with that drum going constant it’s difficult for half way up to change the song. 
i ain’t sure whether they think the section will join in more after the 20th time of the chant? 
I really do like what they do but fans are suggesting songs in the topic but nothing new is coming out. I do get your trying the new ole song about the top 3 leagues but for the 10 mins and only 5 rows, me and a few others singing just behind you but the ground was silent? 
what’s more embarrassing was apart from Jamie vardy who scored, mads Hermansen who made a save I don’t think any other player was sung.. 

Going to leave it there but sorry lads, tonight was a massive disappointment.. the whole kp was a shambles but something has to change. I get it that grounds are suffering but if we are around 20% of atmosphere on a night under the lights against forest then there is no hope.. 

agreed. 

[Fox92]

3 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

I've honestly no idea how people can look at that tonight and point the finger at the only block truly going for it. Where was the rest of the ground?

 

Their end was annoyingly good this year. Probably their best here.

Forest were better than I expected tbf.

[sharpylcfc]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Yeah genuinely mind blowing 

 

I’d honestly say their end was the best I’ve seen down here in the premier league tbh in terms of the way it went off for the goals

 

But it kind of should be really given the rivalry…

But they don't care about us remember?

[adejo92]

That many early leavers, it was actually beneficial to stay until the end. Don't know about anyone else, but it was quite pain free getting away last night.

[RonnieTodger]

If that’s what we can conjure up for a local derby, then we are finished.

 

To call it a “Kop” is laughable too. The whole place is just depressing.

[Bobby Hundreds]

That “Leicester boys are we” dirge is the worst chant in world football. I’m not joining in singing that shite. 

[Nolucklcfc]

I still maintain that those wanting to improve the atmosphere, need to actually meet face to face and have discussions about what we can do. A little like the fan forms that UFs put on but just to be led by the general fanbase. It isn’t always up to UFS and as a collective fanbase we need to take responsibility, whether it’s moving the section, changing the songbook, meeting with the club (not sure they’d be any use in that but you get my point) I think a lot of people (understandably) look to UFS to start everything but if they want to back the club in the European style way, and they think that’s working, fair enough but it doesn’t mean we have be unhappy and follow it. New sections can be created, different songs can be sung, it’s down to effort of the collective fanbase. People moan but we’ve got to be part of the solution too. 

[gazzaa2]

37 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Absolutely agree but we aren’t the only ones on that. It’s just the way the football has evolved. We are a unique fanbase because of the success we’ve had and it’s killed the fanbase. 

It's the new stadium effect as well. Filbert Street always had a charm to it and was more compact.

 

When we were barely getting 20,000 through the second half of the 2000's (after 2004 relegation) it was dire then. Coventry is basically similar from Highfield Road to Ricoh and they haven't been in the PL since they moved. Forest still have their heritage of their old stadium.

 

Bar the odd season (and odd games) it's always been a struggle for atmosphere at KP.

Edited 26 October 2024 by gazzaa2

[ElusiveEd]

The over zealous policing between P block and their fans was off the scale last night.

 

If you even turned towards their fans who were giving it large you were recorded and God help you if you gave a finger or hand signal and/or swear back.

 

 The little female Rottweiler with the camera was treating everyone who dare glance sideways like they'd just p*ssed on her kittens. Her anger was palpable, she just kept steaming in verbally with such venom, genuinely lying that she had it on camera that you had sworn at the opposition fans when the guy behind me clearly hadn't, he'd just watched the game, turned to look left and had laughed at one of their fans. She pounced on him like he'd punched her granny. He was shocked and tried to plead his case and was threatened with all sorts of vitriol and anger. She was almost rabid and on a one woman mission to take everybody on. It was an absolute atmosphere killer and pure overkill and left a lot of the kids, including my 15 year old and his school mate really scared to join in any sort of song or banter, especially when you saw a perfectly decent ST holder, who was with his 2 really young kids get hauled away, leaving them behind for others in surrounding seats to take care of em. They looked petrified, the bloke only had the audacity to respond to banter from the Forest lot.

 

Last night was the worst I've seen in terms of policing, they 100% cause masses more issues than are actually there and there is NEVER an ounce of actual trouble between us and the opposition fans, just football banter, some abuse that's pretty much always laughed about and pretty much loads of good laughs between the sets of fans with both sets understanding there is hate on the day but it's just footie and fan bantz.

 

If I'm honest I'm now wondering wether this sanitisation and killing of, God forbid any enjoyment and atmosphere we try to create, is making me not want to bother anymore. I don't want my son being scared of trying to enjoy himself, he struggles with his confidence as it is but football matches usually brings him out of his shell a bit but the policing last night has scared him when now he's witnessed what nothingness can lead to when bullys in authority with nothing but chips on their shoulders and power trips you can see from space can do.

 

I'm REALLY RREALLY starting to HATE many aspects, areas and facets of this club and it's direction which just seems intent on killing EVERYTHING I/we have loved and enjoyed about it for many many years.

 

 

Edited 26 October 2024 by ElusiveEd

[CosbehFox]

27 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

I still maintain that those wanting to improve the atmosphere, need to actually meet face to face and have discussions about what we can do. A little like the fan forms that UFs put on but just to be led by the general fanbase. It isn’t always up to UFS and as a collective fanbase we need to take responsibility, whether it’s moving the section, changing the songbook, meeting with the club (not sure they’d be any use in that but you get my point) I think a lot of people (understandably) look to UFS to start everything but if they want to back the club in the European style way, and they think that’s working, fair enough but it doesn’t mean we have be unhappy and follow it. New sections can be created, different songs can be sung, it’s down to effort of the collective fanbase. People moan but we’ve got to be part of the solution too. 

Reality is I see lots of ideas, suggestions and writing and very few people acting upon them.
 

Start acting towards them 
 

 

[funkyrobot]

The atmosphere is massively influenced by the performance on the pitch. In the second half the team looked clueless, lacked conviction and by the end were going through the motions. When this is considered on top of the club being lead by a manager who is unpopular, there’s no surprise that the atmosphere was flat. To happily sing and cheer throughout that second half would’ve required the delusion that only multiple pints of beer can provide. 

[Nolucklcfc]

10 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Reality is I see lots of ideas, suggestions and writing and very few people acting upon them.
 

Start acting towards them 
 

 

There’s always lots of discussion on here and it shows a desire for change but there has actually be some action … I’m happy to meet with everyone and everyone 

[ElusiveEd]

13 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

There’s always lots of discussion on here and it shows a desire for change but there has actually be some action … I’m happy to meet with everyone and everyone 

Easier said than done.

 

I'd happily protest at the direction being taken in many areas of the club but I fear there's as much apathy in physically doing so from a large portion of our fanbase profile as there is in match day support.

[Jackubu]

The amount of excuses people look for when discussing the atmosphere is hilarious.

 

The songs are dreary, the 100 lads are boring, the football wasnt that fun! 

 

On the whole, the fans are the issue. 

 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

59 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

That “Leicester boys are we” dirge is the worst chant in world football. I’m not joining in singing that shite. 

I guarantee you wouldn't join in with anything else either. Guarantee it.