Stadium atmosphere

[Dan]

7 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Its true and I'm guilty of this, at least we have the UFS who have done something, just a pity the numbers never really grew.  Lots of other english clubs have nothing at all.

 

So I think you're right in some respects, the vast majority of fans in england either don't care about the atmosphere or don't want to do anything about it.

 

I was sure safe standing was going to be a game changer in england, its made little to no difference.  There's probably more standing at top flight games than ever before and the atmopshere has never been worse.

 

 

It's been done in a typically English way - boxticky, half arsed and almost sabotaged. Precisely none of the benefits it was meant to bring have been achieved. I've no real enthusiasm for it anymore.

[Corky]

30 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Football has always overlapped with societal issues. Celtic and Rangers whole existence lies on sectarian and political stances for example. There will always be a political element to the sport, as it’s cultural. 

I get that but this nonsense just isn't needed. And if it is, don't put the club badge in there. Create your own little group, get your own badge and identity.

[MattFox]

42 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Football has always overlapped with societal issues. Celtic and Rangers whole existence lies on sectarian and political stances for example. There will always be a political element to the sport, as it’s cultural. 

Big difference between societal issues and general racism / xenophobia 

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

It's not just the stadium atmosphere that's rank, the majority of posters on here seem to be miserable too.

 

You post anything relatively positive and all you get is laughing emojis.

 

Gone are the days of supporters 'supporting'. Now our 'fans' seem to hate Leicester and just spend their time moaning.

 

IMO constant negativity is the easiest attitude, and one of the very worst character traits.

[Izzy]

8 minutes ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

It's not just the stadium atmosphere that's rank, the majority of posters on here seem to be miserable too.

 

You post anything relatively positive and all you get is laughing emojis.

 

Gone are the days of supporters 'supporting'. Now our 'fans' seem to hate Leicester and just spend their time moaning.

 

IMO constant negativity is the easiest attitude, and one of the very worst character traits.

Human beings are pessimistic creatures. We're seven times more likely to focus on the negative than the positive.

 

Some experts suggest that optimism is a learned skill.

 

And you could argue that there's not a fat lot to be positive/optimistic about our club right now.

[jmono84]

13 minutes ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

It's not just the stadium atmosphere that's rank, the majority of posters on here seem to be miserable too.

 

You post anything relatively positive and all you get is laughing emojis.

 

Gone are the days of supporters 'supporting'. Now our 'fans' seem to hate Leicester and just spend their time moaning.

 

IMO constant negativity is the easiest attitude, and one of the very worst character traits.

I would love being able to cheer from the top of my lungs saying how good the state of the club is in but seriously right now we’re abysmal.

 

 At the games I’m always loud and getting behind the team but I’m also realistic to recognise how utility badly we’ve been managed over the past several years!

[skolfoxes]

16 minutes ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

It's not just the stadium atmosphere that's rank, the majority of posters on here seem to be miserable too.

 

You post anything relatively positive and all you get is laughing emojis.

 

Gone are the days of supporters 'supporting'. Now our 'fans' seem to hate Leicester and just spend their time moaning.

 

IMO constant negativity is the easiest attitude, and one of the very worst character traits.

Don’t know if it’s just us, as I haven’t been to an away for a few years now, but every time a player misplaces any sort of pass at the KP you hear audible groans from what feels like the whole stadium.

 

I get feeling frustrated when players misplace passes, especially relatively straight forward ones, but have long felt this contributes to the players taking the safe option more often than not, which in turn frustrates fans even more when there’s a slightly more risky yet high reward pass on. 

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

15 minutes ago, jmono84 said:

I would love being able to cheer from the top of my lungs saying how good the state of the club is in but seriously right now we’re abysmal.

 

 At the games I’m always loud and getting behind the team but I’m also realistic to recognise how utility badly we’ve been managed over the past several years!

Not asking people to fake enthusiasm, just not constant complaining. 

 

I appreciate it's hard to be enthusiastic when you're losing a lot, but the supporter misery is relentless. It was also there last season when we were winning a league.

 

Here are 5 things to think about to mitigate some fans' relentless misery:

 

1. We literally won a league last season 

2. Squad full of internationals

3. Extremely exciting young players like BEK, Fatawu, Hermansen

4. Acted swiftly when Cooper wasn't working out

 5. Massive off-pitch commitments, eg training facilities, stadium expansion, debt cancellation

 

 

I know you could argue negative spins to each of these (we shouldn't have been in the Champ anyway, why did we appoint Cooper in the first place etc), but such people are just drain on my enjoyment of what is supposed to be an interest / escapism from the day-to-day grind.

 

And it could be a lot worse - ask the fans whose clubs have been dissolved or drifted down multiple divisions. 

Edited 5 January by LeePhilpottsBaldSpot

[The Leicester Badger]

Just putting it out there,  but does anyone think the KP stadium design and modern bowl type stadiums in general add to the lack of atmosphere? Back in the filbert street days the sound from SK1 to 4 would be amplified by the double decker above and it always seemed to resonate louder than today,  but these days theres no stand above to bounce the sound back and clubs have massive sloping open stands , admittedly some exiting football would help but you get my drift....

[The Leicester Badger]

I think the quality of Atmosphere is directly related to what happens on the pitch, I know possession football is the be all and end all now, but I find the tipeerty tapperty play it across the back 4 and slow passing build up frankly boring, it just saps the speed , passion and energy right out of the game, back in the day you'd never see us having possession  the edge of the opponents 18 yard box and end up with the ball passed via 1 or 2 players back to our own keeper, we seem more content to pass safely backwards than be daring passing it forwards we're not the only club that do this of course, but it makes for a dull watch, I reminisce about 2015 /16 and our RAF fast football , got the crowd excited and motivated, those were the days LOL!

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Dan LCFC said:

It's been done in a typically English way - boxticky, half arsed and almost sabotaged. Precisely none of the benefits it was meant to bring have been achieved. I've no real enthusiasm for it anymore.

Exactly this. "Fan engagement" is just appeasing the peasants who are just a bit of an annoyance to them. Worst still they've acknowledged we haven't even had any and they need to do more of it. 

 

This time next year they could easily put together a statement like "this year has seen more fan engagement than ever before, resulting in our amazing new safe standing area that has rejuvenated the stadium atmosphere" when in reality it's 10 rows of hopeless chanting about Leonardo Ulloa as we lose 0-1 at home to Barnsley. 

[rugbyblue]

They just don't "get it".  Id hazard a guess its the same with a lot of owners, along with a lot of the people who run the football league/FA.  

 

I imagine for a lot of these people, their idea of entertainment is sipping champers at a society event, going to the theatre or VIP area at ascot, fully catered executive boxes when they watch a "ball game".

 

They simply dont understand why a bunch of "common" lads/blokes and women these days, want to escape for a few hours, let themselves go a bit, sink a few pints and shout a few sweary songs with their mates, light the odd pyro and stand up when they could sit down.  Different world.

[09bballer]

1 hour ago, The Leicester Badger said:

I think the quality of Atmosphere is directly related to what happens on the pitch, I know possession football is the be all and end all now, but I find the tipeerty tapperty play it across the back 4 and slow passing build up frankly boring, it just saps the speed , passion and energy right out of the game, back in the day you'd never see us having possession  the edge of the opponents 18 yard box and end up with the ball passed via 1 or 2 players back to our own keeper, we seem more content to pass safely backwards than be daring passing it forwards we're not the only club that do this of course, but it makes for a dull watch, I reminisce about 2015 /16 and our RAF fast football , got the crowd excited and motivated, those were the days LOL!

I think you've made a good point here and I thought his when I went to watch Harborough v Kettering, so much less passing around the defence. It's all about reducing risk and creating space which seems to have made the game less interesting to watch.

[SemperEadem]

1 hour ago, rugbyblue said:

They just don't "get it".  Id hazard a guess its the same with a lot of owners, along with a lot of the people who run the football league/FA.  

 

I imagine for a lot of these people, their idea of entertainment is sipping champers at a society event, going to the theatre or VIP area at ascot, fully catered executive boxes when they watch a "ball game".

 

They simply dont understand why a bunch of "common" lads/blokes and women these days, want to escape for a few hours, let themselves go a bit, sink a few pints and shout a few sweary songs with their mates, light the odd pyro and stand up when they could sit down.  Different world.

But but they were at the league cup final replay at Hillsborough remember.

[MattFox]

5 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

But but they were at the league cup final replay at Hillsborough remember.

Explains why they tried to buy Reading in 2007 and had a box at Chelsea and have had hospitality at anfield before 2010

 

Maybe that’s where the first met Dave “Dodgy Dave” Richards and Terry “Cleared of Racism” Robinson

Edited 5 January by MattFox

[Corky]

2 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

It's not just the stadium atmosphere that's rank, the majority of posters on here seem to be miserable too.

 

You post anything relatively positive and all you get is laughing emojis.

 

Gone are the days of supporters 'supporting'. Now our 'fans' seem to hate Leicester and just spend their time moaning.

 

IMO constant negativity is the easiest attitude, and one of the very worst character traits.

We had fans leaving early moaning how boring it was when we were winning 3-0 last season. Now we are losing and barely attacking.

 

If they weren't going to be positive then, not a chance now.

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, The Leicester Badger said:

I think the quality of Atmosphere is directly related to what happens on the pitch, I know possession football is the be all and end all now, but I find the tipeerty tapperty play it across the back 4 and slow passing build up frankly boring, it just saps the speed , passion and energy right out of the game, back in the day you'd never see us having possession  the edge of the opponents 18 yard box and end up with the ball passed via 1 or 2 players back to our own keeper, we seem more content to pass safely backwards than be daring passing it forwards we're not the only club that do this of course, but it makes for a dull watch, I reminisce about 2015 /16 and our RAF fast football , got the crowd excited and motivated, those were the days LOL!

Something else on the pitch that used to get the crowd going was a good old fashioned crunching tackle.

 

Watching players go in fully committed for a 50/50 ball got the crowd behind the team but you just don’t see challenges like that anymore.

 

Football becomes less and less of a contact sport and we wonder why atmospheres suffer.

 

Edited 5 January by Izzy

[MS0204]

4 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Something else on the pitch that used to get the crowd going was a good old fashioned crunching tackle.

 

Watching players go in fully committed for a 50/50 ball got the crowd behind the team but you just don’t see challenges like that anymore.

 

Football becomes less and less of a contact sport and we wonder why atmospheres suffer.

 

I don’t want to make that another excuse why the crowds are terrible but I see your point. Football is a contact sport, nowadays you brush shoulders with someone and they fall to the floor like they’ve been shot with a sniper 

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, MS0204 said:

I don’t want to make that another excuse why the crowds are terrible but I see your point. Football is a contact sport, nowadays you brush shoulders with someone and they fall to the floor like they’ve been shot with a sniper 

I find the whole simulation/time wasting/VAR stuff a massive turn off. No surprise to me that some people are now turning their back on the professional game and enjoying the purity of non league/grass roots football instead.

 

Physicality has always been part of the game but it's chastised rather than rewarded at the top level now. 

 

If you look back to some favorite LCFC players over the years, it's often the hard men who got the crowd going with their full commitment. Not always the most technically gifted, but renowned for putting their bodies on the line. Walsh, Mauchlen, Whitlow, Morgan, Huth, Taggert etc. were all as important as your Mahrez, Joachim, Knockeart and Fatawu's.

 

Continue to sanitise the game and you'll continue to sanitise the atmosphere.

[worth_the_wait]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

I find the whole simulation/time wasting/VAR stuff a massive turn off. No surprise to me that some people are now turning their back on the professional game and enjoying the purity of non league/grass roots football instead. 

...

One of the reasons I love watching Rugby League now.

 

With just one exception (if a tackle is too high, round the neck or head), there is absolutely no benefit to play-acting or simulating anything.      And the culture is still 99.9% not to squeal like a baby.      If someone is hurt (unless it's obviously something "serious"), the trainers just come on whilst the game continues.   

[SemperEadem]

8 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

Its true and I'm guilty of this, at least we have the UFS who have done something, just a pity the numbers never really grew.  Lots of other english clubs have nothing at all.

 

So I think you're right in some respects, the vast majority of fans in england either don't care about the atmosphere or don't want to do anything about it.

 

I was sure safe standing was going to be a game changer in england, its made little to no difference.  There's probably more standing at top flight games than ever before and the atmopshere has never been worse.

 

 

On this, in the last month there has been an open invite via instagram and in the section vis flyers pushing more to join.

If any read on here and are thinking yeah I want in please feel free to drop me a line.

[JonnyBoy]

was in the villa home end near the goal by the Leicester end, our fans were actually really good considering we weren't winning at any point and second bottom. The lads i were with commented that we were good. Was wild in the away end when we got the equaliser 

 

Shame our home support is utter dross - having said that Villa was very quiet apart from the odd holt end chant 

[JonnyBoy]

On 05/01/2025 at 07:51, Stuntman_Mike said:

I'm surprised to see positive comments about our end. I thought it was absolutely abysmal, including their end. People just don't seem interested at all. I'm going Everton but that's me done after that, I'm not paying to go away games and feel out of place trying to sing songs.

 

was in the home end by the goal near the Leicester fans,  and was pretty good, especially first half and before/after we scored

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, JonnyBoy said:

was in the villa home end near the goal by the Leicester end, our fans were actually really good considering we weren't winning at any point and second bottom. The lads i were with commented that we were good. Was wild in the away end when we got the equaliser 

 

Shame our home support is utter dross - having said that Villa was very quiet apart from the odd holt end chant 

Villa fan told me this morning the same 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

100 or so spots in the SK1 section for the QPR game. Move in and be part of a solution, or keep moaning on Foxestalk