Least enjoyable season?

[Mr Weller 2]

54 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Felt somewhat the norm back then to be shit. I don't even recognise the club this season

A false memory-we were awful that season and it was way worse 

[BoyJones]

What a crap thread. I can’t believe how many snow flake, up their own backside fans we have.
 

Yes it’s been a horrendous season, it’s all gone wrong, BR stayed too long and the transfers in over the last two years have been shocking. However, the support has been poor this year, people around me slagging off our players inside a minute if they make a mistake. Only decent support away when we have been losing was at Leeds. 
 

Our fans have created a toxic environment down at the KP looking to pounce on every error. I’ve been going since 62/63 and the fan base is the most judgemental and unforgiving I’ve ever experienced. 
 

The last five months have been the worst for many years, but if you leave early or boo the team in their hour of need, don’t call yourself a true blue. I know I’ll get slated by all you keyboard warriors, but I ain’t bothered. I’ll be at Newcastle next week cheering the lads on while all you lot are slagging them off. 

[South Shire Fox]

Was too young to properly remember the Peter Taylor era so yes. Atleast in 07/08 we put up a fight, just couldnt score

[HybridFox]

Can't wait to see the back of the lot of them. I don't think there's one departure that'll upset me at this point and we've had some brilliant memories over the years. So sad it's come to this. The Club have let us down 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Was at the game tonight with my 3 year old daughter. Midway through the second half as the crowd began to get a little toxic, she turned to me and said "I can’t believe how many snow flake, up their own backside fans we have.
 

Yes it’s been a horrendous season, it’s all gone wrong, BR stayed too long and the transfers in over the last two years have been shocking. However, the support has been poor this year, people around me slagging off our players inside a minute if they make a mistake. Only decent support away when we have been losing was at Leeds. 
 

Our fans have created a toxic environment down at the KP looking to pounce on every error. I’ve been going since 62/63 and the fan base is the most judgemental and unforgiving I’ve ever experienced. 
 

The last five months have been the worst for many years, but if you leave early or boo the team in their hour of need, don’t call yourself a true blue. I know I’ll get slated by all you keyboard warriors, but I ain’t bothered. I’ll be at Newcastle next week cheering the lads on while all you lot are slagging them off."

 

Needless to say, getting her back down the King Power will be an arduous task!

Edited 15 May 2023 by Miquel The Work Geordie

[Skid_1884]

This season is the worst for me, before that it would have been the season we lost 5-0 to Bolton first game of the season under Taylor. Had some poor seasons in the Adams, Levein and Rob Kelly years but being in my 20s going every home and away makes me look back on it fondly. 

[Nalis]

01/02 was horrible.

 

For me personally, It goes:

 

02

08

23

 

This is still awful though strangely knowing we won the league and FA Cup in this 'era' has helped and outweighted the what might have been moments.

[Dan]

5 hours ago, jim5000 said:

This season is still better than watching a Claude Puel team

I didn't like Puel but it really isn't.

[StanSP]

Pretty sure it will be. We were set up and got to a position to break top 6 regularly and have sustained success. Criminally mismanaged. 

[SystonFox]

7 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Pretty sure it will be. We were set up and got to a position to break top 6 regularly and have sustained success. Criminally mismanaged. 

This is it in a nutshell Stanley.

mismanaged.

avoidable.

a talented squad on paper but simply cannot be arsed on a match day.

[Dan]

5 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Ever since I have started supporting us I have never left a game early unless I had to until the 2nd half of this season

 

Usually it has been around 90 minutes when the added time board goes up - no point in sticking around to clap them off etc. etc.

 

Today we didn't even last until then, started to leave as Salah went through to miss his chance in about the 80th minute

 

Quite a few around us that I know have been staying to the end even during this crap got up and left as well

I reckon I've more than trebled my number of games left early this season and even then that's not including a good 5/6, like yesterday, where I stayed simply to give barrels at the end.

 

These should be once a season occasions but it feels weekly. I've no idea how people who don't have a proper social side to games do it. It's utterly miserable in every possible way. There would be zero, and I mean zero redeeming factor for me if not that.

[JimmyC74]

I was gutted with how Taylor destroyed the Martin O’Neill team and then relegation to League 1 but, this crowd have squandered the hard thought, once ina generation opportunity to transform our Club for the better. We knew we would never compete with the Man City’s of this world but, we were competing for Europe, silverware and improving the Club. 
 

it’s going to take a Herculean effort to bounce back. The one thing I look forward to is clearing house, rebuilding a squad with heart and a spine who represent us on the pitch.

[Monk]

The Taylor and Holloway seasons were easily worse than this. One of our main problems is that so many of our fans are morons. Won’t get behind the club, wail like it’s the end of the world every time a mistake is made and want to abuse everyone at the club. 

[Footballwipe]

5 hours ago, BoyJones said:

What a crap thread. I can’t believe how many snow flake, up their own backside fans we have.
 

Yes it’s been a horrendous season, it’s all gone wrong, BR stayed too long and the transfers in over the last two years have been shocking. However, the support has been poor this year, people around me slagging off our players inside a minute if they make a mistake. Only decent support away when we have been losing was at Leeds. 
 

Our fans have created a toxic environment down at the KP looking to pounce on every error. I’ve been going since 62/63 and the fan base is the most judgemental and unforgiving I’ve ever experienced. 
 

The last five months have been the worst for many years, but if you leave early or boo the team in their hour of need, don’t call yourself a true blue. I know I’ll get slated by all you keyboard warriors, but I ain’t bothered. I’ll be at Newcastle next week cheering the lads on while all you lot are slagging them off. 

Blah blah I'm a better supporter than you blah blah blah blah I've been going sixty years I know best blah blah blah.

 

"True blue" blah blah. I look forward to you clapping the team off at the end of West Ham applauding the extraordinary effort of royally messing up one of the most prolonged golden eras this club ever had.

 

But I'm not sure you'll care because you're a better fan than us all because you sit watching that guff right to the final whistle and refuse to show any disdain for what you're witnessing on the pitch.

[Tommy Fresh]

1 hour ago, Monk said:

The Taylor and Holloway seasons were easily worse than this. One of our main problems is that so many of our fans are morons. Won’t get behind the club, wail like it’s the end of the world every time a mistake is made and want to abuse everyone at the club. 

The Holloway season at least the players looked at least half bothered about going down, and they weren't bending over and letting sides score as many as they liked. Ultimately they just weren't very good, add in the constant manager changes and a meddling owner, following previous poor seasons and relegation was hardly a surprise. This squad on paper shouldn't be second bottom and having to probably win their remaining 2 games to stand any chance. 

[Monk]

3 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Ultimately they just weren't very good, add in the constant manager changes and a meddling owner, following previous poor seasons and relegation was hardly a surprise. 

could you not say this exact sentence about our current situation?

 

i think 07-08 is easily forgotten but we were absolutely atrocious that year. I also remember the season starting with great hope and fanfare under Martin Allen. It was such a let down, and I remember walking away from Vicarage Road with @Alexikokopops, @Katy and @Fez of Mahrez in FEBRUARY and we were 100% certain we were going down. 07-08 was worse. 

[Tommy Fresh]

5 minutes ago, Monk said:

could you not say this exact sentence about our current situation?

 

i think 07-08 is easily forgotten but we were absolutely atrocious that year. I also remember the season starting with great hope and fanfare under Martin Allen. It was such a let down, and I remember walking away from Vicarage Road with @Alexikokopops, @Katy and @Fez of Mahrez in FEBRUARY and we were 100% certain we were going down. 07-08 was worse. 

Well a lot of these players finished 5th, 5th and then 8th, that era at Leicester had seen us finish 15th, 16th and 19th prior to the year we went down so the writing had been on the wall, this current lot haven't had as many managerial changes, and haven't had an owner signing players. In terms of what happened it's obviously worse being relegated to the third tier for the first time ever etc, but in terms of being unlikeable and underachieving this current team comfortably win, this also all seemed fairly avoidable had we acted sooner which makes it worse for me.

[Monk]

1 minute ago, Tommy Fresh said:

this also all seemed fairly avoidable had we acted sooner which makes it worse for me.

This bit we can agree on 

[Twitcher]

A bit like Python's four Yorkshiremen sketch but trust me 1978 was worse. "We used to dream of having eight wins."

We'd been a fairly stable mid-table team under Jimmy Bloomfield when Frank McLintock took over. He increased the average age by about 10 years, brought in a load of his old Arsenal team mates and....oh dear. We even lost to Portsmouth in the first League Cup game, and Walsall in the second FA Cup game.

"We'd be 20 NIL down before we'd even kicked off, have 15 players sent off, an't referee would award a penalty against us every 10 minutes. Aye and police would thrash us with us scarf on't way owt."

Seriously it was worse. One commentator actually queried if we'd had our name changed by deed poll to "Leicester City NIL."

In a family of Leeds fans, I adopted this club in 1974, and I've seen 2 League Cup wins, an FA Cup, and a Premier league title. If I'd stayed with Leeds I'd have seen one title. If I'd picked Newcastle, I'd still be waiting for anything. It's what we do, win the second division/Championship. We'll be back!👊

Edited 16 May 2023 by Twitcher

[FrankieADZ]

8 hours ago, jim5000 said:

This season is still better than watching a Claude Puel team

 

like no it wasnt, least we got some results and could see out games, unlike this one

hate to say it but if we had puel in charge this season we wouldnt have gone down

[Death by Football]

8 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

I'm 32 and it's easily the most frustrating and avoidable one in my lifetime bar maybe 07/08 but it felt like we'd been circling the drain in the seasons before that. For those reasons it probably does add up to this being the worst. Sack Rodgers before the clocks go back and we're nowhere near this mess.

I think you’re spot on. We’re not getting relegated because we’re less talented than other teams yet we’re going down fighting. We going down because we just gave up on this season and thought we’d be OK because we deserve to be in the Prem. Going down off the back of naivety, ignorance and sheer stupidity in not getting rid of a toxic manager is so hard to accept. 
 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

In other relegation seasons - perhaps except the one instigated by Taylor I’ve always had hope until the end. Even when we dropped into League One at Stoke. But now there’s just a sense of apathy. It’s like the lack of effort I see on the pitch has somehow made me not care as much. Obviously I do care and it’s probably some sort of mental defence mechanism.

 

Every relegation season has its own context, and as people have already said previously you could argue it’s been on the cards. But this is gross mismanagement. This squad at worst is midtable perhaps lower midtable. It’s certainly shouldn’t be competing for rock bottom. And that’s what makes it painfully ridiculous and mostly incomprehensible really.

[bovril]

Just in terms of the football this imo is worse than 2002 and 2008 relative to our expectations and the potential of the team. 2002 was horrific off the field obviously. 

[CrazyKopCorner]

28 minutes ago, Twitcher said:

A bit like Python's four Yorkshiremen sketch but trust me 1978 was worse. "We used to dream of having eight wins."

We'd been a fairly stable mid-table team under Jimmy Bloomfield when Frank McLintock took over. He increased the average age by about 10 years, brought in a load of his old Arsenal team mates and....oh dear. We even lost to Portsmouth in the first League Cup game, and Walsall in the second FA Cup game.

"We'd be 20 NIL down before we'd even kicked off, have 15 players sent off, an't referee would award a penalty against us every 10 minutes. Aye and police would thrash us with us scarf on't way owt."

Seriously it was worse. One commentator actually queried if we'd had our name changed by deed poll to "Leicester City NIL."

In a family of Leeds fans, I adopted this club in 1974, and I've seen 2 League Cup wins, an FA Cup, and a Premier league title. If I'd stayed with Leeds I'd have seen one title. If I'd picked Newcastle, I'd still be waiting for anything. It's what we do, win the second division/Championship. We'll be back!👊

That was my first real season as a 6 year old - I'd ask enthusiastically every week 'Have we won dad?'  ........... erm no son Birmingham beat us 5 - 1 ! 

 

Reminds me very much of this season 

[Noahfence]

If you’re relegated and you can say the players genuinely gave everything what else can you do. But we’re going down with a group of players who aren’t arsed and it shows. Tielemans last night was an absolute disgrace, was like he was playing in a testimonial