Winning things

[An Sionnach]

The biggest single factor in our successful period has been the fear of Vardy with the initial assistance of Mahrez. That period is over and unless we extremely luckily discover another lethal striker , we are probably going to have an extended middling period. Vardy did it for Ranieri and for Rodgers and without him we would probably have won nothing. At his peak World Class and like the loss of Lineker in the 80s , you don't find replacements easily.

Edited 8 June 2023 by An Sionnach

[urban.spaceman]

43 minutes ago, Jamie Vard-on said:

Leicester is the weirdest club. I honestly think we’ll win the Champions League within 10 years.

 

Don’t ask me how though.😎

Would genuinely love to know the odds on that, cos it's ****ing on.

[Nalis]

1 hour ago, Jamie Vard-on said:

Leicester is the weirdest club. I honestly think we’ll win the Champions League within 10 years.

 

Don’t ask me how though.😎

We'll go back to League 1, win the champions league and go back to league 1 again within in the next 20. All while teams like Everton and Villa stay in the premier league but dont win a thing

[Lambert09]

9 hours ago, tickler28 said:

It dawned on me last night that winning trophies for any club is a very very rare thing. 43 years since West Ham won the FA Cup....43 years...let that sink in.....we've won 2 league cups, 1 Premier League, Community Shield and an FA Cup in that time.

 

It might sound defeatist but its more realistic that we won't win any major silverware for as long as I live (I'm 44 now) so you can do the math.

 

Just appreciate what we witnessed over the past 9 years....it will probably never be that good ever again.

I feel like we are in the last decade where the playing field was as level as it could possibly be, given the huge disparity in finances.  By the time we turn this ship around and are actually able to fight, there wont be anything left for us to fight for as im sure the big clubs claw everything back and get themselves back to a closed shop. 

[lcfc sheff]

besides this season, we've been so successful and have been close to other finals if it weren't for a combination of things. regardless of relegation im very proud to be a Leicester fan and im confident this isn't the end of us yet. 

[Foxdiamond]

Bearing in mind our earlier history it is still astonishing that we have won League Cup,  League,  F A Cup and Community Shield within 25 years of 1997-2021. 

[tickler28]

I'm seeing a lot of people on here suggesting this is a defeatist post....thats not the intention at all. I as much as anyone else want more success in the future.

 

More success in the future though doesn't necessarily equate to winning a trophy. Newcastle have just had a successful season (didn't win a trophy though) Brighton have had a successful season (didn't win a trophy though) likewise Arsenal finishing second is an achievement (don't get a trophy for it though).

 

This post was not about not craving more success (which isn't just measured in trophies) it was highlighting how bloody rare it is to win anything. West Ham have arguably had a pretty rubbish season but they won something. Would the owners rather have finished top 4 (probably) but the fans never forget winning silverware.

 

I'd be happy if the only silverware we get our hands on in the next 3 years is the playoff trophy for the Championship 🏆 

Edited 8 June 2023 by tickler28

[LCFCJohn]

18 hours ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Give it another season and we can go for the Papa John's Trophy.

 

#complete_the_set

Given we have won;

League 1 title

Championship title

Premier League title

FA Cup

Community Shield

and the 2 League Cups 

 

it makes that EFL Trophy exit on that miserable night to Rotherham at the Don Valley even more significant 

[Supergray22]

12 hours ago, Nalis said:

We'll go back to League 1, win the champions league and go back to league 1 again within in the next 20. All while teams like Everton and Villa stay in the premier league but dont win a thing

Villa have been up and down like Rory mcilroy at a major championship. 😀

[Guest Bilo]

I think Brighton and West Ham have proved that you can go very well without spending billions of petrodollars, so I do think we'll be OK if we can restore a bit of competence.

 

I do think that the Leicester of 18 months earlier, for example, would have beaten Roma in that UECL semi and gone on to win it. It was only because we were so passive at the Stadio Olimpico that we lost that one. 

 

That said, the Leicester of 18 months earlier wouldn't have dropped out at the group stage of the UEL.

[Aus Fox]

9 hours ago, tickler28 said:

I'm seeing a lot of people on here suggesting this is a defeatist post....thats not the intention at all. I as much as anyone else want more success in the future.

 

More success in the future though doesn't necessarily equate to winning a trophy. Newcastle have just had a successful season (didn't win a trophy though) Brighton have had a successful season (didn't win a trophy though) likewise Arsenal finishing second is an achievement (don't get a trophy for it though).

 

This post was not about not craving more success (which isn't just measured in trophies) it was highlighting how bloody rare it is to win anything. West Ham have arguably had a pretty rubbish season but they won something. Would the owners rather have finished top 4 (probably) but the fans never forget winning silverware.

 

I'd be happy if the only silverware we get our hands on in the next 3 years is the playoff trophy for the Championship 🏆 

I don’t think I can agree with this, in terms of how we define success. The only way to define success, for me, is the trophy cabinet.

Brighton, Newcastle have had very decent seasons, for Brighton maybe their best ever, but they haven’t achieved anything, they haven’t won anything.

A successful season, is a season where something is won.

Give me West Ham’s season over Brighton or Newcastle’s any day of the week.

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, Aus Fox said:

I don’t think I can agree with this, in terms of how we define success. The only way to define success, for me, is the trophy cabinet.

Brighton, Newcastle have had very decent seasons, for Brighton maybe their best ever, but they haven’t achieved anything, they haven’t won anything.

A successful season, is a season where something is won.

Give me West Ham’s season over Brighton or Newcastle’s any day of the week.

I agree. I wonder if Newcastle fans would have preferred League Cup win and finish 5th instead of losing final and 4th place

[Bert]

On 08/06/2023 at 09:12, Stevosevic said:

Only 6 clubs have won the PL, FA cup and League cup in the PL era. 
 

We have done very well to be in that group. 

Instantly makes us massive. Great little stat. 

[SheppyFox]

[Phube]

Another stat for you. In the last 10 years every single domestic trophy has gone to clubs in the ‘Top 6’ except for Leicester. 
 

Literally only us since 2014! 
 

 

What is weirder is 2013 - Wigan and Swansea! What happened there?

[Gamble92]

On 08/06/2023 at 09:11, tickler28 said:

It dawned on me last night that winning trophies for any club is a very very rare thing. 43 years since West Ham won the FA Cup....43 years...let that sink in.....we've won 2 league cups, 1 Premier League, Community Shield and an FA Cup in that time.

 

It might sound defeatist but its more realistic that we won't win any major silverware for as long as I live (I'm 44 now) so you can do the math.

 

Just appreciate what we witnessed over the past 9 years....it will probably never be that good ever again.

We know all this and the club have had some great people around to make it happen but make absolutely no mistake - this relegation is every bit as much a ****ing disaster as our achievements were great. To undo what we had is astonishing. It's beyond comprehension. 

 

Just being okay with it is like working your way up to having a nice mansion, then being sat outside content with the fact it's being burgled and burnt to the ground. 

[whoareyaaa]

22 hours ago, An Sionnach said:

The biggest single factor in our successful period has been the fear of Vardy with the initial assistance of Mahrez. That period is over and unless we extremely luckily discover another lethal striker , we are probably going to have an extended middling period. Vardy did it for Ranieri and for Rodgers and without him we would probably have won nothing. At his peak World Class and like the loss of Lineker in the 80s , you don't find replacements easily.

The partnership that Mahrez and Vardy had is surely the most prolific in our whole history the assists/goals ratio was ridiculous 

[BeautifulHB]

37 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

The partnership that Mahrez and Vardy had is surely the most prolific in our whole history the assists/goals ratio was ridiculous 

Just thinking about it makes me smile broadly. Great times.

[Fox92]

22 hours ago, Nalis said:

We'll go back to League 1, win the champions league and go back to league 1 again within in the next 20. All while teams like Everton and Villa stay in the premier league but dont win a thing

Villa will be on for Europa Conference League next season, we all know Emerey loves Europe.

 

[Fox92]

45 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

The partnership that Mahrez and Vardy had is surely the most prolific in our whole history the assists/goals ratio was ridiculous 

I think Chandler and Hine are our most prolific partneship.

 

 

[An Sionnach]

43 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I think Chandler and Hine are our most prolific partneship.

 

 

Interesting that , some do not realise that we were one of the best club teams in the world in the late twenties. My grandad used to have a drink with Arthur back then.

[whoareyaaa]

3 hours ago, BeautifulHB said:

Just thinking about it makes me smile broadly. Great times.

 

[BillyFOX12]

On 08/06/2023 at 10:25, An Away Move said:

Only 7 teams in the entire football pyramid have won the Premier League. We’re one of them. 

That's why I sometimes feel envious of the American draft system, which helps break monopolies.

[weller54]

3 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Villa will be on for Europa Conference League next season, we all know Emerey loves Europe.

 

The way West Ham have celebrated winning a Micky Mouse European trophy you'd have thought they'd won the PL or Champions league ffs!!! 

[Gamble92]

On 08/06/2023 at 19:01, Lambert09 said:

I feel like we are in the last decade where the playing field was as level as it could possibly be, given the huge disparity in finances.  By the time we turn this ship around and are actually able to fight, there wont be anything left for us to fight for as im sure the big clubs claw everything back and get themselves back to a closed shop. 

It was still every bit a closed shop when we did win it. I get what you mean though, they are doing everything they can to appease the super league clubs behind the scenes. We protest about the super league but money talks in the end. Stuff like the new coefficient rule for Champions League giving an extra spot to clubs who've failed that year etc. It's all happening in plain sight and no one says anything.