I've had enough

[kristianity77]

In the space of two or three years I’ve gone from a fan to a casual armchair fan.  Too expensive and never entertaining.  I hardly ever watch a game, I’ll just casually check the score on occasions or look at the results.

 

on the rare occasions we get a result I may watch the highlights on YouTube but that’s as good as it gets.

 

It may seem petty but that club isn’t getting another penny from me until they come across as caring about the club and competent.  Neither of which are even close to happening.

 

Better things to do with my time and money these days.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

A loss used to ruin my weekend, now it doesn't even faze me. When we conceded and I was ain the stadium I felt it deep. Now it's just meh. 

 

I have a season ticket but honestly I go because I have it, will I keep it next year? Who knows. It's just gone flat, beyond flat and I don't know what we need to get that magic back. 

[Winstonthedog]

23 minutes ago, The Quick Brown Fox said:

A loss used to ruin my weekend, now it doesn't even faze me. When we conceded and I was ain the stadium I felt it deep. Now it's just meh. 

 

I have a season ticket but honestly I go because I have it, will I keep it next year? Who knows. It's just gone flat, beyond flat and I don't know what we need to get that magic back. 

We need a manager with some presence, a team that plays with style and passion ... and a crowd to reflect it all 

[OnlyOneCity]

I’d be interested to know the ages of those on here who are so easily ready to give up on City. Yes things are grim right now and we’ve been very badly managed by the board and Rodgers,  which has helped to create this mess. Some of you younger fans are always griping about the older ones still going to matches and apparently taking up seats which should be for younger ones. Well. Us old gits have been through worse times than this over the decades, but we’re still going and supporting the team as best we can. Don’t accuse us of being the derogatory “happy clappers”, but accept that we have an undying love for our club. What happened to Leicester till I die.?

[Kp1984]

I’m the same this team under cooper has made me lose total interest and it’s gotten to the point I don’t care as much as I should and that’s never happened. We are such a mess all over the pitch it’s just not exciting at all to watch. I’m just hoping cooper gets sacked asap and a actual manager sorts us out 

[Daggers]

50 minutes ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I’d be interested to know the ages of those on here who are so easily ready to give up on City. Yes things are grim right now and we’ve been very badly managed by the board and Rodgers,  which has helped to create this mess. Some of you younger fans are always griping about the older ones still going to matches and apparently taking up seats which should be for younger ones. Well. Us old gits have been through worse times than this over the decades, but we’re still going and supporting the team as best we can. Don’t accuse us of being the derogatory “happy clappers”, but accept that we have an undying love for our club.

I saw Linekar’s debut. 
 

I won’t have anything to do with the club anymore.

 

 What happened to Leicester till I die.?

 

LCFC died. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

17 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I’d be interested to know the ages of those on here who are so easily ready to give up on City. Yes things are grim right now and we’ve been very badly managed by the board and Rodgers,  which has helped to create this mess. Some of you younger fans are always griping about the older ones still going to matches and apparently taking up seats which should be for younger ones. Well. Us old gits have been through worse times than this over the decades, but we’re still going and supporting the team as best we can. Don’t accuse us of being the derogatory “happy clappers”, but accept that we have an undying love for our club. What happened to Leicester till I die.?

Not sure many have given up on the club, it’s more of a disconnect, I will always support the club they are my team, however it’s how invested I am which is the issue, for example Sundays result, in previous seasons that would ruin my weekend, however this season I just shrug my shoulders and carry on. Is it because I care less, no I don’t think so, however at this moment I feel emotionally detached, the direction of the club both on and off the pitch has changed significantly in recent years and I don’t mean on field success,  up to the FA Cup final win it felt like we had a project, something to invest in and be excited about. 
 

Everything on and off the pitch seemed to be aligned and everything and everyone seemed to be pulling in the same direction. Since then the wheels have come off in spectacular fashion, the decision making and strategy both on and off the pitch is scattergun to say the least and it’s difficult to really see what our identity is as a club now and that is both the playing side and from a supporter basis. 
 

it felt like the club had got their act together when they appointed Enzo and we had our new Pearson who would take the club by the scruff of the neck and build a new positive era. When he left, the club made the decision to appoint Cooper, an uninspiring choice and one so far removed from Maresca in terms of style that yet again it demonstrated an alarming lack of ambition, proactive forward planning.and long term strategy.

 

My frustrations are that such poor decisions and a lack of long term strategic planning has left us with arguably the poorest manager in the league, a lack of a discernible style or identity and what appears to be a club with little or no clear vision of what or where it wants to be as a club. 
 

And for those reasons, whilst I still support and love my club, I am struggling to get passionate, excited or invested in, as there are so many individuals and strategic decision making that is taking the club away from what I want it to be, and that is why I feel so disconnected. 

Edited 14 November 2024 by Claudio Fannieri

[deep blue]

8 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I’d be interested to know the ages of those on here who are so easily ready to give up on City. Yes things are grim right now and we’ve been very badly managed by the board and Rodgers,  which has helped to create this mess. Some of you younger fans are always griping about the older ones still going to matches and apparently taking up seats which should be for younger ones. Well. Us old gits have been through worse times than this over the decades, but we’re still going and supporting the team as best we can. Don’t accuse us of being the derogatory “happy clappers”, but accept that we have an undying love for our club. What happened to Leicester till I die.?

My disenchantment started a year into Rodgers' reign when I could see the writing on the wall, and has continued in decline from then. I wrote to the Board twice in the relegation season but, of course, was ignored. The Board seem clueless in football matters.  When you've been engaged with football over a long period you've seen all the ups & downs and can sense when things are starting to go awry within a club.

 

I've supported Leicester for 70 years and will always do so - I go around with Leicester shirt and scarf to most things. But like most on here I am finding it harder and harder to be quite so invested in the players, performances and results.

 

Like others, I see the squad built up during Puel's time to have turned into a wasted opportunity, and the lack of support for our young players - having to sell off local grown successes because of bad financial management, selecting old Prem has-beens rather than giving opportunities to our development players and losing our best prospects to the rich clubs - a huge disappointment.

 

The fortunes of a club undergo ups and downs over the years, none more than our roller-coaster of a club, so I just hope that somehow something will happen soon to arrest the decline and put us on an upward path again.

Edited 14 November 2024 by deep blue
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[Daveb5569]

was not even interested went shopping with the Mrs didn't even look at my phone and will not until January as cannot see where the next set of points will come from 

[Lako42]

Football is boring as **** these days. 

 

Hijacked by billionaires and milked for all it's worth. 

 

Addiction is the only thing that keeps it going 

 

 

 

Took me many years to realise but there are so many things more worthwhile than contributing to the whole pathetic thing. I wouldn't be against the whole thing going bang. 

[gerrytaggart]

The pride I've always felt for this club is melting away a little more with every weak and tactically inept performance.

 

If the board had anything about them whatsoever they would get this guy who pretends to be a football manager out of my club.

[Mike Oxlong]

I realised something had changed when I declined the clappers being handed out on entry to the stadium thinking,  hey you corporate football nobs, I refuse to be one of the herd any longer - that was quite a long time ago 

[Winstonthedog]

7 hours ago, Daveb5569 said:

was not even interested went shopping with the Mrs didn't even look at my phone and will not until January as cannot see where the next set of points will come from 

I even offered to do the ironing for my mrs .... she looked at me and laughed ... but I was so desperate ... have made an appointment at the doctors ... but what do I say when he asks me what's my problem 

[Benji]

Definitely felt the same since the beginning of the final season of Rogers.  That said I really enjoyed last season - yes we almost f'ked it at the end, and at times the football was slow, but at least it felt like we were trying to start again and we had a manager with a clear identity which the players had bought into.  There finally seemed to be a connection growing back between fans and players.  Unfortunately the Cooper appointment was completely underwhelming and the financial mismanagement off the pitch is amateur - we've got away with it on a technicality.  It feels like we're back to square one and unless we trip into survival it could be a slippery slope, particularly with Vardy in his final years.

Edited 14 November 2024 by Benji

[RumbleFox]

I think the title win killed it for me. It’s like when Cartman sees the people with the bums for faces, he knows nothing will ever too it. I’ve lost the ability to feel joy. 

[shen]

On 11/11/2024 at 20:25, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Thought this thread was going to be about unskippable YouTube ads

One word: Brave

[shen]

8 hours ago, Lako42 said:

Football is boring as **** these days. 

 

Hijacked by billionaires and milked for all it's worth. 

 

Addiction is the only thing that keeps it going 

 

 

 

Took me many years to realise but there are so many things more worthwhile than contributing to the whole pathetic thing. I wouldn't be against the whole thing going bang. 

Absolutely spot on. 

Even the top footballers are a bit boring to watch, IMO. Haaland, Rodrygo, Mbappé, Kane, even CR9 et al. None of them have the same feel as Messi, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Zidane etc. They are machines more than the flair idols of the past.

 

It's been years that I don't watch CL football. At most I will sporadically watch goal highlight reels. Even our games, I'd say I miss around half of them now.

With small kids and precious little free time, I cannot bring myself to prioritise watching turgid football. 

Enzo was actually entertaining enough, but there were way too many games last season.

[purpleronnie]

13 minutes ago, shen said:

Absolutely spot on. 

Even the top footballers are a bit boring to watch, IMO. Haaland, Rodrygo, Mbappé, Kane, even CR9 et al. None of them have the same feel as Messi, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Zidane etc. They are machines more than the flair idols of the past.

 

It's been years that I don't watch CL football. At most I will sporadically watch goal highlight reels. Even our games, I'd say I miss around half of them now.

With small kids and precious little free time, I cannot bring myself to prioritise watching turgid football. 

Enzo was actually entertaining enough, but there were way too many games last season.

I think it might be an age thing too.  People who grew up with players who were often born in and around the county helped the connection between the fans and the players.  The players werent untouchable spoiled overpaid premadonna's either and that really appealed to fans.  Add into that the cheap tickets, pay at the gate etc...it was just simply more fun.

 

Not sure new generations care for any of that.

 

 

Edited 14 November 2024 by purpleronnie

[Trav Le Bleu]

For me it's less the way the team's playing. As someone who has supported the team pre-2016, I'm all too familiar with our present situation.

 

It's more the way the club treats fans as customers and in fact, most of the bigger clubs in the top too leagues. Haven't bought a ticket in years and not even sure I'd go if I was given one.

Edited 15 November 2024 by Trav Le Bleu

[Mickyblueeyes]

I don’t think I’ve given up on the club that is Leicester City. As much as the relegation happened and the manner in which it was allowed convinced me it was over, last season after having an indifferent feeling at the start, the want to watch Leicester slowly returned. It’s very hard to just not care. 
 

Though, I am always upset/angry at my club at the moment. I know some will say we’ve been in worse positions before. However we’ve never just let it happen. The ownership, the board etc. what they’ve let happened to us, the risk they’ve put us in and the success of those before them they’ve just flushed down the pan, I’ll never forgive them. I’ve given up on them. 
 

As a fan, I need to be here. Even if I’m the only one sat in that stadium booing Top while some around me dream of having his babies. I can’t have enough until at the very least he’s gone. The club deserves better. 
 

I’d prefer to just give it in and forget but here I am at 7:22pm complaining about the club. You don’t complain unless you care. 

[Realist Guy In The Room]

20 hours ago, OnlyOneCity said:

I’d be interested to know the ages of those on here who are so easily ready to give up on City. Yes things are grim right now and we’ve been very badly managed by the board and Rodgers,  which has helped to create this mess. Some of you younger fans are always griping about the older ones still going to matches and apparently taking up seats which should be for younger ones. Well. Us old gits have been through worse times than this over the decades, but we’re still going and supporting the team as best we can. Don’t accuse us of being the derogatory “happy clappers”, but accept that we have an undying love for our club. What happened to Leicester till I die.?

I'm 44 and i'm about there.

 

I live a fair distance away from the City so I don't get to as many games anymore (maybe 4 home games a season plus 1 London away).  When I'm free on a matchday i'll watch it but I rarely get excited when they score and don't get upset when they concede.  It really doesn't feel like i'm connected to it anymore.  This has happened since the FA cup win.  It's not so much the mismanagement of the club (which is hugely frustrating), for me, it's more the fact that there isn't any desire anymore.  I've seen them win every domestic honour we've competed in and I have no expectation that it'll happen again.

 

It's quite sad but when I do come back for games, it's shit.  Even if we win.  I was back for Plymouth at home last year which we won 4-0 and the amount of moaning and negativity was exactly the same as the Forest game this year.  Really unpleasant atmosphere, crap food, expensive beer and the game is just unrecognisable from what I grew up with.

[worth_the_wait]

The word rollercoaster gets bandied about a bit.   But that's what supporting a club usually is.   Well, life as well tbh.

 

A few of the memorable low points ...

Setting a (then) record lowest goals scored ever in the top flight (1978).
Being knocked out of the FA Cup by a non-league team - and not even a good one at that. (1980)
Filbert Street with 7000 crowds in the old 1st Division (mid 1980's).
A few hours from going out of business (2002).
Being relegated to the 3rd Division for the first time in our history (2008).
Lots of dreadful managers (can't be bothered to mention all their names - you know who they are).

 

And during that time we had some owners and club officials, who were incompetent and treated us fans with contempt ... just as now.

 

Things don't feel good at the moment, and they might get worse.   But they'll get better again one day.   We just need to hang in there, which isn't always easy.
 

[Mad Dog]

I'm really only watching for Vards at the moment. A Vardy goal still gets me excited.

 

Other than that, it's turgid - I'm just hoping there will be three worse teams than us, and we can go again this summer and have a proper reset. If we go down I won't be gutted, if we stay up I won't be excited. I've not really felt like this since I watched my first ever game. Rodgers last season was horrendous watching but I was still devastated when we went down - this year I don't really care.

[SK3Blue]

I think the premier league in general is quite dull, players having the individuality coached out of them for a start. Wingers rarely beat their man, it’s just not fun.

 

Would even go as far as saying that Vardy is the last great character in the EPL. 

[Sly]

Is it fair to say People support the club but dislike the brand that we have become?

 

Football at its heart is a very simple game. 
 

In fairness to FIFA one of the things they got right for years in my opinion was to try and keep the basic concept of the game the same at Elite level, as you could in theory play on a Sunday afternoon in a pub league. 
 

The slow introduction of technology and misuse of it has not helped fans engage. 
 

VAR makes everyone look more incompetent.

 

The rules are all over the shop and they change them every season.

 

Champions League was the elite competition, that was once available to all. Not everyone has every TV channel, so it’s narrowed its viewing audience. 
 

They’ve added more games in with third tier European leagues, world club cups, pre season friendlies, nations leagues, international breaks every month, the game is over saturated. The once spectre of a game every 3 years between a Madrid and a Manchester City for example, would occur 3 or 4 times a season. 
 

Players become detached more from the average person every year.

 

The game is basically minimal contact at this point, yet we have less flair and ability than 10 years ago. It’s more about being strong, athletic etc

 

The ticket prices, merchandise, cost to view in the United Kingdom is insane, compared to other countries. I can potentially fly to Germany from East Midlands and watch Dortmund easier and cheaper than Leicester. 
 

People renew season tickets more out of habit. If every game went on general sale at the moment, I doubt we’d fill the stadium. I’m half assuming this is why the stadium expansion got delayed.