King Power Out

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Nothing about those running it though? 

Didn’t quite commit that. All four of them danced around it without making an implied comment on the ownership/lack of management 

[Sly]

I quite liked the idea of Cambodia flags to be honest. 
 

Albeit; I’m not fully clued up so it might be akin to waving a Russian flag for all I know. 

[Rubbersoul]

Really find a bit soul destroying just how many of our fans seemingly don’t care about the club being ran into the ground because of past success. 
 

It makes you wonder how they’d behave towards any potential new owners if that ever happens 

Edited 17 February by Rubbersoul

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

I quite liked the idea of Cambodia flags to be honest. 
 

Albeit; I’m not fully clued up so it might be akin to waving a Russian flag for all I know. 

It’s an awful idea.

 

It doesn’t matter whether Cambodia is the Russian or the Ukraine in that dispute. Politics should stay out of football.

 

To bring Aiyawatt’s nation into it draws attention away from the issues. It is cheap point scoring to try and get a reaction. It will alienate supporters who agree that he is ruining the club but aren’t at active protest stage. It will water down any media coverage. Not to mention it is irrelevant to the issues at the club. 

 

There is so so much to go on that is relevant to how we are being run into the ground. That needs to be the focus.

[LCFCJohn]

6 minutes ago, Rubbersoul said:

Really find a bit soul destroying just how many of our fans seemingly don’t care about the club being ran into the ground because of past success. 
 

It makes you wonder how they’d behave towards any potential new owners if that ever happens 

No doubt be straight on their back and critical of their every move and decision.

 

I said it before, any party that would be interested in buying will just bide their time. Financially, they can pick us up cheaper once we are in administration and it is obvious to anyone doing their research that we have a cult following towards the current owner. They are better off waiting until it his rock bottom and the support that remains currently dwindles further.

[Sínnann]

It is soul destroying. 

 

Going to matches just wasn’t about the actual football, it was about the day out, meeting up with mates, having some great times even when the game itself was dire. 

 

Nowadays, most of my mates have stopped going. Yeah, of course life gets in the way and people’s priorities change, but this is completely unprecedented. I’m feeling a bit like Billy No-Mates these days. I am just going to the game and then going straight back home. It’s like a double whammy, not only is the game and the atmosphere awful, but I don’t get to enjoy meeting up with my friends.

 

I can see myself in a couple of years time in some dystopian future, sitting alone surrounded by empty rows of seats, watching us struggling to stay in the EFL, whilst there are pockets of KPFC fans with their clappers and bedecked in all their free hats, scarves and t-shirts, screaming at the likes of me that we could have it worse and that I am entitled and spoilt for pining for the days when going to the football was an enjoyable experience.

 

[Gamble92]

35 minutes ago, Rubbersoul said:

Really find a bit soul destroying just how many of our fans seemingly don’t care about the club being ran into the ground because of past success. 
 

It makes you wonder how they’d behave towards any potential new owners if that ever happens 

The way they pin all the success on King Power after we won the League with about £20m being spent has always been ridiculous when you analyse how we got to that win. 

 

This isn't just a hindsight thing because of the decline. My reaction to them being on the pitch with the trophy (and a King of Thailand picture) was what the **** are you doing? Fast forward to the Championship win and Tops there with Thai influencers and you realise the vanity project it's always been to them. 

 

On your point about new owners, or even a new Director of Football - they'll absolutely be wishing they fail to say I told you so. They have become so brainwashed they'll clap this club into oblivion as long as Top, who doesn't even bother to come himself, is in power. 

 

Make no mistake, you need as many passive fans as we have to enable this demise. 

Edited 17 February by Gamble92

[Rubbersoul]

6 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

The way they pin all the success on King Power after we won the League with about £20m being spent has always been ridiculous when you analyse how we got to that win. 

 

This isn't just a hindsight thing because of the decline. My reaction to them being on the pitch with the trophy (and a King of Thailand picture) was what the **** are you doing? Fast forward to the Championship win and Tops there with Thai influencers and you realise the vanity project it's always been to them. 

 

On your point about new owners, of even a new Director of Football - they'll absolutely be wishing they fail to say I told you so. They have become so brainwashed they'll clap this club into oblivion as long as Top, who doesn't even bother to come himself, is in power. 

 

Make no mistake, you need as many passive fans as we have to enable this demise. 

The fact they did this actually angers me looking back. 
 

I remember at the time thinking how fcking weird does that look. 

[Gamble92]

Just now, Rubbersoul said:

The fact they did this actually angers me looking back. 
 

I remember at the time thinking how fcking weird does that look. 

There's been so much looking back. Even the stadium renaming and taking down all the images of bits of our history. That was all met with "well it's their money" kind of response from most fans. There's not a chance other clubs allow that the way we did. 

 

They always managed this kind of innocent, oh no I don't want to really be on the pitch look when they'd do it. But they make sure they're there for every success and as we are seeing now he's absolutely no where to be seen when things don't go his way. Just a petulant brat who thinks we owe him everything. 

[Rubbersoul]

9 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

There's been so much looking back. Even the stadium renaming and taking down all the images of bits of our history. That was all met with "well it's their money" kind of response from most fans. There's not a chance other clubs allow that the way we did. 

 

They always managed this kind of innocent, oh no I don't want to really be on the pitch look when they'd do it. But they make sure they're there for every success and as we are seeing now he's absolutely no where to be seen when things don't go his way. Just a petulant brat who thinks we owe him everything. 

Do you reckon he’d be on the pitch with 100s of Thai influencers if we won League One? 
 

I genuinely believe he’s so shameless he’d be there hogging the trophy 

Edited 17 February by Rubbersoul

[JonnyBoy]

3 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Simpson had no issue making a comment at the De Mont event last year about the existing squad 

agree, found that tweet strange when he sat there last year (including Huth) who clearly knew there were issues within the club. Embarrassing tweet

[The Doctor]

5 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I don’t want us to get relegated, as I genuinely fear for our existence however in the same way we absolutely need wholesale change as the club is being run into the ground. The level of decline and financial mismanagement is beyond inept. It is unacceptable. 

absolutely spot on. I genuinely believe we are at serious risk of administration, or worse, liquidation if we drop into league one. Concerning thing is you listen to king power supporters and they sound like they would back king power all the way to that point, that nothing short of the club going out of business would get them to question the ownership. it's cult like worship of dear leader and I don't know how you can possibly get through to them when king power are more important than the club itself to them

[Stadt]

Fans protesting the ineptitude will be the ones getting blamed next, as if they just put the same effort into backing the lads™, we'd be flying right now.

 

Financial management, strategy, foresight, opportunity cost are concepts that are just too abstract for the KP hordes, "me see FA cup me like, you no like King Power you bad" isn't that far off how they think

[LCFCJohn]

13 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Fans protesting the ineptitude will be the ones getting blamed next, as if they just put the same effort into backing the lads™, we'd be flying right now.

 

Financial management, strategy, foresight, opportunity cost are concepts that are just too abstract for the KP hordes, "me see FA cup me like, you no like King Power you bad" isn't that far off how they think

Oh 100%. You know already that relegation will be blamed on the points deduction (with the irony on how this happened lost of them) and the fans not backing them. Those responsible, Aiyawatt and Rudkin will get away without taking any responsibility yet again…

[Stadt]

3 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Oh 100%. You know already that relegation will be blamed on the points deduction (with the irony on how this happened lost of them) and the fans not backing them. Those responsible, Aiyawatt and Rudkin will get away without taking any responsibility yet again…

The fact is we're just much more interested in the club, hence reading and posting about all manner of topics concerning the team, transfers, finances, back rom set up and so on.

 

How many of the KP mob know we don't have a chief exec, commercial director, technical director etc? Vanishingly few. They don't think anything is a big deal because they're so low-information fans. 90 % couldn't tell you what PSR stood for. It'd almost be funny if they didn't have the temerity to say we're not proper fans.

 

It's precisely because I grew up first attending games around 2006ish that I don't want to go back to being a shit, skint also ran when 24k was a good attendance. I want future generations of my family to have a club to be proud of - Top is running the club into a more catastrophic fall than our rise was spectacular. 

Edited 17 February by Stadt

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

It’s an awful idea.

 

It doesn’t matter whether Cambodia is the Russian or the Ukraine in that dispute. Politics should stay out of football.

 

To bring Aiyawatt’s nation into it draws attention away from the issues. It is cheap point scoring to try and get a reaction. It will alienate supporters who agree that he is ruining the club but aren’t at active protest stage. It will water down any media coverage. Not to mention it is irrelevant to the issues at the club. 

 

There is so so much to go on that is relevant to how we are being run into the ground. That needs to be the focus.

Okay scrap that idea, Tom Hopper flags?

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Okay scrap that idea, Tom Hopper flags?

Another crap idea. Clearly that would be masks not flags 

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Stadt said:

The fact is we're just much more entrusted in the club, hence reading and posting about all manner of topics concerning the team, transfers, finances, back rom set up and so on.

 

How many of the KP mob know we don't have a chief exec, commercial director, technical director etc? Vanishingly few. They don't think anything is a big deal because they're so low-information fans. 90 % couldn't tell you what PSR stood for. It'd almost be funny if they didn't have the temerity to say we're not proper fans.

 

It's precisely because I grew up first attending games around 2006ish that I don't want to go back to being a shit, skint also ran when 24k was a good attendance. I want future generations of my family to have a club to be proud of - Top is running the club into a more catastrophic fall than our rise was spectacular. 

Agreed. I’m a bit ahead of you on the timeline in that I began when growing up around 2002 so I was thrown straight into administration and the 2004-2008 with a number of our worst finishes in our history up to and including the relegation to L1 and our lowest ever finish in the pyramid. Not that you’d realise the way some go on about it. I genuinely saw someone defend Aiyawatt because ‘we have always been a yoyo club between the Championship and League 1’. Incredible right? 
 

I resent the accusation that people demanding change have only been around since 2016 which is the biggest load of Bs. Someone on this forum actually, when challenged on that, turned it into ‘well ok, you have seen how quickly it can turn around and expect that again’. Just no getting through to people. 
 

I want two things;

1. Basic standards in terms of effort and desire to be met. We won’t win every game but at least show something and provide some entertainment.

 

2. For the club not to be a laughing stock due to trying and failing to break the rules, resulting in a points deduction, whilst being a laughing stock on the pitch for the pathetic displays we are putting in, resulting in us being probably the worst Leicester City side in the clubs history now. That might sound exaggerated but note ‘team’ rather than than bunch of individuals and we are currently occupying our joint second worst position ever. 

[Gamble92]

4 hours ago, Rubbersoul said:

Do you reckon he’d be on the pitch with 100s of Thai influencers if we won League One? 
 

I genuinely believe he’s so shameless he’d be there hogging the trophy 

If you can do it after the most embarrassing relegation in Premier League history and with those resources, he would absolutely do one for League One. 

 

I just don't think even our fanbase will allow him the time to stay if we drop again. 

[desertfox2]

4 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

The way they pin all the success on King Power after we won the League with about £20m being spent has always been ridiculous when you analyse how we got to that win. 

 

This isn't just a hindsight thing because of the decline. My reaction to them being on the pitch with the trophy (and a King of Thailand picture) was what the **** are you doing? Fast forward to the Championship win and Tops there with Thai influencers and you realise the vanity project it's always been to them. 

 

On your point about new owners, or even a new Director of Football - they'll absolutely be wishing they fail to say I told you so. They have become so brainwashed they'll clap this club into oblivion as long as Top, who doesn't even bother to come himself, is in power. 

 

Make no mistake, you need as many passive fans as we have to enable this demise. 

Them being on the pitch with the trophy and pictures of the king was odd but didn't really bother me at the time as we were having success.  The thing is though, by doing that, they absolutely have to be accountable when things go wrong like they are. Now it really bothers me as it's all a bit Brendan Rodgers. All him when it goes well and everyone else when it goes wrong and nobody should be able to make any criticism. It should go both ways.

Edited 17 February by desertfox2
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[Kitchandro]

4 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

There's been so much looking back. Even the stadium renaming and taking down all the images of bits of our history. That was all met with "well it's their money" kind of response from most fans. There's not a chance other clubs allow that the way we did. 

 

They always managed this kind of innocent, oh no I don't want to really be on the pitch look when they'd do it. But they make sure they're there for every success and as we are seeing now he's absolutely no where to be seen when things don't go his way. Just a petulant brat who thinks we owe him everything. 

While we’re on the subject and I’m finally allowed to vent about it - yes, the gold on the kits too. When I think back to us winning the league, it’s probably the worst kit we’ve ever had. Whenever you see images associated with it I think; those aren’t my club’s colours.

 

People always tried to make out it was a minor thing. But it’s not. Identity is the whole point of supporting a club. There will be people who know us purely because of that season and they will associate us with that disgusting metallic gold rather than white.

 

They’ve never respected the badge. I just don’t like them and never have.

[Fazzer 7]

I haven't been through the pages. So you may have seen it already. But this is very interesting and worrying in equal measure. This guy seems to know his stuff 

 

 

[Gamble92]

1 minute ago, desertfox2 said:

Them being on the pitch with the trophy and pictures of the king was odd but didn't really bother me at the time as we were having success.  The thing is though, by doing that, they absolutely have to be accountable when things go wrong like they are. Now it really bothers me as it's all a bit Brendan Rodgers. All him when it goes well and everyone else when it goes wrong and nobody should be able to make any criticism. It should go both ways.

I was bothered by it a lot but you're spot on about the accountability. If he's going to bathe in all the glory, then I'd at least respect him if he was there to accept the blame.

 

What we got instead was the most petulant statement about how much criticism he's received when we got the most embarrassing relegation in Premier League history. Zero accountability, followed by absolute neglect. 

 

The fact that he managed to make so many feel sorry for him plays into all this too. No one would begrudge him selling the club if his Father's death meant he couldn't carry on. But for some to use that, and previous success as a way to enable our catastrophic decline is unbareable to watch play out. 

[Gamble92]

2 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

While we’re on the subject and I’m finally allowed to vent about it - yes, the gold on the kits too. When I think back to us winning the league, it’s probably the worst kit we’ve ever had. Whenever you see images associated with it I think; those aren’t my club’s colours.

 

People always tried to make out it was a minor thing. But it’s not. Identity is the whole point of supporting a club. There will be people who know us purely because of that season and they will associate us with that disgusting metallic gold rather than white.

 

They’ve never respected the badge. I just don’t like them and never have.

All bright yellow to replicate the Thai national team when they first arrived too. Again, massive uproar when Newcastle's away kit replicated the Saudi team. Nothing with us.

 

I admit all this is miniscule, and if you're doing well of course it matters less. But when you look back, it's always been about them. 

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

6 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

While we’re on the subject and I’m finally allowed to vent about it - yes, the gold on the kits too. When I think back to us winning the league, it’s probably the worst kit we’ve ever had. Whenever you see images associated with it I think; those aren’t my club’s colours.

 

People always tried to make out it was a minor thing. But it’s not. Identity is the whole point of supporting a club. There will be people who know us purely because of that season and they will associate us with that disgusting metallic gold rather than white.

 

They’ve never respected the badge. I just don’t like them and never have.

I understand where you're coming from but I've always been a bit confused by this criticism.

 

There was some gold on the home shirt but blue and white were hardly banished from the club's identity. I'd say the home kit was predominantly blue/white, away kit black/white, 3rd kit white/blue.

 

(If King Power wanted to rebrand us gold instead of blue/white they wouldn't have made the home kit sponsor in massive white letters! )

 

Lots to criticise King Power for but I really don't think they've 'goldwashed' the club's identity...