Living in the Past and The Impact on Today

[Fox92]

You seen how many still stand and clap that montage before each home game. It's been 9 years and still goes on.

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

You seen how many still stand and clap that montage before each home game. It's been 9 years and still goes on.

Are we meant to just sit there in the stand and watch it instead? 

[em9999]

That terrible poem they play , I hate it and who us he by the way ??  I find it really cringe 😬 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

I think a more important, but linked, conversation is how winning the league has altered our identity, culture and expectations. It’s not spoken about enough. Who are we now? What do we expect?
 

I think we expect more now, but I don’t think this is over the top. As a minimum we should have been able to use our recent success to stabilise as a MINIMUM mid table PL club never in danger of going down, and occasionally finishing in European places. The travesty is that we have not - and it’s all gone south so so quickly.

 

If there are any out there who think the current regime are exempt from criticism because of recent success, I’d love to meet you and get inside your mind. Surely they don’t exist? How can you mismanage to this extent in such a short time frame and still not be critical? But then again I saw quite a number of supporters clapping the players off when we beat West Ham but went down. I honestly could not believe what I was seeing.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

25 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

You seen how many still stand and clap that montage before each home game. It's been 9 years and still goes on.

We criticised Forest for banging on about the league title and European cups etc. I think it is holding us back like a big weight around our shoulders. It’s almost saying “look what we did and you will never get anywhere close to it” but to our own players. 

[Ian Nacho]

Saw a post on here the other week that stuck with me. If the day Vichai died the ownership of the club transferred to Organisation A, we would put the FA Cup win as a by product of the previous KP regime and the demise on Organisation A. If Top was no way connected to Vichai he would be getting absolute pelters.

[Fox92]

32 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Are we meant to just sit there in the stand and watch it instead? 

Yeah. Amount of away games I go to where the home team will play video of success, whether it be Forest, Leeds, etc, yet their fans don’t need to applaud it.

[StanSP]

34 minutes ago, em9999 said:

That terrible poem they play , I hate it and who us he by the way ??  I find it really cringe 😬 

Serge from Kasabian. 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Fox92 said:

Yeah. Amount of away games I go to where the home team will play video of success, whether it be Forest, Leeds, etc, yet their fans don’t need to applaud it.

Interesting. 

 

I think it's important to give a nod to our history (there's loads of memorable moments played out) but perhaps they could be incorporated more around the ground as opposed to a montage. 

[ronnup]

48 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

You seen how many still stand and clap that montage before each home game. It's been 9 years and still goes on.

Slightly different this one though I think...its arguably  greatest story in team sports history?

[cropstonfox]

7 minutes ago, ronnup said:

Slightly different this one though I think...its arguably  greatest story in team sports history?

After watching 40 + years of mediocrity. 

I take great pleasure in acknowledging the recent years of success against all odds.

Perhaps we are drifting back to the mediocre days,but let's celebrate FFs'

We will only come round this way once!!

 

[Bert]

So how long after winning things are you not allowed to enjoy that now? 

[MS0204]

It’s been mentioned before about the montage and it makes the match day incredibly de ja vu, the same montage is played continuously at the same time, same sh1t music when the players train at deafening decibels, poem. Totally agree it’s getting so samey samey. They should think about making some other reels, highlights of the previous game, altering the montage so it’s different every game etc. I doubt it even takes that long. I’ve always arrived quite early but won’t be too fussed soon if I arrive 10 minutes before.. 

[honeybradger]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

Saw a post on here the other week that stuck with me. If the day Vichai died the ownership of the club transferred to Organisation A, we would put the FA Cup win as a by product of the previous KP regime and the demise on Organisation A. If Top was no way connected to Vichai he would be getting absolute pelters.

If Vichai was still alive we would have seen a similar decline. We were still:

1. Giving ridiculous contracts to mediocre players.

2. Overpaying on transfer fees, ie. Ghezzal, Ward were signed under Vichai.

3. Cocking up transfer windows ie. The window after the title win, failing to register Adrien Silva.

4. Getting rid of key staff members brought in under Pearson ie. Sports psychologist

 

I feel sorry for Top because our decline is blamed solely on him but it was actually longstanding issues that we had before his Dad's passing that have caused the mess we are in now. They just came home to roost soon after he took over.

 

Would Vichai have gotten rid of Rudkin by now? Probably. Was he as great an owner as he was made out to be? No, we had our success under KingPower but the underlying mismanagement always meant that it was unsustainable.

Edited 5 January by honeybradger

[filbertway]

It seems pretty sad to showing a montage of previous success on a fortnightly basis, never mind people clapping it.

 

I hope I've misunderstood what people are saying here

 

 

[ajthefox]

10 hours ago, MattFox said:

Is there another club in English Football that lives in the past as much as us at present and on top of that lets it distort everything that goes on today?

 

Its like a weird hold on a section of the fanbase

 

- Can’t Criticise the Owners because they won us the league 

 

-Can’t criticise Vardy (Not that he deserves much) because he won the league

 

-Can’t criticise Rudkin because he was employed by the club when we won the league

 

- Can’t criticise the players when we get relegated and applaud them off because we won the league in 2016

 

- Can’t criticise the fact the ground is a complete tip with awful facilities because KP won us the league 

 

Could go on and on, it’s like wining the league 9 years ago has given the club some weird immunity from criticism 

 

 

This board is literally full of people criticising everything you've written about. 

 

This post is like that massive twat who bought twitter and cries about free speech being eradicated.

[Claudio Fannieri]

I am so disillusioned by the club but at the same I love the montage and always clap the lifting of both trophies as these were things I never dreamed of seeing in my lifetime, and given they were such amazing achievements they should never be forgotten but at the same time that shouldn’t also mean certain individuals are beyond scrutiny or given a free pass for more recent failings. 

[em9999]

2 hours ago, StanSP said:

Serge from Kasabian. 

That explains it can't stand em .. 

 

 

[murphy]

Sometimes I wonder if there are people that wish the title had never happened.

 

It blows my mind that in a thread bemoaning that we don't moan enough there seems to be such an appetite for moaning that we're even moaning about been shown footage of us winning the title.

 

Close thread.  OP's premise is redundant.  We are a right bunch of whiny tossers.

[splinterdream]

I quite like the montage. Not sure what you mean about a poem though, are we talking about the kasabian track? 

[iancognito]

4 hours ago, StanSP said:

Interesting. 

 

I think it's important to give a nod to our history (there's loads of memorable moments played out) but perhaps they could be incorporated more around the ground as opposed to a montage. 

Like some sort of a banner around the roofline? Good call.

 

Bring it back.

[LCFCJohn]

Different kind of living in the past.

 

The likes of Notts Forest and Leeds bore everyone with what they won back when tv was in black and white and man landed on the moon for the first time. They refuse to believe their place in the current football world.

 

We just seem the opposite that the club and fans have an inferiority complex and think we should be back in the lower reaches of the Championship or god forbid, League 1 and this exempts the club from criticism whilst it is being run into the ground.

[MS0204]

11 hours ago, splinterdream said:

I quite like the montage. Not sure what you mean about a poem though, are we talking about the kasabian track? 

No where some random bloke is on the screen talking about the past which rhymes.. 

Edited 6 January by MS0204

[Daggers]

13 hours ago, ronnup said:

Slightly different this one though I think...its arguably  greatest story in team sports history?

It’s not a patch on Cool Runnings

[Sol thewall Bamba]

14 hours ago, StanSP said:

Are we meant to just sit there in the stand and watch it instead? 

That what 99% do when the games on?