When do the fans in the stadium turn?

[ParkerPen]

5 hours ago, adejo92 said:

If ever you want to see the kind of people that clap the team off defeat after defeat, just go onto Facebook. 

 

90% of this forum are on the same page and know we're fvcked.

 

Facebooks like lala land.

 

"You must be new".... " but we won the league "..... " but it was worse 104 years ago "

 

Everything that's wrong with our support is pretty much encapsulated in any one Facebook thread.

I dont disagree, and without wishing to get too deep, you could replace the word support with society

[OnlyOneCity]

1 hour ago, Royston. said:

I stopped giving them my money in 2008.

 

Granted I missed out on the best years ever but who's laughing now...

Proud of that fact are you? I wouldn’t have missed the Pearson and Ranieri years and the Cup win for anything. I certainly wouldn’t be thinking how great I was that I’d missed it if I was a true supporter. It’s bad now but we just keep hoping against hope that we’ll get a win soon.

[Super_horns]

The fans probably don’t do much in grounds as they quickly get told to sit down and shut up by another fan or steward .

[Wymsey]

38 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

I don’t know, maybe ring him?

He has probably blocked everyone on his mobile, apart from his family and employer..

[SecretPro]

26 minutes ago, OnlyOneCity said:

Proud of that fact are you? I wouldn’t have missed the Pearson and Ranieri years and the Cup win for anything. I certainly wouldn’t be thinking how great I was that I’d missed it if I was a true supporter. It’s bad now but we just keep hoping against hope that we’ll get a win soon.

I think it was tongue in cheek mate. 

[Dan]

I do wonder how many of those Facebook weirdo types we 'really' have. I do think the ground has a very large % that wouldn't really go talking LCFC on Facebook and what I mean is what someone else said on here the other day in that there's loads of casuals who aren't really that bothered by what's going on. The Facebook lot are part of a brainwashed cult for the most part. I think a large part of the ground just follows it all pretty casually and that's why it's pretty tame.

 

Play football on Thursdays and go to the pub afterwards, few of our fans in there and they're all remorselessly negative at the minute themselves, and lots of comments about the board etc.. I do think breaking point is nearer than people think even if we're not quite there yet.

[MattFox]

18 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

I do wonder how many of those Facebook weirdo types we 'really' have. I do think the ground has a very large % that wouldn't really go talking LCFC on Facebook and what I mean is what someone else said on here the other day in that there's loads of casuals who aren't really that bothered by what's going on. The Facebook lot are part of a brainwashed cult for the most part. I think a large part of the ground just follows it all pretty casually and that's why it's pretty tame.

 

Play football on Thursdays and go to the pub afterwards, few of our fans in there and they're all remorselessly negative at the minute themselves, and lots of comments about the board etc.. I do think breaking point is nearer than people think even if we're not quite there yet.

Work in an office with a large % of LCFC fans and we’re definitely near breaking point.

 

These aren’t your super engaged fans either

 

Even the office LCFC Karen ( who proudly leaves 5 min early every home game ) thinks “Top isn’t his Dad”

 

 

Edited 17 January by MattFox

[Freeman's Wharfer]

The problem with KPFC fans is that they constantly kick the can down the road and then move the goal posts.

 

It’ll be all “now’s not the right time” because of a relegation battle and needing to “get behind the lads”, an anniversary of a tragedy making scrutiny supposedly inappropriate, an external mitigating factor being used (like Covid or PSR or something else)…

 

Then you get to the summer after things have predictably gone to pot and it’s “it’s done now, we have to be positive and look forward - this negativity won’t help us bounce back” or it’s “let’s wait and see how the season starts” or it’s “Trust in Top to learn the lesson and sort this”.

 

Then the problems with how the club is run persist into the new season and it’s “you won’t be saying that if we have a good transfer window, give him time”. Then when we rush to do some poor overly priced business it’s “see, what were you all moaning about?”.

 

Then those players turn out to be duds and the cost of rushing to get them on poor deals impacts our next window where we’re needing to undo some damage. But it’s a new window in their mind so it’s a new dawn and there cannot possibly be a chain of events in the past that are impacting upon the present.

 

It’s actually quite nauseating telling them time and again that they’re wrong, and then being proved right by objective and reasonable measure, but having to try and meet some new threshold to try and get them to realise that they are wrong again.

 

You eventually realise that there’s a huge problem in this country with critical thinking/reasoning skills and it might be beyond some to spot the patterns.

 

 

 

 

[Dan]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Work in an office with a large % of LCFC fans and we’re definitely near breaking point.

 

These aren’t your super engaged fans either

 

Even the office LCFC Karen ( who proudly leaves 5 min early every home game ) thinks “Top isn’t his Dad”

I've probably posted the same thing about 100 times about how our fanbase is bought and hopeless but this sort of thing is reassuring to me. It tallies up with what I'm witnessing. People are getting fed up now. I think a lot of the credit has been used up.

 

Gives you a bit of hope where there previously has been zero.

[Dan]

43 minutes ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

The problem with KPFC fans is that they constantly kick the can down the road and then move the goal posts.

 

It’ll be all “now’s not the right time” because of a relegation battle and needing to “get behind the lads”, an anniversary of a tragedy making scrutiny supposedly inappropriate, an external mitigating factor being used (like Covid or PSR or something else)…

 

Then you get to the summer after things have predictably gone to pot and it’s “it’s done now, we have to be positive and look forward - this negativity won’t help us bounce back” or it’s “let’s wait and see how the season starts” or it’s “Trust in Top to learn the lesson and sort this”.

 

Then the problems with how the club is run persist into the new season and it’s “you won’t be saying that if we have a good transfer window, give him time”. Then when we rush to do some poor overly priced business it’s “see, what were you all moaning about?”.

 

Then those players turn out to be duds and the cost of rushing to get them on poor deals impacts our next window where we’re needing to undo some damage. But it’s a new window in their mind so it’s a new dawn and there cannot possibly be a chain of events in the past that are impacting upon the present.

 

It’s actually quite nauseating telling them time and again that they’re wrong, and then being proved right by objective and reasonable measure, but having to try and meet some new threshold to try and get them to realise that they are wrong again.

 

You eventually realise that there’s a huge problem in this country with critical thinking/reasoning skills and it might be beyond some to spot the patterns.

You see it a bit on here but not as often as somewhere like Facebook (presumably, I can't put myself through that garbage). It's like no matter how many times it goes wrong, no matter how many times the usual suspects fvck up, it's a fresh start at every window, at every game etc... enough was enough for me a long time ago.

 

To think we actually went through that relegation and didn't get any reform at the club. Absolutely mental.

[Cropwellfox]

A stinking first half and today could be the day. 

[Iwebema]

2 relegations in 3 years is tough to spin positively even for the most hard-core believer. It's all anecdotal but I am finding there are less and less people, at the games who are arguing back with those opposed to how we are run now. With every poor season we are further removed from the glory years and at some point you run out of arguments.

 

[fazzyfox]

When Tannoy man announces  “And replacing the last thin semblance of any flair or attacking threat is a journeyman, a has been, a local luke-warm try hard and a reject…....yay!”

[Its11th heaven]

Totally counterproductive whatever your views on the reason for the current fortunes of the team. Chants like this serve only one purpose; to make the people chanting feel better.

[dayday]

I’ll be going today, but it’s a painful watch , feels like we’re back in the Pleat era but a lot less toxic 

[FoxesFan#1]

11 hours ago, Drew Peacock said:

I mentioned the ‘cult’ word in another thread. We all need to belong somewhere and find identity somehow, and to various degrees we all buy in to ‘The Cult Of KP’.

A common trait of cults is that the members worship the leaders without question and shoot down anyone who dares to criticise them. That trait is certainly present in some of our fanbase. 

Exactly this, we all live in a cult, our whole society is a cult. It just decides to tell you which cults it dislikes more without telling us we’re actually living in a cult everyday of our lives!

 

I can see both sides of the story in this thread, our fan base is ageing badly and the PL literally stinks.  It’s not enjoyable anymore so maybe a trip to League One will rid the deadwood.  

Maybe it would be the worst thing for the club to go down to those depths but maybe it won’t as we may have a club to care about again.

[SemperEadem]

King Power love-in is a cult for sure.

[frany104]

33 minutes ago, Its11th heaven said:

Totally counterproductive whatever your views on the reason for the current fortunes of the team. Chants like this serve only one purpose; to make the people chanting feel better.

Bore off. 
 

we’re chanting cause it’s obvious we’ve been mismanaged for years. If you can’t see that….. what are you looking at?

[Ricey]

37 minutes ago, Its11th heaven said:

Totally counterproductive whatever your views on the reason for the current fortunes of the team. Chants like this serve only one purpose; to make the people chanting feel better.

Entirely productive. It holds the club to account, whether they agree or not. Standards have fallen through the floor and everyone is trapped in their secure little “family” comfort zone.

 

Top will shake his head, but he’ll know in no uncertain terms that they can’t carry on like this or else the atmosphere will turn even more toxic.

 

Football clubs may think that they don’t really need the regular match going fans anymore, but success is a hell of a lot easier when everyone is happy.

[Le Renard]

The crowd didn't turn in the 22/23 season when we had a squad to finish mid-table.   The Irony is that the crowd will turn when everyone can see we're a dog sh*te team.  Perhaps that's why it might become toxic, all the hope has nearly gone for now and the near future!

I have just come to a calm(ish) acceptance that we're 90% relegated.

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Its11th heaven said:

Totally counterproductive whatever your views on the reason for the current fortunes of the team. Chants like this serve only one purpose; to make the people chanting feel better.

If only the protests of the various civil wrongs over the years had this attitude. 
 

And before anyone says you can’t compare the ills of the world to our football club, LCFC’s continued demise will affect people’s lively hoods and the city’s economy. 
 

Top’s view of the club as a status toy/tool doesn’t align with how the football club is viewed as within the city - hence one of the reasons we are here). When he’s hosting Thai politicians and celebrities, he will absolutely hate any vitriol pushed King Power’s way. Having lived in a society where free speech is debatable, the crowd rising is completely at ills with his cultural upbringing. 

Edited 18 January by CosbehFox

[Freeman's Wharfer]

1 hour ago, Its11th heaven said:

Totally counterproductive whatever your views on the reason for the current fortunes of the team. Chants like this serve only one purpose; to make the people chanting feel better.

Just to let you know, you’re part of the problem now.

[Nolucklcfc]

10 hours ago, MattFox said:

Work in an office with a large % of LCFC fans and we’re definitely near breaking point.

 

These aren’t your super engaged fans either

 

Even the office LCFC Karen ( who proudly leaves 5 min early every home game ) thinks “Top isn’t his Dad”

 

 

Exactly the same situation at my place. It’s changing, just slower than it needs to be. 

[Lako42]

The loudest moment in any game at the KP is when a player makes any mistake, you hear the whole crowd. 

 

Contrast that to when they do something decent and barely a polite applause. 

 

 

Not really sure what I'm saying but really the lack of quality on the pitch isn't the players fault because we've assembled a team that isn't good enough. 

 

Support the players but absolutely go after those responsible for people like Skip, Soumare, Justin, Faes etc etc being on the pitch. 

 

It's the suits and they deserve everything they get. 

[demon_dog]

Decided after 52 years supporting city that I've seen enough. I have decided that if we get relegated, which is highly likely, that I will no longer purchase a season ticket.

I feel that having been there through thick and thin (yes I still went when we were down in the third tier) and having seen us win the Premier League, the FA Cup (I was one of the fortunate ones to be at Wembley that day), Champions League football, all the trophies we have accumulated over the years. I have decided that enough is enough.

If the hierarchy don't seem to care then why should I. 

I suppose in a way I am lucky being a season ticket holder especially when I look at the cost of match tickets, I think that as supporters we are being taken for a ride.

The high cost of food and drink in the stadium, the exorbitant cost of goods in the club shop all shows how much top class football stinks these days.

The high wages they are paying second rate footballers!!

Your welcome to it!