A Call for Change: A Footballing Reset at Leicester City Football Club

[Ricey]

I have mixed feelings about today.

March turn out was good, but as others have said, it fizzled out due to mixing with non protest fans. Earlier time and different route would have helped.

 

14th minute was hugely disappointing, especially considering how vocal people were during the Fulham match. A guy near me said “well there’s no need for that!”…turns out he thought everyone was singing “We are going down”. FFS.

 

A woman near me was absolutely buzzing with how few people joined in. I don't even see her get that excited when we score.

 

Unfortunately we have too many fans whose emotions and feelings don’t go beyond the current score, performance or result. They don’t look any deeper.

 

However, judging the protest on the impact it’s had on the media and TV coverage you can’t call it anything other than a success. The board are now under the spotlight ten times more than they were before.

 

Huge credit to @ProjectReset.

[UniFox21]

3 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

In a world where the detail doesn’t matter but it was picked up by various media sources suggest it was a success. If the TNT feed was shared by the PL world feed, then it’s definitely had an impact. 
 

I don’t think the battle is necessarily in Leicester. It’s everywhere else where reputation matters 

This is the biggest point for me. All over football twitter, sports articles etc, you can see the headlines "Leicester fan protest", pictures of the Rudkin out banners and unrest of the fans.

 

Yes the protest could've been bigger, but the unrest is no longer restricted to foxes talk and Leicester, it's now known on a much more wider scale. It's a brilliant base to build continued protest and unrest on 

[C.J]

Try the Silva chant on Friday and every game after in the 14th minute? Remind that useless C U next Tuesday Rudkin every game. Also wear the yellow away/third shirts to all the games. Now this has started it needs to carry on.

[Gamble92]

As others have said, it's about changing the narrative about how well run our club is. Even in the summer when discussing Leicester on Talksport and Sky I would hear about how well run the club is. Staggering that was still the case after a relegation. 

 

I think there lies the source of the problem. The success of the past has allowed a free pass for them to suck everything out the club. And do so with a bunch of happy clappers still thinking we are out of order for pointing it out. 

[Soar Fox]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

I'm honestly at the point of believing that the Facebook accounts and users on here that are still passively questioning why this is needed are actually planted by the club. 

 

If you're not and you can't see how your attitude allowed our last relegation then I respectfully suggest you go and take up fishing and just fish all day on a Saturday. 

We picked up a lot of new fans after the league title win so all they have ever known is KPFC. 
 

A guy I’ve worked with since 2010 was a “Liverpool fan” up until about February 2016 and then all of a sudden he’s a big Leicester supporter, Facebook profile outside the ground waving a flag. You know the sort, only the last couple of years he’s actually started going to watch matches via spare tickets from his neighbour.
 

Anyway on Friday I mentioned about the protest to him and I was greeted with “what do you lot expect, we’ve won the league & cup with these owners you’ll never get any better owners than these” and this is the kind of people we are up against. We’ll be relegated again by April and the players will get clapped off again 

[HybridFox]

Mention on MOTD

[blueharmie]

1 minute ago, Soar Fox said:

We picked up a lot of new fans after the league title win so all they have ever known is KPFC. 
 

A guy I’ve worked with since 2010 was a “Liverpool fan” up until about February 2016 and then all of a sudden he’s a big Leicester supporter, Facebook profile outside the ground waving a flag. You know the sort, only the last couple of years he’s actually started going to watch matches via spare tickets from his neighbour.
 

Anyway on Friday I mentioned about the protest to him and I was greeted with “what do you lot expect, we’ve won the league & cup with these owners you’ll never get any better owners than these” and this is the kind of people we are up against. We’ll be relegated again by April and the players will get clapped off again 

These ****ers weren't here in league 1. Or the ****ing 90s and before.

 

**** modern football and these twathead fans.

 

Games gone, it's not for me anymore, literally don't give a shit when we loose and I once loved this club.

 

 

[Gamble92]

I honestly don't even see fans who've only bothered to support us because of success as any better than the Man United/Liverpool fans who'd give me shit in school for supporting Leicester. They'll never feel what we do for the club.

 

Same as the new Thai fans. Not that they exist in anything like the numbers the club wants you to believe, or even they believe given the hilarious amount of merchandise we create for that market. 

 

I don't even know what someone like Susan Whelan thinks a fan is. 

[Soar Fox]

A couple of years lingering in the championship will dwindle all of them who jumped on the bandwagon out 

[Trev3939]

Anyone got an estimate for how many were there? 

[Pliskin]

29 minutes ago, Soar Fox said:

A couple of years lingering in the championship will dwindle all of them who jumped on the bandwagon out 

You’ve got to fight for what you’re passionate about. I guess it proves that only a handful actually give a shit about the club. The rest just follow it like a shadow, contribute nothing, and taking the free beer. 
 

It’s like Animal farm. 

[KFS]

US comms made some derisory comments about it. General perception of our fan base is that we should pipe down and enjoy 2015/16, unfortunately I think I might be starting to believe the thought crime narrative that Top and his North Korea cronies are spinning. I think it’s game over and I don’t know if I care anymore to fight it.

[dillonpanthers87]

1 hour ago, Ricey said:

A woman near me was absolutely buzzing with how few people joined in. I don't even see her get that excited when we score.

 

What planet do these people live on?

[Foxin_Mad]

3 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

What happened regards the ‘sit in’ after FT?

 

I felt this would be the best way to visually protest. 

I think a sit in would piss the club off more tbh. I always wait till everyone else has fecked off and the stewards always get abit angsty

[adam]

1 hour ago, blueharmie said:

These ****ers weren't here in league 1. Or the ****ing 90s and before.

 

**** modern football and these twathead fans.

 

Games gone, it's not for me anymore, literally don't give a shit when we loose and I once loved this club.

 

 

Some old women said careful what you wish for to me when I walked past outside the ground in the protest.

 

We have no hope with some of the kpfc fanatics

[Twitcher]

Said on the commentary today that Rudkin was responsible for bringing in all the great players that won us the league. Is that correct? I thought it was Steve Walsh; poached by Everton? Interestingly, is he still at Goodison?

[Iwebema]

1 minute ago, Twitcher said:

Said on the commentary today that Rudkin was responsible for bringing in all the great players that won us the league. Is that correct? I thought it was Steve Walsh; poached by Everton? Interestingly, is he still at Goodison?

It's not correct, it was Steve Walsh. 

 

No he got sacked by Everton for ironically spending around 150m on crap over a 2 year period. Or at least they blamed him for it. 

[orangecity23]

1 minute ago, Twitcher said:

Said on the commentary today that Rudkin was responsible for bringing in all the great players that won us the league. Is that correct? I thought it was Steve Walsh; poached by Everton? Interestingly, is he still at Goodison?

Only really Kante (complete with a release clause that meant we missed out on millions, classic bit of crap Rudkin negotiation), Fuchs, Huth, Okazaki were signed under Rudkin.

 

Mahrez, Kasper, Vardy, Morgan, Simpson, Albrighton, Drinkwater, Ulloa were all signed before Rudkin ascended the greasy pole to the top of the mountain.

[LCFCJohn]

10 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

The Facebook tears and cope is something 

There’s on particular account, I won’t say it but it’s not an individual persons name but does have a clue they are not local as refers to an Australian city.

 

Anyway, this account I see crop up on loads of posts on FB, aggressively defending the club at every turn, attacking anyone questioning them.

 

The interesting bit is they constantly use the turn ‘non believers’ against people who criticise the club.

 

I know we joke about KPFC being a cult but come on, ‘non believers’ is quite literally the sort of terminology you’d expect in a cult….

Edited 16 February by LCFCJohn

[ChrisFilter]

8 hours ago, HybridFox said:

Mention on MOTD

Not surprised. GL is very clear on the problem being Rudkin when you chat to him. 

[adam]

8 hours ago, Soar Fox said:

A couple of years lingering in the championship will dwindle all of them who jumped on the bandwagon out 

This will only dwindle the wrong type of fan out. The result is not important to the KPFC fan boys.  They will still be backing the lads.

[LCFCJohn]

1 minute ago, adam said:

This will only dwindle the wrong type of fan out. The result is not important to the KPFC fan boys.  They will still be backing the lads.

You think? I’d have thought once it is clear we are not coming back up and stagnate, they will surely get bored watching the likes of Cardiff and Preston all the time. 
 

The risk for me is, those types drift away and those who would normally stick through thick and thin will have been driven away by the running of the club, not the mere fact we have gone down. Which could lead to lower crowds than we even had last time we were outside the top flight for a sustained period of time.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

10 minutes ago, adam said:

This will only dwindle the wrong type of fan out. The result is not important to the KPFC fan boys.  They will still be backing the lads.

Silently, until the 80th minute when they can leave ready to get home for another night of KPFC propaganda on Facebook.

[purpleronnie]

34 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

You think? I’d have thought once it is clear we are not coming back up and stagnate, they will surely get bored watching the likes of Cardiff and Preston all the time. 
 

The risk for me is, those types drift away and those who would normally stick through thick and thin will have been driven away by the running of the club, not the mere fact we have gone down. Which could lead to lower crowds than we even had last time we were outside the top flight for a sustained period of time.

well last time 2005-2014 we still averaged around 23,000 including falling to the third tier, pretty good crowds IMO.  I very much doubt we'd go lower than that.

 

But I wouldnt care as long as tickets were reasonably priced, the glory hunters fecked off, and there was a return to a half decent atmosphere, and fans felt connected to the club.

[Nickaj]

Man sitting next to me in the East Stand - also a season ticket holder - turned to me on 14 minutes and said " what on earth are they protesting about?" !!