It was good while it lasted...

[The boy Linacre]

Its just been an ongoing catalogue of errors post the FA Cup win.

Letting Brendan spit the dummy when he didn't get the players he wanted, sleepwalking into relegation when we shouldn't have gone down.

In the meantime playing Russion roulette with crap signings, big contracts, lack of quality and PSR.

Bouncing back last year but probably cheating our way to it.

Having the beggars bowl out for Cooper, we'll never know who was responsible for the worst transfer window for a long time with a Skipp we didn't need, BDCR with no real quality, and Edouard who might never play and cost  a shedload, so putting us at this January's last chance saloon. Their stupidity meant that we had no chance of getting anyone in after they sat through Saturday and saw how truly shocking we currently are, and are not a side capable of playing and winning at this level, and still do Nothing.  They could have still given us a chance and CHOSE NOT to.

Totally disengaged now and apathetic and can't be arsed with the championship, IDIOTS.

[Clogger_]

12 minutes ago, The boy Linacre said:

Its just been an ongoing catalogue of errors post the FA Cup win.

Letting Brendan spit the dummy when he didn't get the players he wanted, sleepwalking into relegation when we shouldn't have gone down.

In the meantime playing Russion roulette with crap signings, big contracts, lack of quality and PSR.

Bouncing back last year but probably cheating our way to it.

Having the beggars bowl out for Cooper, we'll never know who was responsible for the worst transfer window for a long time with a Skipp we didn't need, BDCR with no real quality, and Edouard who might never play and cost  a shedload, so putting us at this January's last chance saloon. Their stupidity meant that we had no chance of getting anyone in after they sat through Saturday and saw how truly shocking we currently are, and are not a side capable of playing and winning at this level, and still do Nothing.  They could have still given us a chance and CHOSE NOT to.

Totally disengaged now and apathetic and can't be arsed with the championship, IDIOTS.

Not sure I should put this out there in case I get pelters...

 

Rot set in way before we won the FA Cup. Probably when we let Rodgers/Congerton take charge of recruitment. Rudkin was a pathetic enabler. The FA Cup masked this.

 

If I'm honest we made it through to the final with an unusually straightforward draw, and we s**thoused the final. Great goals though, and a fantastic moment, but by that time performance on and off the pitch had already nosedived

[murphy]

I get the doom and gloom, the transfer inactivity is just showing that the club has given up on survival which is unforgivable, but why is everyone predicting that we won't come back up?  LCFC will always be a big fish in The Championship pond.  We may be hopeless in the Premier League but we just smashed an in form Championship club 6-2 in the cup.   Build from the academy get rid of the passengers and get title number nine next year.

 

...well maybe play offs.

[Philkeavo]

LCFC you’ve given me, under the ownership of King Power’s Khun Vichai, some of the most joyous and exhilarating moments of my life. For that, I will be eternally grateful. Thank you.

 

LCFC, under the ownership of Khun Aiyawatt, have presided over a decline so rapid yet completely avoidable. For that Top, you have my raging contempt.

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

18 minutes ago, Philkeavo said:

LCFC you’ve given me, under the ownership of King Power’s Khun Vichai, some of the most joyous and exhilarating moments of my life. For that, I will be eternally grateful. Thank you.

 

LCFC, under the ownership of Khun Aiyawatt, have presided over a decline so rapid yet completely avoidable. For that Top, you have my raging contempt.

 

If you look carefully, if you look hard enough, I swear you can see a tear running down the cheek on Vichai's statue.

Edited 3 February by Free Falling Foxes

[Daggers]

42 minutes ago, The boy Linacre said:

Its just been an ongoing catalogue of errors post the FA Cup win.

 

Erm, it may have predated this a bit

[Daggers]

20 minutes ago, murphy said:

I get the doom and gloom, the transfer inactivity is just showing that the club has given up on survival which is unforgivable, but why is everyone predicting that we won't come back up?  LCFC will always be a big fish in The Championship pond.  

Wow.

[cruzFOX]

FFS wish Ruud will play the kids! Atleast they will inject some passion, fight and excitement. They will give it their all. Then maybe just this lot will get off their Mardy backsides and start playing for the badge
 

[MattFox]

Bottling top 4 in 2020 has basically killed the club long term

[Tom12345]

I guess if you asked me 10 years ago if I would prefer to be CHAMPIONS one season in exchange for 10 years of downward spiral, I would have taken it.

 

The memory shall be treasured forever.

[Tom12345]

2 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Bottling top 4 in 2020 has basically killed the club long term

Absolutely, from prime position. It was so fixable too at the time but Rodgers was too stubborn and too risk averse.

 

The club gambled but trusted the wrong guy.

 

Another key factor was losing Fofana at the beginning of 2021/22 (?) in that pointless pre season friendly. I thought we genuinely looked like a champion contender with Fofana and the players we had. After he was injured, we panicked bought Vesty (but then never used) and later Faes (leaking goals) and Souttar (never used), wasted millions and we started to leak goals left right and center.  We still have those three players on our books.

[Tom12345]

Just now, Tom12345 said:

Absolutely, from prime position. It was so fixable too at the time but Rodgers was too stubborn and too risk averse.

 

The club gambled but trusted the wrong guy.

 

Another key factor was losing Fofana at the beginning of 2021/22 (?) in that pointless pre season friendly. I thought we genuinely looked like a champion contender with Fofana and the players we had. After he was injured, we panicked bought Vesty (but then never used) and later Faes (leaking goals) and Souttar (never used), wasted millions and we started to leak goals left right and center.  We still have those three players on our books.

So essentially poor decisions from 2021-22 costed us.

[Cat Burger]

Some horrendous takes in this thread.

 

Leicester is not a small city. It ranks 11th in the UK by population and 10th by Urban Area.
It's the biggest in the East Midlands, and Nottingham can only compete by pulling in towns from Derbyshire to pad out its statistics.

 

We are not only a one club city, but a one club county. Leicestershire is estimated to hold about 1.1 million people.

 

Football is one of the biggest industries in the country. The PL is one of the UK's biggest exports in the world. Why should we be happy with a failing football club? Because we have been a yo-yo club in the past?

 

I know football can be unpredictable and there are no guarantees, but think bigger.

[Loughborough Rob]

Over time it's easy to forget the utter dross of the late 80's or the shambles of administration through to league 1, good god I remember the Mclintock season too but I don't remember those sides, crap as they were being such a limp, shallow bunch as this shower and that's what gets me so angry.

 

Really wish Vards would retire tomorrow, he  doesn't deserve to me associated with this after all he's done for us. There's one or two others who, though they might not be playing well, do at least seem to be trying and showing a bit of Pride. This might be controversial but James Justin is one of those alongside any goalie not called Ward.

 

If we go down we go down, so what, nothing I haven't seen many many times but for God's sake go down fighting, that's always been enough for me do deal with the bad times. This lot don't have the fight in them, so pick the kids if we have to and if they lose they lose, I can deal with that. At least stop the frauds getting appearance fees if that's still a thing

[SkidsFox]

I think I'm in acceptance mode now. Yes the high spots were good while it lasted, and it was a great feeling beating big clubs like Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea. All memories now and we have to adapt to a different level. 

[Royston.]

if you'd have offered me the premier league, champions league quarter final and fa cup, community shield and european football in exchange for this mess several years later I'd have taken it.

[rugbyblue]

Ive read these threads from afar lately, rather than commenting before now

 

It was good whilst it lasted.  The impression i get, although chip in if you disagree, is that it is largely the younger elements of fans on here that are angry and feel we should be challenging for honours.  Lets say these fans are 25/26 now, if they started going at say 13 in 2012 they would have seen the most successful period in our history- winning the championship, great escape, winning the prem, champions league , established top half team, brink of top 4 twice, fa cup.  For them it is the norm and they are angry it has gone to sh*t.  For the older fans, at least my mates ive been going with since 1990,  we saw it for what it was, a glorious period in which we over achieved massively due to excellent management, recruitment and a bit of luck.  It was fantastic but not a true indication of our status in football which essentially has always been a yo-yo club.  

 

People point at Brighton , brentford, forest this year, villa getting champions league football.  Their success is temporary and will be for any number of clubs that have short periods of success.  Its great at the time but unless you have unlimited funds like man city, Liverpool, chelsea, arsenal it just isnt sustainable over a long period of time.

 

Im no happy clapper, i let the players have it if there is a lack of effort or they fall short.  Same with the board and whilst i agree it is time for KP to **** off, for me it isnt so much about the fact we aren't a top prem side any more, it is more about the lack of care for what supporters want...expanded singing section, standing, reasonable ticket prices, general sale etc .  

 

Whilst sport is about ambition and trying to go as far as you can, my best most enjoyable days as a fan were largely in the lower divisions.  Winning the championship was fun.  Playoffs were exciting, visiting grotty Northern towns was an adventure.  The premier league shows the worst of football and the greed that goes with it.  It isnt the end of the world if we aren't part of it.

[Gamble92]

21 hours ago, Clogger_ said:

Not sure I should put this out there in case I get pelters...

 

Rot set in way before we won the FA Cup. Probably when we let Rodgers/Congerton take charge of recruitment. Rudkin was a pathetic enabler. The FA Cup masked this.

 

If I'm honest we made it through to the final with an unusually straightforward draw, and we s**thoused the final. Great goals though, and a fantastic moment, but by that time performance on and off the pitch had already nosedived

Agree with your assessment about about where it nosedived but the cup win was great. It's hard to find any tactical masterclass from our win, but we shouldn't take anything away from it. There's been a lot easier draws. 

[Daggers]

It's given me a great idea for a TV show.

 

Every week the board gets given tasks - like signing a player or selling a new type of pie or running around the city in a taxi trying to collect as much hope and positivity they can in five hours.

 

Any similarity to any other pre-existing TV show is purely coincidental.

 

Edited 4 February by Daggers

[Dan]

39 minutes ago, rugbyblue said:

Ive read these threads from afar lately, rather than commenting before now

 

It was good whilst it lasted.  The impression i get, although chip in if you disagree, is that it is largely the younger elements of fans on here that are angry and feel we should be challenging for honours.  Lets say these fans are 25/26 now, if they started going at say 13 in 2012 they would have seen the most successful period in our history- winning the championship, great escape, winning the prem, champions league , established top half team, brink of top 4 twice, fa cup.  For them it is the norm and they are angry it has gone to sh*t.  For the older fans, at least my mates ive been going with since 1990,  we saw it for what it was, a glorious period in which we over achieved massively due to excellent management, recruitment and a bit of luck.  It was fantastic but not a true indication of our status in football which essentially has always been a yo-yo club.  

 

People point at Brighton , brentford, forest this year, villa getting champions league football.  Their success is temporary and will be for any number of clubs that have short periods of success.  Its great at the time but unless you have unlimited funds like man city, Liverpool, chelsea, arsenal it just isnt sustainable over a long period of time.

 

Im no happy clapper, i let the players have it if there is a lack of effort or they fall short.  Same with the board and whilst i agree it is time for KP to **** off, for me it isnt so much about the fact we aren't a top prem side any more, it is more about the lack of care for what supporters want...expanded singing section, standing, reasonable ticket prices, general sale etc .  

 

Whilst sport is about ambition and trying to go as far as you can, my best most enjoyable days as a fan were largely in the lower divisions.  Winning the championship was fun.  Playoffs were exciting, visiting grotty Northern towns was an adventure.  The premier league shows the worst of football and the greed that goes with it.  It isnt the end of the world if we aren't part of it.

I don't think this is entirely fair even if I kind of get your point. I've seen us be bad for probably as many years as I've seen us be good (depends what you define as both) and to me what I cannot tolerate is how we forced ourselves back into this mess when it simply didn't have to happen.

 

What's doubly galling is that we've made strides that really only the most astounding ineptitude could've meant this was allowed to play out. We haven't just become a Crystal Palace or whoever - we've fallen absolutely miles behind that sort of club, which for me is the proof that we have completely mismanaged ourselves.

 

What I will probably concede is that I do now appreciate the whole "clubs natural level" thing. It's entirely self-fulfilling, but I think our fans have very much an attitude of that we've had our fun and we're in endless debt regardless because of what we did achieve. Whereas if this happened at another club I don't think that attitude would be so prevailing.

 

We could be different but as a collective we haven't been.

[MattFox]

16 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

Agree with your assessment about about where it nosedived but the cup win was great. It's hard to find any tactical masterclass from our win, but we shouldn't take anything away from it. There's been a lot easier draws. 

Beat the Champions League winners and the league runners up in that run 

 

 

[MattFox]

We’ve been a premier league club for 18 out of 33 seasons and are firmly in the top 20 clubs of the last 40 years

 

The championship is not our “natural level”

 

 

[Thequickbrownfox]

This was the first game of the 2012/13 season. We'd take this team now - Schmeichel, De Laet, Konchesky, Morgan, Moore, Drinkwater, Marshall, Dyer, James, Beckford, Vardy. Subs - Danns, King, Nugent.

Edited 4 February by Thequickbrownfox

[Trent Steel]

Those days are.long gone pal and it feels like it too.

 

We had a great team spirit manager etc etc but after that crash is literally all gone tit's up