Unpopular LCFC Opinions

[Libertine]

The second was in a way more embarrassing due to it happening two years in a row, but we had a lot of key injuries that year especially towards the end of the season so I could forgive it more. Was just frustrating as all other results went our way on the last day. The previous collapse especially Bournemouth was pathetic.

[bovril]

Fun thread

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

Their bloody goalie scored a winner for them.

 

Never forgiven him  

96th minute. Day after our cup win. 

[bovril]

I'm always surprised how fondly 03/04 is remembered on this forum. I think of it as a total nightmare of a season that set us back for years. Should've finished midtable and Adams, as nice a guy as he is, bore a lot of responsibility for our subsequent decade of decline. 

Edited 7 February by bovril

[brownfox]

We should have got Drinkwater back on a free a year or two ago. We would have saved the money on Skipp!

[Finnegan]

50 minutes ago, bovril said:

I'm always surprised how fondly 03/04 is remembered on this forum. I think of it as a total nightmare of a season that set us back for years. Should've finished midtable and Adams, as nice a guy as he is, bore a lot of responsibility for our subsequent decade of decline. 

 

Yeah but a named Lillian made a Leeds fan have a meltdown live on national television. 

 

[Chris_OGrady]

If we got into the champions league, the fall eventually would have been even harder after wasting more money on crap and wage increases.

Edited 7 February by Chris_OGrady

[Fox92]

45 minutes ago, bovril said:

I'm always surprised how fondly 03/04 is remembered on this forum. I think of it as a total nightmare of a season that set us back for years. Should've finished midtable and Adams, as nice a guy as he is, bore a lot of responsibility for our subsequent decade of decline. 

Fond for me because I was young but my first season as a STH in the PL. Once we got relegated to League 1 I thought I'd never see us in the PL again.

 

But maybe it's because we had no money back then? Although some of the money we did spend was terrible, aside from Thatcher who was decent. Also some terrible free transfers including Brooker (did he ever play!?), Hignett (equaliser against Arsenal aside!), Curtis and Howey. I like Scimeca, Ferdinand and Coyne who were all free though.

 

6 or 7 points off staying up in the end. Realistically the results against Middlesbrough and Wolves were huge considering the winning position we were in. How many leads did we throw away!? The comeback at Elland Road was nearly a masterclass and our two goals that game are among my favourite of all time, especially Izzet's. 

 

End of that summer was awful we lost both my favourite players in Dickov and Izzet.

[eddylcfc]

Without injuries Matty James would have played for England.

[bovril]

Just now, Fox92 said:

Fond for me because I was young but my first season as a STH in the PL. Once we got relegated to League 1 I thought I'd never see us in the PL again.

 

But maybe it's because we had no money back then? Although some of the money we did spend was terrible, aside from Thatcher who was decent. Also some terrible free transfers including Brooker (did he ever play!?), Hignett (equaliser against Arsenal aside!), Curtis and Howey. I like Scimeca, Ferdinand and Coyne who were all free though.

 

6 or 7 points off staying up in the end. Realistically the results against Middlesbrough and Wolves were huge considering the winning position we were in. How many leads did we throw away!? The comeback at Elland Road was nearly a masterclass and our two goals that game are among my favourite of all time, especially Izzet's. 

 

End of that summer was awful we lost both my favourite players in Dickov and Izzet.

We could and should easily have stayed up. Dickov's penalty against Man City would've been a 3 point swing in our favour, combined with Boro, that would be nearly enough. 

 

Some of the moments from that season - Wolves, Boro, La Manga - are amongst the most traumatic I've experienced supporting Leicester. Still can't watch those two games. 

[Guest Basildon Fox]

17 hours ago, Nalis said:

The championship isn't more enjoyable than the premier league.

 

What people really mean but dont realise is that it's more enjoyable to be good in the championship than shit in the premier league.

 

Good in the premier league > good in the championship

Bad in the premier league > bad in the championship

Disagree.  Cheaper tickets, more readily available. No VAR. Teams that actually have a chance of beating each other.  Nearly always something to play for with the paly off places, usually up to 13th-14th still have a chance with 10 games to go to challenge for promotion. What is not to like more than the Prem?

 

The Prem is an overhyped WWE style entertainment where it is diddled that only certain teams can really win it.  We are the anomoly of the last 30 years!  

[fazzyfox]

9 minutes ago, Chris_OGrady said:

If we got into the champions league, the fall would have eventually been even harder after wasting more money on crap and wage increases.

A good point. You need  a bigger squad to cope and they give you a bit of money that can go towards that but players won't sign a 1 year deal and there's no guarantee you'll have CL football for every year of their contract (extremely unlikely in our case). Then you have the agents who smell blood and come out offering ways of us parting with our new found relative wealth. In the old set up you could be out after 6 games, that's just six games, 3 opportunities for corporate stuff at the home matches, sponsorships, gate receipts etc  yet you sign players on 3 or 4 year deals to help you cope with "that". That's why the likes of Spurs, Chelsea and Man Utd who are on the fringes of qualifying want it guaranteed year in year out with the super league etc. They aren't the ones who deserve sympathy, the likes of Villa and (cough) Forest who might make it one year but not the next have big decisions to make, all whilst staying within the domestic FFP.

[Jobyfox]

22 minutes ago, eddylcfc said:

Without injuries Matty James would have played for England.

Oh FFS!!

[Nick]

24 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Yeah but a named Lillian made a Leeds fan have a meltdown live on national television. 

 

Was that the "You're crying in to your Hovis" commentary?

[DezFox]

Roy Essandoh would walk into this side. 

[bovril]

17 hours ago, Nalis said:

The championship isn't more enjoyable than the premier league.

 

What people really mean but dont realise is that it's more enjoyable to be good in the championship than shit in the premier league.

 

Good in the premier league > good in the championship

Bad in the premier league > bad in the championship

I think being bad in the Champ is better than being bad in the Prem, for reasons outlined by Basildon above.

 

I don't think there's anything much worse than being bad in the Prem. I know a few people are indifferent about tonight's game but I'd much rather watch the FA Cup at the moment than us in the Premier League. It is totally joyless. 

[Craig]

Ayoze Perez was a very good player and him playing tucked in off the right was one of the main reasons we were such a good side. He was exceptionally good with the ball in tight spaces. 

[Jobyfox]

5 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think being bad in the Champ is better than being bad in the Prem, for reasons outlined by Basildon above.

 

I don't think there's anything much worse than being bad in the Prem. I know a few people are indifferent about tonight's game but I'd much rather watch the FA Cup at the moment than us in the Premier League. It is totally joyless. 

Nah!

 

I’d rather get rogered by Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal than routinely bent over by Millwall, Preston NE and Stoke.

 

What Basildon is describing sounds more like being mediocre in the Championship and still having a chance to make play offs. That’s what most teams are, but being bad is terribile place to be 

[Finnegan]

12 minutes ago, Nick said:

Was that the "You're crying in to your Hovis" commentary?

 

Yeah, Sky Sports FanZone. 

 

[VLC86]

There is actually more than 1 Pussy Man Dan.

 

Its not physically possible to have bumped into 1 person in so many random places for there to only 1 person.

[bovril]

12 minutes ago, Jobyfox said:

Nah!

 

I’d rather get rogered by Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal than routinely bent over by Millwall, Preston NE and Stoke.

 

Disagree. At least when you're getting beaten in the Champ nobody outside of those two clubs really cares. And you know that those clubs' fortunes can change the next season.

 

Non 'big 6' clubs in the Premier League are basically seen by the media and the Premier League's global fanbase as cannon fodder to be dealt with by the big boys every six months. We exist merely as dartboards for superstars like Salah, Haaland, etc.

 

Give me a 1-2 reverse at Stoke over that any day. But each to their own of course.

Edited 7 February by bovril

[Fox92]

39 minutes ago, Craig said:

Ayoze Perez was a very good player and him playing tucked in off the right was one of the main reasons we were such a good side. He was exceptionally good with the ball in tight spaces. 

His footwork was brilliant and I always thought his link up play with Ricardo was key for us. Ricardo was so good with Perez in front of him.

[Fox92]

59 minutes ago, Basildon Fox said:

Disagree.  Cheaper tickets, more readily available. No VAR. Teams that actually have a chance of beating each other.  Nearly always something to play for with the paly off places, usually up to 13th-14th still have a chance with 10 games to go to challenge for promotion. What is not to like more than the Prem?

 

The Prem is an overhyped WWE style entertainment where it is diddled that only certain teams can really win it.  We are the anomoly of the last 30 years!  

At least the PL has a cap on away tickets. Coventry and QPR wanted £35+ off of us last season and Middlesbrough £31. There's issues with home ticket prices at Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds. We charged away fans £30+ and no doubt we'd charge our home games a lot just for a second tier game too.

 

Not sure about teams having a chance to beat each other too. Leeds won 7-0 at the weekend. They put 3 past Sheffield Wednesday not so long back and Wednesday are a team trying to get into the play offs. They've lost 3 games all season and Burnley have lost 2. The bottom half of the Championship is awful, granted some of those teams have very little budget. 

 

If you're in the play offs, pushing for the play offs or top 2 then it's fun but any lower than 10th and it is boring just like any division is if you're not very good.

[Jabbaranks]

I've always held the view that I don't truly believe that we, as an entire fanbase, dream of a team of Barry Hayles

[Levi Port]

8 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

Leicester fans didn’t have a special relationship with Vichai.

 

The tragic circumstances of his death triggered grief buried within people for people they actually knew and it took on a Princess Diana esque spectacle where it was, quite frankly, ridiculous to see people crying in public over someone they never knew.

 

Leicester fans couldn’t recognise his voice, tell you his birthday (despite the free doughnuts) or anything else significant about him as a man. He was as private and shady as a man gifted a monopoly by the king of Thailand should be.

 

The co-ordinated grief and brain-washy type slogans like ‘Always In Our Hearts’ and ‘The Boss’ pushed by the club are superb examples of how you can manipulate the majority of people into thinking a certain way. This is now actually harming the club as accountability for the current owner is lacking due to association with the former

one.

 

 

Nah not having that at all