How Do We Make the King Power a Fortress Again?

[Ryanlcfc3]

It feels like not too long ago the King Power Stadium was a place teams genuinely feared. From the Great Escape season, through the title win, to those European nights – the atmosphere carried the team. But in recent years, that spark has gone missing.

Some of it is down to results, some to the disconnect between fans and the club and maybe also the type of football we’ve been playing. Opponents don’t look nervous there anymore – if anything, some see it as an easy place to pick up points.
 

So the big question: How do we rebuild the King Power as a fortress?

• Is it down to us as fans – louder support, flags, singing sections, unity?
• Is it down to the team – playing with energy and giving the crowd something to get behind?
• Or is it a club issue – ticketing, atmosphere initiatives, engagement with fans?
• Do we need a proper “12th man” culture again like Crystal Palace, Newcastle, etc.?
   

For me, it’s a mix of all three. The football under Cifuentes has to be more intense despite getting results so far but the club also needs to reconnect with supporters. At our best, the King Power can be a cauldron but right now it feels too quiet, too often.

What do you think – what’s needed to make the King Power Stadium feared again?

[ALC Fox]

Under Pearson and Ranieri we had a likeable team, manager and backroom staff.

 

Since Ranieri, I think only Maresca had that likeability (maybe Smith but his football was incredibly negative).

 

The hiring of Cifuentes, the bringing through of young players, and some of the summer signings we've made make me think we're going back in that direction. And I think it will make a difference.

 

The aloof nature of Rodgers and the blunting of Vardy's edge kind of softened the side and the crowd's attitude towards them I think, although when Vardy did produce moments of needle, the crowd was carried along with him.

 

Proper connection with the fans is paramount, likeability of staff and players next, then actual ability of the players and performance of the team will be crucial at getting those great atmospheres back.

[cruzFOX]

Give it some time. The new young players we’ve added will definately add some bite and energy and hopefully it supercharges our already exciting players like Monga and Fatawu. Maybe the rest of our slo po’s will also get carried away so let’s see. The atmosphere will come. Sure we the fans have a part to play with the singing, cheering and tifos etc. 

 

a fair introspection of us as fans is healthy!

what is our identity in the post rogers/enzo era. (I’m deliberately omitting cooper and Ruud as we never really got going with those two before it all went south)

[FoxinNotts]

Rail seats should have been installed into half of the kop and L block, whilst we had the choice.

More tifos.
More flags. 

Cheap tickets.

Pyros regularly.

Statue of Vardy and one of Banks.

A banner around the top of the stadium with freezes of silloettes of the trophies and dates won.

The old white Filbert street turnstile rebuilt as a gateway to the stadium.

[Voll Blau]

It's the fans, lads. The fans.

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, Voll Blau said:

It's the fans, lads. The fans.

Agree here. Some of the best support you'll see on the continent comes from fans watching football that would make English fans' shit itch. 

 

If quality of play led to quality of support, Premier League and La Liga stadiums would be absolute bear pits while Polish and Balkan grounds would be libraries, but it's the other way around. 

 

For the club's part here, cheaper tickets, extending the safe standing in SK1 to the bottom and actively encouraging atmosphere in that corner would be transformative.

[Corky]

Just applaud the lads.

[Kitchandro]

13 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Agree here. Some of the best support you'll see on the continent comes from fans watching football that would make English fans' shit itch. 

 

If quality of play led to quality of support, Premier League and La Liga stadiums would be absolute bear pits while Polish and Balkan grounds would be libraries, but it's the other way around. 

 

For the club's part here, cheaper tickets, extending the safe standing in SK1 to the bottom and actively encouraging atmosphere in that corner would be transformative.

This is true but it doesn’t really help.

 

Realistically we have an older, middle-class fanbase, not the working class tribalism that a lot of European or fashionable British clubs have.

 

I’d love us to have the latter, but it’s like banging your head against a brick wall. Realistically, the only thing that is likely to improve the atmosphere is the team. If it starts entertaining people and showing fight in difficult moments, the fans will get more involved.

 

The club controls how the club is marketed and perceived and that attracts the sort of fans that sit on their hands and buy the merchandise. It would take a Herculean effort to change this. 

[Leicesterpool]

Club needs to do more to get the fans in the stadium early to build the atmosphere, I noticed at Villa Park they do interesting offers like if you arrive at the stadium like 90 minutes before kick off you get 50% off all food and drinks. Imagine open the turnstiles early from 12.30pm with the big screens showing the lunch time game with pints at just £2.50.

[LiliansLeftPeg]

Turrets, cannon, drawbridge. Water from the Soar to make a moat. A few arrow loops in the family stand and L1 to keep the away fans on their toes. A Keep in the centre circle wouldn't be practical though. Planning permission probably the biggest blocker... I've not really thought this thru have I. 

[Leicesterpool]

We miss the Birches rally call pre match, of course the poor guy is not in great health and had to reduce his duties around the club. You think maybe it's time for the baton to be passed on to another former fox to address the fans pre match like Matt Eliot. 

[Chrysalis]

For start, the fans need to be loud and confident no matter whats going on the pitch, now days unless we winning, its dead.

[filthyfox]

CLAPPERS!

[Nalis]

I'm going to say what we're all thinking - a lot of our fans need to die

[MS0204]

1 minute ago, Nalis said:

I'm going to say what we're all thinking - a lot of our fans need to die

[Nalis]

7 minutes ago, MS0204 said:

Yeah was a bit of shit joke by me on the long running view the average age of our fan base is higher than most.

[Chelmofox]

Would really help is strictly can start an hour later.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Less talk online and more effort in the stadium. The inconvenient answer.

[Unabomber]

We could swap the kop with the family stand 

[l444ry]

Seemed to getting our Mojo back in the Brum game. Change the boring pre- match choreographed bullshit and stop treating fans as if they were all Marionettes or Reform supporters that can be manipulated at the club’s whim.

[whoareyaaa]

Swap the kop and the family stand

[Dr The Singh]

More Buddhist monks

[ScotFox1]

Build a moat, some turrets and have the players tunnel as a portcullis?? 

[Levi Port]

18 minutes ago, ScotFox1 said:

Build a moat, some turrets and have the players tunnel as a portcullis?? 

Could coronate Andy King whilst we’re at it 

[grobyfox1990]

People join the singing section and sing for 90 mins. It will then naturally keep growing