I Left the game today at half time

[Muz]

Bye!

My sentiments exactly.

Stop moaning and try and start to get an atmosphere going you wannabe hooligan chav boys

[Bert]

My sentiments exactly.

Stop moaning and try and start to get an atmosphere going you wannabe hooligan chav boys

Says you?!

Only joking mate! i agree with you the best way to support the lads is to get behind them!!

[anotherwin]

I personally wouldn't agee with this... I didn't barrack PT on Sat, because yes he did buy crap players put them on stupid contracts and almost ruin the club. But he didn't do it on purpose!! (I know this is hard to accept for some people!) That is what the Charman/Chief exec is for.... to stop stupid wastes of money!!! He was just bad at his job, not evil!!!

Whereas people I WILL barrack are Dennis Wise he PURPOSFULLY hit a team mate in a cowardly act and got the club into administration..

Mark McGee he PURPOSFULLY left after less than a year to go to a 'bigger' club.

John Curtis for PURPOSFULLY slagging us off when he went to Portsmouth!

Alan Shearer for PURPOSFULLY kicking Lennon in the head... and getting away with it!!!!

I WILL NOT barrack people like Akinbuyi, Benjamin, De Vries even the centre midfield genius Kisnorbo (when he was playing there) 'cause whether they were crap or not, they allways put the effort in!!

But that's just me, I appriciate effort, not just skill. So call me a crap fan if you like but all I do is SUPPORT the team, whether they are bad or good!!!!

Totally agree, incompetance rather than intent.

[Guest]

Who said that those who have ever sung the song "small town in Arsenal" believe that Arsenal is really a place? Since when have football chants ever been factually correct? I dread to think what away fans think of us when we sing that Leicester City are "by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen". That's quite clearly as true as saying Tottenham is a small town in Arsenal.

I've heard reports from Hull fans commenting on how quiet the stadium was but none saying "those idiots next to us said we're a small town in Grimsby when we're not, twats".

You haven't got a clue have you?

"Small town in Arsenal" makes you look ignorant. You might know that Arsenal isn't a place, well done, but there's plenty out there that don't.

"We're by far the greatest team", on the other hand, is either sarcastic, patronising or cheeky, depending on the opposition and the context of the game.

Besides, "small town in (insert local rivals)" is the typical formulaic chant that today's kid thinks is banter, when in fact it's easy, and it's dull. When we get "small town in Derby" sung at us, I do think "twats", but only because they haven't the wit or the imagination to come up with something original or different.

[Katy]

The thing that pisses me off the most about this board is the constant sniping between the 'L1ers' and the Kop why? we all support Leicester so whats the problem? All this 'we cant hear you all the way in L1 so you MUST be all sitting there doing nowt in the Kop' is pathetic. I cant hear L1 from F1 and obviously likewise but it doesnt mean we are any less of a fan.

I did all the faux hooligan bollox when I was 15 it was great but then I grew up! I sat in L1 last season and it was wank, when all you want to do is watch the game and not drown in a sea of fake burberry trying to wind the police and the away fans up. Fine if thats what floats your boat but if you dont want to do that then thats also fine, people shouldnt be made to feel less of a fan for it.

[Manwell Pablo]

The board of a football club has overall responsibility for all operations of the club, therefore they bear the ultimate responsibility for everything that happens at the club.

Yes but where as they (the board) made one mistake in hiring Peter Taylor ( I dont see backing him as mistake he needed money, and would want to take the club foward ) and Peter Taylor made a lot more mistakes then that I know who I blaime more.

You can not vindicate Peter Taylor by blaiming the board, "ultimately" he wanted those players and wanted them paid that amount. The board are not talent scouts and it isn't physically possible for them to do everything, otherwise... and read this very carefully because it doesn't seem to be sinking in.

THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN HAVING A MANAGER AT THE CLUB.

[werestandingup_weresittingdown]

Agree with this post 100%, the kop were pathetic in saturday, i for one shall be moving to L1 next year at least they try to make an atmosphere.

Good lad!! L1 will continue to expand IMO. Lets make some noise!!.........

Kop sitters - There is no point arguing but i think you guys and gals know as well as anyone the kop is a bit of a joke. People too spread out and too much of a mixture of boring sods/oldies/families/koppites to ever be good. The kop will never stand.

But wherever you sit/stand for christs sake, lets sing a bit louder

[Guest]

Yes but where as they (the board) made one mistake in hiring Peter Taylor ( I dont see backing him as mistake he needed money, and would want to take the club foward ) and Peter Taylor made a lot more mistakes then that I know who I blaime more.

You can not vindicate Peter Taylor by blaiming the board, "ultimately" he wanted those players and wanted them paid that amount. The board are not talent scouts and it isn't physically possible for them to do everything, otherwise... and read this very carefully because it doesn't seem to be sinking in.

THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN HAVING A MANAGER AT THE CLUB.

The manager only goes so far up in the pecking order. It's only by virtue of the fact he's the one in the spotlight that means people see a football manager as being more important than he is. He has to answer to the board. He also has to have their approval for every penny he spends. The board has every right to refuse to sanction that expenditure, and it does happen.

Take contract extensions, the manager will tell the board that he wants player X to be offered a new deal, putting forward his case and justification for doing so, but it is not just the manager who sits down with the player and his agent to discuss this. This then means that the long and expensive contracts offered to players under Taylor's regime were negotiated and agreed not just by Taylor but by the board.

[Ric Flair]

Good lad!! L1 will continue to expand IMO. Lets make some noise!!.........

Kop sitters - There is no point arguing but i think you guys and gals know as well as anyone the kop is a bit of a joke. People too spread out and too much of a mixture of boring sods/oldies/families/koppites to ever be good. The kop will never stand.

But wherever you sit/stand for christs sake, lets sing a bit louder

Although your right in the fact that in the kop there tends to be alot of people willing to sing but they are more spread out over the stand, in L1 you have 100+ who all sit/stand together who sing and then a few more that join in near by. I've sat near the corporate area once this season and was amazed at how loud and clear you could hear L1 and the kop, reason being because nobody was singing nearby me and it was equal distance away(ish) from both sections. Therefore the players will be able to hear both sections but the fans in either section (L1 and kop) won't hear each other because a) they are at either ends of the ground and b) if your in a section that's singing, that's all you will hear.

At times the kop is really good, but more often than not it isn't. Whatever happens though, L1 and the kop will rarely ever hear each other it's a fact. The way the ground has been set up focuses on the noise being projected straight on to the pitch, the ground is completely different to Filbert Street and far less compact so the noise doesn't travel as far.

[Sir Fynwy]

Yes but where as they (the board) made one mistake in hiring Peter Taylor ( I dont see backing him as mistake he needed money, and would want to take the club foward ) and Peter Taylor made a lot more mistakes then that I know who I blaime more.

You can not vindicate Peter Taylor by blaiming the board, "ultimately" he wanted those players and wanted them paid that amount. The board are not talent scouts and it isn't physically possible for them to do everything, otherwise... and read this very carefully because it doesn't seem to be sinking in.

THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN HAVING A MANAGER AT THE CLUB.

Get a life, you've been banging on about this for days now, as I said earlier in the thread i've got better things to do than worry about a crap manager who is ancient history at the club.

Do you really think that it helps the players to have 20,000 people concentrating on abusing the other manager rather than backing our boys.

The manager of a club is 1 employee, just like all the scouts, coaches, players, cleaners etc, an important employee yes but he is not the club and isn't responsible for everthing that goes on at the club, the board is responsible for everything that happens at the club the buck stops there. As I explained the board could at any time have said to PT that they didn't think AA was worth £5m but they didn't, does your boss do everything that you request, if so go and ask for a 300% pay rise.

If you want to shout at me do it to my face, suggest a venue!

[Katy]

Although your right in the fact that in the kop there tends to be alot of people willing to sing but they are more spread out over the stand, in L1 you have 100+ who all sit/stand together who sing and then a few more that join in near by. I've sat near the corporate area once this season and was amazed at how loud and clear you could hear L1 and the kop, reason being because nobody was singing nearby me and it was equal distance away(ish) from both sections. Therefore the players will be able to hear both sections but the fans in either section (L1 and kop) won't hear each other because a) they are at either ends of the ground and b) if your in a section that's singing, that's all you will hear.

At times the kop is really good, but more often than not it isn't. Whatever happens though, L1 and the kop will rarely ever hear each other it's a fact. The way the ground has been set up focuses on the noise being projected straight on to the pitch, the ground is completely different to Filbert Street and far less compact so the noise doesn't travel as far.

Ive said this time and again but it tends to fall on unlistening ears

[Ric Flair]

Get a life, you've been banging on about this for days now, as I said earlier in the thread i've got better things to do than worry about a crap manager who is ancient history at the club.

Do you really think that it helps the players to have 20,000 people concentrating on abusing the other manager rather than backing our boys.

The manager of a club is 1 employee, just like all the scouts, coaches, players, cleaners etc, an important employee yes but he is not the club and isn't responsible for everthing that goes on at the club, the board is responsible for everything that happens at the club the buck stops there. As I explained the board could at any time have said to PT that they didn't think AA was worth £5m but they didn't, does your boss do everything that you request, if so go and ask for a 300% pay rise.

If you want to shout at me do it to my face, suggest a venue!

You fail to take in to consideration that the board backed Peter Taylor all the way so he had no excuses for failing as a manager here. He was given plenty of money and bollocksed the lot. The board are to blame aswell, but the fact they backed Taylor means he had the perfect working conditions. He had money (lots of it), we were in europe, we had one of the best midfield trio's in the league and a devastating goalscorer.

The board should have wised up to him long before the damage was done but they didn't as they appointed him and trusted him, very foolish. John Elsom was foolish though, many people have noted that. If he were to come back to The Walkers and take the limelight like Taylor did then i'd expect a hostile recpetion towards him aswell. This club has been royally ****ed by the worst manager i've ever witnessed and an equally shambolic board, but as i've said before. One man had been working in football since he was a young lad (say 30+ years) the other lot had probably very little football experience before they somehow got involved in owning Leicester. That's no excuse I suppose, the board should have questioned the signings and contract extensions (the contracts probably would have been similar for any manager who came in after O'Neill as the club were desperate to keep Elliott, Lennon, Izzet, etc).

Even so, I still think Taylor's a twat. The way he refused to shoudler any of the blame when he was sacked was disgusting and it's only now he's started to admit how bad he was, hoping we'd sympathise with that fool. It doesn't wash with me, i'll never forget. Perhaps i'm sad for being like that, i'm usually not this bitter in life but Taylor ruined this club and it will never be the same again, ever.

Worse things have happened of course in life and in football, but that's irrelevant.

[Sir Fynwy]

You fail to take in to consideration that the board backed Peter Taylor all the way so he had no excuses for failing as a manager here. He was given plenty of money and bollocksed the lot. The board are to blame aswell, but the fact they backed Taylor means he had the perfect working conditions. He had money (lots of it), we were in europe, we had one of the best midfield trio's in the league and a devastating goalscorer.

The board should have wised up to him long before the damage was done but they didn't as they appointed him and trusted him, very foolish. John Elsom was foolish though, many people have noted that. If he were to come back to The Walkers and take the limelight like Taylor did then i'd expect a hostile recpetion towards him aswell. This club has been royally ****ed by the worst manager i've ever witnessed and an equally shambolic board, but as i've said before. One man had been working in football since he was a young lad (say 30+ years) the other lot had probably very little football experience before they somehow got involved in owning Leicester. That's no excuse I suppose, the board should have questioned the signings and contract extensions (the contracts probably would have been similar for any manager who came in after O'Neill as the club were desperate to keep Elliott, Lennon, Izzet, etc).

Even so, I still think Taylor's a twat. The way he refused to shoudler any of the blame when he was sacked was disgusting and it's only now he's started to admit how bad he was, hoping we'd sympathise with that fool. It doesn't wash with me, i'll never forget. Perhaps i'm sad for being like that, i'm usually not this bitter in life but Taylor ruined this club and it will never be the same again, ever.

Worse things have happened of course in life and in football, but that's irrelevant.

Get over it, it seems that the majority of our fans have, that's why the reception was so muted. We need to concentrate on the future of the club not continuously go over this terrible time in our history, you are acting just like the media which cannot see we have moved on.

[Manwell Pablo]

Get a life, you've been banging on about this for days now, as I said earlier in the thread i've got better things to do than worry about a crap manager who is ancient history at the club.

Do you really think that it helps the players to have 20,000 people concentrating on abusing the other manager rather than backing our boys.

The manager of a club is 1 employee, just like all the scouts, coaches, players, cleaners etc, an important employee yes but he is not the club and isn't responsible for everthing that goes on at the club, the board is responsible for everything that happens at the club the buck stops there. As I explained the board could at any time have said to PT that they didn't think AA was worth £5m but they didn't, does your boss do everything that you request, if so go and ask for a 300% pay rise.

If you want to shout at me do it to my face, suggest a venue!

Well you keep answering me, im not really one to not put my pov across.

any way, ^^what Ric said.

[Ric Flair]

Get over it, it seems that the majority of our fans have, that's why the reception was so muted. We need to concentrate on the future of the club not continuously go over this terrible time in our history, you are acting just like the media which cannot see we have moved on.

I'm perfectly capable of focusing on the future of this club. Just because I dislike Peter Taylor and thought he would get more stick than he did doesn't mean it distracts me in anyway. I'm not acting like anything other than myself. I will never forgive Peter Taylor, you will and many others will. It's a simple as that. It's been a pleasure.

[trueblue1]

I have been reading this topic with interest, it got me thinking why it is so different at the walkers to how it was at filbo, cant put my finger on any one point and say ,that is the raeson. But comparing how i used to spend my saturday to how i do now may have some of the answers,

A TYPICAL SATURDAY, 10/15 YEARS AGO!!

10am get into town, head straight to the standard pub with a few others from lutterworth, we would meet up with other people from other towns and villages outside leicester, you would know most peoples first name, but not much else about them, didnt matter because you were all city fans!! After a while we would move of to humberstone gate, more people joining us as we moved from pub to pub, taking in the corn exchange, nags head, and most of the time ending up at the turnstyle pub, by this time we probebly had about 300/400 people all singing,all having a good time. At about 2.00/ 2.15 we all drank up and headed for the ground, singing as we walked up the streets, and deciding where to go in the ground, no tickets in them days, most headed for sk2, next to the away fans in sk1, when we got into the ground after beeing searched from head to toe, , it was straight up on to the terracing, singing as we went, stood where we wanted, if there was a group of people singing then we would move over in their directon and join in!!

There would always be loads of balloons and people ripping up paper ready for the teams to come out, then it depended on how the game went to how noisey it got after that.

I know we cant live in the past but some of the things i have said i just do not see anymore, and the new ground as good as it is does not help ,

Example, you can go in the ground and have a drink or food and not go to your seat untill near enough kick off, or you could arrive at the ground at 2.55 and still be in your seat for kick off, if you are in a section where people dont want to sing you cant move,

I dont have the answers maybe someone else could have a think about it!!

One thing i would surgest is having unreserved seating in the kop so then people might be forced to get up there a bit earlier??

What do you think??

[Katy]

I have been reading this topic with interest, it got me thinking why it is so different at the walkers to how it was at filbo, cant put my finger on any one point and say ,that is the raeson. But comparing how i used to spend my saturday to how i do now may have some of the answers,

A TYPICAL SATURDAY, 10/15 YEARS AGO!!

10am get into town, head straight to the standard pub with a few others from lutterworth, we would meet up with other people from other towns and villages outside leicester, you would know most peoples first name, but not much else about them, didnt matter because you were all city fans!! After a while we would move of to humberstone gate, more people joining us as we moved from pub to pub, taking in the corn exchange, nags head, and most of the time ending up at the turnstyle pub, by this time we probebly had about 300/400 people all singing,all having a good time. At about 2.00/ 2.15 we all drank up and headed for the ground, singing as we walked up the streets, and deciding where to go in the ground, no tickets in them days, most headed for sk2, next to the away fans in sk1, when we got into the ground after beeing searched from head to toe, , it was straight up on to the terracing, singing as we went, stood where we wanted, if there was a group of people singing then we would move over in their directon and join in!!

There would always be loads of balloons and people ripping up paper ready for the teams to come out, then it depended on how the game went to how noisey it got after that.

I know we cant live in the past but some of the things i have said i just do not see anymore, and the new ground as good as it is does not help ,

Example, you can go in the ground and have a drink or food and not go to your seat untill near enough kick off, or you could arrive at the ground at 2.55 and still be in your seat for kick off, if you are in a section where people dont want to sing you cant move,

I dont have the answers maybe someone else could have a think about it!!

One thing i would surgest is having unreserved seating in the kop so then people might be forced to get up there a bit earlier??

What do you think??

I like this idea but I believe (and someone correct me if im wrong) there has already been some kind of vote at one of the meetings about this and it wasnt a popular idea sadly.

[Guest]

I like this idea but I believe (and someone correct me if im wrong) there has already been some kind of vote at one of the meetings about this and it wasnt a popular idea sadly.

It was the results of the questionnaire; comments received were that people didn't like reserved seating as this would mean having to be in the ground earlier, cutting into valuable drinking time. Disclaimer: ***OTHER FAN'S COMMENTS, NOT MINE***

[Katy]

It was the results of the questionnaire; comments received were that people didn't like reserved seating as this would mean having to be in the ground earlier, cutting into valuable drinking time. Disclaimer: ***OTHER FAN'S COMMENTS, NOT MINE***

I knew it was something along those lines, maybe if more people filled the questionnaires in instead of making aeroplanes out of them...................

[Guest]

I knew it was something along those lines, maybe if more people filled the questionnaires in instead of making aeroplanes out of them...................

But making paper aeroplanes is soooo constructive.

Sorry.

[Cobbo]

People were making them out of the pages from the merc and sporting blue on Saturday

Turbulance was awful, safer in a screwed up ball!

Poor holiday makers.

[Ric Flair]

People were making them out of the pages from the merc and sporting blue on Saturday

Turbulance was awful, safer in a screwed up ball!

Poor holiday makers.

I wondered why some kid next to me was looking under his seat for a life jacket, fool.