Fickle Fans

[Thracian]

Reasons to be cheerful:

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a) If Holloway goes surely we'll have had more managers this season than any other club in the world and might even turn up in quiz questions. Imagine that!

b) We must be a popular club because so many players have turned out for us this season.

c) Any club that can atteract 30,000+ fans for a relegation battle on a wintry Easter Saturday must be very special.

d) Although we've not scored in the last three home games that really serves to separate real fans from glory hunters and gives the former a real sense of belonging.

e) Results shouldn't matter anyway to a real fan - only being able to watch our great club's history unfold.

f) Milan Mandaric always had a three year plan anyone - not a one year plan. Struggling this season will only make us savour the success of future seasons even more.

g) Our players aren't bad. What earthly reason would our chairman and our managers have for signing bad players.

h) Better to be in a relegation battle, with all it's inevitable drama, than being involved in increasingly meaningless middle-of-the-table games.

i) We should all be delighted with the new season ticket announcements. In fact we should always be pleased when the club chooses to speak to us at all.

There you are. Easy.

It's all a matter of perspective.

Football, after all, is only a game. Apart from draws, someone has to lose and if it wasn't us then the opposition fans would be miserable and, be honest, we're fairly used to losing and can probably handle it better than most.

[StroudFox]

Reasons to be cheerful:

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a) If Holloway goes surely we'll have had more managers this season than any other club in the world and might even turn up in quiz questions. Imagine that!

b) We must be a popular club because so many players have turned out for us this season.

c) Any club that can atteract 30,000+ fans for a relegation battle on a wintry Easter Saturday must be very special.

d) Although we've not scored in the last three home games that really serves to separate real fans from glory hunters and gives the former a real sense of belonging.

e) Results shouldn't matter anyway to a real fan - only being able to watch our great club's history unfold.

f) Milan Mandaric always had a three year plan anyone - not a one year plan. Struggling this season will only make us savour the success of future seasons even more.

g) Our players aren't bad. What earthly reason would our chairman and our managers have for signing bad players.

h) Better to be in a relegation battle, with all it's inevitable drama, than being involved in increasingly meaningless middle-of-the-table games.

i) We should all be delighted with the new season ticket announcements. In fact we should always be pleased when the club chooses to speak to us at all.

There you are. Easy.

It's all a matter of perspective.

Football, after all, is only a game. Apart from draws, someone has to lose and if it wasn't us then the opposition fans would be miserable and, be honest, we're fairly used to losing and can probably handle it better than most.

You keep deluding yourself!!

[Thracian]

You keep deluding yourself!!

Dullshine doesn't think his post will have much effect but I like the sentiment. We should have a reasons to be cheerful sticky. It's getting to the stage we're going to need it.

[Sniffer-Clarke]

For what ever reason I read this boards all the time but I have never felt compelled to post a message, god knows why! And I think all this doom and gloom is probably the reason I have decided to post something....

I have been going to watch leicester for 11 years, more so in the last 5 as I lived in essex and it was always a problem going to the match. I moved to leicestershire for personal reasons and so I can be near my club! And I have been shocked and appauled by many fans over the last few seasons.

On saturday I went on my own and sat and watched another painful performance, and once again I was surrounded by complete idiots, 5 minutes in Lee hendrie misplaces a pass and all you can hear is 'rubbish', 'your a disgrace' etc. etc. this was pretty much the vibe all through the match.

Now first half against Hull I personally didnt think we played that badly against the inform team of the division, hull take the lead right at the death and you could sense the nerves spiling from the fans to the players, the half time whistle blows and 2 guys behind me start booing (they weren't the only ones) 'your a disgrace' 'what a load of rubbish' etc. I admit a bit of red mist came over me and I got a bit angry and had a massive arguement with them. Why do people pay money to sit there and moan! These 2 guys had travelled up from london to watch the game, and I said to them 'Why pay all this money to come up here, to sit there and boo and moan and critise every little aspect of a team/club that you supposedly support and love?' to which I got the reply 'Do you think us booing them has any effect? there just rubbish' If booing them doesnt have an effect, why do people go to watch football? we might as well play behind closed doors if the fans singing, chanting and booing doesnt do anything!

I have sat in every part of the ground and its all so divided, the kop sing one song, the L1 boys sing another inbetween them its deadly silence, I started singing on my own on saturday and everyone looked at me like I was a leper!

4 years of dissapointment and all I have seen is about 90% of leicester fans booing the team calling them a disgrace, has anyone ever considered getting behind the team no matter what, every season I go it gets worse and worse, people seem to think we are as good as manchester united, one misplaced pass and thats it the fans are on the players back, we have had about 4 different teams/squad in the last 4 years and nothings changed. When someone invented the song "you only sing when you're winning" I am pretty sure that was written about us.

I am aware this post isn't going to change much, I just wish we could all pull together as a club, fans etc. and get behind them even if we are losing, booing players and calling them rubbish isn't going to turn a result around or motivate them, its spiralling out of control.

I don't want any of you that read this to say I am pointing at you guys, because as I said I may not post on here but I read it all the time and most of you I think will see where I am coming from as you are as passionate as me about this club.

As for holloway no hes not a great manager but we could do alot worse, but stop deflecting poor performances just on him and the players and stand up yourself and be counted. If we do go down as heart broken as I will be, at least I can say I got behind the lads every game and did my best as a fan to motivate the players on the pitch, and didn't just sit there wishing I was at old trafford booing players.

hopefully I won't get critised for this post, but I felt I needed to vent my frustration with people that might understand.

Dont know how many hull fans were there yesterday but 30k plus i would imagine and good deal of them are like you went there to get behind the team and so they did, so dont criticise the fans for a poor performance this was not a 1 off we have had 4 years of this managers coming & going all armed with a bucket load of excuses for under achieving teams & under achieving managers.

Managers are extremely highly paid guys for that they are expected to get decent results not only in the boardroom but also by the fans.if they dont there is normally only 1 answer

[Geo V]

Welcome mate but I must admit I am uncomfortable in thinking that there are many more virtual Peeping Toms like you out there. Time to switch the lights off and close the blinds.

[SantiagoFox]

What you can do is sing for 90 minutes for the last few games of the year and see how it works out? where has booing for 4 years got us? As I said though I appriciate that my post won't change any views or anything like that as you said, people have different ways of showing it. It just frustrates me that people literally sit there and moan for 90 minutes and then when you try and sing people just look at you like, what the hell are you doing?

Good luck; however the club don't seem to want fans like us who just want to get behind the team.

They send stewards in to "sort out" people who are standing on the back row singing. They block out sounds with stupid jingles.

And they get a ground with the worst atmosphere going - the only thing left that people seem to join in with is the moaning when it all goes tits up.

Until we get an area where like-minded souls can get together and get behind the team, it won't get better (unless we start winning -ha!).

This used to be called a terrace. I was musing on this at half time when it was safe apparently for me to stand up.

Keep singing, don't be put off by the stares of the librarians and flask brigade.

[lcfc_jme]

I think that's a fantastic post. Everything you have said I agree with entirely. There is far too much negativity, like you say if anybody miscontrols the balls or misplaces a pass then groans fill the Stadium.

Not strictly true is it?? "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUME". Or if it's one of our strikers that does something wrong, we get "DU DU DU DU, MATTY FRYATT!".

There's a reason we don't have any real flair players, and that's because they'd simply be hounded out of the club by our "loyal and brilliant fans" for trying to make things happen, for trying something different. We moan that we need creativity and the like, but if we got a player capable of unpicking defences and playing passes which were a lot harder, they'd be slated and most probably booed by our supporters because the players around them couldn't read what they were doing! Unless it was the Jesus and God as mentioned above. Then it'd be perfectly acceptable.

[Ultra]

There was a five-minute spell yesterday, after the penalty save, when the Kop did stand up and get behind the team.

And how did the players respond? They didn't.

A lot of changes are needed for next week. Whoever is the manager needs to bring in Chambers, Mattock, Hume (if fit), Wesolowski and maybe even Billy McKay from the Academy side.

Changes are the only means of restoring faith among the fans.

[davieG]

Did I hear Du Du Du DJ Campbell yesterday when he replaced Fryatt and was it a touch of sarcasm or are we really that desperate for a song.

[The Stig]

I don't think your a cnut really was a litlle joke but after year after year is just getting worst and people are still going. Them players are lucky they are at Leicester playing in front of a big crowd and on good money. Booing doesn't help but what more can we do ? Everyone who go's down i hope loves the club but have different ways of showing it.

What a crap joke.

Anyway bloody good posts mate. Welcome to Foxestalk. It looks like you're going to be a very good addition.

[clazkel]

For what ever reason I read this boards all the time but I have never felt compelled to post a message, god knows why! And I think all this doom and gloom is probably the reason I have decided to post something....

I have been going to watch leicester for 11 years, more so in the last 5 as I lived in essex and it was always a problem going to the match. I moved to leicestershire for personal reasons and so I can be near my club! And I have been shocked and appauled by many fans over the last few seasons.

On saturday I went on my own and sat and watched another painful performance, and once again I was surrounded by complete idiots, 5 minutes in Lee hendrie misplaces a pass and all you can hear is 'rubbish', 'your a disgrace' etc. etc. this was pretty much the vibe all through the match.

Now first half against Hull I personally didnt think we played that badly against the inform team of the division, hull take the lead right at the death and you could sense the nerves spiling from the fans to the players, the half time whistle blows and 2 guys behind me start booing (they weren't the only ones) 'your a disgrace' 'what a load of rubbish' etc. I admit a bit of red mist came over me and I got a bit angry and had a massive arguement with them. Why do people pay money to sit there and moan! These 2 guys had travelled up from london to watch the game, and I said to them 'Why pay all this money to come up here, to sit there and boo and moan and critise every little aspect of a team/club that you supposedly support and love?' to which I got the reply 'Do you think us booing them has any effect? there just rubbish' If booing them doesnt have an effect, why do people go to watch football? we might as well play behind closed doors if the fans singing, chanting and booing doesnt do anything!

I have sat in every part of the ground and its all so divided, the kop sing one song, the L1 boys sing another inbetween them its deadly silence, I started singing on my own on saturday and everyone looked at me like I was a leper!

4 years of dissapointment and all I have seen is about 90% of leicester fans booing the team calling them a disgrace, has anyone ever considered getting behind the team no matter what, every season I go it gets worse and worse, people seem to think we are as good as manchester united, one misplaced pass and thats it the fans are on the players back, we have had about 4 different teams/squad in the last 4 years and nothings changed. When someone invented the song "you only sing when you're winning" I am pretty sure that was written about us.

I am aware this post isn't going to change much, I just wish we could all pull together as a club, fans etc. and get behind them even if we are losing, booing players and calling them rubbish isn't going to turn a result around or motivate them, its spiralling out of control.

I don't want any of you that read this to say I am pointing at you guys, because as I said I may not post on here but I read it all the time and most of you I think will see where I am coming from as you are as passionate as me about this club.

As for holloway no hes not a great manager but we could do alot worse, but stop deflecting poor performances just on him and the players and stand up yourself and be counted. If we do go down as heart broken as I will be, at least I can say I got behind the lads every game and did my best as a fan to motivate the players on the pitch, and didn't just sit there wishing I was at old trafford booing players.

hopefully I won't get critised for this post, but I felt I needed to vent my frustration with people that might understand.

I totally agree with you and i am glad you have posted it. The fans were poor on Saturday, such a difference from the Westbrom game when the fans were 100% behind the team even when we went behind, and look at the result! We as fans should've got behind the team before the kick off and tried to help the players, it helped at Westbrom. The biggest crowd of the season, we should've been creating a great atmosphere and when we went behind we should've tried to motivate the players rather than booing them at half time. I was as frustrated as you as half time, as i sit near to the away fans in east stand north wing and quite afew people booed, me and my dad had a go at people as it seems as though some fans want Leicester to fail so they can moan.

At this point in the season when it looks as though we could get relegated we should be helping the team not booing them and putting more pressure on them. As i have said in another post what is the point of having over 30,000 fans in the stadium when they don't make any more noise and get behind the team than when we have 22,000, it doesn't help, maybe if anything it just puts more pressure on the players as there are more fans there to disappoint and moan.

People pay there money and are entitled to voice there opinion but we really need to get behind the team and act as the 12th man, just as we did at Westbrom.

[lcfc_jme]

Are you saying that we weren't unlucky in that game? Plus the fact we came up against one of the best keepers in the league, probably the best.

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