Clemence calls for calm

[The Stig]

To be honest with you mate, 30,000 fans turning up is getting behind the team to me. We wasn't as vocal as we have been before, but can you really blame people after the shit we have had to watch all season, it was no different on Saturday.

I think the fans will get behind the players more if they start showing a bit of passion, and start showing they actually wanna play for this club that we love and do something about the situation that we are in.

We also have an average turn out of 20,000 plus. For a team stuck in a relegation battle in The Championship that's pretty good. Yes we're not particularly vocal but there's a LOT worse in this league.

[clazkel]

Everybody also knows that to get any life out of the crowd at the Walkers, we need to be playing well and attacking. It's a vicious circle, if the team are playing well the crowd will get going but if the crowd are vocal the team Should get going.

Every week members of this forum say get behind the team, nothing ever changes. It's the same atmosphere every week.

Yeah i know, but i just can't understand how we go 1-0 down at Westbrom and the fans are great and help the players to get back in the game, and there were afew thousand fans there, but at home with 30,000 fans we don't get behind them. I suppose at the Walkers the fans are split between the kop and the fans next to the away fans, but away games they are together. Bring back Filbert Street anyday!

I know if the team play well the atmosphere improves and maybe it should be the players who lift the fans, but i would like the fans to create an atmosphere before the players come out on Sat as we have got to win. In fact i don't care about the atmosphere as long as we win! C'mon Leicester!!!!

[Father Ted]

Just been on official website and listened to an interview with Clemence saying the fans need to get behind the team on saturday!

Come on, we need to create a great atmosphere to help the players out, it will only help us to stay in this league, can't do any harm!

We expect the players to put in a performance to win the game, so we should play our part aswell

He can talk - W*NKER

I'll definitely get behind the team but if they're playing sh*t then why should I.

Same old Clem, if he gets picked it will be 4 on 4 on the counter attack, the whole crowd shouting go forward and he would bloody stop, turn back and then 1) - Lose the ball OR 2) Pass it back to Hendo

[SamL]

Yeah i know, but i just can't understand how we go 1-0 down at Westbrom and the fans are great and help the players to get back in the game, and there were afew thousand fans there, but at home with 30,000 fans we don't get behind them. I suppose at the Walkers the fans are split between the kop and the fans next to the away fans, but away games they are together. Bring back Filbert Street anyday!

I know if the team play well the atmosphere improves and maybe it should be the players who lift the fans, but i would like the fans to create an atmosphere before the players come out on Sat as we have got to win. In fact i don't care about the atmosphere as long as we win! C'mon Leicester!!!!

I'd say most of the people who were at West Brom had actually gone to quite a few away games this season. They weren't there to moan because they'd seen us play shite all season. As they'd been to a few away games they probably knew a few songs as well. As some of the 30,000 that turned up on Saturday maybe hadn't been to many games this season, they weren't quite prepared for how shite we were going to play and probably didn't know many songs. Although, the songs aren't that hard to pick up and learn.

After we went a goal down at the Baggies, there may have been a few moaners but they weren't as widespread as on Saturday hence the reason nobody noticed.

[Simi]

Yeah i know, but i just can't understand how we go 1-0 down at Westbrom and the fans are great and help the players to get back in the game, and there were afew thousand fans there, but at home with 30,000 fans we don't get behind them. I suppose at the Walkers the fans are split between the kop and the fans next to the away fans, but away games they are together. Bring back Filbert Street anyday!

I know if the team play well the atmosphere improves and maybe it should be the players who lift the fans, but i would like the fans to create an atmosphere before the players come out on Sat as we have got to win. In fact i don't care about the atmosphere as long as we win! C'mon Leicester!!!!

I think it's got something to do with the mentality of both sets of fans.

I know quite a lot of people that only go to away games now, as they just enjoy them more than home games. Perhaps the people doing the moaning and groaning at home matches don't go to away games?

Expectation levels also a lot lower away from home.

[Tommy G]

Clemence can fu ck off for all I care. He is wank

I hope he leaves in the summer

[Matt]

Woohoo, i'm being saved on Saturday by my cousin's birthday, I'm off to London. Thank-Fuk because no matter how much I don't wanna go chances are i'll turn up at the Walker Stadium anyway, The fact i'm actually doing something else means I definitely won't be going.

And don't get on my back for turning my back on them, not want to support my team I do, but i'm just going by the example set by the players - Not turning up at the Walkers Stadium ready for a match.

Shut the fuk up Clemence, We as fans have proven we will support the team if the skill, the fight, the performance is shown, we will make noise if all that is shown, but no matter what anyone says or what anyone wants that is a fact and been proven in the past...It starts with the players they show that, we will do it, that will then spur the players on later in the game should their head drop, push them over the line with a win hopefully.

But please will the players just shut the fuk up and do their talking and pitiful "plea's" to the fans on the pitch, We[?]/I simply just don't want to hear it.

[Thracian]

I think it's got something to do with the mentality of both sets of fans.

I know quite a lot of people that only go to away games now, as they just enjoy them more than home games. Perhaps the people doing the moaning and groaning at home matches don't go to away games?

Expectation levels also a lot lower away from home.

I don't know now Ched. It's getting pretty low at home. There's this black humour now and an air of inevitability that seems to be creeping in whenever anything goes wrong.

I'm finding myself wishing I could talk to the team and wipe away all the self-doubt and uncertainty they seem to carry around with them.

Footballers need to be a bit nervous before a game but they cannot perform if their minds are aggled by indecison and lack of conviction.

The constant veiled suggestion that the players are inadequate is totally counter-productive. Holloway would be better served apologising and coming out with a whole new approach that says:

"I don't want any other players. I'm bloody lucky to have the ones I've got if only I'd appreciated it. These players can score goals and stop goals and I'm going to do my level best to put them in the frame of mind that will enable them to do that.

"I'll tell you where the weakness is. It's me. I've had a box of pure gold and a bag of precious gemstones yet made the mistake of thinking some of the stones were paste and some of the gold was plate. I even tried to trade some of em in my ignorance

"Well they're not paste and not plate and I'm going to do my damnest to let em sparkle. To let them into the light to shine instead of holding them back in the shadows.

There'll be 17 men in Saturday's team cos I'm going to be a part of what happens, not a critic. If they lose I lose because we all know their capabilities and it is up to me to see they express themselves.

There will be no half measures. From now on this squad will be as one. As one in defence, as one in attack, as one in every facet and emotion of the game. We might lose. S****horpe will fancy their chances - everyone else seems to.

But we won't concede one inch of territory willingly.

When we get the ball we'll love it and keep it and show that we never ever want it to leave our sight and when we lose it then it'll be to us like losing a child as darkness falls. We will shirk nothing to get it back.

No longer will we attack in one and twos like some apologists from the local League. If one striker shoots then there'll be others lurking, impatient to punish any rebound, any fumble by the goalkeeper any momentary mistake. And if we miss and miss again we'll be there for another go, and another.

Our team will have attitude and I will have attitude. The attitude that says we might lose, we might be bettered. But we will have a go and we'll be as one in doing so."

[maddog]

I don't know now Ched. It's getting pretty low at home. There's this black humour now and an air of inevitability that seems to be creeping in whenever anything goes wrong.

I'm finding myself wishing I could talk to the team and wipe away all the self-doubt and uncertainty they seem to carry around with them.

Footballers need to be a bit nervous before a game but they cannot perform if their minds are aggled by indecison and lack of conviction.

The constant veiled suggestion that the players are inadequate is totally counter-productive. Holloway would be better served apologising and coming out with a whole new approach that says:

"I don't want any other players. I'm bloody lucky to have the ones I've got if only I'd appreciated it. These players can score goals and stop goals and I'm going to do my level best to put them in the frame of mind that will enable them to do that.

"I'll tell you where the weakness is. It's me. I've had a box of pure gold and a bag of precious gemstones yet made the mistake of thinking some of the stones were paste and some of the gold was plate. I even tried to trade some of em in my ignorance

"Well they're not paste and not plate and I'm going to do my damnest to let em sparkle. To let them into the light to shine instead of holding them back in the shadows.

There'll be 17 men in Saturday's team cos I'm going to be a part of what happens, not a critic. If they lose I lose because we all know their capabilities and it is up to me to see they express themselves.

There will be no half measures. From now on this squad will be as one. As one in defence, as one in attack, as one in every facet and emotion of the game. We might lose. S****horpe will fancy their chances - everyone else seems to.

But we won't concede one inch of territory willingly.

When we get the ball we'll love it and keep it and show that we never ever want it to leave our sight and when we lose it then it'll be to us like losing a child as darkness falls. We will shirk nothing to get it back.

No longer will we attack in one and twos like some apologists from the local League. If one striker shoots then there'll be others lurking, impatient to punish any rebound, any fumble by the goalkeeper any momentary mistake. And if we miss and miss again we'll be there for another go, and another.

Our team will have attitude and I will have attitude. The attitude that says we might lose, we might be bettered. But we will have a go and we'll be as one in doing so."

I would agree with that.

TBH i thought the fans were absolutely awful on Saturday and i don't blame them.

When you are in the Kop where there is a little bit of atmosphere and noise you don't realise how quiet everyone else is.

I moved to the side for the game and every single fan in the family stand, West stand and East stand were silent all game, all you could here were the moans and groans.

Only very small pockets of the Kop and L1 made any noise, literally 28,000+ Leicester fans sitting in silence.

You try and start a chant or create some sort of atmosphere at the sides and you just get rudely stared at and asked to 'sit down'.

All i heard were the Hull fans who were fantastic for most of the match.

With no inspiration coming from the fans, and Holloway stood there like a dead man walking or in his case standing, not shouting or trying to get his players playing, just standing still with a miserable look on his face and his hands in his pockets. It's no wonder the players play awful most of the time.

If all they can hear is Hull fans and all they can see is miserable Holloway, of course they aint going to be motivated.

Perhaps it's not the 'motivation' of the players, it's just the fact they are shit footballers and can't play as a team.