Getting relegated, was it a good thing

[Master Fox]

Only time will tell, you exquisite little forum creatures

[Sooper Steve's shin]

I know how stupid this may sound, but i have just been thinking, by getting relegated i think it is a good thing for Leicester, not only will we have cleared out the dead weights who do not want to play for the club, now it has enabled us to bring youngsters through and start to rebuild the team, and bring in players who do want to play for us.

Sounds good in theory but I think every relegated club must look on things in that way. You have to, otherwise what's the point? No-one wants to say "OK we had a season up there but now we are back where we belong".

In any case, I'm not sure we've cleared out many of the "dead weights". I would have liked to have seen either a whole host of then go (the high profile failures like Oakley, Howard, Campbell and N'Gotty as well the likes of Douglas, Maybury, Hammond, Hayes, Hellings etc). We have done a bit of the latter through natural expiry of contracts or doing a deal to get rid. Unfortunately, we haven't shifted a lot of those who I blame for our problems last term BUT we got rid of some of those I would have kept - Hume, Stearman and maybe McAuley (so far...)

Relegation has certainly shaken the club - particularly the owner - but I don't think we can ever say it was a good thing. Everyone would much rather be looking forward to a season of possible promotion to the Premiership than a (slightly more likely) promotion back to the Championship. If we had stayed up on the last day, I think we would (and should) have given Holloway the boot anyway. We could then have attracted a better manager (Ince?), picked up some better players, kept the decent ones and still shipped out the crap. I don't think any of that's an unrealistic assumption, so how can it be better for us to be starting in League One this Saturday?

[Spiritwalker]

If we had stayed up we would have games against Derby, Forest and Cov to look forward to. Also we would not have lost

Hume , Stearman and McAuley. The only positives we can take are that players like Gradel will now get a chance and we

finally have the " never played out of the top 2 divisions " monkey off our backs.

[clazkel]

Going down and actually being at Stoke was one of the worst days of my life, watching their fans laughing at us and sticking their fingers up, but on the plus side i went most of the away games towards the middle and the end of the season and the atmosphere in the away end was great, yet if we were midtable our away support wouldn't have been as good. Shoes off at Sheff Utd was soo funny, and when Holloway did aswell! Even tho we were getting hammered. I'm looking forward to going as amny away games as possible this season.

I think relegation has been a shock for everyone linked to the club but hopefully now many young players with enthusiam and passion will come through and we will have a strong squad for the future. If we would've stayed up then Holloway may have stayed and it would be the same old team, playing the same way just a different season. I am looking forward to this season in league one alot more than i have looked forward to any season in the championship. I really think and hope we will do really well this season, and get promoted back to where we should be!

I'm hoping the atmosphere will improve at home this season as many fans seem to be moving to L1 and i believe we will out perform (well i'm hoping) teams and if we do then i'm sure the atmosphere will improve as last season the atmosphere was poor, but then we couldn't win 2 games back to back all season so there wasn't alot to shout about

[Guest]

Going down and actually being at Stoke was one of the worst days of my life, watching their fans laughing at us and sticking their fingers up, but on the plus side i went most of he away games near the end of the season and the atmosphere in the away end was great, yet if we were midtable our away support wouldn't have been as good. Shoes off at Sheff Utd was soo funny, and when Holloway did aswell!

I think relegation has been a shock for everyone linked to the club but hopefully now many young players with enthusiam and passion will come through and we will have a strong squad for the future. If we would've stayed up then Holloway may have stayed and it would be the same old team, playing the same way just a different season. I am looking forward to this season in league one alot more than i have looked forward to any season in the championship. I really think and hope we will do really well this season, and get promotoed back to where we should be!

I'm hoping the atmosphere will improve at home this season as many fans seem to be moving to L1 and i believe we will out perform (well i'm hoping) teams and if we do then i'm sure the atmosphere will improve as last season the atmosphere was poor, but then we couldn't win 2 games back to back all season so there wasn't alot to shout about

Good post

I remember feeling shocked about it at the time and now that I look back at that, it's ****ing embarrassing. 2 wins in a row ain't alot to ask for is it?

I really hope the atmos impoves at the walkers, and I hope that getting relegated has shifted some of the miserable buggers who do nowt but complain down there.

[clazkel]

Good post

I remember feeling shocked about it at the time and now that I look back at that, it's ****ing embarrassing. 2 wins in a row ain't alot to ask for is it?

I really hope the atmos impoves at the walkers, and I hope that getting relegated has shifted some of the miserable buggers who do nowt but complain down there.

Yeah, i know last season it was frustrating at times, but quite afew fans around me (i sit in row L of L1) moaned constantly and i do understand why they were moaning but it puts added pressure on the players and booing your own players when they are subbed or come on, i think is wrong, you should try and get behind them as booing doesn't help the situation. Hopefully this season we will play soo well there will be little criticism (again i'm hoping)

[Raj]

Clean out all the shit.

Drain and remove all raw sewage from the dirty shitty drains.

Make the drains run smoothly and more efficently.....

[Zingari]

i don't agree ;

relegation isn't a good thing

[whitlock]

I think relegation will only be a good thing IF we play attractive football throughout the season and get the wins that take us straight back up to the championship and then if we are able to push on from their and challenge again for promotion to the premiership. I dont think anyone can say its a good or bad thing that we got relegated, only time will tell if it was good or not....

[McFoxy]

We should all wait until we're a few games into the season before we answer this. I'm sure what you are all feeling now is that surge of optimism that comes at the begining of each season. I had it last year, the year before and so on. Sure i'm feeling it now also but i still remeber how crushed I was after Blackpool last season, and we certainly didn't get any better after that!

Lets keep 2 feet on the floor and see what happens on Saturday.

[Thracian]

People mocked when I suggested when Kelly was here that it might do us good getting relegated. We would appear to have a team that can naturally develop and take us forward from this League, who appear to be worth watching and who look quite likely to score the number of goals we're gonna need.

I just hope that Pearson can get the best out of them and make it happen. At this stage I'd have no reason to doubt it. We're playing with more genuine attackers, we've got players who take people on and pass the ball into dangerous places, we're shooting more and there was even signs at Palace (at least via the radio) that Oakley was getting forward in support more.