Edmund Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Avid reader of the boards but have never posted until now after not believing what I’ve been reading!! Somehow I don’t think I’m going to make many friends after what I’m about to say but I’ve just got to get a few things off my chest.I’m actually in a state of shock of how negative some of you are.....THRACIAN you need to be put in a straight jacket!! How can u call yourself a Leicester “Fan” after writing such a long, negative, pointless and clueless post in history?? Talk about an overreaction!! Let me take u back to the end of the 2007-2008 season when Stoke City put the final nail in the coffin of what can only be described as a horrific previous 5 yrs of constant change of management & player. Thankfully Mandaric made an astute appointment of what I think is one of England’s best young managers in the Country....Nigel Pearson. Sir Nigel did in one pre-season what the club has needed since the horrid times of Taylor etc!! He’s got rid of ALL the veterans coming to City for their final payday, got rid of any deadwood and put together a good group of hardworking, organised, talented group of players that COULD, with some SUPPORT and guidance, put us in with a shout of the playoffs this season and as “fans” we could also play a big part! Last season we walked League one, breaking records along the way and this week went a whole 12 months of being unbeaten at home. How many other teams in the Country or Europe for this matter have a record like that?? I think some of you forget very quickly how far we have come in the last season and instead of being negative (THRACIAN!!!) after one “off” night (which we still didn’t lose), why not get behind the team a bit and also certain individual players and give them confidence rather than just moaning and looking at the bad points all the time. THRACIAN how can you even say that your glad that Fryatt missed his chance so you don’t have to put up with “endless posters declaring a win is a win and defending the manager's choice of team because we got the right result.” YOU’RE A JOKE MATE!!! You talk as if your some sort of Leicester City Messiah that knows it all....”Nigel Pearson is clueless, the team are cr*p, I want to hang myself because we’ve had one off game, BLAH BLAH BLAH!! Look at the start we’ve had. 7 games 12 points and could quite easily have been more with some luck in certain games. Not really a catastrophic start is it??? Ask any Ipswich fan if they would rather be in our shoes or theirs?? Ok, the game plan last night didn’t come off, but you talk as if we didn’t have a chance in the game, we were the worst team in history, Nigel Pearson is clueless and Matt Fryatt is the worst player to don the blue shirt. I can’t understand how a Leicester City fan that has suffered the same as all of us in recent years can be so negative towards a manager and his players! After what Pearson has done and where he has put us in the time he’s been with us I trust him 100% and you should also! Who are you to judge in such a negative way?? Yes we were very poor first half but we could also have gone in 4-1 up if Fryatt & N’Guesson bagged their chances, Howards header that was cleared off the line had gone in and don’t forget their Keeper also made some great saves (Gallagher shot). Second half we controlled the game more and didn’t quite get the rub of the green on some occasions but never really looked like conceding and at the end of the day we’ve got another point on the board towards the Playoff push and we (most importantly) didn’t lose the game. A Leicester City team 3 yrs ago would have lost last night! Matty Fryatt without confidence is a very frustrating player to watch but most of that frustration comes from knowing that we know and have seen that he CAN and SHOULD score some of the chance he gets. However, Matty with confidence is a different animal altogether and I think we have a BIG part to play in this. He’s scored over 50 goals for us now....50 for god’s sake!! When was the last time a City striker did that?? On his day with confidence he can be awesome!! He links up play well, chases defenders tirelessly, makes clever runs and bags the goals for fun. (The guy scored a hat-trick in two consecutive games last season and was one of the highest scorers in the country don’t forget!!) People forget that he is ONLY 23 also!! The boy is something special and most “fans” would love to have a player like him!! It really saddens and angers me at some of your attitudes towards Matty!! Constantly doubting his ability and whether he can score goals at this level. Isn’t he already proving that he can make the step up (5 goals in 7 games)??? How many other strikers in the league have this record?? Instead of moaning about him why not get behind the lad and give him the confidence and support so next time he gets that chance he’s confident enough to pop it home and hopefully fulfil the fantastic potential he is showing. Our team/squad isn’t the finished article yet. We’ve got a very good mix of some excellent young prospects, some very good experienced heads and also certain players (Tunchev, Wellens, Fryatt) who would walk into most Championship teams. This team WILL get better and better with time. Who knows where we could finish this season?? With the run we are on we should be going into EVERY game with no fear rather than doubting the team. Instead of being negative towards the lads, why not look for positives?? Let’s not forget how far we have come over the last 12 months and get behind our beloved team like “FANS” should do!! Absolutely spot on. Please post more, it was a joy to read. Post match threads are becoming a joke on here after we don't win at the moment. Complain complain complain. Talk about overreactions.
lou Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Seriously, some people need to look at their expectations and lower them somewhat. That's not a "lack of ambition" but a dose of realism. Absolutely spot on!! WTF are people expecting really?? I for one wouldnt want us to get promoted anyway. Go back to getting thrashed every week? Visiting soul-less stadia with corporate, prawn sandwich eating "fans" No thanks
marbelladave Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Absolutely spot on!! WTF are people expecting really?? I for one wouldnt want us to get promoted anyway. Go back to getting thrashed every week? Visiting soul-less stadia with corporate, prawn sandwich eating "fans" No thanks I expect my team to to give it a go in every game they play. If that means setting up to fight for a point against a genuinely better side is what it takes then I have absolutely no problem with that. In fact some of the best games I have seen have been of that type. What I do not expect is for my team to settle for a point when all 3 are clearly on offer (Ipswich) and to start a game with the air of complacency and overconfidence displayed against the Posh. That will not do. As for 'soul-less stadia', I visit one most weeks, it's called the Walkers!
dogadug Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Absolutely spot on. Please post more, it was a joy to read. Post match threads are becoming a joke on here after we don't win at the moment. Complain complain complain. Talk about overreactions.
lcfcadam Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 As for 'soul-less stadia', I visit one most weeks, it's called the Walkers! FFS! Do you think everyone went to Filbo for the first time and immediately thought "Oh what a great atmosphere we've got here"? Do you think they all thought it was full of 'character' and 'soul' back in 1900? The fans are what makes a football stadium - if we had a majority of noisy, passionate fans (instead of the small minorities we've got in Blocks K and L, and the back of the Kop) then the stadium wouldn't be an issue for atmosphere. Does anyone ever stop to think that in another 100 years no one will actively remember Filbert St? I doubt there'll be many complaints over the Walkers' 'soul' by then as time will have given it its own, different character. Sorry to go off on an unrelated tangent but the endless, passive, swiping insults of the ground where we watch our team (remember no matter how much complaining you do it ain't gonna change) really get on my nerves. Instead of moaning, why not try a bit harder and see if you can inspire the quiet sitters the take up 4/5 of the stadium each week. And if that doesn't work, at least the 'atmosphere' would be a bit better in isolated sections - which is better than nothing.
Lillehamring Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 If we ever get to the Premiership again, do you want to just drop by for a season, or make a real go of it?I'd love it if we go up this season, but we'd be straight back down if we went up, no question about it. If we have a solid mid-table/top 10 finish this year, slowly but surely improve our squad, get a bit of togetherness and a solid settled squad, then we can make a proper push the season after and see if we can actually stay up in the seasons to follow. We've got all the foundations being set at the minute, which is great, but too much too soon could be a bad thing. We'd get some good players come to the club, but only for the £££. which is ironically one of the most negative things that has been posted in this thread... it is wrong to predict the quality of this side come the end of the season, if we are promoted this season, would that not suggest that we are one of the three best teams in the CCC? does that in itself not suggest that we are worthy of trying to play at a different level. not to mention players that may come into the squad and the development of our existing young players equally, who knows how the squad will react playing teams of world class players week in, week out - to say that it would be rubbish for us to go up because we'd come straight back down, is like refusing sex with megan fox in case you can't get wood - sure the nerves might kick in and catastrophe strikes, but you never know it might actually be quit enjoyable! no one expected much in the prem under o'neill, no one expected the performances and the start we've made in the CCC, most people thought fryatt couldn't cut it, but until you get there you just don't know... i can't imagine anybody last year wanting to stay in L1 for another season 'just to make sure we are ready'... and, so what if we come straight back down, think of the season of away days and the parachute payment....
marbelladave Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 FFS! Do you think everyone went to Filbo for the first time and immediately thought "Oh what a great atmosphere we've got here"? Do you think they all thought it was full of 'character' and 'soul' back in 1900?The fans are what makes a football stadium - if we had a majority of noisy, passionate fans (instead of the small minorities we've got in Blocks K and L, and the back of the Kop) then the stadium wouldn't be an issue for atmosphere. Does anyone ever stop to think that in another 100 years no one will actively remember Filbert St? I doubt there'll be many complaints over the Walkers' 'soul' by then as time will have given it its own, different character. Sorry to go off on an unrelated tangent but the endless, passive, swiping insults of the ground where we watch our team (remember no matter how much complaining you do it ain't gonna change) really get on my nerves. Instead of moaning, why not try a bit harder and see if you can inspire the quiet sitters the take up 4/5 of the stadium each week. And if that doesn't work, at least the 'atmosphere' would be a bit better in isolated sections - which is better than nothing. Sorry but that is nonsense. Fans mindlessly chanting "Who are yer" and "right side, left side' do not make a good atmosphere, well not for me anyway. It takes thousands of fans coming together in common purpose to really make a ground buzz. I did not bring up Filbert St but since you did, there were times (pre all seater) when there was little or no chanting and singing yet the atmosphere generated by 30,000+ fans was truly electric. My 'dig' at the Walkers was no more than an acknowledgment that most grounds at the higher levels of English football are pretty soul-less these days, though I have to say that I much prefer the Walkers to the all seater Filbert St of recent memory! Whilst I would love to get our home crowd more involved, I am not sure if trying to get them singing or chanting is the answer, getting them more involved in the game rather than looking after their kids, moaning at our players or hurling abuse at the opposition (our ex) manager would be a start.
Scow Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 which is ironically one of the most negative things that has been posted in this thread... it is wrong to predict the quality of this side come the end of the season, if we are promoted this season, would that not suggest that we are one of the three best teams in the CCC? does that in itself not suggest that we are worthy of trying to play at a different level. not to mention players that may come into the squad and the development of our existing young players equally, who knows how the squad will react playing teams of world class players week in, week out - to say that it would be rubbish for us to go up because we'd come straight back down, is like refusing sex with megan fox in case you can't get wood - sure the nerves might kick in and catastrophe strikes, but you never know it might actually be quit enjoyable! no one expected much in the prem under o'neill, no one expected the performances and the start we've made in the CCC, most people thought fryatt couldn't cut it, but until you get there you just don't know... i can't imagine anybody last year wanting to stay in L1 for another season 'just to make sure we are ready'... and, so what if we come straight back down, think of the season of away days and the parachute payment.... I agree with this. I don't think any team would refuse the opportunity of promotion, whether they were perceived as ready or not. I would say a lot of teams are unprepared for the Premier League until they've had a chance to assess the team and make changes in the summer. I've heard a lot of people saying Derby got promoted too soon. Their problems resulted from a lack of investment in the team, and the players they did bring in were clearly not good enough. It's not impossible to stay up in your first season as proven by other teams. As for the game itself, I am somewhat amused by some of the overly negative reactions. Yes, we were poor for the first 30 minutes, but sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition for the way they played. We did look too open, a bit like the Blackpool game, but at least Pearson changed it to make us more compact and I could only see one winner after half time. I don't believe there is a lack of belief or ambition in the side as we're a team that goes into every game looking to win, which is not the case for a number of other teams in the division.
Thracian Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 FFS! Do you think everyone went to Filbo for the first time and immediately thought "Oh what a great atmosphere we've got here"? Do you think they all thought it was full of 'character' and 'soul' back in 1900?The fans are what makes a football stadium - if we had a majority of noisy, passionate fans (instead of the small minorities we've got in Blocks K and L, and the back of the Kop) then the stadium wouldn't be an issue for atmosphere. Does anyone ever stop to think that in another 100 years no one will actively remember Filbert St? I doubt there'll be many complaints over the Walkers' 'soul' by then as time will have given it its own, different character. Sorry to go off on an unrelated tangent but the endless, passive, swiping insults of the ground where we watch our team (remember no matter how much complaining you do it ain't gonna change) really get on my nerves. Instead of moaning, why not try a bit harder and see if you can inspire the quiet sitters the take up 4/5 of the stadium each week. And if that doesn't work, at least the 'atmosphere' would be a bit better in isolated sections - which is better than nothing. I've got to get a transfer. I'm in the south stand to the right of the goal and its become just like the sodding West Stand. Pious women with their husbands who seem only to be there to pick fault with anyone who deems to open their mouth and make a noise. This week I was bored to mental oblivion by the banal half-time prize draws and general time-wasting so light-heartedly called for them to "bring on some strippers". Oh dear what a black look some Little Miss Perfect of a dyed red-head in front gave her husband. Why don't they all go sit in the family stand where they can add some more to the sterility of the place. Seriously I'm heading for the East Stand - as close to Lee Jobber and my pal Big Alex as I can get because enough's enough. I wonder if all women come the ultra-sensitive because they know we live in a society now where the slightest non-comformist expression allows them to complain to someone and get far more mileage than they'd otherwise get in the whole of the rest of their life. For God's sake I didn't even say women strippers!
Thracian Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Absolutely spot on. Please post more, it was a joy to read. Post match threads are becoming a joke on here after we don't win at the moment. Complain complain complain. Talk about overreactions. If that tirade of inaccuracy is "spot on" I cannot imagine what you'll be convinced of when you finally sit in judgement. I do agree though that the guy should post more. This place always needs people who'll liven it up. Even if they'll clearly cog in with the "Estabishment" here.
Thracian Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Seriously, some people need to look at their expectations and lower them somewhat. That's not a "lack of ambition" but a dose of realism. I'd rather look at what can be done to make some theoretically capable players score the goals needed to win matches.
marbelladave Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 I'd rather look at what can be done to make some theoretically capable players score the goals needed to win matches. Hear, bloody, hear.
lcfcadam Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 I've got to get a transfer. I'm in the south stand to the right of the goal and its become just like the sodding West Stand.Pious women with their husbands who seem only to be there to pick fault with anyone who deems to open their mouth and make a noise. This week I was bored to mental oblivion by the banal half-time prize draws and general time-wasting so light-heartedly called for them to "bring on some strippers". Oh dear what a black look some Little Miss Perfect of a dyed red-head in front gave her husband. Why don't they all go sit in the family stand where they can add some more to the sterility of the place. Seriously I'm heading for the East Stand - as close to Lee Jobber and my pal Big Alex as I can get because enough's enough. I wonder if all women come the ultra-sensitive because they know we live in a society now where the slightest non-comformist expression allows them to complain to someone and get far more mileage than they'd otherwise get in the whole of the rest of their life. For God's sake I didn't even say women strippers! Seems like a no-brainer decision to me...
harpendenfox Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Have to agree with the point about the dull half-time 'entertainment' against Peterborough. God It was so dire. Why not, as has been done before, drag four people out of the crowd for a crossbar challenge type affair, with the first one to do it getting a prize of some kind. For some reason I always have a good giggle when a fat bloke runs up, loses his footing, and lands flat on his arse. As you can see I have a sophisticated sense of humour. But it least it's a bit of spectacle and a giggle, and I bet the four people chosen would remember it for the rest of their lives
Legend_in_blue Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Have to agree with the point about the dull half-time 'entertainment' against Peterborough. God It was so dire.Why not, as has been done before, drag four people out of the crowd for a crossbar challenge type affair, with the first one to do it getting a prize of some kind. For some reason I always have a good giggle when a fat bloke runs up, loses his footing, and lands flat on his arse. As you can see I have a sophisticated sense of humour. But it least it's a bit of spectacle and a giggle, and I bet the four people chosen would remember it for the rest of their lives Why do they always choose people who can barely read out single digit numbers?
dogadug Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Why do they always choose people who can barely read out single digit numbers? Coz they're thick
cecchini Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Half time entertainment: 11 people from Home supporters 11 people from away supporters 10 min game, the team who scores the most goals is the winner and gets a "half time cup" trophy be a right larf - talk about fat unfit blokes going arse over tit! maybe we should insist on a female element!
dogadug Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Half time entertainment:11 people from Home supporters 11 people from away supporters 10 min game, the team who scores the most goals is the winner and gets a "half time cup" trophy be a right larf - talk about fat unfit blokes going arse over tit! maybe we should insist on a female element! great idea - much better than anything lcfc come up with
Legend_in_blue Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 I reckon they should force these people to read out the foxes draw numbers in groups of two. That'll confuse them.
harpendenfox Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Half time entertainment:11 people from Home supporters 11 people from away supporters 10 min game, the team who scores the most goals is the winner and gets a "half time cup" trophy be a right larf - talk about fat unfit blokes going arse over tit! maybe we should insist on a female element! Perfect. Each team to consist of six adult men, three adult women and two kids. Trainers compulsory to avoid damage to the pitch and maximise arse over tit comedy slippages
Shrenchel Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Why don't you just go down for a slash/fag/pint of piss/goose at the results on the telly, like everyone else?!
harpendenfox Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Why don't you just go down for a slash/fag/pint of piss/goose at the results on the telly, like everyone else?! the slash takes about a minute, I don't smoke, my Dad's in a wheelchair so I want to keep him company, and I'm constantly fidgeting away on my Blackberry getting score updates all game long......
Thracian Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 Half time entertainment:11 people from Home supporters 11 people from away supporters 10 min game, the team who scores the most goals is the winner and gets a "half time cup" trophy be a right larf - talk about fat unfit blokes going arse over tit! maybe we should insist on a female element! Bring it on.
lou Posted 17 September 2009 Posted 17 September 2009 I expect my team to to give it a go in every game they play. If that means setting up to fight for a point against a genuinely better side is what it takes then I have absolutely no problem with that. In fact some of the best games I have seen have been of that type.What I do not expect is for my team to settle for a point when all 3 are clearly on offer (Ipswich) and to start a game with the air of complacency and overconfidence displayed against the Posh. That will not do. As for 'soul-less stadia', I visit one most weeks, it's called the Walkers! To suggest they werent trying on Tuesday is very unfair IMO. Dont know where you sit in the WS but its not soul-less in L1 Anyway thats my opinion
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