adam1 Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Obviously we don't much like this bullying approach and as such we need a short time to resolve this issue. So we have decided that just for the Reading game on Saturday there will be no Fosse Boys section at the back of SK1. Don't back down. Go to the game, stand in sk1 and BE LOUDER! If anything use this for your benefit by getting more people to attend.
Raj Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 People go to football to be entertained,wined and dined(if you ar corporate) NOT to sing and shout and act like a bloody yobbo. Sit down,be quiet,enjoy the hot beverages and food on offer all at very reasonable prices and watch the game in silence.(apart from the odd applause if we score) You fcukers should be banned.
Lillehamring Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Hello, ...it has come to my attention that due to a few unhappy, i would say fans, but it seems rather inappropriate, people - the club has decided to threaten the Fosse Boys with ejection if they continue to support the club vocally. What a tragedy. I personally am not much of a singer, but love to sit in the kop to gain from what little atmosphere materializes in the ground these days. In the few games we have been blessed with the fosse boys, it has a been a breath of fresh air. Yes, perhaps, right now, their repertoire is limited, but it must have taken a great deal of effort and, indeed, courage for them to start a pocket of support which the club clearly do not wish to encourage. We have tolerated the clubs 'monkeying' of fans, controlling us with the use of post goal music, and we do our best to bare the horrific latin-post horn gallup. Yes, we know the club does not want us to be football fans, to sing and cheer and, god forbid, stand up when the excitement of our sport becomes to stirring - but these lads are doing something that is huge around the world, and is actually encouraged by many clubs, they are rediscovering what it used to be like to be a football fan, they are simply singing songs and, heavens, supporting their team. It was clear that the majority of people in the kop understand what they are trying to do, and are even patient enough to suffer the odd bit of overkill, knowing that in the long run we may get to have a kop again, and that teams will feel as intimidated playing at the walkers as they did at Filbert Street. Especially as the club seem to turn a blind eye to similar behaviour from away fans and the city fans next to them. If twenty or so people actually did complain, then surely the club should suggest that they move to a quieter part of the ground, maybe even give them some complimentary filbert the fox ear muffs. I for one support the fosse boys, and I hope that one day the club will realize what a prize asset they have in lads and lasses like this.
Mikey Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Too noisy at a football game. Sending an e-mail as we speak.
Edmund Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 there really is some pathetic people! I can't believe some people would complain! Singing at football?!? Supporting the team?!? God forbid! I know, it's like walking into a clothes shop and complaining that there's to many clothes on display. Dear LCFC, I just want to congratulate the Fosse boys and their magnificent support. Something this club has been lacking since our move from Filbert Street. It has come to the fans attention that you are listening to a minority of 22 out of over 20,00 supporters who attended against Middlesbrough, who complained about it being to noisy. The fact that you've actually taken their side is embarrassing. A football ground should be noisy, it's called support, something which our club doesn't know about in the soulless bowl we call The Walkers. Supporters chanting for their team helps the lads on the pitch. Why do you feel the need to stop this? The whole football day experience at The Walkers is terrible and soulless. Has it come to this where fans can't sing? We have to have music to cheer a goal? Look to White Hart Lane last night where they gave out free flags to their fans and look at the atmosphere which was created. That is how a club should treat their fans. Stop alienating fans who just want to support the team and translate that into success on the pitch. You may have had 22 complaints but I can guarantee you'll be losing hundreds of season ticket holders if this shambles carries on.
RGFox Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Fosse Boys, I echo the positive sentiments here.... Why can't those buggers (who probably sat in the Double Decker upper) just move to the West or east stand, ffs? If anyone saw the Spurs match last night, you'll have seen how both ends were pretty much standing the whole match. I'll email the club, as they seem insistent listening to the moaners, who should probably go and watch tennis, golf or some other "quiet" sport. Forza Fosse Boys! RG
purpleronnie Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Email sent, I wish I could say I'm surprised.
Bert Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Just a quick update on what's happening with the group at the moment. Following on the from the Middlesbrough game LCFC apparently received 25 e-mails regarding the group, of which 3 were in support and 22 were apparently complaints about us being too noisy (remember, the "Kop" is meant to be our home end). As a result we have been issued with an ultimatum, to either move or face ejections/bans. Obviously we don't much like this bullying approach and as such we need a short time to resolve this issue. So we have decided that just for the Reading game on Saturday there will be no Fosse Boys section at the back of SK1. This is obviously a setback to the group's ambitions but we know if we don't get our organisation right while the group is still in its infancy we're doomed to fail, so hopefully people will understand why we're doing this. If anybody would like to contact the club in support of us, please e-mail [email protected], as they obviously value the electronic word far greater than the dozens and dozens of people in the ground who shook hands with us, complimented us on how good it was to have some vitality and passion at home games and generally wished us well last Saturday. All group members will be able to pick up their match tickets and season tickets from us in The Counting House before the game on Saturday. If you have any questions about this please PM me or ARAB. Thanks. Hang on, I'm not in the joke thread am i? What a disgrace! Let's get an email sent.
MeatyLCFC Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 OH MY GOD! this is justed wrong! i sit in SK3 and tht is quite loud when it gets going and the fosse boys are justed wot we need to get SK1 up and singing so hopefully tht will result in the kop singing all together. i get chills dwn my back when the whole kop sings after a goal! and i get a little glimpse of the old filbert street kop, one day i would like the whole walkers kop to be standing and singing the whole game but the boring stewards, day trippers and rules from the Fa are justed killing any slight hint of this. KEEP GOING FOSSE BOYS! EVERYONE JUSTED GET BEHIND THEM AND THE TEAM FOR THE WHOLE 90 MINUTES! come on you blues!
Mikey Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 People go to football to be entertained,wined and dined(if you ar corporate) NOT to sing and shout and act like a bloody yobbo. Sit down,be quiet,enjoy the hot beverages and food on offer all at very reasonable prices and watch the game in silence.(apart from the odd applause if we score) You fcukers should be banned. Sent an e-mail. I think the Fosse Boys should be at the Reading game. Don't let them win.
stix Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 There is a bit a contradiction coming out of lcfc as i see it... They are threatening fans with ejection if they do not stop singing/chanting, however before every game an employee of the club(birch) is telling the fans to get behind the lads and cheer them on and try and become the '12th' man?! This statement really does baffle me.
Poakey Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Where the 22 complaints from stewards? What a joke, what sort of fan complains about noise a football match!! Whats it coming too? Email sent! Just an idea,why dont you SIT at the back of SK1 on sat,mingle in with the rest of the kop instead off being on your own, see what happens, you might get more people involved!Turn the negative into a positive!! It's less of a big step for people to join the group if you join them if you know what i mean. I attended the fosse boys v Middlesbro but can't make the Reading unfortunatly,but good luck what ever happens,you will allways have me and my bros support!! Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.
Babylon Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Email sent... this club is an f'ing disgrace. It's one thing after the other at the moment that's making me hate the bloody place.
Mack Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Sitting in the family stand you could'nt hear you lot over the way at all. I would like to officially complain that I COULD NOT HEAR YOU.
m00nie Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 tbh it all sounds total lies from the club..some kind of power/ego thing.. since when has anyone ever complained about noise at a football ground. in all the games over many years ive been to ive never heard 1 person around me ever moaning about noise so let alone 22 people all complaining... anyway can you really see them trying to evict 20/30 people all in one go, in front of the sky tv cameras also.. for singing?? i think you should stick to your guns and carry on at the reading game.. with the cameras there be a good chance to promote the group more...
Flynny Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Sent this. Might have gone on a bit but hopefully it's watertight against their own self-justifications: I hear that the group calling themselves 'The Fosse Boys' has been threatened with expulsion from the stadium, and find this ludicrous from every possible standpoint. I understand fully the desire to have a family friendly atmosphere at the club, but for those bothered by the 'traditional' matchday experience, the family stand is supposed to provide the gentler experience that these persons are after. For people to be told to move and threatened simply for enjoying the matchday experience in the way that football fans have since time immemorial is like being told to leave a country fair for wearing a gilet and flatcap. Ridiculous. Pandering to a fickle 'family' audience and neglecting passionate supporters makes no possible sense from a business perspective either. Those supporters who are passionate about football and support the club through thick and thin are being driven to, in some cases, only attend away matches because the club continues to pander to a small core of moaners. Half-baked hopes of attracting a more genteel sort of supporter who'll shut up when they're told to and can be taken for a few more quid in the gift shop are actively driving a much greater number of fans away. Anyone else who'd managed to haemorrage the amount of support we'd lost at the Walkers since it was built would be firing people left and right and seriously rethinking their strategy - the continued alienation of the bulk of supporters is both baffling and illogical. Do remember that people will always be driven to complain about things but are rarely if ever going to email the club with sentiments like "those guys at the back were pretty decent the other day". Also remember that these actions are taking place in an area that your own department rebranded with the names of the blocks of the most vocal and vociferous support at the old Filbert Street stadium, which risks making you look stupidly hypocritical. I barely even raise my voice at the football half the time myself, but the matchday experience is something I treasure immensely. The roar of the crowd multiplying your own emotions exponentially is a feeling that's difficult to replace, and as the quality of the matchday experience declines, so does the value of the ticket, so does the crowd, and we lose more and more support. The club should be doing something to address this precipitous decline in support instead of pandering to one or two curmudgeons because it's easier. I get to games whenever I can afford it, but at the same time as a financial crisis, at the same time as ticket prices have been hiked, as the same time as we enter uncertain times with new management and owners, the club seem to be conspiring to make going to see my team less and less worthwhile. To hear about the Fosse Boys too is infuriating and just... disappointing. Please sort yourselves out, pull your socks up, pull your finger out, wake up and smell the coffee, do the right thing, and stop punishing the sort of honest support the club has relied on for decades. To do anything else isn't just financially suicidal, it's dull, it's boring, it's crass, and it's wrong. Yours, Tom Flynn
KFS Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 To whom this may concern, It has become apparent to myself that a minuscule proportion of fans have complained about a group that currently is a very valuable asset to our club, "The Fosse Boys". The fact that the club are willing to overhaul the situation to extremes in which the group will be expelled from the match day program is simply disgusting. The amount of effort that has been injected into the project in which may I add are only a vocal group, seems to be on a large scale and would go to waste far too easily if things are not to change. The Walkers has turned into a library of late and as I and most fans believe, The Fosse Boys are a major improvement on the current situation. I hope the Fosse Boys are to grow and prosper. Than you for your time, Stephen. Just a quick one, sent.
SeCrEt FoX Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Might of been the 'Boro fans complaining OMFG i just cant believe people would complain about noise AT A fooking FOOTBALL MATCH !!!!!!!!! GO DOWN THE ROAD TO THE TIGERS IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU FOOKING IMBECILES WTF!! Theirs a few library's that might tickle there fancys in Leicester but saying that it might be too quiet for them
AoWW Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Fosse Boy / Arab - I assume you're in contact with SUSD and the FSF. Might be worth flagging the club's comment up with them? As someone else already mentioned, it's a shame you can't get cameras to record people being allowed to stand in some other areas of the ground whilst you're being ejected (should it come to that). The club can't be a million miles off breaking some 'discrimination' laws/policies if they do that, surely?
fox123 Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 I'll send them one of my drunken rants - that will get the club talking Seriously though, good luck with it.
Fosse Boy Posted 26 August 2010 Author Posted 26 August 2010 Fosse Boy / Arab - I assume you're in contact with SUSD and the FSF. Might be worth flagging the club's comment up with them? As someone else already mentioned, it's a shame you can't get cameras to record people being allowed to stand in some other areas of the ground whilst you're being ejected (should it come to that). The club can't be a million miles off breaking some 'discrimination' laws/policies if they do that, surely? Been in contact with the FSF from the very start. They've been a great help.
LCFC-ARAB Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Fosse Boy / Arab - I assume you're in contact with SUSD and the FSF. Might be worth flagging the club's comment up with them? As someone else already mentioned, it's a shame you can't get cameras to record people being allowed to stand in some other areas of the ground whilst you're being ejected (should it come to that). The club can't be a million miles off breaking some 'discrimination' laws/policies if they do that, surely? We are talking to the FSF at the minute, they have been really helpful but it all comes down to one man at our club, and he seems hell bent on stopping this happening Just like to say thanks to everyone who has emailed, i'm quite overwhelmed by the support keep it up!
Guest Mee-9 Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 We are talking to the FSF at the minute, they have been really helpful but it all comes down to one man at our club, and he seems hell bent on stopping this happening Just like to say thanks to everyone who has emailed, i'm quite overwhelmed by the support keep it up! Will be emailing the club in a minute mate. But where would you move to? West Stand would be a complete No-No, As would the family stand, that just leaves the East Stand,, where most of you originated from anyway. Leicester fans never cease to amaze me, why sit in the pissing kop, if you want silence. Bet these complaints are old farts, who go to their one game a season. Or that pillock who was giving your group the willy puller signs, under like 20 odd different emails.
Magictv Posted 26 August 2010 Posted 26 August 2010 Emailing to let the club know of my support for the Fosse Boys and their attempts to increase that dire atmosphere at our home games. Don't have time to go into detail but in my opinion it's a great thing we might finally be getting some noise back into our stadium, especially at the "kop" end. Tom 5 year season ticket holder in J3, currently buy occasional tickets when I can afford it. -------- Goodluck guys.
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