Fosse boys to be ejected - time to make a stand

[poppowell]

I just sent this , boy this club is going down the pan fast !!

Hello,

Just read on one of LCFC fan sights that you are thinking of banning the Fosse Boys due to complaints of them being to loud. This is an absolute disgrace I have been following City for over 35 years & spent a good part of my youth standing in the old Kop singing & supporting my beloved Leicester City. Everybody knows that the atmosphere In The walkers is nothing compared to the old Filbert Street & the new Kop is very quiet in comparisson.

These guys are just trying to create a bit of atmoshpere & I guess most Leicester City fans would say good luck to them because the Club deffinately could do with this kind of vociforous support. At the end of the day The Kop at any Ground that has one is where traditionaly the most noise comes from, so if people who are sitting there are complaining of too much noise then maybe they are in the wrong area NOT The Fosse Boys!!

Maybe these people would b e best off going to whatch a snooker match !!

Thanks Ant L (Melton)

[Ashley]

Sorry for original post, i thought this was the fosse boys offical thread. I shall send an email of my thoughts to the club. Leicester City you are a disgrace we the fans try and get some atmosphere in the libary of the walkers and you reject are attempts every time.

Keep up the good work Fosse Boys!

[Sylvie85]

E-mail sent lads, maybe next time you should wear dressing gowns with pipe and slipper combo!!!!

What is the world coming too when you can't even stand up and shout to support your team!

[James_lcfc]

E-mail sent.

Good luck lads, would hate to see all the effort come to nothing...

[CheshireFox]

Hi,

Having just gone on to the Foxes Talk forum for my daily update and chat with likeminded Leicester City fans I was concerned to see that due to the complaints of 22 people at the Middlesborough match, the Fosse Boys were asked to either move from the kop or be removed from the ground if they persist.

Firstly, I am extremely surprised that there are 22 people who go to a football match and object to hearing singing from the crowd, obviously you cannot speak for them but in my opinion a football match is lacking an essential part of the match day experience without singing.

Secondly I can imagine that the players, having said so on numerous occasions, like to be able to hear the support of the home fans- especially above the sound of the support of the away fans. This has always been an issue at the Walkers as opposed to Filbert Street, having sat in the new kop myself many times I can usually hear the away fans more than i can our own fans! Also i refer to the many occasions following goals, where our players have ran towards the crowd and gestured for more noise, I can think of a recent occasion where Steve Howard did this very thing.

I have been a leicester fan since i was a child, and have come along to as many games as possible, even following a move to Cheshire. I can honestly say that in my opinion and in many other people's opinions (I can speak here in particular for my Dad and brother too) the atmosphere at the Walkers has been sadly lacking, and has been described as the worst atmosphere in the league. I am ashamed to hear this said of my beloved team's ground but sadly this is true. Filbert Street's atmosphere was excellent, and i cannot think of any incidents which stand out in my memory, caused by people enjoying the game and singing, aswell as standing to show their support. The Fosse Boys are making an admirable attempt to improve the atmosphere in the Walkers and I would like to register my support for them, and anyone else who feels that they would like to show their support for the team vocally and indeed by standing if they are not blocking the view of anyone else who prefers not to.

Surely you should be supporting any move to improve the atmosphere in the stadium and to encourage more fans to come along to games, especially following the ticket price increase and the resulting lower gates so far this season.

have just sent this through. thought i might as well get my dig in about the ticket prices at the same time

[hairy]

I would love to know how the person at the club who decided this policy came to their decision as it is truely unbelievable. The club has hit a new low in my book.

I wonder if the same 22 complained about the noise after the Leeds match at Easter 09

[Ozwin]

I'm not one with words so this probably isn't very good but it's my two cents anyway.

Hi, I'm a frequent visitor to the Walkers Stadium on match days and I think that the Fosse Boys are a brilliant idea to get people singing and to increase the match day atmosphere. I'm hearing that there have been complaints about 'too much noise' to which I ask; where do these people think they are on a Saturday afternoon, a library? Football is all about the noise and enjoyment of match days, if you start clamping down on this (and standing for that matter, but that's a different argument all together) then you'll be ripping what little is left about the enjoyment of football. The Fosse Boys are a refreshing new, clearly hardworking group and should be complimented on their efforts, not told to stop because it's 'too loud' - that's just silly.

Regards,

Owen.

[Smudge]

Not wishing to piss on you parade lads but if you don't sit down you you will probably be banned, you've made yourselves a target. The noise thing may have been said but I doubt the club would ridicule themselves by banning you for singing, the Sun et al would have a field day.

Rightly or wrongly, it's the ground regulations as mandated by the Football League. If those behind you can't see the game, guess who's going to get listened to, however few?

[Dr The Singh]

:lei1:I complained......................because the Fosse Boys didn't make enough noise!!!!

[lavrentis]

Email sent.

[AyewJoking]

too noisy

The club would be happy with a stadium full of librarians as long as they sell tickets.

Reminds me of when my mate started banging on the advertising boards at the bottom of the Kop a few years ago and a steward told him to stop.

I'm glad I dont go to matches anymore, what a waste of money.

[Ozwin]

Not wishing to piss on you parade lads but if you don't sit down you you will probably be banned, you've made yourselves a target. The noise thing may have been said but I doubt the club would ridicule themselves by banning you for singing, the Sun et al would have a field day.

Rightly or wrongly, it's the ground regulations as mandated by the Football League. If those behind you can't see the game, guess who's going to get listened to, however few?

They move to a part of the ground that won't be affecting people's views, they're not complete idiots.

[CheshireFox]

if you could blend in a bit more too the rest of the koppites at the next game, but then make a point of singing 'stand up if you love leicester' a bit more often, you will get more people standing with you, and you can use this as a bit of a protest.

shame i wont be able to make a game until at least the QPR match, hope everyone else who gets to the reading game helps out to support you a bit - talk is good but a bit of action would help to show that the majority arent there to read books of a saturday afternoon!

[Manwell Pablo]

Lost all hope of anything like this being sucessful the day I got ejected without warning for leaning against the back of the stadium for 45 minutes

[Smudge]

They move to a part of the ground that won't be affecting people's views, they're not complete idiots.

That's a very logical answer and a choice I'd make but people aren't all like that. They don't like what they see and they want it removed, it's a human trait and a form of passive aggression.

[ozleicester]

email sent. .. good luck Fosse Boys

[danielpholt]

Maybe someone could write a template email//letter and then we could send them on mass to the club. Its astonishing to me that people are moaning about noise at a football ground. If you wan't to sit and watch a game whilst doing your knitting, stay at home for christ sake.

[Smudge]

Lost all hope of anything like this being sucessful the day I got ejected without warning for leaning against the back of the stadium for 45 minutes

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[lcfcpaul]

i think the 'Fosse Boys' should def' turn up for the Reading game especially as it is televised and maybe an e-mail sent to the tv company highlighting the situation would be to your advantage. Any free publicity you can get can only be good for yourselfs.

The problem with this thread is there are many people supporting you but i am afraid there will also be some who jump on the 'Anti Fosse Boys' bandwagon and send e-mails to the club complaining bout you.

[Flynny]

Presumably you guys knew something like this would happen eventually. You'll always get moaners and if the club are being dicks, as happens quite a lot, they'll use them as an excuse. If you manage to keep organised with shows of support like this you just might win.

[Lcfcman2010]

Absolute joke!!

Me and my father were regulars in the Filbert Street kop and enjoyed every single moment in there with no hassle. Having moved to the Walkers and my father now being in a wheelchair after strokes i miss the days of the chants and banter with all the people involved in doing so. Seeing the Fosse Boys on my first game this season against Sunderland was a breath of fresh air and enjoyed there entertainment on that day and have done so at the 'boro game.

So fickle that the Leicester Staff are even considering this topic. I for one would of laughed such "complaints" off and not taken any action.

Keep it up Fosse Boys and don't stay away on saturday, make yourselfs heard even more and get sky involved in the matter. bring some reality checks to these cock smokers at the club. Sky would love a bit of this!

Email sent!

[howsyourfather]

lads, i thought you were great against middlesborough and agree with what you're doing after at first being very sceptical, reading about the club threatening you has really Pissed me off. I've sent the club an e-mail in support of you and also went off on a bit of a tangent about other issues. Hopefully it's not just deleted as soon as it's recieved

It has come to my attention today that the Fosse Boys have been threatened with ejection and bans from the Walkers Stadium if they continue to try and create a lively and enjoyable atmosphere at our home games. It is my understanding that 22 fans sent in letters of complaints because they felt the Fosse Boys were too noisy, well can i just say I think the music that comes on after we score is too noisy and i would like the CD ejected from the stadium. If I was an away fan I would not bother coming to the Walkers because the atmosphere is appalling, yet when a group of people try and rectify this, they're issued with threats. At the end of the day the way a club is percieved by other clubs is on how vocal and passionate their fans are. We have tremendous away support but at home it is shocking. To be honest I feel that this club is turning into somewhat of a joke and run by total idiots, who are in no way in touch with the normal fan and local community. Stop trying to tell us that we're a great family club, stop playing that stupid recording of a little kid telling us not to swear, stop telling us not to smoke, stop putting ten thousand stewards around the pitch at full time for a tuesday night game against a team like reading, where there is absolutely no chance of all the fans running on the pitch. Stop advising us to get down to the ticket office as early as possible so we don't miss out on tickets for the next home game against QPR, when you know full well 32,000 people are not going to pay in excess of £25 to watch that game. And also, maybe when we get a little bit of success why not let us run onto the pitch like other teams do, fans do this because it's fun and is something that rarely happens these days. I thought it was an absolute joke after the middlesborough game at the end of last season when the players did a lap of honour to show their thanks to the fans but were only allowed to do so in a confined area due to a ring of stewards on the pitch. Did the club at this time have reason to believe we would of killed our own players if allowed anywhere near the pitch? I'm getting pretty fed up with the whole package the club are trying to sell us, just let fans turn up and have a good time, if you've got a problem with the Fosse Boys standing then maybe you should also address the situation on L1, because I don't see anyone sitting there. Oh, and I'm not too keen on these new owners or the direction the club seems the be taking.

regards

Daniel

[Babylon]

The Club "We need you, the fans are the twelfth man".

The Club "Sit down and don't make any noise until instructed to by the man on the PA system, or when you hear Fire by Kasabian".

[Houdini Logic]

i think the 'Fosse Boys' should def' turn up for the Reading game especially as it is televised and maybe an e-mail sent to the tv company highlighting the situation would be to your advantage. Any free publicity you can get can only be good for yourselfs.

The problem with this thread is there are many people supporting you but i am afraid there will also be some who jump on the 'Anti Fosse Boys' bandwagon and send e-mails to the club complaining bout you.

That's a cracking idea - I'd like to see the club turf out 50 home fans in front of the Sky TV cameras

[purpleronnie]

Just to bump the email address:-

[email protected]

Get emailing, or even phone 'em.