Stadium atmosphere

[K1FOX]

Stop with the ‘boring football’ rubbish. We’ve scored more than anyone else and are 10 points clear. Our fans leave on 85 mins en masse. Imagine we weren’t actually good. Fans are crap. 
 

And I can bet you the majority of these are those who clapped relegation last year and tried to fight those who were angry. 

[Hirsty The Blue 94]

Tonight was the straw that broke the camels back for me. From the start, the atmosphere was completely dead, we scored in the 3rd minute and it didn't improve a jot, other than the usual knuckle daggers shouting 'get it forward' and 'move it faster' every 30 seconds when we had possession. I mean do people really not understand that the game has more skill, tactic and nuance than a Sunday League game?

Then nipped down for a pee at half time and managed to grab a quick pint whilst I was down there, had to listen to 2 middle age blokes in the queue moaning about it being quote 'the same old shit' and contemplating leaving at half time when we were 1-0 up and 10 clear at the top of the table. 

Then came back up for the 2nd half and somehow the atmosphere was worse, we scored 2 in quick succession and no raise in volume, no additional chants or anything. And bang on the dot 85 minutes the exodus began and by the time FT hit the stadium was at best half full.

Walking back the amount of moaning about how boring the football is, how crap it is to watch, how player X, Y and Z are useless and will never be good enough for the Premier League was bemusing. I know I had a few pints but I could have swore we won 3-1 in the most comfortable fashion imaginable, not got stuffed.

I genuinely don't know the solution to it though, my only thought is make the entire Kop a singing safe standing section during the redesign which are 50% season ticket and 50% general sale and have them at a reduced rate to try and encourage people who actually want to be there, support the team and create something of an atmosphere. Then let the moaners, prawn sandwichers and coffin dodgers relocate to the East and West stand where they can all sit quietly and groan at every time Vestergaard plays it to Faes. The good home ends I have experienced in the last year or so are Leeds, Cov and Villa and the demographic of those are young lads who get behind the team. I sit/stand towards the back of SK2 and look around and I don't see a single face under 30 years old. Sure this post will bring a response of 'I've followed city before you were born son' types but the reality is most (but not all granted) add nothing to the match day experience and atmosphere.

I have left 1 game early this season, Rotherham at home I left at 80 minutes as had to get to Glenfield for and CT scan for 5.30, what I couldn't believe was the number of people walking down the street with me, there were hundreds and this was 10 minutes before the game finished, not just 1 or 2 minutes of additional time left. I mean they could have all had urgent medical procedures to go to, safe to say I didn't see any of them in the waiting room at the hospital. 

So much so that I enjoy going to the game to watch the game, but since 2017 Champs League run the match day experience has become more and more unenjoyable both home and away. As much as I wouldn't swap promotion/great escape/league win/Champs League run for anything as they were incredible days, as a fan base we have been so spoilt that nothing will live it up to it now so the ambivalence is now ingrained amongst us, we need a proper reset which I thought this season might be, but alas no.

[And Joachim goes throoough]

Credit due to the 20 or 30 lads at the bottom of the singing section

[And Joachim goes throoough]

Just now, And Joachim goes throoough said:

Credit due to the 20 or 30 lads at the bottom of the singing section

Without them it’s not a singing section

[adam]

The people in the ground now are the same people who created the good atmosphere in the ground during the great escape and the premier league winning seasons.

Fans have been spoilt. Simple as that. People also need to be honest and admit that the style of football does not excite the crowd. Watching Vesty and the keeper **** about with it for about 20 minutes of the first half is bloody dull.

I imagine things will improve next year.

Edited 31 January by adam

[Trekerz]

Look at the difference between the singing section today and the section against Birmingham on Saturday. All the usual bores returned. Now multiply that by 20 and you get the rest of the stadium silent.

[Dan LCFC]

Honestly if Maresca forced the club to take drastic action to sort this shambles of a ground out he'd have pretty much unconditional support from me.

[Trekerz]

Just now, Dan LCFC said:

Honestly if Maresca forced the club to take drastic action to sort this shambles of a ground out he'd have pretty much unconditional support from me.

Can you imagine the amount of shit he would get from the BM association 😭😭😭

[adam]

1 minute ago, Dan LCFC said:

Honestly if Maresca forced the club to take drastic action to sort this shambles of a ground out he'd have pretty much unconditional support from me.

What are you expecting him to do!?

[K1FOX]

Enzo demands a better atmosphere. UFS need to organise a meeting with him and use that to strong hand the club. There needs to be a whole end for people to actually support the team. It’s not a viewing gallery. WE ARE SUPPORTERS

[Dan LCFC]

1 minute ago, adam said:

What are you expecting him to do!?

Just keep prodding at them for the absolute embarrassment that it currently is. Actually force their hand to make changes to the layout etc... supplement the atmosphere rather than suppress it. What you're seeing play out here is years of atmosphere suppression mixed with being in a league we're clearly better than (hence it being boring). It's the perfect storm for the flattest imaginable atmosphere.

 

The disconnect is still there at this club for a large part, although the difference this year is that the fans are at fault more than the team.

[Dan LCFC]

1 hour ago, Nolucklcfc said:

As a supporter of the club, you want to be proud of your own fanbase and give the impression of a big club feel to the players and management but how poor it is this season almost takes the gloss off how good a season we are having. 

It's embarrassing. Nobody worth their salt would stick around on these grounds. They must have a right laugh at the state of our support.

[Dan LCFC]

1 hour ago, SecretPro said:

Why bother going in the first place then? So many fecking namby parents these days. It's once in a while, if you can't cope with allowing your child to go to bed at half 10 once in a while then you have no concept of reality and real world problems. 

Wonder if Ipswich's family stand empties every night game after 80.

[Leicester_Loyal]

4 hours ago, Trekerz said:

There’s no helping our fans. Absolute spineless bunch of bores. This is the clubs fault pushing the demographic they wanted and this is exactly what they’ve asked for. The type of fans they wanted in the seats are not going to be the ones to stay behind after the whistle and are not going to be the ones travelling up and down the country. They’ll be the ones who come for a day out at the “football”. Sadly, not sure the club care in the slightest.

Exactly, been a long time coming. No safe standing, no actively trying to bring an atmosphere into the ground, no trying to get new fans in the ground, letting the priority points fiasco roll on for years longer than it should. 
 

I can’t believe people moan about this football yet were happy to defend Rodgers for 18 months, weird. 
 

Major changes are needed, I don’t think the club has the stomach for them personally. 

[The_77]

3 hours ago, adam said:

The people in the ground now are the same people who created the good atmosphere in the ground during the great escape and the premier league winning seasons.

Fans have been spoilt. Simple as that. People also need to be honest and admit that the style of football does not excite the crowd. Watching Vesty and the keeper **** about with it for about 20 minutes of the first half is bloody dull.

I imagine things will improve next year.

So which is it, the fans are jaded or it’s the style of football? Let’s be honest, it’s not the style with which we’re leading the division in wins, points, goals, and goal difference.   

Edited 31 January by The_77
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[jmono84]

I was back in my usual seat in SK2 after trying the singing section in the FA Cup and what a difference.

 

I still chant and try to get behind the lads but it’s pretty much me singing and that’s it.

 

My mate and I looked at getting a permanent swap into the singing section but the club said there were only seats a considerable distance from each other which wouldn’t work for me and my mate. The guy on the phone said he was expecting a lot of movement there next season!

[MattFox]

6 hours ago, foxtillidrop said:

Our fans are good on our day - if think back to when we won promotion, the great escape, prem league and played in Europe. 

 

Fans have been on a rollercoaster with the club over the last 15 years or so. The style at the moment isn't conducive to getting the fans going and has slowly deteriorated since the Puel days.

 

Most leicester fans gravitate to players who bring excitement (like Vardy for example). This period is actually making me appreciate the title winning team even more - not only did we win it, but we won it with one of the most exciting styles of football, which ignited the crowd.

 

The current style is pre-planned, methodical, predictable and is bringing in positive results - but ignites no passion in the fans. Who traditionally enjoys watching the centre back stand on the ball for what can feel like an age.

 

Our day was almost a decade ago now

[MattFox]

5 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

It really is broken beyond belief. You get shoots of good like the Birmingham game but the general level is absolutely appalling. I really do fear it's beyond repair. The only hope you can have is that some of the loudest grounds we've been to this season were Coventry and Middlesbrough and they used to be extremely dead as well. Though I don't think there's that same desire - we aren't a bad enough team.

Cov basically have a new fanbase due to loads of kids jumping on board when they were in League 2/1 and Boro had lots of empty seats to play around with

[iancognito]

Just posted up a conversation behind me in one of the other threads, the moaning whingeing and griping is getting beyond parody. I genuinely wish this season had been a drop through the league to bloody League One again just so we can have rid of the deadwood in the stands. We cleared out the squad but got left with the spoiled, entitled ****ers in the stands who have been drunk on Premier League football for a decade.

 

Just echoing what's been said above, Maresca should do an interview where he states the dead atmosphere is a problem. If not him then one of the players should express surprise at the empty seats or something.

 

This team could not have done anymore this season. Points, GD through the roof, barely challenged by most teams and all you get is people moaning (wrongly) that we give points away. We've lost 1 game in 14 when we had ten men. We've dropped 4 points to the only side with fewer defeats than us via two deflected goals and despite "dropping" those points we're ten clear of them.

 

The UFS lads should take massive credit for at least trying to keep going in the King Power Library because large sections of the silent support are an absolute embarrassment to the club.

[dnewty]

I’ll be moving to the singing section next season. Currently in P2 and you actually get stared at when you join in with a song. Even when we score it’s more of a polite clap rather than a celebration. Says it all when the only songs came from school kids in the back row.

The Kop and C1 didn’t sound too bad from where I was.

The West Stand may as well not be there.

Edited 31 January by dnewty

[iancognito]

6 hours ago, foxtillidrop said:

Our fans are good on our day - if think back to when we won promotion, the great escape, prem league and played in Europe. 

 

Fans have been on a rollercoaster with the club over the last 15 years or so. The style at the moment isn't conducive to getting the fans going and has slowly deteriorated since the Puel days.

 

Most leicester fans gravitate to players who bring excitement (like Vardy for example). This period is actually making me appreciate the title winning team even more - not only did we win it, but we won it with one of the most exciting styles of football, which ignited the crowd.

 

The current style is pre-planned, methodical, predictable and is bringing in positive results - but ignites no passion in the fans. Who traditionally enjoys watching the centre back stand on the ball for what can feel like an age.

 

What do people want? The 3 or 4 times we tried a longer ball tonight it bounced off the CBs and gave them possession back. Knock it down the channels for people to try to run on to? Teams just don't play like that anymore, aside from Dyche teams and the odd throwback like Wilder or Hodgson. It's hardly Vestergaard's fault if the strikers are standing ten yards off him or the opposition stick in two banks of 5 to try to play through. I'd love Pearson back here but the truth is his last two or three teams haven't exactly been producing title winning football. They've looked as predictable as we're supposedly looking at the moment. Predictable but apparently unstoppable.

[SemperEadem]

36 minutes ago, jmono84 said:

I was back in my usual seat in SK2 after trying the singing section in the FA Cup and what a difference.

 

I still chant and try to get behind the lads but it’s pretty much me singing and that’s it.

 

My mate and I looked at getting a permanent swap into the singing section but the club said there were only seats a considerable distance from each other which wouldn’t work for me and my mate. The guy on the phone said he was expecting a lot of movement there next season!

Did they show you a screen shot of seats available?

[SemperEadem]

15 minutes ago, dnewty said:

I’ll be moving to the singing section next season. Currently in P2 and you actually get stared at when you join in with a song. Even when we score it’s more of a polite clap rather than a celebration. Says it all when the only songs came from school kids in the back row.

The Kop and C1 didn’t sound too bad from where I was.

The West Stand may as well not be there.

Can I ask if next season you moving absolutely needs to be then or could it be from Sheff Wed?

Only I think showing the club the desire to move now will really help the lot fighting for it to stay and grow out.

[Claudio Fannieri]

I am going to be honest the last 10 years have truly spoilt us as fans, I am 50 years old and never thought I would ever see us crowned Premier League champions and could only dream of seeing us lift the FA Cup at Wembley.
 

However whilst I cherish those days, I also remember the mediocrity of the bad old times that I have witnessed under Pleat, relegation to league 1 etc. i do think as a fanbase there has become an air of entitlement, almost football snobbery that we don’t belong here, that the championship is beneath us, I am afraid to tell you that attitude will mean m not enjoying or embracing a new era and possibly what will be one of our most successful seasons in our history. 
 

Yes relegation was a right kick in the old happy sacks for us all, the manner of it and the fact it shouldn’t have happened with the squad we had but it did. We were in a mess and Enzo has picked us back up and got us flying, so embrace it and enjoy seeing your team win and after the negativity of last season, start to build the feel good factor again. Entitled is not a good look. 

[jet64]

Watched some footage of home games from our title winning season and was shocked at how animated the crowd were ( not just the Kop end but every section fans were up on their feet, clapping and shouting) 

Clearly the emotions and noise level were bound to be off the scale at that time given the huge prize almost within our grasp but I feel sad that on the whole so many sections now seem to be so flat and devoid of enthusiasm. 
For me, (although our style of play is literally genius and is why we are where we are )I feel we give a lot of weaker teams too much respect.
I would love to see us mix it up and sometimes just go for it. Kick it long more if the opportunity is on. Get the crowd buzzing again.

Watching chess can be fascinating but sometimes we all need a bit more of an adrenaline boost!

Not forgetting we are all still recovering from BR squeezing every last drop of joy from us as well and that’s gonna take a while to put right