stripeyfox
New Member
Oh dear, how did it come to this? I don’t think any of us can be in any doubt now that the manager will lose his job one way or the other very soon. It seems that the writing has been on the wall for a while now. I disagree with others on this forum who say no one complained about the players signed in the summer – there was no players signed who would have the hordes kicking the ticket office door down. I appreciate its a difficult balance to strike, especially when you have no money to spend but given the sort of football on offer you can understand fans staying away.
The seeds of Mickey’s exit were sown this time last year when we started throwing away points in the Premiership as if they were going out of fashion. Relegation followed and the rhetoric from the club in the summer was of a title challenge – the players signed were clearly part of a title push, not a building from the ground up “new team” (like Norwich in recent years). You don’t sign players like Dublin, Keown and Pressman if you’re laying the foundations for a new era, you sign them to get you out of the division (preferably upwards) and that is why the performances have been so disappointing. They aren’t kids who are a bit rough round the edges and will improve, they are seasoned professionals. On paper the best squad in the league or so everyone in the media thought in the summer.
So I could agree with Rich and others about being more patient and lowering our expectations if I could see any evidence of a “new era” being constructed.
The club’s plan at the moment is to live hand to mouth. Build a team from over the hill past it veterans and various other free transfers and other club’s rejects, gain promotion, bank the ££££’s, get relegated and start again. Its obvious that this leaves lithe margin for error but it is this that has raised our expectations. Most supporters would settle for period of consolidation if the club appeared to be going forwards.
The club continues to take the p*** out of it supporters, just as it always has done (and obviously its not only Leicester who are guilty of that), but for sheer stupidity the club’s request in the summer for fans to come down and weed the car park takes some beating. If I was MA I’d have the players doing it – they’re all fit (reasonably) lads and do little else to justify their huge salaries. But no, apparently after purchasing a season ticket for the last god knows how long, we still need “to give something” back to the club. But I digress. All of these factors IMO are contributing to the apathy around the place at the moment.
It’s so so sad and I don’t know the solution. Sometimes I wish I supported someone really crap like Doncaster or Hartlepool. At least things would be simple!
The seeds of Mickey’s exit were sown this time last year when we started throwing away points in the Premiership as if they were going out of fashion. Relegation followed and the rhetoric from the club in the summer was of a title challenge – the players signed were clearly part of a title push, not a building from the ground up “new team” (like Norwich in recent years). You don’t sign players like Dublin, Keown and Pressman if you’re laying the foundations for a new era, you sign them to get you out of the division (preferably upwards) and that is why the performances have been so disappointing. They aren’t kids who are a bit rough round the edges and will improve, they are seasoned professionals. On paper the best squad in the league or so everyone in the media thought in the summer.
So I could agree with Rich and others about being more patient and lowering our expectations if I could see any evidence of a “new era” being constructed.
The club’s plan at the moment is to live hand to mouth. Build a team from over the hill past it veterans and various other free transfers and other club’s rejects, gain promotion, bank the ££££’s, get relegated and start again. Its obvious that this leaves lithe margin for error but it is this that has raised our expectations. Most supporters would settle for period of consolidation if the club appeared to be going forwards.
The club continues to take the p*** out of it supporters, just as it always has done (and obviously its not only Leicester who are guilty of that), but for sheer stupidity the club’s request in the summer for fans to come down and weed the car park takes some beating. If I was MA I’d have the players doing it – they’re all fit (reasonably) lads and do little else to justify their huge salaries. But no, apparently after purchasing a season ticket for the last god knows how long, we still need “to give something” back to the club. But I digress. All of these factors IMO are contributing to the apathy around the place at the moment.
It’s so so sad and I don’t know the solution. Sometimes I wish I supported someone really crap like Doncaster or Hartlepool. At least things would be simple!
