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Even though there is a lot of blue blood on Bentley I get the idea some of you have stopped going for your own personal reasons like my mates bar a dozen who as I have season tickets going back years and many seem to live away now on ere . Hand on heart I’m not wanting to jack due to current form tbh the buzz left me season after we won fa cup even that night on way back from Wembley I felt ready to finish but didn’t. Always thought I’d be very old guy who still enjoyed it but feel really detached from the vibe down there and did stop going away 2021 btw well 2020 due to lockdown . Do you miss it and did you have enough of the way many folk around you were at the games, ie they don’t really seem interested and passion is the last word I’d use to describe em , I’ve been in pubs watching away games with former st lads and it’s still in their hearts even before the ale starts to work 😉🤭 as ever this doesn’t apply to all its just I’m from a time that even with dwindling gates they who went made it magic.
 
I don’t enjoy it at all any more.

I still want to watch the football but I don’t enjoy the matchday experience at all any more.

Used to go pretty much every game home and away but far more sporadic now and have toyed with losing the season ticket for a couple of years.
 
I had a season ticket from 1990 but dumped mine last season. (at one stage we had 4 season tickets!)
Before the kids turned up, the wife and i even went to home and some away reserve games
Once the kids lost interest, and then the Covid shite happened, i lost the habit of going to the games
I still look out for the results and get nervous when we play, but i no longer know what our next sequence of games ae, or remember the recent results. I probably wont even recognise some of the players now.
Sad really as LCFC was a big part of my life. The people that we used to sit with. The sounds and smells of the ground, hotdogs, cigarettes, cigars, and alcohol etc.
Don't miss the 2 hour (plus) trip to and from the home games, or the expense of the season tickets, fuel, shite food at the ground and the late night returns from mid-week games. Couldn't stand the piss-about with Sky dates and times for KO's either
Maybe its just part of becoming a grumpy old fart, but i dont think i could summon up the enthusiasm to drag my arse down again.
Sad really as i used to really love the ground, the team and the experience. Oh well!
 
Get both above sad to say and agree with all. All sound like I’m thinking at mo so perhaps it’s a combo of age health ok times and cash flow but the build up is what il never buy into as they do it to death and as teams finally come out I’m kind of embarrassed to be there, very USA ish yuk , used to love gerin up off to tavern see the lads do the crawl and then all someone did in standing Kop was shout oh when the blues and it took off . It was our job and we loved it win lose draw , away travel was great too for banter and making life long mates , after typing now I see how lucky we were 👍
 
Fucking lightweights!!!!!!

I know where you’re coming from, my lad had just moved up to Leeds University, he still loves it but isn’t going as regularly as he was, thankfully his cousin is in London so I travel up with him and his enthusiasm keeps me excited. I did mention to him about packing it in at some point but as he pointed out if I can do 48 years while working and having a family what would I do when I retire in two years time and it’s just me, the Mrs and a whioe week to fill.
As long as someone is still going that I can have a natter/moan with then I guess I’ll still be there.
Bank manager may have some input of course.
 
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shanetko said:
I don’t enjoy it at all any more.

I still want to watch the football but I don’t enjoy the matchday experience at all any more.

Used to go pretty much every game home and away but far more sporadic now and have toyed with losing the season ticket for a couple of years.
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Pick your games mate, once you let that ST go you ain’t getting it back and you could end up missing some cracking away days in the future. You need to give yourself as many positive opportunities as you can.
 
Hasn't bothered me since Stoke sent us down to Div 3.

Used to get really really wound up by losing but nothing will top that feeling.

I've basked in the glory of trophies some teams/fans will never live through and loved every minute, but I have become desensitised? complacent? to any of the lows since.

I get aggrieved with the fact I can't go as frequently as I would like cost/ticket availability etc but would never walk away entirely.
 
kendalfox said:
I'm now heading towards 88 years followed since 1942 as a five year old l personally would still go if arthritis hadn't seen my kn ess off, still watch, still yearn, still angry, l guess it will be with me when the maker calls
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You must have seen some great games 🦊👍
 
courtslcfc said:
Hasn't bothered me since Stoke sent us down to Div 3.

Used to get really really wound up by losing but nothing will top that feeling.

I've basked in the glory of trophies some teams/fans will never live through and loved every minute, but I have become desensitised? complacent? to any of the lows since.

I get aggrieved with the fact I can't go as frequently as I would like cost/ticket availability etc but would never walk away entirely.
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Yeah get yer, I’d love to just go 3rd of games now courts to see mates keep in touch etc but the prices for gen sale are obscene so that’s why keep renewing but health walking etc since accident makes it difficult and don’t wanna go moaning when knocked etc as that’s just crowds and can’t be helped . Can’t see it ever being made easy to get ticket as and when which is a shame for loads who feel same way . Think final straw will be mobile tickets, can reclaim my 25 due to said mobility issue but I just despise talking to them face to face at club so they can keep it f em.
 
I am wavering about renewing our STs at the end of this season. I’m tired of the bland “ matchday experience” , the way the club is “managed”, and the utter shit served up week on week. Frankly it spoils my weekend. I may, however, renew if we get relegated as the experience is more interesting
 
Popside said:
Even though there is a lot of blue blood on Bentley I get the idea some of you have stopped going for your own personal reasons like my mates bar a dozen who as I have season tickets going back years and many seem to live away now on ere . Hand on heart I’m not wanting to jack due to current form tbh the buzz left me season after we won fa cup even that night on way back from Wembley I felt ready to finish but didn’t. Always thought I’d be very old guy who still enjoyed it but feel really detached from the vibe down there and did stop going away 2021 btw well 2020 due to lockdown . Do you miss it and did you have enough of the way many folk around you were at the games, ie they don’t really seem interested and passion is the last word I’d use to describe em , I’ve been in pubs watching away games with former st lads and it’s still in their hearts even before the ale starts to work 😉🤭 as ever this doesn’t apply to all its just I’m from a time that even with dwindling gates they who went made it magic.
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I could have quite happily walked after the FA Cup win, having seen the team complete a domestic haul and saw them play in the Champions League.

As bad as things are now, Leicester have seen me through some low periods of my life due to unemployment, health and loneliness, sometimes just watching the team gave me an identity and a connection with something.

Losing my Dad last year was the realisation that football really isn’t as important to me any more. I love to watch the team but if they lose it doesn’t ruin my weekend any more. My eldest lad is a Man City supporter and still goes through the stress of seeing them play badly and shaping his mood, admittedly he doesn’t suffer as much as I did!

The best time I’ve had watching them recently was last season in the Championship, I was spoiled the regular victories but seeing my youngest son enjoy it as much as I did was what mattered the most to me.
 
Coatsworth said:
I could have quite happily walked after the FA Cup win, having seen the team complete a domestic haul and saw them play in the Champions League.

As bad as things are now, Leicester have seen me through some low periods of my life due to unemployment, health and loneliness, sometimes just watching the team gave me an identity and a connection with something.

Losing my Dad last year was the realisation that football really isn’t as important to me any more. I love to watch the team but if they lose it doesn’t ruin my weekend any more. My eldest lad is a Man City supporter and still goes through the stress of seeing them play badly and shaping his mood, admittedly he doesn’t suffer as much as I did!

The best time I’ve had watching them recently was last season in the Championship, I was spoiled the regular victories but seeing my youngest son enjoy it as much as I did was what mattered the most to me.
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Firstly Sorry for your less and thanks for that reply !the second paragraph really brought back home what jock Wallace and Milnes times helped me through 👍👍🦊
 
Popside said:
Firstly Sorry for your less and thanks for that reply !the second paragraph really brought back home what jock Wallace and Milnes times helped me through 👍👍🦊
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Thanks for your kind worlds.

I remember being made redundant from a job just before Christmas 1999. We played Hereford in the FA Cup and it went to a replay, when Matt Elliott equalised I had a full on emotional breakdown. This club has been my world, these days is more just my entry into conversation.
 
I've been going down since 1970, regularly since 1973. I follow the team, not the club. I used to follow the club but now I despise the bastards.
Season ticket & the £25 con are all they get from me.
Match days are the only days I get to have a few beers & a laugh with lifelong mates & I would be stupid to give that up just because the club piss me off, but I understand the feeling of despondency with most fans of my age.
 
Lozfox1978 said:
I am wavering about renewing our STs at the end of this season. I’m tired of the bland “ matchday experience” , the way the club is “managed”, and the utter shit served up week on week. Frankly it spoils my weekend. I may, however, renew if we get relegated as the experience is more interesting
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Blimey that’s what I’ve been thinking 🤔😊🦊
 
MeltonFox said:
I'll still be there whichever division we are in.
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Read the post melton it’s nowt to do with how team are doing or what league we are in , never has been for me and folk on here I’d say including your good self 👍, its I was wondering if supporters in short felt it was time to go or why they stay , etc , at your age 50 you said I think I felt same as you but life changes. I hope you carry on til 100 and don’t lose the enjoyment 🦊
 
For me and others who have moved away it’s a tie to the city. A reason to come back. Even just a few times a season.

I’ve said before that since Covid I haven’t felt the same about it. The lure of travelling around the country or even to and from Leicester just doesn’t interest me any more.

But it’s hard to walk away from it all.
 
A lot of the problems stem from the rip roaring success of 2015/16 you see it was the height of our endeavours with football that frightening at times to see it was the ultimate dream along with later winning the FA Cup once you seen it apart from our European adventures which sadly l didn't see
what of the future when you have dined at the top table?
Let's be honest l thought we were heading for a downfall which came swiftly but l loved Div One it was another spectacular season.
But the rot settled in with some abject displays with a manager more concerned about himself than the club then last year
was passionless footballwise something us fans are not used to which has contributed to our malaise this year after Enzo jumped ship.
The way we played and the aftermath of the clubs attitude to fans has now manifested this attitude towards the following fans
 
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Popside said:
Read the post melton it’s nowt to do with how team are doing or what league we are in , never has been for me and folk on here I’d say including your good self 👍, its I was wondering if supporters in short felt it was time to go or why they stay , etc , at your age 50 you said I think I felt same as you but life changes. I hope you carry on til 100 and don’t lose the enjoyment 🦊
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I can understand why some people don't go anymore i.e family, health and financial reasons. But just to give up just because we aren't doing well. Isn't the saying support them through thick and thin.
 
Since that magical run where the great escape took place ( I’ll forever remember Vardys goal at West Brom ) won the league, the cup, charity shield and got to the quarter finals of the champ league I’ll admit I’ve become less concerned about results.
I still get the arse but I’m a bit more blasé about it all.
Rudkin and co have really messed up what should have been a top 8 prem finish for years to come.
I still go to the home games, more to have a beer with my mates. As we always say “the
Footballs about to get in the way of a decent day out “
We did things I never imagined in my life time, Rudkin has to take some praise for that bit since then it’s been a fuck up.
It feels like there’s nothing else left to do and we’ll never do it again.

No cup game for me on Saturday, can’t be arsed to go out in the cold to watch the ressies.

Up the city!
 
This is a great thread, I very much feel the same, really hard to get motivated for a 3h round trip on a dark wintery evening to see the team not show up time after time. However from talking to fans of lots of other clubs I don't think it's just Leicester. The game is being ruined everywhere by overpaid snowflake players, clubs losing touch with fans, escalating costs, TV, quality of officiating, VAR, light shows, flame throwers, fan zones and all the BS that now surrounds a game. The overall product is not what it was.
 
MeltonFox said:
I can understand why some people don't go anymore i.e family, health and financial reasons. But just to give up just because we aren't doing well. Isn't the saying support them through thick and thin.
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Now you are on the wind up me thinks 🤔😉😊 as lozfox and I both think on this we are more likely to stay if we go down , many inc myself have loved being a supporter and follower even more during the bad or lean times on the pitch , for me it’s when we really pull together and weirdly I’m more comfortable in that environment, I use to love going down filbert st jocks days and his first season here was half empty ground most matches below in fact , Milnes time was even lower as football wasn’t well attended then , thatchers Britain aggro on terraces put gates down , but we who kept at it because of our love of the game and more so the city became mates or on nodding terms and remain so to this day , Hamilton and pleats days were AS SUPPORTERS great fun despite team going knowhere BUT we did follow them through as you say thick and thin . Personally I’ve lost it with club and fans seem very different now . Earlier Said supporters inc me accept relegation and defeat as part of football no dramas ere, what I can’t get my head round is the so “called match day experience “ but it ain’t going change for likes of me and no it should never go back to thatchers times.
 
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HuggyBear said:
This is a great thread, I very much feel the same, really hard to get motivated for a 3h round trip on a dark wintery evening to see the team not show up time after time. However from talking to fans of lots of other clubs I don't think it's just Leicester. The game is being ruined everywhere by overpaid snowflake players, clubs losing touch with fans, escalating costs, TV, quality of officiating, VAR, light shows, flame throwers, fan zones and all the BS that now surrounds a game. The overall product is not what it was.
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As said at start I was wondering how others felt hug, change can be good but not for all , powers that be are doing so well that it won’t change , bottom line from myself is I feel detached no more than that 🦊👍
 
Bittfox said:
Since that magical run where the great escape took place ( I’ll forever remember Vardys goal at West Brom ) won the league, the cup, charity shield and got to the quarter finals of the champ league I’ll admit I’ve become less concerned about results.
I still get the arse but I’m a bit more blasé about it all.
Rudkin and co have really messed up what should have been a top 8 prem finish for years to come.
I still go to the home games, more to have a beer with my mates. As we always say “the
Footballs about to get in the way of a decent day out “
We did things I never imagined in my life time, Rudkin has to take some praise for that bit since then it’s been a fuck up.
It feels like there’s nothing else left to do and we’ll never do it again.

No cup game for me on Saturday, can’t be arsed to go out in the cold to watch the ressies.

Up the city!
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For me that Cambiasso goal and the joy shown by all you cannot buy things like that
 
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