Top of the league and we’re having a meltdown: Time for the groaners to grow some cojones
Sitting in G1, just to the right of the singing section, is like the middle ground. There's still some of the 'gerrit forward gang' in close proximity and I can feel the negativity from many areas of the ground, but equally I can continue to get involved in the bid to provide positive atmosphere.
For me, this whole debate comes down to a complete entitlement which got us into this mess in the first place.
Enzo has picked up the club's sorry arse from the pits and instead of being greeted with a hero’s welcome, people are slapping him round the face with moans and groans.
Audible collective frustration and the classic 'gerrit forward' - that, may I add, if we had implemented bans for shouting, like I suggested post-Liverpool away, we might not be in this position - are getting louder most weeks.
The argument that 'I'm paying my money so I'll support the team however I want' has some legs, but isn't that just it? *support the team* in that statement is key - is vocally moaning at the process (or leaving early) supporting the team in any way?
If the manager, who has led your side to 22 wins from 29, 10 points clear at the top, on for a record points total (insert other ridiculously positive stats here), is calling something out as unhelpful, should you consider whether you should do it? To be clear, the answer is yes, you should consider this, and if your outcome is not ‘maybe I should tone it down’ at the very least, I'm worried.
Discuss it in the pub if you have to, but don't moan when we pass back to Hermansen or scream forward at any opportunity when that's not the plan. You don't have to enjoy the style of play but surely you can accept the results it's getting and accept football is a results business?
Over the past 24 hours I've seen people say things like they can't get excited about games against the likes of Swansea, Rotherham or Millwall. Begrudging 'having to watch this monotonous drivel every week'. And 'we should be winning this league comfortably, so what's there to get excited about?'
I'm completely flabbergasted in truth. What we've accomplished in the last 9 years is astonishing, but it's absolutely not the norm, it's in the past and we have no god-given right to do it again or even be back in the top flight. That Premier League stay seems to have ruined us.
Supporting Leicester for me should be the same regardless of who we play. 'Can’t get excited playing Swansea' absolutely stinks of entitlement. If we can only support the team positively when we are in the Premier League against the 'big teams' then I'm out.
The boring comments also fascinate me. There’s so much to analyse about the style of play; that’s for another time. It's not the high-octane counter-attack football of 2015/16 - but check the dates, we are not there now. We aren't the underdog any more and you have to manage that differently.
Anyone who has played football knows it can be difficult to raise your game or reach your potential against weaker opposition and equally it takes time to gel with a new team.
My favourite part of the moaning is the subsequent moaning when we go long, lose the ball and another groan comes about.
People don't like change. I get that, but I challenge anyone who doesn't enjoy watching us romp this league to reframe what they're watching. They're not passing backwards to wind you up, but as part of an intelligent plan.
To go a little sensationalist and off-piste for a second, there are fans of clubs having to fight to even have a team to go and support and there's people in our fanbase moaning incessantly because we make an extra 5 passes.
Enzo has made it very clear on his 'idea' from the start. If it came as a surprise to begin with fair enough, but we are around 6 months into this, he's proven it's working, yet the moans are getting louder.
The 'we shouldn't be relegated, we are too good for that' mentality last year across the board got us relegated. The mentality of 'well, we should be promoted, and we should be battering everyone every week and I will moan' will lead us to Enzo walking away from the club.
After years of a 'yes man' manager saying whatever he thinks people want to hear, Enzo isn't one for sentiment, he is honest and it's refreshing. People don't like to be questioned which is absolutely apparent with people's reactions.
For the record, we played a lot of the same style last season, the difference being there was no clear plan and it was very predictable, whereas now there is clear purpose and ideology that the team have regularly come out backing.
People moaned at those voicing their frustrations at the manager last year because they weren't supporting the team, yet many are now the ones moaning it's boring and we should be doing more. The key difference is the negativity is during the game and is being felt by the team (as Enzo's comments testify).
I have to say I think we are the only fanbase who would manage to have a full-blown meltdown and 'blue on blue' action when being comfortably at the top of a league. What a club.
