It's obvious.
It's the Ricoh. The Ricoh is soulless and has no atmosphere.
It's the Wasps signs on the stands.
It's us changing changing rooms.
It's the pitch.
It's nothing to do with the team.
The pitch is a factor in any game .............. and yet other teams seem to manage to win on the one at the Ricoh
It's obvious.
It's the Ricoh. The Ricoh is soulless and has no atmosphere.
It's the Wasps signs on the stands.
It's us changing changing rooms.
It's the pitch.
It's nothing to do with the team.
Come on otis, I have never said it wasn't the players or management or coaching, tactics etc. Just point out that if there is such a thing as "marginal gains" then there must be things that go against you that are "marginal losses".
I'm one of the biggest critics of our squad.
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1-Gipsy Curse....
2-Leicester City Shirt under the stand....
All other rationale is illogical..surely:thinking about:
Wrote pretty much what I'm about to write after the previous home game - didn't post as computer crashed and couldn't then be arsed to re-do it. But after last night, I felt I'd have another go.
Of course there's an element of player ineptitude involved but I'm convinced that amongst the factors contributing to this is the atmosphere at the Ricoh. Away from home ...
..All this said though, as someone who only gets to go to home games, I am hating what I've seen all season and please God, whichever division we're in next season, we get to see some better football (from us) at the Ricoh.
I agree that we (the fans) are part of the problem, and part of the solution. I believe we should compress the home crowd into a smaller area.
It is absolutely brilliant crushed into the away end at our matches - win or lose. It is dire at the Ricoh. Everyone is scared to sing, because there are 5 seats between each person. Pretty hard to sing on your own without feeling a tit.
My suggestion to the club is to close large parts of the stadium to home fans - more than half - until numbers dictate we need more.
We would pack the main stand on one side, and would have a much better experience as a result. I believe the resultant concentrated noise would bring the young lads out there an additional urgency that might just help them bring in the home points.
...Flameproof jacket on...
I think the best idea would be to have the Tesco stand and the Main Stand only open. Close the North Stand completely.
I don't think people can complain too much, cos judging by the past few home games, next to no-one has sat in there anyway.
Unfortunately Otis, this is exactly what hey tried to do when we returned, yet they did complain. It's embarrassing looking at the telegraph stand.
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Wrote pretty much what I'm about to write after the previous home game - didn't post as computer crashed and couldn't then be arsed to re-do it. But after last night, I felt I'd have another go.
Of course there's an element of player ineptitude involved but I'm convinced that amongst the factors contributing to this is the atmosphere at the Ricoh. Away from home there's (usually) anything between 800 and 1500 fans all very much on the side of the team, backing this up with vocal support for pretty much the whole 90 minutes largely irrespective of how things are going. If a player screws up, there's no barracking and if the ball goes backwards rather than forwards, there's no collective groaning coming from the stands. I am convinced that the opposite reaction the players encounter at the Ricoh weighs heavy on (what are) young shoulders, nerves creep in and risks are taken that wouldn't be taken away from home. When I see Aaron Martin's 20th "back row of the stands" clearance in a row, I cringe, and you can hear many of the 8,000 in attendance growing increasingly infuriated at this defending-by-numbers approach, so he, and the others, start to take risks in a usually fatal attempt to appease the moaning masses. But it's probably exactly what he (and the others) need to do at this stage of the season, and bugger the reaction of the crowd. Not easy though for a 25 year old in a League One team battling to stave off relegation to be so thick-skinned.
And we're winning these away games against other teams whose players will come under similar pressure from the home fans as our lot - effectively, Leyton Orient did to us last night what we're doing away from home against other teams.
I'd say the pitch was more of a factor (and, man, it is awful) if it wasn't for the fact that they are delivering the goods on equally bad surfaces at other grounds, so as far as I'm concerned the pitch is a relatively minor factor, maybe not in the performances, but certainly in the results of our games. I do tend to think that in a struggling team there is no such thing as home advantage......and that is why we'll come away from Notts County on Monday with three points!
I would also bring the away fans forward so they can create less noise and close the stand that we have no fans in, it would also be nice if they could buy some sheets and cover some of those awful Wasps signs.
We are not good at home because the players are weak minded and gutless and are not fit enough to play a game that stretches the opposition, they also don't try to kill teams off and sit back when we take the lead and let them back in it.
It's that Leicester City curse I tell thee ! One of the construction workers allegedly stuffed his LCFC shirt and memorabilia into the pipes and the rest is history !!
Wasps put loads of extra signage up just for their games. Nothing to stop us doing the same.
absolutely nothing to do with the players, coaches, managers, directors or owners:laugh:............ everyone and everything is against them its not like any other team :facepalm:
It's obvious.
It's the Ricoh. The Ricoh is soulless and has no atmosphere.
It's the Wasps signs on the stands.
It's us changing changing rooms.
It's the pitch.
It's nothing to do with the team.
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