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No idea. I don't know if it's been done in previous pre-seasons. Either way, it seems to have been done without any information and notification. A bit like when they just stopped putting away tickets on general sale without any explanation or justification.

I'm glad I read this because, for the Burton pre-season game, I was just going to go in the home end on the side terrace, as it's a great place to watch football. However, having read on here that away points are given I got a ticket in the away end instead. I can confirm that I did get an away priority point for it. I don't agree with giving them out for pre-season games though. Should be competitive games only.

I also got the link to update my details. Decided to try to update them (which I been trying to do for several years) assuming the page maybe now works properly seeing as they've sent out a request for people to check them. But no, the optional Address Line 2 (into which somehow they've duplicated the town part of my address), still can't be cleared because 'Address Line 2 is required', even though the screen clearly says it isn't. And no, my obsolete old home phone number can't be cleared. With this field it allows me to clear the number and save it, but despite confirming 'details successfully updated', it's still there!

If that's correct, and the club can sell as many season tickets as they want in L1, (instead of it being capped at, I believe approx. 22,000), the problem would be if/when we get promoted, if the season tickets are e.g. 2,000 above the cap then 2,000 season ticket holders would presumably have to give them up. Not sure the club would want the hassle that would come with that. That's assuming it was a cap imposed by the league. If the cap was a club decision then I guess then could choose not to reapply it. Anyway, I'd expect they'd still want the cap anyway. If there's 26,000 seats available after away and corporate allocations, I'm sure they'd want to keep a few thousand free for single match tickets sales (which make more money).

I don't count players that initially joined on loan but then signed permanently, so I'm going for Kevin Campbell, with an honorary mention to Mike Galloway who I remember being great for the short time he was with us (maybe just a 1 month loan?).

I was at the game. I looked around every block and all of them appeared to be just under half full. interestingly, there weren't some blocks more or less full than others, all were about the same, meaning the reason(s) for not coming were spread evenly through the various demographics, and surprisingly the family end was just as 'full' as the other end. Stadium was definitely under half full though. 14,000 was my guess, although 12,500 isn't unrealistic. Some people say it wasn't the boycott that was the primary factor, but almost 30,000 people were there for game game against Derby the previous Monday and all the reasons for not going, apart from the boycott, were there for that game too. Absolutely the boycott was the primary factor.

I've got friends and family who are ex-season ticket holders with home and away points and they are now unable to go to any away games as the club now refuses to sell tickets to them, even when it looks like they won't sell out. It's ridiculous.

Yes that's exactly the same as mine. It doesn't have my name, just the supporter number and block/row/seat, and the 'Show Code' option below. I've got Android 16 on a Google Pixel.

Not had a digital season ticket before, and I've downloaded it to Google wallet. Unlike for some cup games in recent seasons, where the Google wallet item said e.g. Leicester City vs Opponent with the date of the game, this just has a dash with FortressGB under it. Is this how it's supposed to look? When i select it from the wallet I can access the ticket for the Sheff Weds game which looks ok, but I expected the main item that's in my wallet to at least say LCFC Season Ticket or something. Is everyone's the same?

Among the many issues with the way the club is run, this in my opinion is one of the worst. I've got friends and family who used to have season tickets, in some cases for more than a decade, who are now unable to buy a ticket for any away game, and the majority of home games, in recent seasons. It's an absolute disgrace. Preston is a a game where we could continue to get additional blocks up to 6000 tickets, and the one game of any where it should be be going to general sale, and yet I'm waiting to know one way or another as I'm planning to potentially go with non sth/members, but have no idea if/when they are going to able able to get their tickets. Until then, I can't get mine. Just another example of the club treating supporters with complete contempt. Every ticket will still be sold to a registered supporter, they could even insist of having a booking history or a minimum amount of 'home' points. To refuse to sell them at all, to prefer to have empty seats, is just madness. Members buy their membership to get priority (and in some cases extra perks or discounts). A membership should not be for exclusively, especially when without general sale, supply outweighs demand. Foxes Trust, if you're reading this, you've been doing some good work recently. Please could you now put some focus on this issue?

I agree, and the horrific gold shirt in the Cambiasso great escape season completes the trio of the 3 worst away shirts ever.

That should be interesting because due to sight lines (assuming the people in the standing areas are actually standing) then, unless they stand, people in the seated sections in large part of G1 won't be able to see the goal at the Kop end, about a quarter of J3 (who will be paying quite a lot for their seats) won't be able to see the goal at the other end, and the back portion of P1 not be able to see about a third of the pitch. Has nobody at the club even considered that?! Why not just do it properly and convert a whole end?

SemperEadem where did you get this from? Yesterday at some point I saw one of the stadium maps that showed the configuration like that (can't remember if it was here or the LCFC website), but either way the official website is now only showing a narrow slither of G1 as being included.

What an absolute mess that it. Why not just do it properly and convert one large area, surely that's common sense. Anyone at the back of J3 won't be able to see the goal to their right, similarly people seated in G1 will have their view blocked of the goal at their end, and those seated in P1 next to the standing area won't see much to the left of the 6 yard box. I understand not converting the whole Kop end, as the people in there are mainly the same people that have been there for 20 years with an average age that must be 50+ and are not the type of people that want it. As I've said before though, the other end is ideal. A1 round to M3, start with the back half with the intention of eventually all rows. It's a younger demographic there as those in P/P1 are generally those that reached the age limit for the family stand, and those in the family stand know that they have to move when they reach the limit (16?) and so they already know they won't be in those seats long term, so would be less resistance to moving, and as a whole the stand would be more receptive. The family stand can move elsewhere, and it would mean the singers could congregate in one place and be heard by the away fans (unlike now) which would get a bit of atmosphere back again.

Since they first introduced cards (which must be 25 years or so ago as I had one at Filbert Street) it never failed to work. I've used NFC half a dozen or so times for cup games, and one time it failed. Same phone, same process, just didn't work (NFC or QR code) for me (NFC didn't work for my wife's ticket either, but QR code did!). I had both tickets together on my phone, so she went in and I was stuck outside!. That's the problem, sometimes it just doesn't work and I can see by the amount of people turning round at the turnstile every game that it's a common issue. I use NFC for card payments etc. and have no issues with it, and have a up to date Google pixel phone, but I don't want to be forced to use it for my season ticket as I don't want to get there 10 mins before kick and risk having to join hundreds of people in queue to get it sorted. I have no issues with NFC, just 1) the lack of choice for people who'd prefer not to use it for whatever reason, and 2) the way the club are implementing to make passing the season ticket to a friend for the occasional game inconvenient, and sharing a season ticket (as people have done since the beginning of time) very difficult. They say that it's only being forced on us being the Premier League are making it mandatory, so let's see if the club back down if/when we're in the Championship next season.

The survey itself was flawed as, from what I remember, it basically asked if you like to see standing implemented in your part of the stadium, and if so would you like to use it. That meant that anyone who is in favour of it being introduced, but doesn't think their block is the ideal place would have answered no. Might be wrong, but I'm sure there wasn't a question to guage if someone was in favour generally.

Went tonight, and also last season in the league cup. The extension at that end of the ground really doesn't help the atmosphere at all, it's so open any sound just gets lost. Perhaps at the back of the upper tier where the roof is lower it may be ok, but the lower tier now is awful. Maybe it was intentionally designed like that to stifle the away fans?

Generally on one of the streets off Tudor Road.

Anyone who says they leave early to beat the traffic needs to find somewhere else to park. I leave on full time, 15 mins walk to the car, clear roads up to Groby Road via New Parks, then onto the M1. 35 miles to home and always back between 6:15 - 6:30pm at the latest for a 3pm kickoff. If people are getting stuck in traffic why keep parking in the same place and taking the same route?!

Another point to make is that people are saying that the club won't want to upset anyone currently seated in the designated standing area, wherever is it, by encouraging/forcing them to relocate. However, the expansion plans clearly show that most of the East Stand (excluding L and the block at the other end towards the kop end), from about a third of the way up, up to the top of the stand as it currently is, will become a new 'corporate' area. People will face a choice of paying the premium rates that will go with that, or be forced to move, probably to the upper tier where there will be plenty of seats. I'm sure they'll be some double standards from the club when they use disruption to current Kop season ticket holders as a reason to not convert the whole stand to standing, whilst having no qualms about sticking a few hundred pounds on the cost of an East Stand season ticket holder if they want to retain their seat post-expansion. Quick note on L and K blocks as they've been mentioned above. K will be within the corporate section once the expansion is done, and L will border it. There's no way there will be any standing installed in either of those.

Of those options, option 1 is without doubt the best, but only if it's done properly. If the plan is to just add a barrier in front of the seat, then the same people will be in the same seats, sitting down, and nothing will change. The aim has to be to create an standing area. I'm not sure what the regulations are, but ideally the seats should be locked in 'standing' mode (and only ever in 'seating' mode if/when the competition rules states it has to be all seater, like e..g if the stadium hosted an international game). If it was made clear that the area is to be designated as a standing area, and people were given clear incentives to move, e.g. half price season ticket for 2 years if they relocate out the standing area, if could be a fairly easy process to do. The standing area shouldn't be tucked away in the corner, should definitely be behind a goal. Worse thing would be for it to be in SK1 and wrapped around the corner, as the sound doesn't travel from there. From L1 I've never heard anything from SK1. If L1 is quiet, all we can hear is away fans mocking us. The only time anything from that end of the ground can be heard is the once or twice a year then kop sings 'You don't know what you're doing' to the ref. If the standing area is in that corner, the perception of us from other clubs won't change. Personally I think the best plan would be to make the North Stand all standing. People in the family stand blocks have to relocate anyway when they are a certain age (over 16), so unlike in the kop, it's not their seat for life. The family stand could be relocated to perhaps SK1. The blocks between the family stand and away end are basically overspill from the family stand who rea he'd the age limit, and are far more likely to want to stand anyway. The away fans can temporarily be shunted along by 1 block into L1 to give the whole end behind to goal (and one corner) to home fans, with the away fans being in their current corner, which can be converted to standing. L1 will on the short term be the seated away area, until the expansion is done, at which point they can be split into 2 levels and move into the end block of the upper tier, and L1 return to home fans.

What the fans want: A method of entry that works. In 3 decades of having a card, it's never failed. 3 times I've had to use a digital ticket, twice it worked, once it didn't. I don't want to have to be forced to arrive an hour before kick off to give me time to join the queue when it fails. What the club want: to prevent people giving their ticket to friends and family (something that's always happened and is facilitated most clubs) when they can't go, forcing them to use the resale option (which by the way think should be boycotted), so make an extra markup on the seat.

I've not read all of the pages, so maybe this has already been suggested, but... As this affects over 20,000 season ticket holders, could UFS not organise a poster protest, get everyone to bring along a sheet of white paper with 'NO' printed/marked/daubed on it, and hold it up in the 25th minute against Blackburn. Minimal cost and effort for everyone, not inconvenient to bring to the game, easy to sneak in (in case the club wanted to prevent any form of protest), and it would get the message across. Even those happy with mobile ticketing or those ok with the £25 surcharge still recognise that this, as well as being a blatant rip-off, is all about the club denying us the choice, and primarily aimed at stopping people passing on tickets to friends and family when they can't go, something that has always happened, and is seemingly accepted and accommodated by most other clubs.

The allocation has mysteriously been reduced to 2,022 now, which I assume means the club have now taken just the upper tier. Hopefully that's just the initial allocation and we'll get the full 2,975 if required.