Jackubu

I'm after ideas to where we can host this year's UFS charity football tournament as our current venue is a little limited in terms of size. For the past two years we've used The Grove, in Braunstone, which is great, but only has two pitches. Prior to this we used to host it at St Margaret's Pastures but ending up needing to move due to cost and reluctance around having a BBQ effectively making it impossible to raise money. Looking for venues that can ideally meet the following: - 3 or 4x 5/6-a-side Astro pitches - OK with having multiple Gazebos with a BBQ - OK with us selling our food and drink, including cans of beer - Close to Leicester (I.e not Coalville or Loughborough distance) Those points generally rule out Astro pitches on school properties, which really limits us and places such as Goals charge astronomical prices. We've currently got enquires out at a few places but wanted to see if there were other options we're potentially missing. Any ideas appreciated!

Theacefacemod

FT aside, the more Fan groups around the better. Better transparency, engagement and accountability etc will only happen when more and more of the fan base are collectively represented. More strong, independent fan groups makes the club stronger whichever opinions each group holds. Shouting on social media how UFS or FT don't represent your personal social bubble (not a dig at you but more generally) won't get your views shared - it actually accomplishes nothing other than talking down on fans willing to make their views known. Every fan should consciously think about Supporters Groups or Trusts which they can align with.

100% Supporting people in our city is always the best thing we do 🤝

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Playing Coventry tonight at Leamington. Anybody have an idea about tickets? I can't find anything anywhere

The amount of excuses people look for when discussing the atmosphere is hilarious. The songs are dreary, the 100 lads are boring, the football wasnt that fun! On the whole, the fans are the issue.

Something the clubs voted for. Shouldn't let the club hide behind the narrative that this is coming from the Premier league - it's untrue and misleading.

It's because those who generally opt to attend the club's 'Your 90 minutes' etc are generally of the demographic that like the clappers more/dislike some UFS tifos and it gives the club a warped view of fans opinions. Those meetings aren't the most fun to attend but they really need a better cross section of our fan base attending them.

Agree, think Ryan is a great appointment for the FT tbf. Without talking about the others too negatively before they get going, one guy talking about being six sigma trained hardly gets the blood flowing. Arguably adds to the calls for change I think

Couldn't see vardy walk out the tunnel and see the biggest fan tribute to a player the country has ever seen.

Proud of the lads for the work they've done on this tifo with everything going on at the moment. Smashed it

I think you'd see a couple of thousand easily. The Coalville example is great as they were regularly seeing crowds of 7-800 in a town with poor transport links. Even took around 300 to Macclesfield last week

What's your point?

Unloyal.

Why didn't we think of this!

It improves by people who don't want to sing leaving the section and those who want to, joining the section. UFS got a section after 8 years of hard work, it isn't meant to be the yellow wall after 2 years. It'll only get better

Thing is here though is that if we could inspire everyone by singing non-stop, there'd be no need for UFS as we'd be defunct by now. There's no assumption that we're going to change the world or be the next Wydad Casablanca but it's a credible difference being made which has grown week on week for 10 years.

It actually is and we're all mad proud of it. Thousands raised for charity, a section of like minded fans together and we're having the time of our lives. Your bitterness will spur us on 😂

Enjoyable away end for sure, much better than many previous. Players seemed to appreciate it too

It's not easy to put an exact figure on member numbers as we don't really have a formal membership scheme like other Leicester fan groups may have (sign up here, entrance fee etc). I think 70-80 is what the group relies on for day-to-day activities whether that be banner/tifo making, replying to emails, media, meetings with the club or the wide array of other bits that go on in the background. On matchdays or other events that number inflates significantly with friends of the group or those looking to get involved before getting more attached.

Aye you're right. It's a rung on the ladder down than the Head of. As you said, I hope they have an emotional attachment to the club and are willing to challenge the status quo. If it turns out to be an internal appointment, I'd have little faith it'd be impactful.

I vote Linda

Somewhat related, Aberdeen have just appointed someone as their Supporter Experience Manager who created their supporters group back in the 90s. Very well liked amongst their fan base and a clever appointment for improving fan engagement. You'd like to think LCFC might be pragmatic enough to follow the same line of thinking.

They're not being silent though, they've shared that the conversation is ongoing albeit in an unsatisfactory way. My guess is that, if they shared the correspondence, the communication would be cut off. Seems sensible