Drew Peacock

Looking for your after match post has become part of my LCFC rituals. 🤣

Agree with this. I’ve started to hate the phrase ‘Be careful what you wish for’ which so many of our fans who still worship ‘The Cult Of KP’ continually churn out like zombies on social media. Change brings risk of course, but if change never happens when things start declining then you never progress, just naturally decline. Exactly what’s happened here.

Just finished the new pod released today. Great to have it back. Jordan was talking about selling his Season Ticket on the re-sale platform for the Liverpool game and hoping it would be bought by a Liverpool fan, so he could complain to the club as people who sit around him would notice. My sister and niece sold their Man U tickets that way. They were bought almost instantly, which was surprising. I sit fairly near to them and took an interest in who was sitting there and it was very obvious it was two Man U fans. Can you imagine what the club would have done if she had privately sold them to away fans? She reported it to the club and they said they would look into it, but she didn’t hear anything further, which was no surprise.

I think you’ve touched on a massive part of the problem. Some players clearly don’t care about their careers or reputation. They’ve earned enough money to live very comfortably for the rest of their life. Danny Ward is the perfect example. He played 43 games on loan for Huddersfield in 2016/17, but apart from that he has played only a total of 58 domestic games, with various clubs, since the 2011/12 season! He clearly isn’t bothered about playing, or at some point in the last 14 years he’d have done something about that. No professional athlete can be physically or mentally at the top of their game when they’ve been mostly sidelined for that length of time and why he’s been allowed to rot at the club for so long is baffling. I’m still also baffled about how Ruud could have played him against Wolves. Even if he’d not seen much of him surely he knew his history, or someone at the club or tens of thousands of Leicester fans could have advised him. The damage done during that game was immense.

From the BBC Sport Report.

Why am I the first to laugh at this post? 🤣 Brilliant pun spot, making light of another ruff day at the club.

Ruud was here then and picked him. Dawson will be remembered as the one whose experiment at inventing a new tactical master class for his 1 game at Brentford, as interim manager, went tits up. Seemed arrogant beyond belief to me at the time.

I thought this thread was about LCFC’s £10 Tuesday for a moment. Anyway, inevitably it’s back today, so all is well with the club, in particular its fan engagement. Get in quick for a £10 LCFC pint glass, and no, I’m not joking.

Only a certain supporter profile. You can eventually imagine that one day in the future there will be one small, seated only area, with a pay per game ticket. No concessions within the pricing. The rest of the ground will be adapted into loads of small corporate boxes/areas from pitch side to the current back rows. The game will be played in near silence, without any tribal rivalry or unwholesome talk, until the end of a 5-0 loss, where a sea of half and half scarves are waved in the air and LCFC are cheered and clapped off the pitch from the seated area. The corporate boxes containing customers who have spent a fortune to eat and drink and watch the odd minute of the game here and there, eventually realise the game has finished, ask if anyone knows what the score was at the end and then carry on eating and drinking.

A master class in everything you shouldn’t do when trying to get a ticket. First post on the forum is a request for tickets. Language used suggests it’s a possible tourist away fan. No replies to any comments to deny this or explain further. It reminds me of those people who request tickets on LCFC ticket selling social media sites, then when you look at their profile they are dressed in the full kit of the away team.

I seem to remember that when ID checks for away games were last done, those not turning up for collection at the away ground on the day (and I think there were often a fair few) were contacted later and faced some questions and issues. Clearly it could be for many genuine reasons, but having done it once you’d probably be on the club’s hit list and automatically selected for regular checks for a good while. You could explain away one and probably get away with it, but if it kept happening there would surely be sanctions. So I don’t think the serial sellers of away tickets to others would get away with it for long.

Some good points here, but also we have known that this is going to happen before the Arsenal game for a few weeks and many fans will be either at the game or watching it in pubs in the city. So there has been chance for those that are able, to make plans to be around a bit earlier, for when timing is announced.

But someone/some people are trying to make something happen. This is something lots of people can get behind with little effort, as lots will be going to the match anyway and can probably make plans to get there a bit earlier. I’m not naive enough to think one protest will bring about change, but anything which attempts to change the narrative of ‘Best owners in the country’ which many fans, inexplicably, are still saying, is a good thing I’d say. It will bring an uncomfortable feeling to the club and owner. I’m sure they still think there is nothing to see here and they should be worshipped forever for the success they’ve given us, which was incredible and we’re all thankful for that. But what has happened in the last few years has been disgraceful and I witnessed many zombies clapping the players off at Everton. We can’t arrange a military coup, but we can express in a small way, what limited power we do have, and it’s about time we did.

Yes, this makes total sense.

Are the details being held back, so that the club know as little as possible about it for as long as possible maybe? I appreciate what your post is asking though, as if details are held back for too long, it may lessen the impact it could have.

SL4/SU4 haven’t been on sale yet. SL4 is mostly right behind the goal, so you need to be towards the back rows, above cross bar height in my opinion. SL3 towards the back is a good view and has been a good experience for me, but you can never know who will be standing around you of course. As a comment above said, SU3/4 both have a good perspective of the game.

Being a Leicester fan has always been about identity. It’s the place where I feel I most belong. It’s changed a bit over the years from my dad first taking me when I was 7, going with my mates to away games as a teenager and then taking my own children. But throughout, it’s remained a local community, tribal thing for me. I know it’s not all important in reality, but emotionally it is, as it’s my greatest escape from reality. The match day ritual leading up until kick off. We all have our own. Nodding to familiar faces, or even speaking to other fans who I still don’t even know the names of after many years. Then Matt Piper helping me to process the game on the Radio Leicester after match pod and the brilliant ‘Big Strong Leicester Boys’ pod doing the same. I’ve loved our times leading to success. It’s addictive and I’d love to experience the highs again. But the actual days of success I have to admit I haven’t enjoyed that much. The presentation of the PL trophy after the Everton game, with all the hangers on, including hearing Keith Vaz talking absolute nonsense. The Championship Trophy presented after the Blackburn game, again with loads of hangers on, including a TikToker on the pitch who was pictured at Old Trafford in a Man Utd shirt shortly before. I care passionately about my club. I desperately want success for it, but the paradox of that is I hate what success means and brings with it. I said at the start that being a Leicester fan for me is about identity and belonging. Sadly, none of that comes from the club itself anymore. I’ve never felt a bigger disconnect. I don’t want us to go down and down, but if it meant we could eventually reach a place where that connection is possible again, with a transparent, competent leadership off the pitch and committed players who seem to care on it, I honestly wouldn’t be bothered. In fact I’d welcome it.

Fair play and of course you’re right, as we all have different preferences. I love just to the side of the goal near the back of the lower end. One of those rare tight grounds, like QPR, where you feel more connected to the game.

I think it’s more about the fact it’s the worst block still on sale. I’ve been holding off buying since Monday and I’m sure others are doing the same.

I imagine this will be a slow seller for a while, with people waiting for the better blocks to open. I appreciate it’s the home club who dictate the order of sale, but Leicester have gone back to opening a very limited amount again, rather than multiple blocks.

There were a fair amount of various negative hand signals and verbal abuse, which was obviously thoroughly deserved. Unbelievably though, there was also quite a bit of clapping towards the players who briefly came over, admittedly the rare likeable ones in our squad. It seems now an almost zombie like response in worship of the cult of KP, whatever happens. Didn’t surprise me though, as I read a response on social media this week in reply to a negative post from one of our fans that simply said ‘Best owners in the country’ Its like some people have been frozen in time for the past few years.

Ah ok. Same experience for me as Flan says above. With years of regular home and aways as the personal assistant, although always carrying ID just in case, nothing has ever been asked of us and you enter the ground normally. 1 away ticket is issued for the disabled person’s age category and the 1 separate carer’s ticket is just a normal adult. Just scan at the turnstile as normal. If in a wheelchair there will be an accessible turnstile.

If you are meaning in the Leicester end, the person in need of personal assistance needs to have a supporter account with LCFC and then register as a disabled supporter, providing proof. For example, a copy of the letter stating entitlement to Disability Living Allowance. Unfortunately, although there are still tickets available for this, I’m pretty sure they’d need to buy a LCFC membership first before they can buy tickets. All matches home and away are eligible for disability tickets with a free personal assistant, both wheelchair and ambulant supporters, subject to availability of course. Anna Dickman, the disability liaison officer, is the person to speak to at LCFC and would be able to give you exact details. Other clubs will have their own way of registering as a supporter and buying tickets, but the supporter + personal assistant free is standard in at least the top two divisions in England.

There are a few different videos of this circulating on social media. 🤣

Not to do with our stadium atmosphere, so apologies that it’s off topic, but this is what it’s all about. A couple of YB fans, in the stadium after their loss against Celtic last night, presented a young Celtic fan with a YB scarf, then this happened. Amazing support all night apparently, even with a loss, and a heartwarming video.