Drew Peacock

Football should be very much about the fans and the local community of each club. Fan engagement is getting recognised less and less every year at the top levels, as lots of owners and clubs with no knowledge or care about fan culture, ruin its traditions for their own purposes. I think the solidarity we saw came from that realisation. It certainly did for me. I love the tribal nature of football, but that moment today was a moment of authentic togetherness, in comparison to the manufactured package football has become.

That’s a great point about if he now regrets complaining. No he doesn’t at all. He sees it as a victory, even though it makes it more complicated for him. I guess some people feel we are all being controlled more and more in every aspect of our lives and therefore see every change as a threat. The irony is that the fear of being controlled then controls you and you start to believe a conspiracy theory is behind everything.

Yes, apart from that, the only other away against Charlton that I can remember well is going much further back and was played at Upton Park. We seemed to take about 10000. 🤣 Ended up getting moved with thousands of others from the away end, to a great view around the half way line. Didn’t end well though.

Stand-off 2. I’ve just bought today as can’t be arsed doing the same waiting game as Preston. Sometimes the stadium map doesn’t always truly reflect the seating, so the 2/6 blocks currently open are the ones furthest to the right of the photo.

I know someone personally, who isn’t in any concession category, who just didn’t want a digital season ticket. There was some email correspondence between the club and him and he eventually said he wasn’t renewing if they wouldn’t let him keep his physical card. In the end they came to a compromise that the club would print a physical ticket for every individual game, to be collected on the day of the game. Seems more hassle to me for both sides, rather than just having a digital ticket, but clearly different people are told/allowed to do different things.

Yes, it was the same for the 3rd block, with a fair few already greyed out. So the club were never going to return any of the blocks to Preston. Maybe there is a reason, but puzzling really they didn’t open all of them initially then, to save a fair few people lots of wasted time continually checking over a few days and ending up with OCD. I know it’s only a very minor thing, but just another annoyance on top of many others which harm connection between club and fans.

I’ve amended it to make it true for me. Getting compulsive now. 🤣

Then with 10 seats left in the corner block after the member’s window, the club announce they are returning the other 2 unsold blocks to Preston, due to low sales.

Always happens when just the worst block goes on sale first. Lots wait for better blocks to open, so sales are slow. I think the home team decides selling order, but surely at least 2 blocks could be opened initially, as we’ll definitely sell them. Makes no sense to me.

You can easily stay until you’ve clapped or booed the players off, have a piss and not be the last back. Coaches are often very close to the ground anyway.

Seriously, they’re absolutely fine. I’ve travelled a lot with them over the last 10 years with my son and daughter and I don’t remember any bad issues at all. All ages and it’s relaxed. Pricing and the fact it makes travelling totally stress free means it ‘s a no-brainer for me.

And sometimes that tiny toilet is full or out of order by the time you get to Narborough Road on the way there, after some have sunk a few early morning pints. 💩s are banned, so it’s a no/no if you have IBS or a curry the night before.

This will be a slow seller initially, as there is only one block currently open and it’s in the corner.

Yes agreed. Evened out by some rank midweek away days against Hull, Southampton, Bristol City, Wrexham and Middlesborough.

If it was his first season in The Championship I’d be happy if he was given the chance. Some of his performances last time in this division though were woeful. Plymouth away still makes me cringe when he didn’t even look like a footballer at any professional level. He’s a player who I’ve probably had the most patience with over a long period of time, thinking and hoping he could eventually come good, but that’s long gone now. He’s gone backwards for a few seasons, under different managers, and I just think it best if he made a new start elsewhere.

Most of my highs and lows have been covered. The only other feel good highlight I can think of, out of very few, was Brighton away. We hadn’t scored for so long and although the game was meaningless, I really enjoyed the feeling of a couple of goal celebrations and a decent away end, considering what we’ve endured all season.

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.