Ollie93 Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Why on earth are people saying we will get fans from Coventry/Derby/Nottingham just because we are premier league? Seriously would you travel to those cities if they were just to watch premier league football? I certainly don't want fans coming to the KP just to watch a premier league match.
hackneyfox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Why on earth are people saying we will get fans from Coventry/Derby/Nottingham just because we are premier league? Seriously would you travel to those cities if they were just to watch premier league football? I certainly don't want fans coming to the KP just to watch a premier league match. This snobbery over why fans go to games needs to stop. If people from the co* area come to watch premier games and their kids become Leicester fans then it hopefully means higher crowds should we get relegated.
Gerard Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Some people would be happier seeing us get 12,000 hardcore fans every home game, proper fans. It's a good time to broaden our catchment area with Coventry really struggling and Derby and Forest perennial Championship sides. It's only going to get tougher for non Premier League clubs with the new TV deal. Lets strike whilst the iron is hot and become the footballing powerhouse of East Midlands football. I want to see us build a 60,000 stadium not just extend the KP to 42,000. Build and they will come.
Ollie93 Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Some people would be happier seeing us get 12,000 hardcore fans every home game, proper fans. It's a good time to broaden our catchment area with Coventry really struggling and Derby and Forest perennial Championship sides. It's only going to get tougher for non Premier League clubs with the new TV deal. Lets strike whilst the iron is hot and become the footballing powerhouse of East Midlands football. I want to see us build a 60,000 stadium not just extend the KP to 42,000. Build and they will come. I presume that first line was directed at me. I don't want 12,000 fans every game, that would quite frankly be sh*t. But I think you're getting a bit excited wanting a 60,000 seater stadium and hoard of "glory supporters" coming to watch Leicester
AndWhat? Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 So wait, some people would actually rather 40 thousand glory hunters than 12 thousand hardcore??
Gerard Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 I presume that first line was directed at me. I don't want 12,000 fans every game, that would quite frankly be sh*t. But I think you're getting a bit excited wanting a 60,000 seater stadium and hoard of "glory supporters" coming to watch Leicester Maybe but I have ambitions for my club. 32,000 sold out now and a cap on season tickets which are sold out. I for one struggle to get a ticket every game and I want to buy a ST but I can't. I know we'd get a lot more if people could turn up on the day. We can fill it with offers and school kids. I for one believe.
hackneyfox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 So wait, some people would actually rather 40 thousand glory hunters than 12 thousand hardcore??Weird isn't it, fancy wanting what is best for your club rather than your own ego and enjoyment.
Itsthejoeker Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Weird isn't it, fancy wanting what is best for your club rather than your own ego and enjoyment. A stadium that's a third full isn't what's best for your clubs, regardless of how "hardcore" they are.
Bagworthblue Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 A stadium that's a third full isn't what's best for your clubs, regardless of how "hardcore" they are. Neither is having a stadium smaller than your potential support base. If you had a taxi firm and regularly turned away customers because you didn't have enough cars and drivers, you'd employ more drivers and buy more cars! It may impact atmosphere but I've been to BIG grounds that are half full and the atmosphere has been electric due to what is happening on the pitch!
Dan Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 I don't mind getting a few more in. No-one's born hardcore. The selfie stick brigade can do one though.
hackneyfox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 A stadium that's a third full isn't what's best for your clubs, regardless of how "hardcore" they are.I was having a dig at those who think only 'hardcore' count.
dayday Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 It won't, it'll be the East stand and Kop. The family stand is near the road.. by the time you've got your footings in for the extension there will be no room. The Kop end, with the car park space available behind, is perfect, especially if the club have bought the land next door, which I'd imagine that they have According to the Mercury it would be the East Stand and possibly the Family Stand
Itsthejoeker Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 I was having a dig at those who think only 'hardcore' count. Apologies, I interpreted the tone in the entirely opposite way.
ScouseFox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Weird isn't it, fancy wanting what is best for your club rather than your own ego and enjoyment. i'd much rather enjoy myself than the club do well. as i've said previously i'll be quite annoyed if we expand. our ground is a perfect size right now. we fill it every week in the premier league, we get enough to not be depressing (just about) when we go down. our atmosphere at the moment is superb, too. add 10k of either glory hunters, people who "just want to see premier league football" or at worst empty fvcking seats and it'll be back to the shite it used to be. at least a few thousand will be able to take a few pictures of rooney when we play united though. joys.
6ups 6downs 2 cups Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Some of those who may have been called 'glory hunters' when buying a season ticket for last season, they may turn into 'hardcore' supporters from now on. Lets go for evolution, I reckon we'd get at least 37,000 for the standard PL games and sell out 42000 for probably half a PL season.
ScouseFox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Some of those who may have been called 'glory hunters' when buying a season ticket for last season, they may turn into 'hardcore' supporters from now on. Lets go for evolution, I reckon we'd get at least 37,000 for the standard PL games and sell out 42000 for probably half a PL season. and when we go down what happens? the loyal fans have to sit in a depressing, empty, atmosphereless hell hole watching us lose to forest at home whilst half the ones who came due to the expansion are in the pub cheering on liverpool? no thanks.
Vlad the Fox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 The owners are planning on long term premier league football and progressing the club. Stand still and we miss the opportunity, we have fans (not glory hunters) who can't get tickets, I think fans need to look forward to where the owners are trying to get us and stop worrying about relegation and establishing ourselves. Expanding the stadium is part of their plan and may well have been one of the deciding factors in buying us in the first place, in so much as they wanted a club they could advance and grow with everything in place for them to follow through their plans. As for glory supporters filling the stadium and ruining the atmosphere, well I can remember the same arguments last year yet they contributed to the best atmosphere this season the stadium has ever seen/heard/felt.
Bagworthblue Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 and when we go down what happens? the loyal fans have to sit in a depressing, empty, atmosphereless hell hole watching us lose to forest at home whilst half the ones who came due to the expansion are in the pub cheering on liverpool? no thanks. just the mentality we need to lose. We have owners that have ambition - go back a few pages and read my post! They are aiming to make us a club where fear of relegation is a thing of the past! To do this we need to grow! aaagh can't be arsed - read my earlier posts
ScouseFox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 just the mentality we need to lose. We have owners that have ambition - go back a few pages and read my post! They are aiming to make us a club where fear of relegation is a thing of the past! To do this we need to grow! aaagh can't be arsed - read my earlier posts like it or not it will eventually become stale. it's great to have ambition and hope, we've all got hopes for us as a club and a team but the bottom line is in 5 years time we'll either go down or have stagnated somewhere between 8th and 15th, and this over excited extra 10k or people will be replaced by empty seats. just a fact of life. and half empty football stadiums are the most depressing places on earth 99% of the time. i've hated having one for ten years and now we can finally fill it we're going to add more empty seats just for a laugh? NO TA.
Gerard Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 I want us to be the next Barcelona, watching Messi or his equivalent in a Leicester shirt winning ANOTHER Champions League. Failing that I want us to be the best we can be. Sticking with a 32,000 stadium because we don't want "glory hunters" and so it's full every week with no chance of a spare seat means we'll get what we deserve again, relegation to the Championship. It will be inevitable at some point because as a club our only ambition is to make the numbers up and survive. What would our gates have been the last two months of the season if we had an infinite stadium? 40,000 at the very minimum, maybe 45,000 or even more. We're a one club city in one of the biggest cities in England. We haven't got another league club for over 20 miles and we haven't got another Premier League club for 40 miles in a reasonably densely populated area. Let's show some ****ing ambition.
Alex_LCFC Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 I want us to be the next Barcelona, watching Messi or his equivalent in a Leicester shirt winning ANOTHER Champions League. Failing that I want us to be the best we can be. Sticking with a 32,000 stadium because we don't want "glory hunters" and so it's full every week with no chance of a spare seat means we'll get what we deserve again, relegation to the Championship. It will be inevitable at some point because as a club our only ambition is to make the numbers up and survive. What would our gates have been the last two months of the season if we had an infinite stadium? 40,000 at the very minimum, maybe 45,000 or even more. We're a one club city in one of the biggest cities in England. We haven't got another league club for over 20 miles and we haven't got another Premier League club for 40 miles in a reasonably densely populated area. Let's show some ****ing ambition. great post
Bagworthblue Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 like it or not it will eventually become stale. it's great to have ambition and hope, we've all got hopes for us as a club and a team but the bottom line is in 5 years time we'll either go down or have stagnated somewhere between 8th and 15th, and this over excited extra 10k or people will be replaced by empty seats. just a fact of life. and half empty football stadiums are the most depressing places on earth 99% of the time. i've hated having one for ten years and now we can finally fill it we're going to add more empty seats just for a laugh? NO TA. you are right! If we think that way - that will definitely happen!! If we think bigger it may still happen but guess what, it might not! One thing is for sure, if you don't try, you don't succeed! And empty seats don't have to restrict atmosphere if you pack everyone in to the rest of the ground. Fact is - you need to cater for your potential as from time to time those seats will be filled and paid for. I don't like half empty stadiums either but you've got to bite while the iron is hot and have a plan to fill those seats and I believe our owners are shrewd enough to have such plans
Gerard Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 and when we go down what happens? the loyal fans have to sit in a depressing, empty, atmosphereless hell hole watching us lose to forest at home whilst half the ones who came due to the expansion are in the pub cheering on liverpool? no thanks. This reminds me of the Homer Simpson quote. What's the point of going out? We're just going to wind up back here anyway.
4everfox Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 i'd much rather enjoy myself than the club do well. as i've said previously i'll be quite annoyed if we expand. our ground is a perfect size right now. we fill it every week in the premier league, we get enough to not be depressing (just about) when we go down. our atmosphere at the moment is superb, too. add 10k of either glory hunters, people who "just want to see premier league football" or at worst empty fvcking seats and it'll be back to the shite it used to be. at least a few thousand will be able to take a few pictures of rooney when we play united though. joys. What nonsensical garbage. I never struggled to get a ticket when we were in league one or the championship and now we are in the premier league I struggle to get tickets, and I'm not the only one. Adding seats to the stadium would give me and many other 'hardcore' Leicester fans an opportunity to watch our beloved club play at the highest level. People who struggle to get tickets aren't glory hunters, they are people who are deprived of watching Leicester play by the true glory hunters who suddenly started buying season tickets and the benefits that come with them because we are in the premier league. I haven't been in a financial situation to afford a season ticket for a number of seasons now, and the rest of the tickets are sold to season ticket holders because they have priority. I could only get to see two matches last season because of this and I'm not alone.
AKCJ Posted 9 June 2015 Posted 9 June 2015 Some people would sooner see us in some shack hosting Macclesfield with 10k "hardcore" fans than see us challenging for Europe in a 42k stadium? Christ.
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