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1 hour ago, promised land said:

I think most can afford to pay it, that’s not the problem with it, it’s the principal behind it and the fact it vanishes to dust come May when it’s still operating at reduced capacity, which without a vaccine in full flow could be the case.

 

The start of your second paragraph is where the trouble lies, there are too many fans who will do just that tomorrow morning as if they’re going to miss out if at 9am they’re not logged in to pay it, I know one who will be doing it for certain, always buys away tickets one minute past the time it opens up, must sit there waiting and clock watching. 
 

Thd club will have enough of these fan types to think it was a success. If that happens what next? Businesses push as far as they can all the time to claw more from you.

 

Why else did they build the tunnel from the family stand to the store? To get your money in their tills, no other reason for it. Is it still there?

I didn’t realise they made a tunnel lol 

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4 minutes ago, Corieltauvian said:

I will never praise any owner for doing a  

good job of running the club. That’s my minimum expectation.

What will they get praise for, in your eyes, just out of interest?

 

I know this current issue is quite a pressing one, but let's face it they've done more as just a 'good' job of running it. Look where we were when they took ownership. Look at us now and the stature of our club, the new training ground, the reputation we've garnered in just 10 years. Phenomenal change for the better. 

 

(N.B this doesn't give them the excuse to charge £70 or whatever for the scheme they've come up with). But where there's calls of blind loyalty, you can't also be that blind to not see what they've done for our club so far. Especially when you take in to account terrible owners of other clubs who have run them in to the ground.

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1 hour ago, StanSP said:

I'm not as unhappy as some others are but I've still e-mailed the club to air my grievances about the unfair plan/scheme about it all. 

 

Let's see what happens...

Me too, similar to what I have set out in my post.

 

Will be interesting to see their response given the likely scale of objection.

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20 minutes ago, Corieltauvian said:

The rest I’m not that interested in. I think we kid ourselves that our ownership isn’t as corrupt and self-interested as any other. The way they made their money and maintained their position in Thailand is something I strongly disapprove of and I know I’m a hypocrite to keep putting my own money in. The only (weak) defence I have is that I’m not doing it for them.

I don't think we do; there are a decent number of threads where it's been established our owners are probably involved with the Thai Government one way or another. No millionaire/billionaire is squeaky clean, that's just how the world works sadly. 

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I have no interest in going to games with reduced capacity, it's bad enough just going to the shop & being treated like a leper & it will probably be 10 times worse at the King Power.

 

I cannot understand why we have to pay a sum as high as £70, why not 10 or 20 if they just want some kind of committment. To say that this money will be lost & not carried forward to next season is absolutely disgraceful

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8 hours ago, Gazza3 said:

 

We are a PL club ffs. Not Bury FC. 

 

They don't need this £70 to stay afloat, they don't even NEED season ticket money full stop. 

 

Fans acting like people should stump up just because are absolutely deluded apologist fools. 

 

No wonder this country has no back bone, lazy, apologist brits just bending over and paying up. 

 

Lcfc do not need to do this, they do not Need your £70 donation. They just want it, and they know you will pay it. 

 

Football has gone for me, this is the push I needed. If they don't reverse it then I'll be down Owen Street or doing something else with my Sundays, Monday nights, whatever other stupid ****ing day they play on this season. 

 

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9 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

We are a PL club ffs. Not Bury FC. 

 

They don't need this £70 to stay afloat, they don't even NEED season ticket money full stop. 

 

Fans acting like people should stump up just because are absolutely deluded apologist fools. 

 

No wonder this country has no back bone, lazy, apologist brits just bending over and paying up. 

 

Lcfc do not need to do this, they do not Need your £70 donation. They just want it, and they know you will pay it. 

 

Football has gone for me, this is the push I needed. If they don't reverse it then I'll be down Owen Street or doing something else with my Sundays, Monday nights, whatever other stupid ****ing day they play on this season. 

 

So they don't need your money, but you'll still pay it and stick with them if they do reverse this initial poor decision?

 

Does that make you a bent-over lazy Brit too?

 

What's stopping you from doing anything else right now if you feel so against it all, if football has gone for you?

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3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

What's stopping you from doing anything else right now if you feel so against it all, if football has gone for you?

Not much, and I have been doing. I attended 3 away games last season when I'm normally double figures. 

 

There's always a final straw, this is probably it. 

 

I'm not saying it's the clubs fault (this one is) but football has become something else, it's just not the same sport as I used to love and this kind of thing is a big reminder.

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41 minutes ago, Corieltauvian said:

I think plenty do, unfortunately.

 

I agree that’s how things are. I suppose we all have our limit as to how much we are willing to tolerate, or at least actively support by putting own our money in.

 

I’m a hypocrite in many ways. I buy a season ticket, I pay for Sky Sports and BT Sports. But I’ve felt myself drifting away for a while. Just feeling more detached from top level football and Leicester City. This is probably the issue which will give me the excuse I need.

 

Maybe it’s just age. I’ll get more enjoyment from paying to watch a small fan-run club and be able to have a pint with the old man (who isn’t a Leicester fan so doesn’t come to the KP with me) while I watch. It’s sad in a way, but the older I get the more football becomes about the community and the people I watch with than the colour of the shirt the players wear.

 

It’s not me saying I’m not a Leicester fan. There isn’t really a way for me not to be now. But I’m going to have to do it differently and this season ticket issue only serves to underline to me that I’m making a choice I’m comfortable with. Time for somebody who will get more from it to take my seat.

I think you've articulated quite a few of my thoughts there too. Football is a sociable event for me, a great day out with my son as well as a keen interest in everything Leicester City. However, being of a certain age also, the commercialisation of the sport, with very little concern for the fans is probably starting to take it's toll a bit also.

 

We are in unprecedented times and in some ways, certain things have perhaps been put into perspective in terms of what is really important in life to some extent. However important football thinks itself to be and I do love the sport, the spectacle of empty grounds and largely sterile atmosphere served up on our television screens tends to suggest that football without the fans can be a little drab to say the least. The mock/false excitement by TV pundits at times has been quite telling and a little bit comical. Whilst gate receipts might only make up a small proportion of a club's income, if fans started turning away from their television screens because of less interest, then the club's media income streams would also start to shrink also. I have numerous friends that appear to have lost quite a bit of interest so perhaps such greedy moves by our club and others could be ill timed. If we were to have another season of this, are our owners going to come back for yet another £70 for absolutely nothing in return? 

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3 hours ago, ousefox said:

I think it is tomorrow. Release the details late on Friday night, nobody at work to respond to fans on the weekend, and people start paying on Monday. That leaves them with the excuse that it'll be too complicated to reverse now people have started paying. Am I being too cynical?

 

The best we can hope for is that we can convince them that the £70 will be 'credit' towards a future ticket/purchase.

 

People feeling sorry for billionaires also shows how the whole of society has changed in the last few decades. 

100%. The people I feel for are working class people (us) because some will have not worked for months or even don't have a job anymore. And this is the last thing they want to read.

 

It's just state of the country now overall.

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After reading most of the comments on here along with what union FS said and speaking ST holding friends, it is obvious that this doesn't sit right with the majority.

I can see this getting overturned which is when they say the non refundable £70 will be exchanged for club shop vouchers...……..

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2 minutes ago, stretch1965 said:

After reading most of the comments on here along with what union FS said and speaking ST holding friends, it is obvious that this doesn't sit right with the majority.

I can see this getting overturned which is when they say the non refundable £70 will be exchanged for club shop vouchers...……..

Where's the part that says non refundable £70? I read it earlier and now can't find it again.

 

I just looked at the statement again.

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Good to see the sensible thing done.

 

Get rid of the £70 (STs just carry over to 21/22/a return to full capacity no matter what) and make individual tickets from the ballot 1/19th of your normal ST price.

 

How they could ever think people were willing to pay more for less games and a worse product is absolutely beyond me.

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I don't mind disposing of the £70 as long as it goes towards this season's ST or next season's. Or for other fans not being able to pay it shouldn't mean you don't lose your ST for next season. Oh and don't charge extra for what you would usually pay for your normal ST seat and corresponding game (or make it flat rate across the stadium). 

 

I'd have respect for them if they listened and admitted they got it wrong. 

 

Those points simply have to be addressed. 

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I suspect they'll concentrate on the £70 retainer but stick with the match day pricing which was probably all they wanted in the 1st place.

 

A bit like the Walkers Bowl, no one rally wanted it to have sponsored name, all focus though was directed at the Bowl bit, that got dumped but we still ended up with it being the Walkers Stadium

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