Asian tour

[Gamble92]

If the new manager has any balls he will go into the office and say this bullshit tournament isn't happening

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, TJB-fox said:

Fair enough - take your point, I wouldn’t have a clue but surely 15/16 has left some residual fans. 
Out of interest how do you think we should tackle growing out the club commercially abroad?

honesty, without premier league football it’s not possible in the slightest. 

 

Even with it, I personally don’t think its something we should be focusing on. Even with our recent success we’ve barely achieved anything. The only real way is being a premier league ever present that has exciting big name players and continued success.  Anyone who knew football, seemed to absolutely love vardy.

 

Our general popularity was high, there just wasn’t fans. So financially I really don’t think it achieves much.

 

I was actually invited to go to a Canadian fans legends zoom call. There were only 9 of us on the call (that weren’t staff) and half of the group were brit’s that moved. That’s how little we are abroad 😂. Not that i’m complaining, was class to have a good chat with taggart, walsh and elliott. But kinda shocking that that’s all they could find. (added the photo so you can see 😂 that’s me with the kiddo) 
 

  The logic with these tournaments are that you can create a fan from a special experience. Maybe that’s a kids first game and they take a shine to us. But when you are there with bigger clubs, it’s unlikely that people are going to use that moment to decide to follow us. 

 

So essentially, in my opinion for a club like us (or as we were) the only way we will attract real interest, unless we have consistent champions league football, is by signing a star from their country. If you had the captain from thailand or even china in our team, you could be sure their would be people following us. 

 

 

Edited 4 June 2023 by Lambert09

[Dan]

Perfect example of why we need a strong manager. You had an interim in Smith who was never going to stand up against this utter farce.

[Dan]

4 hours ago, TJB-fox said:

Fair enough - take your point, I wouldn’t have a clue but surely 15/16 has left some residual fans. 
Out of interest how do you think we should tackle growing out the club commercially abroad?

Getting promoted.

[burleighfox]

Once again, another honking decision by the club. Let's treat everyone to a trip abroad after a stinker of a campaign and give them more excuses to lounge about and do as little work as possible. 

[st albans fox]

43 minutes ago, burleighfox said:

Once again, another honking decision by the club. Let's treat everyone to a trip abroad after a stinker of a campaign and give them more excuses to lounge about and do as little work as possible. 

Have you been to se asia in late July ? playing football in those conditions is not a treat! 
 

The travelling is obviously the issue but if it’s a short trip overall then I guess the time difference can be regulated as a sort of half way house.
 

Depending on conditions here in July, it may not be clever to take a squad of athletes to se asia for a short trip and to to play two games - but I’d hope that the medical and conditioning people would be given some control over the schedule 

[The Year Of The Fox]

On 03/06/2023 at 14:37, cruzFOX said:

What kind of a squad are we taking to Asia?

hope we don’t get a massing hiding!

Hopefully get back all the lads involved in that Thai orgy

 

Get the band back together 

[HeskeyForever]

Really good commercial revenue if there's nothing contractually obliging us to play our first team. If it makes financial sense for Liverpool, Tottenham, Bayern and Roma to do it, then we certainly can't afford to miss out. 

 

Send the U23s to play the game, spread the global brand and don't let it impact our preparation for the first game in the Championship. 

[dannythefox]

I completely agree it’s not ideal but we need some money and a guess this is worth a bit to us. With covid we couldn’t do any of this so at the first opportunity Top wants get us out there. It’s wouldn’t be my choice but he’s the gaffer.

[21st Century Fox]

Next season's post mortem just writes itself.

[Lambert09]

8 hours ago, HeskeyForever said:

Really good commercial revenue if there's nothing contractually obliging us to play our first team. If it makes financial sense for Liverpool, Tottenham, Bayern and Roma to do it, then we certainly can't afford to miss out. 

 

Send the U23s to play the game, spread the global brand and don't let it impact our preparation for the first game in the Championship. 

This would make sense for out preparation but at the same time... I dont think the club will want to send our youth team to get hammered 15-0 or more by Bayern and anybody else. Especially on our owners home turf.  

 

We've screwed ourselves here

[BenTheFox]

We need a proper pre-season. Trips to Mansfield, Doncaster, Barnsley and maybe a game against a newly promoted premier league side like Luton or Sheffield United would not only be far better preparation for the upcoming season, but would also help the club reconnect with its local supporter base. Sack this nonsense off. 

[StanSP]

Have heard that we are considering a way to pull out of this, but there could be fines if we do. 

[st albans fox]

33 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Have heard that we are considering a way to pull out of this, but there could be fines if we do. 

you’d have expected that the club would have put in a clause that says we can pull out if we are relegated. We must have been close to the drop zone when this was negotiated and if the organisers want to have sanctions on withdrawal then we should have found a way to protect us.  Then it becomes about whether we want to take the money or not - if you’re right then we just lose money 

[sylofox]

Fingers X China and the yanks kick off so it's cancelled.

[sylofox]

On 04/06/2023 at 23:50, Gamble92 said:

If the new manager has any balls he will go into the office and say this bullshit tournament isn't happening

He probably will but it won't stop it happening.

 

Whoever comes in will have to live with this as contracts are signed.

[sylofox]

20 hours ago, StanSP said:

Have heard that we are considering a way to pull out of this, but there could be fines if we do. 

Our owners won't want to lose face in there own back yard. I would think this is just wishful thinking.

[Simoken]

On 03/06/2023 at 10:14, blueharmie said:

Asian.... tour tour tour....were not famous anymore!

[whoareyaaa]

 

On 05/06/2023 at 06:17, The Year Of The Fox said:

Hopefully get back all the lads involved in that Thai orgy

 

Get the band back together 

Terrys bags are packed already.

[Simoken]

As much as i loved watching these three play for LCFC under Martin Oneil, my god, listening to them for a live post-match conference discussion is so damn DULL and boring, holy crap Please keep Gerry off them. i cant listen for more than 5 minutes before switching off and thats even when we win games.

 

Edited 6 June 2023 by Simoken

[Footballwipe]

20 minutes ago, Simoken said:

As much as i loved watching these three play for LCFC under Martin Oneil, my god, listening to them for a live post-match conference discussion is so damn DULL and boring, holy crap Please keep Gerry off them. i cant listen for more than 5 minutes before switching off and thats even when we win games.

 

They're all on the club payroll - absolutely nonsensical when these guys get wheeled out by BBC/Sky to talk about Leicester tbh. They're not going to say anything that'll rock the boat, whether it's on LCFCtv Pravda or on mainstream television/radio 

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, sylofox said:

Fingers X China and the yanks kick off so it's cancelled.

had a think about this and i'm going to accept a slowish start to the season rather than WWIII kicking off ......

[djskydiver]

Send the u23’s I’m sure they’d love a trip out there and let the first team crack on with pre-season training. 

[sylofox]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

had a think about this and i'm going to accept a slowish start to the season rather than WWIII kicking off ......

Some of you on here are so boring 🤣🤣

[Voll Blau]

Can't stop shaking my head at the idiocy of this decision. If we're that hard up for cash that we are genuinely prioritising these short-term revenues above a long-term plan to return to the Premier League ASAP then we should all be very, very worried.