Stadium Thread

[Gamble92]

 

12 hours ago, Molson Canadian said:

was told by someone who regularly hosts business related events at the King Power Stadium that even the management of the booking rentals and coordination of them by the club has gone downhill.  

I've always said stories like this and many others should be all KPFC fans need to realise that this has never at any point been about King Power's love for Leicester City. 

 

If they cared then, they'd care now. We got sucked in by a good story and a lot of us woke up. Sadly some never will. 

[Stadt]

If Leicester City (Under KP) operated as they do in any other, more normal industry we would have gone into liquidation long ago. The shoddy business practises are only sustained by a hyper loyal fanbase and the occasional ability to sell high value players to sustain the losses. Hospitality is crap, the ticketing is crap, the merch is crap, the catering is crap, the media output is crap. It could all be forgiven if we operated with skeleton crews but we have a media department 3x the Championship average, we pay for the most expensive hotels and team coaches and so on.

 

Neither of the two mechanisms that keep us out the shit will last for ever. 

[FoxesTalker]

Today marks 24 years on Filbert Way.

[SemperEadem]

It's in need of some tlc now.

[H.a.r.r.y]

always wonder why we've never bothered to name our stands

[Phil_Dunphy]

We have done before but just seemed to fade away.

 

Gary Lineker Stand, BMI Baby stand etc.

Edited 8 hours ago by Phil_Dunphy

[HP1]

8 hours ago, H.a.r.r.y said:

always wonder why we've never bothered to name our stands

No history apparently. Just like the lack of statues. Anyone would think were a club like MK Dons, when in fact our history whilst just being in this stadium trumps that of 80% of other clubs entire history.

Edited 38 minutes ago by HP1

[NAKC20]

32 minutes ago, Phil_Dunphy said:

We have done before but just seemed to fade away.

 

Gary Lineker Stand, BMI Baby stand etc.

Dont forget The Jordan Ayew cant Stand

[Ted Maul]

43 minutes ago, Phil_Dunphy said:

We have done before but just seemed to fade away.

 

Gary Lineker Stand, BMI Baby stand etc.

When you think about it, it's absolutely outrageous that we named a stand after Lineker after he helped save the club and then decided to rename it a few years later. 

 

Talk about having no respect for our own history. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Ted Maul

[Lesta Legend]

5 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

When you think about it, it's absolutely outrageous that we named a stand after Lineker after he helped save the club and then decided to rename it a few years later. 

 

Talk about having no respect for our own history. 

That's KP for you !

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

42 minutes ago, H.a.r.r.y said:

always wonder why we've never bothered to name our stands

Easiest PR move possible 

 

North: Banks End

East: Morgan Stand

South: Vardy End

West: Lineker Stand 

 

These statues in the midpoint of each stand

 

Then a big 2015/16 group one in 'Claudio Corner' between the Vardy and Morgan stands

 

 

Could do the whole thing for a week's worth of saved wages for Winks and Vestegaard, and it would last decades.

[Nolucklcfc]

Can’t wait till King Power removed from everything … should be called filbert way 

[SemperEadem]

1 minute ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Can’t wait till King Power removed from everything … should be called filbert way 

Yeah it being officially Filbert Way would be superb but we know that wont happen it will get another sponsor name.

[Nolucklcfc]

3 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Yeah it being officially Filbert Way would be superb but we know that wont happen it will get another sponsor name.

True, unless we get lucky with a local business person or local consortium. Even then, it might be a long shot. 

[Corky]

Hopefully we will have blue seats again at some point.

[Gamble92]

3 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Easiest PR move possible 

 

North: Banks End

East: Morgan Stand

South: Vardy End

West: Lineker Stand 

 

These statues in the midpoint of each stand

 

Then a big 2015/16 group one in 'Claudio Corner' between the Vardy and Morgan stands

 

 

Could do the whole thing for a week's worth of saved wages for Winks and Vestegaard, and it would last decades.

This has always been one of many signs that our fanbase don't seem to value the history the way other clubs do. 

 

I know there's some of us who do, but there's not a chance you'd get away with renaming the Jack Charlton stand at Leeds the Kenwood Kettles stand. No one gave a flying **** when we did it to the Lineker stand. 

 

It's even worse there's just North, East, South, West now.

 

We spend a lot of time moaning about how the KP/Walkers took away the soul but we have won more at this stadium and had more prestigious games than we ever did at Filbert Street. There was a real chance to build on that. But it's regressed massively. We don't even try to establish it and stand names/statues would at least go some way to towards trying. 

 

Even the way King Power have been able to plaster their brand everywhere with no backlash. I get that the success plays a part in that but the way they don't honour anything that's not to do with them absolutely stinks the place out too. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Gamble92

[LCFCCHRIS]

3 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Easiest PR move possible 

 

North: Banks End

East: Morgan Stand

South: Vardy End

West: Lineker Stand 

 

These statues in the midpoint of each stand

 

Then a big 2015/16 group one in 'Claudio Corner' between the Vardy and Morgan stands

 

 

Could do the whole thing for a week's worth of saved wages for Winks and Vestegaard, and it would last decades.

Been crying out for this for ages. So many stadiums you go to have statutes, even clubs that have achieved far less than us. 

Vichai did an incredible thing for us and I don't mind him having the statue, especially since it's a memorial too. 

But then to not have a single other statue of players or managers that brought us glory seems crazy. It would be a huge thing for PR with the fans. Could have unveiled them for the 10 year anniversary game, would have brought far far more viewers to the game too. 

[StanSP]

Any new owners get themselves in the fans' good books if they sanction statues of the legends around the ground. 

 

Vardy, Banks, Lineker are certs. 

[Nolucklcfc]

6 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Any new owners get themselves in the fans' good books if they sanction statues of the legends around the ground. 

 

Vardy, Banks, Lineker are certs. 

It’s one of the things I despise about King Power. They have absolutely zero interest in trying to show our history. 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

9 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

This has always been one of many signs that our fanbase don't seem to value the history the way other clubs do. 

 

I know there's some of us who do, but there's not a chance you'd get away with renaming the Jack Charlton stand at Leeds the Kenwood Kettles stand. No one gave a flying **** when we did it to the Lineker stand. 

 

It's even worse there's just North, East, South, West now.

 

We spend a lot of time moaning about how the KP/Walkers took away the soul but we have won more at this stadium and had more prestigious games than we ever did at Filbert Street. There was a real chance to build on that. But it's regressed massively. We don't even try to establish it and stand names/statues would at least go some way to towards trying. 

 

Even the way King Power have been able to plaster their brand everywhere with no backlash. I get that the success plays a part in that but the way they don't honour anything that's not to do with them absolutely stinks the place out too. 

The thing is, I don't think many people actually knew it was the Lineker Stand to begin with. There wasn't really anything commemorating it, and I only ever heard it called the North Stand or Family Stand. It was remarkably easy to remove that aspect because it was never really there.

[STUHILL]

11 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

It’s one of the things I despise about King Power. They have absolutely zero interest in trying to show our history. 

I think the only way we get owners who are going to show any interest in our history is if it's a local billionaire. Most foreign owners only really care about advertising their own brand and culture. 

[Nolucklcfc]

37 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

I think the only way we get owners who are going to show any interest in our history is if it's a local billionaire. Most foreign owners only really care about advertising their own brand and culture. 

Potentially but I do think king power are the worst end of it. 

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

The thing is, I don't think many people actually knew it was the Lineker Stand to begin with. There wasn't really anything commemorating it, and I only ever heard it called the North Stand or Family Stand. It was remarkably easy to remove that aspect because it was never really there.

We had a Fosse Stand for a short while. Better name than Spion Kop. We left that at Filbert Street and it can't be recreated.

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

5 hours ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Easiest PR move possible 

 

North: Banks End

East: Morgan Stand

South: Vardy End

West: Lineker Stand 

 

These statues in the midpoint of each stand

 

Then a big 2015/16 group one in 'Claudio Corner' between the Vardy and Morgan stands

 

 

Could do the whole thing for a week's worth of saved wages for Winks and Vestegaard, and it would last decades.

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This has always been one of many signs that our fanbase don't seem to value the history the way other clubs do. 

You can hardly blame them when King Power is blasted everywhere. What chance have the fans got to influence anything.

 

King Power apparently Est 1884, Whilst the reference to Leicester City FC is hidden behind the two screens.

 

We were promised a museum and loads of fans donated items on loan many of which the club 'mislaid' and the museum faded away just like every other aspect of the stadium that reflected it was the Home of LCFC.

 

Now it's just a big advertising board for KP and a mausoleum to Vichai. As sad as his death was so much of the grounds should never have been given so much prominence to him and at the very least the Statue should be in the memorial garden.

[davieG]

1 hour ago, STUHILL said:

I think the only way we get owners who are going to show any interest in our history is if it's a local billionaire. Most foreign owners only really care about advertising their own brand and culture. 

Plenty of stadiums  are much better at recognising their existence as a football club and their history and current successes