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Player signing at half term

By RGFox, in Leicester City Forum

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sharpylcfc

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We all know that the club won't do anything for free anymore. They also wouldn't let anyone who doesn't have an account or account history with the club purchase tickets or go to the open training sessions. So it doesn't surprise me they're charging for a signing session, especially when it could be an opportunity to bring new fans in or the next generation of fans interested instead of them supporting one of the big six.

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jammie82uk

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2 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

ST holders/members only too I presume?

According to the website:

 

 

To purchase a ticket, supporters are required to have an LCFC.com account and must have a complete profile to enable ticket purchases. If you do not have an account, click HERE for information on how to set up your account.

 

ian__marshall

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Terrible decision to effectively monetise an event like this particularly during half term where the kids will talk between themselves and exert pressure on their parents to meet their idols. Whatever happened to positive PR and goodwill?!? It's not exactly like this event is costing them a huge outlay to justify the price. The increased foot fall will inevitably lead to people spending money on merchandise with takings likely be elevated so there really is no need to apply a premium. 

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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24 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

......Blimey, l need a holiday. 

I read the headline as 'Players singing at half time'. :blink:

With Susan Whelan on bass and Rudkin on the drums.

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Lionator

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I don’t see the problem. The players are profit making money machines these days and just because it involves children, doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be exploited for the clubs gain. It’ll probably put an extra £1-2k in the coffers which is much needed to pay 0.1% of a players weekly wages. 

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Freeman's Wharfer

Freeman's Wharfer

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You’re a kid from a disadvantaged background. Maybe not so far away from the stadium - somewhere like New Parks or Braunstone. Of course you can’t afford a season ticket or membership but a walk, bus or bike ride down the ground during half term is achievable…

 

LCFC do not give two craps about you.

 

So unnecessarily sad to see. Shame on you, LCFC.

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Supergray22

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I don’t like this at all I have to say. Do a free signing event for kids and give away some merch freebies. This will do more for the club and the morale of players and supporters than the shameful event they have planned. This is embarrassing. 

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volpeazzurro

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7 hours ago, Supergray22 said:

I don’t like this at all I have to say. Do a signing event for kids and give away some freebies. This will do more for the club and the morale of players and supporters than the shameful event they have planned. This is embarrassing. 

I really think they've lost it with this one. It's one thing raising money for charity and making sure it's known your doing it for PR, but quite another doing something like this for kids. It demonstrates a lack of caring and commercialism that now becomes very transparent.

 

There was a time that many clubs got their players to interact with their supporters admittedly for some PR but it also gave something back and stimulated interest and perhaps ensured young supporters for the future. I also think some of the players got something out of it too. Andy King always seemed pretty keen in particular when out and about. I remember taking my then young nephew to a signing day where he spoke to Elliott, Lennon and Izzet, he was full of it! Of course it later also involved a visit to the club shop so it's not as if the club lost out. It also ensures that merchandise gets bought at Christmas and birthdays and in my case, later the purchase of season tickets for my kids as they got introduced.

 

If kids don't go due to ticket prices or because of finances for such events as these, then they'll lose interest. Unless cynically of course they're not even interested in them in the first place and just want the more potentially profitable rich kids to attend? Surely the money wasted on free drinks, donuts or clappers etc would be better diverted to this if they think they need to make or save more money? 

 

The club, it's identity and history, is gradually being eroded away I think. After all these years since the late 60s when I first went down with my Dad, for the last three years I'm starting to feel quite a disconnect from the club. Yet it wasn't this way at all when Vichai and his family first came, quite the opposite. These lot are now so aloof and disconnected from the real world and supporters that they're simply unaware of it. 

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Gubbins

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1 hour ago, adejo92 said:

Club stinks in just about every way possible. 

It's not just the club though it's top level football in this country full stop. A horrible, cynical, profit at all cost machine, run and played by greedy, self interested millionaires. And its rarely even fun or exciting to watch any more.  I genuinely look forward to the day my dad decides to stop going so i can pack the rotten thing in.

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Gamble92

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Do we think something has changed or has it always been like this but the success just kind of covered it up?

 

I mean, how does the only Premier League club to vote against charging £15 a game to watch matches during COVID then charge £10 to watch a friendly? It doesn't make sense for that to be the same people making those decisions. 

 

We're about 5th (behind mainly London clubs) for cost of matchday food. But hey Top will give you a free donut one in every 50 games so be grateful. 

 

I just feel like that they've never been what they're cracked up to be sadly. It's just that the veil has been well and truly lifted in the last few years. 

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