Fans have their say on Memberships at ‘Your 90 Minutes’

[Foxes_Trust]

The latest ‘Your 90 minutes’ session about Memberships was held online to give more opportunity for people from outside of Leicester to be involved.

 

Interesting information on Membership Numbers and General Sale tickets as part of this session

 

Fans have their say on Memberships at ‘Your 90 Minutes’ – Foxes Trust

[Guest RYM]

“Player signing sessions: A charge of £10 is made for people attending these sessions. This covers the cost of a special card with the signatures on.

This approach has been adopted because too many fans were turning up at events, bringing several items to be signed, including shirts, and then selling these on eBay for profit. A combination of the numbers turning up, and people wanting several items signed made it difficult to ensure all supporters had an opportunity to engage with the players.  It was hoped that a £10 charge would make it more exclusive and manageable”

 

BS - it’s for profit and making it exclusive excludes those in the community that can’t afford to come to games, memberships etc 

 

It’s really easy for players to only sign one thing, you just ask them not to and ask fans to respect that. You can guarantee the player cards are the only things signed by only giving them out on entry, but free.

 

If eBay was an issue they would stop players signing things all together, before the game etc etc etc

 

Utter BS

[SK3Blue]

60 away tickets reserved for 15000 members 😂 the scheme is an utter farce. 

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, RYM said:

 

“Player signing sessions: A charge of £10 is made for people attending these sessions. This covers the cost of a special card with the signatures on.

This approach has been adopted because too many fans were turning up at events, bringing several items to be signed, including shirts, and then selling these on eBay for profit. A combination of the numbers turning up, and people wanting several items signed made it difficult to ensure all supporters had an opportunity to engage with the players.  It was hoped that a £10 charge would make it more exclusive and manageable”

 

BS - it’s for profit and making it exclusive excludes those in the community that can’t afford to come to games, memberships etc 

 

It’s really easy for players to only sign one thing, you just ask them not to and ask fans to respect that. You can guarantee the player cards are the only things signed by only giving them out on entry, but free.

 

If eBay was an issue they would stop players signing things all together, before the game etc etc etc

 

Utter BS

It’s bullshit Forest fan the same event last year for free. The second day you didn’t need to a season ticket holder or member 

[Guest RYM]

5 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

It’s bullshit Forest fan the same event last year for free. The second day you didn’t need to a season ticket holder or member 

It’s a culture thing 

 

At Brentford we’d have queues and queues of fans. The players would just be there as they new the value of that engagement.

We made a signing A4 card that could get signed by all the squad, management and mascots underneath their picture, had a map of where you could find each player around the stadium (to spread the queues) and it cost very little.

 

Granted Bees were a smaller club but fan wise it would be the same amount of fans to these events. 

 

Our culture is toxic, the trust know this but they let things like this slip by unchallenged so, so often.

Edited 14 November 2024 by RYM

[Izzy]

All agreed that the membership was still just about value for money and compared favourably to the costs at other Premier League clubs.

 

It costs me £53 a season for me and my lad to be members. Then £80 on average for home tickets if/when we can get them.

 

If you look at the 'benefits' of membership listed, they include shite like 'A video message from a 1st team player' (this was a 9 second generic video from Ricardo) 'Money can't buy experiences' (such as?) and 'Early access on retail launches (Wow, thanks)

 

Membership is just for desperate sad sacks like me who only buys it in the hope of getting tickets and to join the years long wait to be a ST.

 

Felt at the start of the season like we didn't have a choice but now they're going on general sale for some games, I'm not sure we'll bother next season.

 

I dunno.

[Mike Oxlong]

The club know that it’s nothing without us, the customers. 

[davieG]

3 minutes ago, Izzy said:

All agreed that the membership was still just about value for money and compared favourably to the costs at other Premier League clubs.

 

It costs me £53 a season for me and my lad to be members. Then £80 on average for home tickets if/when we can get them.

 

If you look at the 'benefits' of membership listed, they include shite like 'A video message from a 1st team player' (this was a 9 second generic video from Ricardo) 'Money can't buy experiences' (such as?) and 'Early access on retail launches (Wow, thanks)

 

Membership is just for desperate sad sacks like me who only buys it in the hope of getting tickets and to join the years long wait to be a ST.

 

Felt at the start of the season like we didn't have a choice but now they're going on general sale for some games, I'm not sure we'll bother next season.

 

I dunno.

I was amazed to read that, I always see it as a type of extortion and so glad I have and can afford a ST.

 

I sill can't see why it's not a nominal £5  without all the goodies Plus a bit more if you really want all the goodies or £30 for a lifetime membership. When you've done 10 years they give you a medal for your loyalty.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, SK3Blue said:

60 away tickets reserved for 15000 members 😂 the scheme is an utter farce. 

Would you prefer to take it back to the old scheme when it was 0 tickets reserved for 15000 members?

[SK3Blue]

8 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Would you prefer to take it back to the old scheme when it was 0 tickets reserved for 15000 members?

I’d prefer to take it back to a time when it wasn’t oversold. Even with 4000 home tickets or whatever it is, you’ve still only got a 1 in 4 chance of getting one if every member wanted to go. 
The whole scheme is a farce. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

20 minutes ago, SK3Blue said:

I’d prefer to take it back to a time when it wasn’t oversold. Even with 4000 home tickets or whatever it is, you’ve still only got a 1 in 4 chance of getting one if every member wanted to go. 
The whole scheme is a farce. 

I thought you were talking about away tickets?

[SK3Blue]

Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said:

I thought you were talking about away tickets?

I was, but also referring to how over sold the scheme is in general too, they could not satisfy demand for a home ticket if every member wanted one. 
 

If people are happy to scrap it out for 60 away tickets with a 0.004% chance of success then good luck to them, my personal opinion is the whole scheme is a farce with very little benefit to the supporter. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 minutes ago, SK3Blue said:

I was, but also referring to how over sold the scheme is in general too, they could not satisfy demand for a home ticket if every member wanted one. 
 

If people are happy to scrap it out for 60 away tickets with a 0.004% chance of success then good luck to them, my personal opinion is the whole scheme is a farce with very little benefit to the supporter. 

So you'd cap memberships? At what number?

[SK3Blue]

22 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

So you'd cap memberships? At what number?

I don’t see any reason why it should be any greater than 10% of the stadium size so around 3 to 3,500. Unless the club charges a nominal fee of £5 but then the club makes money from the scheme so it’ll never happen. 

 

[supernuk]

Club memberships are just a pay wall for purchasing tickets. 

[Guest Lako42]

14 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

So you'd cap memberships? At what number?

I'd make them £5 and stop taxing peoples desperation and loyalty 

[CosbehFox]

Got contacted by someone the other day who said can you ask the club why they don't have full re-runs of the games on Foxes Hub. 

 

I checked most PL clubs if you join their TV/membership you have asked to the full matches which is massive for supporters abroad if you aren't top six. 

 

Do we? No. 

 

We have zero coverage of Under 21s/18s as well of that nature. 

[Jattdogg]

Memberships are a load of bollox.

 

Then again, I don't think you have a right to renew a season ticket (guaranteed). IMO it should be lottery based but for those who currently have they would never agree to that being a fairer way forward. Unpopular opinion,  I know. Incoming hate mail alert

 

Same shit over here with  20 year wait lists to get a Toronto mapleleafs season ticket (with thousands already in queue waiting lol). My friend has been a hardcore fan all his life and is about ready to bin them off because he can't get tickets ever.

 

As an international fox, i dread the process of trying to get tickets when I'm in England for a 2 week period. I suppose you might ask, why would you subject yourself to such horror on a holiday? You know visiting England firstly and then wanting to watch Cooper ball.