Season Ticket / Membership renewals for 25/26

[jammie82uk]

2 hours ago, skinnydipper said:

Who's in for next season 25/26

 

After 20 years as a ST holder I'm finding it hard to find a reason to renew 

 

What are others thinking ? 

 

For me it’s not necessarily about the club although like others I’m not happy with how things are currently being ran, it’s more the premier league in general coupled with poor officiating and VAR 

[Winchesterfox]

Yes but it’s hard to watch the club I love get gradually worse through bad decisions.  

[waddadamadda]

Similar to what another poster has said on here.

 

It’s mine and the teenagers quality time. She doesn’t particularly want to hang out with her mum but apparently having a season ticket makes me ‘cool’ and ok to spend a Saturday with. She’s also created her own little city supporting circle and they meet up at away days so I’d never take that away from her. (She does come back and find me before kick off so I’m not left stranded!)

 

It’s a way of life for us and she knows no different as she’s had her season ticket since she was 4 and me a stupid amount of years. Whether Premier League or League 1 we’ll be there. Yeah I’m p****d with VAR (ruined the game) FFP (or whatever you want to call it) but Leicester are still my team and I’ll follow them around the country no matter what. 
 

 

[goose2010]

I've had one since league one and enjoyed every moment of it really but I'm going to give mine up. It's not just the club but football in general the game isnt the game I fell in love with as a kid. 

 

Potentially VAR in the championship next season too, it's bad enough in the prem so god knows how bad it will be in the championship. 

 

One thing I loved as a kid was it didn't matter if it was you and your mates having a kick about at the park or watching England at Wembley it was the same game, just different levels! 

 

Now it's just millionaires playing for billionaires that is built to make them all richer and to entertain the arm chair fan. 

 

It's a sad but the game is so broken. 

[Electric Yetis]

Had a season ticket non-stop since 1994. I'm wavering.

[MGLCFC]

Gave my season  ticket up about 7 years ago through ill health. Been trying since to gain enough points to get a new one, but at this point I hope I'm unsuccessful again. I love my club, but feel it's not connected to the fans anymore, both on and off the pitch.

[OntarioFox]

Debating it, especially as I'm moving away from the county and it'll be a 2 and a half hour drive to games.

 

Really only holding onto it at this point because of the closed-shop way tickets operate in general, and there's part of me that figures it'll be a lot easier to get to away games in the Northwest once I'm up there. It'll only be a short hop for me to the likes of Preston, Blackburn, any number of the clubs currently in the playoffs for League One. And I kind of know my Dad's keen to keep the priority points up so he can follow them home and away once he retires in two years' time - with that in mind I'm probably gonna hold onto it for his sake. Factor in the obscene prices for home tickets and it will probably pay for itself if I make it to 9 or 10 games across the season, even in the second tier.

Will I attend every game though? Not a chance. Like I said in another thread, fully planning to pick a local lower-league club and start going to their matches instead, to see if I can fall in love with the game again. Was toying with it this time two years ago with Coalvillle, but now it's a matter of when, not if. LCFC will always be my hometown club, but they're a miserable thing to support and have been for years now.

Edited 4 February by OntarioFox

[Bingleyman]

 Not sure after 11 seasons why I should make an effort for  a 200 mile round trip to watch players who can’t be bothered to show up and put a shift in 

[Dan]

My hand has been forced by the ban for being in the vicinity of somebody else setting off a smoke bomb. So I can't unfortunately.

[ealingfox]

Good times and the bad has nothing to do with it. Either of those still presumes a level of effort and application that's now utterly absent across the club's entire operation. 

 

Can forgive anyone for deciding they can't justify committing their time and money to this.

Edited 4 February by ealingfox

[Spiritwalker]

2 hours ago, tcrofts said:

Wonder how many won't renew but sing 'through the good times and the bad'

 

It’s not just that, I’ve been watching Leicester since the 70’s and there’s been plenty of bad,

Im just pissed off with those running the club into the ground and modern football in general.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Think if I moved more than an hour drive away I'd just give it up. **** knows how some of you are traveling 4+ hours each way to watch this dross.

[broadstone fox]

Dont think i will give mine up. Its a six hour round trip for me. I spend quality time with both my kids on a day trip. If you give up your season ticket you probably wont ever get one back again.

What else would you do with your time in the depths of the winter months.

Its a hard slog to go now and i just pick certain games that suit my time now.

Life goes in cycles. Football is the same. 

[Dan]

6 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Yeah probably, but finding it more and more difficult to justify each year. The only thing that stops me giving it up is knowing I won't be able to get one again for a few years, and I think I've got some pretty decent seats as well.

Generally agree with your point but I think our crowds could really dip. Premier League Saturday 3pm games going to general sale - I don't think that's happened at any other point beforehand. I do think the mix of the appalling prices and frankly appalling fare are taking their toll.

 

Despite the forced hand I haven't missed home games in the slightest. I'm still able to do most of the matchday in fairness, just don't have to suffer the dog shit at the ground. I'm obviously exaggerating a little bit - but there's genuine truth in this and that shouldn't be the case.

[adam]

Will renew, I'll give it one more season and if it continues to be a shit show I won't go.

It will also be interesting to see what they do with the prices and the £25 rip off.

Edited 5 February by adam

[Parker Pen]

2 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Premier League Saturday 3pm games going to general sale

Therin lies the problem, as a Football fan we have all been forced into attending matches at ridiculous kick off times as every club is beholden to the Sky money and advertising that comes with it!

[Sly]

The world is changing and moving games for season ticket holders is a major inconvenience. 
 

Not everyone can, or even wants to attend a game on a Saturday night at 20:00, especially if you are taking younger children etc.

 

I personally still think they need to scrap the 15:00 kick off moving games for TV black out.

 

Watching your local team play at 15:00 on a Saturday, is a completely different experience to watching Leicester at 15:00 on a Saturday. Less travel time, smaller crowds, closer interaction etc

 

At some point, a major football league will be picked up by Netflix, rather than a Sky and that’ll change the landscape again. Netflix has a far larger reach and people will start to use that for their weekly football fix. 
 

I keep saying it, the younger generation have a shorter attention span, so unless games have goals and are exciting, the sports will be the death of itself. VAR is anti entertainment at times. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

We live in Preston, so the 6 hour round trip makes home games an expensive experience, last season it was great as we were in the championship so a lot of games stayed as Saturday 3pm kick offs plus we could pick and choose games we wanted to go to, we had memberships for a good few years. 

We loved our day trips down, me the wife and our 15 year old lad, we had such a great time and it felt like we regained a little bit of our club again, Enzo had that NP aura about him picking up a club on its arse and bringing a new wave of optimism and professionalism, it felt although it would be a long road back, we had least had a plan. 
 

However after the debacle of the final game of the season when we barely got to see the team or players parading the trophy, instead the family stand were greeted to watching a day out for KP family, friends and influencers, it really felt like we were nothing more than customers, who should be grateful to share the experience, kindly delivered by KP. 
 

Then the absolute shambles of a summer and any feel good factor had gone, off field decisions didnt help allay the feelings of a huge disconnect between the custodians of the club and its supporters, we took the decision to not renew our membership for the season. 
 

As I watch the season unfold it is exactly the right decision we made, I love this club unconditionally, every time I come back to Leicester it brings back memories of going to watch as a 6,7,8 year old lad at Filbo cheering on players like Andy Peake, Larry May, Steve Lynex and Gary Lineker etc

 

However nowadays as much as the love for my club will never die, there are so many things that I don’t like about it and the people involved with the club, our club that they see as their plaything, or just a job to them, here to manipulate and control narratives to maintain their own agendas or players here for a payday with no appreciation or respect for the fanbase and what this club means to them. 
 

We are the lifeblood of this club, we were here before and will be here long after this group of owners, directors, administrators and players have moved on.  
 

I will and always will support Leicester City Football Club, my club, our club, our city and one day our club will win back its soul. But we as fans can play a massive part in this. 
 

Sing more and more retro songs, buy retro tops not from the club shop, sing we want our Leicester back. 
 

We had some wonderful times under KP and for those memories i will always be grateful, but so much has changed we have become stale and lazy, a club that no longer appreciates its fans, but more see them as customer, only interested in increasing revenue per head and not caring if they lose the die hard fans along the way. 
 

I am not entitled, I just want my club to make me proud, not only on the pitch but off the pitch, make me as a supporter feel important and part of the fabric of the club, and yet here I am at this point feeling nothing more than a number, someone far less important to the club than say a corporate day tripper or a friend or family of KP. 
 

 

[jonthefox]

I was here long before KP and i'll be here long after . 

[SemperEadem]

Thought they had chucked out the prices for a second then. 

[Lako42]

10 hours ago, broadstone fox said:

 your season ticket you probably wont ever get one back again.

 

Exactly the reason the ground is a complete morgue full of stale people scared of giving up something they've always had. 

 

Clear that many in here really should give it up but can't. Nothing will change 

[ThurmastonFox]

19 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Thought they had chucked out the prices for a second then. 

Assume up 10% because more games in the championship and £50 fee for the card 🤣

[Ian S]

 Be nice if before deciding the club lets me know whether they are waving the white flag on the coming season. If they had told me they were going to do it this season I might not have bothered.

Will see how I feel, definitely not bothering the next few home games, totally disillusioned and terrible kick off times and days have done for me and that’s without thinking about the over paid lazy gits  on the pitch.

[phoneticerror]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Thought they had chucked out the prices for a second then. 

I wouldn’t put it by them to increase after relegation. That’s how much they can read the room.

[grobyfox1990]

Yeh defo, nice to have an illogical passtime and it's an anchor reason to fly back to the UK for me.

Hopefully a lot of people who have been moaning on here for years do give theirs up and give younguns a chance for an ST. However methinks they won't.