Not renewing my season ticket: I cannot be only one

[FOXSE]

The only way I could really understand this is if the leicester 'regime' was actually a regime like Saudi, or they had just got caught up in the epstein scandal. 

 

Each to their own, but your criticism of the board, surely, is that they are utterly incompetent, rather than some moral failing? As such, do you expect lcfc to be always ran in a competent way? Do you expect us to always have a good team that are never just a bit crap? And if they are crap you won't watch?

 

Nobody has to be a fan, and nobody has to justify why they are a fan, I am just finding it hard to distinguish between actual fans of the club and glory hunters that fans always accuse others of.

 

Songs at Birmingham 'where were you when you were shit!' (A strange song, they still are shit!) But could a lot of those fans just said, well, for many years I had ideological differences with the board, being in league one was related but incidental? Who is buying that!

 

Now you have been a fan for 33 years, so this doesn't really apply to you, but it must apply to a large group, mustn't it?

 

But having been a fan for 33 years, I know you have seen all sorts of utter incompetence. Easily on a par with this. So im not sure why you are getting your knickers in a twist so much about this!

 

Like I say, being a fan for so long, im sure its a lot of factors, with the current ownership being the staw breaking the camels back.

 

Im just not buying it from most.

 

For me personally, king power don't have to sell. They just need to sort their shit out. If they cant, then they should sell.

[hackneyfox]

1 hour ago, Katy said:

Just making convo because you’re quizzing people on their points, when in reality no one who’s given up cares that much about them. 

I know people who have given up their tickets and then reggretted it later, I don't believe they all got their points back.

[SemperEadem]

8 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

I know people who have given up their tickets and then reggretted it later, I don't believe they all got their points back.

You get all your points but for aways its pointless as its STH with X points. If you have 780 points and gave up your season ticket you can only buy at general sale points iirc.

[hackneyfox]

8 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

You get all your points but for aways its pointless as its STH with X points. If you have 780 points and gave up your season ticket you can only buy at general sale points iirc.

So i fyou give up your season ticket, then regret it and buy another 2 seasons later do you get back your 780 away priority points?

 

[Tommy G]

3 hours ago, adejo92 said:

I am a sucker for FOMO so il probably keep my ticket even if I dont go to most matches.

 

I understand thats massively whats wrong with our fanbase, and I apologise, but not sure i am ready to throw in the season ticket just yet.

 

Good memories are still too vivid even if I despise the club right now.

FOMO on a miserable experience?

[SemperEadem]

5 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

So i fyou give up your season ticket, then regret it and buy another 2 seasons later do you get back your 780 away priority points?

 

I would guess you do as they sit on your supporter number.

[ronnup]

My lad started going 3 years a go, hes 9 now. I really want him to enjoy his experience of football at a young age. Its difficult with the noise around, but long term I want to foster a love of the club. Conundrum 

[Globalfox]

1 hour ago, hackneyfox said:

So i fyou give up your season ticket, then regret it and buy another 2 seasons later do you get back your 780 away priority points?

 

At the moment yes you do. However in the upcoming review of the points system they make move to a 3 year rolling program or even a1 season scheme that are operated by other clubs and you could find you lose them. If we get relegated that has appeal to the club to dangle to get some people hanging on.

[hackneyfox]

9 minutes ago, Globalfox said:

At the moment yes you do. However in the upcoming review of the points system they make move to a 3 year rolling program or even a1 season scheme that are operated by other clubs and you could find you lose them. If we get relegated that has appeal to the club to dangle to get some people hanging on.

If you take two years off you will of course be 100 points behind where you would have been, won't be easy getting tickets at that point for our next European jaunt 

[Houdini Logic]

I've always renewed, even if I haven't been much the last few seasons, because I don't want to give up the seats that we've had since moving across to the bowl and the great friends we've made all around us. But sadly, next season I think is the time to walk away - there comes a point where you have to question taking several hours out of your day for this level of frustration and disappointment. Life is simply too short to spend it like this 

[KingsX]

16 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Speaking from experience, you’ll be shocked at how enjoyable your weekends become without going to the football

 

And I realised that before things got really bad

 

I was an NFL STH into my early 30s.  Went with my pals, spent Sunday mornings drinking with them, and lived and died with the afternoon’s result. 

 

But then -- a couple of them moved away, I bought a house and set up with my fiancée, and got a job with real responsibility.  New demands on my time and energy.  So I gave up my ST.

 

Sure I missed it, but other parts of life quickly filled the gap.  And learning not to let a week be ruined because of an “L” was a quality-of-life improvement.

 

It seems almost unthinkable, until you do it.

[Globalfox]

Each to their own a home game for us is 3 hours total travel so we go early stay late, we drink we dine we socialize spending probably 5-6 hours at and around a game sometimes longer. Do we get annoyed at the rubbish served up yes but there is a lot more to it. Away games are even more extended, south coast is always a 3-4 day break. So we go down some new or long revisited places and people. The season ticket is a discounted way to a broader social experience so yes we will likely renew just to spite the twats currently playing and operating the club.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 minute ago, Globalfox said:

Each to their own a home game for us is 3 hours total travel so we go early stay late, we drink we dine we socialize spending probably 5-6 hours at and around a game sometimes longer. Do we get annoyed at the rubbish served up yes but there is a lot more to it. Away games are even more extended, south coast is always a 3-4 day break. So we go down some new or long revisited places and people. The season ticket is a discounted way to a broader social experience so yes we will likely renew just to spite the twats currently playing and operating the club.

How was your 4 day weekend in Southampton for the 4th round FA game?

[Foxin_Mad]

4 hours ago, Katy said:

This is making the women of the forum feel fantastic 😂 

 

Im joking by the way, I don’t know your personal circumstances. 

More bad choices previously I am sure. 

[Samilktray]

2 minutes ago, Globalfox said:

Each to their own a home game for us is 3 hours total travel so we go early stay late, we drink we dine we socialize spending probably 5-6 hours at and around a game sometimes longer. Do we get annoyed at the rubbish served up yes but there is a lot more to it. Away games are even more extended, south coast is always a 3-4 day break. So we go down some new or long revisited places and people. The season ticket is a discounted way to a broader social experience so yes we will likely renew just to spite the twats currently playing and operating the club.

I'm not sure that spites any of the people playing for or operating the club? 

[Globalfox]

Just now, Samilktray said:

I'm not sure that spites any of the people playing for or operating the club? 

I was here before them and I will still be here after them. Auto correct should have been ‘in spite of’

[Winstonthedog]

7 hours ago, Saxondale said:

This is it. It feels like more of a chore than fun now. I haven’t had that buzz for a while. But I think this is mainly to do with our crowd being so crap. It’s just a negative, horrible place to be.

Big part of the problem is the fact that the club, King power or Top do not want to hear any negative voices aimed at them, hence the signs inside the ground telling you as much, King power have sucked the life out of the fans and want a sterile only allowed to clap environment... to many times have I seen stewards telling people to sit down, be quiet or they will be ejected  .... the truth is hard to take in the ears of King power,  Top, Rudkin and the board 

[KingsX]

Good thread IMO

 

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to the ST renewal question, and I'm liking the mutual respect here, rather than the blame-your-fellow fan element I thought was gaining ground.

 

What is telling, though -- the mismanagement has been so bad, and gone on so long, that the people throwing in the towel now include the hard core.

 

Should relegation happen, that will be devastating In a league with little TV revenue.  They won't be able to report 95% of capacity when the ground is half full.  Those empty seats will be unsold tickets.

[Jacnah]

30 years a season ticket holder and I won’t be renewing. My reasons are less about current trials and tribulations- everything is cyclic for clubs our size -and just more about football in general. It’s over hyped and marketed and more boring than it’s ever 

its just not the fun it used to be and whilst I will still follow Leicester I’ve realised I’ve fallen out of love with it.

 

Sad, but what a trip it’s been… wouldn’t change it for the world but now’s the time

 

 

[murphy]

6 hours ago, FOXSE said:

The only way I could really understand this is if the leicester 'regime' was actually a regime like Saudi, or they had just got caught up in the epstein scandal. 

 

Each to their own, but your criticism of the board, surely, is that they are utterly incompetent, rather than some moral failing? As such, do you expect lcfc to be always ran in a competent way? Do you expect us to always have a good team that are never just a bit crap? And if they are crap you won't watch?

 

Nobody has to be a fan, and nobody has to justify why they are a fan, I am just finding it hard to distinguish between actual fans of the club and glory hunters that fans always accuse others of.

 

Songs at Birmingham 'where were you when you were shit!' (A strange song, they still are shit!) But could a lot of those fans just said, well, for many years I had ideological differences with the board, being in league one was related but incidental? Who is buying that!

 

Now you have been a fan for 33 years, so this doesn't really apply to you, but it must apply to a large group, mustn't it?

 

But having been a fan for 33 years, I know you have seen all sorts of utter incompetence. Easily on a par with this. So im not sure why you are getting your knickers in a twist so much about this!

 

Like I say, being a fan for so long, im sure its a lot of factors, with the current ownership being the staw breaking the camels back.

 

Im just not buying it from most.

 

For me personally, king power don't have to sell. They just need to sort their shit out. If they cant, then they should sell.

I think you're missing the point, this is not about being shit. 

 

Personally, I have seen many relegations and many crap Leicester teams, but never did it feel self-inflicted.  Well, Taylor's relegation did, but I blame Taylor for that rather than the club. 

 

Anyway, our current situation has seen us drop from chasing Champion's League to trying to avoid relegation to league one due to a series of self-inflicted cock ups that continue to this day.   The trouble is that no one has been held to account. The decision makers that got us into this mess are still making the decisions today and still getting it wrong. 

 

This is less about us being shit (which is a scandal, given the cost of the squad btw) but more about the ongoing governance of the club.  Whilst they remain in charge the circus continues. 

 

 

[FOXSE]

27 minutes ago, murphy said:

I think you're missing the point, this is not about being shit. 

 

Personally, I have seen many relegations and many crap Leicester teams, but never did it feel self-inflicted.  Well, Taylor's relegation did, but I blame Taylor for that rather than the club. 

 

Anyway, our current situation has seen us drop from chasing Champion's League to trying to avoid relegation to league one due to a series of self-inflicted cock ups that continue to this day.   The trouble is that no one has been held to account. The decision makers that got us into this mess are still making the decisions today and still getting it wrong. 

 

This is less about us being shit (which is a scandal, given the cost of the squad btw) but more about the ongoing governance of the club.  Whilst they remain in charge the circus continues. 

 

 

Its football. What you are basically saying is that players being shit on the pitch, the actual product we watch, is fine, as long as it isnt a direct result of the club running being shit, which is totally unacceptable. Surely players being shit is more offensive?

[ousefox]

19 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

The club will miss the "legacy Fans" Next season and going forward.I'm talking about the ones when we were shit under Pleat......but kept going because we knew we were shit!Levein,Holloway,Megson,Allen........i get that their will be people who support and clap them off after every defeat and that's their choice,but i'm done with this club until new ownership comes in.......and i know alot of people feel the same.

I've been wondering why I cared so much back in the day with all those shit managers and have lost so much care right now.

 

Is it because I was a kid growing up and everything was exciting?

Or because those teams always looked they were trying even when we went down in 07/08?

Or is it because I've seen it all now, and I can't get excited about the shit part of a journey I've already been on?

 

I had a season ticket for years and used to travel all the way from Newcastle for home games. Now I've not bothered turning sky on to watch us recently. 

 

I just hope I start caring again some day. I miss the nervousness and excitement. 

 

It's also the first time I'd say I'd rather England do well than Leicester. Maybe again, it's because I haven't seen it.

[FoxesFan#1]

53 minutes ago, ousefox said:

I've been wondering why I cared so much back in the day with all those shit managers and have lost so much care right now.

 

Is it because I was a kid growing up and everything was exciting?

Or because those teams always looked they were trying even when we went down in 07/08?

Or is it because I've seen it all now, and I can't get excited about the shit part of a journey I've already been on?

 

I had a season ticket for years and used to travel all the way from Newcastle for home games. Now I've not bothered turning sky on to watch us recently. 

 

I just hope I start caring again some day. I miss the nervousness and excitement. 

 

It's also the first time I'd say I'd rather England do well than Leicester. Maybe again, it's because I haven't seen it.

I think there are so many reasons and we definitely all get jaded.

 

I have to admit my football enthusiasm has fully returned now since going to watch my local non-league team.

 

In fact I love going to watch them.  
 

They’re mainly a team of part timers playing in the National League, and the players are more like the average man so we can relate to them.

 

The game (and match day experience as they say) isn’t a chore whatsoever.  Almost no play acting, no VAR, no millionaires on the pitch and the ball stays in play most of the game.  
 

Players talk to the supporters too.  No headphones in sight!

 

I’m not the only one that feels this way.  Other clubs fans have switched allegiance too.  Something I’d never have done pre-2020 but I’m so glad I did.

 

In my opinion Leicester City FC does not feel like it represents any of us anymore.  This is from someone that has been to 100s of games home and away. 

Edited 19 February by FoxesFan#1

[hebangsthedrums]

This thread comforts me and depresses me at the same time...

My scenario; ST's with my dad at filbert Street in the Carling stand I reckon 95-00 (have the old school ticket books somewhere, might check one day) Lots of games as a non ST until around 2008 when we did a half season ST with my sister joining. Dad passed in 2022 so we transferred to my other sister, just to retain - she came the first game after he died but that was first time in about 20 years.. When we had 3 it's always been a rotating cast between the holders and my best mate/other mates and FIL, but they made that too hard this year with the mobile shite so went down to 2.

 

I'm so torn, I have a nearly 5 year old daughter and just turned 2 year old boy and I've always looked forward to taking them, and ideally sitting in 'our' seats in G1.

But I've not enjoyed going for a long time now, it's purely habit and the emotional connection with my dad.  Plus as someone above said, it's a logistical arse ache to make it to the ground even more so being at best 80 mins drive away. Plus this year I have 3 old ladies in front (they relocated), moaning that I was spoiling it for them by getting pissed off at the shite on display. 

I've been 4 times this season (my sister once so that's a £400+ game), the Southampton farce being the first time in 2026 (can't actually remember prior game, def wasn't boxing day as.. **** that).

Got home at midnight after booing them off and immediately tried to see rules around cancelling. Nothing I could find

 

Which in a very elaborate way leads me to my question; given some seem to have 'cancelled' do I just email them and that's it done I don't have to pay anymore? (Luckily moved to DD last season, assume if you pay up front. You're ****ed) Or did you just mean not auto renewing for the L1 campaign?

 

Id be so gutted  to see someone else in 'my' seat, let alone not be able to get a ticket, but just can't do it anymore. 

 

I did journeys getting me home at 2/3am to watch us in L1 last time and thought nothing of jt, what a shambles KP have killed that. 

 

Sorry for ramble. Had a dram or 2 this eve. 

Edited 20 February by hebangsthedrums

[PAULCFC]

4 hours ago, ousefox said:

I've been wondering why I cared so much back in the day with all those shit managers and have lost so much care right now.

 

Is it because I was a kid growing up and everything was exciting?

Or because those teams always looked they were trying even when we went down in 07/08?

Or is it because I've seen it all now, and I can't get excited about the shit part of a journey I've already been on?

 

I had a season ticket for years and used to travel all the way from Newcastle for home games. Now I've not bothered turning sky on to watch us recently. 

 

I just hope I start caring again some day. I miss the nervousness and excitement. 

 

It's also the first time I'd say I'd rather England do well than Leicester. Maybe again, it's because I haven't seen it.

Agree with everything 💯 except for the England bit!