What Happened Next: Foxes Trust End Of Season Survey

[Paninistickers]

11 hours ago, Foxes_Trust said:

Understand your points and they're heard with appreciation.

 

We have already done some of these things. We did a press release with the survey results (the coverage was disappointing - one journalist even responded to sympathetically say that although we were taking a sound approach we'd likely not see much coverage in the national media as now we're a League One club we're not high on the agenda) and we've deployed Open Letters previously. There's a time and place for both.

 

There's a balance to be struck of the very public and visible challenge and the attempt to maintain constructive dialogue behind closed doors (which requires diplomacy).

 

You can see from our other article that we published today (here) that we don''t think the way the club consults, engages and acts upon feedback is good enough. We've also set out that we will review up to November 2026 and discontinue our participation if we don't see improvements.

 

On the ticketing Call To Action, we've suggested a practical solution: either a rebate or free home cup tickets. Let's see if we get any progress on that in the next few weeks (deadline was by end of July).

Only a view, but I think the trust could reframe its positioning. Be a shadow cabinet. Be an owner in waiting. Be viable enough and have such a compelling business plan that, in theory,  it could attract PE investment.

 

Forget the pressure group / fans representative group vibe. The club couldn't give a shit about all that. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

I hope it's becoming clear to people (who don't make any efforts to engage with the club themselves), just how difficult it is to speak with these people. The trust have improved immeasurably but to an extent, it doesn't matter.

 

To make it very clear. They do not care what the fans have to say. They just don't.

 

They will go through tick box exercises and then do exactly what they want, as they have done for the last 15 years. Semper Eadem.

Edited Thursday at 13:02 by Sol thewall Bamba

[SemperEadem]

38 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

I hope it's becoming clear to people (who don't make any efforts to engage with the club themselves), just how difficult it is to speak with these people. The trust have improved immeasurably but to an extent, it doesn't matter.

 

To make it very clear. They do not care what the fans have to say. They just don't.

 

They will go through tick box exercises and then do exactly what they want, as they have done for the last 15 years. Semper Eadem.

hope it's becoming clear to people (who don't make any efforts to engage with the club themselves)
 

— this point here is not laboured enough at all. Proper city of moaners who largely don’t do anything to force action but instead will ridicule those that do.

[Officer Doofy]

48 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

hope it's becoming clear to people (who don't make any efforts to engage with the club themselves)
 

— this point here is not laboured enough at all. Proper city of moaners who largely don’t do anything to force action but instead will ridicule those that do.

I am afraid I'm in the camp where I have given up with any meaningful or time consuming action. I will never ridicule anyone for trying to enact change but I simply can't invest any more effort myself. I have never had less interest in anything this club does, in fact, is it even a football club anymore? Feels more like an offshoot of a crumbling dodgy foreign empire. 

 

I will however continue to bad mouth the absolute scumbags running the club to anyone that will listen. 

[WorcesterBlue]

It's all very sad.

[Globalfox]

17 hours ago, Foxes_Trust said:

Understand your points and they're heard with appreciation.

 

We have already done some of these things. We did a press release with the survey results (the coverage was disappointing - one journalist even responded to sympathetically say that although we were taking a sound approach we'd likely not see much coverage in the national media as now we're a League One club we're not high on the agenda) and we've deployed Open Letters previously. There's a time and place for both.

 

There's a balance to be struck of the very public and visible challenge and the attempt to maintain constructive dialogue behind closed doors (which requires diplomacy).

 

You can see from our other article that we published today (here) that we don''t think the way the club consults, engages and acts upon feedback is good enough. We've also set out that we will review up to November 2026 and discontinue our participation if we don't see improvements.

 

On the ticketing Call To Action, we've suggested a practical solution: either a rebate or free home cup tickets. Let's see if we get any progress on that in the next few weeks (deadline was by end of July).

Couple of questions so on tickets you want the club to give back money in a Division where income is critical to what you can spend on the footballing side thereby making us less competitive correct? You say the Trust will disengage with the club by November if they do not give into your demands. Should this not be put to a vote of the Trust members to decide not a select few. It will seriously damage the Trust possibly fatally so is an important decision.

[Foxes BC]

Point 3: Reduce Ticket Prices

 

The club's response: The fans can pay £20, on top of the current Premier League ticket prices, to watch pre-season matches when they used to be free!

 

The mind boggles.

 

 

[Nickaj]

46 minutes ago, Globalfox said:

You say the Trust will disengage with the club by November if they do not give into your demands. Should this not be put to a vote of the Trust members to decide not a select few. It will seriously damage the Trust possibly fatally so is an important decision.

 

An important decision yes but it is the Trust Committee - or a section thereof - who are attempting to engage with the club and who are therefore in the best position to judge the quality and the attentiveness of the club’s response both in general and on specific issues..

 

I would support any decision of the Trust Board to disengage from discussions with the club if they should decide that the club are failing to treat our discussions with the seriousness required or they deserve. Members of the Trust Board are elected by members to take such decisions on behalf of the membership and are themselves subject to re-election in the future should they fail to adequately represent our interests.

 

Hopefully such drastic action will never prove to be necessary but, if it ever is, I don’t think we should be afraid to call a halt to all fan engagement with the club.

[Foxes_Trust]

1 hour ago, Globalfox said:

Couple of questions so on tickets you want the club to give back money in a Division where income is critical to what you can spend on the footballing side thereby making us less competitive correct? You say the Trust will disengage with the club by November if they do not give into your demands. Should this not be put to a vote of the Trust members to decide not a select few. It will seriously damage the Trust possibly fatally so is an important decision.

A reminder that all of these Calls To Action are not dictated by what the Trust wants, but by what the 4,000+ who took the survey want. 

 

Our practical suggestion to the club was free home cup games which would be them giving something that they shouldn't be factoring as guaranteed income (they'e not to know how many home cup matches they will get - each one is a bonus opportunity for income). They can still sell general sale tickets for these matches to non season ticket holders, but season ticket holders should be given something back if the club is hearing their feedback.

 

You've misunderstood the point around the review up to November. We will review the Trust's continued involvement in the Fan Engagement Framework - this is not the totality of the Trust's engagement with the Club and the Club still meets directly with supporter groups outside of this structure (and should continue to do so - there was continued overwhelming support for this in the survey results too and, as people have observed, only engaging with supporter groups via FEF severly restricts the scope of what can be discussed).

 

But we've set out clearly that the Fan Engagement Framework isn't working and why. And how it should improve. If the Club doesn't make the changes to the Fan Engagement Framework then why would the Trust continue to support something it has proven is not working properly? It would be a futile exercise.

 

So if we don't see progress (we hope not to get to this point), we'll go back to our members and say "this is what has/hasn't happened, should the Trust continue to pour time and effort into an exercise that is proving futile and that the club isn't willing to change even when given clear guidance on how and why?". We'd expect most Trust members would want it to invest time where it's actually worthwhile.

 

 

[Freeman's Wharfer]

5 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

hope it's becoming clear to people (who don't make any efforts to engage with the club themselves)
 

— this point here is not laboured enough at all. Proper city of moaners who largely don’t do anything to force action but instead will ridicule those that do.

Sadly true.

 

So much “told you they wouldn’t listen and you’re wasting your time, mate” type stuff too.
 

People keener to be able to say “told you so” than to see anything get better or people trying to make things get better.

 

 

[SemperEadem]

1 hour ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

Sadly true.

 

So much “told you they wouldn’t listen and you’re wasting your time, mate” type stuff too.
 

People keener to be able to say “told you so” than to see anything get better or people trying to make things get better.

 

 

In recent years Ive really struggled with our fanbase. Just look at the absolute nonsense on the Foxes Trust’s facebook post comments. Depressing.

[CosbehFox]

8 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

In recent years Ive really struggled with our fanbase. Just look at the absolute nonsense on the Foxes Trust’s facebook post comments. Depressing.

You’ve got folk more pissed off about the format of friendlies than gambling sponsors etc 

[purpleronnie]

9 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

In recent years Ive really struggled with our fanbase. Just look at the absolute nonsense on the Foxes Trust’s facebook post comments. Depressing.

Pretty standard though semper, the ones that are 'pissed off' have simply just left.  Very few fanbases are motivated for protesting etc...It's 30 years of erasing a certain fan from our game for the good of the brand.

[SB87_LCFC]

14 hours ago, Foxes BC said:

Point 3: Reduce Ticket Prices

 

The club's response: The fans can pay £20, on top of the current Premier League ticket prices, to watch pre-season matches when they used to be free!

 

The mind boggles.

 

 

Unless you have a chipped firestick 

[SemperEadem]

21 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Pretty standard though semper, the ones that are 'pissed off' have simply just left.  Very few fanbases are motivated for protesting etc...It's 30 years of erasing a certain fan from our game for the good of the brand.

Yeah sadly might be the case.

 

You do see fans though on there that you think likely did a bit with Pleat/Shipman/O’neil out, but yet our wonderful owners cant and supporter groups with a name get that heat now.

[davieG]

15 hours ago, Foxes BC said:

Point 3: Reduce Ticket Prices

 

The club's response: The fans can pay £20, on top of the current Premier League ticket prices, to watch pre-season matches when they used to be free!

 

The mind boggles.

 

 

If the club was more open about our situation, I don't suggest a complete open book, are the club struggling financially to comply with VAR and this is why the need to charge, I presume it is. Surely being more open allowing the fans to get on board is a better approach than this toxic hands off one. After all the fans dipped into their pockets the last time we were on the brink as they have the greatest interest in the survival and development of LCFC

[JonnyBoy]

On 08/07/2026 at 19:02, Chelmofox said:

So now we have to hit them hard on socials and with protests. They’ve had a long time to feed back since relegations and have proven they aren’t going to do it with the trust. 

they went well last year, can I remind you 23,000 people have renewed their season tickets. That is to show that the supporters are happy. Twenty..,.. Three.... Thousand. 

 

pathetic fanbase 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I think the problems are the club/individuals do not like or accept much in the way of criticism or accountability for what has been a monumental decline, rather than be open to criticism, dialogue and feedback, they would rather double down and close ranks even more. 
 

in times of trouble which we are in right up to our necks the club should be reaching out and engaging more now than ever to better understand the mood and feelings of a very disconnected fanbase, there are so many open goal opportunities that the club could use to help re-establish its relationship with lots of fans whilst creating additional revenue opportunities and creating some positive momentum. 
 

The refusal to engage in a meaningful way just shows that the self preservation society are only here for their own personal gain, if the club is successful then it’s an added bonus, but the number one objective is to protect their own personal position. 

Edited Friday at 07:52 by Claudio Fannieri