A message for the 'fans'

[Ilkeston_Fox]

More money = more problems. I've had more than enough of some of our fans this season. I've had such a titful with the fans' complacent and frankly ignorant attitude, the players' lack of determination, passion, will and grit. The owners knee jerk reactions when something doesn't go right isn't helping anything. I'm seriously considering not renewing my ST next season. Why should I pay my hard earned money to a club that's just full of poison?

There is something seriously wrong when we reportedly offer Billy Sharp a £28,000 a week contract that gets turned down - that kind of contract is disgusting for this league and this club. Leicester shouldn't be offering that kind of contract to anyone. We are by no way any kind of big time charlie, we look like a shambles.

I'm embarrassed to be associated with this club at the moment. Our owners look like a joke when they sack NP to bring in a big name, to then chuck £15m to the big name then sack him however long in to the season, and then go back for NP.

I'm sorry but that is just a sick joke! No club should be ran like that. The fans are having the piss taken out of them. They are expected to just take these reactions and continue to turn up in their numbers to support the club. I'm sorry, you're seriously messing around with my club, that I've loved and supported for nigh on 20 years - as soon as the owners get bored and decide to cut their losses what'll happen to our club then? We'll be left with God knows how many players on astronomical wages that the club will not be able to sustain.

We need some bloody stability and continuity, I just can't see us gaining any of that with these owners when all we are to them is the jewel in their advertising campaign - which lets face it, that's all we seem to be at the moment. I hate the way I feel about Leicester City at the moment, I'm so despondent with the club that I wouldn't give a toss if I didn't go to another game this season, I've never felt like this about us before. This season has been one nightmare after another and I just can't wait for it to end.

[Kitchandro]

Spot on but I would stop short of the massage.

Yeh they need to earn one first

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Frankly I stopped reading at "

you really are entirely expendable", assuming you were referring to the moaning / complaining fans. If we whittled the club's fanbase down to just the people who will get behind the team regardless of performances / results, then it would be finished in no time. Hardly any fans in attendance at the games, hardly anyone watching us on TV, hardly anyone buying merchandise etc

So this one sentence made it 'the single stupidest post' you have ever seen? I have been fairly impressed with the quality of your input in the past so it comes somewhat as a shock to me that you would resort to that type of poor-quality remark.

Clearly we disagree on a one fundamental issue which is the precise necessity of certain people's attendance. I genuinely believe that people over-value their own contribution and assume that their personal financial investment means as much to the club as it does to them. Some people talk as if the players have a personal obligation towards them simply because they buy a match ticket.

Unfortunately, neither of us are privy to the club's books and can't know for sure what percentage of their income is made up by each one of their revenue sources. However, you don't need to know the precise details to surmise that the financial plan is made to absorb quite significant fluctuations in attendance. It's also reasonable to suggest that if there was a significant drop in attendance revenue, it would be offset in other ways, which may include the business making sacrifices elsewhere or asking for cash injections. Whatever the case, it seems odd that somebody could value their own attendance so highly.

[ozleicester]

So this one sentence made it 'the single stupidest post' you have ever seen? I have been fairly impressed with the quality of your input in the past so it comes somewhat as a shock to me that you would resort to that type of poor-quality remark.

Clearly we disagree on a one fundamental issue which is the precise necessity of certain people's attendance. I genuinely believe that people over-value their own contribution and assume that their personal financial investment means as much to the club as it does to them. Some people talk as if the players have a personal obligation towards them simply because they buy a match ticket.

Unfortunately, neither of us are privy to the club's books and can't know for sure what percentage of their income is made up by each one of their revenue sources. However, you don't need to know the precise details to surmise that the financial plan is made to absorb quite significant fluctuations in attendance. It's also reasonable to suggest that if there was a significant drop in attendance revenue, it would be offset in other ways, which may include the business making sacrifices elsewhere or asking for cash injections. Whatever the case, it seems odd that somebody could value their own attendance so highly.

I dont think you understand the value of fans.. not "individual" fans, but fans as a collective. All of the clubs revenue resources are essentially paid by fans (see my previous post). If suddenly 15,000 fansd a week stop going to watch Leicester, you can assume they will also stop buying their souveniers and stop watching them on TV...if fans dont watch..clubs dont make money. No new players, no well kept stadium, no hope or expectation... thats why Manure and BArca and Real are currently the most successful sides.. they have the most fans...therefore, the most money.

If it wasnt about fans... Kettering could at this moment be on their way to European glory..instead, their 500 fans watch them each week in the Blue Square.

[flowwolf]

Spot on but I would stop short of the massage.

I'ts for their ego's it might help.