What would make you set up a 'protest club?'

[Guest Bilo]

After having viewed what's happening down at Coventry and Hull City's impending name change, I was wondering how much FTers would be prepared to tolerate at Leicester City before we set up our own AFC Wimbledon style club here in Leicester.

 

No input from me except to say that you can choose as many as you like from the list, this is purely borne out of my own curiosity.

[Guest MattP]

A load of ugly elephants on the front and the owner putting his face on the programme every week.

 

On a serious note, all of them.

[Webbo]

Short of the present club being liquidated nothing. If I wanted to support a non league club Quorn is a 10 minute drive away.

[Fox92]

Liquidation of current club or relocation outside Leicestershire for me. (Liquidation is the biggest factor though).

 

I don't think a 'protest club' would be needed just for a change of kit colour etc like Cardiff. They have in no way degraded the club imo, they are still Cardiff City Football Club. Many clubs have changed kit colour before, it's just the same as changing the badge which many teams do every year.

[jonthefox]

Chose the first two, but the others would piss me right off as well.

[Basingstoke Fox]

I went for everything except liquidation. Simply because I don't think it would be setting up a 'protest' club but more just having to start again from scratch.

 

The excessive ticket prices option is subjective though.

[Captain...]

Changing the name, or colour or things like that are irrelevant, we have changed in the past.

 

Moving the club would just make a mockery of the club and the fans, how any fan could follow Wimbledon as they moved to Milton Keynes is beyond me. I also voted for excessive ticket prices, but by that I mean if the club jacked them up much higher than other clubs, at the moment they are high, but about the right price compared to other clubs, as befitting our stature.

[Harry - LCFC]

A name change would be hugely embarrassing but it would still be my club, and that's what it's all about really. Can I still identify with the Leicester City I know?

 

Moving the club would take away the club's identity IMO, the others wouldn't so much. Maybe if you combined the bottom five then yes but if it was just one then it'd still be my Leicester.

[Ashley]

The only way I would accept(I suppose) a name change is if we were to change back to Leicester Fosse FC, other than that I would protest. There is only one CITY.

[Bayfox]

Well the last one has already happened.

I would object to a colour change and a sponsor name. I wouldn't object to using fosse. But anything else is just americanising the sport.

Ticket prices would have to get well out of hand. But then if the club still exisited i wouldn't think it was worth setting up a rival club.

But obviously liquidation or relocation of the club would leave us without an identity. So in that case yes i would want a club from our city to support. Not a franchise in another county.

[wight88]

Selling Danns.

[Dan]

The bottom one has been in the process for years, the one above largely applies to non-season ticket holders although my £12 a game (approx) is very decent IMO.

 

The other five all would potentially - I would hate to change from blue but it's the reasoning behind Cardiff's colour change that would wind me up more than anything.

[LCFC_FAN_1995]

Relocation or  changing colour. 

[Simmo86]

Liquidation, relocation, both name changes and a colour change.

 

Change any of the above and it's not the Leicester I know and love.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

The first two, especially the first one. The others are by comparison, trivial.

[The Horse's Mouth]

I don't understand how it's a protest club, if the clubs been liquidated. The club doesn't exist anymore, so there is nothing to protest about. Probably rebranding the club entirely, it takes away the identity of the club. If this club turned into Redbull Leicester, changing all of the colours, the logo .etc. I don't see how I could continue to support it, because it isn't the same club to me. 

[purpleronnie]

Short of the present club being liquidated nothing. If I wanted to support a non league club Quorn is a 10 minute drive away.

But that wouldn't be your club.

[The Doctor]

Corporate name change, re-location outside of Leicestershire (my City will die the day we become a franchise), technically liquidation, but that'd be just starting again rather than a protest club.

[Grewks]

More Thai dancers....

[Leicesterpool]

Relocating the club would be the worst, i dare to say i can see another situation like the MK Dons switch happening. Look at the Coventry City at the moment you just wonder what's in store for them!

[Guest Bilo]

Relocating the club would be the worst, i dare to say i can see another situation like the MK Dons switch happening. Look at the Coventry City at the moment you just wonder what's in store for them!

 

I think there'll be another Coventry City club before the end of the season.

[Fox42]

Liquidation would hurt. Sure, you'll be starting again and stuff, but that would be rubbing battery acid to the wound, not salt. Then again, we've got a good base, so I'm sure we would come back strong, eventually.

I also put relocation outside the county. There's tonnes of mini grounds in Leicestershire, e.g. Oadby Town, Hinckley Town, etc. so for us to reject them all and move out would be a disgrace.

Changing the colour to, say green, white or maroon wouldn't bother me that much, since they're city or county colours, but thought of Leicester Red Bull would be sickening. We would be selling our souls that way.

Not sure about non-sponsor name change. Leicester is a city, not a fox.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

All the top 5 suggestions

[James.]

Not sure about setting up a protest club as I don't think I could ever be arsed to do that but I'd lose a hell of a lot of faith and respect if we got taken over by some corporate-centric owners who hired a mercenary manager who then spunked a cvntload of money on mercenary players in the process saddling the club with a load of debt and shit players on massive wages that would impact our ability to have any semblance of long term sustainable progress.

If that happens I'd seriously consider my support for the team.

[Webbo]

Not sure about setting up a protest club as I don't think I could ever be arsed to do that but I'd lose a hell of a lot of faith and respect if we got taken over by some corporate-centric owners who hired a mercenary manager who then spunked a cvntload of money on mercenary players in the process saddling the club with a load of debt and shit players on massive wages that would impact our ability to have any semblance of long term sustainable progress.

If that happens I'd seriously consider my support for the team.

That'll never happen here