Father Ted Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Got an FCC sub-committee meeting next week, have asked for this to be put on the agenda. I spoke to Jim over the summer regarding student season tickets, he claimed they pulled the plug as only around 200 took it up last time. Now they are showing total disregard to people like myself who have forked out £299 on an under 22 season ticket yet some plastic from DMU can go to games for a fiver. Oh well, the club don't give a toss about us. Please raise it. Christ, all you got to do to get a ticket is go into the DMU shop on Mill Lane. It's in a shit area of the ground, calm down My friend who's a non student attempted this - they're only selling to people with DMU student cards.
lavrentis Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 I spoke to Jim over the summer regarding student season tickets, he claimed they pulled the plug as only around 200 took it up last time. Now they are showing total disregard to people like myself who have forked out £299 on an under 22 season ticket yet some plastic from DMU can go to games for a fiver. Oh well, the club don't give a toss about us. Please raise it. My friend who's a non student attempted this - they're only selling to people with DMU student cards. Ah, must be getting vigilant then because they didn't ask me when i bought some. BTW, im a student at DMU and if any trusted members want to buy some tickets PM me and i will go into the shop and get them for you
JonnyBoy Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 How is it disgraceful? I am a student and i probably have a lot more disposable income than a lot of blokes on here due to lack of commitments. Some weeks i will spend £150 on nights out, clothes, expensive food, takeaways etc and not bat an eye lid. I know that many people on here don't have that sort of money to waste, they have commitments. So i am on the non students side. It is a disgrace
Sharmania Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 This makes me quite angry. I go to De Montfort University and have lived in the south my whole life but having a dad from Leicester I was raised supporting the Foxes and have been to over 100 games in the last three years. Trips to Carlisle from Hampshire are a nightmare by the way. Anyway, the point is: I'm on my third ever season ticket this year I was assured it was "the cheapest way to watch Leicester City". However, I pay £300 to sit in A2. Now that the university is doing tickets to EVERY SINGLE HOME GAME for £5 each I could have spent £115 in total to see EVERY SINGLE HOME GAME which is ridiculous. It's a disgrace really. I live with people who are already telling me "we're going in the Leicester end" for the Cup game against City even though they support Arsenal, Derby, Northampton Town and West Brom. Tell me if I'm wrong here but I think it's mental that real fans are spending £300 on season tickets and even £29 per individual game just for people who's knowledge of Leicester City is "doesn't that crap Liverpool defender Konchesky play for them" to spend £5 and see a team they don't support. Apologies for the rant but my God, I spend a lot of money supporting this team and it's a real slap in the face when they do something like this.
Father Ted Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Tell me if I'm wrong here but I think it's mental that real fans are spending £300 on season tickets and even £29 per individual game just for people who's knowledge of Leicester City is "doesn't that crap Liverpool defender Konchesky play for them" to spend £5 and see a team they don't support. This is so true as well, the amount of people that have said that to me!
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 I am a ST holder and a student (in Derby) and this concession makes me happy, not annoyed, despite the fact that I can't personally benefit from it. I find it a bit perverse that people are getting angry at something which literally has no material effect on them. They scrapped the student concession but apparently some of you still want to protect the 8,000-10,000 empty seats every week from the tiny number of students who could actually take advantage of this offer, or rather the even smaller proportion of those who are actually interested in doing so. The club already shafted students by getting rid of the discount for season tickets, a move welcomed by many people on here who couldn't stand the idea of a handful of people being marginally less miserable than they are.
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 This makes me quite angry. I go to De Montfort University and have lived in the south my whole life but having a dad from Leicester I was raised supporting the Foxes and have been to over 100 games in the last three years. Trips to Carlisle from Hampshire are a nightmare by the way. Anyway, the point is: I'm on my third ever season ticket this year I was assured it was "the cheapest way to watch Leicester City". However, I pay £300 to sit in A2. Now that the university is doing tickets to EVERY SINGLE HOME GAME for £5 each I could have spent £115 in total to see EVERY SINGLE HOME GAME which is ridiculous. It's a disgrace really. I live with people who are already telling me "we're going in the Leicester end" for the Cup game against City even though they support Arsenal, Derby, Northampton Town and West Brom. Tell me if I'm wrong here but I think it's mental that real fans are spending £300 on season tickets and even £29 per individual game just for people who's knowledge of Leicester City is "doesn't that crap Liverpool defender Konchesky play for them" to spend £5 and see a team they don't support. Apologies for the rant but my God, I spend a lot of money supporting this team and it's a real slap in the face when they do something like this. Over 100 games in 3 years? 53 home league games in the period you say you've had a ST, plus 8 cup/play off games at home in that time, meaning if your statement is true, and if I make the assumption that you've been to every game your ST entitles you to attend plus every cup/play-off game at home, you've traveled to a minimum of 40 away games (101 - (53+8)). There have been 52 away games in the league in that same period, plus 11 away cup/play-off games, which means you've gone to a minimum of 63.5% of away games in that period (40/63). That is an exceptional record for a student I must say. I am not doubting that you have been to all these games - there are a few who do - but in light of this, do you not feel a bit daft moaning about £5 concession rates for people who clearly do not have the sort of money you have? You're talking about thousands of pounds' worth of football matches you've been to, and the saving you would have made even if you had taken advantage of the £5 offer for every single game would have made a tiny dent in the overall cost of your 100+ games and travel, particularly for the games like the Carlisle one which you say you traveled from Hampshire to see. It has the chance to make a very small number of people slightly more content and has virtually no effect on you. What reason have you got to be "angry"? I am also interested to know, did you enquire about student concessions when you bought your away tickets? Some clubs still offer them. EDITED: spelling & clarity
Raj Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Can anyone confirm pls...IS forest a 1215KO? Got an email from club saying 3pmKO!
Simmo86 Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Can anyone confirm pls...IS forest a 1215KO? Got an email from club saying 3pmKO! 3pm
Guest MattP Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Completely unacceptable and I can't believe anyone can defend the policy after the cancellation of the student season tickets. A Forest fan can pick up a ticket for a fiver just because he goes uni here? Bizarre.
Haydos Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 That's a joke, I'm a student at uni in Huddersfield and I paid £29 to go to the Bournemouth game on the weekend! Totally unfair! Can't you just show an NUS card and get the ticket from there or does it have to be a DeMon card?
TrentFox Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Presumably you have to show them a student card or summat? For a fiver a ticket, I wouldn't care where I sat! Next to Bernie ???
Tincy Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 My mrs is a student at DMU so this will do me nicely, I take it's one ticket per person?
Kitchandro Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 I am a ST holder and a student (in Derby) and this concession makes me happy, not annoyed, despite the fact that I can't personally benefit from it. I find it a bit perverse that people are getting angry at something which literally has no material effect on them. They scrapped the student concession but apparently some of you still want to protect the 8,000-10,000 empty seats every week from the tiny number of students who could actually take advantage of this offer, or rather the even smaller proportion of those who are actually interested in doing so. The club already shafted students by getting rid of the discount for season tickets, a move welcomed by many people on here who couldn't stand the idea of a handful of people being marginally less miserable than they are. Over 100 games in 3 years? 53 home league games in the period you say you've had a ST, plus 8 cup/play off games at home in that time, meaning if your statement is true, and if I make the assumption that you've been to every game your ST entitles you to attend plus every cup/play-off game at home, you've traveled to a minimum of 40 away games (101 - (53+8)). There have been 52 away games in the league in that same period, plus 11 away cup/play-off games, which means you've gone to a minimum of 63.5% of away games in that period (40/63). That is an exceptional record for a student I must say. I am not doubting that you have been to all these games - there are a few who do - but in light of this, do you not feel a bit daft moaning about £5 concession rates for people who clearly do not have the sort of money you have? You're talking about thousands of pounds' worth of football matches you've been to, and the saving you would have made even if you had taken advantage of the £5 offer for every single game would have made a tiny dent in the overall cost of your 100+ games and travel, particularly for the games like the Carlisle one which you say you traveled from Hampshire to see. It has the chance to make a very small number of people slightly more content and has virtually no effect on you. What reason have you got to be "angry"? I am also interested to know, did you enquire about student concessions when you bought your away tickets? Some clubs still offer them. EDITED: spelling & clarity Wow you have completely missed a very clear point. I'm not sure if his numbers are correct about the amount of games he's been to but in any case, the principle of this is wrong.
Ric Flair Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Don't worry, I managed to get 20 tickets and I threw them all in the river. 20 less urchins with waxed moustaches that need a wash down the KP.
Captain... Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Does anyone know how many tickets they sell for a fiver? We have many threads complaining about the lack of numbers and low attendances, but then another thread complaining that they are trying to attract more people to the ground with cheap tickets. We don't sell out, if they want to make a couple of hundred tickets available to attract people who wouldn't normally come and sit in an unfavourable part of the ground, so what, nobody would be sitting there normally, any Leicester fans at DMU would get there early and take advantage, some non Leicester fans might go along and become Leicester fans, or just buy a couple of beers and a programme. You choose how much you pay on football, and someone else getting something cheaper doesn't change that, you know the price, if you think it is too high then don't buy the ticket, there is no point moaning about students getting cheap tickets for empty seats.
absolutelegend Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 A season ticket should be the cheapest way per game, for a person in a certain age group, to watch a game in a certain part of the ground. If it isn't then there is something wrong. I guess the club might claim that there are other benefits attached to a season ticket, but to me these are pretty negliagiable. Maybe this could be implemented via an end of season refund, or a variable monthly direct debit based on the cheapest possible ticket per game.
Trumpet Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 I'm at DMU and might have to take advantage of this.. is every game £5? That'd be crazy if so. I could pretty much go to every game for about £100.
davieG Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Does anyone know how many tickets they sell for a fiver? We have many threads complaining about the lack of numbers and low attendances, but then another thread complaining that they are trying to attract more people to the ground with cheap tickets. We don't sell out, if they want to make a couple of hundred tickets available to attract people who wouldn't normally come and sit in an unfavourable part of the ground, so what, nobody would be sitting there normally, any Leicester fans at DMU would get there early and take advantage, some non Leicester fans might go along and become Leicester fans, or just buy a couple of beers and a programme. You choose how much you pay on football, and someone else getting something cheaper doesn't change that, you know the price, if you think it is too high then don't buy the ticket, there is no point moaning about students getting cheap tickets for empty seats. Part of the problem is many genuine LCFC fans can't afford to go and yet they see the club offering cheap tickets to people that aren't fans and never will be. How about the club tries to fill all those empty seats on a regular basis with prices and deals that allows genuine LCFC fans to attend games many of whom have followed the club for years and are now priced out
Captain... Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Part of the problem is many genuine LCFC fans can't afford to go and yet they see the club offering cheap tickets to people that aren't fans and never will be. How about the club tries to fill all those empty seats on a regular basis with prices and deals that allows genuine LCFC fans to attend games many of whom have followed the club for years and are now priced out You mean like fan fixtures? They rarely sell out, £15 to see a premiership team, 17,000 people. I'm all for lowering prices and getting more bums on seats, but I just see most of the people complaining about this as bitter, if our loyal fans weren't so willing to be bent over and shafted on pricing, and our casual fans made more of an effort when there was a fans fixture, there might be a greater incentive for the club to lower prices, but as it is it looks like whatever the price we generally get about the same amount, which is much less than capacity, so we will always have surplus seats, I have no problem with them being offered to students at a vrey reduced rate as they wouldn't come otherwise. I do appreciate the irony in cutting the student discount but then selling reduced tickets through the DMU, but one is not exclusive of the other. If students got the discount anyway, there would still be people complaining about this as some people can't stand the idea of others getting something cheaper than them for no real reason, they would probably be complaining about the student discount. Personally I support this initiative and hope that it encourages more from the club, as I said in the other thread any long term pricing strategy will have to be developed over the summer as any changes now to make tickets cheaper overall will have season ticket holders complaining.
Dan Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Got an FCC sub-committee meeting next week, have asked for this to be put on the agenda. Good work. If they did something like this for LCFC fan students at others Uni's then they've won.
Sharmania Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Over 100 games in 3 years? 53 home league games in the period you say you've had a ST, plus 8 cup/play off games at home in that time, meaning if your statement is true, and if I make the assumption that you've been to every game your ST entitles you to attend plus every cup/play-off game at home, you've traveled to a minimum of 40 away games (101 - (53+8)). There have been 52 away games in the league in that same period, plus 11 away cup/play-off games, which means you've gone to a minimum of 63.5% of away games in that period (40/63). That is an exceptional record for a student I must say. I am not doubting that you have been to all these games - there are a few who do - but in light of this, do you not feel a bit daft moaning about £5 concession rates for people who clearly do not have the sort of money you have? You're talking about thousands of pounds' worth of football matches you've been to, and the saving you would have made even if you had taken advantage of the £5 offer for every single game would have made a tiny dent in the overall cost of your 100+ games and travel, particularly for the games like the Carlisle one which you say you traveled from Hampshire to see. It has the chance to make a very small number of people slightly more content and has virtually no effect on you. What reason have you got to be "angry"? I am also interested to know, did you enquire about student concessions when you bought your away tickets? Some clubs still offer them. EDITED: spelling & clarity I went to every single game last season, which has been on my list of life achievements for as long as I can remember. It is quite a large amount to save though because it's almost £200. Based on it being £5 a game that's another 40 home games worth of ticket money I would have saved which is two seasons! At the time I got my season ticket renewed this deal with the university was not in place. It's not like I'm going to boycott the King Power Stadium or anything but it is very annoying.
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Wow you have completely missed a very clear point. I'm not sure if his numbers are correct about the amount of games he's been to but in any case, the principle of this is wrong. Which point have I missed? Which principle is wrong? I welcome an explanation. I went to every single game last season, which has been on my list of life achievements for as long as I can remember. It is quite a large amount to save though because it's almost £200. Based on it being £5 a game that's another 40 home games worth of ticket money I would have saved which is two seasons! At the time I got my season ticket renewed this deal with the university was not in place. It's not like I'm going to boycott the King Power Stadium or anything but it is very annoying. Like I said, going to a minimum of 40 away games, even that "almost £200" saving is nothing. The cost of all those away tickets combined, plus the cup/play-off games at home, plus the fuel money to get to each one ("Hampshire to Carlisle"), the amount you have spent on going to games not affected by the deal dwarfs the amount you would have saved if you'd paid £5 per game for 23 home games. I always find it odd when somebody in your financial situation is so distressed by the idea of concessions for others. Most students (and a significant proportion of non-students) are not in a position to do what you do. I wouldn't bet against you being the only person for whom £5 tickets would have made a material difference over a full season, but the fact that you spend hundreds on other games almost makes that argument completely redundant. You are clearly not somebody who needs £5 tickets, I just can't see why this irks you so much.
Captain... Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 Which point have I missed? Which principle is wrong? I welcome an explanation. Like I said, going to a minimum of 40 away games, even that "almost £200" saving is nothing. The cost of all those away tickets combined, plus the cup/play-off games at home, plus the fuel money to get to each one ("Hampshire to Carlisle"), the amount you have spent on going to games not affected by the deal dwarfs the amount you would have saved if you'd paid £5 per game for 23 home games. I always find it odd when somebody in your financial situation is so distressed by the idea of concessions for others. Most students (and a significant proportion of non-students) are not in a position to do what you do. I wouldn't bet against you being the only person for whom £5 tickets would have made a material difference over a full season, but the fact that you spend hundreds on other games almost makes that argument completely redundant. You are clearly not somebody who needs £5 tickets, I just can't see why this irks you so much. Because he's wasted £200 when he was eligible for cheaper tickets that the club didn't advise him about at the time of paying it. You honestly can't see why he has a legitimate reason for being a bit annoyed? £200 is a fair amount regardless of your personal situation, and the fact he can afford to go to every game doesn't mean anything. I can afford to pay more for my gas, doesn't mean I won't be pissed off to find out I've been badly advised and was on the wrong tariff for my usage.
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