Forest tickets for £5!

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

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.

 

No, I don't. I have no sympathy for somebody who can afford to travel to 40 away games and 8 cup/play-off matches in just over 2 seasons and is miffed about not making a slight saving. For your gas analogy to work, it would be like spending a couple of grand on a new boiler and some snazzy new radiators, paying your gas bill, and then feeling aggrieved because you discovered you qualified for a cold weather payment on some loophole or technicality but didn't know about it. And even if he did have a perfectly legitimate grievance (which he doesn't), how does that help the rest of the people on here who aren't DMU students but are still moaning about the reduced rate? They had no hope of taking advantage of the £5 rate anyway, they just can't bear the idea of somebody else doing it.

 

This lad is clearly not a typical student, and as such is obviously not who the £5 rate is aimed at. It's aimed at people who don't have a lot of disposable income, probably don't have the time or desire to watch a game every week, but who nevertheless would like to be able to see Leicester City once in a while (and choose which game they go to). If it fills a few more of the 8 thousand empty seats each game, I don't see why any "real fan" (what a cringe-worthy phrase) would oppose it.

[MattGamble92]

As a student at another Uni who has paid £265 for a season ticket and will spend another £300+ in travel through the season im fuming. I'll be sending the club a letter about this. Probably to no evail 

[Sharmania]

Should I spell this out so you can see what I mean:

 

£300 for 23 games on a season ticket.

 

As a student I can pay £300 and go to 60 games instead which is almost three seasons' worth.

 

You can have as little sympathy as you want but to go to all the games I have done I've had to work all summer, every summer and save as much money as I can to do it. £200 is a lot of money to anyone, and besides, we've played Carlisle once in the last four years so splashing out what, in the end was only £35 in total to travel because I booked my trains early is not that much really.

 

How can you not understand that £200 is a lot of money, especially when, as I keep saying, I could see 40, FORTY, games for that price as a student.

 

Having invested a lot of time and money into the football club it is annoying to see I could have saved that £200.

 

Get it. Got it. Good.

[Sharmania]

Everybody is the same to be honest.

 

People can say this that and the other about how much money they think, based on comments on the internet, other people have, but ultimately, if you offer a select group of people much cheaper tickets for no other reason other than that they attend university it is going to irk those that still have to pay full price.

[Lobsterboyuk]

Isn't this part of a partnership with DMU? We're assuming it's the club picking up the tab on this but it could be DMU subsidising it? Hopefully the FCC meeting will clarify. If it's financially supported by the club then I find it astonishing after the hoohah surrounding the scrapping of student STs!

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Should I spell this out so you can see what I mean:

 

£300 for 23 games on a season ticket.

 

As a student I can pay £300 and go to 60 games instead which is almost three seasons' worth.

 

You can have as little sympathy as you want but to go to all the games I have done I've had to work all summer, every summer and save as much money as I can to do it. £200 is a lot of money to anyone, and besides, we've played Carlisle once in the last four years so splashing out what, in the end was only £35 in total to travel because I booked my trains early is not that much really.

 

How can you not understand that £200 is a lot of money, especially when, as I keep saying, I could see 40, FORTY, games for that price as a student.

 

Having invested a lot of time and money into the football club it is annoying to see I could have saved that £200.

 

Get it. Got it. Good.

 

Putting "Get it. Got it. Good" at the end doesn't make the preceding claims any truer. It is of no relevance that the value of your season ticket is the equivalent to going to 60 home games under the DMU £5 offer. You can only construct an argument based on a single season's home games which, on the DMU offer, would cost a total of £115. You are in the unique position of being a DMU student who has already purchased a season ticket this year; there are very few student ST holders, a fact the club couldn't wait to tell everybody when they scrapped the discount, so the number of DMU students must by definition be even less than that.

 

You have spent £185 more than you might have done were you able to take advantage of the £5 offer all season, working out at about £8 extra per game. If the DMU students didn't get this deal, you'd have spent precisely the same amount. The fact that people who obviously don't have as much money as you do are now able to go should not irk you, it should at worst leave you feeling indifferent but really it should make you happy that the empty third of the stadium might get some people in it. Hopefully it will be on a decent game that gets them hooked and makes them want to buy a season ticket later.

 

Your case is a unique one and I would almost be inclined to agree with you (and only you) if it weren't the fact that you clearly don't struggle for money. It's been a minor inconvenience for you, but potentially significantly helpful to people who don't have your financial clout.

 

On the subject of working in the summer, given that you were travelling from Hampshire in August to watch Carlisle, I am guessing you are living back down south with your dad in the summer? Am I right in saying that you don't pay the same sort of rent you would pay during term time? This is already a privilege many students don't have (I am one such student), and it's them that it's aimed at. I think it's very easy from your position of financial comfort to sneer and people who don't have the sort of disposable cash you do, but we're Leicester fans first and you sound a bit gauche and sanctimonious when you moan about a handful of people getting something you don't even need.

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

And I will also add that as a season ticket holder you accrue priority credits with all those away games you go to, which you wouldn't accrue if you went to each home game individually. And you sit where you want to sit.

[Sharmania]

Blah blah blah, continuing to miss the point.

In conclusion: £200 is a lot of money to anybody and everybody.

I don't care for somebody on the internet declaring that they know anything about how much money I may or may not have to be honest.

For what it's worth: I spoke to the club earlier and quite a lot of people have had the same query.

You can post another comment guessing about money but I won't read it because you don't know a damn thing!

I can't afford to go to Watford by the way but being my bank manager, personal banker and accountant you must know this.

Again, I won't read any reply because the club are looking into it.

#Winmkng

"#Winmkng" being code for #Winning of course.

[MattGamble92]

Blah blah blah, continuing to miss the point.

In conclusion: £200 is a lot of money to anybody and everybody.

I don't care for somebody on the internet declaring that they know anything about how much money I may or may not have to be honest.

For what it's worth: I spoke to the club earlier and quite a lot of people have had the same query.

You can post another comment guessing about money but I won't read it because you don't know a damn thing!

I can't afford to go to Watford by the way but being my bank manager, personal banker and accountant you must know this.

Again, I won't read any reply because the club are looking into it.

#Winmkng

"#Winmkng" being code for #Winning of course.

 

 

 

I am a student at Staffordshire Uni so not only have i paid £265 but im paying for travel on top (something these DMU students wont have to).

 

I'd also like to get in touch with the club. Which department did you contact?

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

 

I am a student at Staffordshire Uni so not only have i paid £265 but im paying for travel on top (something these DMU students wont have to).

 

I'd also like to get in touch with the club. Which department did you contact?

 

 

Even the ones that commute to DMU from outside of Leicester? You're pissing in the wind mate, you will still be paying full price (or the under 22 concession if you're young enough), the absolute most you can hope for is that the £5 rate is removed, in which case your situation is still no different. 

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Blah blah blah, continuing to miss the point.

In conclusion: £200 is a lot of money to anybody and everybody.

I don't care for somebody on the internet declaring that they know anything about how much money I may or may not have to be honest.

For what it's worth: I spoke to the club earlier and quite a lot of people have had the same query.

You can post another comment guessing about money but I won't read it because you don't know a damn thing!

I can't afford to go to Watford by the way but being my bank manager, personal banker and accountant you must know this.

Again, I won't read any reply because the club are looking into it.

#Winmkng

"#Winmkng" being code for #Winning of course.

 

In which case I invite all observers (including you, Sharmania, because you obviously couldn't stop yourself from reading this) to decide whether or not this embarrassing response is one of someone who is confident about the nonsense he has been posting or one of someone who has no hope of justifying all the selfish moaning he has been doing. Not a single response to my actual points, followed by the internet equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "la la la", capped off with a hilariously boring hashtag based on an ancient quip. An alumnus of DMU too, what an indictment on that great university. Embarrassment.

[ADK]

A lot of clubs do this with local unis.

 

You might as well moan to the club about letting kids in cheaper or allowing disabled people closer to the pitch.

[Bettsj2]

People should stop worrying about what everyone else is paying. Life is full of disparity whether it be tickets at the football or your salary at work.

If you can afford to pay £28 for a ticket, buy it and enjoy the game. If its that much of an issue that someone may be paying less, maybe you should re-evaluate being there at all.

Please dont come back and say its a principle thing because it isnt. Students get cheaper everything, loans, clothes, music etc etc but you probably dont buy a coat from Topman then cry if you see a student wearing the same thing because they paid 20% less.

[The Year Of The Fox]

They've not got any at Stephensons College today. just asked.

[Lobsterboyuk]

 

I am a student at Staffordshire Uni so not only have i paid £265 but im paying for travel on top (something these DMU students wont have to).

 

I'd also like to get in touch with the club. Which department did you contact?

 

 

fanzone:  [email protected]

[Guest MattP]

Please dont come back and say its a principle thing because it isnt. Students get cheaper everything, loans, clothes, music etc etc but you probably dont buy a coat from Topman then cry if you see a student wearing the same thing because they paid 20% less.

 

And they used to get cheaper season tickets but the club took them away, made (if they wanted one) people pay full price and then struck up a deal like this.

 

It's not comparible to Top Man, that's another market with competition, football fans are loyal to one 'product'.

[Harry - LCFC]

People should stop worrying about what everyone else is paying. Life is full of disparity whether it be tickets at the football or your salary at work.

If you can afford to pay £28 for a ticket, buy it and enjoy the game. If its that much of an issue that someone may be paying less, maybe you should re-evaluate being there at all.

Please dont come back and say its a principle thing because it isnt. Students get cheaper everything, loans, clothes, music etc etc but you probably dont buy a coat from Topman then cry if you see a student wearing the same thing because they paid 20% less.

 

I think there's a difference between 20% less and 70% less though, wouldn't you say? Not really fair to equate the two is it?

 

And yes it is a principle thing, it's been explained thoroughly by others why this is wrong. So lets not go down the path of telling others what they're opinions are, we know where we stand.

[Lobsterboyuk]

People should stop worrying about what everyone else is paying. Life is full of disparity whether it be tickets at the football or your salary at work.

If you can afford to pay £28 for a ticket, buy it and enjoy the game. If its that much of an issue that someone may be paying less, maybe you should re-evaluate being there at all.

Please dont come back and say its a principle thing because it isnt. Students get cheaper everything, loans, clothes, music etc etc but you probably dont buy a coat from Topman then cry if you see a student wearing the same thing because they paid 20% less.

 

Your points are quite broad and I would agree but any disparity should be evaluated for fairness and for a multitude of reasons, this fails to be fair IMO

[Bert]

Should I spell this out so you can see what I mean:

 

£300 for 23 games on a season ticket.

 

As a student I can pay £300 and go to 60 games instead which is almost three seasons' worth.

 

You can have as little sympathy as you want but to go to all the games I have done I've had to work all summer, every summer and save as much money as I can to do it. £200 is a lot of money to anyone, and besides, we've played Carlisle once in the last four years so splashing out what, in the end was only £35 in total to travel because I booked my trains early is not that much really.

 

How can you not understand that £200 is a lot of money, especially when, as I keep saying, I could see 40, FORTY, games for that price as a student.

 

Having invested a lot of time and money into the football club it is annoying to see I could have saved that £200.

 

Get it. Got it. Good.

So what? We have to work all year round, and not just in the summer to be able to afford things, you chose to go to uni.

[Renart]

This isn't new by-the-way and it is done at other clubs. I am a life long Leicester fan and get to as many games as possible (I now live in London and the amount is less than I would like) but when I was a student at Leicester Uni I always got in for either a fiver or a tenner (I think it fluctuated). This was back in the day and I do remember that it was cancelled soon after MM arrived. As a student it allowed me to go to more matches than I would've been able - I am not sure where the students on here are getting their money from but I certainly couldn't afford to shell out the regular price and a season ticket - seriously! I used to take a group of 5 or 6 guys with me (all paying that amount) and we had a great time. We still meet up and go to the occasional game for 'old times sake' - this can't be bad? They are scattered around the country now but one-or-two of them would follow the team and now they have got some money they obviously pay full price for their tickets.

 

I am not sure I see the problem but I do sympathize with fans who struggle to find the money to go and really want to. However, I am not sure that pricing is about comparison in the way that is being described. A deal has obviously been done with DMU in a way that will benefit both parties. It will be DMU that will have negotiated the price (they will have said that is what students can afford - and it is about right) but we don't know what LCFC are getting in return in this arrangement (a deal like this is always a two-way street).

 

In addition to this, DMU differs from Leicester Uni in that it attracts far more students who actually live in the area (LCFC must know this) - this means that, unlike my friends who are scattered and only get to a couple of games a season, these guys (or girls) when their time at uni is over are much more likely to continue attending matches. We still joke about the price when we attend games and say, 'do you remember when a tenner would get us in here and get us something to eat and a beer at half-time' but it doesn't stop us from going in (and buying a beer at half-time). And what exactly do the club lose? They create links with a local uni, they invest in fans for the future (fans who might buy season tickets in a few years time or go to a few games a year or buy a top from the shop), the stadium is that much more full with young people who tend to make more noise. Win, win, Win!

[MattGamble92]

Even the ones that commute to DMU from outside of Leicester? You're pissing in the wind mate, you will still be paying full price (or the under 22 concession if you're young enough), the absolute most you can hope for is that the £5 rate is removed, in which case your situation is still no different. 

 

Okay i doubt they are paying what i pay to get to games. And my point being is it annoys me that some Man United fan who dont give a shit about our club can walk down to the stadium and watch us for £5 while i pay what i do to go and see us.

 

The point people seem to be missing here is that students get offers from all sorts of retailers and clubs etc. because it is common knowledge we are on tight budgets. Something the club has eventually acknowledged again, but it seems unfair they have only offered this to one particular University. 

[Bettsj2]

Your points are quite broad and I would agree but any disparity should be evaluated for fairness and for a multitude of reasons, this fails to be fair IMO

Understand what you say and its easy to see why someone would get upset at the difference. My thoughts are that there are 32,500 seats in that stadium. There is no pricing strategy that can be implemented that everyone will see as fair and going over this same debate everytime a ticket offer comes to light is really not worth it.

[Captain...]

No, I don't. I have no sympathy for somebody who can afford to travel to 40 away games and 8 cup/play-off matches in just over 2 seasons and is miffed about not making a slight saving. For your gas analogy to work, it would be like spending a couple of grand on a new boiler and some snazzy new radiators, paying your gas bill, and then feeling aggrieved because you discovered you qualified for a cold weather payment on some loophole or technicality but didn't know about it. And even if he did have a perfectly legitimate grievance (which he doesn't), how does that help the rest of the people on here who aren't DMU students but are still moaning about the reduced rate? They had no hope of taking advantage of the £5 rate anyway, they just can't bear the idea of somebody else doing it.

 

This lad is clearly not a typical student, and as such is obviously not who the £5 rate is aimed at. It's aimed at people who don't have a lot of disposable income, probably don't have the time or desire to watch a game every week, but who nevertheless would like to be able to see Leicester City once in a while (and choose which game they go to). If it fills a few more of the 8 thousand empty seats each game, I don't see why any "real fan" (what a cringe-worthy phrase) would oppose it.

 

Your still missing the point, he was happy to pay that amount as that was the cheapest option available to him, as explained to him by the club, now what you seem to be missing is that he is a student at DMU. 

 

I'll try another analogy, you phone the club and ask for the cheapest ticket you are entitled to, they say £15, you say OK as you want to go to the game. You get to the game and find out they are a fiver on the door. It doesn't matter how much disposable income you have you will be pissed off, not just at having to pay more but at being misinformed too.

 

This is a genuine grievance as he was entitled to cheaper tickets.

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

Your still missing the point, he was happy to pay that amount as that was the cheapest option available to him, as explained to him by the club, now what you seem to be missing is that he is a student at DMU. 

 

I'll try another analogy, you phone the club and ask for the cheapest ticket you are entitled to, they say £15, you say OK as you want to go to the game. You get to the game and find out they are a fiver on the door. It doesn't matter how much disposable income you have you will be pissed off, not just at having to pay more but at being misinformed too.

 

This is a genuine grievance as he was entitled to cheaper tickets.

 

He has already accepted that this isn't what happened - the £5 offer came long after he had bought his ST.

[Captain...]

He has already accepted that this isn't what happened - the £5 offer came long after he had bought his ST.

 

Ok going back to my analogy, when you phoned the club they hadn't decided to do the offer, but they decided to do it after you bought your ticket, you wouldn't be pissed off?