foss1884 Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Having been reading the stories on the official website, I came across a mention that the Burnley game is a "Fans Fixture", which is a great idea to ensure a huge crowd given the fact that it could potentially be between two teams vying for the automatic places. Even though the game is on SKY, the £15 price is extremely reasonable when you consider that both teams are promotion candidates based on early season form. My message is simple....get down to the King Power and support the lads for this crucial fixture where the team will definitely need our help to get a result!
Dan Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 £15 for a game between what is currently the top two. That's a lot more like it.
LCFC_Wade96 Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 The club should start advertising quite quickly then hopefully the crowd will be high
davieG Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 £15 for a game between what is currently the top two. That's a lot more like it. I bet they weren't expecting Burnley doing so well. If they,re still top I'd imagine Whelan will be pissed off with whoever put them forward as a fans fixture.
Guesty Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 It makes sense to pick a SKY match as a fan's fixture as it encourages people to come to the ground instead of watching the TV. Before we became regulars on SKY quite often prices were reduced to increase attendance (which was always noticeably smaller). I doubt they'll be that bothered it's Burnley; probably quite happy because more people will come to the ground.
AKCJ Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Well done LCFC. You're doing everything right on and off the pitch at the moment.
Guest ttfn Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Well done LCFC. You're doing everything right on and off the pitch at the moment. It was £31 for a ticket in the corner of the West Stand on Saturday. For a game against Bournemouth. The ticket prices are mental.
Leicesterpool Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Interesting but lets go the whole hog by how about having say kids for a quid or maybe season ticket holders can bring a friend in for just £5.
Corky Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Interesting but lets go the whole hog by how about having say kids for a quid or maybe season ticket holders can bring a friend in for just £5. Kids already get in very cheaply don't they?
Kitchandro Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Having been reading the stories on the official website, I came across a mention that the Burnley game is a "Fans Fixture", which is a great idea to ensure a huge crowd given the fact that it could potentially be between two teams vying for the automatic places. Even though the game is on SKY, the £15 price is extremely reasonable when you consider that both teams are promotion candidates based on early season form. My message is simple....get down to the King Power and support the lads for this crucial fixture where the team will definitely need our help to get a result! You see, I don't mean to have a go, so don't take this the wrong way, but if someone from the club was to read this they'd think they were doing a great job. The occasional 'fans fixture' (oh sorry, are the fans not really welcome for all the non-fans fixture games then?) does not make up for their shocking ticket prices every other week. Yes, £15 is a good price - or, actually it's the right price, it's the kind of money I'd consider reasonable and fair for this level of football. But we should be expecting football to be that price, we shouldn't be thanking the club like they're doing us a favour because they let us in that cheap once in a blue moon. £15 for a 'fans fixture' isn't really a great idea, they just want you to think it is. It would be a great idea if they did it every week. But really, the more significant thing is not them lowering the prices for less than attractive games (at first glance), but upping them for the big games. How about they make the Forest game a fans fixture so we can have a full house for that? Thought not. Davie is right, they picked Burnley because they thought- 'ooh, we never get a big crowd for shitty Burnley, let's choose that as the 'fans fixture'. Had they thought the match was going to attract a big crowd they would have done the opposite and made it a platinum fixture.
Filbert_Ross Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 IMO its an English ticket pricing problem, not a Leicester one. The prices for individual games are a joke but a mate of mine went to Morcambe V Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago and he paid £19 to get in, league 2 football.
Kitchandro Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 IMO its an English ticket pricing problem, not a Leicester one. The prices for individual games are a joke but a mate of mine went to Morcambe V Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago and he paid £19 to get in, league 2 football. No doubt. I think most clubs will feel they are underachieving in terms of attendances these days. I'd be happy to see Cov sell 25,000 (hahaha) if we were selling 30,000.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Having been reading the stories on the official website, I came across a mention that the Burnley game is a "Fans Fixture", which is a great idea to ensure a huge crowd given the fact that it could potentially be between two teams vying for the automatic places. Even though the game is on SKY, the £15 price is extremely reasonable when you consider that both teams are promotion candidates based on early season form. My message is simple....get down to the King Power and support the lads for this crucial fixture where the team will definitely need our help to get a result! Well said
Guest Bilo Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 In fairness, I paid £12 to watch Boston v Guiseley in the Conference North last season. £15 for a Championship match is very reasonable indeed.
Hungry Hungry Fox Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 My local team, rugby town have charged £10 a ticket this season and they play in the calor league central. People expecting £15 a ticket for every game are living in cloud cuckoo land
cityfanlee23 Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 My local team, rugby town have charged £10 a ticket this season and they play in the calor league central. People expecting £15 a ticket for every game are living in cloud cuckoo land My local Cambridge united was £6 4 years ago.... now its £15 a game for conference
Hungry Hungry Fox Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 My local Cambridge united was £6 4 years ago.... now its £15 a game for conference And people expect LCFC to charge the same as non league clubs
goose2010 Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 The Clubs dont set the prices, the league do at lower levels not sure how it works higher up the leagues though. I imagine its a base price and then the clubs bump it up where they think they can make extra cash.
Captain... Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 And people expect LCFC to charge the same as non league clubs No they don't they are just pointing out football at all levels is stupidly expensive. Compare it to cricket, I paid £50 for 7 hours of cricket in one of the biggest series in cricket.
Kitchandro Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 And people expect LCFC to charge the same as non league clubs Paying £15 for non-league football is a joke as well. It should be a fiver at most.
hackneyfox Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 If you dropped the price to a fiver do you honestly think 3 times as many people would turn up? It costs £15 to see a film nowadays, the theatre can easily be £70 a ticket, £42 to see Arcade Fire.
Captain... Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 If you dropped the price to a fiver do you honestly think 3 times as many people would turn up? It costs £15 to see a film nowadays, the theatre can easily be £70 a ticket, £42 to see Arcade Fire. Not in Leicester, admittedly Arcade Fire wouldn't play in Leicester, cinema is £9 at most in Leicester, £14 to go to the Curve, we ain't the West End, and we ain't a premiership club ticket prices are too high and it is driving fans away, see the dropping attendances across the league. it is not about halving the price and getting twice as many fans, it is about making fans feel like football is value for money and increasing loyalty, football fans are the result of passion not marketing and we will see attendances declining as football becomes more and more bloated and inaccessible to the average person. Reducing prices won't bring people back in floods but it will stop driving away the current loyal fans that are getting fed up with being seen as revenue streams to be exploited to pay the over inflated salaries so that after another lacklustre performance they can drive away in a car that most of us can't even dream about being able to afford.
cityfanlee23 Posted 31 October 2013 Posted 31 October 2013 I think its like anything really, the 'Credit crunch' Inflation etc, Has all contributed, but teams have taken it way too far using that as an excuse...
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