fleckneymike

No one wants this to fail. It’s actually that no one wants the players to be humiliated through an ill planned and executed event. We want the legacy of that achievement to be protected and treated with respect. The planned match is not a fitting tribute. The calibre of the opposition is not fitting. Our best ever squad have the honour of facing a squad which have no tangible connection to that season. We can honour the legacy in so many other ways which cost a fraction of the money but create a huge amount of goodwill. We could easily do a Q and A with the squad in the great hall - tickets would be free - followed by a signing session in the shop (if you wanted to claw some cash back you could sell replica shirts and various tat that people could buy to sign). There could then be a gala banquet in the evening for the squad to celebrate. (Again, if you then wanted to claw some cash back you could charge for a small group to attend that meal). Finally, at the end of the meal, you’d unveil plans for a statue in honour of Claudio alongside an annual 5000/1 award which the club would present to a local person who has done something incredible for charity or the community. What you wouldn’t do is tarnish their legacy by getting them to play against former Stoke City journeyman in a half empty stadium.

Sometimes nothing is better than something. they’re about to humiliate the members of the 2015/16 squad because no one has the guts to say this isn’t going to work.

That message suggests they don’t know how many they’ve sold which almost seems impossible to believe.

I’ve already done that and they can’t help.

Has anyone got through on the phones yet. Still stuck in the purgatory of trying to purchase children’s seats over the phone. No replies to emails, no way to purchase at the ground, no one on the ticket phones, no one manning the lcfc help phone.

Everything still screams a lack of leadership and paralysis at every level of the club. The simplest tasks now appear insurmountable obstacles. Common sense tells you this match must not and should not go ahead. We can still celebrate 10 years though a series of smaller events, QandA sessions, video montages, prize draws, meet and greets etc. I suspect our delusional management structure at the start of the season envisioned a match between the current all conquering squad fresh off the back of winning the championship v the 2015/16 squad as we all cheered and clapped. As the season slipped away paralysis ensued; the ‘we promote’ next season mindset guided everything and now we find ourselves preparing for a reality that never came to pass.

I’m not sure we’ll have passed if this time either

We’d have never gone down if they’d kept him.

I’m in exactly the same position. You’re penalised as a parent because they’ve built a system which benefits only those who are old enough to be purchased online. Anyone with a child is forced to ring up to buy a ticket for them but they’ve done nothing to ensure you can actually get through. To then remove the option of buying tickets at the ground further benefits those who are buying for adults.

While I’m moaning, the other staggering thing is that the club haven’t advertised that season tickets are actually on sale! It’s supporters who’ve stumbled across this fact.

Because I can’t get through in the phone and because I can’t buy two additional seats online for my young children I thought it’d bring the mountain to Mohammed and go directly to the club to buy it in person. Having got to the ground turns out they don’t sell tickets at the club. You have to phone up! The very nice staff have fed back a few days ago that perhaps they should have ticket staff available to help in person but nothing has happened. utterly predictable

Same here. Empty seat that was next to me already gone. Now I’m going to have to move. Can’t do any of this online and the phones are permanently busy. Shambles

Lord knows. Utter shambles

An email was sent out last week. Though seemingly at random. It’s a cluster****

I’m also trying to inflict this misery on my kids but the club are trying to make it as impossible as they can. Not only did they not email me to offer me the chance to purchase two additional tickets (even though I’ve have a season ticket for 29 years), they have then not emailed me to say my applications made via the link they sent to my dad have either been successful or not. The phone lines have been busy all day too. So a club haemorrhaging supporters, in dire need of income are somehow managing to make it impossible for one of the few morons left who want to actually give them money to actually give them money!