Why Are Fans Staying Away?
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For me personally it’s been a combination of factors.
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t enjoy going to watch City under Pearson and to some extent Barmby. It made Saturday afternoon more of a chore than something I really looked forward to.
I agree that money is an issue, but this season I just didn’t want to spend the money on my season ticket and £60+ every game for travel etc when the enjoyment factor had been taken away.
I’ve supported City for 20 years and I was a season ticket holder all through the dark days of the 90’s and even through all of that I never ‘fell out of love’ with City – but something for me has changed and like dazed said earlier in the thread, going to football has become a luxury that I can take or leave, rather than the absolute necessity it used to be.
Maybe I am stuck in the past, and I don’t for one minute regret seeing the club progress, but I would take standing on the south stand at BP back any day.
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t enjoy going to watch City under Pearson and to some extent Barmby. It made Saturday afternoon more of a chore than something I really looked forward to.
I agree that money is an issue, but this season I just didn’t want to spend the money on my season ticket and £60+ every game for travel etc when the enjoyment factor had been taken away.
I’ve supported City for 20 years and I was a season ticket holder all through the dark days of the 90’s and even through all of that I never ‘fell out of love’ with City – but something for me has changed and like dazed said earlier in the thread, going to football has become a luxury that I can take or leave, rather than the absolute necessity it used to be.
Maybe I am stuck in the past, and I don’t for one minute regret seeing the club progress, but I would take standing on the south stand at BP back any day.
I know it's not popular on here, but I definitely think Nigel Pearson has a lot to do with it. Not only did he make the football dour and substandard, but his arrogant and overall dickheadish personality made it difficult to support him and the team, even though he was managing "my team". I can't be the only one he made fall out of love with City, before him City's results seemed like a matter of life and death, now I find it hard to care either way.
I don't go to as many games as I used to but that doesn't make me care less about my club ... suspect this is true for many of your fans ... I've been supporting Leicester since 1969 and my financial contribution (home and away) over all these years will have been quite substantial - I certainly don't feel less entitled to my opinion than someone who currently has a season ticket.
You know you will get slated for that comment, just because it's from you, but it's hard to disagree with your sentiment.
Getting relegated from the PL didn't bother me, but losing what we had in Brownie hurt the club.
I can honestly say that if Phil Brown was still in charge I wouldn't have given a second thought about renewing my pass. Loved the bloke and loved how the club felt when he was here.
odd that 16,811 is "healthy" whereas 15,794 (6% less) and 15,304 (9% less) are appalling. 11 of the 2003-4 gates were below 15,304. rotherham doesn't count. it's a mickey mouse competition and the club rarely seems to make an effort in cup games. so why should we?
for me it isn't about prices going up again. they were already too much. pay on the day prices are massively too high. they're not a fiver and never will be. when petrol and gas and electric prices go up i have little choice.
You may well get some flak from my fellow Foxes re Nigel Perason comments but I actually do believe that managers are responsible for 'the product' as well as results ... I threw my toys out of the pram during Gary Megson's albeit short tenure with us - I watched a televised game at Southend where we we were in total control but obviously following a Megson doctrine of 'don't cross the half-way line as I want a point from this game at all costs' - well we got our 0-0 but I vowed not to watch another game nor even look for our results (very diffocult) whilst the tube remained in charge ..... fortunately he soon left us for better things - the sack at Bolton! - that guy was certainly anathema to 'entertainment' in my book ...
£30 on the day for an adult and £15 for a junior is hardly going to pull in massive crowds is it?
That's be £90 for a family of four thinking of going to the odd game.
Throw in a bit of nose bag, a couple of programmes , a drink and parking and it's a £130 day out.
That might have something to do with it.
That's be £90 for a family of four thinking of going to the odd game.
Throw in a bit of nose bag, a couple of programmes , a drink and parking and it's a £130 day out.
That might have something to do with it.
To put it into perspective - when I first started to watch Leicester in the then 2nd division it cost the same to go and stand on the Spion Kop for 90 minutes entertainment as it did to go to the cinema and watch a film. I can now take my other half and the kids to watch a film for the same price as an average priced seat at the Walkers for just me... football is now out of kilter with the real world. Isn't the cheapest seat at Arsenal around £60 for a prem game?
They used to count all season tickets as part of the attendance even if the person didn't turn up, now they take accurate readings from the digital turnstiles.
Many games last season would have had similar actual attendances to this season but it was always announced as more.
Many games last season would have had similar actual attendances to this season but it was always announced as more.
The main reasons I don't go to more games are work commitments - 50% of my life spent on-call 24x7. Also, living in Manchester makes the fuel cost of regular travel rather high. Therefore I only get to between 8-10 home games a season and about 5-6 away matches.
I'd to know the figures for attendances over the last five years in general , by that I mean the average in all four divisions.
as you know i agreed with you all the way on this, i actually stopped enjoying going to games even when we where winning, i just hated having to applaud him onto the pitch etc,and hated him being associated with us even if he was doing a decent job, it rubbed off on me last season too even after hed gone and me being in full support of barmby i just couldnt shake off the boredom, i found myself not attending games towards the end of the season for daft reasons like being hungover which i would never ever do...starting to get the bug back now tho
i think most the reasons stated in the poll go hand in hand, people dont have a lot of spare money but would still spend it on city if they think there getting value for money and entertainment,some people arent prepared to spend the last bit of there hard earnt cash to watch 1 shot on goal....few more games like saturday and it will soon rise
same, like you never forget your 1st shag, no matter what happens to city in the future , it will never be as good as the 1st time with brownie ( not shag)
I agree that we miss out on a lot of youngsters, but what is supposed to get them into watching City? I got into it because of my dad, and I reckon 90% of the youngsters who come now are the same, but we should be able to attract genuinely new fans, people who haven't been City fans from birth as decided by their parents.
Derby for example, they flog a **** load of tickets to schools and local clubs and get people interested, not all of them will come back, but some certainly do and as a result a side much worse than us, with less ambition, less money to spend, treading water for far longer than us (if you could even say that we are, we have at least had increasingly higher finishes over the last couple of years and are obvously going in the right direction) have got almost twice as many fans as us at this point. They also have way more competition from other clubs around them than we have.
When was the last time anyone on here saw any kind if advertising, promotion or marketing campaign to encourage new fans to come to the KC? I think my answer to that would be never. There is literally no reason why new fans would come.
I'm not sure that's true. Didn't the turnstiles count every time they clicked over before?
Dazed you really are confused....it's a requirement, that's why we are called fans and supporters.