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Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Moorite » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:14 pm

The free snoods thread got me thinking. When was the last goodwill gesture from the club for the fans? All I can remember is free season tickets when we got promoted.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:17 pm

Free mini flags?

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by The Enclosure » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:19 pm

We got free chocolate buttons at last match and did we not get flags at a match earlier in the season?

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Bosscat » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:19 pm

Flags last season

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by wilks_bfc » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:21 pm

Boost bars on the way out after a game earlier this season.

Although by the time we got out they had all been snaffled and all the was left was empty boxes by the exit

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:22 pm

Reduced ticket prices last season for the away games at Chelsea and Everton, both were £10 for adults thus a total saving of £40. We've also had reduced prices previously at Man City and Everton.

That's a SAVING for our fans, not a gift that many won't want.
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by thelaughingclaret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:27 pm

The last useful thing we got free from the club were them scarves that were sponsored by no limits more then 10 years ago. And the sponsorship of them probably paid for them. We are skint, can’t buy anyone, can’t even get anyone on a free as we can’t afford to pay anymore wages so it’s no surprise. Wouldn’t be surprised if the club made some staff redundant soon just to make ends meet. Tough times. Getting like Macclesfield. Wonder if Sunday’s game will go ahead? :? :lol:

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Devils_Advocate » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:33 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:22 pm
Reduced ticket prices last season for the away games at Chelsea and Everton, both were £10 for adults thus a total saving of £40. We've also had reduced prices previously at Man City and Everton.

That's a SAVING for our fans, not a gift that many won't want.
Is this still part of the Premier League fund initiative from 2013 or did that end and our club has continued to offer it from time to time out of their own pocket?

Your last sentence is a bit churlish. No need to knock Leicester who put in a lot of effort and do a lot of good work to recognise their fans and instill a real family and community spirit

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by TVC15 » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:34 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:21 pm
Boost bars on the way out after a game earlier this season.

Although by the time we got out they had all been snaffled and all the was left was empty boxes by the exit
Those were disgusting !
It was a new energy bar Boost were promoting - it did not cost the club a penny other than cleaning up all the chocolate bars with one bite missing !

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by dsr » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:39 pm

Moorite wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:14 pm
The free snoods thread got me thinking. When was the last goodwill gesture from the club for the fans? All I can remember is free season tickets when we got promoted.
I got a free season ticket, Leicester fans get a free snood. I'll not swap.

Our season tickets cost between £329 and £455. Theirs cost between £380 and £660. How much free stuff do you need to justify the extra cost?
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by LAM » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:42 pm

I seem to remember little footballs being kicked into the crowd, to keep as souvenirs, at the end of the season. If memory serves this would have been Division 4 days. I am sure they did this at least once. Great as a kid at the time

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Spijed » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:44 pm

dsr wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:39 pm
I got a free season ticket, Leicester fans get a free snood. I'll not swap.

Our season tickets cost between £329 and £455. Theirs cost between £380 and £660. How much free stuff do you need to justify the extra cost?
Dsr, I think you are also forgetting the free bottle of water Leicester were giving their supporters attending a recent match.

Must have cost them in the region of about 10p each bottle when purchased in bulk.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Leisure » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:48 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:33 pm
Is this still part of the Premier League fund initiative from 2013 or did that end and our club has continued to offer it from time to time out of their own pocket?
No, that was replaced by the maximum £30 for away tickets.
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by arise_sir_charge » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:49 pm

dsr wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:39 pm
I got a free season ticket, Leicester fans get a free snood. I'll not swap.

Our season tickets cost between £329 and £455. Theirs cost between £380 and £660. How much free stuff do you need to justify the extra cost?
Leicester have won the league, played in the Champions League and are battling for a Champions League place again as well as competing to be in a cup final.

I’d argue their season tickets are much better value than ours.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Leisure » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:49 pm

We got free Christmas hats away at Spurs about 5 years ago. We also get tickets purchased online posted out free to us and we're not charged a booking fee.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Devils_Advocate » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:51 pm

Leisure wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:48 pm
No, that was replaced by the maximum £30 for away tickets.
Thought I hadn't heard of it lately and good the club has continued it on from time to time
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Steve1956 » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:54 pm

We got free scarves in the CFS against Cardiff last season

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Leisure » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:54 pm

arise_sir_charge wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:49 pm
Leicester have won the league, played in the Champions League and are battling for a Champions League place again as well as competing to be in a cup final.

I’d argue their season tickets are much better value than ours.
We've won the league (twice), played in the European cup and we're competing to be in a cup final!
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by gandhisflipflop » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:07 pm

Free scarves last season as the club were changing supplier and couldn't sell them :roll:

Also got free coach travel to west brom in around 2007.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:13 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:33 pm
Is this still part of the Premier League fund initiative from 2013 or did that end and our club has continued to offer it from time to time out of their own pocket?

Your last sentence is a bit churlish. No need to knock Leicester who put in a lot of effort and do a lot of good work to recognise their fans and instill a real family and community spirit
The Premier League fund came to an end after the 2015/16 season (or 2014/15 for us). The change after that was to limit adult prices to £30 for away games across the league.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Damo » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:15 pm

Did they not give us all condoms once? Or was that a really weird dream?
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:44 pm

Damo wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:15 pm
Did they not give us all condoms once? Or was that a really weird dream?

Ha I remember that. Don’t think it was the club though. Wasn’t it a health centre?
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by claretblue » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:52 pm

LAM wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:42 pm
I seem to remember little footballs being kicked into the crowd
I'm disappointed by the number our team kick into the crowd...during the match! :?

UTC

:D
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Longside4evr » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:52 pm

When i went to Athens Kilby put 1000 Euros behind one of the bars in the square and free barbecue for all supporters

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by MACCA » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:17 pm

Theyve frozen season tickets for the umpteenth time.

There was free Christmas hats at Spurs on year.

They haven't put the premium phone lines up to £2 a minute.

Theres a Marquee in the CFS

Bag check points

Been quite a few great gestures over the years, people just forget them.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by gandhisflipflop » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:19 pm

MACCA wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:17 pm
Theyve frozen season tickets for the umpteenth time.

There was free Christmas hats at Spurs on year.

They haven't put the premium phone lines up to £2 a minute.

Theres a Marquee in the CFS

Bag check points

Been quite a few great gestures over the years, people just forget them.
Bigger twixs, season cards (that are still manned by turnstile operators)

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by BurnleyFC » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:22 pm

We had a few shots on target in our last couple of games.

Does that count as a gesture?

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by MACCA » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:23 pm

How could I forget the 2 squeegee outside the CFS to help keep the wall upright, they're not cheap, £19.99 in the range, and we got 2!
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by AlargeClaret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:24 pm

Leics are the Kings of happy clapping plastic though ,they had scarves or flags on seats last week for cup semi and when we played away this season they had scarves on all seats in a sea of robotic plastic ( though think it was helicopter crash anniversary )

The biggest faux pas was Man Utd in a champ league game vs Liverpool away giving free white Utd shirts ... Man Utd fans who purposely don’t wear colours away !! To their credit completely ignored the gesture of utter ignorance of their away fan base .

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by ElectroClaret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:30 pm

The middle finger from the cheque book?
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by arise_sir_charge » Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:17 pm

Leisure wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:54 pm
We've won the league (twice), played in the European cup and we're competing to be in a cup final!
How did season ticket prices compare when we achieve those honours? I don’t know, it was 20 years before I was born so I’d didn't have one.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Leisure » Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:14 pm

arise_sir_charge wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:17 pm
How did season ticket prices compare when we achieve those honours? I don’t know, it was 20 years before I was born so I’d didn't have one.
No idea but anyway that's irrelevant as the comparison was now.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Vegas Claret » Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:57 pm

don't know what people want, they give you comedy gold every couple of weeks ;)

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by arise_sir_charge » Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:02 am

Leisure wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:14 pm
No idea but anyway that's irrelevant as the comparison was now.
So my point stands then.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by MACCA » Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:27 am

dsr wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:39 pm
I got a free season ticket, Leicester fans get a free snood. I'll not swap.

Our season tickets cost between £329 and £455. Theirs cost between £380 and £660. How much free stuff do you need to justify the extra cost?
If we were 4th, had the players Leicester do, and play football like they do, id happily pay £660 a season, in fact I'd probably pay 1K! I'd also be more than happy for them to keep the snoods, free beers, free travel, free clappers etc etc too
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Spijed » Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:49 am

MACCA wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:27 am
If we were 4th, had the players Leicester do, and play football like they do, id happily pay £660 a season, in fact I'd probably pay 1K! I'd also be more than happy for them to keep the snoods, free beers, free travel, free clappers etc etc too
We were 4th at one point two seasons ago!

I'll bet you wouldn't have been happy forking out 1k for a season ticket then.
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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by MACCA » Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:55 am

Spijed wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:49 am
We were 4th at one point two seasons ago!

I'll bet you wouldn't have been happy forking out 1k for a season ticket then.
I can assure you if we would have had the same success Leicester have had in the last 5 years, I'd be more than happy to shell out a grand a season.

But we haven't , and never would, so its irrelevant.

Was pointing out what a silly thing it was to compare both clubs, they couldnt be further apart in virtually every way possible.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Devils_Advocate » Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:04 am

Spijed wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:49 am
We were 4th at one point two seasons ago!

I'll bet you wouldn't have been happy forking out 1k for a season ticket then.
Yeah and remember that goal we once scored at Everton where we strung a load of passes together. Macca doesn't know what he's talking about!!

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by MACCA » Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:07 am

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:04 am
Yeah and remember that goal we once scored at Everton where we strung a load of passes together. Macca doesn't know what he's talking about!!

I remember it well too, I was there.

A day I'll never forget, its up there with York, Scunthorpe, Wembley, Charlton and Athens regards games from yester year fans like to look back on

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by levraiclaret » Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:59 am

arise_sir_charge wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:49 pm
Leicester have won the league, played in the Champions League and are battling for a Champions League place again as well as competing to be in a cup final.

I’d argue their season tickets are much better value than ours.
Of course you would.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by levraiclaret » Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:06 am

MACCA wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:55 am
I can assure you if we would have had the same success Leicester have had in the last 5 years, I'd be more than happy to shell out a grand a season.

But we haven't , and never would, so its irrelevant.

Was pointing out what a silly thing it was to compare both clubs, they couldnt be further apart in virtually every way possible.
Yes our owners didn't get their wealth by acquiring a monopoly on duty free sales in their country. Some say by nefarious means.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by arise_sir_charge » Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:03 am

levraiclaret wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:06 am
Yes our owners didn't get their wealth by acquiring a monopoly on duty free sales in their country. Some say by nefarious means.
Be great if they had wouldn’t it? That way we could stop moaning about everything being against us.

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by Spike » Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:32 pm

Spijed wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:44 pm
Dsr, I think you are also forgetting the free bottle of water Leicester were giving their supporters attending a recent match.

Must have cost them in the region of about 10p each bottle when purchased in bulk.
The free water is stop them throwing flares into the away end like they did on the first game after their owner perish.

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Post by rob63 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:24 pm

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Wouldn't boast that you've never used them if I were you lol

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Re: Last Gesture By The Club

Post by levraiclaret » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:39 pm

arise_sir_charge wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:03 am
Be great if they had wouldn’t it? That way we could stop moaning about everything being against us.
Not really, spivs will eventually spiv, but you won't stop moaning, will you?

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