This seasons away followings have been particularly impressive but for one reason or another yesterdays following was way below what you'd have expected for a relatively easy trip to the midlands. My reasons for not going were mainly related to it being my birthday weekend and I had other plans. Having said that the cost of the ticket and the thought of being thumped four or five nil didn't really appeal to me. Did anyone else boycott it due the extortionate match ticket?
I think many of us didn't go for that reason. I went to Man City away so the thought of us getting hammered wasn't really something that was going to scare me. However as a student, those prices were a rip-off. I also feel that I've got a lot on my plate atm with studies and I don't think I'll be going to any more games this season which is annoying.
I'm a broke student who has less money than the ticket itself cost, so yeah, I'd say that's a factor.
I didn't go because it was live on the Internet ! Why pay £32 for a ticket, when I can watch it for free ? And from what I hear some Pubs in Watford actually had it live also. Picture quality was great also.
I did not go because i am totally apathetic and would rather hear about moogs daughters poo and predict capitulation in the warm
I was driven up by a mate who is a Leicester fan. He really struggled to get seats together so he could also take his son, having visited their ticket office last week. Therefore we were both surprised to see how many banks of empty seats there were all round the King Power. Pricing policy by Leicester affected not just the away fans attendance, clearly.
Wife away so had my kids all weekend but I think the pricing puts a lot of people off to be honest, add that to the fact we're not doing as well as expected makes it hardly surprising.
rip off prices, and no under 16 category, under 12 or under 18 only meant £32 for me and £20 for my lad plus train tickets food and beer :drinking: cant justify that cost and been to leicester lots recently too. looking at the pics not many leicester there either and recently been getting good crowds (cos they are top prob)
Yep, had an evening function but pricing was the main reason. Ok it doesn't break the bank but if you have been a number of times before and you select your games more carefully as I do, this was definitely one to miss.
I went. I'm not hard core. Leicester is easy. Bolton and Wigan and Burnley on a Tuesday night - that's hardcore. And probably a little disturbed, if I'm honest. I used to do more aways, but after lying to the missus to fly from France to Liverpool for a means-nothing end of season Preston game a few years back, I had a word with myself.
To be fair 800 is the core away support usually as that was the rough attendance for Barnsley and Huddersfield, or for Teusday night games like Sheffield Wednesday last season there were 500+ there consisting of the usual suspects. With Watford I think anything over 1500 it starts getting a bit mongy.
This might have had a reflection on the numbers of away fans.. http://www.watfordfc.com/news/article/140208-leicester-coach-travel-1349830.aspx
Went twice season and didn't fancy it again this season Too expensive Local football was the plan (buggered cos of the weather) I have a wedding to pay for I don't like other people
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Ah.. thought there would have been more than that and i hadnt realised they were already included. This means there were actually 740 away fans in attendance.
I assume many other fans using their own transport didn't make it either. Herts Police escorted twenty odd coaches off the M1 for the play off match. I take it we didn't get that hospitality then. Racists! They'd have done it if we were Bradford.
I didn't want to run the risk of sitting next to highgrade in case he bored me to death. Mainly with talk of McGugan and how he's the best Watford fan there has ever and will ever be.
According to the football league twitter account. The mahusive QPR have taken 541 fans to Derby tonight.
I never went because the ticket price was ridiculous, my decision not to go was made easier when I realised there would be a stream for the game.
There appears to be large proportion of fans who didn't attend the match at Leicester due to the cost, and perhaps would have done so if the tickets were reasonably priced. Maybe some liaison needs to be carried out with future hosts. This isn't the first time either. I recall going Millwall last year and getting ripped off, whilst their own fans paid the square root.
