Leicester Tigers gets in on the crypto grift...
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I've enough with my Dad's daily 'is this a scam?' covid / insurance / mobile contract / insert aspect of our pointless lives here call. I don't expect to have the same thing with my rugby club.
IT. IS. A. SCAM.
Honestly, Tigers. Get a grip.
IT. IS. A. SCAM.
Honestly, Tigers. Get a grip.
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If anyone wants to know more about cryptocurrency and how it works or doesn't, there's a programme on Channel 4 tonight (Tuesday 9 August) at 10:00pm titled 'Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst'. Should be worth a watch.
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Arsenal have been slated over their adverts and their failures to warn fans over these tokens, which are unregulated and have to be bought using cryptocurrency. Its the second time Arsenal have been censured.
Have Tigers explained why they have signed up?
Have Tigers explained why they have signed up?
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Surely the club must take notice - it is the first topic in my experience that has produced universal agreement among posters and universal condemnation.
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I suspect the club is quite aware they've made a mistake, however the club is probably bound with some expensive break clauses.
Thing is there'll be clauses about not publicly being negative to them as a partner (I know of at least one club employee that's liked some quite negative Twitter comments about the partnership)
There is probably some minimum contractual posts they need to do through the season.
The problem is I don't think the club realises the strength of feeling from the fans who just want the club to pay the possibly millions to get out of such a toxic sponsorship arrangement, or how much the fans would support any efforts to break partnership.
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https://t.co/LUwq1xwWeZ
Complaint against our Crypto partner has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Agency, in relationship to their partnership with Arsenal..
Complaint against our Crypto partner has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Agency, in relationship to their partnership with Arsenal..
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It will be interesting to see what, if anything, is being promoted at the first home game.
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I'm more interested to know if there will a protest against them as a sponsor at the first home game?
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Best protest is, no one "buys" any worthless coins or purchases anything (kit) with the name on.TigerFeetSteve wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:47 pmI'm more interested to know if there will a protest against them as a sponsor at the first home game?
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There was a fan's forum the other night (Tues?). I wonder if this was raised there at all?
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who attended.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who attended.
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It was raised it was discussed, personally I was not satisfied with the clubs replies and whilst I understand the need for our club to size every opportunity to.obtain money from outside sources i am still of the opinion that this is a big mistake.
The club have targeted an age group that seems to be missing from our fan base and somehow they think this scheme might redress that. Personally I think they should just accept that people of that age go away to University, play the game rather than watch, get married, buy houses and start families returning to watching matches as they get older. Tigers i think could be trying to attract a market that is not there whilst actually :censored: off the existing fans.
The club have targeted an age group that seems to be missing from our fan base and somehow they think this scheme might redress that. Personally I think they should just accept that people of that age go away to University, play the game rather than watch, get married, buy houses and start families returning to watching matches as they get older. Tigers i think could be trying to attract a market that is not there whilst actually :censored: off the existing fans.
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100% agree with this JTG well said.johnthegriff wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:34 am It was raised it was discussed, personally I was not satisfied with the clubs replies and whilst I understand the need for our club to size every opportunity to.obtain money from outside sources i am still of the opinion that this is a big mistake.
The club have targeted an age group that seems to be missing from our fan base and somehow they think this scheme might redress that. Personally I think they should just accept that people of that age go away to University, play the game rather than watch, get married, buy houses and start families returning to watching matches as they get older. Tigers i think could be trying to attract a market that is not there whilst actually off the existing fans.
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I'm in the under 35 category this is targeted at and I'm frankly extremely disappointed in the club.
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Seems to me there are three elements here.
#1 Monetising fans that because of geography can't engage directly and/or fans that want to pay for more engagement.
#2 The fact that's based on cryptocurrency and Blockchain.
#3 The ethos/governance etc of Socios the company.
#1 Monetising fans that because of geography can't engage directly and/or fans that want to pay for more engagement.
#2 The fact that's based on cryptocurrency and Blockchain.
#3 The ethos/governance etc of Socios the company.
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One bit that was interesting was that 11% of the season ticket holders are 20-30 (I thjink that was the age range given), compared to a national average of 18%, which to be frank doesn't sound right. Leicester as a city is, normally, much younger than the average, but what you really want to compare to is the % of season ticket holders in that age range at other clubs (football as well as rugby).
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