Rich

Interesting. I much prefer Burn to Schär.

Would people be happy with him being a first choice next season, if paired with a new right-sided centre-back?

Very happy to keep him, too, he's been decent of late. Easily a better option than Shelvey.

Aye. Very much looking forward to seeing him alongside two or three attacking players of equal/better quality, depending on whether we go 4-3-3/4-2-3-1. He only seems to like to pass to Bruno or Wilson at the minute...

Aye, defo.

Should have added "on-and-off", I was only Ashley-enabling scum for his first season and then a year after coming home. Jacked in at the start of his final season, when the writing was clearly on the wall.

Aye, but comes with multiple other problems, many of which will be an absolute bastard for genuine fans to contend with for years to come. It can't just be opened up, it'll be the hottest ticket in town for touts. In your specific case, I'm sure they'd be able to identify ST holders who were buying extras for friends/family and include them in any prioritisation that was given to members. But as I said, I doubt it'll even be an issue! Just checked my online history, btw, and it only goes back to 2018, despite me having had a ST and bought countless singles for Europeans, etc. since 2002 when I was 16. Are we sure it's got everything there for old fuckers like myself?

Looks like Adam P's older brother, the absolute creep.

Opening it up generally would just be an invitation for touts and bots, that's the biggest danger in the whole process, the ground being full of day trippers, away fans, or whoever can just afford to pay the highest price.

So, in my view, you got 17 opportunities this season to show you were desperate to go to the match post-takeover. Buy a membership and then go to every home game thereafter (including Cambridge). If you didn't do that, then you weren't that desperate and now you're clamming because you're worried you won't get the same "rights" as people who made more effort than you if/when season ticket time comes. Everything before that was clouded by Ashley, which is why it seems like a fair cutoff point for me. If you were on board/supportive of the takeover then you were at every game you could attend since October. I'll happily admit I can't be arsed with aways and would be fully alright with anyone who did all 16 home games plus even just one away being ahead of me in the queue. I can't really abide people who cherry-picked their games or just didn't bother going at all being given the same preference for a ST for me, though. So I'm clamming about that. If it goes on history, I'll still be fine, but then you're favouring people based on age in some cases, which is a bit dodgy really. 99% of people interested in a ST could've been going to games already this season, hence why I reckon it should take precedence. EDIT: Little addition to mention that you could even group memberships together on your account, so if you were buying tickets for family/friends who had their own memberships (even junior magpies) you could have been assigning tickets to them individually so they also got the benefit of the purchase showing on their history.

Think it was January/February for memberships stopping, but might be wrong.

Fantasist Breeze

From everything I've heard, it won't, and I don't think it even featured on NUST's recommendations did it? Decent common sense test for the owners, this, and they've done pretty well in that regard so far.

Explained in the post, to be fair. Can you read?

I'd honestly be happy just buying singles every week moving forward, or scrounging for tickets when unsuccessful, it's a bit of a fuck about but not enough to put me off doing it.

They got in the Director's Box for at least one game, to be fair to them.

I reckon I'll be sound in any scenario other than an absolute free-for-all, genuinely, but post takeover there was a clear opportunity to sign up/re-sign up as a member (if you didn't have a season ticket or weren't already one) and to start building your digital purchase history up again with the knowledge that future season ticket sales/one-off ticket sales were only going to get more competitive. At that time there was no certainty that the club even had data going back years, and there were rumours of it all being wiped for those who'd packed in. If you didn't take that opportunity, you were a bit lazy or a bit silly. It probably won't matter regardless, like, but still. For £40 it was a no-brainer, especially with no booking fees to pay versus general sale (not that general sale was a factor towards the end of the season). Thunderdome is the only real solution IMO.

Why, though? To save £40? For ease?

Think the easiest (and possibly least controversial) thing to do would be to prioritise members without STs from this season, starting with those that have made the most purchases home/away. Even though I'd benefit either way, I don't think using historical data is ever going to be accepted by enough/easy enough to do. Truth is, if you were that arsed about going and able to go, you bought a membership and were at every game since the takeover this season.

Just wait until we're winning stuff. It'll be delicious.

Some boy.

Heh. Off you fuck you fucking orcs.

Veretout was linked quite a bit in January, wasn't he?