Wandy

Dear me, that’s fucking shite.

Jesus, we have some doylems in our ranks mind. It’s not difficult to work out what the proper words are.

Surely you misheard that? It’s “Glazers staying 10 more years”….

It's happening mainly because the ticketing has been handled shambolically this season. A system has been created whereby people who were nowhere to be seen two years ago are now getting tickets ahead of those who have been going for years through all of the hard times. I have some sympathy for the hierarchy at the moment. The club has become an absolute monster again, like the 90s on speed, and it must be bewildering for them trying to keep up with the progress. But this cannot continue, & by the start of next season this has to be sorted. A proper loyalty system need to be in place for away matches so that dedicated away fans get priority over johnny-come-latelys who go for a day on the piss. And the ballot for home games needs binning off, with the queue brought back together with freedom of seat selection.

Dortmund don't have safe standing like the UK though, do they? It's literally just traditional terracing.

Just reading the comments on NUSC twitter and seems like there was real chaos in the terraced away end. Some of our younger folk getting a taster of football in the 1980s. Except without the great atmosphere in this instance.

All to play for still. Bring it on. A draw at PSG and beat Milan and we have a great chance.

Probably watched the match through their phone camera as well.

We have morphed into a generic fanbase. Sing when you’re winning and mute when you’re not. Add in that we’ve got one of the most limited and plagiarised songbook and you have a pretty grim conclusion.

True, but it’s the only way of communicating directly with the club right now.

I really think as many people as possible have to go to this NUST AGM coming up soon, with the club’s fan liaison person there. They need to be under no illusions about how pissed off people are with the ticketing situation.

Post some links?

And our owners, by default. And therefore at us too for welcoming them. Fuck em.

I know what you mean by that. The people in our away end were not animated in the slightest. Clear as day that the away end was full of people who have probably barely been to an away game in their life. Pretty fucking infuriating tbh.

It’s got to be sorted out, no two ways about it.

Yeah I thought their support was mundane at best. Even the noise they made had an emptiness to it, totally out of sync with the rhythm of the game. They can suck my balls with their moralising demonstration over money too. They’ve been challenging in the top two of their domestic league whilst also playing CL football consecutively for years. If their club had been ran like ours has for decades then they’d likely be receptive to oil money too, the patronising cunts.

All this talk of hoping to finish 4th, if we can’t get out of this group, needs to be put to bed. You never, ever turn down the chance to keep playing in Europe if given the opportunity. Bollocks to the risk of injury & fatigue, the experience will be invaluable.

That’s the most likely explanation. If I hadn’t gotten glimpses of our away end when the ball went near them, I would have thought there was no away fans there based on the sound. Were the mics turned down or something? Mind, I thought that their much-vaunted crowd weren’t that impressive either.

You missed my post on the previous page then.

I shall never doubt you again, Eddie. x

Yeah, do I feel stupid right now.

And I’m one of those who have watched far worse and still got behind the team wildly. Think Derby away in 1992. I’d still be shouting myself hoarse tonight too, despite being unhappy with the team selected. But it would be singing in defiance, not expectation. That team is simply too much of a gamble for me.

Given up, nah. The odds are very much against a win for us though with that starting line up. Hoping that it’s still level with 20 mins to go doesn’t float my boat I’m afraid.

I’d be pretty pissed off if I was one of the 7k who have gone down there and saw that starting line up. The game could be over by half time.