Wandy

I think you could start implementing it after a couple of years.

Lol, not at all. The club has essentially become a start-up club with everything starting again from scratch and ticket allocation should maybe reflect that. My main aim would be to allow those who have gone to aways on ST Holders' tickets (but now cant get a ticket at all) have a new and equal chance to get a ticket.

They could start balloting separate portions of the away tickets based on certain amounts of loyalty points.

Eh? How come? Everyone starts from scratch and builds loyalty points. When I say everyone I mean all members. ST holders should get no perks when it comes to away tickets.

Its not doing that though. Its basically a reset of the away loyalty points system with everyone starting from scratch.

Like it or not, the ST holders who put up with everything that Ashley did, including allowing Rafa to walk and replace him with Bruce, are the ones who are less likely to make noise at a game.

Yes. It would be better than the current system. But then start building loyalty points up from this new system.

Your talking about yesterday? Your mates got in through ST-holding mates giving them their tickets?

Seen a lot of people complaining about the lack of atmosphere in the away end yesterday. Seems to be a trend occuring whereby the big away days attract the spectator-type of ST holders who sit on their hands at games. The derby is going to be full of these types, unfortunately, and the Mackems will no doubt be pouring scorn on the lack of noise from the away end. You can just see it coming. Why ST holders get any kind of preference for away games is a mystery to me. In reality they should reset the loyalty point system to zero and make games available to all members equally.

Not worried about today, or in fact anything that happens in a PL game coming up soon....and I fancy us to beat Milan & Fulham. I'm very concerned about the derby though, and fear for him if we lose that. We are so close to it, and our away form is so poor, that even going on a decent run in the next few games won't have me that confident going into it. Unfortunately this season is showing we are capable of going from a great performance in one game to an absolutely dreadful one in the following game. What happens in the derby is anyone's guess right now.

On RTG their ITKs are now adamant that we have been given 7k tickets and have got the whole North Stand, both upper & lower tier. Given how bad our away form is this season, this game is no longer a shoe-in. Anything but, in fact. It shouldn't be the case but lose this and I could see a section of the fanbase losing faith in Eddie. Not wanting him out per se, but just jumping on any setback going forward with a wild over-reaction. Times might have changed but, like it or not, this is still our biggest game of the season. We can't lose this match, not when we have such an obvious upper hand on the field...and definitely not when they've basically given us their entire home end.

Aye, from people at the match apparently. They've gone back from amber to red again. Very entertaining.

Latest rumour is 6,500 and all in the lower tier of the North Stand. Jolly good.

As expected. That thread will be deleted soon to hide the embarrassment.

A petition now. To stop something that probably has never been on the cards anyway. https://www.change.org/p/prevent-newcastle-united-s-access-to-lower-bowl-for-safety-and-fairness?recruiter=11942066&recruited_by_id=2fd99c80-4252-0130-c2ab-3c764e049b13&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=copylink

That entire end is more than big enough to accommodate 7200 NUFC fans with segregation. Fair play to the local plod if they have agreed to the full 15%.

Yep. This poster claims to be an ITK. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/post-39611684 Could be bollocks of course. And I'd be amazed if they just handed over their traditional home end to us.

They are saying we are getting the entire North Stand now. If that's true then we must have managed to secure the full 15% allocation.

Why on earth don't they just give us the upper tier of the North Stand behind the goal & also the adjacent corner, in the same way we gave Man City that entire part of Level 7 a couple of months ago? We've been in the North Stand upper tier for derbies before and there has never been any trouble with throwing stuff. They seem to be making an easy job much more difficult than it should be. The absolute hysteria on RTG is great though. Dangernonce is almost in tears about it.

It's a perfect illustration of how small time they have become. Kicking off with ludicrous conspiracy theories because they are playing a really big game for the first time in nearly 7 years, and spitting out their dummies as they have to comply with the rules around the truly big encounters.

Not gonna lie, this game is becoming rather worrying. With all of the massive games we have coming up, it’s a real concern as to how fatigued we will be going up against these fuckers. Got banana skin written all over it.

South Stand is the end we used to be in. North Stand is the end with the upper tier added on.

On RTG they are saying we have been given 4800 tickets, which might mean being behind the goal of the North Stand. They aren't happy about that. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/page-18

I’m impressed with how loud Villa Park is these days. In all my time watching football I’ve never rated their atmosphere but it seems a helluva lot louder right now. Fair play.

The council will be even more receptive to it this time. And if the club are going to give back the existing site as new parkland then this would surely keep the environmentalists happy too.