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They're digging themselves into a hole almost as big as the one they live in.

just purchased 2 tickets for Malaga v Rayo Vallecano next Sat'. Half price through ticketmaster. 20 euros each. Not bad for a side in the champions league. Prices seem much better value abroad.

From what i can gather, the ground is outside of the city centre anyway. They haven't said you can't enter the city without a ticket. If we just want to party in the centre and watch in a pub there shouldn't be a problem.

It was a blonde kid, think he had glasses. Probably only about 16. The milky bar kid?

They were a single goal down v 10 men in their biggest game of the season. They should have been roaring their side onto a comeback, and the best they could come up with is "stand up if you hate the mags."

E mailed our applications with enough points. Still no signs of acceptance. I just know that after keeping me in suspense for this amount of time, they are going to say there was some problem with the applications. If it were any other organization, i'd trust them to get in touch if that was the case, not NUFC however.

See what i mean? Even now it's still confusing. I'm certainly not assuming that all those who've chosen TC haven't got enough loyalty points, but it just seems unclear as to wether or not points was an issue. I chose to travel independently personally, but you can't blame anybody who booked the Thomas Cook trip. We all had the option to do likewise.

Like how someone asks what that nugget was charged with when he ran onto the pitch and attacked Harper. Probs wasn't charged. It seems pitch invasions are acceptable down there. They do it every time they score against us. Celebrating like they've won the champions league.

This Thomas Cook thing has been confusing throughout. I know people who booked with them and then cancelled on the understanding that they had insufficient loyalty points to qualify for a ticket. If loyalty points wasn't part of the TC criteria, i don't understand why they have lost custom by not making this clear.

Just checked the ticket section on nufc.co.uk and public sale started last Friday 12th Oct' for West Brom, so using that as a guide, approximately 2 weeks before.

Aye, newly built, replacement stadia are truly awful. I'm pleased too.

Im staying in Jacobs hotel. I've heard nothing. Is this a fact? Just checked my emails. They have cancelled my reservation. Is Belgium a country full of c***s? Beyond p*ssed off That's disgracefull. Did you book directly with the hotel? If not and you booked through a travel company, shouldn't they offer you alternative accommodation? We booked through late rooms. Luckily we haven't lost out financially because we've managed to book up at another hotel at a similar price. I'm very tempted to go along to Jacobs hotel when I get there and see if its really closed. However there are very few hotels left with rooms available so if any other hotels decide to cancel reservations it could become tricky for a lot of people. Pleased you're sorted elsewhere. I thought businesses around europe were were supposed to be finding it hard financially. Strange that they can afford to close during a period of being virtually gauranteed to be full to capacity.

Im staying in Jacobs hotel. I've heard nothing. Is this a fact? Just checked my emails. They have cancelled my reservation. Is Belgium a country full of c***s? Beyond p*ssed off That's disgracefull. Did you book directly with the hotel? If not and you booked through a travel company, shouldn't they offer you alternative accommodation?

Dismissed it in an earlier post, but tbh i haven't been, nor had the inclination to go to Sunderland city centre for years. Unless an NUFC side are playing there, i don't set foot in the city as a rule. The only exception is rarely visiting my wifes' relations in Washington.

No. It hasn't.

Man U fans. Can honestly say i've more respect for Sunderland fans than that lot. Passing their buses on the way to the game yesterday, they were from the likes of Yeovil, Brum, Glasgow. Then there are the flags inside the ground, "Hartlepool reds, Durham reds". They're actually boasting that they follow a club from another town/city. Sorry, far from impressed. Not everyone following Newcastle is a local, i know, but toon fans can't be attracted by our success. That's for sure. There are other successful clubs visit SJP and can be annoying, but for the most part they support their team throughout the game. Man u are just antagonistic. Song after song about Shearer, where's your famous atmosphere etc. Then i go to work today to put up with bile spouted from such red strongholds as Amble and Seaton Delaval. Not one of them went to the game. AAARGH!!!

As long as they dish out the tickets in the post to home addresses it should be fine, hopefully. As for travel checks, i don't see how they can check how people are travelling. They've surely just got to take your word for it. You could say you are travelling with a group of nuns. What do they know?

Anyone know how detailed the declaration of travel arrangements you have to submit to NUFC has to be for a Brugge ticket? Think someone above said they were after specific train times etc. What if you hadn't booked anything because you were waiting for the outcome of your ticket application? A bit of a catch 22.

As I said earlier this is what they did when we played Waregem in Ghent. Few of my mates went over in hope of buying on the door and got turned away/threatened to be arrested if they didn't f*** off. We went to Ghent without tickets, and had heard rumours the day before leaving that we might get turned away. Eurostar pulled into Brussels and we got off the train to be faced by a line of Belgian coppers. Here we go, we thought. Gonna get turned back. We nervously approached the ticket barriers, only to be handed a leaflet saying "Welcome to Belgium". It had loads of info, maps etc. Had a great time and got into the home end, although we did prearrange tickets with a Waragem fan, via their forum IIRC. Exclusion zones? Can they even do that? Are we not supposed to have freedom of movement around Europe? Are they going to turn away non football related tourists too? Although turning up half cut with a toon top on might blow your cover.

Well I would be one of those affected as I will have enough points. I was told when booking that they would not deduct the money for the trip until it was confirmed and so far I have not paid anything so I don't think anyone will be waiting for refunds if it is cancelled. Fans have no choice but to book their travel and accommodation as soon as dates are announced because the prices go up by so much. Maybe when the draw is made they should not confirm dates until the ticket allocation has also been sorted between the clubs because then at least fans will know where they stand from the start. Aye, a lad at work's on the Thomas Cook trip too and he was saying the same about not having had to pay up front. I hope you get there. It's just a bit of a shame that you're left sweating on wether or not the trip goes ahead, because the club has misleadingly worded their ads to suggest that if you book the trip, you'll get a ticket. Which i'm sure swayed many into the Thomas Cook option. I know what you mean about booking early too. I, like thousands of others, am all paid up for travel, hotels etc with no ticket guarantee. That's the gamble, and i'll be there regardless.

I've a feeling the majority of fans who booked on the Thomas Cook trip did so because they thought it would get them a match ticket that they wouldn't otherwise qualify for. It seemed to be sold to them on that basis. I reckon the numbers on the those trips will be decimated, now that those fans still have to abide by the points system. May even be cancelled. For those who booked with Thomas Cook who are assured of a ticket, it could be an uncertain few weeks, while they wait to see if sufficient numbers actually still go.

Aye, that crossed my mind too. They had a drink ban at the Juventus game a few years back. Still seemed to be 1 or 2 bars where you could drink without being hassled though. If need be we'll just have to drink somewhere on the outskirts of the city. How big a radius can they impose a drink ban? Going to be a big police job this. One of the biggest invasions since the nazis.

I'm pleased for anyone connected with the tragic events at Hillsborough that day, that the incompetence of the police, and the FA mistake of choosing the venue without it having a safety certificate has been highlighted. After all it could have happened to us or any set of fans in the country. However, my sympathy towards Liverpool fans on the whole is tempered by my memories of the Heysel disaster, only 4 years earlier, when undoubtedly SOME Lfc fans were to blame for the deaths of many Juventus fans. Then more recently Liverpool played a champions league final in Athens, i think, when SOME ticketless fans tried to force their way into the stadium. I highlight "some" because i don't want to generalise. For most of the fans affected by Hillsborough, their only crime was to innocently try to follow their team that day.

If that 1,400 is true, it'll be a busy night for the Brugge police, keeping an eye on thousands of ticketless fans. After all, once you've shelled out on the trip, you're going to go with or without a ticket, surely?

Fair enough, we didn't bring many in during the summer, but it is a bit of a freak bout of injuries at the same time, in the same area of the pitch, we're having to contend with here. There's not many proven defenders would come here to sit on the bench, as they may have been expected to do had everyone remained fit.