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It’s a secret second ballot, only for people who entered the first ballot and were unsuccessful You’ll only know there’s been a secret second ballot if you were successful in it, or someone else tells you that they were successful First rule of secret second ballot is that NUFC do not talk about secret second ballot

Brighton have dedicated significant resources to try and stop black market tickets. The BBC spent time with them recently https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98en3pzrw5o Whereas our lot won’t even investigate when they’re sent the details of a member account selling black market tickets at inflated prices

Couldn’t find a river so am just having a wank whilst imagining how sexy that goal was It works for me when thinking of lasses so it’ll work for footy too

It’s about as credible as all the warnings about dog poisoners on Facebook

How often does something that’s meant to be highly confidential but is doing the rounds in a public WhatsApp group turn out to be true ? Other than those top secret drug dealer WhatsApp groups that people I know who aren’t me have used to buy drugs

Beefy’s middle stump takes some beating

You know who I’m scoring with in my dreams don’t you….

Never, ever let the facts get in the way of pissing in ones y-fronts

Maybe you've just got a positive outlook or a reduced sense of danger. I've felt very unsafe in London. One of my best mates lived in Brixton early 00's and she woke to find a crackhead burglar in her room in the middle of the night and on another occasion her housemate was followed home by a random who stoved his head in and robbed him at the front door. Used to shit myself going to visit her. And I got wanked at in the bogs at Waterloo station. That's never happened to me anywhere else in the world and I've been to many toilets in many places. Yes, London is much nicer than it was. But it's still a massive city where a fuckload of crime happens every single day of the week.

Indeed. I'd never even been to London until the early 90's when I went with a pal at the age of 16 and arriving at Kings Cross was an eye opener. Although recently I was getting a Lime Bike from outside the station and a dude got all friendly and offered me what he described as "some sweet cocaine". So there's still mischief to be had round there.

Some very sketchy places have been cleaned up. Kings Cross is where any of our north east contingent will alight from their trains and it's a world away from what it used to be like. I walked from Chalk Farm to Kings Cross along the canal at pub chucking out time a couple of weeks back and there's no way I would have done that 25 years ago. But lets not pretend crime isn't rife in the big city, especially street crimes like robbing valuables off of passers by.

In my experience phone and watch theft are rife in our nations capital. I'd been in London for less than 20 mins recently and saw someone get their phone snatched by a lad on a moped at London Bridge. A friend got her phone robbed at Oxford Circus tube recently. A close friend got held up at knifepoint for his watch on a Marylebone street in the middle of the day. Londoners just seem to accept this sort of crime as a downside of living in the city, as it's a city which clearly has a lot of upside for them. Personally I don't think it's a bad thing for people to be forced to keep their phones in their pockets in public as people on phones are a proper fucking antisocial nuisance. Just a shame that it's street crime that's causing them to put their phones away, rather than self-awareness and respect for other people around them. I don't know anyone who's had their phone or watch robbed whilst walking round Newcastle city centre during the day.

So have they communicated to anyone that there's another behind the scenes ballot taking place ? Or is this another example of changing the official process without any communication to anyone that they've changed the official process. I'm so bored of ticketing that I can't even be arsed to find out by myself.

you just have to have entered the original ballot

Didn't know you could do that, that's useful info

If a member buys a ticket, then for some reason they can't go to the game, there should be a legit and traceable way for the ticket to be resold by the club, or officially passed on to another member. Same as can be done with season tickets. Plans change and not everyone can make it to a game they've bought a ticket for. The current set up is a joke. Can email your ticket to anyone at all, but if NUFC find out you've emailed your ticket to someone they'll ban you. NUFC have never explained what I'm officially supposed to do with my ticket if I can't make it to a game. Just leave an empty seat and take a £60 hit ?

I don't think anyone apart from the Makems would give a shit if we couldn't sell out an 80,000 capacity stadium in a midweek early round of the cup game against 3rd tier opposition

For me, they don't need to change the system. I'd be semi-placated by something as simple as this before each game goes on sale: For the upcoming game against Whoever FC: There are 10,000 tickets in the ballot There are 10,000 tickets in general sale And I'd be a strong advocate of membership purchase windows. One that's open June to Aug and one that's open during Jan. If you don't buy one then, you can't go to games. Plus memberships have to be held for a minimum length of time and also have been vetted in order to apply for tickets to massive games. e.g. Makems or Champs League or late stage cup games. And I'd also like a public statement to categorically confirm they never weight the ballot in any way, so they can be held accountable if it turns out they do. Our current membership isn't a membership, it's a tax that gives you the chance of buying tickets.

Yes, it's easier to get tickets than 23/24 But also No, it's an absolute fuck-on having to be available to do general sale. And it's still a lottery, albeit a gameable lottery Just a few ballot wins a season would be nice. So I didn't have to fuck about on my computer at 10am on Monday and Tuesday mornings for 33 matches out of 34

If anyone has a worse set of ballot results than this, then to commiserate I'll lend them my Sven Adult Books VIP 50% Discount Card for an entire week.

I wholeheartedly agree with your Fuck the Congo point. But I also just wanted to say that FIFA are paying his wages.

Because our last two DoF hires have backfired spectacularly so you’d strongly suspect we wanted to take our time and let all the main characters who will have to work together have a good look at each other to try and minimise the chances of it going tits up again

Guinness for me at this time of year Kenneth