bobbydazzla

From what I can gather the switch to Adidas was agreed a little while back, but I only just heard about it from the industry contact recently It’d be no surprise though. Silverstone has his connections there and the Adidas team being at our games means it’s not exactly been a cloak n dagger process About as subtle as your wife bringing her hunky gym instructor round to watch telly in your living room

Have it on good authority from within the sportswear industry that the ink is now dry on our new Adidas contract

Millions of billions of quids if he can get behind a laptop and sort out the ticketing system

I for one, will always trust an ITK comesock

When I have a tug, black & white striped jizz squirts into my Kleenex

I'd like a ticketing department at NUFC that tries

You don't have to be a self appointed uberfan to be concerned that to have a chance of watching your team you will firstly have to pay £37 and be lucky enough to "win" via a ballot, but then won't actually be given the opportunity to choose your own seat from what is available and pay the relevant price. That's just the fundamental basics of event management and every other sporting and entertainment venue that hosts high demand events seems to be able to manage it, apart from NUFC.

Can imagine the scenes inside the club as the season approaches….. Ok everyone, welcome to the staff meeting, we kick off against Villa 12th August, we need to be sorted, big season coming up ! Lets work through the essentials yeah Got enough players ? Aye Got a manager ? Aye Got some goal posts and nets ? Aye Got grass and white paint on the pitch ? Aye Got flags for the corners ? Aye Got some strips for the players ? Aye Got a ball ? Aye Got some tickets fans can buy ? Ermmm, not exactly

100% this @Heron We need a Wor Flags banner with that on for the Villa game please

Seriously ? You’d like to go and see your favourite band in a stadium but the only option you’re given is to pay money for the ticket and be thankful you got in. Might be in a section that isn’t suitable for your preferences, might be separated from friends and family, might be at the very back and able to see fuck all. Howay man. Buying a ticket for an event doesn’t work like that. I’ve never bought a ticket to any entertainment or sporting event where I was allocated a seat at random.

When spending money people usually are presented with some sort of choice so they can calculate the value of the purchase. And they’ve taken that choice away. We’ve basically paid £37 to have the “privilege” of possibly being able to get inside SJP on a match day and the only choice we have is what price of ticket we’d be willing to be allocated. Its absolutely dogshit.

The opportunity to choose my own seat would be the minimum I’d expect when buying a ticket for a sporting or entertainment venue Anything less than that would be unacceptable The same applies to NUFC

Hopefully they won't continue to tolerate it and the pressure on the club to sort out this shitstain of a system will continue. If the Trust etc now keep schtum and those in charge think we're satisfied with the little bit of movement we got today, then it's a sorry state of affairs.

Click on the link in the "Ballot is Open" email Takes me to a page which says "Not valid URL" You couldn't make this shit up It's 2023 for fucks sake 20 years ago I was using online ticket buying systems that were more advanced than this sack of absolute shite Have we got a Victorian luddite sat in his top hat running our IT systems or what

They could have had a window in which memberships are sold e.g. buy one buy 1st Sept or miss out for this season. So memberships were limited by time, not volume. And don't forget that last season they said memberships wouldn't be capped, then capped them. So the management of comms around memberships has been shit.

You could choose your seat for the cup final

A quick response from the club is a step in the right direction. Fair play to them. But the system is still massively flawed. People want to choose their seat, it's been like that forever and giving us that choice via an online portal is not fucking rocket science. It's a very basic level of customer service that any sporting or entertainment event offers. To not offer that is unacceptable. Hopefully the Trust and whoever else the club listens to will keep up the pressure in a positive way and we'll see some more adjustment to what is still a shite system.

They could have split available tickets into 2 or 3 sale days for members. e.g. Thurs 10am Fri 4pm Sat 10am Not necessarily those times or in that order but you get the jist Find it hard to believe that someone wouldn’t be available to log on at 3 different times, or couldn’t link to a friend who could log on at one those times. And preventing people from using multiple browsers isn’t difficult, plenty of other ticketing sites have managed it Personally it would have disadvantaged me as I always got a low queue number last season, but it’d be infinitely better than having fuck all choice over where to sit and what to pay

Same. As petty as that sounds. I absolutely loved the section I was in last season, made friends with those around me, was with a group of like minded people who wanted to stand and be vocal, bought a ticket in the same area, often the same seat, for every game. Now I feel proper deflated that I almost certainly won’t get to be there again this season. And if I do get a ticket for a game I could end paying over the odds to be given a seat in some parts of the ground that I’ve been in before and really disliked.

Because The Premier League make a mid game announcement that any club who have worn black and white stripes and have a fan called Gertrude are no longer eligible to ever play in the top flight ever again

Fights break out all around the ground, starting when Jemima from Jesmond who usually sits in the Platinum Club lets out a blood curdling scream as she spots the dead pigeon above her head from her allocated seat in the Gallowgate. Her scream frightens the life out of 82 year old Geoffrey from Gosforth who for 60 years has been to a few games per season and enjoyed the silence of the East Stand, he spills his hot Bovril all over the shaved head of Barry from Benwell who’s been hoovering ching all day and has skulled 12 pre match pints in a seedy city centre boozer. Barry starts to kick fuck out of Geoffrey, so Geoffrey’s wife Gertrude who has been allocated a seat in the Leazes, steams down the full length of the pitch to save him, swinging her handbag like a medieval weapon. Chaos ensues. The match is called off.

You want to get a flight to Benidorm. 10 days before the flight you have to enter a ballot for a ticket. To enter the ballot you have to pay £37 as an annual fee. If successful in the ballot the airline will choose the flight price and where you sit. The flight price they select could be almost double the price of the cheapest option and none of the options are particularly cheap compared to other airlines. Their airplane was built in the 90s and is really showing its age, it has none of the facilities you’d expect from a modern airplane and was flown for 14 years with minimal upkeep by an unscrupulous previous owner. It has a dead pigeon in the luggage racks. Fuck that. I’d rather walk.

Could you choose your seat though ?

how many elite clubs globally operate a ballot policy where fans can neither choose the price, or location of their seat ? and if there are some, do their fans feel it’s a been a positive change ? cos in my opinion, it’s an absolutely fucking shite state of affairs

What if I've got terrible eyesight and end up in Level 7 ? Or I like to have a full view of the pitch and admire tactics, but end up low down in a corner ? etc etc etc etc What's so difficult about letting people choose where in the ground they want to be and then they pay the appropriate price for that area It's pretty much standard practice for every sporting or entertainment event that takes place in an arena Fuck knows why they want to take that away from us