bobbydazzla

It’s not pot luck this season, there’s 3 x official ways to get a ticket - ballot - member general sale - ST resale And connected Friends & Family can buy tickets for each other, so people can help each other out I’ve never failed to get a ticket for pretty much every game since the takeover. And this season has been much easier than last season. If we had some sort of Member Loyalty scheme in place, people who put in the effort to secure home tickets would have a better chance of a cup final ticket than someone who just clicks the ballot from time to time and hopes for the best

Given that new season tickets don’t exist and there’s no waiting list etc I can’t see how it remains fair to keep prioritising season ticket holders without creating some sort of scheme to allow members to build up a better chance of a final or away game ticket We’ve basically just got the same 30 odd thousand people who held onto their tickets during Ashley having an opportunity to elevate their chances of getting a ticket by attending certain games. They’re not all viewed as one group and to some extent they can move between groups Whereas the rest of us are just lumped into one massive group, regardless of how little or often we go to games If ST holders were told today that it was one pot for all ST’s, the lads & lasses trekking billions of miles to follow us home and away would quite rightly be furious about that. But the equivalent scenario is what’s just happened to any members who attend all games

Gonna pull a shitload of strings in an attempt get a ticket, cos I’ve got no chance via the fucking allocation system If all fails then I’m flying to Berlin for the weekend and I’ll watch it with some fellow NE29’ers over there

Correct You’d have to get very creative to source an away end ticket, you couldn’t buy one through legit means and it’d be risky for someone to buy one then pass it on to you

Yep, no ST, no away games Can’t even borrow an away ticket off someone with an ST as there’s a chance you get your collar felt for ID at the turnstile and then the ST holder is in a world of pain from the powers that be

Tindall bowling about like a pure menace in a WHAM jumper singing Beat Me Up Before You Go-Go

I might stop going to any games, apply for 1 x cup game via the ballot and I’ll still have the same chance of a cup final ticket as I’ve got for going to every home game in league and cup I can then spend the £1000+ I’ll save per season on high quality grumble mags from Sven Adult Books Instead of a Mags+ member, I’ll be a XXXMags member

The ticketing department smoke a lot of pot

It does feel like the club don't give a flying fuck about the members who go to all / most games We're each paying thousands of quids for tickets every season but get absolutely no recognition for that The only practical difference between someone like me who by hook or by crook manages to buy a ticket for every game versus someone with an ST, is that they were willing to keep going under Ashley and I wasn't And for clarity, I have no beef with the ST holders, it's the club I'm pissed off with

One of the most galling things about membership is that there's no way to elevate your status as a reward for going to or applying to go to games You can't get an ST so there's zero chance of giving yourself a better likelihood of getting into cup finals or away games We've got a completely segregated system and that segregation is based on people's willingness to keep paying for an ST to watch an Ashley owned NUFC And there's no attempt at all to recognise punters like me and many others, who since the ownership changed are forking out a fortune and dedicating loads of effort to get ourselves to games I don't think we should be at the top of the tree, but I also feel very pissed off that 3 years and thousands of pounds later we're still stuck at the very bottom in the weeds and moss

I strolled in via a quiet turnstile on an OAP ticket, and there's no way the checky could have thought I was an OAP

No point in dressing this up. I think the ticketing team are FUCKING DAFT CUNTS AND I HATE THEM So if you're a member that gets to every game, chases down tickets, works your fucking arse off in the face of a shambolic system, all to ensure you can secure a ticket get to every match, you're actually: a) a 2nd class citizen compared to anyone with an ST, whether they've gone to a cup game or not b) on exactly the same footing as a member who has put in 1 x ballot application all season These arseholes who divvy out tickets can GET TO FUCK

That's true, it was a total fuck up I do wish sometimes that the ST holders could see the rigmarole that members have to go through just to get a home ticket And then multiply that by 20+ games Same as someone like me who lives a few miles from from SJP, I probably don't fully appreciate the amount of travel some people have to put in to get to 20+ home games As fellow comrades we should all be more aware of each others trials and tribulations

It's definitely a tough one, because we've essentially got 4 tiers of regular match goers: - ST holders with plenty of away points - ST holders trying to build their away points - ST holders who don't want to go to away games - Members who go to all league & cup home games but can't get an ST and therefore can't ever go away even if they want to In your circumstances it'd be harsh to miss out if you're at away cup games, but had to miss 1 x home cup game. But on the flip side, I'm a member who goes to every game but couldn't get to the Chelsea cup game due to holidays, so to cover my arse I still bought a ticket and sold it to a friend. Someone is always going to be pissed off with the way cup final tickets are dished out. But given the current ST lock out, it feels unfair to continue to skew everything towards ST holders when there's thousands of people who are at every home game but can't get an ST, can't join a Cup Scheme and are blocked from ever going to away games too.

If I was in charge of divvying out tickets I'd do this: If you went to all home cup games and an away cup game - 1st priority If you went to all home cup games - 2nd priority For 2nd Priority, a ballot for 50% of tickets and a 10am sale for 50% And I think that'd be the ticket allocation gone. But if it wasn't, then Priority 3 becomes anyone who attended 3 home cup games and so on I'd give no priority for ST over Membership for Priority 2, everyone on an even footing. Whereas Priority 1, by default they will only be ST holders with away points Difficulty is members who applied for all cup games via Ballot and weren't successful in winning tickets for all games. Feels unfair to exclude them in priority 2, although they still had a decent 2nd chance of getting a ticket via general sale / resale

You'll be able to tell by the flash flood rivers of urine flowing down the streets of Tyneside as people piss their pants with either excitement / outrage

I thought it was trucking offensive

Catts for me like

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We’re giving Wilson a new contract because Arsenal are signing Isak Worrying

There needs to a determined effort to banish the makina version of Blaydon Races Weds night just showed how fucking ridiculous it is Sounded mega sung at correct speed pre-game and sounded absolutely ludicrous sung at 190bpm once the game was underway

SHIT THE BED !!!! what a goal for Leyton