bobbydazzla

Let’s be honest, when it comes to ticketing (both ST’s and Members) the club have lost the plot They clearly don’t know what they’re doing and their communications have been appallingly bad, probably because they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing Ticketing is a basic part of running a sports stadium and they’ve absolutely mugged it

I meant Francis is raking it in Francis (real name Luke) has done his own telly show, has sponsorship with Gucci, he’s released a book etc etc All because he did some nerdy social media vids about trains a couple of years ago

Are they radgies ? If not, do you have their addresses ? Asking for a friend But seriously, there in lies the problem. Regular match goers have been frozen out and day trippers are taking their place. Am genuinely intrigued by the atmosphere for Villa, I suspect it’ll be as flat as some of the cup games last year

Why are season ticket holders any different in the clubs eyes? A member might have been buying tickets regularly for decades but for whatever reason didn’t have a season ticket. They might have lived abroad for instance. Does that member deserve to be frozen out whereas a season ticket holder who only started going to games in Aug 2021 is given untouchable status ? I’m not kicking off another “who’s the loyalest debate” just emphasising that if prior members are perceived as having no priority, what’s to stop the club going after ST holders seats too There’s already been stories on here this summer about ST holders having massive hassles with the club because they’re not willing / able to pay thousands to stay in their existing seats

Remove season tickets and ballot every seat every game That’s the only fair way If loyalty doesn’t count for previous members who may have been buying tickets regularly for years then why should it count for season ticket holders Clearly I don’t think that’s a good idea, but it illustrates that the principle is exactly the same as what’s happened to a large group of fans this week

That’s a good point. Previous system benefited people with an attitude of “I really want a ticket, so I’ll figure out a way to do it” Even if you couldn’t get online at 10am as long someone you knew could, you just linked your account to them and sorted the ticket. I did that on behalf of friends. The new system will be much more suited to people who think that going to the football could be interesting, I’ll chuck an entry into the ballot and see what happens.

Straw poll….. Q1. Does anyone know people who consistently failed to get tickets since Oct 2021 and have now been able to get a ticket for Villa in the ballot ? Q2. Does anyone know people who consistently succeeded to get tickets since Oct 2021 and haven’t been able to get a ticket for the Villa game ? Maybe it’s the circles I move in but I don’t know anyone in group 1 and I know loads of people in group 2 If it was a switch in process to make it fairer to access tickets, there should be loads of happy people in group 1 to balance out the loads of pissed off people in group 2

Had a running track when I was there for the Superclassico in 2004

Bit like Francis the trainspotter Real or fake ? Have met the lad a couple of times and if it’s fake he’s an outstanding character actor who never lets his mask slip But one thing I do know is that he’s raking it in, probably wiping his arse on 50 pund notes these days All because he makes videos of himself being an autistic nerd

They should just put every single seat in the ground into a ballot for every game. See how that goes down. “Season ticket holder for 84 years, don’t give a fuck mate, we’re growing the customer base. Shut the fuck up and get in the ballot”

100% agree that 10am scramble wasn’t fair on those who can’t be in front of a screen at the time tickets went on sale a workaround for them was to link to someone who could, but that’s by the by lobbing everyone into a massive unlimited pot and picking out winners at random is equally as unfair on those who have a history of being match going regulars there’s probably loads of people out there who couldn’t log on at 10am and also haven’t got lucky in the ballot. they’re getting fucked in both holes. there must be a solution that works that’s better than this current shitstorm they’ve created its 2023 for fucks sake and loads of events have a greater demand for tickets than supply

What's the most effective way to let the club know that there's a very frustrated group of regular match goers who now can't get tickets and are very pissed off about the situation. Channel it via the likes of NUST and @Greg ? Go on lots of solo missions with emails to Supporter Relations ? There's a group of us on here who have ploughed money, time and emotion into being at every game since the new regime took over and now many of us can no longer get into the ground. Am sure there's plenty of people out there in the real world who are in the same position too. It's got to be worth trying to fight for a change.

A private jet What’s the possible connection to incoming / outgoing transfer business at NUFC? Without that context it’s simply an airborne vehicle, doing what it was designed to do, which is allowing people to travel through the sky at high speed

The Amazon dudes were up close filming my section of the crowd at plenty of games last season If my mug doesn’t feature I’m gonna sue

I wouldn’t say Man U have a squeaky clean public image. Giggs shagging his sister in law and various other accusations Rio on the gear Scholes sucking his daughters toes Rooney will shag anything with a pulse Ronaldo’s rape case And that’s just off the top of my head None of those is comparable to the depravity of what Greenwood was recorded doing but there’s been plenty of sordid stories about their club legends

Yeah, seems Man U is £900m with performance clauses etc I said in my post £700m just for bantz cos it was still loads of cash but less than Man U We’re a club on the rise, in Champions League with some tasty signings and a cup final appearance so our shirt deal should be at least as lucrative as any club in a similar position But the reality is that Liverpool & Tottenham will go bealing to the PL if we get paid anything more than Accrington Stanley get for their shirt

I was told his groundbreaking master plan would have been along the lines of going to Adidas for shirts, Nike for shorts, Puma for socks That’s just me making up the brands but you get the gist

Worrying

Am sure there’ll be more sponsors rolling in. From what I can gather about Commercial Director contracts they typically get commission from their club every time a new sponsor signs up. So it’s in their personal interest as well as the clubs Heard a story that one CD from a big club was looking into the possibility of doing a deal where 3 different sportswear brands made different elements of the team kit. As that meant 3x rather than 1x commission for him. Their established kit maker got wind and stopped it At the end of the day these modern CD’s are just money and career motivated, if Silverstone doesn’t get us a training kit sponsor etc etc then he’s damaging his career and both him and the club are losing out on relatively easy money given how few sponsors we have currently vs other clubs

I’m not clued up on the fair value rules for shirt makers but if we rocked up with a £700m 10 year Adidas deal am sure there’d be hell on from Liverpool & Tottenham and we’d probably get a massive points deduction from the PL

Nope. One sauce will definitely know but wouldn’t be inclined to say. The other sauce wouldn’t have any financial info I’d assume it’d be close to max “fair value” for a lower table side with no global reach as that’s how the PL wants to categorise and restrict us But that’s just me speculating about the £’s

Asked a 2nd sportswear industry sauce who also confirmed they’ve heard the Adidas deal is done That persons assumption is that we’d be on template

Scenarios are built into contracts to reflect achievements at the end of each season. Have a look at the £900m deal Man U and Adidas have just agreed, extra bunce if they do well, reduced bunce if they miss out on Champs League and so on Also a decent manufacturer would prefer to avoid signing a contract in early 2024 to then have shirts designed, signed off, manufactured and in the distribution network in less than 6 months. They ideally want to do design work 24 months ahead if possible. And anyhow, the Premier League will cap our maximum shirt deal at their perceived “fair value” for the next few years anyway, so probably very little we can gain financially by holding out

Wonder if they were allowed to choose their seats

Probably so they can sort designs and start to plan volumes and that sort of thing My football shirt designer pal would often be presenting new shirt ideas to the biggest global clubs a year ahead of launch