bobbydazzla

They didn’t have to rush it. This timing was the plan I heard via a top bod at Adidas ages ago that the new deal would be revealed in the Amazon doc. And any marketing campaign would have to kick off once the doc had aired Which is exactly what’s happened Whether the episode “leak” was accidental or it was sneaky marketing we might not know, but it certainly created a buzz And everything Adidas are doing also ties in nicely with the Champs League draw, maximum impact

Have Castore ever done any marketing like this ? I have no recollection of them supporting the club with any form of advertising or marketing campaign. Or getting high profile local 3rd parties involved like Sam, End etc. My memory of Castore's launches is that they just take a few pics of players in the shirt

They will have said something along these lines I reckon

Based on the decor I can confirm that they’re in the Steve Bruce Fitness & Conditioning Suite at the training ground

Just been past Sven Adult Books and there was a black n white striped dildo in the window with a trefoil on the tip Anyone know if that’s linked to the Adidas launch ?

Adidas were filming in N Shields y’day Same street Sam used for 17 Going Under video

Imagine if Milan / Dortmund / PSG fans dip in here and read the Liverpool match thread then start quoting it in their forums Consensus would be that we’re about to sack Eddie and every player is so shit they all need peddling

3 x European big boys coming up here and 3 x belta cities to visit. That’s what Champs League is about. If we wanted to play FC Tinpot from some shit tip city we might as well have gone straight in the Europa Slurp up the sweet sweet nectar lads & lasses, we’re back in the big time with nowt to lose

3 free pints of Fostaz and a packet of pork scratchings with every Adidas shirt sold

Think the shite Castore supply chain and product quality combined with the ease of buying DHGate knock offs will have already hit 23-24 shirt sales in a big way If I wanted a shirt I’d buy from Adidas or Nike with confidence, even though football kit is massively overpriced. I wouldn’t give Castore any of my cash for any of their products

It's deffo been timed to coincide with the last episode of the Amazon doc and the Adidas negotiations contained within It's creating a PR buzz for NUFC, Adidas and Amazon and none of them are likely to give a shit what a bargain basement brand like Castore think Like putting a framed pic of your fit new lass on the mantlepiece before your soon to be ex-lass has even cleared her jarmies from your bedroom cupboard. Savage.

Other than buying tickets, have any of the members on here used any of those benefits ? Genuine question. None of them is of any interest to me personally, but maybe I'm in a minority

1: Being able to buy tickets 4-8 weeks before a game 2: Being able to choose where you sit 3: Giving some discounts on merch, tours etc etc Three basic things that Spurs do for their members that has absolutely no relation to stadium size or level of demand for tickets

That's true. But I think there's 2 different issues we're discussing 1 - is charging people £37 a year to enter a ballot every few weeks fair and does it offer value compared to memberships at other clubs 2 - should the club have some sort of tiering / loyalty scheme to make it easier for certain groups of fans to get tickets With the Spurs example I'm talking about 1. But I do think 2 needs to be discussed, although any solution is likely to piss off a group of people

But Spurs members can buy tickets up to 2 months ahead of a game allowing people to select the games they want to go for, plan travel etc. They can choose seat and stand. Plus they get a package of discounts on all sorts of activities and merchandise. There's decent gifts for signing up. That overall offering to me is definitely worth £45/55 even if I can't get a ticket to every game. At NUFC all we're getting for our £37 is a lottery for a randomly allocated seat that's drawn 1 week before kick off. And then a resale scramble for a handful of tickets.

I haven’t looked into it fully, but my impression for Spurs was that there are two tiers and they’re based on price. Membership is £45 Membership+ is £55 Happy to be corrected if that isn’t the case

NUFC memberships are now just a £37 payment to take part in a general ballot or access resale tickets. Which is dogshit. We're measuring ourselves versus Tottenham on the pitch, but look at how we compare for memberships. They've already got tickets on sale to members for games that go up to Nov 25th. We get a weeks notice to enter a fucking ballot. And they also get loads of benefits and discounts for their £45-55 annual payment.

Do you mean the Gallowgate safe standing corner ? Or were there people standing in the Leazes In the safe standing section the singing rarely stops in there for any match.

Platty Clerb y’day. Round me were: - blokes wanting to sing, shout & swear - owld fellas wanting to sit in silence - family of tourists - teenage girls sat playing on their phones - toddlers - couple of people with what I think was probably autism who seemed unsettled by any shouting Not sure how you get an atmosphere going with such a diverse group Too many going for beers at 35 mins, coming back at 55 mins. Too many leaving when it was still 1-1. Having spent last couple of seasons in Strawberry Corner, I often forget what the rest of the ground is actually like

General consensus amongst the two Liverpool fans I’ve spoken to is that they’d be very happy with a point Lets batter these cunts

Yawn yawn yawn

The row was actually going on down near Slough, not down in Slough Just thought that little detail might help

The mythical 2nd ballot is really just an example to illustrate how poor the communications from the club have been. “Enter Ballot 1, but you might actually be entered into Ballot 2 and that £47 ticket you were hoping for is now a £77 ticket. But you’re not getting any say in whether you want to pay that much, we’ll decide for you” Just lobbed in as small print with no further explanation. And no evidence if Ballot 2 actually existed or not. In the unlikely event any tickets were left after Ballot 1 just lob them in resale. Isn’t that a far easier solution for what was likely to be at the very most a handful of tickets. Being pissed off about Ballot 2 isn’t actually about a ballot, it’s about how they’re treating us like mugs.

@LFEE when entering the ballot last week they added some small print to say there’d be a 2nd ballot for unallocated tickets and be prepared to pay more than your chosen category if you were allocated a seat in the 2nd ballot There was no further communication other than the small print. No-one knows if this 2nd ballot actually happened. Or if it did happen, how it would work. It remains a complete mystery.