bobbydazzla

There are billions of millions of high demand sports events around the world. And just as many entertainment events too. There’s an entire industry built around ticketing to manage these events. There are experts in that industry and best practice that can be observed. Problems can be solved by those experts. Yet despite the huge financial resources, NUFC come up with a solution that operates like it was designed by an imbecile on a glue huffing binge.

Let’s start by finding out what happened to the mythical Second Ballot for Liverpool Then get them to explain why we can’t choose seats anymore And I’d be interested to get the clubs insight into whether there’s more people complaining about the new system a couple of weeks after launch, than complained about the old system during last season And why are we only getting a week between ticket ballot draw and match date, how are people supposed to plan travel etc And why can’t we have a stadium plan And why can we only select one ticket category And how are they preventing tickets from ending up in the hands of touts and away fans who enter the ballot Am sure there’s more, but that’ll do for starters

I’m of the firm belief that tickets should only be available to people who were born in an NE postcode, currently live in an NE postcode and can pass a Prove Yasel Geordie test

It’s not even as open as a general sale It’s £37 for the opportunity to enter 19 lotteries for attendance and random seats Alongside the opportunity to scrap over the handful of tickets in resale like starving hyenas on a wildebeest carcass I’d like to know if any another club is running a system like ours for both home and away tickets And is that club also refusing to communicate with supporters about why I think we’re probably breaking new ground for all the wrong reasons

I feel the same about my Dogtanian & The Muskehounds jarmies

No way they could adopt something as modern as an algorithm on our shite IT system It’s more likely that they’d use Gypsy Rose Lee in her caravan on the Bigg Market to predict who’s already been successful in the ballot or not That’s about the level of complexity our website can handle

Contact Suporter Services team and let them know. This new process is utter dogshit for so many reasons and the more people who contact the club hierarchy to explain why they don’t like it, the better. It’s because of people complaining about the old system that we have this crusty spunk rag of a new system in place. So they clearly listen to complaints, just the attempted solution is minging.

Forwarding the ST is fairly straightforward I think. I’m using someone’s ST for Liverpool and our accounts were linked, he said it was easy to switch to my name. Still, your example just illustrates how short sighted the shite new system is. You’re gonna have to fork out for a membership and hope that you get lucky in a ballot just to be able to sit near your dad. It’s appalling.

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When loads of members who’ve been regular match goers can’t even get into Home games anymore, the likelihood of them opening Aways out to members is slim to none The entire new ticketing policy Home & Away is a shambles And what makes it worse is the absolute silence from the club on why the changes have been implemented in such a dysfunctional way

But I suspect most fans don’t even twig that football shirts are on templates They probably think they’re all bespoke designs

We’re all talking about Adidas now, it’s created a massive buzz ahead of the official Marketing campaign starting and also just before a huge game kicks off tonight So “the leak” might well have been intentional, to hype up the official launch even more

My football shirt designer pal says even most of Adidas top clubs are on a template these days, they’re just better at hiding it than some of the other shirt brands They’ll definitely be far better than Castore, even if they just follow the path of re-releasing decent retro kits that most punters will lap up

It’s been common knowledge in the sportswear industry for a while that we’ve ditched Castore for Adidas Its an open secret Not like he’s revealed who shot Dirty Den

When I posted recently that I’d had it confirmed we were deffo going to Adidas, one of the things mentioned by the Adidas sauce was that the Amazon doc would have a big reveal contained within

Possibly worse this time, to add to the fun & games they suggested there’d be a 2nd ballot for anyone who was unsuccessful in the 1st ballot But the whereabouts of the 2nd ballot are still a complete mystery. Would have more chance of finding Lord Lucan riding Shergar through the Bermuda Triangle And on the day the ballot opened, the button to enter it on the website was unresponsive for the first 45 mins. Which was a nice touch

Everything that goes wrong in their lives just inevitably ends up being blamed on the shadowy hand of NUFC working against them to stifle their desires… Can’t have a flag display ? Get the pitchforks and ducking stool out fellow Massive Lads Fans, there can be no doubt it’s because the Head of Health & Safety is a dreaded Mag and he must be put on trial It’s like Salem down there

I know it’s as cliched as a Burton Albion Fan In Peace etc etc, but it quite literally was a Makem at work Not even a proper Makem from Chickentown either. It was one of their rare brew who grew up outside of the North East and has had a lifetime of heart break by choosing to support them for reasons known only to himself

I’ve mentioned it on here before but a makem I know was lecturing me about Saudi human rights atrocities, sportswashing, how could Mags attach themselves to such a brutal regime etc etc And once the lecture had finally concluded he seamlessly moved onto telling me he’d just been to Riyadh with work and was hoping to secure a big contract win with a new Saudi customer and it could become a huge market for their products They’re out of their tiny minds

The principle is OK. People shouldn’t be buying away tickets purely to sell on. But sending out dud tickets, so random people can’t get into the ground and have to go through the rigmarole of finding the ticket office, presenting ID etc just seems to be causing hassle and potential confusion for fans How do other clubs police their away tickets when demand outstrips supply ? Is dud tickets the norm ?

There should be total hell on with the club for the state of ticketing for both home and away A proper concerted effort from supporters to get them to explain exactly what the fuck is going on behind the scenes Cos from this side of the fence it’s showing absolute disregard and disdain for fans right across the spectrum of match goers Amanda, Mehrdad and Eales need to be answering questions about this and explaining why it’s such a massive fuck up

Some scamp had changed his childhood allegiance from slough mag to slough massive lads fan Anyone know where his dad’s originally from ? Be beautiful fewm from Weariside if he’s a Cewnty Derhem mag

Wiki say he a Makem

Last season was kinda similar to that, but without the ballot and 48hr purchase period. It would have been so easy just to tweak what we had, to make a solution like you’ve suggested that was fairer for people who couldn’t log on at 10am on a weekday. But for reasons known only to themselves the club have created this new system that is the worst ticketing process and communications campaign that I’ve ever experienced. I can’t imagine how anyone, even the people who were unhappy and complaining to the club last season, can look at what we have now and say “it’s straightforward and better” than what we had previously

Glipton Grasshoppers ?