bobbydazzla

It's not other people gaming the NUFC system that most system gamers are pissed off about, it's professional touting operations being given unfettered access to the NUFC system because the club won't shut the door on them. And also the fact that some punter with no allegiance to NUFC who signs up for a membership today has exactly the same chance of a ticket as a passionate fan who has had a membership for years and has been regularly applying for tickets or buying tickets. In my opinion, if a genuine NUFC fan is more lucky / skilled than me in getting tickets, then fair fucks, I'm not complaining about that.

The positive global PR from some arsewipe influencer who's a neutral but wanted film their SJP matchday experience and post it all over TikTok will massively outweigh the negative PR of The Chronicle saying genuine fans can't get tickets

I know people who've worked and do work in management roles at NUFC and the general theme is that they go in thinking it'll be great combining work with their passion, but the reality of working for the club you support is very challenging. Especially in the Ashley era, which probably goes without saying.

It was actually @Dokko who said that

I'd do my best to use my mad ticketz skillz and help to sort you out with some via general sale and resale, rather than hear that you've given money to the cunts who tout tickets via those websites

Benfica also don't treat their genuine match going fans like cunts, is what I discovered.

I'd say it's absolutely the case. They just pay their £40 and they've got the same chance as anyone of getting a ticket. I was in Lisbon and the title decider Sporting v Benfica derby was on. I would have loved to have gone to that and experienced the atmosphere of a winner wins the league derby. If all I had to do to try and get a ticket was pay £40 and then I could enter a ballot, if that failed I could enter an online sale and if that failed then I could look for tickets via a resale, I would definitely have done it. But I couldn't because Benfica knew it would sell out and had put measures in place to stop people like me taking tickets off their real fans.

All relative isn't it. People will pay £115+ to stand in a stadium with 80,000 other people and watch Chris Martin jump around like a cunt and sing his dogshit songs.

Non-NUFC fans have exactly the same chance of a ticket as genuine NUFC fans. That's the fundamental problem. That's what's infuriating about NUFC's approach to "membership". Anyone can pay £40 at any point during the season and it's a completely level playing field. It's not a membership scheme, it's a £40 tax. Games with massive demand like Barca and the Makems they should be saying you have to have applied for a sizeable number of ballots (I'd be in favour of a bare minimum of 10, ideally more than that) in order to be eligible. It might not stop the touts but it'd stop the tourists and away fans taking tickets from genuine fans.

Same as every other punter does: Pay £40 for a membership and stick an application in the ballot. And if that fails join the 10am general sale. And if that fails keep an eye on resale. And if that fails, buy a touted ticket from a reseller site. They get 3 x legal bites of the cherry and 1 x illegal one. They've got exactly the same chance as a lifelong NUFC fan who goes to loads of games.

Are you sure you weren’t looking at the subs benches ?

I was in that exact spot on the very back row for the last game against Barca and a South Asian couple in Barca shirts came trekking all the way up to where I was because they were lost and couldn’t find their seats in our end. Security grabbed them and stuck them the away end. Fortunate for them that there’s no ructions between ourselves and Barca, otherwise it could have got pwoppa naaawty whilst they were making their way up. Also shitloads getting their selfies done from the balcony, which is a sign they’d probably never been to SJP before. The same has happened again last night with Barca fans and tourists finding it easy enough to get tickets. NUFC don’t give a fuck about it though.

Can someone confirm if he’s still the worst player to ever play for NUFC in the entire history of the club ? Asking for a friend.

There’s only one stat that counts for anything in football and you don’t need me to tell you what that stat is xCalled

Don’t think I’ve seen anyone say the performance wasn’t great. We should all be very proud of how they played. They were excellent tonight. But when commenting on the performance some of us can also express some frustration that we conceded another late goal, without being called lunatics, or entitled.

Think people are well within their rights to express criticism of the late goal and poor game management, whilst also saying that we played really well and loads of our players had excellent games. That’s not entitlement.

We’ve conceded a daft amount of goals just before the added time board goes up too. You’d think we’d learn to tighten up and run down the clock. But we do the same shit again and again and again.

Excellent performance and deserved to win. We were great all over the park. Proud of the team. But time and time and time again we’re shooting ourselves in the foot. So fucking shite at closing games out. Naive as fuck.

Daniel Cordone at the top ?

Aye. At £9 a pint punters can’t afford to spill their Madri

Even Victor would think the East Stand were ancient and complained too much

Part of it is just being of a certain age, no doubt. But I think a big frustration for me is that because of safe standing there's the potential for the match day experience to be loads more engaging than it was from the mid-90s to 2020's. We're never going back to the match day experience and atmosphere of the 1980's but we could have it better than it's been since mid 90's onwards. But because of capitalist greed they've sterilised the experience. Most of the other things I complain about I can switch off from if I choose to, but if I'm paying fuckloads of money to go to football games to sit in silence and cringe and wish I wasn't there, then that's the dagger in the heart. Not being able to celebrate a goal because it might be chalked off following a 5 minute micro-detailed video review. Not being able to jump around when we score because I might knock someone's chicken nuggets out of their hand. Not being able to build an organic atmosphere because Onedek is blasting out Hey Jude / Freed From Desire with the volume cranked to 11. It's just grim.