bobbydazzla

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.

xA is still very high, because I create excellent chances to attend and still put a ticket in my basket for every single game. But my actual attendance is declining, because I choose not to convert those chances.

This is at the nub of it for me, the game I watch isn't the game I grew up with and the discussions about the game I watch aren't the type of discussions I used to enjoy having about the games I watched. And I'm being asked to pay increasingly expensive ticket prices for a sterile experience that's becoming more aligned to the razzmattaz of wrestling than a game of football. Fucking pyro before a football game, people sat in their seats eating chicken dippers when match is being played, Cartels, Ballots, VAR, PSR, Jumbo LED's, flashy light shows, amateur stat nonces, amateur scout nonces, Twatter transfer shills working for agents, self obsessed YouTube wankers, mobile phone footage being more important than living in the moment, Freed From Desire at full blast when we win yadda yadda yadda The game has moved in a direction I really don't like, so I either grin and bear it, or stop going so the people who do enjoy it can go and enjoy themselves. And this season I've opted to mainly stop going. I'm happy to not be paying top dolla to be in the ground cringing at the state of modern football.

As long as 50,0000 punters keep paying the prices they’ll keep increasing the prices They’ll test what the maximum price elasticity is and at the moment the elastic is showing no signs of snapping

“The fans who walked away from a club they’d followed all their lives because they were unwilling to continue to financially support a zombie club that was being run into the ground by a parasitic owner are now being asked to cough up again and they get absolutely no recognition from NUFC for either their spend or attendance”

It’s the cumulative effect. League games 25% more expensive than 2 seasons ago, £65 for CL group, £70 for Qarabag, £74 for Barca. And then the little digs between the big punches landing, like the £790 tickets in the Leazes for the Makems remaining unsold when there’s massive demand. Anytime you log in there they are, staring you in the face. A constant reminder of how NUFC are taking the piss.

Much cheaper compared to member tickets and also member ticket prices rose by 25% over last 2 seasons whereas season tickets went up 10% It’s the members who are bearing the brunt of the price rises, but both groups are being treated like mugs £74 for the cheapest ticket for Barca is a fucking disgrace. Blatant money grabbing because they can get away with it and people will keep sucking it up. And to anyone thinking about bringing it up, please don’t bring the 10 year freeze ending into the discussion thank you please. We know that for those people went from £20 a game to £40 a game, but they knew the freeze was ending and they’d taken advantage of mega low prices for a decade.