bobbydazzla

He’s always wearing leggings, does my fucking head in.

Creased at this, not gonna lie Acid Lads Fans

Even if the 300 odd people all bought 6 tickets each for linked accounts (unlikely if it was real people logging in not bots), that’s still only 1,800 tickets accounted for out of the 15,000 that should be available via ballot and resale. And it was sold out by position 475.

Have you emailed NUFC to ask for an explanation ? The fuckers have got some explaining to do about why someone that low in the queue couldn’t get a ticket. They were still emailing over the weekend to remind people of the 10am sale, which was a waste of fucking time if less than 400 people got sorted either due to a tiny allocation or bots having a field day. I’ve heard via the NUST that someone has contacted them that was at 300 in the queue couldn’t get a ticket

Same. I'm sure I'm not the only member who's spending upwards of £1500 every season on tickets, yet they treat us like we're of no value at all to them.

Has any other club in the whole entire world ever released official merch that details every aspect of a narrow 1-0 win in a mid season league game where the only goal was an own goal ? I strongly suspect they might be the most deranged football club on the planet.

My response from Supporter Services was also that cut n paste job already posted to say the queue is random and demand was high. And I'm like, nah, not good enough. I've replied again saying you need to explain to punters why there were no tickets left for queue positions in the mid to high hundreds when normally a queue position of 3000ish gets a decent chance. Either you massively reduced the general sale allocation, or the first 700ish queue positions were able to hoover up several thousand tickets. Which one was it ? They treat us like we're fucking mugs.

Membership purchase windows: June-Aug and Dec-Jan. For high profile games: Extensive ballot entry history / purchase history. Not just a month and 1 x ballot entry. For high profile games: Priority for verified membership. Upload ID to your account and prove who you are and you get a better chance of a ticket. For high profile games: Limit the number of tickets that can be bought on behalf of linked accounts. Touting site crackdown: People on here have given them the details of tickets that were bought via sites and NUFC weren't interested. Transparency: For each game, publish approx. number of tickets going into ballot vs number in general sale. Why are they so reluctant to do this, it just creates suspicion and it isn't sensitive info. Membership scheme: Allow members to build up recognition for how long they've been a member, number of ballots entered, tickets bought etc. If demand is high for a game, use this to prioritise over new members with no history. Transfers: Tickets can only be shared via an official club transfer, they can't be emailed to a 3rd party. Limit the number of transfers each member can make. NUFC can then at least track transfers and spot potential touts. And that's just off the top of my head

I was specifically thinking of examples like the Head of Ticketing standing in front of fans giving a presentation where he said things like "We're doing everything we possibly can to stop touting" All whilst offering unlimited, unvetted, low cost memberships all season long. So anyone that gets banned for touting can just sign back up again using a different email address. That's NUFC being complicit in my view. They're not willing to take a key step needed to help genuine fans and reduce touting because they'll lose some bunce if they implement membership purchase windows. Can they be so incompetent at their jobs that they wouldn't realise the part that unlimited, unvetted memberships play in giving touts access ?

Which suggests that NUFC are complicit and are deliberately persisting with a flawed ticketing / membership scheme because it suits them to do that

From what I see there's nowt in that article that would be a surprise to anyone with a reasonable knowledge of NUFC and a modicum of common sense. Which bit did you post about and why were you told you were making stuff up ? If it was similar to what's in the article, it came from a sauce and people said you were a liar, then I'd say they were pretty dim.

For the record I'd just like to confirm that I have never and will never, reside in Hebburn.

Aye, it gave me zero confidence that they know what they’re doing to make sure tickets end up in the hands of genuine fans rather than touts, away fans, neutrals etc etc Some of the flaws in their system are wide open for abuse and they can’t even see it

It was a waste of fucking time. A lip service exercise.

I'd encourage people who are pissed off about this morning to email Supporter Services and ask them for some transparency on ticket allocations, plus an explanation as to how it can be possible for queue positions in the hundreds to not be able to get tickets. They know how many tickets were put on sale and they'll be able to track how they were bought by the first 700 people (at most).

Was 795 in the queue and nowt available when I got in Would be nice of the club to explain how it's possible for that to happen.

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Last season repeating They were tragic for the 2nd half of the season but were decent early doors and had managed to do just enough pre-Xmas to have enough points to get a playoff spot

Let’s keep religion out of this, there’s already enough ructions going on in here

Only a half hour gone on Wearyside and already Chris Packet is making a nuisance of himself in midfield

Sun Tzu “The wise warrior avoids the battle.”

Feels a bit risky having Pope playing out wide

That squads more bloated than me after 7 pints and an all you can eat Chinese buffet

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