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Willock playing like the recurring dream I have that I’m starting a top flight game at St James Park but the gaffer doesn’t realise that the last time I kicked a football competitively was for the primary school U9’s in 1987

Gimme gimme gimme Osula at Anfield

it’s the hope that kills you

That’s a big statement when new ST’s were effectively discontinued in Oct 2021, there’s no more people allowed into that magic circle. It’s a closed shop So anyone who was willing to keep going through the Ashley era will be forever given priority over anyone who didn’t go back then (too young, protested, lived abroad, skint student etc etc etc)

Could have easy snapped that kids leg 1 goal ahead but down to 10 men against relegation rivals, this could get pwoppppa naaaawty

Career ending scratch on his lower back

But why should a member who makes the effort to get to every game miss out on a cup final ticket to a season ticket holder who didn’t go to a cup game and now wants to go to the final ? Why is the season ticket holder who doesn’t go getting that ticket ahead of the member who does ? Members can’t get season tickets or join a loyalty scheme, so we’re trapped on the bottom rung. Any punter in the world can pay NUFC £40 and immediately get the same status as the lads on here who’ve not missed a game for 3.5 years In your case you made an error, but that was in your hands. Which is very unfortunate, but that’s on you. Everyone knew that attendance at cup games was almost certainly going to affect priority for cup final tickets

FWIW I didn’t think you were having a dig at me, so I wasn’t offended Some stayed, some left, we all had our reasons and the merits of either decision are still too emotive to discuss for a lot of people without it turning into a scrap I sometimes go back and read the old NUFC.com match waffle from the latter years of the Ashley era though, a brutal reminder of why people jacked and how utterly grim it was for the ones who stayed Bizarrely it helps me keep my pecker up when we’re in a bit of a blip

They couldn't have told people what the % chance of success was, that's impossible. And that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about overall transparency, clarity of communication and simplicity of process. Go back to posts at the end of the Pot 3 allocation and see how many people were confused about whether there'd be any tickets left for the next Pots Go back to posts when the allocation criteria were announced and see how many people were confused about whether a forwarded ticket counted as attending a match Go back to posts from people who'd followed the clubs directive to forward tickets on and have lost out versus people who "broke the rules" and just forwarded an email And that's just off the top of my head. There's been a lack of transparency and clarity all the way through for the vast majority who wanted to try and get a ticket, and that's for both ST's and members.

Howay man, you can't possibly be serious. There's millions of billions of posts on here from people who were confused about what the process involved and their likelihood of getting a ticket

Right, take a look at this info down below. Simplicity, transparency and specific details from LFC into how tickets were allocated. Forget about the "well I might have missed out and I go to x amount of games so that's not fair" mindset and just look at the communication. It's a world away from our shitshow. I'm not even saying we should replicate LFC, I'm just amazed that two teams being given the same amount of tickets to play in the same ground on the same day can have such different approaches. LFC are engaged with their fans, are communicating clearly and making it simple. Even though their outcome won't please everyone. NUFC is just confusing, over complicated and lacking any transparency. With 31,000 out of the 32,000 tickets boxed off for ST's, when ST's have already been boxed off for 3.5 years. From the LFC website: Entry Criteria: Season Ticket Holders and Members who have attended two (2) prior games in this season's Carabao Cup competition (home or away) only. Liverpool FC can confirm qualifying supporters who registered for the Carabao Cup final ticket ballot had a 54 per cent chance of being successful, with almost three-quarters of the club’s allocation going to general supporters. Since the ballot opened last Tuesday (February 11), 35,993 qualifying fans registered to be in with a chance of securing a ticket for the match against Newcastle United at Wembley. The ballot is managed independently, with each booking having an equal chance of being selected. Fans were notified of the outcome of the ballot today, with successful supporters then able to purchase their tickets from 11am on Friday (February 21). The club received a full ticket allocation of 32,210 tickets for this fixture, which will be played at 4.30pm GMT on Sunday March 16. The chances of being successful in this year’s ballot have decreased by six per cent compared to last season – this is due to more supporters qualifying for the guaranteed sale as a result of the club having more away games and slightly higher allocations at those away games, compared to last season. Despite this change in the breakdown of the ticket allocation, overall the percentage of tickets made available to our general supporter base has remained static at 73 per cent. The breakdown of LFC’s full ticket allocation is: General supporter allocation: 73 per cent - the same as the 2024 Carabao Cup final Contractual supporter allocation; to include seasonal hospitality members and priority rights holders: 17 per cent Matchday officials/first-team players/media: nine per cent Commercial partners – contractual obligations: one per cent

Let me just clear my internet search history and then we’re good to go

That’s a shame you missed out, and I say that genuinely, but if you made the error that’s your fault. No-one else put you in Pot 6 but you I got Pot 6 because the club view me (who never misses a home league or cup game) as being exactly the same as someone who has only ever applied for 1x cup ballot and might not even have been to a game in their lives And there’s nothing I can do about that

For the purposes of the cup final they could’ve categorised members by attendance, like they did for ST’s You went to all cup games, you get a better chance of a ticket than someone who only applied for 1 x ballot. Or a season ticket holder who went to no cup games But the cup final tickets isn’t the big issue. It’s just emphasised that we have a completely segregated system. The “have’s” and “can never have’s”. An apartheid, for want of a better word. I want them to set up a membership scheme like Chelsea’s, where member attendance throughout the season is rewarded with points and points give you priorities, similar principle to our away game allocations. And “loyal” members earn their chance of a season ticket, or having the same priority as someone with a season ticket if we never sell any ever again. Ultimately, members need a ladder that allows them to elevate their position if they attend games

Is this how grooming starts ?

A man can’t help who he falls in love with

Upstairs or downstairs ?

Sadly, I don’t think it’s possible for a middle aged man who obsesses over football tickets, fingerblasting in the park, doing the nasty with Michelle Collins and hating xG to have any integrity left

Giving up a season ticket because you couldn’t stand by and watch what that cunt was doing to the club was a risk. The merits of staying vs going are still too emotive and divisive for either side to discuss sensibly, we all made our choices to do one or the other and that’s that But that’s not what I’m pissed off about I’m increasingly irate that for 3.5 years they’ve done nothing at all to create a ladder for anyone without an ST (not just the Ashley protesters) to improve their status in any way They’ve got “customers” who plough thousands of £’s and a ridiculous amount of time and energy into getting to games and they offer nothing in recognition of this That’s my issue

In many cases the only difference between a member who goes to every home game and a season ticket holder who goes to every home game, is likely to be that one person was willing to continue going under Ashley and the other person wasn’t And now we’ve got a completely segregated system, where the ones who continued under Ashley hold all the cards and the ones who didn’t aren’t allowed a seat at the table, or even an opportunity to get a seat at the table Giving less than 1000 tickets to members (and not even prioritising any of them) out of an allocation of 32,000 is brutal and simply spotlights the shit attitude of the club towards members I have nothing against season ticket holders (apart from the miserable ones that choose to continually piss and moan in the ground), but the club need to do something to give more balance to the fanbase It’s 3.5 years since we got rid of the fat parasitic cunt and they’ve still done nothing at all to recognise members whose attendance at games makes them just as “loyal” as most of our ST holders. We get charged a £40 fee to buy tickets game by game and get sweet fuck all else

Gracias amigo, that’s genuinely humbling I’d actually sacked off Wembley not long after the criteria were announced and made my other plans, so my ballot application was only in the hope I could pass the ticket on to a lifelong mate who’s desperate to go to the final So I’m relaxed about ticket defeat today But rest assured, if we’re at Wembley again this season and I don’t get a ticket there’ll be much devastation

Unsuccessful email I don't know why I applied in the ballot or even give a fuck about a ticket, I'm away in Germany that weekend now anyway Now and again I think I really need to have a word with myself and stop being such a dick. Applying for tickets when I can't attend is weird. Then I think, actually, it could all be a lot worse, I could be into xG and have never even kissed a girl