bobbydazzla

I'd love to flush Clive Tyldesley's head down the bog then give him a wedgie so big that his beloved Manchester United y-fronts were pulled up past his ears

Coming on here with that sort of insensitive talk will have you getting a clip round the lug This is not the time for it, we're traumatised right now We'll be lucky if we have 4 fit players left to pull on a shirt by early December

Surprised there’s nothing in that report about how awful allocated seating is And no discussion about whether any other clubs refuse to let their fans decide whereabouts in the ground they’d prefer to sit Got to be one of the worst aspects of our awful ticketing system

Current set up is a ticket touts dream like I’ve bought over 20 home tickets so far this season, helping mates get to the match If I can get that many, a tout using a bot system will have got loads more The tout could be based anywhere in the world, just profiting on the demand we have Wouldn’t have been possible with paper tickets

There’ll probably be touts selling tickets to this We Are United supporter event

Yeah, the slapdash way our ticketing process was rolled out suggests it wasn't thoroughly planned in-season and then launched in the summer, like any well thought out process would be And why I suspect it was a copy n paste from what Arsenal had been planning And if more clubs move to allocated seating driven by the ticketing providers I think that'll be a depressing situation for football grounds. You'd hope the FSA would step in, although not sure what clout they actually have I do think it's really important that pressure is maintained on the club via Supporter Services. The number of people who are pissed off currently must vastly outweigh the numbers who were complaining about the old system

John Devine Top sports lawyer, Newcastle fan, from Denton Burn

Aye, I don't think Silverstone is some psychotic Ticketing Overlord with an evil masterplan. But I do think it's too much of a coincidence that we have the same system as Arsenal. Arsenal have a very well resourced commercial operation. Supposedly NUFC have a person running ticketing who is a Marketing Manager from the Ashley era and not a ticketing specialist. So lets assume Arsenal won't have been looking to NUFC for inspiration. When people were moaning to the club last season about 10am queue being unfair and the club decided to get rid of it, it's not too far fetched to think Silverstone used his Arsenal knowledge or contacts to quickly replicate the system they were introducing. Ticketing is a small part of Silverstone's remit, they're making loads of extra lowey from selling unlimited memberships, ticket prices have been ramped up and the ground is still full every game. Kerching. What's not to like about that if you're the Commercial Director. Definitely a good news story to share with the top brass when he's in Saudi talking about the big money commercial deals.

So your view is that it’s coincidence that the only two teams that do ballots and random seat allocations are the two teams that are connected by Silverstone ? An alternative is that SeatGeek are behind it and work with both clubs But it would also require the Ticketing / Commercial / Supporter Experience leaders at each club to sign off on SeatGeek’s radical proposals

I'm away on 22nd. Otherwise I would have turned up and offered him outside for a straightener, no holds barred

No it's not. I can go on West Ham's website now buy a ticket and choose where I want to sit We're on about ticket buying, not digital tickets

Aye, it's just pure coincidence that we now have exactly the same ticketing system as the Arse Just because he left doesn't mean his commercial plans automatically get chucked in the bin

The two systems are virtually identical and I’m reasonably confident they’re also unique compared to rest of league Silverstone has been at both clubs You do the math

Introduced a ballot. Random seat allocation. Same as us https://help.arsenal.com/support/solutions/articles/101000485301-why-are-we-balloting-tickets-from-the-start-of-season-2023-24-instead-of-holding-a-regular-sale-

I didn't like that Howay song And I'm not keen on that Andrew Cushin tune either. I want musicians from round here to do well and he seems like a canny lad, but I wasn't into it at all

2 nil down 4 - 3 up Roony Bardghji wrapped it up With a knick knack paddywhack Give the dog a bone Baldy Clock Nonce fuck off home

They should just wrap gaffa tape round footballers playing in VAR games so their arms are strapped to their sides Handball controversy over

For Euro trips and cup finals / semi’s we’re stuck in a rut. Travel in huge numbers, get mortal for days and “takeover” a city pre-match. Game is often underwhelming and a sideshow to days on the drink. Result rarely goes our way, atmosphere is poor and we go back home disappointed. Reminds me of how Rangers and Celtic go on. Hopefully as we get better on the pitch the drinking will become the sideshow to being there for the match and successful result. And we can then go akka on the ale celebrating post-match rather than pre-match

Wood’s out injured m8

Divn’t stress, Champs League was nowt more than an adventure and learning experience this season More important that we keep getting back into it season after season We’re having an injury / gambling ban nightmare, worse than even most pessimists could have predicted, but we’re still doing OK on the domestic front and that’s what matters this term

Explosions in the Sky Bonfire night was on Sunday m8

Got to be high on lines to play a line that high

Connor Gallagher’s socks are twisting my melon

Being mid 40’s now, the success of the mid 80’s Everton team is one of my earliest football memories. We’d play swarmball in the playground pretending we were the Everton title winning side Watched a documentary on them recently, which brought it all flooding back Adrian Heath is one missing from your 11 who was also vital to them in that era

Keegan era we had an identity - we’ll score more than you, it was exciting but ultimately flawed Robson era I never felt we had an identity or had the edge to win things compared to Man Utd or Arsenal and we were always sketchy at the back Howe era we have an identity, a system, tight defensively, clinical up front, tactically astute and greater than the sum of our parts. Team spirit is outstanding I think this is the most confident I’ve ever been of NUFC