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Joke was on you then

Think it was something like 28 or 29 years they failed to beat us at home. We beat them 5 times in a row in the 90s and I honestly never heard a single person reference it.

Honestly hope that when we play these down there next season there's loads of Fender flags alongside NUFC ones in the away end. I was flabbergasted at how much his last concerts at SJP had them rattled but they've somehow managed to take all that fewm and multiply it by at least 1,000! Genuinely don't know how a lot of them will get through these next 2 nights. The last concerts he did here, and then their many flags they took to Wembley with images of his head being chopped etc off gave a good insight to their level of derangement over him, but even so their reaction to Thursday nights concert still caught me a bit by surprise. I reckon a good 90% of Fender stuff I'm seeing on X is posted by them rather than people who were there!

By wildlife she means rats. I walked through that park last year for the first time in about 5 or 6 years and couldn't believe the state they've let it get in. Its main inhabitants these days are rats and druggies. If nobody can be bothered to maintain it and look after it's upkeep, not to mention policing it to chase out the undesirables then what's the point in it being there? Surely a land swap with SJP whereby SJP is turned into a lovely park in itself which people will actually use and walk though en route to SJP like at places like Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt would be a winner. No doubt PIF would even take care or contribute towards its upkeep.

They need to find some middle ground. In 2025 with so much emphasis on memberships and most top clubs not selling new season tickets, members should definitely be given an allocation of away tickets, whether that's the 40% Chelsea hand out, 30%, 25% or whatever. A lot of members are people who have put the hard miles in over the years and a lot of ST holders aren't interested in attending away games and never have been, so there's an argument there about who is most deserving. First and foremost members need to be included in some sort of loyalty system. Don't think there's any debate there. The debate starts with deciding what happens after that!

Think it became an issue because current ST holders who hadn't been bothered to attend away games previously suddenly decided they wanted to go but found out it was a closed shop so demanded change, which is what's happened, well to suit them anyway. The current system is outdated and fundamentally flawed. I very much doubt there's another club in world football that in 2025 gives you a credit for an away game you lent your season ticket to someone for in 1994. On one hand they can't say they want to grow the fanbase, push International memberships etc, if they're making 50% of all games 100% inaccessible to the majority of the fanbase they are determined to grow! Back in the day, I'm talking late 80s here, your ST got you reduced admission for all home league games, plus first refusal on any home cup games. Away games were a separate entity altogether. Early 90s seen clubs really push ST sales and a design ticket boom ensued. They added the extra perks of loyalty points, away game priority etc but nowadays most the big clubs are making serious money on memberships (cost of memberships plus what members spend on tickets) and the 1990s ST culture is being reversed now clubs know memberships are more lucrative so in time I do expect members to get access to away tickets and that's as it should be. Doesn't really affect me now anyway as away days don't interest me much these days.

Not often that I disagree with you but I do here. If you've been a regular at away games for the past 10/15/20 years you'll know that a lot of people on your bus were there on someone else's ticket. I'd reckon a good 50% if not more. They were putting the miles in, someone else is clicking for the loyalty points. Is that a fair system? I'll use my own dad as a prime example. He's sat on 169 loyalty points. He's been to 3 away games in the last 25 years. His other 166 points are made up of mates of mine using his ticket. I think a 3 year rolling period is fair. My dad still has loyalty points from games he didn't go to in the 1990s! How's can that be right? Members get massively short changed in many ways and away tickets is another example. I'm pretty sure that members of all the other best supported teams in the Country get some kind of access of away tickets.

Think they need to find a happy medium between what we do and what Chelsea do. @AyeDubbleYoomakes a very valid point that it's unfair that you can travel to 100s of away games but it all counts for nothing as your points get wiped to zero after every season (in the event of their being a high profile game in the first month pf the new season they do take into account the previous seasons loyalty points). Personally I always thought a 3 year rolling system would be fairer. I know loads of fans who've got 150+ points and have never done an away game in years, and most of their points were "earned" by letting others use their ticket.

Long story but my son follows Chelsea. I take him down to Stamford Bridge a few times a season as long as it doesn't clash with NUFC being at home so we've got memberships. Basically members accrue points in exactly the same way as season ticket holders do and can build up loyalty points for attending home and away games. ST holders automatically get their home loyalty points. Away game allocations are split 60/40 ST holders to members and how many points you are awarded depends on the opposition (1 point awarded for London away games, plus Man Utd/Man City/Liverpool), 3 points for everywhere else. Those aforementioned games are sold on a loyalty points basis whereas the other away games are sold on a "free for all" basis, meaning that even if you have 0 points you could still try your luck for NUFC away when they go on members sale. No scheme is perfect but it includes all supporters and indeed despite my son only having 11 loyalty points he was able to get a ticket for the Conference Final the other week as it went to a members "free for all" sale. At the end of every season they will work out how many STs are available and then invite any members who meet the points requirement to apply for a season ticket, giving those who attended the most games the previous season a chance to buy a season ticket. They did float the idea of a ballot last summer but it was met with so much opposition from their fans that they didn't go ahead with it.

Would be surprised if they bring more than a couple of hundred tbh. Spanish fans don't really travel away. Bilbao brought around 100 a couple of years ago.

Looks like the Lower bowl sold out now and Level 7 in the Milburn starting to sell so best part of 40,000 already sold and the match isn't for another 2 months. Big increase on last years Sela Cup match where the crowd was just under 34,000. Probably down to a few reasons but mainly the opposition and the increasing difficulty in getting tickets for games at SJP has meant that 1000s who've barely had a look in last season have jumped in early to guarantee themselves a ticket.

Got a £57 pending transaction from NUFC so assume it's mine and the bairns memberships then.

Need the Bournemouths and the like to stay up. Makes getting home tickets that bit easier when the away team hand 1.5k/2k tickets back over to NUFC to sell to our own fans. Had a ridiculously high queue number for Palace at home but still managed to get tickets up in Level 7 which wouldn't have been available had we played a team with a decent away support.

I'll be honest I've only ever seen him play once, against us, and he was worse than shite. I'm sure a fair few mackems were getting on his back at parts during last season as well.

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