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Excellent read. Totally agree.

People need to calm down. Kinnear says no players will leave during this transfer window so there's nowt to worry about.

19,000 home fans there today and it was only £10 a ticket and a fiver for kids and pensioners yet no doubt there'll be 1000s of them whingeing on cos they can't get a cup final ticket. Fickle doesn't even come close to describing that lot.

There's no doubt in my mind that they'll get through tonight. I've even stuck £50 on them at 7/4 to qualify for the final to soften the blow slightly.

It's served a purpose for the league we were in. Hughtons team outperformed Keegan team of 92/93 in terms of points, games won and fewer defeats but all of us who were there to witness both those seasons know there was no comparison between the 2 sides. Keegans team were just a pleasure to watch and captured the imagination of everyone whereas Hughtons was functional and more effective.

Just shows how many tickets they must give away for league games when they are averaging 40k home fans there yet for cup games when free tickets can't be issued in the same way they had 17,000 home fans v Chelsea for a quarter final and 25k home fans v Man Utd for a semi final. Cut out all the freebies for league games and that is their true level of support week in week out. Fair play to them for having one foot in a cup final though.

Just reading RTG before and the hypocrisy over there is staggering. Last year they were hailing the Mackem who threw the flare down onto the NUFC fans in the Leazes End as some sort of hero. A Man Utd fan does the same thing last night and not only do they want him banned from every football ground in the country but also arrested and jailed. What a mixed up bunch they are.

That's it for me now. Performances under Pardew are never going to have you on the edge of your seat but at least if there was an area where you could stand and have a bit of a sing song it would make it a bit more enjoyable. Atmosphere is flat as a fart as well and it's just as if everyone is going through the motions, players and fans alike.

I didn't renew for this season and haven't bothered with a membership either. When I log in to the online ticket office my profile now says "General sale" but my loyalty points are still there.

17,000 although it was only a League Cup Semi Final against one of the biggest clubs in the World and kids had to pay a fiver to get in tonight when usually it's free.

Cancelled mine this time last year. Just pick and choose my games now. I'm going to the Man City match and the Derby (providing I can get a ticket) and that'll probably be my lot for this season as we have absolutely nowt to play for and £30+ is too expensive to watch football with very little riding on it other than Premier League prize money.

We're basically now a football club that isn't interested in winning anything. It exists simply to turn in a moderate profit every year which makes it just the same as any other business up and down the country. Finish 8th-12th every season whilst exiting the cups at the early stages is the blueprint now and Pardew seems more than happy to go along with that. We, as supporters only really have the Derby with the Mackems and local bragging rights to look forward to these days and they even seem to have given up on that going by the previous couple of meetings. You just know they'll turn us over again in 4 weeks time. Yes the life has been well and truly sucked out of our club and Pardew is a big (not the biggest) part of that.

We won't achieve anything as long as we persist in playing a centre forward who hasn't scored in over a year.

Absolutely not. Sick of us being knocked out in the early stages every f***ing year. Totally agree. We're going to finish 7th, 8th or 9th this season (8th imo) so we won't be troubling the Champions League or be in danger of going down. Would love to see Pardew go all out for the FA Cup. After all we've proved that on our day we can match the top teams so we've got nowt to fear.

He'll be suspended.

Used to always be "We love you Newcastle" but over the years the "you" has been dropped. Preferred it the old way.

£32m, that's 32 MILLION POUNDS spent on Wickham, Altidore, Fletcher & Graham. You've got to laugh.

They'll win today.

teacher ? 'kin hell, i'm sure he lives in a village to the west of newcastle aswell. Girl one has a sunderland supporting teacher atmosphere her school............I wonder ? He's just a harmless lad goes by the name of Graham I think. Doesn't appear to be quite the full shilling bless him.

Newcastle offered Southampton a reciprical lower price offer for tomorrows match meaning Southampton fans would be charged £20 and our fans would be charged the same at St Mary's. Southampton refused so their fans are having to pay £37 to sit up in Level 7 because that is what Newcastle fans will have to pay when we play them down there.

The last set of accounts they released showed they made an average of just under £16 per seat in gate reciepts which was the lowest in the league (we made £26). It'll be far less than that for them this season as they have flooded their games with cheap and free ticket offers to try to maintain a 40k average. Love it when you go on their site and they're all patting each other on the back because of their crowds. Of course you're going to get decent crowds when you're giving tickets away left, right and centre and heavily discounting 1000's of others. In fact they should be ashamed that despite all that they still have the most empty seats in the league. And only likely to be getting worse in the near future. I said ages ago they should have moved into the Darlo Arena and kept the SoS for the music gigs and the Newcastle match They even dished out loads of free tickets to local schools and government offices in the week leading up to the match against us when they realised there was no chance of it selling out.

I'd reckon that apart from season ticket holders (and their season tickets are about the cheapest in the league) they will probably only have around 1,000 full paying fans per game on average. The rest will be on freebies and cheap £10 tickets. Yesterday season ticket holders could get extra tickets for a tenner each and I posted a while back about them giving 5,000 lapsed season ticket holders free tickets for their home game v Liverpool. Now if they're doing that for the bigger games you can only assume that for the likes of Stoke and Fulham they just open up the gates and anyone who wants to can just wander in.

The last set of accounts they released showed they made an average of just under £16 per seat in gate reciepts which was the lowest in the league (we made £26). It'll be far less than that for them this season as they have flooded their games with cheap and free ticket offers to try to maintain a 40k average. Love it when you go on their site and they're all patting each other on the back because of their crowds. Of course you're going to get decent crowds when you're giving tickets away left, right and centre and heavily discounting 1000's of others. In fact they should be ashamed that despite all that they still have the most empty seats in the league.

Just had an email off NUFC. Adult tickets available for £15 and a fiver for kids up in level 7.

This 100%. I didn't see them all up in arms when Larsson should have walked against Man City. They've got an awful team and are trying to hide behind refereeing decisions for the position they find themselves in. People forget they were already losing at 11 v 11. Crystal Palace had a player harshly sent off at 0-0 and went on to win the game.