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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.

Quick heads up for anyone who hasn't bought their ticket yet. NUFC have opened up the away end to home fans and tickets in there are only £17.50 for adults and £10 concessions.

They were interviewing an ex Pro the other week (can't for the life of me remember his name) and he was saying having a top class Keeper can be worth an extra 12-15 points over the course of a season. Personally I think goalkeepers are undervalued in the transfer market. If the Mackems had westwood in goal last season instead of Mignolet they would be playing in the Championship now.

I think i'll go along to this for a fiver. Last time I went to watch Gateshead play they were at home to Barnet and Barry Fry was the Barnet manager so that must have been 20 odd years ago.

I noticed he mentioned how well we played against the Mackems once again in his Spurs post match ramblings. I can only presume he thinks that if he keeps on saying it, in time it will become accepted that we did play well against them and were just unlucky.

They usually beat Man City at home mind. 2 years running I think. Might stick a daft tenner on them if they're 10/1 or better so at least I get a nice return should they pull it off again.

Of course he doesn't but Newcastle fans always like a scapegoat and it's usually the lad that always gives 100% but isn't blessed with the most ability who kops for it. Warren Barton used to get ridiculous abuse at times back in the 90's as did the likes of Mark Stimson in the late 80's/early 90's.

Same here. Tv or radio goes off as soon as he comes on. Literally can't bear to see or hear him speak.

That smell from the brewery.

We've only won 1 of our last 7 home league games, the aggregate score in which is 5-15. We're s***, basically. What a horrific stat. And still the useless tw@t is still no closer to the sack.

Sadly the modern day crowd at SJP is almost as spineless as the manager and players are so they will file out quietly and nothing will happen.

30K more than they deserve.

Not really. I signed up for it and cancelled in February for this season so now I don't have one. Many more will cancel for next season. Dead easy to do.

Pardew/Ashley/Kinnear the 3 cancers sadly killing our great club.

You fill your team full of Foreigners and this is what you get in games like this. Fair play to the Mackems. They're not very good but at least they're desperate to win it which is more than can be said for our spineless lot.

Should push Pardew closer to the sack. 2nd derby in a row we haven't been up for it. Unfortunately he'll be here for the long term or if he was sacked an equally hopeless replacement would be brought in. So glad I didn't renew my season ticket. This club's going nowhere.

Just realised Lee Probert is referee today. Now this bloke really hates us for some reason. Will be interesting to see how he handles things today.

Mackem on RTG who is a school teacher says his school have been given 28 free tickets for it despite it being in a mixed area. I already know of 4 people who bought tickets for their game v Peterborough earlier in the season to get them on the database so they could get tickets in their end cos they knew they had no chance of one in ours and 2 lads I work with have bought tickets in their end through stub hub as apparently there were no sales restrictions.

Due to sluggish ticket sales for the Tyne wear derby next week I'm reliably informed that they've sent 3,000 tickets out to the local councils for distribution around the schools and government workers in the local community.

Stop wriggling man. I've shown you up as the clueless idiot you are once more. Accept it and move on.