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Gateshead 1-3. That'll be them done then.

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They are good away from home. 6 wins, 3 draws 4 losses. Will be a tough game. Tougher than at their place.

Cracking match this!

They literally lied in the very first sentence in their reply mate; "For this fixture, we followed exactly the same process used for all other matches this season". They didn't.

Was 1-0. https://www.nufc.com/html/2024-25html/2025-05-25everton-h.html

It does really. If a house in Darras Hall goes up for sale for £2m it's essentially available for anyone to purchase. Only it isn't. It's for a select few. If these seats were accessible to members they wouldn't still be on sale now as we type this. I know that, you know that, NUFC know that. They've changed the rules for 1 match. It's wrong. We all know that.

They've moved the goalposts for 1 game and 1 game only. They've taken general admission seats off sale, seats that would probably cost £60 or thereabouts and replaced them with seats that they are selling for £720. It's literally there for all to see on their website now. That's a specific that they can be taken to task on. Fewer general admission tickets on sale for this match then all the others.

0-1. Same as last time.

It's not semantics at all though. There's less general admission ticket on sale for this game as there usually is. Fact. The majority of members can't afford £720 for a ticket for 1 football match. Fact. If I am wrong here then there still wouldn't be tickets on sale for this game. There are. They've taken away lots of usually accessible tickets available to members and made them unaccessible. Fact.

Arsenal as well I believe colour code their memberships based on loyalty. Start off on red, move up to silver etc. Ours is pretty much the worst I've come across.

It is really. If they were accessible to your average member they wouldn't still be on sale now would they? *If they priced your season ticket at £5,000 next season technically it's still accessible, only it isn't really. *The £720 they are charging for a Leazes End ticket would be £13,680 over the full 19 games.

So most people haven't really then have they? How many members do you reckon can just pull out £720 like that? Pretty silly from you that.

That's just blatant lies though. I can go on the stadium plan right now and see seats that all season have been available for standard admission prices now showing as £720 seats with a knife and fork symbol on them instead of a solid blue colour. Staggering that they are prepared to peddle this untruth when anyone can access the stadium plan and see it for what it is. A pack of lies.

Between non corporate areas being switched to corporate for the Sunderland game and all those tickets on 3rd party sites it's probably not too difficult to work out why people with extremely low queue numbers were still unable to buy tickets. The 3rd party sites getting hold of tickets has blighted us for a few years now and sadly the club aren't interested but it's pretty shit on paid up members selling seats that have always just been standard seats as corporate for £720 and chucking in a meal at an off site restaurant. These same seats will be back on sale for £50 for the next home match after Sunderland v Bournemouth.

They showed him in his post match interview and I thought he appeared quite emotional over it. Certainly very appreciative.

We know this has happened for a fact. Areas of the Leazes End that haven't been corporate all season have been changed from GA areas to corporate for this game. The amount of seats is unknown.

Tbh that's the one thing I think everyone can agree that they're good at. I'd be happy with whoever was in goal at the time to stay in goal for a penalty shoot out. I don't think you can separate them on that.

As always it's the secrecy and lack of transparency that's the issue. Why hide things if you're being honest and up front? If they'd announced prior to the Sunderland sales that for security reasons they were going to allocate a far higher % tickets to the ballot and only a small % to general members sale people would have accepted that I think. There's no reason to suggest that's what they've done here though, they certainly didn't communicate that, so we can onky assume that the ballot/general sale ratio was the standard one which means a queue number <1000 would guarantee a ticket. It didn't this time and it's a fair question to ask why that was.

It really wasn't. He needs to be a step over to his left. It's fundamental goalkeeping. Make the striker try to go across you rather than slip it into your near post. A goalkeeper never wants to be beaten like how he was for that 1st goal.

Has to be some sort of marker on your membership number. That is ridiculous!

Ultimately we'll get to a point where bots/tout memberships will outnumber genuine supporters who have memberships unless things change. It's likely a wider problem than people realise amd I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason very few actual supporters seem to have picked up tickets in the members sale for Sunderland. I literally don't know anyone who got one. Arsenal have banned 31,000 bot/tout memberships since 2023, Chelsea ban "thousands" every season. These touts will target all the top clubs where demand massively outstrips supply so whilst our number might not be quite as high as Arsenals I think we'd get a real shock if we knew the true numbers. Tbf to Arsenal, and Chelsea, they seem to at least be proactive in banning them.

And ultimately what you'll find is that people will look at it and say, actually it's not really a product worth buying anymore. I'm a prime case example. This is my last season. My brother and nephew didn't renew their memberships at the end of last season because they thought it was a waste of time. I've got other mates/lads in work with who've had memberships in the past but don't have them now. No doubt the bots/touts will keep the numbers looking good but it's hardly a good business model.

It's not really happened for him for the past few months but he's still putting the graft in and trying to make things happen. Still think we seen enough in the early part of his time here to suggest there's something there. Like I say you can't knock his effort so for that reason alone I'm sticking with him. The main problem is that Howe hasn't got a clue what to do with him yet. 2 of Englands best strikers in Shearer and Rooney pretty much alluded to that at times during yesterday's coverage. Still a work in progress.

A good keeper saves their first goal, simply by being positioned better and being a step across to his left. Keepers shouldn't get beaten at their near post like that. The rest I tend to agree with.