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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.

I'm not so sure. I think we'd be more suited to playing Barcelona than Chelsea. PSG are better than Chelsea but given the choice I'd rather play them in the last 16 than Chelsea.

Clearly not fit but was needed to play tonight. Cracking header for the goal. Hopefully can get a run of games going now.

I think it's because his positioning always looks to be way off and I'm not sure he's always fully aware of where the goal is behind him. Their first goal a perfect example. He needs to be a step further over to his left so the striker has to try to shoot across him. He's left his near post wide open.

Praying for Barcelona but resigned to it being Chelsea which will be very underwhelming, especially playing them 3 times in a week.

York go top of the Conference!

I suppose technically the season ticket should "die" with the owner and be resold but it's always been the way that you can pass it down after death. Not sure if it's the case elsewhere as I remember Man Utd having season ticket holders listed as being 120 years old because it was being renewed by family members long after the owner was deceased. Think they ended up having some sort of amnesty in the end. It's a very popular thing to do on the Continent I'm led to believe. Remember doing a PSV stadium tour many years ago and the guide was an elderly chap who had a season ticket and he said it would be left in his will for his son to take on when he dies and it was commonplace at the likes of PSV, Ajax and Feyenoord where demand for season tickets far outstrips supply. Pretty sure it's the same in Germany as well.

It's still a thing at the minute. A friend of mine done it just before Xmas. Quite a simple procedure that involved visiting the ticket office with some ID and a copy of the death certificate. Loyalty points carried over as well. Think they'll do away with that soon mind.

I actually think they would be quite happy if the stir caused a few thousand ST holders to spit the dummy and call it a day. Plays nicely into their hands. The football landscape has changed dramatically post COVID. Your season ticket holder used to be your bread and butter, your guaranteed income. Nowadays they are paying £700 for a seat that they can dress up as corporate and make that in a couple of games, or sell singly for 70 quid and get it back in 10, probably a lot less as they'd bank on this type of fan spending a lot more money on various extra NUFC products than the average ST holder who may buy a pint at beforehand or at HT. As for PR disasters, I don't think that's something NUFC have ever really been arsed about. Turfing people out the Milburn Stand for the Platinum Club, out the Leazes for a Sports Bar, banning ST holders for transferring tickets to family members, banning ST holders for standing up, doubling ticket prices in the space of a few years, bringing in the ballot without proper consultation and so on. Ultimately they'll do what they want to do, and more importantly what will bring in the most revenue.

They could do that if they wanted to. T&C's mean absolutely nowt anyway. We seen that in 1993 when they turfed fans out the Milburn Stand to make way for the Platinum Club. The T&Cs of their bonds said they had a right to their seat for 99 years. NUFC decided they didn't any more. Bond holders took it to court. NUFC won.

Absolutely fantastic way of summarising this, and who's to say it would never happen either? Your season ticket guarantees 19 home league games and nothing else. Just been reading irate comments from Rangers ST holders who will miss out on the cup game v Celtic because Celtic have been given an increased allocation and there's nowhere else for them to move to. As annoying as that is for them, it's in the Terms and conditions of their season tickets so they haven't got a leg to stand on. NUFC don't need to keep their ST holders happy. In fact they'd rather be without them these days I suspect.

The ballot and the crazy ticket prices have killed it for me. The fairest way was putting them on sale at 10am and usually those who wanted them the most would get them. It resulted in a better atmosphere. I've seen myself fake a dentist and doctors appointment and saying I neeed to get the bairn out of school in the past when my shifts have clashed with tickets going on sale so I could get home and get all my devices fired up! It was the modern way of queuing up outside the ground overnight (done that before) and if you wanted a ticket hard enough you'd end up getting one. Now it's pure chance. Of course the other thing is the amount of bots/touts members are now in competition with to get tickets and sadly the club haven't really taken this seriously and we probably know the reasons why that is. I'm not that arsed really. I've done the best times. For me the atmosphere was always as important as the match and the result. Had some absolutely unreal times in the corner in the late 80s/early 90s when the football was utter shit but I absolutely loved being there to be part of the crowd. Those days are gone now and they aren't coming back either so taking a back seat isn't the big deal it once would have been. Nowadays it's tourists, youtubers, bored kids on their phones, uninterested wealthy people and miserable old men who make up a large part of the crowd and it's no fun anymore. I knew it would be a shitshow when they announced moving to a ballot allocation a few years ago and in that respect it hasn't disappointed.

100% not renewing our memberships. This is our last season. Was just reading something about Chelsea yesterday on X and they are changing their memberships and ticketing for next season. One of the things mooted is going to a ballot and their fans aren't happy about it at all. A lot of them saying fans of other teams who've gone down that route hate it and they would be spot on there.

Another PL game I've put on, only to find myself messing around with my phone after about 20 mins, switching over at HT and not bothering with the 2nd half. It can be a bloody boring league for the most part.

Aye blocks W and X in the Leazes were always GA areas, 2 of the less popular ones at that with a low % of ST holders so ripe for turning them into corporate area by chucking a meal in. Man Utd are doing exactly the same thing. Using normal areas as corporate hospitality by giving access to a bar/restaurant.

There's clearly been a massive fuck up somewhere along the line today. If people with a queue number below 500 couldn't get tickets it begs the question, how many actually went on sale and what happened to the rest?

Villa have struggled to sell out for many of their home games these past 2 seasons. No need for them to go above 50k really. Also they're pretty fickle so if they had a downturn their fans would likely leave in droves. Remember they got relegated the same season as us. We pretty much sold out every week in the Championship whereas they closed down large parts of their ground. Going over 50k for them would be a huge and unnecessary risk.

Haha I know. What an absolutely ridiculous reply! Keith Barrett has also told them he'd happily buy a ticket from that site and hand it back over to them and they aren't interested. I mean really they could buy every black market ticket on sale from live football tickets, fanpass etc and ban loads of accounts in one fell swoop if they wanted to. That they don't want to is very telling imo. I'd suggest the majority of people who buy from these sites are from outside the UK and will happily pay a fortune for a ticket as a one off. They'll also spend good money in the club shop, Shearer's, stadium tours etc and that's why the club are so reluctant to stop it. Win, win for them.

This was the reply I got. I sent a screenshot of the ticket, which contained all information they could possibly need, name, membership number, seat number, basically an open goal for them and they weren't interested in doing anything about it. There's been loads of noise about the club not being arsed about 3rd party sales but this was when they confirmed it to me.

That would be my hunch, but that's all it is a hunch. Obviously I bought that ticket for the Liverpool game off Live football tickets and handed it over to them but they weren't interested, which suggests they are happy for the continued sale of tickets on 3rd party sites, and allowing unlimited memberships means as many touts can buy them up as they like which ties in with this. Ultimately it's all about making as much £ per seat as they possibly can and doing things this way probably helps them in that respect. Not much consolation for your average member however! Tbh it's the likes of this, the shite atmospheres, the extortionate prices if you are "lucky" enough to be able to get your hands on one which is the reason I've massively drifted away from it all this season. It's not really what supporting NUFC was all about for me. Happy to save myself all the hassle (and money!) and be an armchair/pub fan now.

Let's be honest they'd prefer it was Xiao from Beijing buying the ticket. He's also spending shit loads in the club shop and probably taking in a stadium tour and spending loads in Shearer's as well whilst he's over here. Bobby from Hebburn is spending next to nowt in the ground.

Or don't want to see it. If the average NUFC supporter can see it surely those who's job it's supposed to be to see it, can.

Ironic as they've always had a far worse problem with early leavers than we have.

Not usually and Sunderland didn't for the game at their place. They put the tickets on sale to their own fans instead and it looks like we've done the same looking at the stadium plan as the sections allocated to the away team are always slightly darker in colour and it's clearly only the 5 blocks directly behind the goal for them and not the usual away block that goes into the corner for teams taking the full 3,200.

Well baring in mind a lot of the 794 in front of you would have been multiple devices it's fair to assume that there was less than 500 tickets up for grabs this morning. Did they make more tickets available for ballot or is there something more sinister at play here because there's clearly something not right here. Also the mackems were given a reduced allocation of 2,500 instead of the usual 3,200 so there should have been around 700 more seats up for grabs for starters (they only took 5 blocks).