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Depressing really. I can genuinely see myself drifting away from the professional game in the coming years.

Managed to secure a ticket for this last night from a mate after an unsuccessful ballot entry, no joybin generalsale and absolutelynowt coming up on resale. It's an £81 Platinum Club one which is far from ideal but at least I'll be there.

Sounded superb on the telly. Mind you I've always thought Leicester away is always our best atmosphere. Something about that away end there.

Wouldn't worry about either of those. I watch Berwick often and their home crowd is basically split between actual Berwick fans and NUFC! Was at Carlisle last season and ended up un the Beehive pub over the road from the ground and in the toilets there was loads of stickers on the walls with the message "If you see a mackem, smack 'em!". They'll have to look South if they're after forming some anti mag alliance. I would also say East but that damn North Sea scuppers that.

I was 66,000 odd v Man Utd

They beat Chelsea at home in the Semi Final of the League Cup last season. Don't ask why but I was at that match and have to say the atmosphere was electric.

Coventry coming up is the best scenario by an absolute mile with the mackems losing to Boro in the Semis so they don't even get their day out at Wembo or whatever they call it.

We had an owner who wouldn't put a penny of his own money in. They had an owner who was basically pumping his fortune in to keep them as a going concern. Short went there a Billionaire and walked away as a millionaire.

Gutted I'm on nights tonight. Really fancied going to this. Should be a belter of a game and a huge crowd as well, especially given the weather.

No way would I consider swapping him for Declan Rice mind. I actually quite like Rice. I think he's a canny player but Tonali is a level up for me.

Rice went for £100m. Enzo Fernandes went for £107m. He's better than both of them in my opinion.

I also know loads of matchgoing fans who didn't go to the parade. I think we'd fill a 70k stadium for every match. This 16% ballot success rate backs that up.

They also value Dan Neil at £40m so I'd take that with a pinch of salt. Post in thread 'Watson to Brighton (rumour)' https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/watson-to-brighton-rumour.1648982/post-42542043

Tbf they only had 31k turn up for their Semi Final v Man Utd and 6k of those were away fans.

See these desperate cunts are currently emailing schools across North Tyneside offering £5 tickets for their upcoming home game with Swansea. Meanwhile I was queue number 66,000 odd when I tried to get a ticket for the Man Utd game last week. The gap between the 2 clubs has never been so wide, and that includes their 5 3rd Division seasons, and they've just got to stand there and watch it all unfold without being able to do a thing about it. Noticed the huge crowds at Durham station on Saturday went down like a lead balloon with them as well. They just can't handle the fact that their future core support is being eroded away to nothing.

Haha aye I still don't think they caught many

Peoples thoughts on this? We were at 2 games in Europe last weekend. Borussia Monchengladbach v Leipzig and PSV v Ajax. At both games there were drums and they did add to the atmosphere in a positive way (clearly those doing the drumming knew exactly how to do it for maximum effect). Not sure how it would work here though.

This is all a load of garbage with due respect. Beating them now should just be a forgone conclusion. Losing to them and we'd never live it down. It would make their season/decade/lifetimes. To summarise the gains don't come close to what the losses would be. Just let them fester where they are.

We could sell 65k every week now easily. If the owners are looking at a future where that might not be the case I'd be concerned tbh.

Good luck with that. They went bust 2 years ago and no longer exist.

We could have sold 65k v Wimbledon for a midweek early round League Cup match at 1 weeks notice man. Loads got rejected in the ballot. A 65k stadium would have been full for every game this season, and this is just the start.

He's never wrong. Never.

The only player they had who didn't look totally out of his depth against us was Pritchard and they got £250,000 for him.

West Ham has a 68,000 capacity but I think they're limited to around 63,000 at tbe moment. 65k will still be well oversubscribed for us. Should go to 70k which will still be sold out every week. I just think that leaving SJP for an extra 12,600 seats, many of which will be corporate, so let's say 8k extra standard seats, isn't really worthwhile. Still have the same issues as now with 1000s locked out.

Got 2. Will just forward you the email and you can download yourself.