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Thought there would have been more photos/videos doing the rounds of PSG fans enjoying themselves in the town today. Seen nowt on Twitter.

The Cockney rapist banner was fantastic mind

Not even bothering entering this one. Can't be arsed with a repeat of Saturday.

Wealdstone Raider was there last season. Not sure if he'll be there tonight.

Haha I know what you mean mate it's a dreadful venue to watch football. I'm not there tonight as it's a bit of a rush to get there by the time I finish work but going along on Saturday.

The way they are playing at the minute it's 20 quid well spent mate. They're brilliant to watch!

They've reallocated some fans tickets to UEFA bigwigs at short notice but have promised people that they will get a full refund. Was on NUFC.com earlier.

I don't go in for all this every new stadium is soulless argument either. Anyone who was at any of the derbies at the SoL in the late 90s will tell you it was anything but soulless. Also been to the likes of Benfica and Sporting and you could never class either of those places as soulless. SJP is looking increasingly outdated. I was in L7 on Saturday and it's a pretty miserable experience. If anything you could class that as soulless. You feel detached from the rest of the ground, too far away from the action and the atmosphere up there is woeful. I would genuinely rather watch on TV than up there. Sight lines were very poor as well. We were in Row F and had a huge railing blocking our view of the Leazes End goal. If a site could be secured at the Town Moor/Castle Leazes or down by the Arena it's a no brainer to build a super modern 70k arena.

Used to be the old family enclosure, then it changed to the Park Grill I believe. Not sure what it's called now but it's definitely corporate. Every so often seats pop up in there for sale but the system never let's you buy them.

Problem was that there was only a couple of hundred seats available in the Gallowgate corner and around 3,500 in the Level 7 singing corner meaning the vast majority couldn't get in so we're either dispersed around the rest of the ground or just wrapped it in altogether. Was a real shame. I loved it up there. It really was something else, especially in the Promotion season.

We had an 8k allocation for Rangers for a midweek friendly match and that didn't even go to members so I reckon there's zero chance of any away tickets going to members sale any time soon.

I'd stick them in the largest of the 4 corners underneath the TV Studios. That corner holds near enough 3k. The obvious problem with that though is it's close proximity to the Platinum Club/Bar 1892 and you know they'd kick up a stink!

Watch any Premier League game on TV and you'll see 1000s of fans packed behind 1 goal all stood up for the entirety of the game. Never understood why we are treated any differently than all the other clubs but its very noticeable that the % of fans who stand up at the match is much smaller than at any other ground, with the possible exception of Fulham Bournemouth and Sheff Utd. As I said yesterday was the most miserable matchday experience I've ever had, certainly when we've won. Typical when we finally look like getting our act together and being a force on the pitch!!

It does benefit the club. What do they care about me missing the first 10 mins of the match when instead of having to print out and post me my ticket they can simply email it to me instead. It's much more beneficial to them to do that, but no good to me. 40 years I've been going to SJP and I've never ever known anything like that yesterday. It's not an experience I'll be repeating either.

Waste of time mate. The club have decided this is the way forward. Same with away tickets. You either take it or you leave it. Trust can't/won't do a thing about it. I'll leave it. It's not an enjoyable experience for me.

I've been going to SJP since 1984. I've never had to queue 35 mins for some chips before. Ever.

They fucked us over last year v Liverpool ironically. Only difference there is that they didn't deem us important enough to realise a statement immediately afterwards apologising.

Well that's me done with it all this season. Won't be applying in any more of those ballets. Got to our turnstile at 14.40. I think getting to the turnstile 20 mins before the match is reasonable enough. Used to be 5 mins with the old system but fair enough I'll move with the times and get there earlier now they've made it more difficult to get in. Queue was ridiculous. Finally took our seats at 15.10. Had more or less lost the will to live by this point so instead of being full of excitement like I usually am I simply couldn't be arsed, as couldn't the bairn I noticed. Atmosphere was dreadful to say tbe least and noticed plenty of people still filtering in after us. We'd had nowt to eat as the bairn had been playing football in the morning and we came straight from there. Decided to leave to head to the kiosk on 40 mins to beat the queues. Waited 35 mins for some curry and chips. Took our seats for the 2nd half on 62 mins. By this time I simply couldn't be arsed with the whole experience. Sat for 15 mins and decided just to go back to the pub as I simply couldn't be bothered with it all. Got offered a ticket for PSG in the Five Swans after the match (I was unsuccessful in the ballot). Knocked it back. I'd rather watch it on the TV. It's far easier. Thought the atmosphere was awful today. Other than the Burnley fans and the usual corner of the Gallowgate it was deathly silent. Its a shame really.

I had 30 quid on them at 13/10. Was literally buying money. Thought they'd be odds on. Couldn't believe the price. That's my beer money for the match today sorted.

Seen an interview with him a while back when he said that Newcastle were his English club. Must have struck lucky in the ballot for this one.

I think if you are selling an unlimited amount of memberships, and I have no problem with that as plenty of other clubs do it and it's a good way to generate money, you must also have some sort of loyalty programme in place to run alongside it. Currently anyone, NUFC fan or not can become a member and have exactly the same chance of gaining access as a NUFC of many years amd that can't be right when demand is so high.

Just to confirm the 0-8 has officially broken them. They've even had to resort to locking the NUFC sportswashing thread on parsnip. Never been know before

Women and pop concerts.

I'll be honest I can't remember the last time I was so gutted after a game than I was after that Liverpool game the other week!

Aye with Burnley being £44 for Cat 2 that will definitely be the minimum as they will certainly be in the lowest category of teams. Considering we've played Liverpool, Villa and now Burnley at home I think it would be a reasonable assumption that there are only 2 different price bands that opposition clubs will fall into as Liverpool would definitely be top price band.