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I know you always try to stay positive about ticketing/the support but literally everyone I've spoken to this season who is a regular away traveller has said it's taken a massive turn for the worse atmosphere wise this season, other than you. Brighton was regarded as really poor as well until people were stirred for the last 5 mins or so. All the empty seats in our end that day were another story of a failing system. Sheff Utd sounded pretty poor (albeit on TV as I wasn't there) but as I said, speaking to mates that were and they said it was very disappointing, especially given the scoreline.

There should never be mitigating factors for a bad atmosphere at an away game. Thinking back over the years I've stood in away ends where we've been 4, 5, 6 goals down and the support has still been tremendous as defiance takes over. A couple of my mates were at Sheff Utd and said that was pretty poor and that's for an 8-0 away win so clearly something not right.

First is a clear yellow and dissent has been a yellow card for as long as I can remember. Silly mouthing off at the ref when you've already been booked. Boro were by far the better team anyway 11v11 other than a short 5/10 minute spell.

Celtic often aren't all they're cracked up to be and I've been to a few big games there over the years. Rangers are louder than Celtic for big European nights but they benefit from Ibrox being a better stadium acoustically than Celtic Park is and you can literally feel the noise bouncing off all 4 stands when inside.

If they can get tickets of course! Hopefully this stadium expansion talk becomes reality sooner rather than later.

Quick heads up. Extended highlights on TNT from 9am til 9.30.

I think I've genuinely gone into shock..can't process this at all

Aye we were at Arsenal v PSV the other week (in the away end) and alcohol was on sale there.

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.