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He's probably the first I remember doing it?

Don't think I mentioned Liverpool fans. Although it wouldn't be the first time would it! What is becoming evident is that there are less and less tickets becoming available for Newcastle fans and these tickets are ending up in the wrong hands. Away fans being in our end was pretty much unheard of when we had cards/paper tickets. It's an increasingly common occurrence nowadays.

There's always a way to get in but it's becoming more and more evident that the club are skimming off tickets from the ballots/members sales and they're ending up in the wrong hands. https://x.com/Nusc2023/status/1960279524068737259?t=2pBkrYSzwdoTuVN5uIqYXA&s=19

The replies to this suggest there was Liverpool fans all over the home end yesterday. Must admit there was none around where I was sat but noticed some commotion in the Leazes End when they scored their first goal and someone getting kicked out. So easy for away fans to get tickets in home areas now as well, even for the highest profile games.

It's clearly harder to tout paper tickets or physical cards as the transaction has to be done in person as opposed to digitally, but that's never happening now.

It's from the usual suspects mate. Water off a ducks back

Aye you're right of course. Just the thought of seeing that lanky streak of piss in a NUFC shirt again makes my skin crawl.

I'd literally explored every other avenue mate. This past week I've literally been texting everyone I can think off to see if they know of anything, spent god knows how many hours constantly refreshing my phone in the hope that a resale comes up. Absolutely nowt. For the first time in my life I was genuinely locked out of a home game. Agonised over it for ages but I had to be there and sadly that was the only way. Was sad to see so many available and the fact is that it's so easy to do now that tickets are all electronic. Would have been interesting to see how Mr Qi Xiao (if he's a real person) could have got a physical season card, or paper ticket to me.

I'd rather finish 8th this season without him than 4th with him. I know that's petty as fuck but I just can't stand the thought of him pulling on our shirt again after the disrespect he's shown the club, his manager, team mates and the supporters. An absolute shithouse of a bloke.

Doctors probably couldn’t be arsed to deal with you in all honesty so just fobbed you off.

Some of the prices were crazy. Mine wasn't too bad. I paid £103 in the Leazes East corner. I was around 8 seats away from the East Stand which was £75 face value.

Bet I don't. Was desperate to go yesterday. Failed in the ballot, failed in the members sale, no luck in resale, other lads who've come good for me in the past couldn't get me anything. For the first time in my life I was locked out of SJP. Turned to the 3rd party sites yesterday when it was clear that was the only way I'd get in. Even on the day of the game Live Football tickets had over 100 tickets for sale, and fanpass had over 50. That's just 2 sites. No doubt there's many more. Begrudgingly I bought a ticket and it was immediately transferred over to me. I'll report it anyway as if they ban the account technically that's 1 more seat available for members to buy legitimately if nowt else. Noticed the odd empty seat dotted around where I was and wondered if they're owned by these 3rd party sites and they just couldn't move them on.

Yeah it's shite. I paid a daft amount of money to be there today but that's probably me done for the season now. Tbf it was a privilege tonight mind. Probably attended 700/800 games at SJP and atmosphere wise that was right up there with the best.

Never ceases to amaze me how good this bloke actually is. Had a seat a pitch side today which is rare and his touch is incredible!

I genuinely don't think I could attend a NUFC fixture where he plays. No doubt I'd end up in the vicinity of some downtrodden wetwipe who thinks hes done nowt wrong and I'd end up getting chucked out. Just sell him to Barca, Real, PSG Saudi, whatever. As long as he doesn't play again for us or any of the cartel.

Needs a statue. There's statues of blokes outside of SJP who haven't done as much for the club as he has. He'll rightly go down as an all time NUFC legend.

Becoming a bit of a liability. In his defence he'll never be a centre forward as long as I've got a hole in my arse.

Agree. Just not to those skip rats.

Absolutely spine tingling tonight. Wow. No other words for it really. Ears still ringing. Only negative the bloke 2 rows in front of me (row directly in front were still missing after HT) standing up to take a photo of them celebrating their 2nd goal as it was right in front of us. Told him to put his fucking phone away or else I would shove it up his arse and fair play that's what he did. Some of you might have missed it as I posted it on the match thread but in desperation to be there tonight I resorted to buying a ticket from a 3rd Party site (Fanpass). First time I've ever had to do that. Got a day off work on Thursday so I'll be going up to the ticket office and I'll be asking to speak to a manager to have that ticket account suspended. So Mr Qi Xiao ("supporter" number 4343685) hopefully that's that particular account being stopped.

Very wrong. I actually put it in the wrong thread so have hidden it from this one now. Moved it to the match thread.

Well I can't believe it's come to this but for the first time in over 40 years of going to SJP (28 of those as a ST holder) I've had to resort to buying a ticket from a 3rd party site, in this case Fanpass. I have the ticket, and the name of the "supporter" (he appears to be Chinese) along with his supporter number so I'll be visiting the ticket office next week and I'll be handing over their details. They'll probably not give a toss but I'm going to do it anyway.

Interesting. A 40% pass accuracy and losing 8 out of 11 duels, as well as being dribbled past 4 times suggest differently though. One of the National publications gave him a 5/10.

Their biggest game since the last time we played Liverpool. Let's hope for a similar scoreline.

Reading some scathing comments from their fans about Xhakas performances over their first 2 games. Slow, can't get about the pitch, sits far too deep etc, legs gone etc. Pretty much what I said would happen when they signed him. 33 next month, been away from the PL for a bit, used to playing in teams that dominate the ball not chase it. Was always going to be a tough transition for him. Might still come good but if he was available and Sunderland were the only suiters, I suspect that was for a reason.

Still desperately trying to find a ticket for this. In the past I've found the best time to get tickets through resale is on the day of the match as things pop up last minute and people can't make it. Logged into the online ticket office there and it's put me in a queue because they’ve decided to release the Arsenal tickets for members sale today of all days. Surely that could have waited till tomorrow.