Chicken Dancer
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As ever with the Trust, they will protect their own interests over everything else. Whatever suits them best.
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9 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:
Well said that man. Don’t think we’re going to get an equal chance though.
Wouldn’t be so sure. I’m sure there’s plenty who will disagree, as is ever the case with ticketing, but this competition is (sort of) irrelevant to having a season ticket for league games. So if you’ve attended cup games, you should really be near the top of the pile imo. Thankfully for many, my opinion means shit. -
8 minutes ago, Adam said:
how many of them will actually want a ticket?
Probably all
I have access to a ST so I’m sorted regardless (if we get there….) , but I do think members who’ve attended all cup games deserve just as equal a chance.
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Just now, Geogaddi said:
I agree season ticket holder priority is the fair way to do it, although looks like Chelsea and Liverpool got 33k each last year and we probably have more season ticket holders than 33k.
Is it though? I'm lucky in the sense that I have access to a ST so if that's the case, it suits me down to the ground. However I'd argue that a purchase history in this competition should also come into it.
As others have said, impossible to please everybody. The demand would be off the scale, that's for sure.
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4 minutes ago, Geogaddi said:
Wonder what the club will do should we get to Wembley , will season ticket holders get priority ?
A good way to do it would be those with a purchase history of the cup games so far, but there will always be a way to piss off someone else.
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3 minutes ago, christ said:
so people who no longer put a penny into NUFC
What do you mean by this? Some people gave up their Season Tickets in protest, some over the years due to cost (losing jobs etc), some due to relocation. Just because somebody doesn't have a season ticket doesn't mean they don't put any money into the club.
I understand your perspective on it though. It's a tough one.
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Yeah I think Man City over 2 legs is naturally the one you want to avoid, but anything can happen. Remaining positive either way.
We can beat anyone on our day, especially at home. Bring it on.
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Yeah, this isn't about getting a Season Ticket back - it's about going through with what they said regarding points. They launched a scheme about protecting points and then ditched it when we got taken over.
Nobody deserves their ticket back, including me. But points I will always argue - even if I still had mine - should be permanent due to the cost/effort involved.
Either way, the points scheme needs reviewed to open it up to more people - specifically youngsters. I've had my day really, but my son certainly hasn't.
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16 minutes ago, Hovagod said:
This still confuses me. Did the Trust head chiefs not give up their tickets too? They just told others to? Is that right?
Not sure mate.
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6 minutes ago, LFEE said:
Can you give me the date and include any links you can find as I’m looking to go Thursday so will bring it up opportunity given.
Also can you tell me the timescales of when you were a NUST member.
So the Trust launched this scheme in 2019 when it became evident many were going to jack their tickets when Benitez was leaving - it's actually still on their website now; www.nufctrust.co.uk/loyalty-points (not sure how to hyperlink as I'm a fool).
They promised to lobby on behalf of those cancelling when we had new owners. Myself and @bowlingcroftycontacted board members, with crofty actually attending a zoom meeting where it was brought up. The consensus was that there wasn't enough people who submitted their points to the Trust in order for them to go through with it, which I think is bollocks. Whether it was 1 person or 10,000, you go ahead with your promise. By the way, I completely understand that I knew what I was doing when I cancelled - risks and all - but I 100% wouldn't have cancelled without the Trust posting this, and bought a lifetime membership on the back of it, which I obviously regret.
I followed their instructions, sent them the screenshots of my points back in July 2019 and for us to be taken over and them to tell me nah, we aren't going to bother, is absolute bullshit. If the club made the decision and said no, I would absolutely accept it. But the way they done this hoodwinked me and many others into purchasing memberships and I can't help but think there was an agenda to boost numbers, despite them saying the take-up was low.
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On 11/12/2022 at 10:03, bowlingcrofty said:
I know I’ve harped on about it a few times, but the second that NUST backtracked on the loyalty point retention scheme meant I was done with them.
They promised to lobby the club on behalf of those who gave up their ST in protest and backtracked on it. They’ve got a list of those who were part of the scheme and let all those who trusted it down.
Its not the principle about whether we got the points back or not (if the club decide not to give them back then fair fucks, that’s their call), but for the Trust to openly promise to actively lobby on our behalf, and then have a number of people give up season tickets with hundreds of loyalty points on the back of this promise, for the trust to then go “nah actually we’ve changed our mind”, is shitty as fuck.
Nail on the head. I still to this day feel completely hoodwinked by their scheme and maintain I wouldn’t have packed in my Season Ticket if I didn’t think they’d at least lobby for me and let the club decide.
Gutted to this day and pardon the pun, wouldn’t trust the Trust with anything. Jobs for the boys. No doubt that Charlotte will be next on the board.
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Apologies if mentioned but did anyone see the floating tenner in the gallowgate
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Willock and Botman unreal. This is basically why I had little problem with the way Leeds played on Saturday. Sometimes you have to shithouse your way to points.
Also, never seen a better Newcastle defensively - ever. Unreal.
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On 26/11/2022 at 20:07, tomlynnherrington said:
He does.
He most definitely does not
Love Miggy and he's been unreal this season, but I honestly think the he has an allergy to even controlling with his right.
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Also a Football Manager legend.
I do wonder if we will target players from countries that have commercial/marketing value, would make sense. Obviously not just completely shit players.
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3 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:
Same qualification throughout the leagues but two places for the clicky invite.
Just the two extra for the whole of Europe.
I was being fasheeeshus about Man U and Chelsea
Either way, someone finishing 7th and getting in Europe's top competition because of how well they've done in the past is ridiculous, like.
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Just now, Groundhog63 said:
Thought if was the same qualification but 2 (?) historical places for Man United and Chelsea
So 6 in total? Or top 2 in the league + 2 historical?
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I thought in future seasons Champions League places were going to be awarded on historical performance rather than current merit?
Not sure the ins and outs but I'm sure something was mentioned. Ridiculous if it is.
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Be wounded if we play them horrible bastards early again. The game in April was flat as out, as is the case with early kick offs (except derby day).
would give my left bollock for a 17:30 and to watch Klopp squirm all game.
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9 minutes ago, SteV said:
I assume that, like Brighton, it will only be a small(ish), randomly selected number of tickets. If all 3k of an away following had to go somewhere to pick up tickets, that would seem logistically problematic to me.
Yeah you're right. But it would be a positive change I think, if they can work out a way to do it. Loyalty points are the fairest way to allocate away tickets, but people who don't attend shouldn't get a point.
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7 minutes ago, SteV said:
Arsenal now going down this route for away tickets. Suspect we will see it eventually.
Good idea and will allow others to be able to build up their points too, rather than people hoarding.
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1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said:
We haven't been on BT much this season. I swear to god if they move the Liverpool home game to the early kick off again.
Really want to do them bastards, and a 17:30 Saturday gives us the best chance. Will be devastated if it’s 12:30. -
1 hour ago, LFEE said:
Well I’m friends with Emil Franchi and from the very little discussions I’ve had with him reference away tickets they definitely have a pool of them at TF but sounded like they were just their own and amongst themselves they pick and choose who use them for away games. No mention of NUST priority tickets (Greg had his own with points until recently then restarted from zero when he managed to get one this summer regardless of being in the NUST). So not disputing 100% what you believe is true however I don’t think it is.
Maybe this particular member is linked to the TF lot. I'm not so sure, but he definitely gets a handful of tickets by hook or crook!
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3 minutes ago, Big River said:
that can't be true, surely?
So I really don't want to get into slander territory here as I may be wrong, but chances are pretty slim.
Basically, a lad I've known well for years through other mates then got to know myself - used to sit with him in fact - started going to more or less every away game last season. With my bitter, jealous head on 'eh how you wangled all these tickets!?'. He told me that he had got to know XXX this season, who on the board of NUFC trust who sorts him tickets as he gets them from being on the board.
Now again, I could be well off here - maybe the lad himself has it wrong - but on the final day of the season at Burnley, I had it pretty much confirmed the night before (we stayed over) that this person gets a bunch of tickets for away games. This person happens to be on the board of the trust (or at least was, I'm not 100% now). For all I know, he could get them from work or something, but that would be pretty odd given the demand.
Maybe this person just is well connected to a bunch of fans who have a load of points and don't use them, hence getting all the tickets, but the lad I know barely knows the board member, so would be strange dishing out tickets to people you barely know given the demand.
I retract my previous FACT post, but it seems more likely than not.
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Disagree. The above would suit me down to the ground, but season tickets are for league games. Members who've been to all of the cup games so far should get an equal chance to a ST holder who hasn't been to any (just my opinion of course).