Chicken Dancer

I'm sure the freebies don't have automatic chance to renew mind iirc? Yeah I don't think they do! What would your thoughts be Paully? Would you welcome back boycotters? Not an interrogation by the way just curious given you are a home and away die hard!

Did we have about 32k ST holders this year before the free ones? Think I may have read that somewhere? Then you need 3.5k for away fans and 10%(?) (5k) has to be kept for match by match sales. So I'd guess you're looking at a further 12k ST being available? Cheers - fingers crossed that the Trust can pull it out of the bag.

The Trust and other supporters groups I know will be approaching any new owners and fighting the corner for those who have boycotted. Whether the new owners think it will be a quick PR win or whether it pisses off those who kept their tickets remains to be seen, but I’d like to think those who have packed in under Ashley, as long as they can prove it, should be able to get first dibs. Realistically, say all 10k go on general sale, how many would you lot estimate would be available? About 15-17k I would say at a guess?

When did you pack in mate?

Always been jealous of Man United and Liverpool’s like. Van Dijk to ‘Dirty Old Town’ and Salah to ‘Sit Down’ are absolutely class. Is it that kid on the guitar who creates them, does anyone know?

Agreed, one thing I respect about Man Utd's travelling away support. Even the Rafa/La Bamba one. Couldn’t even be arsed to find a new player to fit in so resorted to ‘fuck of Wijnaldum’ . Also would be good to get some local songs into the songbook - I’m coming home Newcastle for example.

Our songbook is and has been for years, fucking shit. Liverpool and Man Utd seem to fit players names into a variety of songs. I know Liverpool have that kid who sings them acoustically in the City on match days (may be a fan park?) which will certainly help. Nobby Solano. Hatem Ben Arfa. Martin Dubravka. Be someone else in a few years.

I was wondering that- good news if true. Place wouldn't be the same without the longtime season ticket holders back I’m not sure it’s true. Bloke at work got one for his kid and apparently had option to renew? Absolute bummer if true. Is it not too early for renewals? Not sure if he’s pulling my pisser or what. But it says he has an option to click renew - so God knows. Will post any screenshots if I can get them.

I was wondering that- good news if true. Place wouldn't be the same without the longtime season ticket holders back I’m not sure it’s true. Bloke at work got one for his kid and apparently had option to renew? Absolute bummer if true. I hope not Tell me about it mate. But hearing conflicting stuff so God knows to be honest. Wonder if anyone on here has one?

I was wondering that- good news if true. Place wouldn't be the same without the longtime season ticket holders back I’m not sure it’s true. Bloke at work got one for his kid and apparently had option to renew? Absolute bummer if true.

I though the free tickets were in the name of the ticket holder who applied for it. Yeah I don't think they can renew anyway, but the audacity online is frightening with some peoples comments. Thankfully, the majority of comments are suggesting to welcome back the boycotters as they played their part and done what they believe was right.

I can’t believe I’m seeing some people online saying those who got free season tickets last year deserve first refusal over those who have packed in over the past 13 years

I think you have to be realistic on what can be done in a couple of transfer windows as not all the players we have are really "saleable assets" so it becomes a squad cohesion and squad number issue as well as a phasing out and replacing exercise. It also depends on budget while we may think they are coming in to spend a mint they might not be and say the budget is 70/100 million a window that in todays market is spent badly can get you shite that everton/Fulham etc have gotten or it could get you 1/2/3 max good players. The need of a top manager who knows how to build a squad effectively from scratch is the best way forward. Totally agree, a top manager is needed if there is going to be significant recruitment. Might take us 3/4 windows to get challenging for European spots but definitely need a top manager with a concrete plan. Benitez would be ideal.

I’d argue we deserve credit for making everyone notice that we were sick. Let’s be fair, every single protest/boycott prior to the exodus last summer was futile. Good luck getting it back mate. Hope I do too! I’d like to think everyone who sacrificed their ticket should be applauded! Who knows?! I don’t really care tbh. I just want to be back singing and supporting again! Fingers crossed for you too. I’ll be camping in the queue outside the ticket office on 30th June that’s for sure. Too right mate, it’s the only way. They’ll be like Gold bars at first. Hopefully the Trust can do their bit and the club give people like us a chance to return, although that’ll go down like a lead balloon with the support the team lot.

I’d argue we deserve credit for making everyone notice that we were sick. Let’s be fair, every single protest/boycott prior to the exodus last summer was futile. Good luck getting it back mate. Hope I do too!

Idiots online mainly. The same lot who couldn't be arsed with Rafa's 'boring football', no doubt. A young, new-age coach from the continent would be nice. But Benitez would almost certainly be my (and probably the new regime's) first choice. He deserves it, if nothing else.

I actually think Benitez will be the first choice given he actually introduced Staveley to the club. Whether he will break a contract is another thing, especially given the fact that he's employed so many over there and seems to have built a decent relationship with the Board and people involved at Dalian. Keep seeing this shit of giving Bruce a chance. You literally cannot afford any mistakes - giving him money will be a mistake. Shake his hand, pay him off. End of.

Would love this, but wouldn't be that bothered. Took me years to build up 153, but I'd just love to be back home, like. It's killed me. Can see the ones who stayed being pissed off if that happened to be honest. Nah, sod them. This might have happened earlier. I agree mate. It absolutely killed me this last year - not to plead poverty but I've really struggled mentally over the past 12 months and not having my escape of going to the match with family and friends really hasn't helped. I find it downright insulting that I get called off some fans online disloyal. I've been to about 15 European away days. Been to Portsmouth on Sunday afternoons, been to Arsenal on Monday nights. Had some great times on away buses and at St James' - whilst also sticking with the team when they went down twice. Last summer was my final straw. There is absolutely nothing disloyal about giving so much of a fuck about something that you end up getting pushed away from it - something that you've loved since you went to your first game in 91, and probably the only thing you will love for the entirety of your days . I'll do anything for my ticket back, mainly for my 5 year old boy. I want him to dream and I want to see his face again like I did when I took him to the Bournemouth game a year or two back for the first time. I would love my points back, but I just want to be a part of it again. It's been torture not following it - actively wanting the team not to get to Wembley (and I fucking hate myself for that but couldn't help it). I miss the excitement after a shit week at work to be able to have an away day with the lads on the Saturday, or meeting in the pub at 12pm for the early game before heading up Town for the match. I miss the noise and I miss the people who sat around us. But mainly I just miss being part of it all. If I don't get my points back, so be it. It would be nice too, but if I don't then it was all worth it just to get rid. Hopefully, one day, I like many others can look back and say; 'we made a fucking difference there. We helped rid the club of the parasite who took away some of the (what should have been) the best days of my life. I want my son to go with his mates to away games and European games. I want to fall back in love. To quote a certain Mr Keegan, I want people to dream about the club. Hopefully this is the next step on a glorious chapter in the warped, fucked up history of Newcastle United. I want to see it all happen, hopefully from the Gallowgate once again. The end is nigh. Good luck to everyone trying to get their tickets back. We fucking deserve this. Howay the Lads.

Definitely this. I think those who packed in last summer helped this - it was the first time there was some proper coverage of it and he shat himself.

Would love this, but wouldn't be that bothered. Took me years to build up 153, but I'd just love to be back home, like. It's killed me. Can see the ones who stayed being pissed off if that happened to be honest.

Do they keep a record of points? Yeah I logged in this morning, you can see my history of 153 points etc. where do you login? Just on NUFC.co.uk in the tickets section mate.

Do they keep a record of points? Yeah I logged in this morning, you can see my history of 153 points etc.

I made a point a few years ago when people on here started to absolutely blast those who still had their season ticket and went to the game, I said that I was keeping mine because at some point in the future we would be taken over and it would be difficult to get a seat again... I made that mistake many years ago when the ground was being redeveloped and I was turning up each home game and paying on the turnstyles... there was tons of pressure to buy season tickets in the newly opened areas but, I carried on paying on the gate - albeit I was moving to different areas of the ground due to my preferred area either being closed or sold out to season tickets.... I can still remember the week when I went with my mates and we couldn't get in anywhere.... I was about 14 years old and I didn't get into St James' for several seasons after that, I missed a load of the great times in the 90's simply because I didn't take anyones advice to buy a season ticket - they were cheap and plentiful but, I knew best! I eventually got a season ticket in 2003 after being on the waiting list for a couple of seasons and had - in the end - three great seats for me and my dad then my young son joined us from about 2010. Then the pressure came from others telling me that I was a puppet to Ashley and paying money to watch Newcastle was the worst thing I could possibly do... I resisted, I had to walk through protests outside the ground, my dad had some bloke screaming in his face that he was a disgrace for entering St James' while Ashley was destroying the club and all this took its toll. Last season I threw it in. To be fair I was really not enjoying the football, going to the match had become a real drag and at the end of last season I decided that I had enough and was throwing it in.... You can imagine how I am feeling now.... We are on the verge of potentially some great times and I am once again on the outside. I bowed to pressure and allowed myself to start to hate football because of others and because of Ashley. Chances of getting a season ticket for next season??? Close to zero I would say. I am gutted. Yeah I wouldn’t worry too much mate. Had mine many years and had over 150pts but I’m still proud I had the courage to wrap it in. Nothing disloyal about caring so much it pushes you away. I’m sure we will be able to get season tickets , we are in the middle of a pandemic and the trust will do all they can (I hope) to try get boycotters back. I just worry about the animosity between those who stayed and those who got fed up and left.

I do honestly think he will be Staveley's primary target. He was a huge factor in her negotiations in 2017 and all 3 of her bids were dependent on him staying (I think). All depends on whether he'd leave Dalian early really, but I do think the new regime will want him.

The UK government is happy to deal with them and I’m sure we actually supplied them with £650m worth of weapons, so I honestly don’t feel concerned. I would take a consortium of Jack the Rippers corpse with Fred West to get rid of Ashley though.