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They went up during the run in; Wolves (h) & Southampton (h) were the only tickets in Seating Category 1 from March-May that were £45. Wolves - £45 Man Utd - £53 Spurs - £49 Southampton - £45 Arsenal - £49 Brighton - £49 Leicester -£49 They'll likely be £55 going up to £59 and £63 depending on the match category, if I even get the option to sit there.

Just checked my old tickets which I still have, Villa (h) was £45 for Category 1 so East Stand both for last season and for 2021-22.

The tiny silver lining from this all is Burnsie being livid again, like. Heinous weirdo. To think that he was allegedly at one of these ticketing workshops as well.

It's not minor at all. It would be if they changed it now and allowed winners in the ballot to pick their seat or just scrapped the whole thing altogether and revert to last season's system. Ticketing for fans is the bare minimum an elite level football club should be getting right and this summer has been a total shambles from communication to the changes themselves. Some issues include and are not limited to; for members you enter a ballot per match and get randomly assigned any seat in the ground for that match even though the seats have a price range of £30, regardless of how accessible or desirable that seat is to you. Some people can't afford to fork our £74 for a football match (charging that in the first place anyway is a bit of a disgrace in itself), a pensioner who can't walk too far may get assigned a seat in Level 7 or high up in Level 4 with no handrails up to it. A STH will never be able to get the seat next to or near him to take his child to a match again, the child in fact will likely be randomly assigned a seat at the opposite end of the ground. Typically vocal fans who sing a lot may get assigned to a seat in quieter areas such as the Platinum Club and less vocal fans may get assigned into the Gallowgate or safe standing area which will negatively impact the atmosphere. It's absolutely shit. I'm lucky enough to probably being able to fork out in excess of £70 for a match but I don't want to. I don't want to pay that much and I don't want to sit in the Platinum Club because no one I know sits near there and the atmosphere is shit. But I'd get no choice and get charged for it regardless so I either have to take it or leave it. It's totally wrong.

.com have nailed it.

Hopefully it changes. The club reserves the right to change it as per the T&Cs as well. https://www.nufc.co.uk/media/78083/membership-terms-2324-final.pdf "3.4 All Membership benefits are subject to change at any time, and are subject to availability. 3.5. The Club reserves the right to vary the manner or system by which tickets for any of the Club's Matches are allocated or by which Members will qualify for such tickets, provided that reasonable notice is given to Members."

I now feel fantastic that the potential £74 I do not get a choice to pay or not for a seat goes towards the Livramento deal. Toon Toon!

Probably, given Villa is not a category A game. That'd be one heck of a price increase; I sat in the Platinum Club for Liverpool (H) last season as I was too far back in the queue to get my usual place in the East Stand. It was £67. Given Villa (H) looks like it'll be £74 there, Liverpool this season could genuinely be £90+.

Perhaps an extreme side of this whole shambles, but Liverpool fans in 2016 walked out of a game on the 77th minute in protest at some general admission tickets becoming 77 quid. LFC relented as a result and reduced the prices. Even now I believe the most expensive general admission ticket at Liverpool is ~£60. Not a chance our lot even remotely consider doing something similar, it'll just be letters from NUST asking for clarity (and I have nothing against NUST, do think those like Greg do their absolute best). For arguments sake, a 74th minute walkout for 74 quid would never be entertained. It'd shouted down and be seen as negatively impacting the club/team. So many are just servile as fuck especially now as seen going into bat for price increases and random seat allocation. Its so disheartening.

We saw that with the CL packages a month and a bit ago and its the same again. "Can't afford it, don't go" and "it'll help with FFP". Odious.

Looking forward to (hopefully) being in my randomly allocated seat! /cognitivedissonance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPwZ7UQWPQ

Estoy aburrido. It too early for the Villa thread? Sorted all the #CONTENT out for them but preseason isn't over yet and they haven't even started selling tickets for it yet, chortle.

Agree, gone right off him. Got a huge bye from a lot of our fans for the Bruce drama but since then he's written some absolute garbage. Had a mini pop at Isak after the home draw with Bournemouth even though he had 2 goals in 3 games. He then hid Twitter replies criticising the article and said 'it's not my job to help players settle'. Couldn't wait to get the Fraser in the reserves story out there in cup final week when he could've just sat on it to avoid any disturbance to positivity. The article he wrote on Maxi recently and the £50m budget story. Now this stirring on a nothing comment about Bruno's contract. Have always gotten the vibe as well from him that as soon as we hit a bit of a sticky patch he'll be the first one going after Howe.

Pointless predicting stuff and having expectations before the transfer window is shut like, but we were the 3rd best team in the league for almost half of the season last season. The usual teams will likely improve but there's no guarantees for them just as there aren't any for us. 3rd-6th is my pointless prediction™, though I wouldn't be disappointed as long as we were playing some form of European football in 2024-25.

One is settling right now. Dozed off between 50 and 70 minutes. Well pleased that I did given the apparent performance, even though I didn't recognise most of the team on the pitch once I woke up. Sláinte.

As if we won that. Pleased for Anderson like. That turn and pass by Miley before the equaliser though, urrrf.

Wish Wilson knocked him out.

The green kit.

Aye, Beamish and Murphy's are both brewed in Cork iirc. Still the Guinness there will be lightyears ahead of what you get in the UK. There next week. Looking forward to it, great grandmother emigrated to the north east from there before WWI/Easter Rising which is probably why stout makes up most of my bloodstream.

Oof. Toss up between The Ship, Tyne Bar, Tilley's and The Bacchus.

Aye but where did you have a pint? Pedantic as fuck as usual from a self admitted Guinness nonce but good pints in the UK, especially town, are few and far between. Ireland is something else altogether.

This tickled me for some reason.