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Premier League Winners: Man City Runners Up: Arsenal 3rd-6th: Liverpool, Man Utd, Newcastle, Chelsea Relegation: Luton, Sheffield United, Wolves Overachievers: Burnley Underperformers: Brighton Top Goal Scorer: Haaland Break Out Year: Tonali Season to Forget: Antony PFA Player of the Year: Haaland PFA Young Player of the Year: J Ramsey Manager of the Year: Kompany First manager to quit/be sacked: Moyes Championship Winners: Middlesbrough Runners Up: Leicester Play-Offs: Southampton, WBA, Watford, Leeds Relegation: Plymouth, Rotherham, QPR Newcastle United Where will we finish?: 5th Top Goalscorer?: Isak Season to forget: Almiron Howe will we fare in Europe?: CL Quarter Finals FA Cup: Liverpool League Cup: Man City EFL Trophy: Portsmouth Europe La Liga winner: Real Madrid Serie A winner: Inter Bundesliga winner: Bayern European Competitions Champions League winner: Man City Europa League winner: Liverpool Conference League Winner: Aston Villa General World Player of the Year: Haaland World Young player: Bellingham

Me fatha did. Flew to Nice and drove over. Says the mariner part of the city was lush but the rest of it was meh. Best atmosphere he's ever seen though apparently. No trouble or grief from locals as there'd been from a few Italians in Milan the year before, the main grief actually came from the French police. As seen with the CL final last year, they treat English football fans like scum. Was the case back then as well. Herded in and out the ground like cattle and would look at you and treat you as if you were below them.

I've been one who's mulled over a slight change to the points system over the last year or so but the more I've thought about it this summer the more I've wanted it kept as it is as there's no viable solution imo. A ballot will take tickets away from fans with points, not corporate; punishing fans with points to allow those without to go is categorically wrong. A ballot should come from corporate's sizeable allocation but we all know that won't happen. Regardless many of those without points, such as myself, actually only want to get to around 2 or 3 aways a season. I was able to get to those I wanted to go last season. Some may see that as cheating the system and it is really, but the bottom line is many of those twisting about points are likely the same and only want to get to 2 or 3 aways season. Maybe a generalisation but who knows. From what I've heard from mates who are fans of clubs who have them, I don't want ID checks brought in. They seem lenient/half arsed from the Man City (a) announcement today so maybe that's a slight positive.

What is a club in any case? It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time after his father dished out £57 for memberships for the pair of them, joined a ballot and got a pair of tickets randomly assigned to them in hopefully what is a child friendly part of the ground for the cost of upwards of £75 which they had no choice on.

If you both have memberships and enter the ballot together and you're both successful, yeah you should be next to each other. Where those seats are in the ground though is another matter.

Unsure tbh, but I was quite high up in the queue for Liverpool (h) last season; quite a high demand game. The only seat I could get after being 4000+ in the queue was in the Platinum Club to the tune of £67. Think there's more there than people would think. This shouldn't be a problem regardless. Not being to select your seat/price category is genuinely insane.

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.