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Wouldn’t surprise me. And for all the pros and cons, it really would make touting massively more difficult. They have it at one of the main stadiums in Turkey (forget which one) but I think that was more related to hooliganism than anything else.

Be interesting to see how they actually implement it. Unless they’re planning on installing face recognition at the turnstiles (extremely doubtful), it’ll probably be manual checks where you get pulled aside upon entry. If these manual checks were targeted, i.e based on info that there’s a different person in the seat every game, then that’s probably no bad thing. If they’re just random, might be a bit more likely to piss people off.

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I’d love to think so too. It’s not my billion and half quid getting thrown into this mind…

They do right now, I agree, but I think that’s a) because it’s so hard to get a ticket (outside of being clued up about resale) and getting a ticket for any game is a really big deal for many at present b) we’re on the upward part of the journey - we’ve won one (magical, magnificent) league cup, will the excitement and the buzz still be same for our fourth one, to go with our 3 league titles, 2 FA Cups, and a CL? Personally, I’m not opposed to them going bigger than ~65k, but I can at least see why they might be reluctant.

66/1 for us to score twice in the first 10 mins. Get into them!

The reason they seem to want to err on the lower side of capacity, is because availability stifles demand. At the minute, you’ve got ballot success rate at something like 20%, probably less, which results in a lot of members applying for every single game, regardless of opposition, because they know how hard it is to get into any game. If you build a big mega, super-duper, monster stadium, that makes it a lot easier to win a ballot, the theory will be that demand will drop off because people can be more choosy about what to apply for because there isn’t overarching threat of never getting to a game.

If they keep letting him get away with what he did to Elliot in the last minute, there’s a chance.

Confirming what everybody already knew. Not one for us I don’t think, despite him obviously being very, very good.

Villa’s games either side of playing us will be the second leg against PSG and an FA Cup semi final.

This is all absolute gold for PIF. A monumentally big event being reported on globally, with no doubt every report referencing the owners. Whether that’s ’sportswashing’ or not is up to every individual to decide, but it’s firmly put to bed the ‘are PIF still interested?’ question if it hadn’t been already.

View from Leadgate, Consett (approx. 15 miles away)

I do completely understand that, and obviously I’m not adverse to them wallowing in lower divisions forever more. But ultimately, we want to be comfortably beating them time and time again. Imagine how badly they would take a reverse #6inarow.

He’s not wrong though. Just read today it was the only time they had been two goals behind this season.

Seemed genuinely emotional talking about the giant flag of him.

Indifferent tbh. Watching them wallow in the lower divisions, whilst convincing themselves they have a squad of generational talents worth millions and millions is something to behold. However, playing and beating them is always a tremendous thing, so wouldn’t be adverse to that either. And given the way promoted clubs are struggling nowadays, seeing them recreate one of their sub-20 point relegations, would also be enjoyable.

Best find his pen to sign a new contract fairly sharpish then….

So why was it always considerably worse in early round cup games when there was far less ST holders there (before the cup scheme)?

And we’ve won a trophy…

Be worth it just to see Brexit Jim’s reaction if she doesn’t have any gardening leave contracted.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/newcastle-eddie-howe-carabao-cup-sandro-tonali-wembley-b2716712.html

Probably right. Especially when he has a reasonable chance of being the main CF at every club in the league bar us and Man City (and maybe Forest 😬🤣).