Shadow Puppets

Because we have been shit with Isak in the middle so Howe has moved him out wide, and we've improved.

Massively missing Gordon's intensity today.

I’m absolutely in love with that white short, white patch, red letter combo like. Beautiful.

I thought he was excellent first half. Second half he looked to tire, but first half you could see the player we bought. He’s on his way now. Give him another 10 games and he’ll be a mainstay.

Yeah, that was comfortably the best I’ve ever seen St James’. Absolutely unreal from start to finish. Even that spell after they scored, the crowd roared them on. Singing all over the ground, people out of their seats. Phenomenal. I was there for 5-0 in 96, 7-1 in 96, the 5-1 Sunderland game, the 6-1 Spurs game, and that was comfortably the best. What a night!

I think that might be my favourite ever night at St James’ Park. Special from start to finish. The loudest I’ve heard it. Just unreal.

Oh you will definitely weep like. I was bubbling like a baby in Milan. Almost certainly will tonight too.

It's a human error. They happen all the time in football. Deal with it and move on. Delighted Jones' card hasn't been overturned... that was as clear a red as you'll ever see.

So all the talk of the Redheugh being closed between 5 and 8 is untrue?

Any updates on road closures tonight? The Redheugh Bridge rumours true?

It's absolutely insane that anyone's trying to claim that the first red card wasn't a red. It was about as blatant as they come, even in full speed, even if the ref wasn't show the still image of the contact. It's dangerous. It might not be intentional, but it's certainly dangerous. I don't have much issue with the second red either. Obviously the first Jota incident shouldn't have been a yellow, but how many times do we see stuff like that given. I can understand why the ref gave it... in real time it does look like he nudges him for a cynical foul. The point is, Jota is then a moron for making that second challenge. Obviously the whole situation with the disallowed goal is ridiculous, but it has happened to loads of teams. It's human error, just like pre-VAR. I think the VAR ref should be banned for a few games, but that's it. It was a clusterfuck, but there's been loads. Liverpool aren't special.

I’m fully in the camp of needing a new stadium like. It’s tired, and it feels like everything they’d do to increase capacity etc, would be a temporary patch on the problems.

The atmosphere was class vs Villa. You know what’s been missing since then… Wor Flags.

I new stadium would cost in the region of £500m-£750m and you wouldn’t need anywhere near that amount of money in advance.

I sat near him at the match on Wednesday and he seemed to be moving fine ?‍♂️

Tiered memberships would just bring with it more question marks over people paying more getting more benefits (not that I have a problem with that). There aren't many perfect solutions, but some incremental changes would help for sure.

If any opposing fans came on here during a match thread they'd think exactly the same. Usual suspects.

I think the strength of feeling isn't as big as you are making out, to be honest. In general conversations with mates most seem fairly understanding of the rule changes and why they needed to be implemented, although acknowledge that there are issues that need ironing out.

No doubt. Could explain why the hospitality / media stuff is all running smoothly though (the club still definitely run that side).

The first half was fine considering our line up. Slightly frustrating we couldn't do more with the ball, but we contained them and limited them to mainly sideways passing. Apart from one good chance I don't remember feeling overly worried we would concede. Second half we were tremendous.

Yeah, but what I'm saying is, what's wrong with that? That's not the problem, and probably a fair "perk" for people spending that much money every year. Also, from my experience, the vast majority of hospitality clients I have met are families... families who happen to have a bit of money from a successful company they run. They're just as big a fan as those in general admission, but with no ability to build loyalty points. So it makes sense to give them access to a hospitality ballot. The problem with how people have abused the general away ticket allocation is the problem, and it should be easily solvable. Also... I'm not sure if this has been mentioned so far, but apparently our ticketing this season has been outsourced to a 3rd party company due to lack of staff/expertise in our department. Which probably explains some of the stranger, less fan-focused, decisions. I'm sure that will change with time.

I’m talking about the hospitality away ticket ballot. Once you enter that ballot and say the names of the people who might be attending, should you win tickets in that ballot, you can’t change the name on the tickets from the ones you entered with.

Just back in from the game. Class that second half. Two big takeaways. - This forums opinions of Tonali’s performance is weird. He was sub standard first half, but second half he was involved in everything good we did. - What is Jack Grealish? Seriously… every single time I watch him play I’m just more and more baffled about what people see in him. Gets the ball, dribbles a bit, cuts inside, passes it to a CM. Repeat. Just a nothing player. All of his good, exciting qualities, gone ?‍♂️

As mentioned, corporate tickets can’t be transferred to other people once they’ve been purchased either. And I’m not sure what you mean by “True Faith” tickets.

As I've already said, the corporate/players/media is the tiniest minority of tickets, and once a name is on a ticket (even the hospitality ones) they can't be changed. And put yourself in a hospitality clients shoes... for £45k (minimum) per year, would you not expect a little perk here or there? Of course you would. Of course you should. Of course people who are spending that amount of money should be allowed access to away tickets, considering you earn no loyalty points from being a hospitality client. Spend that amount of money every year and not earn points... of course they should be allowed to access away tickets somehow. The problem is solely with the current rule for general admission. As Matty said above, the right answer is to possibly give a cap on how many times you can transfer an away ticket (maybe 3?). If you don't use it, you don't get the points.