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Honestly man those in charge of ticketing and security need a fucking serious shake up at the club. It’s almost like they’re out to piss fans off this season on purpose.

If you have last seasons members capped at 30k as a ball park figure, with access to 7k tickets everyone would have roughly a 1 in 4 chance of getting one, not unreasonable odds in a ballot. If there was another 3k available for new members uncapped there would clearly be little chance of new members getting one. However, Arsenal have 200k members, maybe they keep them happy by offering other things with the membership, our members got nothing The alternative unfortunately now is that hundreds of tickets are on secondary sites at unprecedented levels. I fully acknowledge the club has to grow but it has to be done responsibly. If the club decided next summer to scrap all season tickets and make the whole ground members only, it would be interesting to see how many season ticket holders would just be accepting and say the club has to grow. Many members are loyal fans who’ve followed the club for years and only ditched it because of Ashley, now these folk are in the same category as any Johnny come lately.

If there were 10k tickets available each match 7k go to top tier, remainder 3k go to new members. You could still have a ballot but your rewarding loyalty of more fans who were here before. You don’t grow the fanbase by selling thousands of memberships where nobody has a chance of getting a ticket, let’s see how many renew next year. The cash grab this summer will look very short sighted if thousands say no thanks next summer, they should have grown the membership when they had capacity to house extra fans. Arsenal have 200k fans in their lowest loyalty bracket what entices them, can’t imagine they’re getting their hands on many tickets at the moment. Bottom line you don’t throw supporters who stuck by the club on the heap, at the expense of attracting new fans.

One man to blame for this shambles and it’s Peter Silverstone, he was responsible for membership at Arsenal from 2018 to 2022. It coincided with thousands of empty seats at the emirates for games that were supposedly sold out and an increase in touting. Now all successful clubs will attract touts and we’ve become a target, one quick look online will show you the lengths Arsenal are now going to cancel memberships and monitor dodgy ticket activity. With all his experience at Arsenal he then decides to make memberships unlimited and has opened the floodgates to the touts. Even Arsenal have a tiered membership as follows - ‘As things stand, we understand there to be 42,000 gold members (season ticket holders), 30,000 silver members and more than 200,000 red members. We’re not sure about the number of platinum members, but it’ll be small in comparison’. There was absolutely no reason this summer that last seasons members couldn’t have been given a priority in a tiered scheme. Unfortunately Silverstone made a cash grab and has absolutely shafted loyal fans. Get used to the touts and sold out games with empty seats galore.

Particularly enjoyed this post on red cafe Right after we play City. Nice. The Stripey twats will be right up for it too, you just know it. Hope we send them back crying into their greggs', really can't stand this version of Newcastle.

Precisely this if True Faith have had multiple season tickets and been able to attach them to named people fair enough, if they’re all under True Faith and their general admission tickets, well then they should be no different to Simon and his like who run busses and appear to have been targeted by club at away games for id checks. The difference is these media whores at True Faith will not get ID checked which is completely wrong.

You can’t assign away tickets to anyone else if you’re a season ticket holder though due to ID checks. The comparison here is Simon has multiple season tickets in his name for purpose of away tickets. Now due to ID checks he can only get one away ticket, therefore he can’t get multiple tickets anymore as other people would be using his tickets and potentially fail ID check. Whats the difference between him having multiple tickets and True Faith/Trust having multiple tickets in a company name and being able to comply with ID checks when dishing out tickets. The argument here is that Charlotte Hope doesn’t have a season ticket in her own name but is getting away tickets due to being part of True Faith/Trust.

Not sure you can assign away tickets that are in your name, that’s the reason the likes of Simon now have empty buses. Some of these folk running the busses have season tickets in their name and have been unable to get multiple away tickets, so if True Faith/Trust have multiple tickets how’s that working by the clubs own rules for away games and ID checks. If True Faith have multiple general admission season tickets that they’re able to get around the ID checks with due to being a company, it would be nice to know for transparency.

Superb the trust did say fans passing on tickets amounted to touting aswell. Not a good look if true and fuels bad feeling towards Trust and True Faith.

Never mind Marca Dig Bick’s the man. https://Twitter.com/DigBickBotman/status/1706299494969573754?s=20

Seems slightly better and especially if you’re taking a young kid with you. I wonder if the club are sensible enough not to give an adult a fake ticket when they’ve also purchased a child ticket in the group ? Potentially you could have a young kid stuck inside the ground by themselves.

What’s the difference Greg I’m taking it Brighton don’t give some of their fans fake tickets ? I’m not sure what the crack is today with where the box office is located, but this has real potential to go wrong at some point for someone having to trek through home fans very close to kick off, especially if they have colours on. I can’t believe the police are happy about this I get the numbers are probably low, but seems unacceptable taking into account potential risk factor.

Their away support has held up to be fair arguably the noisiest around.

Was thousands down that day we were all over Bramall Lane, game was shit but we still qualified for Europe so everyone in good spirits.

Aye the old pacer train to Seaburn was an experience great days.

Saudis over American ownership everyday for me, couldn’t give a flying fuck about the other stuff. When the rest of the world decides they don’t want PIF’s money I might re-consider my view then.

Great times football will never be the same and glad I was in my younger years to experience it. Nothing like the buzz of an away game back then and wondering if you were going to make it home in one piece.

Be good to see how Bruno and Tonali would work as the midfield 2. We definitely need a better link between midfield and attack, much like Alvarez provides Man City now behind Haaland. Also think Isak would be very dangerous in a floating role.

Good to see Shahar and Sanusi getting a mention. 2023/24: Fortess Little Benton! Newcastle U18s 3 Blackburn Rovers U18s 0 It's now played three won three at home so far this season for United's U18 side, following their latest conquest against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. A bright start by the black and whites failed to produce a goal, both Joe Brayson and Darren Palmer firing narrowly wide from Leo Shahar's deliveries. Rovers were given the chance to open the scoring on 34 minutes when goalkeeper Aidan Harris impeded Junior Nsango at the cost of a penalty. Nsango got up to take the kick but pinged his effort of the angle of crossbar and post - United's Travis Hernes rattling the goal frame at the other end soon after. Newcastle went ahead two minutes after the restart when Trevan Sanusi touched home Shahar's centre from the right. That lead was in danger just four minutes later when Rovers were awarded another spot kick; Zack Stritch this time stepping up to see his effort blocked by Harris, who was on the bench in Milan on Tuesday. Match referee Samuel Ross gave his third penalty of the afternoon on 56 minutes, Brayson sending Adam Khan the wrong way from 12 yards for 2-0. Graham Carrick's youngsters opened up a three goal lead on the hour mark, thanks to a close range finish - Palmer credited with the last touch by the PL reporter present but colleague Luke Craggs congratulated by his colleagues. Sanusi was then denied a fourth by Khan before going off - a lively display from the home debutant the highlight of an encouraging team performance. Team: Harris, Shahar, Charlton, Munda (Emerson 46), Watts, Craggs, Brayson (Donaldson 58), Hernes, Neave (Bryant 69), Palmer, Sanusi (R.Powell 72). Sub n/u: Harrison.

I’m nee Junior Turner like but here’s a couple of verses from Lindisfarne meet me on the corner. I’ve changed the first line and think the next three could remain, then the possibilities are endless thereafter. Need to adapt more local songs and get rid of this generic shite sang by every club. Meet me on the corner, (Meet me at St James) When the lights are coming on, And I'll be there. I promise I'll be there. Down the empty streets, We'll disappear into the dawn, If you have dreams enough to share. Hey mister dream seller, (Hey Mr Howe) Where have you been. Tell me have you dreams I can see? I came along, just to bring you this song, Can you spare one dream for me?

It’s costing Liverpool 80 million to add 8k extra seats in the Anfield Road End. I would imagine the Gallowgate would be a far heftier cost due to complications of metro and road, but obviously Fenway thought 80 million makes sense for 8k extra seats in a business sense.

I think the truth of the matter is anyone around old enough to compare the Keegan era and now is probably just a bit longer in the tooth and as you get older nothing seems as exciting. These are heady times though and if anything I’m savouring it a bit more this time around, that’s when I can get a fucking ticket this season.

If you have inverted wingers who cut inside I think it’s imperative to have overlapping fullbacks, otherwise it becomes very predictable and easy to defend. I think against Liverpool he went down the outside a couple of times, but needs to guard against constantly cutting inside all the time, especially at home against a well organised defence sitting deep. Ideally we want a fluent front 3 constantly interchanging a bit like Arsenal did with Henry, Bergamp, Wiltord and Pires.

Most gutted i’ve been in a long time, felt like a real kick in the nuts and ruined the rest of the bank holiday.

Sure they said they’re looking at the feasibility of re-developing the East Stand first anyway.