Whitley mag

Listening to Darren Eales I’m far less certain moving to a new stadium is off the menu. Even from talking about small things like the wrap around video screen at Mercedes Benz, compared to the tablet we currently have that half the stadium can’t see. My prediction is that this feasibility study will highlight so many restrictions, that when presented for fan consultation it’ll be weighted heavily in favour of a new stadium being the only viable option.

Was a lot of talk of us exploiting the South American market but something has clearly held us back. Possibly waiting for PIF to purchase a 2nd club to loan these players to, or more likely our cash has been ear marked for 1st team ready players and there’s not enough cash to speculate on players yet.

My biggest bug bear when people are desperate for a ticket, just fucking sell them to anyone the family enclosure’s a fucking ridiculous size anyway in the current ticket climate.

Would you usually have passed your ticket on to a pal prior to digital tickets, or would your seat usually have gone empty if you couldn’t make it ? Just curious if this re-sale is something people are now glad to have if they can’t make it, or just having to resort to it because you can’t just pass your ticket on.

Taken over from Casey as my go to source these days.

So is the lack of being able to choose a seat down to Silverstone, seen it mentioned this was the system he’s parachuted in from his time at Arsenal, but as with all these things is that actually correct does anyone know. It would be interesting if Arsenal fans weren’t able to choose their own seat how that went down and is it still the case. Got to say it’s a strange arrangement and just smacks of the easiest option at short notice.

Have a feeling a certain trip to the Mercedes Benz stadium this summer will influence thinking going forward on stadium front.

For the club to work going forward there will be a tipping point where the new owners have to realise this is the NE and not West London. If they think they’ll keep increasing match day prices at this seasons %, they’ll quickly find we don’t have enough international fans to fill all the seats. We need to grow for FFP but it’s imperative it remains affordable for the hardcore local support, or we’ll completely lose our identity.

Best blue flag beaches in the north east marra. Only explanation can be Northumbrian Water are mags and deliberately pumped Roker full of gravy stained shit to sabotage the event.

Haven’t seen any end product from him yet, apart from that through ball in the states. Think it’s in his locker though and will hopefully come in time.

Almost Gazza and Rooney esque in his play.

Doesn’t seem the best move in terms of FFP going forward, knocking back 100 mill on a player out of contract next year, think Levy’s ego has scrambled his brain.

Bit like mackems, Evertonians, they like re-writing history, there was a couple of midweek fixtures under Ashley when the club was at its lowest ebb when we didn’t sell allocation at Goodison.

Having not watched Upamecano much at Bayern has he really turned to shit ? All the top clubs seemed to be after him a couple of years back, would imagine they’d still want a hefty fee for him, if indeed he is a target.

Splendid will take any win over the scousers.

Nee idea apart from he’s always looked shite whenever I’ve seen him play.

Feel sorry for lads who have been used to going every week, it’s certainly a worry in terms of atmosphere next season, if league games turn into cup home game atmospheres where truly fucked. There’s no easy answer though and apart from not giving folk a choice of seats most people seemed happy with the fairness of a ballot system. The old system was a form of ballot with a randomly allocated queue slot. The only difference is people could try and manipulate the system with multiple devices and had more of a sense of influencing their chances. The only thing I think the club could have done in hindsight was implement a tiered membership perhaps, with members from last year and previous years given a gold membership and new members silver and so on. Clearly that process isn’t going to be appealing when trying to flog new memberships though, but what they’re maybe missing is that unlimited membership with no chance of getting a ticket might be even less appealing in the long term.

Ajax

He claims one can also play DM and apparently Sky linked us with Alvarez this morning.

Would have been 10/10 if we’d got McTominay over the line.

Got some spare cash that lad.

Sounds like an exciting talent.

Just an NUFC account.