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Have a hotel room in North London the night of the final which I’m not using anymore. Happy to pass it on, please PM for details. Also, a train ticket for the Monday morning, leaving King’s Cross at 9am

But the period seven ballot winner didn't! Let's just leave this, mate. I don't blame anybody for trying to get a ticket whatever their circumstances, and I'm happy for those that did. As I say, I have learnt my lesson about buying cup tickets in the future.

So, a member that went to those games get the ticket that the season ticket holder does? Okay, I don't agree with it, but it's workable. The scenario is described is unfair though.

It's unfair because a member who attended one league cup game could have got a ticket ahead of a season ticket holder who went to two. It's happened, I won't make the same mistake again when buying tickets during a cup run and I hope everybody has a cracking day, but it is objectively unfair. I'll shut up up about it now

How many non-season ticket holders got tickets for the finals in the 90s?

Well, I don’t know what happened there? If they paid for a season ticket in 2020/21 or 2021/22, then yes I include them

Not when some of the tickets went to non-season ticket holders who also didn’t bother with majority of cup games. It’s not complicated. It’s unfair.

In cup finals? Never, ever heard this before.

I don't understand the constant use of this line. Of course somebody will lose out. The point is that, in this case, a section of those that have lost out have done so unnecessarily and unfairly. It's not 'whatever happens', it's 'whatever did happen in this specific case'.

Yep, that's exactly what I will be doing.

Unless you are suggesting that Period One people should not have got tickets, I'm not really sure what your point is here. I don't care if members jumped on the bandwagon or not. I would guess that some did and some did not. Those that gave up tickets because of Ashley...I applaud their actions, but then they got them back now we're owned by the Saudi state, so I'm not quite ready to give them an unopposed moral platform just yet. All of which doesn't really matter. The point is that nobody without a season ticket should have got tickets ahead of season ticket holders. Newcastle have roughly thirty thousand tickets and thirty thousand season ticket holders. In the entire history of cup final allocations across the entire country, I don't think that this has ever been a remotely controversial stance.

Will do, mate, nice one

Hope this isn’t being cheeky, but if you could drop the odd update in here about what bars you’re in before the game, I might have a wander along for a drink

Thought it was interesting hearing him talk about Gazza. He’s obviously incredibly fond of him but didn’t seem overly enamoured of him as a player

Fuck off with ‘broadly speaking…’ If there was a fair system in use, why not use it for everybody. I’m going to stop posting about this. Well done to everybody who got tickets.

P4, didn’t get one in the ballot. I did go to league cup games just didn’t use my ticket to do it. So the pots were just drawn together, I assume? Let’s hope we get to many more and work on a fairer way of doing things in future

Pod on the Tyne has four thirty minutes interviews recorded with Bobby Robson as he worked on his final autobiography. He’s presumably very ill at the time but as enthusiastic and as bubbly as ever. Definitely worth a listen

Yeah, I used to enjoy United We Stand, and True Faith just felt like an embarrassing tribute act most of the time. Seemed to be claiming an identity for Newcastle that did not chime with my experience at all.

The trust did a video thing last night. Was there any more information on how the ballots are going to be done?

Why would that make Howe play him?

Blue moon were banging on about a ‘hateful nine’ this week as well. Was going to ask what they were talking about

The difference from three to four is one game. That’s vastly different from the gap between four and six

Completely shit and unfair.

Same here. Only waited a few minutes to get on too.

Seem to remember Sunderland donated theirs to our fans in 98, didn’t they? Canny gesture, and something that should have caught on