Bellis80

1 hour ago, Shadow Puppets said:

Charlotte will almost certainly get tickets via either her media contacts (she is friendly with all of the journos) or it's feasible that TF get access anyway as media or just on TF's season tickets.

 

Or she has contacts in corporate. Via my work situation, I've been able to get tickets for Milan and Sheffield with via the corporate ballot. There is a much smaller separate ballot (I think around 100-150 tickets) for corporate clients. You can put any 2-4 names in the corporate away ticket ballots (depending on the game), as long as one of the names is tied to the corporate account.

 

And there's also "player tickets". Players get an allocation of tickets for every game, including all away games. Usually these are in some low-grade corporate seats, but sometimes they're in the main away end. So I guess she could have contacts there with a player or player's family.

 

I guess my point to all of this is, why does it matter? She's clearly a big supporter so why does it matter?

 

 

 

Think it matters because as you say corporate, media and players can all pass tickets on to whoever they want but a normal season ticket holder can’t. She clearly goes all the time and should be able to but a lot of people in the same situation can’t go now because of the changes.

If they’re going to keep playing him in the same position i’d snap your hands off for 100million.

It was a great result but we were shite apart from the back four and keeper.

1 hour ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Literally true - and checkable on the internet, you daft sod

If they have the space every pitch in the Premier League and UEFA competitions is 105x68.

St James, Wembley, Bernabeu, Nou Camp, Old Trafford. All exactly the same. Some used to be bigger but they haven’t been for about five years.

1 minute ago, Danh1 said:

Not think he said “just a pitch” to down play the occasion? We made a big deal of Wembley, looking at the pitch the day before and it didn’t go well.

 

 

We got a bigger doing tonight than we did at Wembley despite the result.

8 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Both Wembley and OT are bigger pitches than SJP…

Total bollocks

1 hour ago, Bellis80 said:

Not a knock on his managerial abilities but a Premier League manager never bothering to go to a Champions League game and calling the San Siro “just a pitch” when there is so little european experience in the squad makes me think he’s a weirdo.

I know I might seem the weirdo here but i’m on the train back to Verona and i’m going again 😂

90% of the pitches in the top standard of football across europe are the same size but you’ll still hear players talk about somewhere being a big pitch. No one says St James’ is a big pitch but Wembley or Old Trafford are despite being exactly the same. Players talk about angles being different, harder to judge length of long passes etc because of how close or far the stands are away from the pitch. The opposition can make it big as well, but every pitch is different despite being the same.

And the San Siro is a Holy Shit ground when you walk into it even with no one it it, presume Dortmund will be the same. So why you wouldn’t go and train there or at least have a look when you have the opportunity doesn’t make sense to me. Different story for teams used to going to these type of places.

It just seems mental to me. Go round and watch how teams train but wouldn’t fancy going to one of the best games in europe at some point.

10 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

I'm a documentary filmmaker and generally hate watching other documentaries. When I do, it is specifically to improve my own abilities.

Aye definitely wouldn’t pick anything watching the best teams in europe playing against each other.

9 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

Jesus fucking Christ. Some of you prey on every word that is uttered by him. Speaking of weirdos.

If you like football and could go to any game you want would you have been to a Champions League game?

Not a knock on his managerial abilities but a Premier League manager never bothering to go to a Champions League game and calling the San Siro “just a pitch” when there is so little european experience in the squad makes me think he’s a weirdo.

Why wasn’t Gordon in the box anyway when Barnes was crossing?

The club are a bigger brand. Just use that and you have a company already on board that could create it.

The Stack in town was good. If they said we’re letting them have that car park until we’re ready to do something with it i’d understand it.

It’s not a problem, I just thought a company that can do massive projects in Saudi Arabia could arrange to get some shipping containers arranged on a car park in Newcastle themselves if they were involved.

17 minutes ago, Big River said:

 

Stack is tried and tested, it makes complete business sense to utilise them. what were you expecting like? Sela to fly over a bunch of Saudis to run it all?  I'm not sure they'd quite understand our culture.

Agree it makes sense but why was it being linked to Sela in the first place? We’ve got a bit of land and have people who did something similar in the city before. Was no reason for them to ever mention Sela being involved.

That stack are involved at all when Sela are a company that are supposed to do things exactly like this, and big enough to sponsor a Premier League club shirt, suggests to me they might not be a proper company at all.

1 minute ago, OptimusSlime said:

Did you even need 25 points?

 

FA cup final and the total will be higher as clubs get less of an allocation than Carabao.

 

”When” we are in the CL final loyalty point total will be higher still.

 

 

 

First group was 25 points and one home cup game I think. So loyalty points hardly a factor as they based it more on going to the cup games.

13 minutes ago, huss9 said:

the people that piss me off are the ones that never travel but rake in money selling their away tickets and accumulate loyalty points.

so any cup finals etc, they're at the front of the queue.

I’ve never heard of anyone paying over the top for an away ticket and once you get past about 130 points it makes no difference having any more. So why would anyone continue to accumulate points beyond that? We’ve been to one cup final in 20 odd years and only needed 25 loyalty points. I doubt that’s why anyone would have done what you’re saying.

I don’t know how much they charge for the buses, so they could make money like that, but could barely give away a ticket for some games in the last 15 years so can’t imagine it’s a major factor.

Never been a queue at the turnstile for leazes east corner but took 15 minutes yesterday. Everyone just seemed a bit slower rather than any issues.

Ah right, seem absolutely massive when walk up to them. Maybe just more space around them.

I think the ground is the main reason I go. Love being in there. I’d hate going to the Emirates or Tottenham’s ground every week. The US stadiums are impressive but must take up 3 or 4 times as much as space, so not getting anything like that.

Just after level 7 opened they played Simply the best after a goal. Only one game though.

We have them over here for concerts etc but it’s illegal for sporting events.

Seen an awful lot of people asking or having problems with transferring tickets. If it’s that prevalent the 10 game thing might be an issue for some.

If you’re giving them to the same person be better just letting them log into your account and downloading the ticket to their phone. Almost no chance of being asked for ID at home I reckon.