KetsbaiaIsBald

away fans would get in the home end.

? the ability to get more people to away games is near impossible. I think what they have done is about right in putting some of the tickets in a ballot. The issue with the away allocation has been the years of abuse of the loyalty scheme by people always getting every ticket and selling them in the busses. For some games the people who run the buses would have 10’s of tickets selling them to who ever they could so they could get the points. I do hope that the club stick to their word and check the people who actually attend.

the counter to this argument is when you’re lucky you get luckier. If you’re initially unlucky you get unluckier. I would personally like a membership scheme where over a season I am guaranteed a seat for at least 4-5 games even if it was then capped. I think on all fronts (home and away) we should be looking to get as many different fans in over the season. Where I would offer priority to say someone who has held a membership for 5 years vs 1 is for the bigger games. Loyalty does not necessarily equate to the number of games a persons financial position or geographical location allows them to attend. If they raised the base ticket price to £200 per game and a much smaller set of people could afford to go to every game would that make them better off or loyal? If some one is a fan living in Spain with a family who can only travel for 2 games a season but at a much bigger financial and time cost is he more or less loyal than some one jumping on a bus for 10 minutes? We are in a position where the ground is far too small for demand. The ability to get a ticket should not become an even more closed shop. I personally would also “never” release any more season tickets. If we increase capacity or when people do not renew put those into a the membership pool.

I've said this before but I believe there should be scope in FFP for additional equity injection from owners if they can demonstrate that they are not milking fans. For example if our ticket price is £20, we have a waiting list for tickets and are sold out. If Arsenal are charging £100 for an equivalent ticket then £80 * 52,000 should be able to be injected. Until rules like this exist commercial revenue must be increased.

Maybe even to keep last years queue would have cost money to implement due to the changes in the stadium. A few sections hove been tweaked (at least hospitality, safe standing). The stadium seat picker looked a piece of crap. I would imagine changing any of this would come at a cost. I'm not sure who wrote the web site. Maybe Ashley had his fingers in it ?

https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1686316208885239808?s=20

i don’t like the replaying of audio on replays.

Mine failed with some message like "a potentially dangerous request....". Back to the start

Fair market value. So they cant block as such. But they can say that if we were getting 40 million (for the sake of argument) that not all of that would apply to the FFP calc. Given that this is a transaction between related parties. Edit so maybe pizza fella was right that it should have been Friday as we were waiting on the PL. EOW nothing happened and they closed shop for the weekend. And we just thought fuck them we want Barnes in the US. (I do have an active imagination. I also thought the hearse could be to promote a film. So my speculation matters little)

My wild speculation. Stuck at the PL. We went ahead with Barnes as two fingers up the the PL saying we’d lose a target and we needed him in pre season so they were screwing us due to their slowness approving. Making it clear that that if they now reject ffp issues are due to them. I’ve pulled this from my arse but it would not surprise me. One thing we do know is that they are slow in everything they do.

Wonder goals aside I’ve never seen much from tielemans. I think the lack of interest from the old school “big” 6 on a free and him starting from the bench for villa are somewhat telling. I think he’ll be decent for villa but I would not be surprised if he carries on being used a fair bit as a sub.

After reading Gordon’s comments about the complexity of instructions from Howe a few things are kind of making sense - When he took over there was a slow start. A lot of this was fitness but it took time to get the players drilled on style - Bruno’s introduction to the team seemed to take a frustrating long time. Howe mentioned watching the team at the time to get up to speed - Gordon looking average since Jan, but significantly better for England Tonali is going to go through this (in probably the hardest position to integrate). We’re going to have move visibility of this though as he’s been signed at the start of pre season. So rather than on the training pitch he’s going to learn also in the warm up games. Gordon is also still going through it. Howe is also tweaking the system to try things out. It’s a shame the start of the season is so tough. A wobbly pre season and slow start could get some people on the backs of Tonali and Gordon. Also there will be ammunition for opposition fans to go fishing on Twitter. Personally I have no worries that they’ll both be excellent for us.

Don’t get me wrong. By all probabilities I think it’s really unlikely he did it. But I just find it really hard to believe that a serious “gangster” would do it either. Something doesn’t sit right with me. The most likely reality is that a bunch of wannabe kids thought this was big time.

A failed medical would screw quite a few things up. This feels like a bit like moving house in a chain.

I get the murder attempts. Paint on houses, smashed windows, cars doing donuts isn’t particularly intimidating when you’re part of that world. For me and you sure scary shit sleepless nights. But for proper organised crime it just sounds a bit school boy. I’ve chatted a bit over the years with someone who married into this world. He didn’t talk a lot but the bits I got were staying away from attention was massive. When threats were needed they were generally face to face and when someone who potentially didn’t know what they were dealing with needed to be made aware. But equally I guess you get the kids in London now publishing music videos bragging and promoting themselves so what do I know.

I assume nothing from someone who chooses to do this for self promotion. edit - credit to him to be fair. He’s managed to carve out a living from Newcastle shows, films, promotions etc. I have listened to a couple of the pod casts around the take over times and he does come across on those quite well. But his Twitter feed is almost constant self promotion of what he’s got going on. I have no clue whether last night was promotion or genuine threats. I just find the idea that a criminal gang would think the cars and threats was in any way a good idea unlikely.

officer it obviously wasn’t me that did this for self promotion. They called me a nonce.

This all seems a bit weird to me. If it is genuine feud between the “gangsters” of Newcastle this comes across as a bit small time. Driving a car into a football pitch dropping leaflets! I would have thought actual violence would be more likely. Why do something that just gets massive attention? Unless the attention should help promote something…

Our ITK beat him by 3 minutes.

This is where I'm at. I've watched about a minute of his vlog videos and was bored so turned off. Not my thing. But loads of younger people than me like this work of thing so fair play. The haters are way sadder in my eyes than what he is doing. Ever so often he does do a video that really makes me laugh. I cant tell if it's deliberate or not.

It has all gone over my head.

I don’t think it’s as simple as people make out when they say things like 30m in means we can buy 3 players for 50m over 5 years (as this year the cost of the 50m player is just 10m). This doesn’t take into account the following years accounts when 30m does not come in. I guess either commercial revenue needs to keep going up or players need to be constantly sold to make up for a short fall. I’m probably missing something though.

"dribbling utter wank" ?