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SteV

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As @Kilcline mentioned earlier, facial recognition for entry is coming, whether people like it or not.

 

I’m interested to know people’s thoughts. 
 

On one hand it’s an intrusion of civil liberties, has the potential to be a right fuck on, and seems an all round draconian measure.

 

On the other hand it should make it significantly more difficult to tout. Can’t see how third party resellers would get round it tbh?

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HaydnNUFC

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Think it’s 1984-esque draconian horseshit.

 

E-tickets make it far too easy to tout. Clubs will never go back to paper tickets however as all they give a shit about is money rather than who sits in the seat. Including NUFC.

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1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Think it’s 1984-esque draconian horseshit.

 

E-tickets make it far too easy to tout. Clubs will never go back to paper tickets however as all they give a shit about is money rather than who sits in the seat. Including NUFC.

That may well be true, but touting is of no benefit to the club, as they aren’t the ones receiving the extortionate fees.

 

If the club know the demand is there to sustain ticket prices at this inflated level, I’m sure they want to be the ones benefiting from it, as opposed to these organised touting groups.

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Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Can't see facial recognition until we get a new stadium, if at all. We only just managed to install barcode readers.

Yeah, a new stadium with vastly better infrastructure would probably be the point that it would be introduced, if it were to be.

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2 hours ago, SteV said:

As @Kilcline mentioned earlier, facial recognition for entry is coming, whether people like it or not.

 

I’m interested to know people’s thoughts. 
 

On one hand it’s an intrusion of civil liberties, has the potential to be a right fuck on, and seems an all round draconian measure.

 

On the other hand it should make it significantly more difficult to tout. Can’t see how third party resellers would get round it tbh?

Can’t wait. If it fucks the touts then who cares. Only a problem if you’re doing something illegal.

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21 hours ago, SteV said:

That may well be true, but touting is of no benefit to the club, as they aren’t the ones receiving the extortionate fees.

 

If the club know the demand is there to sustain ticket prices at this inflated level, I’m sure they want to be the ones benefiting from it, as opposed to these organised touting groups.

 

Apparently Chelsea, or more to the point their owner benefits from this as they tout there tickets through an agency that they own. Top level football is a very murky wold these days. Touting contradicts everything else they do. If me or you want a ticket they need to know our name, address, DOB, supporter number that they've allocated us etc, yet they are perfectly happy for 100s of their tickets to be touted to people who they have no idea about.

 

Don't mind facial recognition at all tbh. We already do it when we go through passport control these days. And it's a genuine deterant to touting.

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42 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

Apparently Chelsea, or more to the point their owner benefits from this as they tout there tickets through an agency that they own. Top level football is a very murky wold these days. Touting contradicts everything else they do. If me or you want a ticket they need to know our name, address, DOB, supporter number that they've allocated us etc, yet they are perfectly happy for 100s of their tickets to be touted to people who they have no idea about.

 

Don't mind facial recognition at all tbh. We already do it when we go through passport control these days. And it's a genuine deterant to touting.

Tbh, although clubs could clearly be doing more (and assuming they aren’t all as dodgily connected to it as Chelsea) they’ll only ever be adding temporary inconveniences to the touts (barring something drastic like facial recognition).

 

Really it needs governmental intervention to crack down on these reselling sites. Clearly as they’re all based in foreign countries, it would be a significant undertaking, and it would take time. But as we’ve seen with the recent restrictions introduced to porn sites (so I’m told…), if there’s enough political will, these things get done. Would a government (of any political persuasion) be bothered enough to get involved with this? Unless the pressure from public opinion became significantly greater, I doubt it.

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Just to confirm the situation regarding season ticket holders reselling their tickets. When you do this the club take over the re-selling and if a sale occurs then you simply (and reasonably) get back 1/19 of your season ticket cost. 
 

However the club resell at the price they want and it is they that get the additional profit and not the season ticket holder.

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On 26/08/2025 at 11:50, SteV said:

As @Kilcline mentioned earlier, facial recognition for entry is coming, whether people like it or not.

 

I’m interested to know people’s thoughts. 
 

On one hand it’s an intrusion of civil liberties, has the potential to be a right fuck on, and seems an all round draconian measure.

 

On the other hand it should make it significantly more difficult to tout. Can’t see how third party resellers would get round it tbh?

Digital ID’s without handing over your details would be better.

 

Driving licence on your digital wallet, all it takes if for when you enter the stadium, your phone does an encrypted check with you driving licence or other ID ‘Does this name correspond with the ticket holders name?’

Yes, allow entry,

No, do not allow entry.

 

Apple already does it with Apple Pay, we already have encryption with messages widespread. The principle is the same.

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20 minutes ago, Stifler said:

Digital ID’s without handing over your details would be better.

 

Driving licence on your digital wallet, all it takes if for when you enter the stadium, your phone does an encrypted check with you driving licence or other ID ‘Does this name correspond with the ticket holders name?’

Yes, allow entry,

No, do not allow entry.

 

Apple already does it with Apple Pay, we already have encryption with messages widespread. The principle is the same.

I’ll let you tell Barry from Byker that sits in the East Stand, he needs to get himself some digital ID on his digital wallet…

 

But, yes, done correctly, it’s probably not that much different to facial recognition.

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4 minutes ago, SteV said:

I’ll let you tell Barry from Byker that sits in the East Stand, he needs to get himself some digital ID on his digital wallet…

 

But, yes, done correctly, it’s probably not that much different to facial recognition.

It’s just going to be very difficult to cut it out without someone somewhere being unhappy or finding a way around it.

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7 hours ago, kingxlnc said:

Not the worst suggestion. Is he retired or who does he play for now?

 

Retired after the last Euros in his homeland iirc :thup:

 

Just tuned into that podcast on Spotify (with my elementary understanding of German). Weird to hear him mention Dan Burn. [emoji38] Think he's loved our "mentalität" in the last game. Started well, feared the worst when we went down to 10 men against the best team in the country but fans and team kept going. Might have misheard it but believes we would've won had it it been 11v11. Then talked about his "premium membership". 

 

Just love hearing more neutrals rave about the way we played last weekend, moreso from a player of his stature. Definitely made a powerful statement about what NUFC is all about and won fans despite the loss.

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Someone made a transcript of what he said on the podcast on reddit

 

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Newcastle, Liverpool, just to say that again briefly for the few people here who haven't seen it, we're talking about that right now. Yes, that's right. And I'm going to sign up as a Newcastle member today. Yeah, great atmosphere, right? Yeah, not just the atmosphere, but also the team. Are you really doing that? Can you just do it like that? I'd celebrate if you did that now. Sure, you can definitely become a Newcastle member. You can do that in Germany too, right? Is it different there? I don't know how it is, but if it's possible, please do it. I think it's a cool move on your part.

 

Yeah, they completely captivated me. They really captivated me yesterday…I read a quote from Jamie Carragher, and I often disagree, but I have to say, he said that it was, in part, one of the worst performances in history from a winning team, and one of the best performances in history from a losing team. And I agree with that. I have to say that.

Now let's put aside the football quality, which was also very good, for a moment. That mentality, I take my hat off to that. I watched the game with Leon, and he was partly looking at me because I really started celebrating at the smallest things in Newcastle from the second half onwards. Every shot, and there were a lot of them from behind. And he's Liverpool now, with Flo and all.

 

I was totally on board, and he was always against it. That was funny, but then I watched the game from a different perspective…what kind of body language from a team that's been really punched in the face several times during the game. Even played well beforehand, right? Yeah, exactly, they're playing really well, and then out of nowhere, as often happens, sometimes even against such favorites, they get 0-1. Boom. They get a red card with the halftime whistle…

 

You come out, 15 seconds down 0-2. You play, again, you're playing against the champions, the best team in England, trailing 0-2 and one down. And what happened in the 45th, no, 55th minutes, was insane. It was simply insane mentally. And I have to say, I've rarely seen a team stay so active with ten men, even at the risk of conceding six, seven, or eight at the end when you're somehow open. And then in the second half, you can put your stamp on things like that, not sitting back and saying, please not the third, please not the fourth, somehow making it 2-1.

 

Of course, the goals are all products of the game; they're not playing from the back to the last man, which is completely obvious, which they wouldn't have done with eleven either, I think, or at least not for long. But what that does then, what you've already noticed on TV with the stadium, and again a big surprise, we've often spoken with Real about that effect here, too, and what it did to Liverpool surprised me a lot, too. So, to let yourself be pushed back by ten men like that once again.

You know how it is, sometimes there's that twitch, make it 2-1, okay, both teams probably didn't fully count, but that's how it is. But sometimes you get the underdogs or those who are outnumbered, that they then rebel again, and then those five or ten minutes, that phase, they really have to use to score goals. And then what happens is, okay, one more, they pull themselves together, they actually have more quality. But that phase just lasted 45 minutes, they were on it. Liverpool once again played out long balls at the back, no more periods of possession. That's crazy.

 

I just think it was really cool to see. There are still things you think you've seen everything in football. And there have certainly been players like that. But it's really incredibly rare that you, an underdog, a shorthanded team against the favorites, play like that. And that's really true; they really crushed you with their mentality. You said they couldn't pull off a magical 11-on-11 game. But I thought that was a different story. It's like playing like that, no matter how awesome the fans were. They went crazy with every little action. No matter what it was, a five-meter pass arrived, a won throw-in, I don't know, anything. There was…Yes, really, they completely lost it. But not for one drive, that was so impressive. For the entire second half after the 0-2.

 

Yes, yes. And then to do it like that when you're outnumbered. You have to put up a resistance and find a will, a passion. I've rarely seen that. And it's all the more bitter in the end that you don't even get rewarded for it. So you actually reward yourself with the equalizer, with the 2-2 short circuit. And then you get the so-called blow to the neck in the final move. I have to say, I've rarely seen a game like that. And it was really fun.

 

Yes, Wait, I can tell you right here. The direction here was exceptionally good. Here's the link for the Newcastle membership. You can go there. And if I see this correctly, 47 pounds for a premium membership. So you only have to pay 47 pounds for a premium membership. I don't know exactly what that means. It doesn't matter. But you'll probably get a ticket for a home game sometime. It doesn't matter. Yes, I'll do it. Fine, I'd do it. Do I have to show up next week at the Thunder? Yes, once, please.

 

Ordering the jersey of, who's the big one at the back? The one at the front for everyone. Dan Burn. He's 33, I think, if I'm not mistaken. An England international. I think Tuchel made him an international. So, a really nasty jerk up front. So, 10 seconds before every corner or throw-in, he was already pushing everyone at least once. Can you please come up with something, could you please order his shirt and post it next week, please? Yeah, sure, but that's also what people think again, that Newcastle somehow never gets a hearing.

 

No, I was 1000 percent taken aback by what they did yesterday. Well, I know that Newcastle obviously has a lot of tradition, but that they're also a club that's somehow in Saudi Arabian hands. But I don't care about any of that. Yesterday was purely about the mentality. And I was, I have to say, I was at the back. Sad is a big word, but I…Let's put it this way: I was disappointed. I was disappointed for Newcastle that the goal was scored in the end….

 

And everyone who was in the stadium yesterday, I think, was very, very proud of their team and went home that way.

 

 

 

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SteV

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Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Is there any news on when to apply for Barca?

 

Seems like these fixtures come out with ridiculously short notice. 

 

 

 

Not yet, would expect news in the next couple of days though.

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