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[The League Cup Final] Newcastle United vs. Manchester United: 26/02/2023 @ 4.30pm (Sky)


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We packed 3 season tickets in and, because of that, we're largely responsible for Ashley selling up while all you scabs kept on paying into his bulging, baggy jeans' pockets. I should get a ticket before Youz... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only joking, hope you all get ya tickets. Excited isn't the word but trepidation is in the mix. 

'74 was a grim day for this 11yr old, then, kid. 

76 perhaps worse because we hoped they wouldn't freeze again and the opponents weren't Liverpool. 

Then I got to go to semis and finals & experience the whole "pleasure and pain" 

Really need to win this and break the mould..... 

 

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28 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

We packed 3 season tickets in and, because of that, we're largely responsible for Ashley selling up while all you scabs kept on paying into his bulging, baggy jeans' pockets. I should get a ticket before Youz... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only joking, hope you all get ya tickets. Excited isn't the word but trepidation is in the mix. 

'74 was a grim day for this 11yr old, then, kid. 

76 perhaps worse because we hoped they wouldn't freeze again and the opponents weren't Liverpool. 

Then I got to go to semis and finals & experience the whole "pleasure and pain" 

Really need to win this and break the mould..... 

 

Must have been strange as a kid then. Newcastle, historically one of the most successful clubs in the country. 2 cup finals within a few years. Then having to wait 22 years for another final. At the time probably thinking, we’ll be in plenty of these from now on.

 

Only now having waited 24 years :lol:

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9 hours ago, OCOCOL said:


exactly. 
 

we all love the club but it’s natural that those who have put the most money through the till will be rewarded (I appreciate those who boycotted because of ashley might now be disadvantaged but I’d guess a lot if these will know enough people to source tickets anyway). 

I think, and I could be wrong, that this is the crux of Ian’s argument. There’s a huge assumption that ‘loyalty’ is linked to the amount of money someone has put into something. That’s a societal issue, though, which is so deep rooted that a lot of you can’t see it, and why the argument is circular. How do you define loyalty? For a lot of you it’s clearly linked to money where a football club is concerned. That’s fair enough, but there are other ways of thinking about it. I think that’s the point.

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8 minutes ago, TheDimpleboy said:

 

I think match day attendance both home and away is by far and away the best metric of loyalty like. 

 

Money alone (e.g. buying things from club shop) is not loyalty , I'd agree there.

 

Sitting on a bus to Bournemouth for a 22 hour round trip that leaves at 2am and gets back at midnight the following day - is definitely loyalty. 

Yeah I totally understand that.

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2 hours ago, TheGuv said:

Must have been strange as a kid then. Newcastle, historically one of the most successful clubs in the country. 2 cup finals within a few years. Then having to wait 22 years for another final. At the time probably thinking, we’ll be in plenty of these from now on.

 

Only now having waited 24 years :lol:

 

Realizing that this final is further in time from the 1999 one, than the 1998 one was from the 76 one was one of those 'shit I'm old' moments. Thought it was proper olden days the 76 final when i was a kid at the 90s ones - that's what kids now think of the 90s finals.

 

 

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57 minutes ago, TheGuv said:

Must have been strange as a kid then. Newcastle, historically one of the most successful clubs in the country. 2 cup finals within a few years. Then having to wait 22 years for another final. At the time probably thinking, we’ll be in plenty of these from now on.

 

Only now having waited 24 years :lol:

Early 70s we were lush. You're correct, also, that we were thinking we were a very good cup side and this would be regular including more consistency in the league. 

Then we sold Mcdonald, then Kennedy etc etc and went to rat shit. 

I was always dead loyal to the Toon players tho. Doing my "Best 11" team I could pick from and I still had most of ours in it. 

 

Be nice to win something ?

 

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52 minutes ago, jack j said:

Anyone know how much of the allocation is roughly left after the first couple of days?

Lots. I’d guess 25K left so today will be the busiest day queue wise. Most popular areas have been lower tier behind the goal but still availability. The more expensive seats near the trophy lift and upper and lower south west corner of ground.

 

Just remember now if you want a single seat it will try and force you to pick the end of the row it certain blocks.

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12 minutes ago, Geogaddi said:

Is it just a case of logging on for 10 and getting a random place in the queue? No benefit to logging on earlier or anything? 


On normal days, it shuffles the queue at 10 so it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been logged on. Just make sure you don’t miss 10. 
 

For the ballot stages I guess the queue doesn’t matter. One entry per person no matter when you log on. 

 

 

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I wouldn't begrudge anyone a ticket because, thankfully, the fractured and bickering fanbase has been replaced with one that is as united as it is likely to get in modern times.

 

Yes, there were thousands who decided to facilitate the extreme troughs of the Ashley era/didn't care/didn't know about the gaslighting, the patronising, the sneering, the exploitation, the hollowing-out, the appalling treatment of certain players, the disrespect of club legends, the disregard of heritage and community and sporting integrity, and generally just the slow death of the club - and you might wonder if those people are less deserving of whatever are the extreme highs of the post-Ashley era. But hopefully everyone is in it and enjoying it together now and we don't have to think about that sort of stuff too much any more. :lol: 

 

Well done to anyone who gets a ticket and I hope it's a class day and we win, which I think we will. As a TV viewer on the day it'll just be #limbs and I won't care whose they are! It'll be amazing. 

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1 hour ago, BlueStar said:

Oh God, someone's got a You'll Do For Me Bonny Lad flag to take.  Definitely have a Live, Laugh, Love sign in their kitchen.

 

 

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Well there’s my new screensaver sorted. It’s a touching tribute, and who ever got into trouble for touching?

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43 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Lots. I’d guess 25K left so today will be the busiest day queue wise. Most popular areas have been lower tier behind the goal but still availability. The more expensive seats near the trophy lift and upper and lower south west corner of ground.

 

Just remember now if you want a single seat it will try and force you to pick the end of the row it certain blocks.

Aye I had that on Monday when I was on. My pal who I'm not linked accounts with had his 2 and I tried to click the one beside and it wouldn't let me. So had to get the row in front on the end

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4 minutes ago, worldchoicesports said:

Anyone still looking to get down to Wembley for the Carabao Cup Final?

Worldchoice Sports are running a direct and non-stop return charter train service from Newcastle to Wembley Central Station on the day of the final.

The train is guaranteed to run, and will avoid the engineering works on the East Coast line that will impact normal scheduled services getting to Wembley.

Check out https://www.worldchoicesports.co.uk/package/carabao-cup-final-from-newcastle/. Standard class return journey rail fare from £145.

 

 

Non stop but takes 5.5-6 hours

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