TRon Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 18 minutes ago, Nobody said: Just take a second to remind yourselves of the absolute fucking bullshit we've been through in recent times, and compare that to how amazing this feels. 15 years of Mike Ashley, two relegations, Joe Fucking Kinnear (twice!), Alan Pardew, Steve McCLaren, John Carver, Charnley, Steve Bruce. Remember all those horrible, condecending "interviews" with Ashley and his cronies. Fucking hell do we deserve this, we've all been through the absolute fucking worst of the worst, and to come out on the other side with Champions League football only 18 months later, man it's absolutely fucking incredible. John Carver. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Only just noticed the banner on here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Imagine the media frenzy if we end up with PSG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Been giggling to myself all day about this. We're in the fucking Champions League, man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Dancer Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 I'd take literally anybody. Not arsed if truth be told, but personally I'd sooner have the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern. All about the memories, and I don't doubt we'd be competitive too, although a 'weaker' team from Pot 3 would be welcome so we could at least get 3rd place worst case and drop into Europa. Dream group; Dortmund Real Madrid Crvena NUFC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphanage Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, TRon said: oops Edited May 23, 2023 by Orphanage wrong post quoted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Displayname Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Ill take Feyenoord, Porto and the Serbian team. Can wait with the big name until we get further into the competition. Would rather not want the extra games from dropping down into Europe League. Going for the Premier League title next year with City hopefully deducted some points Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphanage Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 3 hours ago, Nobody said: Just take a second to remind yourselves of the absolute fucking bullshit we've been through in recent times, and compare that to how amazing this feels. 15 years of Mike Ashley, two relegations, Joe Fucking Kinnear (twice!), Alan Pardew, Steve McCLaren, John Carver, Charnley, Steve Bruce. Remember all those horrible, condecending "interviews" with Ashley and his cronies. Fucking hell do we deserve this, we've all been through the absolute fucking worst of the worst, and to come out on the other side with Champions League football only 18 months later, man it's absolutely fucking incredible. Newcastle United , who swam through a river of shit and came out the other side ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondonewc Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Do we think its possible we'll be allowed to do similar to what Frankfurt did at Barca when they had 30k+ in the ground even though they only had 5k official tickets. How have peoples past experience of this been with sitting in the home end at European away games? Obviously depends who the team is and thus how hostile they'll be but could imagine for example Real Madrid won't be too excited about playing us at home whereas for many of us its the dream tie, could easily see us taking huge numbers to Madrid and would be class if everyone could go to the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 4 minutes ago, mondonewc said: Do we think its possible we'll be allowed to do similar to what Frankfurt did at Barca when they had 30k+ in the ground even though they only had 5k official tickets. How have peoples past experience of this been with sitting in the home end at European away games? Obviously depends who the team is and thus how hostile they'll be but could imagine for example Real Madrid won't be too excited about playing us at home whereas for many of us its the dream tie, could easily see us taking huge numbers to Madrid and would be class if everyone could go to the game. Barca aren’t playing at the Nou Camp next season as it’s being redeveloped. Playing at Montjuic, which holds 55k, unless the plans have changed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 4 hours ago, Nobody said: Just take a second to remind yourselves of the absolute fucking bullshit we've been through in recent times, and compare that to how amazing this feels. 15 years of Mike Ashley, two relegations, Joe Fucking Kinnear (twice!), Alan Pardew, Steve McCLaren, John Carver, Charnley, Steve Bruce. Remember all those horrible, condecending "interviews" with Ashley and his cronies. Fucking hell do we deserve this, we've all been through the absolute fucking worst of the worst, and to come out on the other side with Champions League football only 18 months later, man it's absolutely fucking incredible. Genuinely can't believe this all happened Watching court briefing sessions live on the internet and cheering on the barrister, FFS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Getting into home ends is really down to how hard the home club make it. We were in the home end for Bruges and for that you needed a Belgian IP address for the online application and then you had to collect the tickets from the stadium in advance of the game. Luckily one of the lads had a Brussels office and a bloke bought the tickets and popped over to get them. We were also in the home end at Herenveen and from memory that was fairly easy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondonewc Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 1 minute ago, SteV said: Barca aren’t playing at the Nou Camp next season as it’s being redeveloped. Playing at Montjuic, which holds 55k, unless the plans have changed? Yeah that's correct, I was just using them as an example as I remember Frankfurt taking over the Nou Camp. I was wondering what the experience has been like for those who've done away games in Europe and attempted to sit in the home end, or just what people think we can expect for next season trying to do this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 34 minutes ago, Displayname said: Ill take Feyenoord, Porto and the Serbian team. Can wait with the big name until we get further into the competition. Would rather not want the extra games from dropping down into Europe League. Going for the Premier League title next year with City hopefully deducted some points Europa League knockouts would be great and a legitimate chance to win a trophy. It's also another path to CL qualification, would help our UEFA coefficient, and the potential to earn additional millions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 (edited) Based on the above and some quick google stadium capacity checks, I reckon the following is ballpark what we should expect in terms of minimum allocations for teams currently confirmed in the group stage: Barcelona - 2750 Napoli - 2736 Dortmund - 4068 PSG - 2485 Benfica - 3232 Feyenoord - 2559 Bayern Munich - 3750 Real Madrid - 4052 Atletico Madrid - 3400 RB Leipzig - 2353 Porto - 2522 Salzburg - 1476 Lazio - 3635 Crvena zvezda - 2650 Sevilla - 2136 Inter/AC Milan - 3790 *as I say, they’re very much just ballpark estimates as a quick search shows Chelsea got 3819 at Dortmund this year and Man City only took 1800 for Madrid (could have been all they wanted like). Edited June 1, 2023 by SteV Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondonewc Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Hopefully some of the big boys give us a bigger allocation so more people can be in our end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 47 minutes ago, SteV said: Barca aren’t playing at the Nou Camp next season as it’s being redeveloped. Playing at Montjuic, which holds 55k, unless the plans have changed? That is correct. Usually it's rather easy for away fans to get more tickets than the official allocation because Camp Nou only fills up in big games, but it will be harder with 40k less seats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloydianMag Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 I reckon that there are a few Pot 1&2 teams are hoping that Newcastle out of Pot 4 aren’t in their group!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyc35i Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 5 hours ago, FloydianMag said: I reckon that there are a few Pot 1&2 teams are hoping that Newcastle out of Pot 4 aren’t in their group!! And I’d back us to beat any of those teams in pot 3 home and away Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 How come we took 15k to the San Siro back in the day then? Bother put a stop to those sorts of allocations then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 I won't be able to get a ticket but I'll there for one of the games. Got 2 days holiday left until Jan 2024. Off Tuesdays anyway. #vital Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 5 hours ago, mondonewc said: Hopefully some of the big boys give us a bigger allocation so more people can be in our end. Last time we played Barca a lot of the stadium was emptyish Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC91 Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Would love one of madrids, a german side and Celtic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 3 minutes ago, Doctor Zaius said: How come we took 15k to the San Siro back in the day then? Bother put a stop to those sorts of allocations then? They allocations I posted are just estimates at the minimum allocations we could/would get given. So theoretically Milan or anyone else could give us 15k again if they wanted to, I mean they won’t cos it a different world now and that almost never happens anymore, but they could. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 10 minutes ago, andyc35i said: And I’d back us to beat any of those teams in pot 3 home and away I think we’re probably a better team than pretty much everyone projected to be in Pot 3 (Lazio are decent tbf) but it’s still a big ask for us as a team not having been in the CL before to be going somewhere like Milan and winning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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