[League Cup Final] Newcastle United Vs. Liverpool - 16/03/25 @ 16:30 (Live on ITV & Sky)

[patrone]

Aye, but at least the odds on the lottery are made public before you pay 🤣

[Elliottman]

Someone’s got to win them… 

[patrone]

In a flap now about wether to apply as a pair, as I always do on the ballots, or as two separate 🤷

 

We are 4 wins from 11 ballots this season applying as a pair.

[SteV]

6 minutes ago, patrone said:

In a flap now about wether to apply as a pair, as I always do on the ballots, or as two separate 🤷

 

We are 4 wins from 11 ballots this season applying as a pair.

If it’s as random as the club make out, it should have absolutely no bearing.

Impossible to determine without knowing the inner workings of the ballot though.

[mattypnufc]

Given my absolutely abysmal record of ballots this season and the last, I’m expecting absolutely precisely fuck all. 

[Jill]

4 hours ago, Tross said:

Might be looking too much into it but why did the pot 6 email go to my junk mail, are they purposely trying to make me miss it so I don’t enter the ballot? Does that mean I have less chance. Anxiety through the roof 😅

 

Mine did too.  

 

Bring on the failure of all failures. 

[SteV]

Anyone know how it’s gonna work if a parent and child are successful in Pot 6 but there’s not two left together when they come to select the seats?

[Superior Acuña]

Hoping confusion and hopelessness drive down the applicants a little bit. Give me something.

[SteV]

Just now, Superior Acuña said:

Hoping confusion and hopelessness drive down the applicants a little bit. Give me something.

Well it might not be quite as big a number as people expect. You had to apply for at least one of the cup games, and there will be a lot of members who can’t do midweek games for whatever reason.

 

Obviously still huge numbers compared to available tickets unfortunately.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Also in a dilemma about singles vs a pair. I know it’s academic like, but still. 

[bobbydazzla]

Lads, reading these last few posts with their slivers of optimism about the million to one ballot, it’s like me pontificating which side of the bed Michelle Collins is gonna sleep on after we’ve done the nasty round at mine 

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[Superior Acuña]

One person from here is going to get one, and I'm going to block them.

[Stifler]

2 minutes ago, Superior Acuña said:

One person from here is going to get one, and I'm going to block them.

Block me now.

[loki679]

11 hours ago, Stifler said:

Block me now.

 

Most people already have. 

[Groundhog63]

Had no real expectations of there even being a pot6 so Monday's ballot has come as a surprise. 

 

In typical human fashion we're prepared to hoy my family under the bus and cancel our Cup Final Party. Fuck it, I'm not that keen in me Dad anyway 😂

I'm joking in a way because we've varnigh zero chance of the pair. 1 success this season. Game 1, as it happens. 

I'm not joking in another way, in that I've looked up campsites for the campervan near....ish. Found a belter. 

 

If we only get one ticket it'll be available somehow 👍

I'll not leave her here with the Brady bunch. 

[Dr Venkman]

35 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Fuck it, I'm not that keen in me Dad anyway

[Groundhog63]

3 minutes ago, Dr Venkman said:

😂

[TheBrownBottle]

44 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Had no real expectations of there even being a pot6 so Monday's ballot has come as a surprise. 

 

In typical human fashion we're prepared to hoy my family under the bus and cancel our Cup Final Party. Fuck it, I'm not that keen in me Dad anyway 😂

I'm joking in a way because we've varnigh zero chance of the pair. 1 success this season. Game 1, as it happens. 

I'm not joking in another way, in that I've looked up campsites for the campervan near....ish. Found a belter. 

 

If we only get one ticket it'll be available somehow 👍

I'll not leave her here with the Brady bunch. 

I wouldn’t worry about it - I learned a harsh lesson re dads and Wembley in 1996.

 

I already had my Charity Shield ticket via my ST (at that point my dad didn’t go anymore - couldn’t afford an adult ST.  So I used to go with my uncle, who did have one).  My dad wanted to go, so when the tickets went on general sale, I offered to go and queue at SJP for a ticket for him.  He dropped me off on his way to work just before 5am (he worked shifts at Parsons), where I queued for about four hours (I was nowhere near the front, btw - people had started queueing the afternoon before!).  Eventually I got to the front, and bought him a ticket behind the goal.  When he got home from work that day, I thought I’d get a bit of praise for getting him a ticket.  His response?  ‘It’s a bit far from the pitch - couldn’t you have got me a better seat?’

 

So my advice - be ruthless  

[Groundhog63]

48 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I wouldn’t worry about it - I learned a harsh lesson re dads and Wembley in 1996.

 

I already had my Charity Shield ticket via my ST (at that point my dad didn’t go anymore - couldn’t afford an adult ST.  So I used to go with my uncle, who did have one).  My dad wanted to go, so when the tickets went on general sale, I offered to go and queue at SJP for a ticket for him.  He dropped me off on his way to work just before 5am (he worked shifts at Parsons), where I queued for about four hours (I was nowhere near the front, btw - people had started queueing the afternoon before!).  Eventually I got to the front, and bought him a ticket behind the goal.  When he got home from work that day, I thought I’d get a bit of praise for getting him a ticket.  His response?  ‘It’s a bit far from the pitch - couldn’t you have got me a better seat?’

 

So my advice - be ruthless  

 

I was only joking anyway. He's alright really 😂 He does get on my tits a bit and I've got issues with certain aspects of his parenting but, after all, he's still my Dad 😂

 

I'm often intrigued at how people can manipulate their own thought processes to suit their, immediate, decision making. Hoying my old man under the proverbial was a play on that 😉

 

Said, earlier, I haven't watched a cup final with him since 1974. After that he went off in the car for a country walk and I went upto the village for a kick about. Be canny NOT having the same outcome, tbf. 

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

 

I was only joking anyway. He's alright really 😂 He does get on my tits a bit and I've got issues with certain aspects of his parenting but, after all, he's still my Dad 😂

 

I'm often intrigued at how people can manipulate their own thought processes to suit their, immediate, decision making. Hoying my old man under the proverbial was a play on that 😉

 

Said, earlier, I haven't watched a cup final with him since 1974. After that he went off in the car for a country walk and I went upto the village for a kick about. Be canny NOT having the same outcome, tbf. 

That’s ok mate - I assumed you were  

[Danh1]

2 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Had no real expectations of there even being a pot6 so Monday's ballot has come as a surprise. 

 

In typical human fashion we're prepared to hoy my family under the bus and cancel our Cup Final Party. Fuck it, I'm not that keen in me Dad anyway 😂

I'm joking in a way because we've varnigh zero chance of the pair. 1 success this season. Game 1, as it happens. 

I'm not joking in another way, in that I've looked up campsites for the campervan near....ish. Found a belter. 

 

If we only get one ticket it'll be available somehow 👍

I'll not leave her here with the Brady bunch. 

Aye I’ve only had one in the ballot this season. 
 

What a time it would be to get a 2nd. I won’t hold my breath though. Could be 50,000 people in for 800 tickets.