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Mags Giving Away Tickets

Frijj said:
Shocking PR for the mags like

£20k a year private school in Dundee getting tickets to sell to their kids

Local lads missing out on tickets

Colours aside it’s shite for local folk to be priced out in favour of some posh kids hundreds of miles away

We’d be foaming if for example play off final tickets were being given free to a school in Chester whilst our own lads were missing out

Why does their club hate their local fans from Walker and Byker?
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Have you seen the f***ing clip of them?
 

Bossworld said:
We went to a Man City game last year as the bairn was desperate to see another ground and De Bruyne and co, as a birthday present. Cost me a fortune in terms of memberships and tickets. The tickets we bought were part of a second phase release, towards the top of a side stand. It showed just how slick their commercial operation is, off and on the pitch, their equivalent of the Beacon pre match activities was off the charts in comparison.

Point I'm making is that sat around us was a Scottish contingent of about 10 kids and their coaches who were all frantically checking the Ayr United score, throughout the match. I'm guessing it was an U13s team. Must be quite a few Prem teams who do similar group football packages to that, and this Newcastle/Barca thing.

It is the way football is heading more generally - for clubs that are selling out their grounds, season tickets make no financial sense. They want a different bum on a different seat for every game and to sell food, drink and merch.
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And if it's a one-off game in a place they haven't visited before they will pay over the odds. I think the City mascot 'package' is £600 !
 
Frijj said:
Purely through accident of geography as discussed. They’re the only major football club between Glasgow and Newcastle, and Cumbria has no real clubs other than Carlisle.

They have all of Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle (roughly 800k people) all to themselves plus almost all of Gateshead (190k), half of Durham (250k), half of South Tyneside (100k), etc.

There is nothing inherently special about the club they just happen to have a monopoly on 800,000 fans.
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Always thought the lack of league clubs up here was an oddity (as someone originally from the top end of the mids/South Yorks where there are lots of clubs in a small radius who still pull good individual crowds). Means there's disproportionate catchment areas as you say. More like a "one club region" if you're looking only at league clubs, though I guess there's argument to be had about Sunderland and County Durham too.

I need a history lesson on Cat D villages and the like, but looking at in in pure population terms,

Gateshead: 196,000 people, avg attendance 1,400
South Shields: 75,000, 1,900
Blyth: 40,000, 900

Comparative league clubs population:

Middlesbrough c. 175,000 (CH) - avg attendance 25,000
Chesterfield (L2): 75,000, 8,000
Barrow/Accrington (L2) 45,000/35,000, 3,300/2,500

Thing is, if Gateshead ever make it to the football league, can you see them even matching Barrow's attendance? It'd almost need a Man Utd / FCUM situation to kick start it, though it looks like that's died a death.
 
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rupert rigsby said:
Sunderland will extend the stadium to fill the demand your lot won't
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Good. Won’t be an issue for SAFC fans then.
CostadelRoker said:
Are you sure? Everything is pointing to KLD extending the SoL should we be in the position where we sell out regularly and establish ourselves.

SAFC have a real opportunity of becoming THE north east team, who actually represent our region and not just a sports washing project.

See also the fact we have given 85 and over free season cards
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Wasn’t aware of that for Seniors. Thats a great touch. Very much to be applauded.
 
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Biffo The Bear said:
As soon as demand outstrips supply it will be the same at Sunderland. Will that be ok for normal fans to miss out. You lot have, after all, been demanding a return to Premier League football.
Fans across the country being shit on.
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how do you know it'll be the same at sunderland?
for a club that's supposed to be 'the richest club in the world' making a few grand doesn't seem to fit.
your owners are mugging you off.
 
EverBlue86 said:
Never used to sell out their away allocation until the Saudi's turned up.

They use the excuse that they were protesting against Mike Ashley yet EFC fans have sold out home and away the past few seasons despite protests against the former board who accused a fan of assaulting the CEO with no proof or report made to Merseyside police of the incident.

Every fanbase is great during the good times, its the bad times that seperate the top fanbases from the fair weather ones in my opinion.
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Newcastle, like Sunderland, have excellent support and that isn’t only since MBS arrived. Neither club is really deserving of the support they enjoy.
humbug said:
how do you know it'll be the same at sunderland?
for a club that's supposed to be 'the richest club in the world' making a few grand doesn't seem to fit.
your owners are mugging you off.
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Because the touts, on the resale sites, will buy them to make a profit. Just like they do at many others.
 
Biffo The Bear said:
Newcastle, like Sunderland, have excellent support and that isn’t only since MBS arrived. Neither club is really deserving of the support they enjoy.
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Your club is vile mate. Proper shell of a club that it once was, shitting on its own fans for the sake of being able to afford the next Isak.
I’d rather follow Sunderland in league one than turn into that, and I will die on that hill.
 
Biffo The Bear said:
Because the touts, on the resale sites, will buy them to make a profit. Just like they do at many others.
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perhaps so but you don't know. it's a nothing argument and i prefer to deal in facts.
let's face it, these people in charge of your club are nothing you expected them to be. i know you all knew they were murderers and disregarded that fact in the hope they were going to 'give the club back'. that's working really well isn't it?
 
InsomniacAttack said:
It won't happen here because we didn't beg to be owned by a despotic state to increase our revenues.
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You won’t get to a point where supply & demand is such that touts can make a profit from buying up tickets?
Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal all have issues. None begged for a change in owner. If there is money to be made the touts will arrive.
Seaham_FTM said:
Your club is vile mate. Proper shell of a club that it once was, shitting on its own fans for the sake of being able to afford the next Isak.
I’d rather follow Sunderland in league one than turn into that, and I will die on that hill.
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I would rather follow a shit Newcastle in second division and/or struggling in Premier League. In fact I did, and don’t now.
 
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Biffo The Bear said:
Good. Won’t be an issue for SAFC fans then.

Wasn’t aware of that for Seniors. Thats a great touch. Very much to be applauded
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Agreed, only club in the PL (possibly EFL) to do so. Although I’d have liked to see the age lowered to say 80 (but hey ho!)

I’d love to think if KLD (or any owner / state) comes along and starts pricing out folk or we don’t have incentives for low income people etc RAWA and the supporter’s groups would kick up a massive fuss.

KLD has definitely been learning on the job so to speak, since taking over in league one. But he seems in tune with (and more importantly is getting good people around him) who understand the importance of SAFC continuing to be a community club and accessible for people in our region.
 
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marsey said:
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How can this possibly have a negative spin applied.
 
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