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Mags Giving Away Tickets

Heroes 73 said:
Trying to get a Scottish fan base John Hall style when he wanted Wearside to be a suburb of Tyneside to a certain extent it worked in Durham ...
FTM
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Going off at a tangent slightly here but it's been quite refreshing to me. Last night got served drinks in the Blenheim Hotel Spittal (not quite Scotland) by a lad in an Safc training top. He and his son are season card holders, very much a Berwick lad by his accent. Asked him how the land lyes, loads of other red n white in Berwick, just like other places there's loads of daft mags who couldn't point to sid James on a map who are never out of their strips. Up here in July, in Eyemouth and bumped into another mlf out walking the dogs. He was from Scotland and a season card holder too. He also reckoned plenty Safc around South East Scotland and East Lothian.

Heartening.
 

Wonderful stuff.

I think their whole club and infrastructure has been hacked.

Something the owners know a thing or two about.
 
There's also this from Hays Travel in Whitley Bay selling tickets for £200-£275 as they've got them from a reputable sports company that were allocated the tickets and pricing from NUFC. This is probably one reason why their gate receipts now hit £50m from 52k crowds. I hope this never happens at SAFC and going down the milk the fans route and maybe those who don't like empty seats and don't want to expand will realise what will happen if demand exceeds supply.

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There's also the reselling websites taking the piss and this person with 5 accounts couldn't get a ticket.

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There was over 100,000 in the queue and the some mags will think this is 100,000 separate people but it will be far from it. There are people with multiple accounts and there's no doubt bots on there from the touts also given they can sell tickets for £200+. Pay just £37 each for 6 memberships and get 1 ticket to resell and that's the 6 memberships paid for. . I see we've stopped the waiting list for season tickets but I wonder how many of those in the list will be genuine fans and how many will be multiple or tout accounts.

At least they got their club back but there's no doubt the mags will be infested with bot memberships now as it's rife in football. For example Liverpool shut down 1,000s of fake accounts.

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Arsenal cancelled 26,000

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Chelsea had loads cancelled and 350,000 attempted purchases when switching ticketing platform.

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Following the transition to our new ticketing platform, the system identified and blocked over 350,000 attempted purchases from bots during our first Premier League on sale period for the new season.
 
If it's specifically the posho kids they're courting as future fans, it could well have the opposite effect with normal Scottish kids. Who wants to support the team that all the Tarquins & Jontys go to see?
 
Lo Ursem said:
Annual fees at this private school range from £14,000 to £20,600 per year.
It's a clever marketing ploy to allow them the opportunity to buy tickets. One or two, when they become tomorrow's high net-worth individuals, will be only too grateful to pay thousands for a padded seat in an exclusive corporate area within St. James' Park. The CL game is United 's opportunity to groom them.
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😕 I'd assumed it was a good deed for deprived kids. Should have known better.
 
marsey said:
45 of them to a school in Dundee for the home game against Barcelona.

The peasants are revolting. :lol:
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Doesn't every club give away free tickets to schools every game. My local 7th tier club do.

It's very normal I think the school have to apply for them, one game a year allowed. But a couple of hundred are set aside every game I presume.

If there lucky they might get on the application list for all of the non playing kit etc at the end of the season.

Very normal.
 
“Wuh giving away tickets in Dundee”
Junior Birdman said:
There was a bloke on the radio complaining he can't get a ticket for league games despite being a member. Well, mate, there were plenty of tickets available before the Saudi's took over. I bet you didn't bother your arse then.
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Prerrtest and boycoutt against Ashley and zero hour contracts iirc
 
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Iamme said:
Doesn't every club give away free tickets to schools every game. My local 7th tier club do.

It's very normal I think the school have to apply for them, one game a year allowed. But a couple of hundred are set aside every game I presume.

If there lucky they might get on the application list for all of the non playing kit etc at the end of the season.

Very normal.
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A public school full of rich kids hundreds of miles away with £20K fees?

Not normal in my opinion.

Nowt the matter with local schools and families who ordinarily couldn't afford to go to the match as we do/did.
 
If fat Mike had been running the show beds all over Tyneside would have been striped if their sheets by now.
However their murdering overloads can do no wrong.
Nauseating set of a***hole fans.
 
Its disgusting. The way football has and is going is minging. Fans ultimately the ones always shit on. We would be up in arms at anything similar, and rightly so. Fans actually need to pull together on shite like this creeping in, as it will be all of us eventually
 
SAFC11 said:
Its disgusting. The way football has and is going is minging. Fans ultimately the ones always shit on. We would be up in arms at anything similar, and rightly so. Fans actually need to pull together on shite like this creeping in, as it will be all of us eventually
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Made their beds when they bent over and accepted the Saudi's I'm afraid. Many outside their bubble could see exactly what was coming down the road, but they couldn't or didn't want to see it.
 
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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