Newcastle Have Done What City Should Be Doing

traditionalleesy said:
Another idea along with tickets, City should be doing what West Ham are doing, they have banned half n half scarves in there ground, anyone who turns up with one gets it confiscated,
come on City get it done.
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You can't sell them in the club shop then ban them. Loads of high points fans bought them at Lokeren and Groclin too.
 
Corky said:
I doubt a school would buy tickets all over the place, they would have been offered together, and it is a story made up blaming season ticket holders.

You would have to be a bit challenged to take this on face value.
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The 'safeguarding' issues alone suggest that all 45 tickets would be in the same area, most likely in a block of (say) 15 seats in each of 3 row. Assuming no SEN pupils were going, at least 5 adults would be required to support the children. SEN pupils may need one to one support.

It's opened up a real kettle of fish. It's probably 99% certain that the 45 seats will be located together, and that safety plans/ arrangements will have been discussed and agreed with Newcastle United at an early opportunity.

Newcastle now trying to pass the buck is a joke... To suggest that they are going to take action against the 45 season ticket holders 'involved' would almost certainly be a bare faced lie.

If they've done a deal with the school, they should honour it. At the very least they should reimburse any amounts spent by the school on accommodation, transport costs etc, and offer the same arrangement for a future PL or domestic cup fixture.

They've been caught red-handed fiddling their own supporters. Why are we surprised? It's modern day football.
 
jrb said:
I don’t know.

But Newcastle, If they are being honest, and I have no reason to believe they aren’t being honest, have managed to get the seat details of fans or individual ticket touts selling match tickets for the Barcelona game.

We have ticket touts outside the Etihad buying and selling match tickets on a match day,
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But surely a school party will have to sit together? The 45 naughty touting Geordies would’ve been spread all round the stadium? So the club have sold the block to the school and are claiming to have offset by cancelling season tickets? Mmmm?
 
jrb said:
Forty-five tickets for the group match at St James' Park on 18 September were bought by the High School of Dundee - days after 110,000 fans had been in an online queue for the remaining seats.

A school spokesman said the school purchased the tickets in good faith after being "approached".

But it is understood that the tickets came from unauthorised reselling by fans who have now had their season tickets cancelled.

A Newcastle spokesman said: "These tickets will be made available to Newcastle United supporters through the club's existing ticket sale process."

A similar number of students from the school attended Newcastle's most recent Champions League game, against AC Milan in 2023.

A spokesman for the school previously said the tickets were "bought as part of a group package".

But Newcastle do not have an authorised reseller and the only way to sell season tickets is through the club's official platform at face value.

www.bbc.co.uk

Newcastle v Barcelona tickets: Magpies cancel Dundee school's tickets

Newcastle United cancel tickets purchased by a Scottish school for next week's Champions League game against Barcelona.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Bullshit
 
The thread title should be renamed to ‘Newcastle have been rumbled and are trying to deflect the blame’!

I certainly remember in the early days of the Champions League for City, seeing a school party from Bradford all over in Block 232. They were not particular which seats they were in and ended up in our seats. We had to clear them out. This was common back then when Champions League tickets didn’t exactly fly off the shelves. I haven’t see it repeated in the last 10 years.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I remember when 1894 were campaigning for cheaper away tickets and joined up with Newcastle fans for a display on the Nexen bridge.

I was speaking with some 'Toon' fans and mentioned that we travelled (at the time) from Norfolk, and had done for many years. This dopey bird turned round, scowled at me and said "why don't you support your local team?". I told her that I was from Manchester and had been watching City for nearly 60 years from wherever I lived. She said that I should support Norwich...

They're all as thick as pigshit.

We were at St James's Park many years ago and I asked a copper why the Newcastle fans chanted "Toon" when that wasn't their name. The copper looked across at the Gallowgate and said... "because they're all fucking thick lad"

Case closed.
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Dont forget most are inbred
 
Wasn’t long ago well 1990/91 they were only averaging 16k and some of them were ironically Scots …. Celtic fans obsessed with Roy Aitken
 
WestGorton said:
A lot off fans from Scotland sit above me. Good work from City. The rags and the dippers have got Ireland sewn up in the most part. My last flew to Porto from Edinburgh and it was a combination of cocaine fueled scallies and some civilised Scots!
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Yea it’s brilliant. Locals schools don’t get those tickets and kids from the Manchester area (some of the most deprived in the country) who would love to go to city, don’t get those tickets either.
 
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Yea it’s brilliant. Locals schools don’t get those tickets and kids from the Manchester area (some of the most deprived in the country) who would love to go to city, don’t get those tickets either.
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City still trying to build a non local support, they seem obsessed with it. I know not all die hard City fans come from Manchester but these tickets should go to schools at least in our large catchment area firstly.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
I can’t imagine a City fan ringing Viagogo/Live football tickets etc.. and haggling a price.

It’s all on the club.

You sell the club your ticket back for £50.00 then the club passes it onto the tout websites to sell for £300.00
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I think that's right. I have a mate who sits behind me who has been ill and when he resells his ticket to the club it's normally a tourist or even away fan sitting there.
The club don't sell them back to the common or garden Bert from what I have seen.
 
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I dont think many on here have an understanding of how ticket tout agencies work. I am aware of one who I know on a casual basis. They buy literally hundreds of season tickets up and down the country and have done for years. For them to have a block of tickets at St James Park, or the Etihad or anywhere is not unsurprising, and they have used these tickets every week to sell on to punters who want to go, or for groups ike schools. Even if they are unused, they are still valuable as they get their money back in spades when there are big games, or access to finals or big Euro games. All will appear to be individual common or garden season ticket holders, but in reality they ship the tickets out each week to whoever.

It also gives some context towards how 45 tickets together at SJP can be found, and also why the clubs are taking draconian steps to mark the normal ST holders attendance sheets to make sure we go. I'd wager that most of these tout ST holders rarely go (as it would only be if they couldn't sell the ticket and fancied a day out). It also explains how randoms appear in the away ends as many of these tickets will have been held for years.
 
jrb said:
I thought the name of the company might be in the Chronicle article, but it isn’t.

I’ll Google it and find it.

On the plus side, Newcastle have listened to their fans, cancelled the tickets, and resold the tickets at face value back to Newcastle fans, who can now go and watch the match and support Newcastle.
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Just to add the bloke I know gets tickets to City matches, as does the football club his son is affiliated with, not Newcastle. It’s a scandalous rip off but when your kid is City mad, he justifies it once or twice a season.
 
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Not read all this thread but Newcastle had the guts to do what we’ve done a ie taken on the PL - they would have kept their best players, improved their squad & become one of the biggest clubs in Europe. But they sat back & gave some tickets away or whatever they’ve done that we should have done.
 
jockblue said:
I dont think many on here have an understanding of how ticket tout agencies work. I am aware of one who I know on a casual basis. They buy literally hundreds of season tickets up and down the country and have done for years. For them to have a block of tickets at St James Park, or the Etihad or anywhere is not unsurprising, and they have used these tickets every week to sell on to punters who want to go, or for groups ike schools. Even if they are unused, they are still valuable as they get their money back in spades when there are big games, or access to finals or big Euro games. All will appear to be individual common or garden season ticket holders, but in reality they ship the tickets out each week to whoever.

It also gives some context towards how 45 tickets together at SJP can be found, and also why the clubs are taking draconian steps to mark the normal ST holders attendance sheets to make sure we go. I'd wager that most of these tout ST holders rarely go (as it would only be if they couldn't sell the ticket and fancied a day out). It also explains how randoms appear in the away ends as many of these tickets will have been held for years.
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They would have lost a fortune buying tickets for aways when we couldn't shift them, as a lower mid table club.

If they only start buying once high demand they have no chance of aways. It doesn't matter how long you have a season ticket, you don't get to most aways unless you have been buying away tickets regularly for 20+ years, so these touts must have lost a fortune doing it at Bolton, Wigan, Birmingham, WBA etc before there big takeovers.

No chance they were doing this in 2006.
 
jrb said:
That’s a matter of opinion, which you are entitled to.

Those Newcastle fans have been caught selling their Barcelona tickets to a ticket touting website for a profit, with no intention of using their tickets for the match, or selling their tickets back to Newcastle at FACE VALUE, so other Newcastle fan can buy those ticket and watch the match. Those Newcastle fans or touts won’t be doing that again.
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Given it was a school who bought the tickets I would imagine they were all together or at least in the same area.

What are the chances of 45 individual Newcastle fans, or lots of groups of 2 possibly 3 fans, all selling their tickets to the same touting agency for the same game. I would have thought that was quite unlikely.

Could it be that Newcastle sold the tickets by whatever means, got found out and then blamed it on rogue Newcastle fans, saying them fans have had their ST revoked. Thus not making themselves look bad.

Unless of course they have named and shamed the fans.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
A few years ago , I met up with a few lads who had bought a hotel and ticket package.
It was very reasonable price.
They collected the tickets in the ticket office at the ground and were given one of the old style tickets.
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I used them :0)

Sold through the club Thomas Cook packages, Match Ticket and
Overnight Accommodation.

Reasonable priced - it was a sad day when Thomas Cook went bust!! :0(
 
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