Newcastle united

Hopefully be given them so we can milk them some more and add to the atmosphere. Plenty of seats in the usual ends for our own.

 

I'd rather have 500 Barnsley fans in there than 2,000 bloody Geordies.

 

If they is demand for our own fans we should use it. If not let newcastle sell it out more money for the club. First time the north stand has sold out scince Sheffield United beat us 2-0 two seasons ago.

 

Hope so more the merrier looking forward to it already.

 

We don't have a billionaire owner or premiership parachute payments so that idea would be stupid unless you don't mind making up the shortfall of on your estimates 1500 tickets at mainly 30 quid. We couldn't sell out usual home parts for Villa so we won't need it for Newcastle. We will for Leeds and Wednesday though.

 

I always loved the midweek games before the ground was redeveloped. Of course the grounds much improved, but the atmosphere was electric even without a roof on the muck stack. Amazingly we sometimes squeezed as many away fans onto that as we do in the new away end.

Great times.



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What are we going to differently that we need £45,000 for?

 

A good sum of money for a club like us. Covers a few salaries of those behind the scenes.

 

Less than 14,000 seats and we had over 12,000 home fans in for Rotherham?? Oh aye plenty of seats..

 

At last, a bit of sense. When the home ends have sold out they'll be bairning if we've given the other side to the Geordies, to make it like a home game for them. It will be nice for the home players coming out of the tunnel with barcodes either side. "Welcome to Oakwell"...

 

We couldn't sell out our home ends for a sunny August saturday afternoon when in good form for a South Yorkshire derby. We didn't sell out for a tuesday night game against a newly relegated premiership team that we've hardly played. I don't see why based on that we will sell out home ends for a mid October cold night game when our form has dipped.

We will definitely need those seats for ourselves for Leeds/Wednesday but it's better giving them Newcastle to guarantee they all sell. We are a business where we weaken our own team by selling assets and hoping bargain basement replacements can step up. Any chance we have to milk away fans we need to take it.

 

Villa are a relegated team that's struggling in the Championship, Newcastle is the biggest game of the season, the biggest team in the league. We couldn't sell out for Rotherham?? hardly the pick of the bunch yet there were around only 1500-1700 seats remaining and we were sitting in 10th position. Here's the eticketing map at the moment, take a look at it now with just under 2 weeks to the game

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/barnsleyfc/details/event.aspx?itemref=2368

We'll revisit this at the back end of next week, what's the chances that the East Stand and the Ponty are virtually sold out? I'm saying we can get 14,000 home fans for this tie (based on having 12,257 home fans against Reading), if we do, we won't be able to fit them in half of the West.

 

Can I just point out.

Comments about milking them for what we can get....

Remember we will be milking a fan. Not a club.

Fine they have a large following than most. But aren't we being a bit hypocritical shouting 20 is plenty then demanding we ram them in and milk them?

 

*applause

 

It's a big game but wouldn't have it as the biggest. When we play Leeds/Wednesday I think two weeks before the home ends will be more full. The eticketing map looks good but in the past when it's come to match time it doesn't look right. Better to have 1300 Geordies paying 30 (surprised we didn't charge more) then risk only having a few hundred at most of our own in there, that's if the usual ground parts sell out.

I think we will make a decision next week. If people after friday payday buy in good enough numbers we might end up saving it for us. But if with barely a week until the game and plenty still available we will offer it them.

 

I think Patrick's made his decision, the home ends have been 90% full for the last three home games. Does he want to lock out home fans to accommodate extra Geordies? Eticketing doesn't look right because a lot of the seats are free kids ST seats that are unused, they still can't sell these.

I'd have it as the biggest, how many times do we play Leeds and Weds? It's no longer 1992.

 

Newcastle isn't that big a game to me.

They aren't geographical rivals, and they've won fcukety-**** in my lifetime.

Just because they have loads of fans doesn't make them very interesting. Olly Murs has loads of fans, but he isn't any good.

 

Thought it was club policy, dint ar Leader say as much, dunt mean we agree with the initial pricing just following mi leader, leader leader follow mi leader.