bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:22 pm

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:20 pm

Possibly where we differ mate, I get overly friendly and buy people drinks and end up adding to the bill My mate local here is from the NE originally, so hopefully if I were to go up again it would be with them haha

Aye screw that ha! I chat to people if I’m having a pint but they can buy their own

Unless it’s an attractive woman, I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Tho if they’re pretty they won’t be talking to me, so actually not an issue either

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:50 pm

UlversToon wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:20 pm

It's not cheap going to games, I've just spent the neck end of £400 to go across just to watch The Carabao Cup Final in Shearer's Bar but worth every penny!

I was trying to convince my mate to go up to Newcastle, or London - either way is a dear do - just to be there. But between work, lack of money, kids etc it's just not always doable. If I win the big time on the lottery I'll take everyone (regular) on TF to a hospitality game of my choosing

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:20 pm

bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:16 pm

I travel up from the midlands and nobody I know supports Newcastle, the benefit of going on your own is you don’t really go out spending £100+ on booze

Possibly where we differ mate, I get overly friendly and buy people drinks and end up adding to the bill My mate local here is from the NE originally, so hopefully if I were to go up again it would be with them haha

bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:16 pm

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:00 pm

My problem is it wouldn't be 50 pound on food and drink. I spent twice that in a dive bar in town this weekend For the final, obviously.

Yeah 166m, that'd be bloody lovely wouldn't it

I travel up from the midlands and nobody I know supports Newcastle, the benefit of going on your own is you don’t really go out spending £100+ on booze

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:00 pm

bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:58 pm

Yeah the cup games I went to were £20 for the match ticket (decent price tbf for league cup), £90 return for the train, night in an Airbnb was £65 (hotels were all double that minimum), £10 on metro travel and probs around £50 on food and drink so it adds up.

And I look forward to the hospitality Valentino

Euromillions is £166m on Friday..

My problem is it wouldn't be 50 pound on food and drink. I spent twice that in a dive bar in town this weekend For the final, obviously.

Yeah 166m, that'd be bloody lovely wouldn't it

bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:58 pm

Yeah the cup games I went to were £20 for the match ticket (decent price tbf for league cup), £90 return for the train, night in an Airbnb was £65 (hotels were all double that minimum), £10 on metro travel and probs around £50 on food and drink so it adds up.

And I look forward to the hospitality Valentino

Euromillions is £166m on Friday..

UlversToon wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:20 pm

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:11 pm

I've been to a handful of games in general, but a smaller handful of away games. 5-0 loss at City, friendly win at Blackpool (that was a bloody good jolly) 3-1 I think loss at Everton when we went down, win at Wigan in the championship (I want to say 2-0 but can't remember).

Looking at saving up for hospitality for a game at some point next season, but it's bloody expensive. I'm sure worth it as a one off, but talking best part of 400 just for the ticket. Same again almost for combined transport, hotel and beer tokens. Maybe when they build the new stadium they can play in my home town for a season

It's not cheap going to games, I've just spent the neck end of £400 to go across just to watch The Carabao Cup Final in Shearer's Bar but worth every penny!

Valentino's fast feet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:11 pm

I've been to a handful of games in general, but a smaller handful of away games. 5-0 loss at City, friendly win at Blackpool (that was a bloody good jolly) 3-1 I think loss at Everton when we went down, win at Wigan in the championship (I want to say 2-0 but can't remember).

Looking at saving up for hospitality for a game at some point next season, but it's bloody expensive. I'm sure worth it as a one off, but talking best part of 400 just for the ticket. Same again almost for combined transport, hotel and beer tokens. Maybe when they build the new stadium they can play in my home town for a season

bodacious benny wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 2:18 pm

Nice! My aim was to get to one game this season but made it to two so can’t moan

Would be nice to have some sort of way of trying for the occasional away ticket but seems that’s never happening in the next decade at least! My last away game was wolves away, Bruce’s penultimate game…

Chappy wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:08 am

My run of bad luck continues... not success in the Brentford or Man Utd ballot

Cal wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:31 pm

Someone has used the contact us button to ask if there's anyone interested in buying their guest ticket to a box at the final. Can put anyone who is interested in touch, but can't vouch for the seller in any way. They mention the face value being over 2 grand, so probably not going cheap...