Anyone fancy sending their kid to enjoy Newcastle United match hospitality for over 500 quid? | OneFootball

Just thought I’d share with other Newcastle United fans something which popped up this week.

Having been unsuccessful (along with four mates, all of us having pairs of memberships with our other halves) in the Liverpool ticket ballot. I’d then taken to the Newcastle United ticketing site once the season ticket holders could sell on their tickets for the game, to see if I could benefit from anybody’s changing diary and the club listing their ticket(s) for the match.

Always a painful process of refresh and check, tinged with the excitement and subsequent disappointment of one appearing, only to find it’s a youth ticket.

This process has taken a significant step backwards from being intuitive this season.

It seems also the club have taken the decision to advertise the hospitality tickets they’ve somehow not managed to shift, despite the bargain £400-800 pricing, in the general entry availability for Newcastle United members.

This makes the process even less enjoyable as you have to scroll down the available top price tickets almost no ‘normal’ fan would want each time you refresh, in the hope of bagging a recently made available general entry ticket.

I wrote to the club and expressed that these tickets would be better returning to the hospitality section, as last year, with them replying:

‘As we make the resale function open for supporters to purchase where they wish within the stadium, the decision has been made to advertise hospitality seating through this avenue and do apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Though, we thank you for providing your feedback and for your continued support’

So, ‘thank you, acknowledge it’s inconvenient, but not changing it.’

Now anything that makes life more difficult for the Bots that seem to hoover up these things (anyone who’s been through the ‘ah – there’s one’ > clicks to get Seat > sees Seat already not available process will know what I mean!) is to be welcomed, but I can’t help but think this is a rather desperate Hail Mary of an attempt to shift one or two more hospitality seats by making life less convenient for the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of average punters.

I have to add this to the ever-lengthening list of odd decisions the club has taken in recent times, as minor a thing as it is. It’s already challenging enough bagging a seat, despite the membership costs, so anything that compounds that misery should be discouraged.

I was at least able to enjoy the discovery, when looking at one area, of seeing that a £700+ ticket was actually available as a £500+ ticket for a child. Anyone on here fancy sending their kid to a match to enjoy top rate hospitality for over 500 quid?