The club allow Newcastle United season ticket holders to sell their tickets for individual Premier League games.
This was a very positive move by the club as it means that seats don’t need to be left empty if a season ticket holder is ill for example.
Using the online club system, season ticket holders can make their ticket available for a league match, with Newcastle United members then able to go onto the NUFC official ticketing site (you have to be then logged in as a member to see the tickets that are available) to buy.
The club also make money from this.
As I understand it, the fan (season ticket holder) selling the ticket is credited with the pro rata match price of their season ticket and if the ticket is then bought by a member, they are charged the far higher single ticket price, with the club banking the difference.
These tickets are usually rare and very difficult to buy for Newcastle United members.
Each Premier League match a small number of season ticket holders put their tickets up for sale and they are instantly bought by members. For members it is a case of right place right time and grabbing the ticket that has just gone up before a rival member can.
Brighton
Newcastle United are home to Brighton on Saturday.
As usual, I didn’t get tickets in the members ballot when that happened weeks ago. I was then way down the queue and failed to get Brighton tickets as tens of thousands of members joined for the later ticket queue sale that happens a number days after the ballot.
On Monday of this week, I checked to see if any Newcastle United season ticket holders had put their tickets up for sale for this Brighton match. I was surprised to see 30-40 tickets up for sale.
With so many available I didn’t rush in, especially as they were all single tickets and I wanted two together if possible.
I then kept checking and the number of tickets kept increasing, from 30-40 to 40-50 to 50-60 to 60-70, as members were buying them even more season ticket holders putting theirs up for sale.
Late on Wednesday I saw two great seats together halfway up the Leazes and bought them.
Our of curiosity I have kept checking, the numbers rising ever faster.
At 11am this (Thursday) morning I counted 127 tickets for sale that Newcastle United season ticket holders had put up. There is now pretty much not a single area of St James’ Park where there aren’t tickets up for sale for this Brighton match.
Unless there is an illness epidemic I haven’t heard about, it is as though loads of Newcastle United season ticket holders simply can’t be bothered to go because of NUFC’s position in the Premier League.
It is quite embarrassing how many Newcastle United season ticket holders are doing this.
Not so much a case of you only sing when you’re winning, more like you only want to go when we’re winning.
I have no doubt that the number of Newcastle United season ticket holders trying to flog their tickets for this Brighton match will for sure increase and increase as the match gets closer, I bet my bottom dollar there will be hundreds available once Friday arrives.
If you are ill you are ill, if though you just can’t be bothered to go because Newcastle United aren’t successful at the moment…