Ben Wigham

Deep-sea Biologist and Marine Degree Programme Director at Newcastle University. Echinoderms. Reproductive and Trophic Ecology. Rugby.

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@DanEvans83 How expensive are some of those Everton tops!!??? Only sold 1000 more than #NUFC but made an extra £3million..wow!!

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@EwanMcN9 £20M cash and Dan Ashworth thrown in! 🤣

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@sixhourssouth Willock??

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@NUFCunited2021 @NUFC True. But it was high demand last season and as a member I had no trouble getting my kids to 9 matches. It grates when these ticket sites seem to have magicked multiple seats out of their corporate arses and are selling on £60 seats for £200 each plus a £75 booking fee!

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

Another ballot another f*^k off from the club! So you want me to buy £70 tops for my kids but at the same time closing the doors to SJP for the 11th time in a row this season. Thanks for nothing @nufc #NUFC

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@adrg1 Always a sea-cucumber!

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@GrimaldiLines Hi. Any date on when ferry bookings will be available on your website for summer (August) 2024?

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

This ballot can do one! @nufc OK interest & demand has increased but as a long serving member taking my kids to 8+ matches for past 4 seasons to now nothing from every ballot just sucks! How does it work? Where is the transparency? Family club but not for family tickets?! #nufc

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

So that’ll be 0/9 for ballots so far! Thanks @DarrenEales and @nufc not sure how engaging with the fans is going! remind me what I get for my membership & 30yrs of support?? Do you want to retain my kids as supporters or not because shutting them out of the match is not working!

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@leerobson23 Same here mate. I look forward now to the continual explanation to the kids every match as to why they can’t go this week. CL you sort of accept is a lucky dip but not getting tickets to Burnley is hard sell!! 🤣

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

Come on ballot…this time please don’t really want to have to tell the boys it’s no again and after 3 years going to games and supporting their team at 10yrs old your chance has gone!! 🤞0/7 is not the result we want #nufc

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@expeditionlog @GeorgeBrooker @SevenDialsBooks @orionbooks Pride of place @expeditionlog !! Good company I hope! 🤣

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@MattyGibs0n @_michaeltoomer Feel your pain mate. 0/6 here too! appreciate we’re more popular but with unlimited memberships and tickets for sale every match on ‘tout’ sites just twists the knife for those of us where season tickets have never been an option. Yes, even when we were shit!

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

So 6 ballots in and 6 x ‘no contact’ from @nufc yep this is loads better than getting in the queue. Don’t know how many suffered on that. I always managed to get tickets for the games we could make as a family. How does the ballot even work that’s what I want to know #nufc

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@ADGeordie90 Thanks mate! Just grabbed some! Screw you ballot! Thought I’d never get one after 5 blanks in a row!! 🤣🤣🤣

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@ajames_cameron @Nusc2023 @NUFC Yep same mate. No tickets through members ballot but somehow I’ve exceeded limitations…setup is a joke @nufc

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@Toon_Steve_55 @ToonMouthTyne @NUFC 0/5 here too. Maybe the fates are aligning for my PSG application!🤣🤣 no idea if I’m disadvantaged for always asking for 3 tickets for me and my boys???

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

A good change? Member for 7yrs. 2 lads now old enough for the match, past 3 seasons no trouble for tickets for 8/9 league games and some cup that we can afford. But this ballot! membership still paid but 0/5 so far! Scarves back in the box this weekend I’m afraid boys🤬#NUFC

[Ben Wigham @wigham_deepsea]

@DeepSeaEcol @IglesiasIly @TUExplorer1 We use these too. Great company to deal with very helpful. They have new housings for newer camera models too.

[Danté Fenolio, Ph.D. @DanteFenolio]

One of the goliaths of the deep - a giant amphipod (Cystisoma sp). We get these fairly regular in the deeper tows. The entire head of these amphipod is comprised of giant eyes. Trawled from the Gulf of Mexico, August 2016.