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If we get a rumoured 32k allocation I would feel pretty confident to get tickets as I have 3 season tickets and bought home tickets to all but, one of the round matches. Only missed Leicester home because I forgot to order tickets during Xmas/ new year holidays. Fingers crossed.... Looks like I am tier 3.... hmm... hoping!

Quote NE27 "Worst of all, I bet he never sang all game." Haha, to be honest I didnt notice him before he threw up, I spent the whole game tutting at people for standing up while singing "Stand up if you love ....." to notice...... You know, like a proper East Stand Dweller!!

I hope it was no-one on here but, about 3 or 4 rows in front of me in the East Stand a lad, looked around late 20's early 30's, projectile vomited the most disgusting gooey, cider stinking vomit with bits of food all over the poor old fella in front of him. The poor old bloke was drenched all down the back of his head and back of his coat, he went fuckin crazy.... as anyone would.... It even got onto the people either side and the woman sitting on the row in front of the old fella.... If it was someone on here you should be massively ashamed of yourself. Absolutely vile and rotten!!

One thing is certain.... today is dragging and tomorrow is going to be agony!! Cannot wait for the match, I think with the kid DJ on before kick off and then the general excitement around the possibility of reaching a final that the atmosphere is going to be electric. Genuinely excited and scared at the same time!

Exactly this. No-one denies that Sunderland carry a very strong support, always have.

Your crowds are great mate, the only issue anyone has with them is the clear and obvious lie about the number of people inside.

They are not the mackems of Merseyside for nottun'

Is that how much a bag of concrete is these days? I bought a load about 3 years ago for less than 4quid per 20KG bag.

Dream team for this: Pope Trippier, Schar, Botman, Burn Willock, Bruno, Joelinton Miggy, Isak, Maxi Maxi, Isak and Miggy with license to rotate / cross over each other. High energy high press from the front players and midfield. The worlds best back 5 left with very little to do other than high five each other for snuffing out any long balls over the top. On the hour, when we are 5 nil up swap Maxi for Wilson and move Isak out wider and go for the jugular for a full Southampton destruction....

They seem to be completely missing the point that we sell out every home game in minutes and it is fuckin hard for none season ticket holders to get to see the match. This means to them that any fan not attending is not fully engaged with thier club (very tricky to spell their properly) and therefore not contributing. Very much the actual reason that 10k seats are permanently closed at the Bungalow and the remaining open seats are never fully sold out.

Whoooaa! Come on man! I am not Gordon Ramsey here....

Never had them, do you have a recipe or anything?

The reassuring news is that they will almost definitely never pull this together for a couple of reasons: 1) They are rubbish at organising anything 2) Their club will not want anything that shows a political opinion on a flag display and will almost certainly stop it from happening 3) It will cost money and I am not sure that their fake outrage at the Saudi takeover of NUFC runs deep enough to have them reach into their pockets to donate towards it.

That letter is absolutely hilarious. Top lip quivering as if she was about to growl.... The inferiority complex around that clubs supporters is incredible, they look for anything to re-enforce it and while at the same time reminding themselves that they are universally loved and respected throughout football.

Clever by Stewart. Staying on his feet, despite light fouling, then throwing himself down once in the box.

If they could get around 10k of these it would make up for the short fall in their crowd and fill in the crowd gaps at the Bungalow. I know just the place to get them - Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm waving Flailing Tubeman.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXvMcLrLSY

I was born and raised in West Philadelphia and spend most of my youth in the playground playing B/Ball. Did a fair bit of maxin' and relaxin' but, once day I was confronted by some bigger boys and my mom decided that was that so she moved me to Newcastle to live with my Aunt and Uncle. That is pretty much how I remember it.....

Holy shit, can only be true in this case!

Sorry mate, was all I could think of in my current state of fume being a Gateshead based Newcastle season ticket holder, it has always been my largest concern that Gateshead may at some point in the future get taken by the mackems.... What would become of me then?

I cannot think of a single reason why it matters where you live when related to which football team you support. There are many reasons why someone from outside of the area might choose to support Newcastle or Sunderland... is it like you must be born within the sound of Bow Bells to be a proper Cockney? So therefore you must be born in the centre circle at ST James' to qualify to be a Newcastle supporter?

100% that Joelinton can drop into Midfield and fulfil the role left empty by Bruno for Saturday. My only undecided point would be whether I would like Isak to drop in on the left or have Maxi play there. I am edging towards Isak in my mind. A lot rides on the performance and alertness of Longstaff now that Bruno is not there to sweep up for him for a few games. I do not doubt or question for a second the work ethic of Longstaff, my concerns about him have always been his tendency to be caught watching the game going on around him and his reaction time when a ball is played to him. (His shooting is another story but, it is fair enough... tons of players fall apart when they have a scoring opportunity - he is not the first). I am also very nervous when we leave him as last man when we have set pieces such as corners, he is the easiest player to get past, a simple drop of the shoulder always seems to do him. He needs to work hard on that defensive side to his game.

I never understood the requirement to have little relationships with other clubs fans. There are several clubs that I quite like, several I absolutely hate as well but, I never feel the need to buddy up with the ones I like - especially to re-enforce my feelings towards a third club. Sun'lun fans seem to find great delight in making up stories about how all the clubs in the UK have a great love and respect for them while simultaneously hating Newcastle.... There will have been some sieth on Wearyside last night if they were watching The Chase on ITV, a question about a bridge in Sunderland and which River it crossed, the Chaser said it was the Tyne and the contestants said Tees... Apparently the Wear did not even occur to them...

Fuckin hell.... that is tremendous!

By the way, some feedback. I contacted the club via this link. They are called United as One. It was quite simple to set up with them, I told them about my dad and they wanted to know the seat number, row etc in which stand and the arrangement was for them to arrange for a steward to bring the equipment to my dads seat before the match and get him set up with it. I provided all of that to them and had a confirmation that we were all set. The next home game was the Leeds match but, sadly the equipment was not delivered to the seat at any point during the game as expected so I am not sure what went wrong. I am going to see what happens for the game this weekend and if they still do not bring it to us I will contact them again. Communications have been great and all of my messages have been promptly replied to so I was surprised that the gear did not get sent to us for that game.... shame!

This Blueprint feels familiar.... very similar to the Mike Ashley school of owning and operating a football club, buy low sell high. That sounds like it should be the perfect solution to developing a solid and financially sound football club but, the truth of it was that it was a disaster. All the time your club is out searching for undiscovered gems and young players with huge prospects the rest of the league is buying established players who can hit the ground running and take that club forwards. For every one gem that is found there are many duds that do not work out. We also both suffer from a geographical disadvantage, no matter how you dress it up the North East is not as attractive as London, the South in general and the North West. This will always be the case, maybe we can compensate this with a nice financial package to potential players but, there is no way to do this on the cheap!