ponsaelius

Vile to have egg chasing being played in our beautiful stadium once again.

Big goal for Napoli.

Yep. If they’re right up the top attendances will be good (might even have to open the top tier!). Around the playoffs and they’ll probably be not too bad. Anything less than that and they’ll be woeful. In 87 their attendances went up about 25% in the 3rd division, then fell again by about the same amount on return to the 2nd division.

As shambolic as they are at the moment, and as toxic as the club is right now, it would take something special for them to struggle again next year in League One. Their wage budget as a percentage of turnover permitted by FFP, even with half of it eaten up by the likes of Cattermole/Rodwell hanging around, will still leave them with 5 or 6 times the budget of clubs down there. So long as they're proactive they could hoover up all the best players in that division as the vast majority move around on free transfers.

For example Sheff Utd were averaging 21k last year with highs of 30k. Sunderland are a bigger club with historically higher attendances, if they're putting together a fun title charge of that magnitude they will comfortably beat out that. If they remain a disorganised mess and slump to mid-table, their attendances will be even worse than this year.

It depends how they do next season. If they're winning every week the current no-shows who give up their season tickets will come back on a game to game basis. Their average attendance next year could be anywhere from about 15k to 30k really depending on how they do. People like a winning team regardless of what division it's in.

Camera director in the Napoli - Genoa game has spent the whole match picking out blart in the crowd.

Got to feel for the woman like, she just doesn't want to see her house wrecked.

https://twitter.com/GrimandiTweets/status/975161681427992577 :lol:

Was shite against us last week.

Orange balls look much cooler though.

1/16 with Skybet to gan doon.

Rare example in Italy of a stadium that's actually too small. They expanded it from 7,000 to 13,000 in the summer, and have sorted out a deal to expand it to 16,000 soon.

Still fancy Juve with them having home advantage in the remaining head-to-head fixture, but they also still have to play Roma and Inter away.

Phew. If Napoli can win tomorrow it'll be at least back in the balance. Juventus play Milan right before their CL game next.

This is about the time Juventus get a penalty.

He seems to be doing better than the other lad they signed from the LOI who was more hyped up.

Unbelievable craic if Villa have to spend another season down there.

Back in to 16s now for some reason, but aye the point stands.

It's mad that Man Utd are comfortably 2nd. Liverpool by far the 2nd best team in the league IMO.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11294494/sunderland-0-2-preston

That Netflix documentary still happening? Could be a potentially incredible watch.

With Birmingham's win today, you've got to fancy them to pick up more points in their next 3 games - Ipswich (H), Bolton (a), Burton (h).

We're out to 20/1 with SkyBet

They've got to be gone now.