Wallsendmag

Not sure what's happened to this thread. Was supposed to be about the mackems but it's turned into one about tramps and boilers. Actually wait a minute...

I could never laugh at these properly when Ashley and Bruce were here but this turn of events in the last few days with this crypro group and now this Hill Billy fella is hilarious

Got in the queue around 7pm the day before they went on sale and it was already the full length of the Gallowgate and starting to go round the East Stand (it started at where the SBR statue currently is and for people who don't know there were locked gates stopping you walking past the Milburn stand where the ticket office was). By midnight it was absolute bedlam and in the end they had to get the ticket office staff out of bed about 5am to start selling the tickets. We were caught up in the stampede when they unlocked the gates as everyone charged up the hill to the ticket office whichwas very scary. Think I was back in the house by 8am and my mam let me have the morning off school! Unsurprisingly they changed the process for selling away tickets after that.

Has to be first come first served really. It's the fairest way and I speak as an ex season ticket holder.

I can't see it like (Wycombe are somehow even worse than Sheff Wed) but it would completely finish them off! In saying that moving up to the Championship and getting battered most weeks will also finish them off so it matters not.

Cabaye was a fantastic footballer, but this lad is on a different level altogether.

Yes they've forgotten they returned 6k tickets last time they made it to the Final and were heavily outnumbered by Charlton fans. Also their average gate is 31k and they've been given 37,500 tickets so every regular supporter this season will get one with room to spare.

Their stadium is looking very tired these days and they have a fanbase who steadfastly refuse to pay the going rate for match tickets. Can't see them appealing to Ashley as he won't be able to make money out of them like he did with us. Even in the Premier League they haemorrhage money left, right and centre. Aside from all that for the past 3 months since Neil was appointed I've been sticking the odd tenner and 20 on them just to be promoted whenever I've had a win on my coupon at odds varying from 4/1 at best to 13/8 at the shortest. I also stuck a few quid on them to "qualify" v Sheff Wed and I've put money on them "lifting the trophy" v Wycombe so if the worst does happen, and I think it will, I get £696 back as a consolation. Hand on heart, I sincerely hope I'm collecting nothing!

They had 36,715 v Man Utd a couple of months back which will be their absolute maximum.

Capacity of Elland Road is under 37,000 these days.

They said what??? Hahaha I know they're a strange breed but howay, no way were they peddling this

I like him. I hope he stays next season. Yes he's out of form but prior to Eddie arriving he basically carried this team and was more often than not the only bright spot. He's the sort of player I'm happy to pay my money to watch.

London tax.

Agree. They are shite but their new manager (name temporarily escapes me) has them organised and hard to score against. That's enough at that level but major improvement will be required if/when they go up, as League One is absolutely abysmal.

Helps the home grown quota I suppose.

Thats for away tickets. For home tickets ST holders and members can both buy from the same time.

They already do that. Home tickets go on sale to season ticket holders (who are members anyway) and members at the same time.

Not sure if this is true but I've heard that the only season tickets going on sale for next season are any that aren't renewed by current ST holders so that more tickets are available to members on a match by match basis. Apparently there is currently approx 32,000 season ticket holders. This is in line with what some other PL clubs who sell out every week do. Liverpool, 27,000 ST Holders (54,000 capacity) Chelsea 25,000 ST holders (41,000) Man Utd 55,000 ST holders (74,000)

I doubt there's a club in the country with such a bleak outlook as Sunderland. Division 3, financially crippled, poor ownership and to top it off they'll have to suffer the effects of having the worlds richest club, and all that entails, just 12 miles up the road. It's a shame really.

The Milburn and East Stands have been upwards of 800 quid for a few years now. It's just a pity that for a lot of people their fixed price deal had come to an end this season, but it was always going to happen. Prices weren't going to be frozen forever.

They aren't on sale to new applicants yet. Probably June so I've heard.

Surely promotion will compound their financial problems and their base costs go up but income won't rise at the same rate, especially if they're struggling and their crowds are smaller than they are now as was the case last time they were in that league (more people will pay to watch a winning team in League One than a team losing most weeks in the Championship). You look at established Championship clubs like Birmingham and Derby County, obviously Bolton went tits up when they were in that league, Reading, Hull, the list goes on so if they're hanging their hats on promotion sorting them out they could be in for a shock.

Historically much smaller than us, whether that's trophies won, attendances or both clubs standing on the European stage. At the moment and in the future, both short and long term they are absolutely tiny compared to us and as their future fanbase in the region is further eroded away as the next generation are pulled in by what's going to happen here it's only getting worse. It's really grim times for them. The grimmest times in their entire history in fact, and whatever happens to them this season, it's only getting worse.

Aye it's people whos 10 year deals have ended. Was always going to happen. 10 years is a good run for a price freeze. You can't expect it to stay like that forever. Looks like the idea may be that everyone just pays the same, so in the Gallowgate for example, that's £659.