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They'll say it's for security reasons but it's nothing more than a money making scheme as they have your details whether you're a member or not once you have a purchase history.

He's a good appointment for them. The best a club like sunderland could hope for anyway. OK so he was hopeless when given the chance at a big club and failed abroad but he did a very decent job at Everton which gave him the chance to manage Man Utd but unfortunately for him he was way out of his depth there. At sunderland 17th is success and I don't think he'll have any problems achieving that. I'll be forever grateful to him for helping us to our only win at Old Trafford in 40 odd years.

He'll do OK for them. More importantly what's his derby record like (Merseyside & Manchester) and how many trophies has he amassed in his managerial career?

Aye. Love seeing stuff like this!

Really? Do you have figures to back up that claim? Because I've spoken to quite a few fans who like our annual great escape. Typed from his Pennywell mansion no doubt.

Clearly still adored by the Liverpool fans; http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=282654.5400

His ip address is showing Pennywell. Never been there before so can't comment.

I live an area of Sunderland that rivals anywhere in the North East. Are you Scotch? http://anmblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c565553ef01287720ae12970c-pi

I live an area of Sunderland that rivals anywhere in the North East. Are you Scotch? Calm down man precious. He's only repeating what he heard on the radio and tbf the reaction to Brexit in sunderland that was screened Worldwide did make it come across as a bit of a hick town.

Don't want Flanagan. He's so ugly he hurts my eyes.

It's little wonder when you see what they've got to offer. They'll need to live in their rivals city amongst rival fans if they want somewhere nice to live. 17th every season is seen as a success so no ambition at all. Their fans are a throwback to the 1970s, where racism is still rife and they are more pre occupied with going on at their rivals than they are at their own club. They harboured a paedophile in their ranks for a year for their own gains. Unless they were paying twice the going rate in wages there's no reason for anyone half decent to consider a move there.

Away fans aren't entitled to 10% otherwise clubs could request 7,600 at Old Trafford and 6,000 at the Emirates which they can't. It's 5% or 3,000.....whatever is greater.

Possibly the week after. Fulham tickets aren't on sale yet and they'll want to maximise season ticket sales before they put Huddersfield on sale.

Was capped at 44,000 when SJP was extended to 52,000. Assume that's still the case.

Was definitely £35 last season as well.

Tbf it's nowt like RTG. Doubt there's even a dedicated Villa thread on here and if there is you'd probably have to trawl back page after page to find it. RTG regularly has 10 or more NUFC related thread on its first page.

They'll be one of our promotion rivals so I do.

Maybe he's running out of premier league options. Sunderland might not be glamorous but they are a s*** version of Everton in many ways. Overshadowed by another local team close by, but still a big fan base for a manager who can get it right. No self respecting person would work for them. They covered up for a paedophile man. They're morally bankrupt. Yet Rafa Benitez works for Mike f***ing Ashley. Ashley may be many things but to my knowledge he's never covered up a serious sex crime on a minor.

Exactly. They've had the slate wiped clean even more than we have in respect of them getting rid of their owner.

Maybe he's running out of premier league options. Sunderland might not be glamorous but they are a s*** version of Everton in many ways. Overshadowed by another local team close by, but still a big fan base for a manager who can get it right. No self respecting person would work for them. They covered up for a paedophile man. They're morally bankrupt.

Villa have sold 18k season tickets.

Villa have always had a very fickle following. Wouldn't ever compare ourselves to them.

Their biggish crowds are negated by the fact they charge next to nowt for the fans to get in and flood the place with free tickets. For example their gate receipts are far smaller than the likes of Southamptons are as shown in the last set of accounts. Regarding the free tickets thing, a mate of mine works at Newcastle Uni and found out recently that the uni gets a load of discounted tickets for home games that uni staff can apply for. Never knew we did things like that, otherwise I'd have taken advantage of it whilst I was working there. They won't get "a load" which is the reason you were unaware of this but they will get some, which will be the case at clubs up and down the country. The mackems flood there university, all their local schools and many workplaces in the area with free and heavily discounted tickets which is why their gate receipts are tiny in comparison with other clubs in the league getting similar crowds and less than clubs averaging 15k less than them. Their last set of accounts showed a drop of 26% in their gate receipts despite an increase in attendances so it's clear they're having to give away more tickets than ever to get a crowd in. If it wasn't for the TV money and Ellis Short bailing them out they would be in administration because their fanbase certainly don't pull their weight.

Their biggish crowds are negated by the fact they charge next to nowt for the fans to get in and flood the place with free tickets. For example their gate receipts are far smaller than the likes of Southamptons are as shown in the last set of accounts.

Someone's bound to hate that idea too... Aye you can never please everyone all of the time. Must admit I've been very impressed with some of the stuff I've seen. My view is that anything is better than nothing. Let's face it SJP has been a soulless, sterile place on a match day far too long now (the odd big game apart). Something like this is long overdue so fair play to the lads involved for getting off their backsides and trying to do something about it.