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Wrong - Rangers worldwide profile is far higher than ours due to the massive Scottish diaspora around the world. They will also be far more profitable once they get regular CL football, something NUFC can only dream about. That's wrong. The SPL gets zero international TV coverage (sans a couple CL group games every year, perhaps) while the BPL is watched by billions across the world every weekend. Whatever value the "Scottish diaspora" might have is dwarfed by the media exposure Sportsdirect gets from advertising in a PL stadium. This is especially true given that actual Rangers fans would end up hating sportsdirect as much as we do. Wrong - Rangers worldwide profile is far higher than ours due to the massive Scottish diaspora around the world. They will also be far more profitable once they get regular CL football, something NUFC can only dream about. Rangers could only generate a fraction of the money we do. SPL teams get about £1m a year TV money to our £70m and the rewards for getting to the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League aren't all that great.

"One damning statistic (of many it has to be said), is that in the 4 years he has been manager of NUFC, we have lost a higher percentage of games than anyone else in English football, apart from 2 clubs (Fulham & Stevenage)". Taken from another website so I can't verify it's accuracy but I can quite believe it.

Crowd really need to turn the heat up on this odious cretin now. Things have died down since the back end of last season when he was getting pelters. Need to get the abuse back up to that level and beyond, basically make his job unbearable.

. Colo pretty much lost every header on sat. No he didn't. They had a spell in the first half where they won 3 corners in about 3 minutes and Colo headed away each time.

0-1 they'll score late on. A few Pardew Out chants at the end but not really anything of note.

What a novel idea. It'll never catch on!

48 pages and 940 replies on the SMB. Don't think they've taken the news too well although it must be a bit annoying letting an England international go to your hated rivals for nowt.

Certainly has. 17 pages last time I checked!

I heard 5,000 down on last season as well. To put that into perspective that equates to a section around the size of the entire East Stand that have chucked it. No wonder they're doing all these ticket offers. They're next problem is that they're going to need to reduce season ticket prices otherwise it won't be worth having one. And to think at the last fans forum they tried to tell people only 6% hadn't renewed.

Don't write them off yet. Apparently they're preparing another appeal as the tax disc on the Maribor team bus had expired.

5 game season tickets now on sale starting from the Hull match on September 20th.

People keep banging on about this, when was the last time it happened? We can spin it whichever way we like, but the truth of the matter is Pardew is our manager because the majority of our fans don't mind him being here at all. If he was regularly getting the sort of abuse that he did against Cardiff at the back end of last season he wouldn't last a month. He's here because plenty of our w***** fans support him, as simple as that. I was at the Man City match and didn't speak to a single person who supports him. The Cardiff game last season showed what the crowd think of him when he couldn't even come out of his dugout. A lot of people just have no confidence in Ashley appointing a decent manager in his place should Pardew leave. For the record I can't stand the bloke and want him gone but I can understand those who are worried about who will come in in his place.

1-0 defeat

Is Villa Park ever full?

Only if you become a member though. The cheapest general sale tickets were £36 for adults. They have a bit of a problem in that they've lost a lot of season ticket holders from last season so they have a lot more seats to fill on a match by match basis. At the moment they seem to be concentrating on getting the young supporters in to fill those seats (£5 a ticket for our first 2 home games for bairns) but if they're still not selling out I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of adult tickets drops as well. 28 quid if your a member is quite cheap imo as it's a Category A game. I paid almost 40 quid 3 years ago for the same fixture. We don't have category matches as such any more. Last season games against Mackems, Man Utd, Liverpool and Man City were all priced differently. What they seem to do now is gauge what sort of demand there is likely to be and then charge the prices accordingly. This season Mackems at home will no doubt start at £45 again, Man Utd/Liverpool £40, Chelsea/Arsenal/Man City £36, then around £30 for the likes of Spurs and Everton with Leicester, Crystal Palace etc 20 odd quid.

Only if you become a member though. The cheapest general sale tickets were £36 for adults. They have a bit of a problem in that they've lost a lot of season ticket holders from last season so they have a lot more seats to fill on a match by match basis. At the moment they seem to be concentrating on getting the young supporters in to fill those seats (£5 a ticket for our first 2 home games for bairns) but if they're still not selling out I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of adult tickets drops as well.

Season tickets are still on sale now so I would imagine they just come down a bit more in price after each each game. As Disco has said though you're far better off just picking and choosing and that way if we sell our best player(s) in January and the players and manager just give up on the rest of the season you can simply just stop going as you haven't forked out for all the games in advance.

Totally agree. I know of loads of people who've been going for decades and Mike Ashley and Alan Pardew won't stop them going to support their team. You've got to respect that in the same way that those who still buy the season tickets should respect those that have said enough is enough and don't feel they can financially contribute to this regime any longer. At the end of the day it's a personal decision and there isn't a right or wrong answer.

I can't understand the reaction of most the NUFC fans I've spoken to after yesterday's defeat. People saying it was a really good performance and we were unlucky. From where I was sat it looked to me than Man City were playing in 2nd gear and we still couldn't manage a single shot on target in 90 minutes. Personally I thought we gave them a better game up here last season.

Aye. We got relegated that season as well.

I'm a Newcastle fan so I want us to win every week. The rest takes care of itself.

Usually i'd be quite optimistic with the signings we've made but then I remember who is in charge of developing and coaching these new players and realise that we're just wasting our time. The likes of De Jong especially seems to really have something about him but we all know he'll be nowhere near the player he is now this time next year after Pardew's been let loose on him.

Man City tickets went on sale today and going by the seating plan loads have chucked it, as many as 10k I would say. Another giveaway to poor st sales is that they are selling kids tickets for a fiver for a match against the league champions, something they were doing at the back end of last season.

Same here.

They've raised over 6 grand now. Incredible and humbling and i'm not ashamed to say reading that thread on RTG brought a tear to my eye. Goes to show that some things in life are far more important than footballing rivallry. 99% of the lads and lasses who support NUFC and SAFC are thoroughly decent people who share a love for football and their club. Of course we knew this anyway. I remember some of the fantastic gestures that came from them after Sir Bobby Robson died but they've excelled themselves this time as this was just 2 ordinary NUFC fans travelling to watch their team play. All that's left to say is well done to all the Sunderland fans, a credit to your club and to football. I'm sure we would do exactly the same if it were 2 of their supporters but I pray that theory is never put to test.