Wallsendmag

True. Their cup attendances are a reflection of their true support as the receipts are shared and therefore numbers can't be fiddled. I believe last season their lowest cup crowd was circa 3,500 and their highest cup crowd (FA Cup) was 8,600.

Would have went 4th with a win such is the standard of the Championship this season.

This is exacty what they do. Print a load of tickets and distribute them around schools, colleges and universities and count them as part of the attendance. There's around 26/27k there today but they'll add 10k onto that just by counting the handouts as part of the attendance.

Known racists still being racist.

Personally I know loads of fans who can't get in any more. People who can't get a season ticket. People who are members who are missing out on tickets, people who can't even get hold of a membership in the first place! I even know people who were wanting to get tickets for Bournemouth in the League Cup who couldn't get tickets and this is a few days before Xmas with virtually the whole stadium being NUFC as they are bringing very few fans! Demand is absolutely mental. I've never knowm it like this. Far more than even under the peak Keegan days and it's only going to get bigger as one of the owners' commitments is to increase the fanbase further.

It is pretty tinpot playing whilst there's a World Cup going on mind, it has to be said.

They've never had a fanbase anywhere near the size of ours and that is a fact. I doubt they'd historically be in the top 10 best supported clubs in England whereas I think we are 5th.

So 3rd top of the league we wouldn't be able to match West Hams crowds? Give it a rest man

We could sell 70k v Bournemouth and Fulham as things stand.

I'd rather keep it at the size it's at than having 10k Mancs, or Scousers milling around town. Police wouldn't allow it anyway so it's a non starter but thankfully we wouldn't need them to fill any increase in capacity anyway.

There's no logic in handing over 10k tickets to Liverpool/Man Utd and giving them a huge advantage when we could fill the stadium with our own supporters though. That's before you even go into the logistics and 10k of them drinking around town beforehand!

They'd be happy to finish 19th as long as we were 20th and I'm not joking either. They have such a strange, backward mentality.

No chance away teams are getting 10,000. They'd get the same 3k they do now and that's the same 3k that Man Utd, West Ham, Spurs, Arsenal (and soon Liverpool) allocate away clubs with their 60k+ capacities. We could sell 65/70k without any away fans tbf.

We have a far bigger support than West Ham and they sell out 65k every week and thats to watch shite football in a shite stadium. Absolutely absurd to suggest even a relatively successful NUFC couldn't at least match that.

You can't really compare with 20 years ago. Football has changed massively in that time, especially its popularity. If you'd told me 20 years ago that West Ham would be averaging 66,000 I would have laughed in your face. We could sell out 65k right now for every single league game. In fact I think we could have sold 65k v Bournemouth in the League Cup considering it sold out within an hour of going on GS and that's with virtually no away fans. Also a comparison with Man City is pointless. They share a city with the worlds best supported team. The nearest Premier League team to us is best part of 100 miles away.

I think 65,000 is the ideal capacity. We could comfortably sell 50,000 season tickets, still offer 3k tickets to away clubs and leave 12,000 tickets for members/general sale which would still sell out instantly. I'm pretty confident that they're exploring every avenue available to them to get capacity to as close as possible to that.

Costa Rica were looking good until they brought that Sunderland player on.

What a find this is I'll read through every last post once the football is finished!

It was a one way friendship. Bilbao couldn't gice a shite about sunderland. Pretty much similar the the Feyenoord friendship they tried to build until they became so annoying, the Feyenoord Ultras threatened to give a good hiding to anyone who tried to enter De Kuip this season with a Sunderland flag

They'd need to level the pitch first otherwise we'd be kicking uphill for the entire match!

Remember the Gallowgate End being renamed the Exhibition Stand for a while when it was rebuilt in 1994 as well before reverting back.

No chance of this one making members sale I'm afraid.

Don't watch reality TV but still nice to see Geordie Jill winning it

Just a shame they didn't take into consideration the 1000s of fans who would be in the lower tiers when designing the roof leaving them all open to the elements.

Tbf Sunderland was never a place to be feared. Remember as a 13 year old back in 1991 my parents being cool with me going there when we played them and again the following season. The seaon after that we played Boro away in the League Cup and my dad wouldn't let me go. Middlesbrough was a place you needed your wits about you as an away fan, but on both those occasions I went to Sunderland in 1991 and 1992 I remember far more Newcastle fans milling around outside than home fans, especially 1992. Almost felt like a home gane outside!