Wallsendmag

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!

Couldn't think of owt worse. The mackem hatchet men will go out there knowing they could go down in mackem folklaw by putting one of our big name players out for a very long time. Not worth the hassle.

2 of my mates worked for Northumbria Police, one still does, other one is retired and they are given an actual number of people inside the stadium and you are right the disparity and actual numbers they quote are massive. I remember one of them telling me about a game they played against Bolton in the season they were relegated from the Championship to League One. Was a midweek game (Halloween I think) and they announced 26,000 odd at the match but the true number given to Police was under 14,000. Tbf just about all teams quote tickets sold these days though. We had a few 52k crowds under Ashley which were clearly mid to upper 40s.

Bloody hell I didn't realise the womens game went as far down! Probably shouldn't expect too much standard wise then. A likely 30,000+ crowd for womens football at that level is astonishing! No other word for it really. I've caught glimpses of the highlights of the WSL on SSN and the stadiums look bare, maybe a couple of thousand at best at most games and that's the pinnacle of the womens game in this country.

I'm going on Sunday and I'll admit I've never been to a womens match before so I don't know the first thing about the womens team. I'm aware this is the FA Cup but what tier do NUFC actually play at? Obviously I'm aware its not the top league but its not particularly easy to find out.

Sunderlands ticket prices for their last home FA Cup tie were £10 adults, £5 kids/OAPs. Attendance was 8,620. Tickets for NUFC women are £3 adults £1 kids (£6/£2 on the day) with Milburn Stand directors box tickets priced at £30.

The crowd at their last home FA Cup game (v Mansfield in 2021) was 8,620.

Milburn Stand now open for sale.

The Fewm when they find out that he's not a MLF and is in fact a Durham Mag is just glorious

He's going to try for his own seat again when they decide to open L7 up. Hopefully if we get through this round they'll just open the whole stadium up at the same time and it'll save him a headache. I was 5 when I went to my first home game, sat on my dads shoulders at the back of the paddocks in the early 80s. Took my son to his first game v Huddersfield in the Championship aged 3 and he never took his eyes off it. I thought that would be the case which is why I took him at a young age. He had everyone around us in stitches as we were walking out when he proclaimed in a pretty loud voice that "we'll get relegated again at this rate!".

One of my mates has an autistic son. Literally everything he does is following a routine. He's fine at the match, in fact that's where he's most comfortable, but he has to go through the same turnstile every time, things like that. They got tickets for the Palace game but couldn't get their exact seats and had to wait for GS. They used the same turnstile but they were 1 row behind their usual seats and a few seats along. The bairn just couldn't settle and they had to leave before the end.