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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.

Brilliant that they've frozen the prices especially considering how good the team is likely to be. Now all I've got to do is try to get one (well 2)!

This. Sunderland are more just something to have a laugh at these days. Other than Geographically they'll likely never be proper rivals to us again, think Liverpool with Tranmere or Man Utd/City with Wigan or Rochdale. They go up and they'll spend next season fighting for their lives in the Champo, as they call it. Everton going down would be hilarious.

Takeover was completed coming up for 7 months ago now. Takeover day was the day they finally knew beyond any doubt that this 1% pipedream was never going to happen. They've just been sat on this huge pile of cash all this time and barely anyone has raised an eyebrow. Staggering really.

Another of my pet hates!

Howe has commented on numerous occasions about how good the vocal support is and how much it's helped the team at home. I'm not sure how someone sitting there in silence taking up a seat is really contributing to that but each to their own. Like you say people go for different reasons amd at least they are there. When I go I like to give the players as much vocal encouragement as possible and I think they appreciate that.

That's my worry. As much as I want my ST back if it's not the Gallowgate I'm not sure if I'd want one. Wouldn't mind the East Stand as long as it's in the closest block to the Gallowgate but the thought of Level 7, the Leazes of Milburn Stand doesn't appeal anywhere as near as much.

Middle tier of the Gallowgate is a problem. We were in the Upper Tier last night and it's very noticeable from there. You have the corner which comes across excellent then you have the lower and upper tiers getting up off their seats singing but the majority of the middle (which probably has 95% season ticket occupancy) just sit there and don't get involved. Another bugbear of mine is the "United" chant. Why shout "Toon" in between? It was always 3 claps in between which sounds much better, see below.... https://youtu.be/u_1usHbNj8g

That time earlier in the season when they tried to organise their own flag display and only 2 volunteers turned up so they had to scrap it will never not be funny like

MOTM for me last night. Thought he was outstanding, even by his high standards. Special mention to Krafth on the other side who had an excellent game as well.

Once again I will happily admit that if the roles were reversed, we were a dead 3rd division club and they were the richest club in World football, I'd be broken as well!

Taking last nights result totally in their stride this morning Anyone wanting a good laugh with their mornibg cuppa before work would be well advised to pay RTG a visit. It's tremendous viewing this morning!