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Did you have 1-0 coloccini on that day as well? Because I did and it properly pissed me off

If my understanding is correct that would our 09/10 championship season when they were living it up in the premier league as well would it not?

Also, I think members should be able to accrue loyalty points when they buy tickets for away games, although I understand why season ticket holders with no points may disagree with that!

Some clubs work on a set basis, ie: Tues 1 May @ 10:00 - 100 points Tues 1 May @ 14:00 - 90 points Wed 2 May @ 10:00 - 80 points Wed 2 May @ 14:00 - 70 points etc. etc. They release the dates for all of the point drop thresholds, including member and general sale and it’ll either get that far or it wont. Allows people to plan ahead too, rather than waking up randomly to see it’s dropped to 0 points. That's a good idea. Also, it really doesn't need to be on for a week or two before the points required drops. I'm on over 130 pts and have got to know a lot of others who go regularly. Most either go to them all and religiously buy as soon as they go on sale or have planned in advance which ones they're going to and buy as soon as they're on sale. Dropping the requirement just a couple of weeks or less before the match just creates other problems for those on less points in that trains, hotels etc are likely to be more expensive, it's harder to get time off work at short notice etc which isn't really fair. If you can't get organised to buy a ticket in the first 2 or 3 days (given it's generally advertised another day or two in ahead of sale), you don't really deserve another week headstart on someone else even if you do have more loyalty points than them (sorry Greg!) Apart from that the loyalty system is fine the way it is. If we ever got to the point where there were no games going to 0 points then I'd look to make some changes (maybe 10% of our allocation distributed via ballot as opposed to loyalty pts.) The reason is I'd be concerned about the younger generation of fans getting discouraged which would be bad for the long term future of NUFC as a club.

Note use of the word 'still' (italicised twice to emphasise their incredulity) for an event that occured less than a week ago. Yeah, ok. For reference, beating Everton to send us down was 2016, 6-in-a-row was 2015, horse puncher 2013 and 'Boycoutt' 2008. All brought up on a daily basis by the brain-donors on Ready to groom. Christ, they still bring up a score from when Queen Victoria was still warm. Still. Cretins. My personal favourite is phone boxes. Especially considering it was over 20 years ago and it's not as though you never saw any others smashed up around the place in the 90s. Fwiw, two of the crowd who were smashing up the phone box after the cup final in 99 were sunderland fans who went to my school and were quite clearly identifiable in the chronicle on the Monday morning.

The only thing I can think of is it's up to the end of the accounting period ending 2016. That would mean it would include the £80m spend in 2 windows under mcclaren but not the £40m net profit of the summer of 2016?!? Still seems a little high mind.

I'm fucking sick of watching a game with bobby madley reffing and hearing the commentator saying something along the lines of"well that decision probably should have been given Newcastle's way and on another day it might well have been." With another referee it would have been, he's a cheating cunt.

it's bizarre, i mean if you were 6/7/8 years old or whatever when the keegan era kicked off and were brought up in the vicinity of newcastle more than likely you'd have got right into the toon...i mean that's the very nature and basis of supporting football teams really had we never gone up and took off but they did their little reid period a lot of kids would have naturally gravitated to them i'm sure (which obvs happened anyway)....we then had the SBR time which was also good they act like every adult just suddenly decided to switch allegiances from another club in 1992 dumb as rocks It's really weird crack as well from a club that found an additional 20k of fans out of nowhere in 1997, yet who are now nowhere to be seen. Pretty much the dictionary definition of gloryhunters.

Cewkie must have not got that message- in his post-relegation interview he said something along the lines of "I'd like to apologise to our fans- the ones who have stuck with us anyway."

Think the same happened with Les Ferdinand when he played for Leicester And Beresford with Southampton. He got the joke and started pissing himself laughing.

"Well strictly speaking, AJ had Epibeliophelia, or at worst Hebpobephilia, either way it's nothing more than a natural urge in adult males towards a younger group, and can't be classed as dirty noncing. I just burst out fingering a 14 year old (which is fine - see previous caveats)" Dangernons, 2015 - present Epibeliophelia. Trying to imagine this in their accent has just given me nausea and a headache. Ta for that.

If you bounce back first time, I'm sure you get the parachute payment for the season you're in the championship but not for the second or third season as you're back on the gravy train at the point of promotion? As an aside on this point, I was told yesterday that there is actually a small "parachute payment"-type package to lessen the financial impact on clubs relegated from the championship to league 1. Ergo, our mates from down the road will be in receipt of two lots of parachute payments next season if as expected they go down. Which will probably account for about 80% of their turnover. Which it's hard not to laugh at!

No. They always release the end of season fixtures on a rolling basis. Still pretty s**** to move a 560 mile round trip to a weeknight, 3 weeks before the game. Even the Saturday PM slot would have been better for them. It is pretty shit but if you start booking non-refundable travel and hotels before the tv picks have been announced you're just asking for it really. Why would you do that? Feel more sorry for anyone who booked to go and watch us at everton after the tv fixtures were announced who then got fucking shafted.

It all just meldges in to one huge lump tbh. It was like a competition. They opened it in 1997 at 40k, we expanded in 1998 from 36 to 52, so they expanded again up to nearly 49 in 2000. Hence their ground is a fair whack too big now, even when they were getting 40k. But it made sense for both clubs at the time if you look back at the trajectory of the teams and the crowds. Yeah true. The first season they finished 7th with Quinn and Phillips it was actually difficult to get tickets for Sunderland games. So they expanded and tbf in the next 7th place season they averaged 47k. That fell to 44k and then 36k for the 19 point season. They overshot based on what was a wave at the time. But both clubs were ambitious and optimistic. It was a far better era for North East football, especially when you also consider Boro. Pretty sure that was when Murray came out with his infamous “one more seat than Newcastle” line Yep. I get the points about North East crowds at the time but there's also an element of it being a bit of a vanity project, with the obligatory reference to ourselves of course. Having such a large stadium has resulted in the mass ticket giveaways which I think became a double edged sword in terms as people became accustomed to not paying. If they go down now it'll be like a millstone round their necks next season. With the benefit of hindsight I wonder if they'd have been better renovating Roker Park to a capacity of 25k or so.

Oh yes. I f***ing hate league. Awful awful sport. The fans are bellends too. There’s no segregation at Union games, yet at League it’s worse than some football games you go to with the vitriol and hate towards one another This isn't quite true ib my experience (although I'd imagine it would apply to a couple of fixtures like the Hull derby or Wigan vs St Helens.) I agree that League is a little more tribal and "edgey" than union appears to be, and there is generally an away "end" at all super league grounds. But fans do mix wearing colours in the other stands if there is either a high demand among away fans or people want to watch it with their mates who support the home team. Went to watch Leeds vs Castleford at Headingley stood in the South Stand last year and a couple of us were loudly celebrating every Cas try with no bother or nastiness at all. For context an NUFC equivalent would maybe be Boro fans celebrating goals in the middle of the old gallowgate. As far as the game goes, I prefer League as it's faster and more end-to-end so I find it a bit more exciting. Find it hard to get into a game of Union as so much hinges on refereeing decisions that I just don't understand having never played it. Just seems like everyone falls down in a big heap and it's a lottery as to which way the referees arm points?!? Got nowt against the sport like, each to their own and fair play to the Falcons for pulling off a successful event and generating a bit of excitement in the city.

am I gan mad or did one of them just offer to undo a female posters bra? Was it "I'll underwire your jaw marra??"

Jesus, this is the single greatest mack-track of all time. After 20 years of sunderland fans telling anyone who'd listen that they actually have more fans than Newcastle, that their attendances were more impressive (due to the laws of mackematics), that Newcastle fans are fair-weather glory-hunters who would disappear on relegation compared to sunderland fans who would all follow the team no matter what, after 20 fucking years, ALS has now (correctly tbf) decided that it's a shit argument and that people who go on about attendances are wankers. With a straight face and not a hint of irony. Glorious.

Not awful signing if that's the money they've got to work with. Still, the vile c***s will do very well to get playoffs. 1.5 million for the pair. If they've got f*** all to spend it's not bad business. Outstanding business given their predicament. McGeady is top half championship standard easy and vaughan is a body in in a position they are scandalously short in. He will also see this as a last shot at getting back into the big time and will be extremely motivated. If they keep the current squad on paper they've one of the best midfields in that division and on that basis I think they should be aiming for playoffs with anything else a bonus. I think they'll ultimately miss out due to a lack of depth and a proven reliable consistent goalscorer. One of the best midfields in the division are you off your f***ing rocker. Theres no goals or creativity at all in that midfield its absolute s****. Anyone thinking these chumps will finish in the top half is out of their mind Their midfielders are (off the top of my head) rodwell, cattermole, lens, khazri, mcgeady. Bear in mind Colback made that division look easy at times last season. Goes without saying I hope they crash and burn like. You alright mate ? Don't forget at one point there were heated debates on here because some folk (wrongly) thought he was better than Hayden. Clearly Colback is an awful footballer but he found his level in that division and at times looked extremely comfortable. Nobody sane ever thought Colback was better than Hayden, some may have suggested he was a better partner for Shelvey being more defensive, but that doesn't mean a thing. I'm not sure where you are going with your points, Colback struggled last season, just as much as he has if not more than previous PL campaigns. Have you seen Cattermole play ? It's a rare thing because he's always injured but when he does turn up he's just Colback with less brains. Lens struggled badly for them, so badly that they were happy to ship him off on loan last season, he now openly hates them and is edging for a move anywhere. Khazri had a couple of good games when he first arrived scored some important goals but has done nothing since except eat pizza and chips and is another running for the exit door. My point is that on paper I think sunderlands midfield is one of the better midfields in that division. The division in question being the championship which Middlesbrough are joint favourites to win and in which even Colback had some good games last season. It's not full of worldbeaters. I might be right, I might be wrong, you don't have to agree with my point, it's a football forum for people to debate different opinions after all, but I don't think what I am saying is too hard to understand. Having had the dubious pleasure of watching colback for the last however many years I would also have to disagree with your statement that last season he "struggled just as much if not more" than he did in the PL. Last season he in general got away with it and actually on occasion had some good games, most likely due to the level of opposition faced whereas in the premier league he was consistently woefully out of his depth since the day he signed.

Not awful signing if that's the money they've got to work with. Still, the vile c***s will do very well to get playoffs. 1.5 million for the pair. If they've got f*** all to spend it's not bad business. Outstanding business given their predicament. McGeady is top half championship standard easy and vaughan is a body in in a position they are scandalously short in. He will also see this as a last shot at getting back into the big time and will be extremely motivated. If they keep the current squad on paper they've one of the best midfields in that division and on that basis I think they should be aiming for playoffs with anything else a bonus. I think they'll ultimately miss out due to a lack of depth and a proven reliable consistent goalscorer. One of the best midfields in the division are you off your f***ing rocker. Theres no goals or creativity at all in that midfield its absolute s****. Anyone thinking these chumps will finish in the top half is out of their mind Their midfielders are (off the top of my head) rodwell, cattermole, lens, khazri, mcgeady. Bear in mind Colback made that division look easy at times last season. Goes without saying I hope they crash and burn like. You alright mate ? Don't forget at one point there were heated debates on here because some folk (wrongly) thought he was better than Hayden. Clearly Colback is an awful footballer but he found his level in that division and at times looked extremely comfortable.

Not awful signing if that's the money they've got to work with. Still, the vile c***s will do very well to get playoffs. 1.5 million for the pair. If they've got f*** all to spend it's not bad business. Outstanding business given their predicament. McGeady is top half championship standard easy and vaughan is a body in in a position they are scandalously short in. He will also see this as a last shot at getting back into the big time and will be extremely motivated. If they keep the current squad on paper they've one of the best midfields in that division and on that basis I think they should be aiming for playoffs with anything else a bonus. I think they'll ultimately miss out due to a lack of depth and a proven reliable consistent goalscorer. One of the best midfields in the division are you off your f***ing rocker. Theres no goals or creativity at all in that midfield its absolute s****. Anyone thinking these chumps will finish in the top half is out of their mind Their midfielders are (off the top of my head) rodwell, cattermole, lens, khazri, mcgeady. Bear in mind Colback made that division look easy at times last season. Goes without saying I hope they crash and burn like.

That surely must be one of ours on a windup. "This is how to look stupid." Indeed feller, indeed it is.

Not awful signing if that's the money they've got to work with. Still, the vile c***s will do very well to get playoffs. 1.5 million for the pair. If they've got f*** all to spend it's not bad business. Outstanding business given their predicament. McGeady is top half championship standard easy and vaughan is a body in in a position they are scandalously short in. He will also see this as a last shot at getting back into the big time and will be extremely motivated. If they keep the current squad on paper they've one of the best midfields in that division and on that basis I think they should be aiming for playoffs with anything else a bonus. I think they'll ultimately miss out due to a lack of depth and a proven reliable consistent goalscorer.

Respected Throughout Football marra, football friends etc.

The leagues and TV companies, who claim to have "the best interest of match going away fans at heart", have had our two trips to Brighton on a Tuesday night and 4:30 on a Sunday. Was planning on ticking Brighton off the list finally this season but that is a pisser of a time even when making a weekend of it. Surely 5:30 Saturday should be enforced for that kind of distance if they insist they want to show it. Exactly the same for me. Haven't been to Brighton before and was intent on doing it this season but will be struggling to do so at 4pm on the Sunday.