Robster Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Birmingham City won it a couple of years ago so anything is possible. FFS ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 For any lurking Boat Burners-and there'll be plenty-aye, we had 52,000 empty seats tonight because we don't do cups ...but...25,000 home fans for a semi-final?? No excuses, like-that is f.ucking sh!te. To be honest I don't really understand why people get the hump over attendances. I was there. I enjoyed myself and wouldn't mind if I was the only one in the ground. This. I don't personally understand why many sunderland fans didn't want to/choose to go last night, but don't see the need to use it as some sort of judgement on their moral fibre. As mentioned by others, it's the sort of s**** you see all the time on RTG which culminates in people being so obsessed with it they do things like making up their rival's attendances in order to prove some non-existent point. This is not healthy and certainly not something for us to aspire to imo!!! fwiw, seems to me that the stayaways have missed out on what always promised to be a very good night for their club for the sake of saving £20/a day's holiday in some cases. don't understand it, but their choice I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I am sure that every bar in sunderland was empty last night during the game and no fans were drinking watching it on the Tv's......... Its a Semi Final ffs, its not Rochdale in the 2nd round :lol; Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Its nothing to do with their moral fibre (that's questionable regardless of attendance). Seriously, as you say the Mackems talk shit about attendance all the time. So what's the problem with having at go at them for only taking 25k to a home leg of a cup semi final?, its an absolutely atrocious attendance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Just shows how many tickets they must give away for league games when they are averaging 40k home fans there yet for cup games when free tickets can't be issued in the same way they had 17,000 home fans v Chelsea for a quarter final and 25k home fans v Man Utd for a semi final. Cut out all the freebies for league games and that is their true level of support week in week out. Fair play to them for having one foot in a cup final though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Just shows how many tickets they must give away for league games when they are averaging 40k home fans there yet for cup games when free tickets can't be issued in the same way they had 17,000 home fans v Chelsea for a quarter final and 25k home fans v Man Utd for a semi final. Cut out all the freebies for league games and that is their true level of support week in week out. Fair play to them for having one foot in a cup final though. Be thousands crying that they couldnt get Final tickets as well i bet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Aye Roger - just watch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Just seen a Mackem pleading for tickets on Facebook to the cup semifinal tie. It only requires two, yes two, fucking loyalty points. Pathetic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Last Argentine defender they had served them well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard of Byker Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. Should get them a few more OG's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Vickery is God. I'll put faith in his opinion. You seen him much, Disco? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Its nothing to do with their moral fibre (that's questionable regardless of attendance). Seriously, as you say the Mackems talk s*** about attendance all the time. So what's the problem with having at go at them for only taking 25k to a home leg of a cup semi final?, its an absolutely atrocious attendance. Just think it's what they do, not us. Can't really laugh at them for getting all pompous and pious and jumped up and '1992ers marra FTM' about our attendances if we then go on the same about theirs. It is an absolutely unfathomable attendance, God knows why so many people turned their back on the best night their club has had for years. Fuck it though, their loss nowt to do with us. In general have never understood why people take so much interest in match attendances full stop, I know I am in the minority on that one though. Good point on the questionable moral fibre Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. Sounds about right, he's found the right club for him! Vickery knows his shit too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Vickery is God. I'll put faith in his opinion. You seen him much, Disco? Recognise the name but not enough to pass comment. Massive, massive ask to go from the Primera to the PL. Bad enough for defenders coming from European leagues to get used to the physicality - would be surprised if he played unless they get injuries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. They all seem to be world beaters until they set foot in Sunderland. Once the "oh fuck what have I done" sets in they seem to turn to shite. Normally expensive hard to get rid of shite as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Gabbiadini making excuses on Total Sport for last night's poor attendance. So many home games over the last couple of months, etc...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4eva Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Gabbiadini making excuses on Total Sport for last night's poor attendance. So many home games over the last couple of months, etc...... They get 40k for league games and this is their biggest for god knows how long. It should have been packed, one so called Sunderland fan at work was more concerned about going to empire cinema with crowds etc - seriously wtf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Rupert Fryer @Rupert_Fryer 6m Looks like former Newell's defender Santiago Vergini is heading to Sunderland. He was excellent under Martino, good on ball, 25yo. Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. He doesn't need to be good in the Premier League - for very long anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Even if they win it, they will still be shitter than us. What they really yearn for, is not cups or whatever, but just to be better than us. A one-off cup won't change the fact that they are and always will be in our shadow, not just as a club, but as a city and as people and it will never change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Gabbiadini making excuses on Total Sport for last night's poor attendance. So many home games over the last couple of months, etc...... They get 40k for league games and this is their biggest for god knows how long. It should have been packed, one so called Sunderland fan at work was more concerned about going to empire cinema with crowds etc - seriously wtf Empire do cheap tickets on a Tuesday like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Even if they win it, they will still be shitter than us. What they really yearn for, is not cups or whatever, but just to be better than us. A one-off cup won't change the fact that they are and always will be in our shadow, not just as a club, but as a city and as people and it will never change. Not sure about that, if they won a cup they'd have bragging rights for a fair few years, probably for the rest of my life actually. I'd take winning the League cup and getting relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucaAltieri Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Even if they win it, they will still be shitter than us. What they really yearn for, is not cups or whatever, but just to be better than us. A one-off cup won't change the fact that they are and always will be in our shadow, not just as a club, but as a city and as people and it will never change. Not sure about that, if they won a cup they'd have bragging rights for a fair few years, probably for the rest of my life actually. I'd take winning the League cup and getting relegated. Really? In my mind winning the League Cup is on par with coming top of the Championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lords-defeat-plan-make-teasing-6484100 Lords defeat plan to make teasing Sunderland fans illegal 9 Jan 2014 11:46 Anti-social behaviour plan would have made Tyne Wear rivalry a nuisance Lords have defeated a Government nuisance law which one peer said would have made it “illegal to taunt Sunderland fans”. Ministers had hoped to bring about a new crackdown on anti-social behaviour which would have given police new powers to tackle nuisance behaviour. But, as one Lord said before peers voted out the plans, the definition was so loosely defined it would have made even Tyne and Wear rivalry illegal. Lord Walton of Detchant, a Newcastle-born neurologist made a Freeman of the city alongside Jackie Milburn, pointed out the failings. He told the House of Lords: “I have been a lifelong supporter of Newcastle United Football Club. My friend, the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, and I call him friend in the social sense, not in the parliamentary sense, is for reasons best known to him, despite having been leader of Newcastle City Council, a Sunderland supporter. “If I were to chide him and say that he is foolish to continue to support that team, which has been absolutely hopeless all season, despite beating Manchester United last night, and if I were to say that the team is in fact languishing at the foot of the Premier League and in imminent danger of relegation, I think that he would be extremely annoyed because he is a loyal supporter of Sunderland. If I persisted with that theme, he would reasonably regard me as a confounded nuisance. “If one looks at this clause and interprets it in a strictly literal sense, I would potentially be in breach of this statute if I said those things. In fact, I do not for one moment believe that he would seek an injunction; at least I hope not. Having said that, I believe that the clause is absolutely unacceptable and needs to be amended.” Ministers are to consider amending the Bill, which would replace anti-social behaviour orders in England and Wales with injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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