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There's lots of things you can criticise Sunderland for but attendances isn't one. It's embarrassing patter really.

 

I usually don't criticise them for their poor attendances, but it's a fact that they do not fill their stadium. We have been ran worse than them and were actually relegated, but we still fill our stadium.

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It's a small city in one of the poorest areas of the country with a  shite team that never does anything to inspire. 40k against West Bromich Albion is a great attendance however it is achieved. As is selling 30k season tickets.

 

Fair play to them.

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There's lots of things you can criticise Sunderland for but attendances isn't one. It's embarrassing patter really.

 

despite giving away around 10k free tickets each game?

 

And still having swathes of pink seats?

 

they bring it on themselves with constant attempts to prove our attendances aren't what they actually and that we're a club that only existed since '92 or whatever

 

if they didn't have such a chip about it nobody would feel the need to mention it, free tickets or not

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My cousin works for them in the corporate hospitality dept although he's looking for a new job. I don't see much of him but bumped into him at a family funeral last week and he was saying it's an impossible job there now. His role is to get new business in, sell boxes, sell corporate seating etc and literally nobody is interested. They've been cold called ex box holders/corporate clients all season and there's just no take up at all and he's under loads of pressure because his bosses are asking him why he can't get customers in.

 

He also said they're giving away unprecedented amounts of free tickets this season. Ticket drops into the 1000s at Sunderland Uni as well as the colleges in the Sunderland/County Durham/South Tyneside areas. Aside from that they're handing out free tickets to schools and local businesses in the area and they've also started a scheme where any Nissan worker can buy a match ticket for a tenner on production of their pass.

 

If they go down they're screwed. They generate next to no money outside of the Premier League tv cash nowadays and still have a huge wage bill to service, with few saleable assets as well as mounting debts.

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It's a small city in one of the poorest areas of the country with a  s**** team that never does anything to inspire. 40k against West Bromich Albion is a great attendance however it is achieved. As is selling 30k season tickets.

 

Fair play to them.

 

I wouldn't really disagree, but I guess what I'm saying is they have nowt going for them, fuck all. We have our fan base and always will it seems even with pricks like Ashley, Pardew et al mugging us off.

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It's a small city in one of the poorest areas of the country with a  s**** team that never does anything to inspire. 40k against West Bromich Albion is a great attendance however it is achieved. As is selling 30k season tickets.

 

Fair play to them.

 

I wouldn't really disagree, but I guess what I'm saying is they have nowt going for them, fuck all. We have our fan base and always will it seems even with pricks like Ashley, Pardew et al mugging us off.

 

As much as it drove everyone mad that we still filled the stadium in those dark days could you see many others doing the same? I don't blame them for having free tickets and pink seats given what they watch every week and to say they still get over 30k crowds to watch that is some achievement, free tickets or not. But if they get relegated it'll be the death of them.

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It's a small city in one of the poorest areas of the country with a  s**** team that never does anything to inspire. 40k against West Bromich Albion is a great attendance however it is achieved. As is selling 30k season tickets.

 

Fair play to them.

 

I wouldn't really disagree, but I guess what I'm saying is they have nowt going for them, f*** all. We have our fan base and always will it seems even with pricks like Ashley, Pardew et al mugging us off.

 

As much as it drove everyone mad that we still filled the stadium in those dark days could you see many others doing the same? I don't blame them for having free tickets and pink seats given what they watch every week and to say they still get over 30k crowds to watch that is some achievement, free tickets or not. But if they get relegated it'll be the death of them.

 

I think we are quite unique in many ways because I doubt many would get the size of crowds we get. To be fair, I'm surprised the mackems get as many as they do because they are really really wretched in every way. But again, if we are talking about them as a Premier League club, they have fuck all going for them. Agreed they will be fucked if they go down, massively fucked.

 

I know a few mackems who have always believed that the SOL has 10k more seats than it needs, they should have went for a 35k seater stadium.

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How many games have the mackems won in the last 3, or 4 seasons?

 

Wonder if we can beat that this 1 season?

 

26 in the last 3 seasons 35 in the last 4 before this season.

Quite a decent chance at the end of this season, we'll have won more than the mackems have in the last 4 seasons (inc this one) then

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they reckon hes has gone right off the boil. form or age doing its thing? they are in big trouble if he doesn't find form.

 

They have to get the ball to him for that to happen, he can't do it from kick off :lol:

 

useless cunt :lol:

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