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[Rod]

4 minutes ago, Rod said:

No, you are right but I thought that was common knowledge.

My wife works in Durham and her job involves visiting numerous schools.  She tells me that there are 10's of thousands of match tickets allocated to the schools.

[ExiledGeordie]

16k wasn’t it? That’s a pathetic attendance from them yesterday

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

14 minutes ago, Rod said:

No, you are right but I thought that was common knowledge.

Im not known as the prince of the obvious around these here parts for nothing 

[Ben]

Attending yesterday's game must have been a genuinely miserable experience 

[et tu brute]

29 minutes ago, Rod said:

My wife works in Durham and her job involves visiting numerous schools.  She tells me that there are 10's of thousands of match tickets allocated to the schools.

Of course there is despite the fact the daft mackem cunts trying to say that it's paying ticket holders not attending. You don't get 5,000 + paying ticket holders not attending games. It's obvious that they include the free tickets within their overall attendance figures and their annual revenue accounts bear this out. 

[Dr.Spaceman]

Late 90's we had them chucked at us for free, in Felling. Laughable that they were casting their net that wide to fill seats just after they'd opened the SoL arguably in the midst of their best run in recent memory. If they were doing that back then they are definitely still having to do it now.

[Stifler]

3 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

Late 90's we had them chucked at us for free, in Felling. Laughable that they were casting their net that wide to fill seats just after they'd opened the SoL arguably in the midst of their best run in recent memory. If they were doing that back then they are definitely still having to do it now.

At this point, they are probably sending tickets to the email spam folder of a primary school in Derby.

[Heron]

22 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

Late 90's we had them chucked at us for free, in Felling. Laughable that they were casting their net that wide to fill seats just after they'd opened the SoL arguably in the midst of their best run in recent memory. If they were doing that back then they are definitely still having to do it now.

Didn't get this problem North of the water.

[RS]

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/future-cup-games-fan-experience-and-incentives-to-go.1647743/
 

At least the massive lads fans are trying to do something about it. So far it’s because buying tickets is a really hard process and not enough turnstiles are open. 

[jack j]

I think it says more about the fa cup than sunlund like

Mind I've been to plenty cup games at Newcastle where we've had poor attendances. We had a 15k crowd ourselves 15 years ago. I remember being at uefa cup games with less than 30k there. First game I took the bairn too against burnley in 2021 we had the upper tiers closed

Plenty to take the piss out of them for but they've got abit to come back at us with regards to attendances

[Checko]

5 minutes ago, jack j said:

I think it says more about the fa cup than sunlund like

Mind I've been to plenty cup games at Newcastle where we've had poor attendances. We had a 15k crowd ourselves 15 years ago. I remember being at uefa cup games with less than 30k there. First game I took the bairn too against burnley in 2021 we had the upper tiers closed

Plenty to take the piss out of them for but they've got abit to come back at us with regards to attendances

Plus it's fucking cold and everyone's skint in January.

 

EDIT: Though as @midds points out, if you're going to keep banging on about important to your sense of self-worth attendence figures are you gonna have to accept a bit of ribbing when they're bad.

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Checko

[Heron]

Ticket prices are shocking mind. £20 should be the upper limit of a ticket price for the FA Cup third round. How much were these ones for Bromley? 30 fucking quid. Disgraceful.

 

Clubs (and the FA?) need to look at themselves.

[jack j]

4 minutes ago, Checko said:

Plus it's fucking cold and everyone's skint in January.

 

EDIT: Though as @midds points out, if you're going to keep banging on about important to your sense of self-worth attendence figures are you gonna have to accept a bit of ribbing when they're bad.

 

 

 

That goes for us as well though. People can always bring our historical attendances up as a stick to beat us with

[Benwell Lad]

A half interested watch of MOTD this morning and there was only one stadium yesterday that looked half closed down and three quarters empty.

In the mackem cycle of insanity some of those who attended their game yesterday and complained about how empty it was are being rounded on with "Mag" type derision  by those who didn't attend ??

There's barely any excuse which hasn't been used thus far. They're just weird.

[Checko]

We'd better have a good crowd vs Bromley today!

[Heron]

The thing is at NUFC they've locked season ticket holders into it essentially because we have a good chance of getting tot eh final and if you don't attend cup games you have less chance of a cup final ticket.

 

I hate the Mackems and it's a shite attendance but can see why fans would say "why should I spend this when you're clearly not trying to win it."

 

It may seem delewsional to expect a club like Sunderland attempt to win a cup like that, but that's the whole point of those cups surely?

 

I know we laugh about 'free tickets mackems' but it'd be better if they made the tickets cheaper and got arses on seats than play in front of thousands of pink seats. Hook kids early on [insert team name] and there's a chance they'll always come back as paying adults.

[Stifler]

11 minutes ago, RS said:

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/future-cup-games-fan-experience-and-incentives-to-go.1647743/
 

At least the massive lads fans are trying to do something about it. So far it’s because buying tickets is a really hard process and not enough turnstiles are open. 

In all fairness, the first ones should be automatic in anyway. Most clubs have a cup scheme plan for season ticket holders.

I think the only unrealistic things there is the 50% off voucher for the club store, and free pie & pint. Maybe a voucher for 50% off food and drink at the match before KO.

[nufc4eva]

1 hour ago, Rod said:

My wife works in Durham and her job involves visiting numerous schools.  She tells me that there are 10's of thousands of match tickets allocated to the schools.

 

That's a lot but I think it's good they give them to schools and kids get a chance that otherwise maybe wouldn't and wish all premier league clubs had a quota of tickets that had to be allocated to less fortunate people or to encourage kids as the prices are horrendous if taking a family to a match especially at likes of spurs etc. Maybe they already have a scheme like that but not aware of it.

[jack j]

7 minutes ago, Checko said:

We'd better have a good crowd vs Bromley today!

Aye it's sold out

But as mentioned its down to the new signings up ticketing scheme we've got. In years gone by you'd be looking at 30-40k foe this and even less in the Ashley era

[OCOCOL]

1 minute ago, Stifler said:

In all fairness, the first ones should be automatic in anyway. Most clubs have a cup scheme plan for season ticket holders.

I think the only unrealistic things there is the 50% off voucher for the club store, and free pie & pint. Maybe a voucher for 50% off food and drink at the match before KO.

 Maybe a free season ticket with a happy meal?

 

just kidding whilst that attendance is pretty surprising I’d not have a go at clubs for trying to get kids in. Obviously we don’t need to do that now but I’d still like to see the club distribute a small % of tickets free (or with a paying adult) to primary schools in x mikes radius of SJP. Liverpool iirc do something similar to make sure the local kids can still go. 

[Stifler]

13 minutes ago, Benwell Lad said:

A half interested watch of MOTD this morning and there was only one stadium yesterday that looked half closed down and three quarters empty.

In the mackem cycle of insanity some of those who attended their game yesterday and complained about how empty it was are being rounded on with "Mag" type derision  by those who didn't attend ??

There's barely any excuse which hasn't been used thus far. They're just weird.

Sheffield United’s attendance was worse than Sunderland’s on Thursday. Why a 3rd round cup game is on a Thursday is beyond me in anyway, but still you would expect more to turn up, and they are above Sunderland in the league table.

Man City had gaps in their ground, despite the team they played against being owned by the class of 92.

 

I think a lot of it comes down to price, I even think £30 four our game is a bit much, but obviously we are riding a different set of waves as a club at the moment. The FA Cup ticketing pricing is probably where the most impact on protests over ticket prices can be seen, or should be seen.

[Stifler]

15 minutes ago, OCOCOL said:

 Maybe a free season ticket with a happy meal?

 

just kidding whilst that attendance is pretty surprising I’d not have a go at clubs for trying to get kids in. Obviously we don’t need to do that now but I’d still like to see the club distribute a small % of tickets free (or with a paying adult) to primary schools in x mikes radius of SJP. Liverpool iirc do something similar to make sure the local kids can still go. 

Yeah, and I think if we are going for an 80k capacity stadium, we need to be giving about 5k minimum to worthy causes, be it schools, food banks, sheltered accommodation, children homes etc.

[Gawalls]

22 minutes ago, nufc4eva said:

 

That's a lot but I think it's good they give them to schools and kids get a chance that otherwise maybe wouldn't and wish all premier league clubs had a quota of tickets that had to be allocated to less fortunate people or to encourage kids as the prices are horrendous if taking a family to a match especially at likes of spurs etc. Maybe they already have a scheme like that but not aware of it.

I think it’s a good thing giving them to schools, too many kids nowadays are one of the big four supporters and local teams go unsupported. I don’t know why teams like say Darlington don’t give their tickets to local Darlington schools.

[Dokko]

They could have opened the doors for free yesterday, and still struggle to fill half the ground. They only show up when the want to. Most fair weather fans in the country.

[Benwell Lad]

1 minute ago, Dokko said:

They could have opened the doors for free yesterday, and still struggle to fill half the ground. They only show up when the want to. Most fair weather fans in the country.

Sunderland until it's the Cup.