sunderland

[bobbydazzla]

They’ve made a rod for their own back by falsifying their attendance most weeks and then praising themselves for having big attendances when it’s clearly not the case. They’ve got zero humility 

 

I actually find the crack about their attendance to be cringe for both us and them, but there’s not many things more satisfying in life than a liar who makes false boasts being shown up for being a liar who makes false boasts 

 

So for as long as they continue to lie, I’ll continue to enjoy pointing and laughing at their empty stadium whilst they bleat on about Nissan backshifts, peak wedding season etc etc 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[et tu brute]

55 minutes ago, Heron said:

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.

The thing that makes them look stupid is they try constantly to bang the drum about their attendances, try to put other clubs support down, have weekly attendance threads for every match on their forum; this despite the plain obvious facts that there crowds are nowhere near what their club announces. You then have half of them stating that the official crowds are correct and their revenue accounts other half making up every excuse going to try and justify non attendees.

[Joelinton7]

Actually can’t believe they’ve paraded their big new signing in front of absolutely no one. 

[STM]

It's all a bit sad to be honest.

 

Fans not turning up and then fans online trying to scramble for excuses for their shit support.

[Rod]

1 hour 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.

It's never a good idea to give tickets away.  I had the misfortune of working amongst the sad mackem bastards a lot of years ago.  A season ticket holder could be sitting next to someone who paid nowt.  It created loads of bother and many season ticket holders simply refused to renew.  Most still attended but they now went free of charge.

Disastrous philosophy.

[Izakaya]

1 hour ago, Heron said:

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.

 

I kinda get that but to get only 15,000 people there on a Saturday arvo is mental. 

[STM]

Let's be honest, their football is shite, their players are shite, they've had nothing to support for years and one could understand them abandoning their club in such circumstances... I mean we didn't but then we have a proper support.

 

Sunderland football club isn't a football club, it's a protest club for people who didn't want to support Newcastle. Sunderland til I did..... or until it gets a bit cold marra. 

[madras]

1 hour ago, STM said:

Let's be honest, their football is shite, their players are shite, they've had nothing to support for years and one could understand them abandoning their club in such circumstances... I mean we didn't but then we have a proper support.

 

Sunderland football club isn't a football club, it's a protest club for people who didn't want to support Newcastle. Sunderland til I did..... or until it gets a bit cold marra. 

They still ha e a very good travelling support and to be fair, even their home support is very good compared to most clubs of their standing. They just make themselves look a bit silly with their 'official' attendances which they do purely for one reason...........us.

[KennyUtd]

Apparently there was an Atalanta scout at their game yesterday. This plum saying he wouldn't mind Lookman is any deal they do. Fkn hell, I just can't comprehend the delusion of these halfwits. 😆

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

1 hour ago, STM said:

Let's be honest, their football is shite, their players are shite, they've had nothing to support for years and one could understand them abandoning their club in such circumstances... I mean we didn't but then we have a proper support.

 

Sunderland football club isn't a football club, it's a protest club for people who didn't want to support Newcastle. Sunderland til I did..... or until it gets a bit cold marra. 

I mean we haven’t been out of the PL for nearly a decade either, they suffer the same situation as Man City used to. They had a hardcore of somewhere between 25-30k which can be boosted when they’re "doing well', but isn’t sustainable in the lean times. Which is why them building the SOL solely to have a bigger capacity than the 36k SJP had at the time was always a folly

[ste_ne24]

 

[ikri]

17 minutes ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

I mean we haven’t been out of the PL for nearly a decade either, they suffer the same situation as Man City used to. They had a hardcore of somewhere between 25-30k which can be boosted when they’re "doing well', but isn’t sustainable in the lean times. Which is why them building the SOL solely to have a bigger capacity than the 36k SJP had at the time was always a folly

 

If they don't get back into the Premiership soon they face a real prospect that younger fans will never become Sunderland followers at all.  So many kids away from the big clubs simply follow the teams that their favourite players play for, what happens when those kids start following Isak, Bruno or Gordon?  You can give away tickets to as many schools as you like but when the kids have the option of watching a top team play with their favourite players participating or watching a mid-table Championship game against Plymouth or Stoke you cannot be that surprised when no one turns up.

 

Look at Bolton or Wigan.  Two teams that had a greater impact on the Premiership than Sunderland ever had who have much bigger teams on their doorsteps, both teams languishing in League One. That's the future Sunderland face, they've got an owner with no connection to the club who could sell up at any time, dwindling attendances and uninspiring players.  Promotion and weekly humiliation in the Premiership or lower league oblivion.  Couldn't happen to a nicer team. 

[Wolfcastle]

All that carry on about us taking over their "end" last season - when was the last time it was even open for a cup game?

 

Thing is they're doing it now with the Plymouth gate from 15years ago.  If they're stupid/desperate enough to start attendance debates given how one-sided it is then they deserve all they get.

They got 15,000 pre PL in 92 when they got to the cup final, 15,000 against Arsenal no less in 97, 15,000 yesterday and had gates half that amount. Its standard for them generationally and whatever division they're in