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[shemnel]

nice, good performance without being amazing. Really solid victory, and over 5th place (before kick off) which is worth remembering.

Cherki continues to excite.

 

[coolcity]

Sunderland are the only set of fans in the country who can have a pop at us about attendances when we were shit.

They hold the 1st, 2nd and 3rd record average attendances in the third tier from the recent years they were down there. With ours coming in 4th behind them.

But who cares? It's just something to hang on to, but nobody ever won anything for their attendance figures. I would be asking what the club were doing with the money since they had all that extra income in the lower leagues yet couldn't stay up.

 

[train man]

The GD save after the mistake was key, unless we could have another Leeds on our hands and got lucky with the shot hitting the post, but then should have polished of the 3-0 earlier with Haaland and Reijnders the worst of the misses.

Sunderland played like they had a bigger game the week after.

and unlucky with hitting the post twice ourselves... even if we would expect Erl to usually bury them both.

 

[tregyblue61]

Was that because streaming ovver t'interweb were a bit new.

Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Mr Grayson would present a round-up of the weekends action in cinemas around the country.

 

[train man]

Sunderland are the only set of fans in the country who can have a pop at us about attendances when we were shit.

They hold the 1st, 2nd and 3rd record average attendances in the third tier from the recent years they were down there. With ours coming in 4th behind them.

Though did they not have a >42k capacity while down there, whilst our max was 32k and therefore our ceiling may have restricted attendance for the more in-demand games, therefore lowering our average?

 

[coolcity]

Yeah and the commentators also. "City can still be got at". Well I saw an Arsenal team that can also be got at today by the same count. Have they beaten anyone of significance this year yet in the league? We at least thrashed the scousers.

Arsenal didn't beat us, Liverpool or Villa, and drew against Chelsea who played with 10 men for an hour. So they're not beating any of their rivals and are not that convincing against anybody else. Needed a 96th minute goal to beat Newcastle and most wins have been by the odd goal. This is why I keep calling out those who think they're not going to slip up - they already are.

 

[coolcity]

A rabona isn't always showboating, anyway. When the ball is slightly behind you, it's both the quickest and only way to get the ball away with any gusto. Also when needing to change its direction 180⁰ and a back-heel isn't possible.

Gazza's penalty, though - absolute showboating :-)

I was going to mention that a lot of penalty takes we see these days are just showboating so what's the difference?

 

[mexico1970]

Sunderland are the only set of fans in the country who can have a pop at us about attendances when we were shit.

They hold the 1st, 2nd and 3rd record average attendances in the third tier from the recent years they were down there. With ours coming in 4th behind them.

When they hit the 3rd division around the same time as we did their attendances were A LOT lower, our attendances would be higher now if we went down.

I'm judging apples to apples not apples to oranges mate.

 

[mexico1970]

But who cares? It's just something to hang on to, but nobody ever won anything for their attendance figures. I would be asking what the club were doing with the money since they had all that extra income in the lower leagues yet couldn't stay up.

They didn't have higher attendances any way, they had a much lower attendance at the same time they went down as us, quoting recent relegation stats isn't the same thing at all.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Please don't hate on me here, you have probably read it the facts wrong somewhere but sunderland averaged 30,800 in their last season in league 1 matey and 32,000 in 18/19 which they hold the record for highest attendance in that division.

Always liked Sunderland. A few silly wind-up chants that we hear from other fans shouldn't bother us. Never had any bother from Sunderland fans who are generally friendly, down to earth and sporting in my experience.

 

[Corky]

Though did they not have a >42k capacity while down there, whilst our max was 32k and therefore our ceiling may have restricted attendance for the more in-demand games, therefore lowering our average?

That is not really what happened, if the away team sold out there were but no sales allowed on the day, so we had quite a few games that you couldn't by a ticket for a game which were under capacity. On dale sales weren't going to be massive though as the ticket office couldn't cope with 1000s, and was mainly dealing with "collections" on the day.

 

[youngbob]

Our record under Pep after 15 games:

16/17: 30 points (4th) (finished 3rd)
17/18: 43 points (1st) (finished 1st)
18/19: 41 points (1st) (finished 1st)
19/20: 32 points (2nd) (finished 2nd)
20/21: 29 points (5th) (finished 1st)
21/22: 35 points (1st) (finished 1st)
22/23: 35 points (2nd) (finished 1st)
23/24: 30 points (4th) (finished 1st)
24/25: 27 points (4th) (finished 3rd)
25/26: 31 points (2nd)

On track to finish quite comfortably in the top 4. Currently outperforming where we were in the 16/17, 20/21, 23/24, and 24/25 seasons.

 

[train man]

That is not really what happened, if the away team sold out there were but no sales allowed on the day, so we had quite a few games that you couldn't by a ticket for a game which were under capacity. On dale sales weren't going to be massive though as the ticket office couldn't cope with 1000s, and was mainly dealing with "collections" on the day.

Hmm, I was simply saying they had a bigger ground, so could push their avg up when fuller...

 

[Harvster]

Always liked Sunderland. A few silly wind-up chants that we hear from other fans shouldn't bother us. Never had any bother from Sunderland fans who are generally friebdky, down to earth and sporting in my experience.

Completely agree - Sunderland to the North, West Ham to the south are our best mates

 

[fanatic1]

Savinho must be the worst Brazilian in the EPL since the era of Jo Silva. But at least Jo who featured in a World Cup got a few goals for us in the Europa league and then for Everton when he went out on loan. Any chance of swapping Savinho and Kalvin Phillips in the January sales to Forest Green Rangers or similar?

 

[KS55]

49k capacity compared to 33k at Maine Road when we were in the 3rd tier.

Also Swales special counting.

 

[bennyboy]

All the Sunderland fans pre and after match were sound at Piccadilly station yesterday.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Completely agree - Sunderland to the North, West Ham to the south are our best mates

You took the words right out of my mouth!

 

[Groke]

If that table is accurate, they seem to hardly ever sell out. Would that be true @Stockport mackem?

Watched them a few times when they were in the championship with relatively sparse crowds - that's fine, but hearing dickheads coming out with the wwywyws nonsense when it clearly applies to them more aptly makes me laugh. Same true for forest, leeds, villa etc. No doubt we'll get it off Coventry next season too - yawn.

 

[M12Blue]

When they hit the 3rd division around the same time as we did their attendances were A LOT lower, our attendances would be higher now if we went down.

I'm judging apples to apples not apples to oranges mate.

Let’s see what happens when 115 and relegation comes ;)