Terrible support (Sunderland view)

Phew, glad to see that the real issues are being debated. I've lost hours and hours of sleep this season worrying about why our fans aren't noisy and why there have been some empty seats at away games. If Platini's idea of bonus points for full away allocations and crowd noise comes into effect, we must act quickly.

Here is what I propose:-

1) End the recession now. The joke's over, let's just get back to a debt-fuelled orgy please. All of those people who have been made redundant really should know better.

2) Have games on a Saturday at 3pm. No, wait, I reckon a 4pm on TV on Mother's Day is a better idea of getting out the crowd.

3) Get behind the team. You fellow City fans disgust me, we've had an incredible away record for nearly two years now and some memorable performances to boot. Yet all you can do is stand there with your arms folded as we tear into the opposition from the off.

Let's face it, Sunderland fans are the best in the world. We know this because they took an average of 2,610 fans to our place over the last ten years, whereas we only took an average of 2,537 to the SoL. I concede defeat to their supremacy, we may as well hand them the UEFA Spectator Shield on a plate. Because really, this is what football is all about. Fuck what goes on in the green area out in the middle, and fuck what goes on in people's lives away from the games. When I am on my death bed, I will always regret how mute and disloyal City fans have been over the years, and how I wish I'd been born a Sunderland fan.
 
What's your excuse for these shite average attendances ?

1980-81 26,479
1981-82 19,608
1982-83 17,370
1984-85 18,348
1985-86 16,055
1987-88 17,427
1988-89 14,880
1992-93 17,260
1993-94 16,997
1996-97 20,974
immensah said:
Probably because we were utter dross in them years andconstantly yo-yoed between divisions..

Great excuse, you are pardoned.
 
Average Attendance Rankings
Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct
1 Manchester United (1) 15 1121407 75207 74760 75769 98.6%
2 Arsenal (3) 15 898337 60103 59889 60432 99.1%
3 Manchester City (5) 13 588438 47348 45264 48000 94.3%
4 Liverpool (6) 14 606571 44392 43327 45362 95.5%
5 Chelsea (2) 15 622269 41836 41485 42055 98.6%
6 Sunderland (14) 15 596620 47327 39775 49000 81.1%
7 Aston Villa (7) 14 534544 42788 38182 42551 89.7%
8 Everton (9) 15 549513 39652 36634 40394 90.6%
9 Tottenham Hotspur (4) 15 536514 36031 35768 36310 98.5%
10 West Ham United (16) 14 468700 34980 33479 35647 93.9%
11 Wolverhampton Wndrs (17) 15 423561 29023 28237 28525 98.9%
12 Stoke City (11) 15 406074 27598 27072 28384 95.3%
13 Blackburn Rovers (12) 14 350653 29660 25047 31367 79.8%
14 Birmingham City (8) 15 373485 28958 24899 30009 82.9%
15 Hull City (19) 14 340792 25023 24342 25404 95.8%
16 Fulham (10) 14 335558 25700 23968 26600 90.1%
17 Bolton Wanderers (13) 15 325867 23986 21724 28723 75.6%
18 Burnley (18) 15 306834 21761 20456 22546 90.7%
19 Portsmouth (20) 14 259528 20821 18538 20688 89.6%
20 Wigan Athletic (15) 14 250756 20447 17911 25138 71.2%

Enough said!!
 
I have to point out to all you Mackems that our ticket allocation was reduced to only 1,900 for this game.... which we sold out.

So you can fuck off with your empty seats. The reduced ticket allocation is down to your inbred police force and over zealous stewarding which means it always, and i mean always kicks off. We have the same trouble at Boro, although never a peep when we go to Newcastle.

Thats probably because being the regions biggest club Newcastle know how to deal with large attendances.

City have been selling out at your gaff for years. Where we you all when we beat you 3-0 with goals form Foe and Goater, we filled that fucking end for you then and the attendance was still under 30K.
 
MCRJON said:
I have to point out to all you Mackems that our ticket allocation was reduced to only 1,900 for this game.... which we sold out.

Er, no we didn't. We got 2,600 and returned 2-300.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and-Travel/2010/February/Sunderland-ticket-news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and- ... icket-news</a>
 
i got a ticket at the satdium of light 3 hours before kick off, we didnt sell out unless i bought the last ticket
 
firstly i'll admit our away following this season has been disapointing , but from yesterday's programme these are the what other teams took to sunderland this season:
Chelsea (tuesday) 1533
Blackburn (sat) 855
Hull (sat) 2000
Liverpool (sat) 2366
West Ham (sat) 1699
Arsenal (sat) 3182
Portsmouth (sat) 491
Villa (tuesday) 640
Wolves (sun/sky) 1263
Everton (boxing day) 2211
Stoke (mon/ESPN) 505
Wigan (sat) 504
Fulham (sun) 266
Bolton (tuesday) 799

and for the record Sunderland only took 619 to Everton for a wednesday night sky game , so maybe our following yesterday was maybe not that bad taken in context
 
DontLookBackInAnger said:
allan harper said:
i got a ticket at the satdium of light 3 hours before kick off, we didnt sell out unless i bought the last ticket
or..... someone bought a ticket in the 3hrs after you....

Or we might just admit we didnt sell out
 
lancs blue said:
MCRJON said:
I have to point out to all you Mackems that our ticket allocation was reduced to only 1,900 for this game.... which we sold out.

Er, no we didn't. We got 2,600 and returned 2-300.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and-Travel/2010/February/Sunderland-ticket-news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and- ... icket-news</a>

Ok my bad, i got the number wrong but it was still a reduced allocation

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Club-news/2010/March/Fewer-seats-at-Sunderland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Club-news/20 ... Sunderland</a>

which explains most of the empty seats.
 

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