Yes they seem very reactive. Booing players, calling for the manager to be sacked, then cheering and happy when winning at HT. Then booing again when they draw/lose.
A number of times we have been to Sunderland 3 coaches would have been great. Went in 70s and we were only coach there. Which was an interesting experience after the game.
1 Some stats:- 70/71 City v SAFC att. 20,532 SAFC v City att 18,741 71/72 City v SAFC att. 26,091 SAFC v City att. 17, 621 72/73 City v SAFC att 11,141 SAFC v City att. 12, 637 So crowds similar or smaller than ours.....the Stokoe comes.
Yet they brought 3,000 here and we only took 2 coaches there. So heir away following always been better. Our crowds dipped to 5,000. Then Pearson arrived.
did they bring 6,00 plus the season we played man utd? was there 21k at bp? then a couple of years later 19k? just from memory, cba to google it.
1975/76 season - City v Charlton 3rd April 4,565 City Oldham. 16th April 5,906 City v Sunderland 17th April 21, 296
Think SAFC more or less clinched promotion that day, they must have brought somewhere between 10 and 15 000. Then they came straight back down and we thrashed em 3-0 in front of 16 189 , our next home attendance was 10,106 I wonder how many thousands we'd have taken to Joker Park in 1976 after winning the FAC in 1973 and were about to clinch promo to Div 1. At least as many as they brought here in 1976 I reckon Remember, in a stat war, the first casualty is context.
Gate was 15,010 v SAFC that season Reckon they brought about 5,000 Stokoe still in charge I think. They had a great team as this MOTD clip v MUFC shows.
You think Sunderland's gate would have been 15,000 up for our visit in the same circumstances? Dream on.
Why not? If we took 10,000 to Bramall Lane for a midweek game in March 71, why couldn't we take 10-15,000 to SAFC on Saturday in mid April 76 with promo imminent? Don't understand why you are so negative about our support
I am not negative, just a realist. The away game before Sheff Utd I went down to QPR. Only 20 or so. City fans there. The away game after Sheff Utd I went to Luton. For some reason there was a football special on and about 500 there. Where were the other 10,000?
Skint before Sheffield as well.. Another of the myriad excuses given which don't apply to other clubs. If negative me could get to all three and had to pay to get to Hull on top to get on the coaches why couldn't all these positive types?
