I know what you are saying mate but that lot up the road will still **** it up somehow. Regardless of what happens with them it wont stop me supporting my team.
Me neither.... there are lots of us who would support the club even if they dropped another division... all I’m saying is we are facing a critical time in our history with an owner who cannot really help unless he departs. The Newcastle thing will only kick our fans in bollocks even more if they do start to reap the benefits of Saudi cash
I will be renewing my season ticket... but as we continue in the turd division, how often I attend will depend on what else is going on. As with this season, my enthusiasm is waning...
Seems a bit odd that people wouldn’t go because of how successful the mags are. I honestly don’t care one bit what happens to them it wouldn’t stop me from supporting my own team or buying a season card, also doesn’t matter who is in charge for me. Not going could only damage the club more when finances are tight.
My thoughts exactly, I don't understand spitting the dummy out because someone has got something that I haven't, it's childish
Unfortunately as a club we have been mismanaged from top to bottom for generations. And whether we care to admit it or not, ever since the advent of the PL, where Hall and his cronies realised what a cash cow it was going to become, we have been in the shadow of the great unwashed up the road. You are one hundred per cent right. It will be a huge kick in the knackers for a lot of fans. Yes we had a bit of hope under Reid and then later on when SNQ was on board, but let’s be honest, overall we have been poor. We stank out the PL for the majority of the time that we were there last time. Players saw us as an easy touch. Whilst SD comes across as decent and having watched STID and met him briefly, he obviously does care about the club, he is not the man to take the club forward. It’s a crying shame that a club with our history and support has found itself in the position it is now in. But let’s not kid ourselves here. It wasn’t SD who put us there. We have to go back a lot longer than that to find the ones who the downward spiral and it’s going to take a long time and a **** load of money to get us back there let alone compete. And that’s if we ever do get back.
Nothing has ever stopped me from supporting my club. Not being banned from away grounds, caged in by Ken Bates, threatened with knives by hooligans ... ... not even when the bookies started paying out on Keegan winning the title. So a billionare selling the club to Amanda Staveley won't stop me. She'll be beaming, in her posh SJP seat, until the protests start. The Mags keep claiming that all they want is a team that tries ... ... hadaway and shyte
It did though have an effect on our potential support in areas like Durham and may do again unless we sort ourselves out.
You only have to look at the news when they're interviewing people around the country ... ... loads of crisp new Liverpool shirts and Cockney accents. Glory hunters have no shame.
Apart from David Gill, I don’t think I could name a single person who has been a CEO of a club and made a material difference. Maybe Daniel Levy. But then I am out of ideas. The only thing that matters for SAFC is getting sold to FPP is we are being honest. Everything else is noise.
I know you're not a fan but no, it isn't the only thing that matters and yes, who is in charge is important. We'll get through this whether we get the best possible owners or someone else. Making out that there is only one good outcome for all this is just not right and gives people an unrealistic expectation. As for the CEO chat, It may he the best outcome, but to make the FPP deal happen, Donald has to get us promoted, so it's not 'just noise' if this guy is running us and making decisions. Whether it's CEO or MD or any other title, these guys make day to day calls for better or worse, so Woodward, Levy, Charnley and lots of other CEO's at almost every PL club are deciding who to hire as manager and how to run the club as a whole, developing the club on and off the pitch, ensuring recruitment is good. That's what they do. They sign off on everything, so whoever we have in that role is critical to getting FPP more involved. Saying they make no material difference is just not true.
The Scunthorpe supporters made me laugh with comments about him being 'the invisible man' ... ... I wouldn't want a CEO to be anything else.
I'm not sure you get my point. I am NOT saying that because the Mags now find themselves a rich sugar daddy that Sunderland fans will spit the dummy and not go to games. What I am saying much like in the Mick Buxton days we lost a swathe of young fans as some of the them had a choice to follow a team lead by Keegan and doing really well or follow Sunderland with zero ambition and in a lower league with no prospects in the immediate future. I am a fan who would support the team if they were in the Northern Premier League as I'm sure most on here would. But the reality as we already witnessed in the early 90's people who see no investment, crap football and no real prospects tend to vote with their feet.
In football, these days, children in remote African villages embark on a lifetime of fanatical 'support' based on seeing a match on TV. You're right ...
