Just seems a bit wrong to be giving them our home end plus now corporate tickets with a much better offering than our season ticket holders get in there
Is it? And, tbh, it's 90 minutes ... ... do people really need catering as if it's a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I've never had a pint or a pie at the SOL, I go to watch the football.
I'd say it was the SW Corner if anywhere. But, let's say you're right ... ... who do you believe should be moved so you can have your regular seat?
I’m in the south and if I’m honest I probably wouldn’t care if I had to move for a cup game - my only gripe would be that there’s no kids where we are and it’s standing all game. I’m not sitting next to someone who tells me not to swear cos they’re kids about
North stand upper, but it's not fit for purpose as we all know. The can we have kicked down the road since the first throwing instances have bit us smack on the arse
Whatever people think about moving seats this has yet again opened the discussion on where the away fans should be. Personally the atmosphere deteriorated massively when they were shifted to the north upper, because of the acoustics it makes 300 fans sound like 3000. Moving them was a huge own goal. The club has made it almost impossible to move the away section back to the lower tier now. Therefore at the very least there should be some sort of segregation installed in the concourse to allow more away fans when required without upsetting SC holders every time it happens.
I don't agree tbh. I was at Man Utd, with 10,000 Sunderland supporters, which means a great number of Utd fans were prevented from attending a semi-final ... ... so a few of us are being a little inconvenienced, oh dear.
I still think any club that has a single “fan” throwing something gets 50% allocation away fans the next game. Full ban if it happens again. That goes for our fans too at away games
The joys of discussion, if we had dealt with the away fans location and throwing things last year, the fa cup game wouldn't be an issue
I agree, I was in the north stand the day that glass bottle came down and know someone who was close to where it landed. Someone could have beennseriously injured if not killed
I'd say we have many more important issues to deal with .. ... why should we be distracted by a handful of idiots Leeds were complaining that they were prevented from taking in coins and that some were ejected. So the issue has been addressed, when was the last major problem?
I'd say home fans being at risk of glass bottles, flares, coins etc hitting them were fairly important issues to deal with
Direct from SAFC. ... The following is why, as far as I've been told 1) EFL - away clubs are entitled to claim up to a maximum of 10% of stadium capacity or 2k whichever is the lower. The home club can of course offer more. In view of the missiles being thrown in recent seasons the SAG have put a restriction of 2.2k on away fans as part of their safety certificate being issued. Sunderland r on a final warning and further missiles being thrown could result in Sunderland having their safety certificate withdrawn and having to play home games behind closed doors. FA Cup - away teams are entitled to claim up to 15 % of stadium capacity with a maximum of 9k. It appears for the FA Cup game that the SAG would allow 6k, however, they would not remove the 2.2k condition on the upper tier (probably allowed the front 6 rows to be used as any Newcastle fans throwing missiles would be throwing them down on to their own fans) and therefore it was up to Sunderland to locate them accordingly to accommodate 6k. The whole issue has been that Sunderland have not dealt with the problems over recent seasons by either installing a net or moving the away section to the lower bowl. The same fans would be kicking off if the agreement was 2.5k and we got a replay.
