Christmas round the corner, the clarts the area is in with work. On the telly. I'll be pleased with 40,000 x
There will be a boost to the crowd imo if It's o neill. 45,000+ imo. This is a huge moment and major managerial appointment and If would wipe out the last 11 woeful months in a moment. Yes its the the same team of players but they will be better organised and playing to impress with only 5 weeks till the transfer window.
There may be many more Sunderland supporters there but we'd only get a maximum crowd if Blackburn sold all their tickets and that just ain't gonna happen.
I dont know if we do or we dont, but why not do what Arsenal did to us a few seasons back. You can have XXXX amount of tickets, but the ones you dont sell, you the club have to pay for, so we only got 1,500 instead of 4,000 (or whatever it was). This way they would know before the match, how many were coming, and not have the away end looking so bleak, they could give them 3 rows on the bottom and have stewards taking up 2 rows to the right/above and the rest could be filled with our fans.
The rule for visiting supporters as issued by the FA state that clubs have to make provision for at least 2000 supporters or 10% of their capacity if it would be below 2000. Tickets are ordered by the visiting club at least 5 weeks before the game on a sale or return basis and the home club has to send the tickets 4 weeks before the fixture. If the game is arranged less than these stipulated times they have to complete the formalities as quickly as possible. The away club is entitled to a 5% commission on all tickets they sell exclusive of VAT. But if the club was thinking about having the tickets not taken up by the visitors given to the home supporters I think the police may have some objections to that and also our good friends from health and Safety.
Northumbria police always spoil **** dont they lol and if thats the case how come we only got 1,500 for Arsenal when it holds 60,000, and get away with saying, if you dont sell them you have to pay for them. 1 rule for the rich and another for the poor by the sounds of it.
There is a provision in the rules which i didn't mention that clubs can reduce the number of tickets if they put a request in writing and are given the okay. This is only on a match by match basis. Maybe when this happened the rules were different but they may have been changed subsequently
One managerial appointment, before the manager has even done anything, wipes out the last 11 months So does that mean you're not on 11 points anymore now aswell, you got an extra 10 for hiring O'Neill?
