ALL Premier League clubs give away tickets, it ****ing annoys me that line. If I had a quid for every Toon ticket I get/have been offered working in the city I'd buy out Ellis and buy us the worlds top 20 players!
We've got great support. Best average since our first season back under Keane. 7th best in the country and in the top 35 in Europe.
Ellis has seen A) We don't back his investment, and B) Any decent player we sign and is successful ( Bent, Gyan) want away because we aren't looked upon as a Big Club outside the Borough of Sunderland. Let's not kid ourselves, without Ellis we would be f****d.
40,000 per week in a city of only 300k is backing his investment, especially given 40 years without a trophy. Bent & Gyan both went for MONEY.
struggling to find your train of thought, being a mackem and all that anyway, i'm watching last nights hannibal, made my mind up
Just think Ellis has done his best and cannot see anyone else investing like him. Clubs as big as us if not bigger …Sheff Wed, Leeds, Forest and Derby would laugh at lads on here calling him. We need to get behind him and show some passion.
i've said time and time again and i will until i'm blue in the face, this man does not fail bejeezuz he came close to it last season, but what he did paid off he wont let it happen again far too long in the tooth now to have any excuses now is the time
I'd understand if you said the noise we make in the ground, I hate the collective moans at the slightest mistake. But to question our numbers is staggering. Our attendances speak for themselves.
Totally agree WSM. Pretty much said the same earlier. I think Gus has given ES a taste of what could lie just over the horizon IF he backs him. I think ES is going to have one last shot at being a PL club owner with GP at the wheel before he decides to sell up.
how can you not back this? [video=youtube;FcDjru4OCuU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcDjru4OCuU[/video] kinell - its not even the best
The support there was phenomenal! And ES would have been impressed with the mackem support at Wembley. If a money man can be influenced by raw emotion then we have a chance of keeping a great owner.
You have to take off the SAFC specs and look at it from a business perspective. I am sure Ellis's ambition is for success at Sunderland but he wants that success to be on and off the pitch. He has done well to expand our sponsorship potential and expand our name across the world, also he has expanded the use of the stadium with concerts and corporate events. On the pitch he has tried, most wanted MON and that did not work out. He then tried the Italian experiment and that did not work either. Were now on plan C. He is being cautious, probably taking advice and talking to Gus about a budget to bring in players. We must stay in the premier league that is essential first and foremost. Shorts long term aim will be European football (one day), to win something (we came close), to fill the stadium more regularly and to balance the books. He has always looked to invest in players, most have been the managers choices, lets see what happens.
