Premiership

[Beach Hut]

Just look at all the vacant seats at the Stadium of Light (MOTD now) - think fans are finally voting with their feet over the high prices of tickets.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Just look at all the vacant seats at the Stadium of Light (MOTD now) - think fans are finally voting with their feet over the high prices of tickets.

It wasn't full when we went there last October.

 

[Beach Hut]

Re: Re: Premiership

It wasn't full when we went there last October.

Which was the Championship - not sure what point you are making.

 

[timbha]

not that empty!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Re: Re: Re: Premiership

Which was the Championship - not sure what point you are making.

Just making the point that i think Newcastle and Middlesbrough are higher and more supported then Sunderland are.

 

[clapham_gull]

Are attendences actually down in the premiership this year. By what percentage ?

 

[timbha]

looks like we'll be back at Sunderland next season

 

[Beach Hut]

Not sure what the % is but there was an article in the Times earlier this week and attendances are definitely down quite a bit -citing the "Ashes" factor.

 

[rogue]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Premiership

Just making the point that i think Newcastle and Middlesbrough are higher and more supported then Sunderland are.

No chance pal.Middlesbrough are no way near the size of Sunderland.There leagues apart

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Premiership

Just making the point that i think Newcastle and Middlesbrough are higher and more supported then Sunderland are.

Boro have had masses of empty seats, I think they had 29k for their last game, the same as the Black Cats had today, although it looks worse at Sunderland as their stadium has a 40k capacity and Boro's is 35k

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Also looking at the impressive crowd at Villa off the back of their
4-0 loss to West Ham does make you wonder how many more people would go if Saturday games started after 5pm rather than at 3pm.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Just look at all the vacant seats at the Stadium of Light (MOTD now) - think fans are finally voting with their feet over the high prices of tickets.

What Beachy said. But then again, there were still 31,000 of them in there. That place is huge

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

places like whl, highbury are always full.

 

[Stinky Kat]

places like whl, highbury are always full.

rich cockeneys?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

maybe

 

[Stinky Kat]

in todays observer they said it costs £24 to get an adult and kid into crawley - thats a lot

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

It is - it was never cheap even wehn they were non league

 

[Kukev31]

Also looking at the impressive crowd at Villa off the back of their
4-0 loss to West Ham does make you wonder how many more people would go if Saturday games started after 5pm rather than at 3pm.

Villa's attendance yesterday was 4000 down on last season average.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

is it? they said on sky there was more people there than last year.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Its just too expensive now.

I wonder how many teams average has gone up.

Coventrys' has, and i think Norwichs' has slightly.