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Benjamin said:
Lower than regular attendance for the best supported supported teams in England. Who have never played in Third Division so comparisons invidious.
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Whilst it’s true that clubs like yours have managed to just avoid relegation to the old Third Division, comparisons can still be made. I remember your lot hovering around the bottom of the old Second Division and average crowds plummeted to around the 16,000 level that season.

God only knows how much lower they would have fallen to had you not survived that season. Of course this is all ignored by the modern day fan like yourself, who probably believes that you always pull in 50,000 and have always been a top 5 club. The brief flirtation with the big boys without winning anything was just a blip in your history, once you accept it and you may start enjoy life again.
 
Got quite emotional seeing the stadium full again just before kick off. It just felt like a marker that all of the shite of the past 5 or more years is over and we're coming back a better, wiser club. Sometimes you don't realise how much you hold onto, how much that sense of apathy becomes engrained and wears you down.

Honestly, I'm f***ing excited for the next decade at Sunderland - big things are on the horizon.

Haway the lads.
 
Medulla said:
Got quite emotional seeing the stadium full again just before kick off. It just felt like a marker that all of the shite of the past 5 or more years is over and we're coming back a better, wiser club. Sometimes you don't realise how much you hold onto, how much that sense of apathy becomes engrained and wears you down.

Honestly, I'm f***ing excited for the next decade at Sunderland - big things are on the horizon.

Haway the lads.
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Lovely post.
I was emotional when we scored
 
Blue Walter said:
Congratulations supporters of Sunderland FC on that phenomenal crowd attendance today. I don't think that even if we at Portsmouth had a stadium big enough that we would have got such a crowd as that, in fact I am pretty sure of it. Obviously the support at Sunderland is Premier League supporting a League 1 team which I am pretty sure will be back in the Championship next season, with us I hope. Getting crowds like that will make every other team in this league, and those in the Championship, green with envy. In the transfer window you should get the pick of players who would play in League 1 want to join you and get to savor such support. Well done.
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Thank you for stopping by and the lovely words there marra.
 
Blue Walter said:
Sorry & thank you for the correction, Sunderland AFC. I hope we don't end up in the play offs because I don't fancy our chances there. Luton are going like an express train now and Charlton are a class act at this level. We can't have any more games like today where Gillingham had three attempts at goal and score 2 while we had 20 attempts and missed them all including 4 'sitters'.
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We have Charlton and Luton coming up soon (Charlton a week sat away) so hopefully will take points from them.
I don't mind all 3 clubs mind (including pompey), think all of them shouldn't be in league one.
 
Blue Walter said:
Congratulations supporters of Sunderland FC on that phenomenal crowd attendance today. I don't think that even if we at Portsmouth had a stadium big enough that we would have got such a crowd as that, in fact I am pretty sure of it. Obviously the support at Sunderland is Premier League supporting a League 1 team which I am pretty sure will be back in the Championship next season, with us I hope. Getting crowds like that will make every other team in this league, and those in the Championship, green with envy. In the transfer window you should get the pick of players who would play in League 1 want to join you and get to savor such support. Well done.
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It's AFC
 
When that target was set by Charlie I was both worried and annoyed, I thought this fucker doesn’t get just how shite we’ve been and how much damage the past few years have done to fans. I thought he’s setting us up to have egg all ower our faces here, I often doubt our fans not in a shite way just I’ve seen and felt what the last few years have been like and wouldn’t blame anyone for saying ahh fuck that I’d rather spend my money elsewhere and time, there is nee blaming any fan that feels like that. So as tickets were being sold on the run up I was like f***ing hell we might just hit it or come very very close to it, the fact we almost had a complete sellout just blew me away, over six thousand over the target which I thought was unreachable, incridyyyylable.

Prepare for sad sacks to have a pop when we air quotes only have 30 k plus the next home game.
 
Mr RAWhite said:
Really? For the most part it was very quiet considering the size of the crowd.. Parts of the South Stand making an effort, but the rest of the ground ahad very little to offer..
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Fans need game time to reach full performance just like players

At least there was no negativity, very few left before 87 mins and there were plenty left at the end to applaud the team
 
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Mr RAWhite said:
Fantastic attendence... I wish people who go there would actually put the effort in to support the the though.. Most people didn't today which is something we need to address if we are going to move forward..
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Sheep farmer said:
Fans need game time to reach full performance just like players

At least there was no negativity, very few left before 87 mins and there were plenty left at the end to applaud the team
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We do seem to have forgotten how to support our team.. Perhaps down to the years of negativity draining the life out of the place.. I have heard loads of daft excuses, such as all seater stadiums and where the away fans are located, but the fact is that if everyone went there and put some effort in supporting the lads then the place would be bouncing.. I honestly believe that if there had been a cracking atmosphere yesterday, many of the fans coming back for the first time in a while would have been far more likely to come back on saturday..
 
Mr RAWhite said:
We do seem to have forgotten how to support our team.. Perhaps down to the years of negativity draining the life out of the place.. I have heard loads of daft excuses, such as all seater stadiums and where the away fans are located, but the fact is that if everyone went there and put some effort in supporting the lads then the place would be bouncing.. I honestly believe that if there had been a cracking atmosphere yesterday, many of the fans coming back for the first time in a while would have been far more likely to come back on saturday..
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I'm glad to read that i'm not the only one who thought the atmosphere was poor.
 
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