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Around 90,000 possibly more for league 1

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mediaclee said:
Both trips cost me closer to 500 than 200, how can you get return travel from Sunderland to London, a Wembley ticket and even just some food and drink for less than £200? Add in the cheapest stop over for most people who don’t drive?

How much is it costing you?
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Depends how much the match is important over the occasion doesn’t it really ?
No doubt you can hit £500 on the flip side you could probably do it in less than £100 no problem
 

Daffy said:
Depends how much the match is important over the occasion doesn’t it really ?
No doubt you can hit £500 on the flip side you could probably do it in less than £100 no problem
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If anyone can get from Sunderland into Wembley and back on less than £100 (nothing dodgy) then I commend them!

Seen some paying £260+ for trains alone.

Anyway - safe travels and see you down there.
 
Osklen said:
Will our ticket sales be the largest attendance by a single team for a competitive match (other than International games)? Presumably more often than not the split will be close to 50/50?
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Not largest ticket sales. Pompey sold 55k for their pizza cup final v Salford although nobody was allowed to attend in the end cos of lockdown. Could be largest actual attendance though.
 
mediaclee said:
If anyone can get from Sunderland into Wembley and back on less than £100 (nothing dodgy) then I commend them!

Seen some paying £260+ for trains alone.

Anyway - safe travels and see you down there.
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£40 ticket (some even less), shared fuel costs in a car, not that hard to be honest
 
Binxy said:
5000 tickets.
Bullshit.
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I always used to get complimentary tickets the 2 years I didn’t have a season ticket.
People see a complimentary ticket off a car garage as free. The garage paid for the fucker.

Also the long term aim is take a child on a cheap ticket. They’ll then spend a Fuck tonne on pop and sweets in the ground. Hit lucky and see a win and hopefully want to go again. People are short sighted when it comes to that one.
 
hank evans said:
I always used to get complimentary tickets the 2 years I didn’t have a season ticket.
People see a complimentary ticket off a car garage as free. The garage paid for the fucker.

Also the long term aim is take a child on a cheap ticket. They’ll then spend a Fuck tonne on pop and sweets in the ground. Hit lucky and see a win and hopefully want to go again. People are short sighted when it comes to that one.
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Also every club in the country do it.
 
Watmore can I say said:
They were given to schools, you must have a short memory if you cant remember huge blocks of kids in the ground in the early to mid 2000's. Can't recall if it was Short or Drumaville who put the block on it. The Mags feasted out on it for years before handing 10000 free season tickets out themselves. Of course it wasn't publicised by Murray but anyone connected with ticketing at the club at the time would verify it. My wife was at Sunderland Uni at the time and they got tickets for a fiver, they offered them out to all the students at that price.
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My daughter's school in South Tyneside occasionally had discounted tickets, but I never came across free tickets.
 
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Our support is mind blowing when you consider the average length of travelling our fans have to do to get to games plus add the higher costs of following our team because of it, coupled together with the fact (most) of our fan base live in areas of higher deprivation with lower salaries across the Northeast...
 
ferryhill mackem said:
they were never free. discounted but not free. we got cheap school tickets for our first visit to the sol against port vale in 97/98 and again a few weeks later against reading. we ended up going to a few more that season and then got a season ticket that summer and still have one now. no doubt others have ended up doing the same over the years
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Apologies, I previously said these tickets were free, but I must have been mistaken and they were only reduced as we're definitely talking about the same game (for some reason that Port Vale game is etched in my mind, but I'll struggle to tell you what I ate for breakfast last week!)
 
Lumber said:
Weeks after pompey though wasn't it? Most working class folk can't afford two trips to the capital in a short period
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Yeah and at the point of the checkatrade final, it looked like we would get automatic promotion so it wasn't a choice of saving their money for the Charlton final, as it wasn't gaurenteed.
 
Startrite said:
My daughter's school in South Tyneside occasionally had discounted tickets, but I never came across free tickets.
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I benefitted from free tickets around 03-04 (19pt season…no wonder they were free). I was in school in Whitby and got them. Maybe they were free because of the distance and tickets given out locally were only discounted.

Still, I don’t get the negativity around it. It’s good marketing and focussed on the long term, even if we were shite when I got them. :lol:
 
Daffy said:
Depends how much the match is important over the occasion doesn’t it really ?
No doubt you can hit £500 on the flip side you could probably do it in less than £100 no problem
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Ticket, bus, one night stay coming in at about 165. Add to that about another 100-150 for beer n bait.
 
Just one thought. Your tickets, the same price as ours, are expensive by L1 standards but if in the Premier League they went up to £40+ would you still get the same numbers attending?
 
MikeSAFC said:
No there isn’t

Chelsea would have about 10k
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Wrexham in the fifth tier are drawing 9000.
York for a sixth tier play off game SF had their biggest crowd for 15 years.
Bradford below mid table in the old Fourth Division are averaging over 15000.
Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Man City , Man Utd , Newcastle, Everton and Liverpool would average 30000 at least in League One.
Our support is fantastic but we are not the only ones.
 
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