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SOL expansion


Apologies in advance. I looked at the sea of thread titles and could not see a season ticket query title. So... does anyone know when season tickets are emailed out?
 
Ohnonotagain said:
I think we need to consistently sell out the stadium we have before we consider expansion.
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I think some need to calm down on the expansion coming quickly.

The club will simply raise prices and reduce areas that allow for concessions and possibly remove/revise concession bands. They've started doing it but they can still 'milk' fans a lot more before they will need to think about expanding.

This would also allow them to get an idea of the limit they can milk fans as too much, even if we're in the Premier League will simply price some fans out. They could price 5,000 fans out but if we're doing OK then there would be 5,000 more affluent band wagoners willing to take their place. That's the sad state of football in the Premier League now and the mags are finding that out big time at the moment.

This milking limit won't come overnight and will take sustained Premier League status over a period of time and not being relegation candidates every season. Though if we stay up some will be in for a surprise next season when prices do go up to what new ST were charged this year and it certainly wouldn't be the last increase either.
 
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK said:
Great days 😎 Looking at StatCat we got 41k against Southampton in the 2nd game of 1st Division yet only got 32k against Everton in opening game and 32k against Boro after Anyone know why? Was it just to see Southampton players or were the bosses watching the turnstiles?

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Cowie doubled the prices afrer promotion. Sunderland charged more than Arsenal. With rhe exception of Allardyce (a stop-gap for the injured Clarke) ) no signings were made in the summer. Southampton were a big draw - Keegan had just signed for them. We had won our first two matches. The game was 6,000 short of capacity. At the time, I thought that was disappointing. Within a few months, gates had dropped to around 20,000. There was no PL then. A Sunderland team going for promotion always got bigger crowds than a mediorce top-flight team. In any case, football crowds in general were a lot ltower then and would drop even further by the mid-eighties.
Northumberland Rocks said:
There was way more than 47,000 at the Sunderland West Ham game in 1980 imho as example.
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The Roker End gangways were full of overflowing supporters. However, where I stood in the main stand paddock, it was relatively comfortable and nothing like the City night in 73. Sometimes depended where you stood.
 
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