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Charlie Methven on metro radio

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offmenut said:
Him and SD with their pleas have resulted in an Inc in St sales and a sell out on boxing day.
It's worked a treat.
If you think they should sit their quietly and not try to boost our numbers and revenue then that's really odd
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The fans did their bit

The crowds have been mad for this level

They’ve failed to deliver

I suggest keep your mouth shut Charlie and not criticize the people who are keeping this going
 

martyftm said:
Some Charlton fans on the tube after the game made no secret of the fact that Sundays game was their first match they'd been to this season...only there for a day out.
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Knew they were nailed on to win when the 11 cones from Wearside rock up Wembley Way.
 
Scootsie said:
Finding it hard to disagree with most of that and he spoke as a fan rather than a board member.

People get so offended when anyone dares question our support but he’s right. We were quiet on Sunday and we are in this league because we deserve to be. That still hasn’t sunk in with some people, imo.

What I do disagree with is bringing the numbers into it, given the travel and expense, on top of the previous Wembley trip.
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This.
 
The Breen Machine said:
Matthews should have played right-back to allow O'Nien further forward, other than that I agree. Could maybe a case for Gooch ahead of Honeyman too, with Maguire in the number 10 role.
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Gooch is shocking sorry

Don’t agree about Matthews

The reality is grigg has failed and we didn’t Have many options
 
This whole fans were quiet thing is galling. Yes we were gifted a goal head start but you can’t fool Sunderland supporters. We could see with our own eyes what was unfolding on the pitch in front of us.

Charlton were quicker, had more movement and ideas than we did and it was just a matter of time before they equalised.

Loads of lads I know were seeing a seventh defeat at Wembley unfold in front of them with a side that seemed to be incapable of rousing itself in a game that had huge significance for the club.

It’s yet another sickening defeat in a long inglorious list that complete deflates you no matter how much you’ve been through it before.

Yet we’ll be back and we’ll be there long after the current ownership make their money and leave.

Given any hint if encouragement there’s few crowds who generate the noise we can, sadly on Sunday despite the best possible start, we cocked it up yet again. It was like watching a tragedy you’ve seen before unfold in slow motion before your eyes and there’s nothing you can do about it.
 
ExileBFG said:
Basically says you can’t say that Sunderland deserve to go up because we are a bigger club than Charlton because on the evidence of Wembley attendance we aren’t as we sold 34k and they sold 40k. Adds to that our fans were quiet in comparison to there’s. Then the rest is just saying we all need to dust ourselves down, it’s been a failure but need to crack on rather than sulk.
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We spend £6m to Charlton's £0m. Charlton are a basket case of a club but somehow managed to get it right on the pitch. Credit to Charlton and their fans. But to say that they had 40k to our 34k (which is wrong) and use it as some kind of justification to cover up the clubs failure to get promotion. We didn't fail to go up just because of one game, it was over a season.

We got an average gate of 32,000 in League One which is a record. We got 46,000 on Boxing Day which is a record and the highest outside the PL. We brought over 75,000 fans to Wembley this season which is more than Man City brought (according to City fans).

Get this prick and his Grampa Munster hairdo out of this club now. f***ing wanker!
 
offmenut said:
Him and SD with their pleas have resulted in an Inc in St sales and a sell out on boxing day.
It's worked a treat.
If you think they should sit their quietly and not try to boost our numbers and revenue then that's really odd
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He’s all lovey dovey until we don’t manage to sell a few tickets then we’re all parasites with unrealistic expectations
 
EternallySAFC said:
I only really heard them after they scored both goals. Guess that may have been because me and those around me were signing for the majority of the time. It was difficult at times to get any coordination going with what was being sung. Never thought I would say this but maybe there is a time and place for a drum. Also we often stop singing a song too soon to switch to another one.
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We should have had someone hack into the IT system/screens around Wembley and put the words up, like they did for the National Anthem? :lol:
 
It’s a half hour ish ride on the tube for Charlton fans, cost us probably 5 times more than Charlton fans, that was our 2nd trip to Wembley in 6 weeks he’s lucky that 34k turned up the shite we’ve seen this season
 
He right to question the belief of the fans.
Too many now say they need entertainment to make a noise, and we didn’t sell out Wembley or even hit our average against Portsmouth.
It’s clearly a money thing and that extra funds can’t be found by a large proportion of our fans. But that’s got to be a worry for an owner.
It’s the same thing that our cup attendances fall off a cliff. Put the price up of season tickets and include some cup games like Man Utd and people will know the money they have going out.
 
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