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Filling the stadium...

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Lord Alfred said:
All ifs and buts though....be proactive and get the stadium filled for the first game of the new regime....don’t wait for it to happen.
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i think they will assess it over the summer as the momentum is building already given the positivity so far. It wouldnt surprise me if they did do something out of the ordinary for the opening game though
 

Mackem00 said:
If I didn't want to go to something, making it cheaper or free isn't going to make me go and waste my time all of a sudden. Why go to something you don't want to go to just because it's cheaper?
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But the 20,000 who weren’t there last season did want to go the season before. Do you know why they stopped going or what it would take to entice them back. You can’t always assume you know the motives of other people.
 
bahtat said:
A year or two ago Bradford did cut prices significantly and now play in a virtually full stadium every home game,
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They had probably hit the ceiling in terms of how many would turn up with their club at that level and a significant drop is the only way to bump it. Obviously a significant drop would probably bring in more people to the SoL (as it would anywhere) but the way to get longer term growth in numbers is to improve things on the pitch - it wasn't long ago we were around the 40,000 mark. An improvement on the pitch will bring us back there.
 
Personally I have never felt so disconnected from a Sunderland team. I think most of us hated the club over the last 2 years. It was like being stuck in a marriage for the sake of the kids! Going to games wasn't enjoyable.

The new owners are trying to fix that and it has given us a boosted. The idea of the fans fixing up the stadium is a good start. But we need to start winning games and progressing up the table. The last 2 years was horrible.
 
Lord Alfred said:
But the 20,000 who weren’t there last season did want to go the season before. Do you know why they stopped going or what it would take to entice them back. You can’t always assume you know the motives of other people.
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Because they thought it was shit and joyless I would have thought. Making shit and joyless cheaper won't get people back. Personally i'll continue going no matter what (look at me) but we have to accept not everyone is like that.

AndrewP said:
I didn't turn up like. Is that all that was there?
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No.
 
woodlebert said:
They had probably hit the ceiling in terms of how many would turn up with their club at that level and a significant drop is the only way to bump it. Obviously a significant drop would probably bring in more people to the SoL (as it would anywhere) but the way to get longer term growth in numbers is to improve things on the pitch - it wasn't long ago we were around the 40,000 mark. An improvement on the pitch will bring us back there.
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I’m suggesting it’s a one-off gesture at no extra cost to fill the stadium (reduced capacity) and give the new owners, new manager and new players a real boost at the start of their time here. Prices would be normalised after that first season. Just think back to the Chelsea and Everton games under Sam and tell me what you thought was the driver behind those performances.
 
Lord Alfred said:
I’m suggesting it’s a one-off gesture at no extra cost to fill the stadium (reduced capacity) and give the new owners, new manager and new players a real boost at the start of their time here. Prices would be normalised after that first season. Just think back to the Chelsea and Everton games under Sam and tell me what you thought was the driver behind those performances.
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i guarantee that if we had a one off game with cheap/free entry, we'd end up losing to Accrington stanley at home under the pressure and no one would come back anyway
 
Mackem00 said:
Because they thought it was shit and joyless I would have thought. Making shit and joyless cheaper won't get people back. Personally i'll continue going no matter what (look at me) but we have to accept not everyone is like that.


No.
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See you’re making assumptions again that the “shit and joyless” will continue. Why would you even continue to go over if that’s what you’re expecting....very strange.
 
Lord Alfred said:
I’m suggesting it’s a one-off gesture at no extra cost to fill the stadium (reduced capacity) and give the new owners, new manager and new players a real boost at the start of their time here. Prices would be normalised after that first season. Just think back to the Chelsea and Everton games under Sam and tell me what you thought was the driver behind those performances.
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It was a loop of the players showing fight and the fans responding to it and vice versa.

Just lowering prices will bring a few back but the connection between the players and the fans will only be recreated by sorting the stuff on the pitch out.
 
If we are top 6 at Christmas people will start edging back. The prices are great and once stuff on the pitch is sorted the fairweather will return.
 
woodlebert said:
It was a loop of the players showing fight and the fans responding to it and vice versa.

Just lowering prices will bring a few back but the connection between the players and the fans will only be recreated by sorting the stuff on the pitch out.
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But surely (and using this forum as a guide) people are really enthused by Short’s departure and the new owner’s mission statement. I really don’t think most people expect anything other than a very successful season.
 
Teed said:
But it is untrue, the lad said it was the main reason, it's not, it may be one of the reasons, no doubt about that, I chucked my ST before O'Neil's second season.
I stated it many times on here, the football was shit and after sitting in the stadium bored to death, I thought enough was enough, I did attend a few games,while PDC, Poyet was at the helm and started to get a taste for it again, but what happened after that, put the final nail in the coffin, lots of lads my age have just had a gut full, we've seen every relegation and with the exception of one cup win and two 7th place finishes, it's been utter turd, 60 f***ing years of utter turd, most of it spent in the lower divisions, but! If people want to think it'sbecause we're no longer in the Prem, then lat them think that, it make no difference does it.
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Ok love 15/19 point badges blah, blah.....

But Charlie sez wa not gonna be Shoite anymore so get ya Arse on the Fookin bus....

Lord Alfred said:
But the 20,000 who weren’t there last season did want to go the season before. Do you know why they stopped going or what it would take to entice them back. You can’t always assume you know the motives of other people.
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Ask yasel.....
 
Lord Alfred said:
See you’re making assumptions again that the “shit and joyless” will continue. Why would you even continue to go over if that’s what you’re expecting....very strange.
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Show me a matchday supporter who didn't think the matches weren't pretty shit and joyless in the most part last season.

Sunderland supporters continue going to support the club in the hope that things change. Hopefully they do this year.
 
Brexit said:
If we are top 6 at Christmas people will start edging back. The prices are great and once stuff on the pitch is sorted the fairweather will return.
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I’d guarantee that if the new owners announced it today there would be a totally different response on here to the replies I’ve had.
 
Lord Alfred said:
But surely (and using this forum as a guide) people are really enthused by Short’s departure and the new owner’s mission statement. I really don’t think most people expect anything other than a very successful season.
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They should be. Hopefully they'll decide to come back to the matches.
 
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