Reid foresaw safc demise


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I read McAteer's book recently, and now all I can think of whenever someone mentions Peter Reid, is Reidy holding a paper upside down pretending he was reading it, with his head pointed towards the floor, so depressed at how Sunderland were in 2002.

I was in Belgium for a pre season friendly when Reid had beer flung over him and McAteer proper stuck up for Reid. Before game while players were warming up, a lad unfurled big banner saying "Reid Out" and McAteer was straight over telling him to take it down and McAteer got told to fuck off.
 
I think this thread really shows that there are a percentage of fans who are never happy. Sunderland afc are in the third tier things have never been worse and we have a thread ripping to bits the manager of the best team we have had in our lifetime.

Some fans at the end of the Reid era behaved like absolute wankers.

Thankfully since, we've been pretty much brilliant.
 
Some fans at the end of the Reid era behaved like absolute wankers.

Thankfully since, we've been pretty much brilliant.

He absolutely deserved to be sacked when he eventually was though and in hindsight should have gone the season we finished 4th bottom. We started off the following season with fans right on Reidys case, hence the preseason embarrassment in Antwerp when it all kicked off.

Oh and the week after I was in Genk when Kevin Kilbane gave the two fingers to safc fans while waiting to take a corner.

Was a great tour of Belgium that, class country to be fair.
 
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Reidy - best Sunderland manager by far in my lifetime. And I'm in my late fifties. Some great memories from his time. If we weren't so obsessed with upping capacity we could have spent on players, gone on and built a great team.
 
He was class but ultimately made some shockers at the end, Flo, Laslandes, Helmer, Nunez and then Hutchison......... never forgive him for letting Don go.
The story I got told was there was a meeting over extending the stadium which he was in. He wanted it recording in the minutes of the meeting that he wanted the cost of the extension to be provided as transfer funds because we could really go up a level.
Tbf it didn’t cost that much iirc, probably the cost of Stewart and Reyna.
 
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Wonderful 20:20 vision from Reidy when using hindsight. He fails to mention the fact that when he DID spend money he wasted it on shit like Flo, Medina and Piper

not to mention the Frenchman. He was flashing cash without doing his research ... it was very lazy. I think we had long since lost Durban as main man on recruitment and that cost us.
I agree. I always thought it was a shit idea and still do.

There were two main reasons not to for me, which still hold strong today
1. Ensure there is more demand for seats than there is supply. Means you can charge more and that season tickets holders stay loyal as they can’t be complacent about getting in.
2.Because your stadium is full of fans every week, you get better atmospheres week in week out.
The arguments for doing It were
1. More people = cheaper tickets
2. Real vision and statement about our intent as a club.
Whilst Reidy wasted the money he had, he had a point, it was pointless building The stadium to that size without having the money to back up your ambition
 
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We filled the ground nearly very home game with 46/47k when we were good and would do so again with a sniff of success in the top flight. Bob Murry just didn't have the funds for both.

Not sure if we would now. I think the 19 and 15 point seasons sickened an awful lot of fans who simply would never come back on a regular basis.

Under Bruce back in 2010/11 we were looking good for top 6 up until the February/March time and the gates were still only 36/37k.
 
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Plenty of times we've gone over 42k

Probably not enough to justify it. As I'm a sad twat I've just gone through our attendances from when the extension was in place. out of 335 games we've gone over 42k 117 times. upto and including the 3 times we got relegated and played in the Championship. Premier League - 266 games 114 attendances over 42k, Championship 69 and 3. The 1st 2 seasons it was extended we had over 42k every home game, other than that the next best was 13. Average times in Premier League barring those 3 good seasons is 3.3 times. Not worth it.
 
Reid couldn't see beyond the bottom of his glass or his next pay cheque and couldn't lie straight in bed.

The last summer he was here, he wasn't going to Japan to sort out the team, next time we seen him was pissed with Lineker and Shearer taking the piss out of him live on BBC.

Some still don't blame in for what happened or other relegations, certainly with his mates at Sky never got any bad press.

He actually spent more than Wenger during his time here.
 
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