SAFC FANS REACT

@SunderlandAFC Just so we know… are you intending on allowing away fans to purchase tickets, but then taking them away without reason, for this one?

🗓️ Next month's trip to Aston Villa has been rescheduled.

@adambelll_ So am I 🤯

@safcfansreact I’m confused

8 years later nearly he’s got an England call up. Fair play #SAFC

@AwayDaysClub_ You’re hardly comparing apples with apples there. Here’s a question back… if female players can be good pundits then surely also League 1 journeymen with 20 yrs in the game should be a great shout too??

During the Barcelona vs Newcastle match, Troy Deeney was working as a pundit. If the criticism is aimed at women who haven’t played at that level being pundits, then shouldn’t the same standard also apply to Deeney?

@AwayDaysClub_ VAR is just one element… the PL is even more global than ever & the plebs in the ground aren’t needed or wanted any more. Walk if you want…. They’ve got plenty lined up to take ur place.

Agree?

@henrywinter Great gesture & vital 2those attending PL aways. But Id like U (&others passionate about the importance of fans) 2help cover the remarkable & absurd actions taken by @SunderlandAFC this week.. taking away 65 Derby-day tickets from fans (all hi-loyalty points) with no reasoning.

£30 cap on away tickets to continue for two more seasons, excellent news for supporters and for broadcasters wanting noisier atmospheres. Kudos to the Premier League for agreeing to extension. Fans now want clubs to listen to them over home ticket prices which “are often unaffordable and pricing out loyal fans”. "The extension of the away cap is great news for travelling top-flight fans,” says Tom Greatrex, chair of the Football Supporters' Association. “The cap was an FSA idea which wouldn't have happened without our members' campaign work. Credit to the Premier League and clubs for listening to supporters on the importance of away supporters and keeping the cap in place for the previous 12 seasons. Long may it continue. "We all know how much away fans add to the atmosphere in our stadiums and anything which helps them is welcome. Over the past 12 years this has saved supporters millions of pounds in total. We'd also encourage owners to listen to the voices of supporters' groups at their clubs who are telling them that home ticket prices are often unaffordable and are pricing out loyal fans."

@ChrisF2MG I don’t think theres a single person I know who doesnt agree the system is flawed & needs change. Those who exploit it should expect action taken. But the club have severely punished a bloke who’s main crime is running a supporters branch (& scapegoated others thru association)

@safcfansreact Good, if this is dealing with those farming BCP's. We used to have 60+pts went to away games all through the L1 years. Had the majority culled after a health scare forced me to take a break. Sick of seeing people selling tickets bought to keep a place in the queue.

Surprised 2NOT see some of our more vocal fans groups commenting on 65 fans (people with hi-loyalty points) having their Newcastle tickets removed for a spurious reason the club cant properly explain. This ISNT ‘connecting with our fans’, its utter contempt for them & it stinks

@1973mackem @GreggsOfficial God knows I need a laugh right now… 😁. Great work.

Top work @GreggsOfficial not as good as a pink slice but worth a try lol 😜

@EC_AVFC @WafflesInfo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@WafflesInfo @safcfansreact It didn’t register to me because I’ve never related Bonnie Tyler with European Ultras. I’m sure if I listen hard enough now Napoli will be singing George Michael.

I hate the idea that English fans are somehow wrong for thinking this is shit. They’re doing the fucking Hokey Cokey for gods sake.

@GavSAFC89 The same bloke who said at the final white they’d been humiliated? I’ve seen screaming lasses at a one direction concert with a more even-handed temperament. He’s the ultimate attention seeker.

This is the problem with Newcastle. Craig Hope telling talksport listeners the whole countries media want Newcastle to win the derby. I can bet 95% of the country would love it if we beat them on Sunday and sent them home smashing their city up as per usual. #SAFC

For those still in doubt, have a scan of this…. readytogo.net/smb/threads/li… (I know there’s a lot here but even scanning the last dozen pages will tell you what a shit show this is). ‘Connecting with fans’? Seemingly not many from this set of fans.

@GeordieKermit9 Incorrect Kermit Sundered Land was land set apart at bishopwearmouth & monkwearmouth by the river wear, centuries before this around 700 AD which incidentally is around the same time Newcastle beat them in a league game

@Ramma_____ @GeordieKermit9 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

1600s Tynesiders fought for their King (George) and became known as Georgie’s men (Geordies) Wearsiders fought against our king and were forever “cast a sunder” in a new town called Sunderland #SAFC you betrayed your king and country Come on #NUFC let’s smash these bastards

@Ramma_____ Haven’t seen it but been told they were Mullah’d? Is that right? 🤔

How ironic, a public execution !

@ALS_Fanzine Will never forget leaving the ground at fulltime & people coming out of their houses 2celebrate & dance with us… Random strangers coming up to greet & hug you like you were their long-lost sibling. The relief and the joy was unparalleled in my time supporting @SunderlandAFC

OTD: SAFC 2-1 CHELSEA Back through the mists of time, in 1992, came what was arguably Gordon Armstrong’s finest hour in a Sunderland shirt. A fair way through an FA Cup run, having already disposed of Port Vale, Oxford United, and West Ham United, we were extremely unlucky to get only a draw at Stamford Bridge. As ever, the referee messed up and awarded a corner that never was, then missed a clear foul on Tony Norman to allow Chelsea’s goal. Replay at Roker it was and it was one of those nights that will live forever in the memory of those that attended and it was one of those games that had “cup game, Roker Park, night game, full house” written all over it and we know what they could turn out to be. Shades of Man City in 1973, albeit with a smaller crowd thanks to the safety work that had gone on since. Second Division against First Division but there was nothing between the sides in this game. Shot, save, and Peter Davenport reacted with an instant left-footer into the Fulwell End net, with 20 minutes gone, to send the crowd wild. Here we go and there we went, past half time and still in the lead. We did our best not to think of how we were going to get tickets for the semi final or even, dare we think the thought, the final. To be honest, the game was so tense, the crowd so noisy, that it was difficult to think of anything other than the action on the pitch; the real matter at hand. Just when we believed that we could hold onto the lead and start worrying about Norwich City at Hillsborough, Dennis Wise popped up with a well-worked, five-a-side type goal, with only five minutes left. Well-worked but hardly deserved and its effect was massive. The crowd went flat, our dreams of cup glory temporarily crushed, then the individuals present merged into the entity that was the Roker Roar and pumped life back into the shattered players. We were absolutely drained watching the match but the players had to compete physically, as well as mentally, and we could do no more than encourage them the best we could. Which we did and steam rose from the massed supporters as the minutes ticked away and the roaring continued at fever pitch. “I couldn’t stand extra-time” said my mate Mick and I knew what he meant. Cometh the hour (or the 88th minute in this case) cometh the man. As we checked our watches for the twentieth time, Brian Atkinson slung in a corner from the right at the Roker End and time slowed down as we watched it curl deep, deep to the edge of the box, where Gordon Armstrong was already moving through the air at the end of a run and the ball cannoned off his brow, over his left shoulder and into the Roker End net. The ground simply exploded with pent-up emotion. Oh, Gordon, you absolute beauty! All of those people who were thinking exactly what Mick had said to me just minutes earlier let out their tension and relief with a roar that had the pigeons scattering for safety in Gateshead. I don’t remember what happened in the game after that but it wasn’t much because we’d knocked the stuffing out of our illustrious opponents and they were dead on their feet, just as we had briefly been a few minutes earlier. Had it gone to extra time, I doubt if we on the terraces could have survived, we were that drained. How the players were feeling I can only imagine. As it was, we were through and we remembered why it was such a special thing to be a Sunderland supporter. OK, fans of other clubs think that the relationship they have with their club is special but it’s nothing compared to what we’ve got, to the affinity we have with our club: we’re part of it and it’s part of us. To be a Sunderland fan who scored that goal; I’ll bet Goalden Gordon still remembers it as if it were yesterday.

@SmarProcurement Sorry to tell you but it does happen amongst fans, some with credible reasons as a 1-off, others not. We’ve got some fans using their dead parents season cards as it’s a good seat that they’ve had for 28 years. One guy has been scapegoated here.

@safcfansreact If the reaction by the club is because of persistent fans hoarding loyalty points and reselling or redistributing tickets regularly then they have got it spot on.

@Fkersh1994K Wide-spread misuse? I don’t think so…

@safcfansreact It’s quite self explanatory

@9inchnige @bluey5573 Supporters clubs exist at every club in the country. Theyre encouraged 2book together (for those with required loyalty points) & thus sort transport for that group. Its what they do & no-1 is disadvantaged. The passing on of tickets is as likely from individuals as it is branches

@bluey5573 @safcfansreact You Stu are 100% correct - and here lies the exact problem. Take the power away from the branches and let each individual get their own tickets. It's that simple. I'm in exactly the same boat