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Obviously they just got a bit excited at the thought of a genuine big club coming to play them.

Got to roll out the red carpet for your betters haven't you? 😜

Absolutely hilarious.
 
Redwurzel said:
Sky are reporting Newcastle were given over 6,000 tickets - so much for being impossible to police more then 2,000 away fans in a NE Derby!
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Mind you they are paying a price.
Having to get the bus as early as 8.30, bearing in mind many won't live in Newcastle, and getting home god knows when, for a game half an hour away on the metro. Imagine spending up to 3.5 hours in the sol before kickoff?
 
So far Newcastle fans have only got a bus ticket. They won't be given the actual match ticket until they actually get off the bus at SOL by NUFC officials. If you want to sit together you have to be on the same bus and get off together or you could be anywhere.
There are so many things that can wrong it's brilliant :)
 
Northerner said:
So far Newcastle fans have only got a bus ticket. They won't be given the actual match ticket until they actually get off the bus at SOL by NUFC officials. If you want to sit together you have to be on the same bus and get off together or you could be anywhere.
There are so many things that can wrong it's brilliant :)
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I can imagine an outbreak of just stop oli protestors on the roads leading into Sunderland.
 
TeaCider said:
I won't lie, I don't think I'd be particularly bothered if one of our hospitality sections was given over to away fans and had a few Carling banners put up, but then I don't go in hospitality.

It's not like any of the messages were outrageous.

I understand the fans that are annoyed about getting turfed out of their regular seats to accommodate their biggest rivals though.
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In the normal run of things, it’s not a big deal. I’m pretty sure at least one of the the away games I’ve been to this year had a hospitality offer in the away end. Blackburn, if memory serves. I didn’t pay the extra for it, but I would expect it to be welcoming, and I wouldn’t be outraged as a Blackburn fan that it was offered.

This is different, of course. All football fans become three-year-old toddlers when it’s a derby, and throw a tantrum if their nasty brother who smells of wee is allowed to play with their toys. SAFC should surely have anticipated this.
 
Redwurzel said:
Sky are reporting Newcastle were given over 6,000 tickets - so much for being impossible to police more then 2,000 away fans in a NE Derby!
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The allocation does seem well dodgy,

BUT you’re still comparing apples and oranges. 2000 away fans in the EFL is what we are entitled to. NP are not restricting our allocation, they are merely not allowing us an extra one. 6000 away fans IS a reduced allocation at Sunderland in the cup, where the default entitlement is the lower of 15% or 9000. And I’m damned sure I wouldn’t want 6K under the ridiculous conditions they’ve agreed to it either.
 
FishofContemplation said:
In the normal run of things, it’s not a big deal. I’m pretty sure at least one of the the away games I’ve been to this year had a hospitality offer in the away end. Blackburn, if memory serves. I didn’t pay the extra for it, but I would expect it to be welcoming, and I wouldn’t be outraged as a Blackburn fan that it was offered.

This is different, of course. All football fans become three-year-old toddlers when it’s a derby, and throw a tantrum if their nasty brother who smells of wee is allowed to play with their toys. SAFC should surely have anticipated this.
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There are many clubs that offer away fans hospitality and I am sure we have done it in the past. Didn’t Coventry offer deals with the casino and hotel owners hat is/was attached to the ground.

The difference here is Sunderland decided to decorate the Black Cats Bar in Newcastle colours and would have had to change it back prior to the next home game.

It is nothing to do with football fans becoming toddlers, it is about wasting money by decorating a bar in their bitter rivals colours that is normally sold to Sunderland fans as a premium area. £65 a ticket if I remember rightly.

I’m not sure how anyone can try and defend that or thought it was a good idea.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
There are many clubs that offer away fans hospitality and I am sure we have done it in the past. Didn’t Coventry offer deals with the casino and hotel owners hat is/was attached to the ground.

The difference here is Sunderland decided to decorate the Black Cats Bar in Newcastle colours and would have had to change it back prior to the next home game.

It is nothing to do with football fans becoming toddlers, it is about wasting money by decorating a bar in their bitter rivals colours that is normally sold to Sunderland fans as a premium area. £65 a ticket if I remember rightly.

I’m not sure how anyone can try and defend that or thought it was a good idea.
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They're charging the Geordies £600 a ticket
 
Norman_Conquest said:
There are many clubs that offer away fans hospitality and I am sure we have done it in the past. Didn’t Coventry offer deals with the casino and hotel owners hat is/was attached to the ground.

The difference here is Sunderland decided to decorate the Black Cats Bar in Newcastle colours and would have had to change it back prior to the next home game.

It is nothing to do with football fans becoming toddlers, it is about wasting money by decorating a bar in their bitter rivals colours that is normally sold to Sunderland fans as a premium area. £65 a ticket if I remember rightly.

I’m not sure how anyone can try and defend that or thought it was a good idea.
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It might have benefitted young home fans by giving away free scarves [the skinny printed nylon ones] to the kids in their family section - or a flag to wave.
Wouldn't cost the club any more than getting contractors in and waste all that brass on a stupid, ill-conceived idea.(n)
 
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