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It clashes with the saints v wigan derby
A bold move by the club, as it will undoubtedly have an effect on those supporters who follow both soccer and rugby, but may well give Wigan and Reading an advantage over their Easter Monday opponents.
Question for Egg – If they both kick off in the afternoon, which fixture will you be attending?
All down to advertising revenue Tez. TV companies couldn’t give a toss who won the cup last year – they are only interested in how many people will watch their next production. Every one of those ties above has more lure to the armchair fan than “bottom of the premier league at home to mid-table championship side”.
As you say though – there’s always the quarters, and I think all the games are televised from that point on!
Yes it was our semi final attendance against Arsenal in the League Cup. About 7500 below our average league attendance at the time. How many lower than their average league attendance was Sunderland’s semi final gate?12,181 was actually 8,428 less than the average crowd of 20,069 that season, which equates to 59%.
The crowd of 31,547 was around 76.5% of the current average of 41,240.
Are you one of the 177?
Regards Mutty and his crowd comments……Did you watch the 1st leg of the League Cup semi? Was it fancy dress?Yes, they came dressed as the missing 18,000 Wigan fans. Regrettably though 31,000 didn’t get their invitation in time and turned up dressed as football supporters.
Does the number 12181 ring any bells?
Wrong. On another thread, I was asked what Sunderlands crowd was when they played their 3rd round tie at home when they were defending the FA Cup – it was in excess of 25,000.
The difference between every other club and Wigan is that YOU are the FA Cup holders, and YOU were bleating that nobody outside of the DW is mentioning you this season and your ties werent considered for TV. However, if YOUR so-called supporters cannot be arsed, why should the rest of the country give a toss about Wigan Athletic v MK Dons?
You’re doing absolutely nothing to disprove the theory that you’re nothing more than a typical no-mark, tight-arsed rubgy fan who will only put himself out if it’s a freebie.So, I’m pretty much similar to the 18,000+ Wembley attendees that failed to show up on Saturday then – the main difference being I have the honesty to admit I wouldn’t pay for a ticket under any circumstances.
I may be a “typical no-mark, tight-arsed rugby fan who will only put himself out if it’s a freebie”, but I’m not a hypocrite.
Win it again, Jesus! Mutty will be able to again get free tickets for him and his family for the semi final and final!Tidied for you ;)
22,000 empty seats at the Stadium of Shite today Smutty. Were they all still outside trying to get the poor mans FA cup final tickets ???
Obviously F A Cup fever has,nt arrived in Sunderland as well as here eh Mutty?[/quote]
Not when the opposition was a non-league side. Imagine your reserves playing someone from the Southern Premier League three days after 9,000 (yes, NINE THOUSAND) fans shelled out £50 for an Old Trafford ticket.
We’ve seen what happens to the crowd when you play a side one league below you.
Maybe the missing 18000 from May will show up next round?Mutty that is aimed at you in particular.Mr Hughes,
I think you meant Nuneaton as my post was purely about football – clue is FA Cup!
It hadnt last round when you were playing a lower league side – thought maybe now you are hosting a Premier League club, there would be more interest.
South stand appears to have no tickets available, so it should be a good atmosphere.
Good luck!
McClean never played for Sunderland under Steve Bruce – it was O’Neill who gave him his chance, and in the half-season that followed, he ripped defences apart.
Then…teams sussed him out. And to compound matters he became a billy big bollox who thought he had made it, tweeting insults about his national manager’s selection policy when a few months before he was plying his trade in front of a few hundred at reserve fixtures. The new season started, his form dropped, his impact became non-existant and then just as he showed glimpses of a return to form, his infamous poppy incident turned many against him. From that day on he was finished at the SOL, and it was a huge disappointment to many Sunderland fans that he wasnt peddled in Jan 2013.
I wouldnt shed a tear if he left you – he really isnt worth the hastle.
also why put city- blackburn on the tellyBecause ITV rely on advertising revenue, and the companies who advertise during their commercial breaks will pay much more for a slot in a game where Man City are featured than Wigan, regardless of you being the FA Cup holders.
Its a self-defeating scenario. If the FA Cup winners were given a place, then Wigan would have entered the CL qualifying stages and in all probability been eliminated before the group stages commenced.
The result of one of the four not making the group stages would be an overall reduction in the points allocated for each nations’ clubs’ perfomances, which in turn would lead to a reduction in how many places English Clubs are allowed in the CL.
