A strange way of saying "I don't love you"

[Barrel of Fun]

MOTD making a point of the empty seats at St James Park.

Attendance: 50,242

Capacity: 52,387

2,100 stayaways.

They can't even get that right.

Buy the club or stop f***ing complaining!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Keegan was getting run by Wise, so why don't Ashley just appoint Wise as manager. Now that would make Newcastle fans riot!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Harsh. There Geordies are probably the best fans in the country, have always supported their team and got nothing in return. If they went down, they will be the only side with a large stadium to have a full house.

Why do you say they deserve each other?

You thick ****.

You're the thick **** here. You know nothing about football and yet throw names at people, despite being the biggest TWAT on the board. I remember when Newcastle had small crowds when they were shit. It's easy supporting a team when they're doing well.

Having said that, shy is not turning up the only demonstration fans can do? Surely there are many ways to skin a cat?

 

[NMH]

You're the thick **** here. You know nothing about football and yet throw names at people, despite being the biggest TWAT on the board. I remember when Newcastle had small crowds when they were shit. It's easy supporting a team when they're doing well.

Having said that, shy is not turning up the only demonstration fans can do? Surely there are many ways to skin a cat?

Easy on 1066, Stumpy, Newcastle are his 6th favourite team

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

it's nice when people let an irrational hatred of a group of people cloud their judgement

there was a HUGE demonstration outside the ground before AND after the game (went well into the night) but the fans decided to support their team

what is wrong with THAT?!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Harsh. There Geordies are probably the best fans in the country, have always supported their team and got nothing in return. If they went down, they will be the only side with a large stadium to have a full house.

Why do you say they deserve each other?

You thick ****.

they wouldn't get 52,000 in the championship

hardly anyone would

however, there are VERY few teams that would get consistantly large crowds (to that level) with so LITTLE success for such a LONG time

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Harsh. There Geordies are probably the best fans in the country, have always supported their team and got nothing in return. If they went down, they will be the only side with a large stadium to have a full house.

Why do you say they deserve each other?

You thick ****.

Oooh, hello.

Best fans in the country, what, like in the 1990-91 season, when they averaged 16,879 per game? Like in 1980, when they averaged 16,001?

Fair enough, both those seasons were in the equivalent of the Championship, but that does tend to disprove your suggestion that they have always supported their team.

In 1988, they finished 8th in the top division, and could only manage an average of 21,059, roughly equivalent to a Portsmouth, Bolton or Fulham game now. I accept that football attendances as a whole have increased significantly since then, but please, before you attempt a sweeping statement based on your pitiful knowledge of football since the Premiership was invented: do check your facts, as there are plenty of us about who can remember swathes of empty terraces at the old St James's Park.

I'm tempted to finish by writing "you thick ****" as you did to Nemesis. But that's probably not necessary, is it?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Oooh, hello.

Best fans in the country, what, like in the 1990-91 season, when they averaged 16,879 per game? Like in 1980, when they averaged 16,001?

Fair enough, both those seasons were in the equivalent of the Championship, but that does tend to disprove your suggestion that they have always supported their team.

In 1988, they finished 8th in the top division, and could only manage an average of 21,059, roughly equivalent to a Portsmouth, Bolton or Fulham game now. I accept that football attendances as a whole have increased significantly since then, but please, before you attempt a sweeping statement based on your pitiful knowledge of football since the Premiership was invented: do check your facts, as there are plenty of us about who can remember swathes of empty terraces at the old St James's Park.

I'm tempted to finish by writing "you thick ****" as you did to Nemesis. But that's probably not necessary, is it?

yep, the new massive support is a fairly new thing, probably from when they made the ground MAHOOSIVE in the 90's

but you can;t deny that currently they clearly have a huge support, so quoting attendance figures from about 20 years ago only goes to prove aids being slightly DIM

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think it proves he's one of a generation of fans who thinks that all there was before the Premiership started was a giant VOID of ever-decreasing nothingness, that players like Jimmy Greaves, Stanley Matthews, Dixie Dean and thousands of others mean absolutely ZIP because they didn't play for massive clubs like Blackburn Rovers post-1992.

Following Sky's logic- ie that the only statistics that count are Premiership ones, therefore Les Ferdinand is one of English football's all time top scorers- the Albion don't really exist, as they've never been in the promised land. Peter Ward is just a figment of your imagination, as the top flight of his era wasn't real and didn't matter. Bobby Zamora did nothing until he signed for Spurs, and Hull City were only founded in May of this year.

So perhaps Aids is right: Newcastle have always had amazing fans, some of the most passionate and numerous in football- because when they weren't bothering to turn up at St James's Park in the 1980s, football wasn't really happening.

 

[Seasider78]

Huge attendances yes just a shame they can't see beyond Kevin Keegan as the answer to their clubs dire position is recent years

Lets not forget these are the same loyal fans who hounded Allardyce out of the club as the football was not 'champagne' enough for them. The same fans who did not give adequate time to Souness and the countless before him.

The same fans who will not accept anyone other than 'one of their own'

Best fans in country don't make me laugh they are as much to blame for the current mess as the board