It's a misguided sense of loyalty to an institution that no longer exists. The club, as it stands now, is a broken shell of what it used to be and that won't change in a hurry either. The dopey w*****s still routinely ploughing cash into it are as much of a problem as Pardew and Ashley. They're being milked and they don't even realise it. Too loyal, too easily manipulated and too f***ing thick to see it.
The stadium is full every week. QPR at home - 52,000, Leicester at home - 52,000. After we came up from the Championship, we were getting regular 42-43,000 crowds yet we know that big swathes of the crowd, including you and I, have jacked it in.
I don't understand why people are so desperate to keep going and I particularly don't understand who the people are that have not only filled the seats vacated by others but also taken crowds up in huge numbers.
I gave my ticket up last year, it was as I'm sure it was with everyone a incredibly hard decision to make.
What I can't understand is the mind set of support the team not the regime.
The team is here one season, gone the next no matter who the owner is. The modern game, for the most part, doesn't necessarily allow for teams to stay together long term.
We all, as supporters support the club, Newcastle United.
The reason why I jacked my ticket in is because in my opinion, as fans, we, I feel we need to stand against a man who is destroying our club, our institution.
To cut a long and well trodden story short, what I feel people are forgetting is that this isn't the 80's or early 90's, football is truly global now.
Compared to many teams we are in a unique position as a one club city and this has helped sustain us throughout our history. Fans like us grew up with a little sprinkling of other teams such as Liverpool, Man Utd etc however realistically to watch a team play live we had to go to St James and watch Newcastle.
That's gone now, anyone can watch any team one way or another, this makes it easier now then it has ever been for young, impressionable boys and girls to support other teams. Teams who show ambition, Swansea, Spurs, Southampton etc.
What our current set of fans don't understand is that the club is bigger then them, to sustain the club we need to sustain the fan base.
MA and his branding business is exactly that, mediocre ambition, disrespecting the customer base being its day to day business.
The true cost of MA's reign won't be seen today, next year or the season after, with the continued abuse of the club we will have a lost generation of fans, when we can no longer go we won't be replaced, they'll be watching Everton play in Europe.
Just my opinion.
Good post PCW, I think about this a lot. There's a bloke at work, born and bred Middlesbrough but his son was born here and the kid has always supported Newcastle until very recently (I think he's about 10). Now he goes with his dad to Boro, at his own request. Even a club like Middlesbrough, for all they've been in the doldrums for a few years, are a club who hold their own fans in high regard and are trying to better themselves. That trumps just being in the Premier League for the sake of it.
We're very quickly acquiring a generation of fans for whom the club exists to exist. There's no pride in supporting this incarnation of NUFC.
