NG32 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 One particularly hard mackem strolling down Northumberland Street wearing a red and white scarf and sunderland training top with a red and white shirt poking from underneath. Hats off to the lad of about 14 who stopped him, looked him in the eye with sincerity, informed him there was no party with Marty around here and in no uncertain terms told him to f*** off. Just why? Its a Mackem passage of honour- that story will be on Smb, The March on tha Toon. he would have battered half a dozen blokes on his way down, and everysingle man in Newcastle would have hidden in shop doorways from him, fearful of what was coming through letter boxes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magorific Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Loads of em on an SMB thread claiming their away support (both historically and now) is bigger than ours. Priceless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Loads of em on an SMB thread claiming their away support (both historically and now) is bigger than ours. Priceless. they are doing this because we had 50 thousand yesterday- and away fans are more difficult to measure- find statistics about. they also bang on about pre 92 crowd bollox, but when you look at the 2o years before 92- we had higher averages, around 10k higher than them. and a few seasons in 70s and 80s we were 3rd best in country- even when in lower division. Summary-Mackems lie about crowds to feel better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Loads of em on an SMB thread claiming their away support (both historically and now) is bigger than ours. Priceless. they are doing this because we had 50 thousand yesterday- and away fans are more difficult to measure- find statistics about. they also bang on about pre 92 crowd bollox, but when you look at the 2o years before 92- we had higher averages, around 10k higher than them. and a few seasons in 70s and 80s we were 3rd best in country- even when in lower division. Summary-Mackems lie about crowds to feel better. Sunderland have had a higher average crowd than us 21 times since we were formed, two of those were in our first two seasons as a football club. We've averaged more than them 88 times which includes this season so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 That's fair enough Mick but you've not taken the North Sea into account, or death. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 That's fair enough Mick but you've not taken the North Sea into account, or death. Good point, taking that into account, they've had a higher average crowd than us 21 times, we've had a higher average 88 times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://i49.tinypic.com/dpbmsk.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Mackem logic: the graph is upside down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Loads of em on an SMB thread claiming their away support (both historically and now) is bigger than ours. Priceless. they are doing this because we had 50 thousand yesterday- and away fans are more difficult to measure- find statistics about. they also bang on about pre 92 crowd bollox, but when you look at the 2o years before 92- we had higher averages, around 10k higher than them. and a few seasons in 70s and 80s we were 3rd best in country- even when in lower division. Summary-Mackems lie about crowds to feel better. Love it when they refer to us as the 92ers like no one went to SJP pre-Keegan Recently on some site, someone bothered their arse to do the stats and concluded that their gates have actually risen more percentage wise since 1992 than ours have The main reason for that of course was the very low base level they were coming from, and the shiny new, cheap and nasty new flatpack stadium effect when their gates shot up. Judging from the vast open spaces down there lately and the desperation of the one pound and free ticket schemes their attendances could be back down to Roker Park levels before too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://i50.tinypic.com/esuvqp.jpg so they have never averaged 50 thousand? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. never knew that stat, cant remember who we played? West ham? maybe- only missed bristol City at home that season the crowd was locked out by around 12-30. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 so they have never averaged 50 thousand? No, the best average they've had was in 1950 when they averaged 47,785. Edit. They've averaged less than 17,000, 30 times to our 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. never knew that stat, cant remember who we played? West ham? maybe- only missed bristol City at home that season the crowd was locked out by around 12-30. Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. never knew that stat, cant remember who we played? West ham? maybe- only missed bristol City at home that season the crowd was locked out by around 12-30. Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html ah, yeah did bracewell hit a cracking goal in taht one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html That season was brilliant, I was gutted when we lost to Grimsby by a wonder goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html That season was brilliant, I was gutted when we lost to Grimsby by a wonder goal. was one long promotion party . loved the away games that season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. never knew that stat, cant remember who we played? West ham? maybe- only missed bristol City at home that season the crowd was locked out by around 12-30. Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html ah, yeah did bracewell hit a cracking goal in taht one? Think so. Just outside the box maybe. I had that season review video memorised for years but it's mostly been replaced by the more recent sewage we've been served. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 was one long promotion party . loved the away games that season. I missed one away game all season, Notts County. I was supposed to be going on the supporters buses but went out the night before and had far too much to drink and missed my bus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 was one long promotion party . loved the away games that season. I missed one away game all season, Notts County. I was supposed to be going on the supporters buses but went out the night before and had far too much to drink and missed my bus. That was class notts county, filled that big end- toon supporters in full voice whole game. proper falling down the stands pissed aswell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 That was class notts county, filled that big end- toon supporters in full voice whole game. proper falling down the stands p*ssed aswell My favourite away games that season were probably Peterborough and Cambridge, Barnsley was always a good day out but the result wasn't good and we usually did well against them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 That was class notts county, filled that big end- toon supporters in full voice whole game. proper falling down the stands p*ssed aswell My favourite away games that season were probably Peterborough and Cambridge, Barnsley was always a good day out but the result wasn't good and we usually did well against them. aye pterbrough was canny, barnsley my exhaust fell off the car on the way. millwall and grimsby were pretty good as they lasted about 3 days each. the oxford game at home on the tuesday, or thursday night after grimsby- was weird. only thing I can remember is that bloke and his keys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 On the very first day of the Premier League, we had the highest attendance even though we were in Division 1 and had finished 5th bottom the previous season. never knew that stat, cant remember who we played? West ham? maybe- only missed bristol City at home that season the crowd was locked out by around 12-30. Beat Southend 3-2. 28,545 at that game and we beat that number quite a few times that season. http://www.nufc.com/html/1992-93.html ah, yeah did bracewell hit a cracking goal in taht one? Think so. Just outside the box maybe. I had that season review video memorised for years but it's mostly been replaced by the more recent sewage we've been served. He did. Like Venison I didn't realise how good a footballer Bracewell was until watching him regularly. Back on attendances, for a long time and before the rise of ManU we had the record for the highest ever average attendance in English football, 59K plus and achieved in the old second division iirc. Amazingly, and no doubt deleted from mackem history books, it was before 1992. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 He did. Like Venison I didn't realise how good a footballer Bracewell was until watching him regularly. Back on attendances, for a long time and before the rise of ManU we had the record for the highest ever average attendance in English football, 59K plus and achieved in the old second division iirc. Amazingly, and no doubt deleted from mackem history books, it was before 1992. Our highest average was 1947-48 set in the 2nd division, it was 56299. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 He did. Like Venison I didn't realise how good a footballer Bracewell was until watching him regularly. Back on attendances, for a long time and before the rise of ManU we had the record for the highest ever average attendance in English football, 59K plus and achieved in the old second division iirc. Amazingly, and no doubt deleted from mackem history books, it was before 1992. Our highest average was 1947-48 set in the 2nd division, it was 56299. Four years before Keegan was born Best not tell the mackems as it upsets their version of history Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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