sunderland

[cp40]

is there another set of fans so obssessed with attendances?

[madras]

is there another set of fans so obssessed with attendances?

us ?

[Elric]

is there another set of fans so obssessed?

 

Nope.

[Mattoon]

Today's attendance excuse

 

I think a lot more people seem to work Saturdays these days aswell which doesn't help attendances

 

Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=757896&page=2#ixzz2JB7RxjHk

 

Fuel costs too.

 

 

 

That doesn't stop the cockneys getting to the Manyoo matches though

[biggs]

Talking to a Liverpool mate of mine who compared the two clubs to actors.  We were Mickey Rourke, occasional bouts of brilliance but largely in the press for the wrong reasons but with a lot of charisma. He compared Sunderland to Keanu Reeves, occasionally OK to look at but utterly bland and never anything worthy of more than 5 minutes of attention.

 

Typical arrogant Liverpool but not without a grain of truth.  They are just bland, nobody but us can be bothered to hate them and anyone that says they like Sunderland usually only say so because they hate Newcastle.

 

Funny little town.

 

You should have joined in the football club/actors comparisons and compared Liverpool to Winona Ryder.

Thief  i get it 

[Skeletor]

What happened to the Danny Graham signing then?

[Cajun]

Hopefully another club has matched their bid 

[madras]

What happened to the Danny Graham signing then?

they don't know yet.

 

they sign him, "fantastic signing, just what we need, was never a mag"

 

they don't sign him "didn't want him as a he's just a shit mag"

[Skeletor]

Hopefully another club has matched their bid 

 

I'd still have him here. Don't know what the price is now though.

[Cajun]

I would too.

[Tiresias]

wouldn't say no, I'd have been annoyed if we'd signed him and barely anyone else mind, at this point would be good depth

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

So despite SBR coming out numerous times in various media outlets saying how he supports us they like to think he's a mackem 'cos of ONE time where he supposedly said he supports them?

 

Mackemlogic at work.

[madras]

So despite SBR coming out numerous times in various media outlets saying how he supports us they like to think he's a mackem 'cos of ONE time where he supposedly said he supports them?

 

Mackemlogic at work.

thats' the point, i don't think he ever said he supported them, just that he soemtimes went to roker as a kid (mind you that was at a sunderland players testiimonial dinner), i can't find anything in print or interview.

[cp40]

is there another set of fans so obssessed with attendances?

us ?

 

 

nope. seat counter- crowd prediction before every game- posting crowd figures of other clubs to discuss- crowd figures as user names or in sigs?  not really seen that on here tbh.- not on a weekly basis certainly.

[Conjo]

is there another set of fans so obssessed with attendances?

us ?

 

yup

 

There´s not a page in any transfer thread on here where "yada yada yada crowds of 50k yada yada" being mentioned. Have to be said though, that it´s the only thing this team has had going for it for a long time, so it´s not very surprising.

[newsted]

Sri Bobby was a toon fan, but didn't the older generation tend to watch/support both teams?

 

tended to be done aye- travel to away games must have been more difficult- no net, Tv football, even full radio commentary was rare. I worked with a toon season ticket holder early 90s, who was in his 60s then and he went to joker on our away days,. was In no doubt who he supporeted tho. I went there once to see them play Ipswich with a mate who was Ipswich fan.

 

Aye, it was normal when I were a nipper to "want all the North East teams to do well". We all wanted sunderland to win in 73 and topple nasty Leeds. Hadn't met any mackems at that stage so didn't realise how weirdly bitter and twisted they were, like. A few years later I was left open-mouthed in shock at their rants about the Metro when it was built and the penny dropped that they had this strange village mentality and hated us for being better at everything than they were. Individually they can be OK, my next-door neighbour is one and so is the lad I sit next to at work, you just have to factor it into everything you say and do when you deal with them. It's like dealing with kids.

[cp40]

Sri Bobby was a toon fan, but didn't the older generation tend to watch/support both teams?

 

tended to be done aye- travel to away games must have been more difficult- no net, Tv football, even full radio commentary was rare. I worked with a toon season ticket holder early 90s, who was in his 60s then and he went to joker on our away days,. was In no doubt who he supporeted tho. I went there once to see them play Ipswich with a mate who was Ipswich fan.

 

Aye, it was normal when I were a nipper to "want all the North East teams to do well". We all wanted sunderland to win in 73 and topple nasty Leeds. Hadn't met any mackems at that stage so didn't realise how weirdly bitter and twisted they were, like. A few years later I was left open-mouthed in shock at their rants about the Metro when it was built and the penny dropped that they had this strange village mentality and hated us for being better at everything than they were. Individually they can be OK, my next-door neighbour is one and so is the lad I sit next to at work, you just have to factor it into everything you say and do when you deal with them. It's like dealing with kids.

 

met some canny Mackems- was working there last year- great lad used to wear a mackem badge,I kept my toon thoughts to myself -its some sort of collective inferiority mental fuck up going on.

[Haz]

It's collective mackems you have to worry about.  Individual mackems can be canny and can possibly manage to structure sentences in an understandable fashion.

[Tsunami]

i see the "bobby robson was a sunderland fan" myth has reared it's ugly head again.

 

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=757736&page=4

 

 

 

They get so worked up about it and it's something so trivial

 

If he was a Sunderland supporter that's fine by me, however I would think he's a pretty lousy supporter if he basically lied about his allegiance the minute he got our job. Even Bruce didn't do that at their place.

 

I can only vouch for what I know and that is that he consistently said he was a Newcastle supporter. I've never heard him say otherwise and in spite of the evidence posters on RTG talk about proving he was a red and whiter I haven't been presented with any, therefore I've got to assume he was genuine when he said he was a Newcastle supporter.

 

Always seemed to me he's a Newcastle fan, but one of those (a generation?) that wants to see the north east do well. I believe it's possible that he may've said he 'supports' Sunderland, while being a Newcastle fan.

apparently he said at gordon armstrongs testimonial dinner that he used to go to roker as a kid. many did just to watch a game of football, sunderland would come through to SJP similarly without being NUFC fans. i used to go to darlo a bit when they were at feethams. however despite all the evidence, the mans own writings and live interviews they twist it into, he was really a mackem. sad really.

 

The first 2 pages of My Kind of Toon make it clear who he supported and it wasn't Sunderland. "I was born into a Black and White world". His father won a ticket for the Arsenal final the year before he was born, he attended Nufc games with his father and 2 brothers; there was no question of supporting Sland; there wasn't even a direct bus there.

 

I really don't know why this keeps cropping up. He was well received at Sland in later life but he never supported them. The s**** that gets spouted about the spitting episode and the sacking (bad though they were) didn't turn him into a mackem nor did it erase their history of singing about him pissing himself etc.

 

You'd think Langley Park was next to Roker the way they've tried to claim him and get some kind if reflective glory from his status.

 

We know he got a bit grief; they forget what they did. He was a self proclaimed member of the Newcastle family. Simple really.

[Superior Acuña]

Shearer missed the penalty against them because he couldn't bring himself to score against his boyhood club, yknow.

 

 

[Stuy_O]

 

The latter stages of this vid he makes it quite clear who he supports. Skip past the mackems halfway through.

[Sima]

FERTERSHOPPED YER MAG KERNT

[madras]

Yes it was real but in the early 80's when he was England manager after dropping Keegan. NOT as they would have you believe when he was our manager and by a moronic one or two ,not the entire stadium as again, they would have you believe.

[Tsunami]

i see the "bobby robson was a sunderland fan" myth has reared it's ugly head again.

 

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=757736&page=4

 

 

 

They get so worked up about it and it's something so trivial

 

If he was a Sunderland supporter that's fine by me, however I would think he's a pretty lousy supporter if he basically lied about his allegiance the minute he got our job. Even Bruce didn't do that at their place.

 

I can only vouch for what I know and that is that he consistently said he was a Newcastle supporter. I've never heard him say otherwise and in spite of the evidence posters on RTG talk about proving he was a red and whiter I haven't been presented with any, therefore I've got to assume he was genuine when he said he was a Newcastle supporter.

 

Always seemed to me he's a Newcastle fan, but one of those (a generation?) that wants to see the north east do well. I believe it's possible that he may've said he 'supports' Sunderland, while being a Newcastle fan.

apparently he said at gordon armstrongs testimonial dinner that he used to go to roker as a kid. many did just to watch a game of football, sunderland would come through to SJP similarly without being NUFC fans. i used to go to darlo a bit when they were at feethams. however despite all the evidence, the mans own writings and live interviews they twist it into, he was really a mackem. sad really.

 

The first 2 pages of My Kind of Toon make it clear who he supported and it wasn't Sunderland. "I was born into a Black and White world". His father won a ticket for the Arsenal final the year before he was born, he attended Nufc games with his father and 2 brothers; there was no question of supporting Sland; there wasn't even a direct bus there.

 

I really don't know why this keeps cropping up. He was well received at Sland in later life but he never supported them. The s**** that gets spouted about the spitting episode and the sacking (bad though they were) didn't turn him into a mackem nor did it erase their history of singing about him pissing himself etc.

 

You'd think Langley Park was next to Roker the way they've tried to claim him and get some kind if reflective glory from his status.

 

We know he got a bit grief; they forget what they did. He was a self proclaimed member of the Newcastle family. Simple really.

 

is the spitting thing real? I always assumed it was bollocks?

 

He got dogs abuse when he came as England manager for the way he'd handled KK and yes he did get spat at by some cretin. At that point in time SBR has been away from the area for decades and the fans had no affinity with him nor was he the darling of the public or had he talked about his allegencies. He was a relatively young man with broad shoulders to take the grief (albeit spitting unacceptable).

 

Some Mackems seem to believe it was around the time he became manager here or whilst he was manager.

 

 

[Tsunami]

Yes it was real but in the early 80's when he was England manager after dropping Keegan. NOT as they would have you believe when he was our manager and by a moronic one or two ,not the entire stadium as again, they would have you believe.

 

Beat me to it.