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20 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Mind, Whitburn is Tyneside. 

I mean, it is technically part of South Tyneside, as is Cleadon, but it’s a couple of miles south of Marsden and like half a mile from Seaburn, so in what geographical cluster-fuck of a world is Whitburn not Sunderland? (It is quite nice though…). 

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1 minute ago, FloydianMag said:

It might have an SR postcode but Whitburn is part of South Tyneside.

 

Maybe, but personally I go off postcodes. NE postcodes are an unofficial Greater Newcastle to me. And NUFC is the team of the NE postcode as far as I'm concerned. If Whitburn is SR then it's Sunderland to me. It's certainly closer to the Wear than the Tyne too.

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1 minute ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Isn’t Washington an NE postcode? All got Mackem accents that lot. 

Yes and I wouldn’t say all. Where I grew up in Washington (oxclose) is nearer St James’ than where I live in North Shields now. Also with Washington being a new town most people’s family frowning up hailed from Gateshead, South Shields, Newcastle and Sunderland in equal measures, among other places. I got tortured off my cousins in west Denton for saying ‘Dina’ once as a kid and never made that mistake again.  

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Grew up in Washington and never heard a proper mackem accent ('hoyd' level) until I worked with a lad from Southwick.  Though a mate (Newcastle fan) after moving just across the river from Washington developed a horrible twang to his which was as stark as I experienced - more your 'skewel' level of fluency.

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1 hour ago, Wandy said:

 

Maybe, but personally I go off postcodes. NE postcodes are an unofficial Greater Newcastle to me. And NUFC is the team of the NE postcode as far as I'm concerned. If Whitburn is SR then it's Sunderland to me. It's certainly closer to the Wear than the Tyne too.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Izakaya said:

Not if Whitburn has a SR postcode?

It’s in South Tyneside. It is basically is the border.

Similarly further in land the Southern perimeter fence of Sunderland's training ground backs onto Cut Throat Dene, which is the border of South Tyneside and Sunderland.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Stifler said:

It’s in South Tyneside. It is basically is the border.

Similarly further in land the Southern perimeter fence of Sunderland's training ground backs onto Cut Throat Dene, which is the border of South Tyneside and Sunderland.

 

 

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Fair. Had no idea that sign was there tbh. 

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Never felt luckier to be born and raised in Newcastle - if I’d been born south of the Tyne I’d have been playing County Durham Risk with our favourite friends 😁

 

Maybe we’re fortunate that South Shields / Gateshead AFC was booted out of the FL in 1960, because it would be a postcode %-based bloodbath

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7 hours ago, LordJake said:

Shields thing? Got a good mate from NS who says that 

No mate that’s very much a mackem thing instead of div’nt. I’ve noticed coastal types say ‘dairn’nt’ and have a softer lilt than Gateshead/Newcastle in general. You can tell a heed accent by the way they say have (hev). 

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6 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Never felt luckier to be born and raised in Newcastle - if I’d been born south of the Tyne I’d have been playing County Durham Risk with our favourite friends 😁

 

Maybe we’re fortunate that South Shields / Gateshead AFC was booted out of the FL in 1960, because it would be a postcode %-based bloodbath

South Shields isn't big enough of an area to have been able to attract enough crowds and income to sustain staying in the league pyramid for any extended period of time. Gateshead is too close to Newcastle as well for it to have happened there either.

Outside of the big 3 clubs, only Hartlepool have really been able to have an extended stay within the League system, and ultimately they fell out of it twice. Darlington likewise, although I concede that their demise had other factors about it. Even Carlisle on the other side of the A69 have always been strugglers, and finally look set to leave the football league system.

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8 minutes ago, Stifler said:

South Shields isn't big enough of an area to have been able to attract enough crowds and income to sustain staying in the league pyramid for any extended period of time. Gateshead is too close to Newcastle as well for it to have happened there either.

Outside of the big 3 clubs, only Hartlepool have really been able to have an extended stay within the League system, and ultimately they fell out of it twice. Darlington likewise, although I concede that their demise had other factors about it. Even Carlisle on the other side of the A69 have always been strugglers, and finally look set to leave the football league system.

 

South Shields, although maybe not having that big of an area, has over half as much population again, compared to Burnley, for example.

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5 minutes ago, bigfella said:

 

South Shields, although maybe not having that big of an area, has over half as much population again, compared to Burnley, for example.

It’s also right between 2 big football clubs though. I guess you could argue that Burnley is with Blackburn and Preston.

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