sunderland

[Wandy]

32 minutes ago, Choppy Chop Chop said:

If I were from "Greater Newcastle" I'd be insulted by your post. You're giving the mackums ammunition in the "Geordie Nation" piss take 

 

Couldn't give a shite what they think. The simple fact is that people from those areas have the same accent and tend to socialise in the same areas. Most people in an NE postcode will describe travelling into Newcastle city centre as "going into town". Greater Newcastle is a thing that exists unofficially. Mackems know this too and that's what pisses them off.

 

John Hall was on to something with the Geordie Nation thing as he recognised that "Newcastle" is an area that extends quite far beyond it's city boundaries.

[madras]

52 minutes ago, Choppy Chop Chop said:

If I were from "Greater Newcastle" I'd be insulted by your post. You're giving the mackums ammunition in the "Geordie Nation" piss take 

Dunno like, the majority class themselves as Geordies.

[Jonas]

3 hours ago, Sima said:

 

Good point.  Start the trophy count from then as well as there were only about 15 teams in the league. 

 

That's not going to work for them either.

From .com in 2009 - and its only grown since

"Newcastle's aggregate League attendance at St James' Park totals 58,500,000. Approaching TEN MILLION more than Sunderland's aggregate attendance."

[Wolfcastle]

11 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Do you think it is a coincidence that in 1991 we had a sub-20k average; one of only four seasons post-World War I (there's only been three post-WWII) where this was the case?  The twats are rabid about it.  'They used to average under 20k'.  Three times in eighty-seven years that has been the case.  As any mackematics textbook of statistical analysis will tell you; robust analysis of statistical and probablistic outliers which diverge from the central tendency of the median don't fucking count when it comes to Newcastle.

 

There was an article in the Mag reprinted from the Sunderland Echo about their gates in that promotion season at the time of writing being lower than ours were in the 91/92 season pre Keegan and calling on them to start going to game (will have to dig it out).

Even though their gates might have picked up the back end of that season through glory hunting it remained the case.

Newcastle 91/92 pre Keegan and having our worst ever season: 18500

Mackems winning the league in 95/96: 17482 (their biggest in years)

 

 

[John tolan]

Match threads only place to get a makem reaction as to how they really feel towards us. Back working with them on Monday as well up here , will have to do with talking about anything but football saying as they now refuse to have a bit crak. 6 in a row might get mentioned, or how theyve always been the biggest team in the north east, attendances,'73,more titles,milky bar kids blah blah blah

[Chris_R]

12 minutes ago, John tolan said:

theyve always been the biggest team in the north east, attendances,

 

Those things are just outright lies though, on a Trumpian scale.

 

It's like if I started insisting I was taller than Andre the Giant.

 

When we were in the same room.

 

To his face.

[John tolan]

38 minutes ago, Chris_R said:

 

Those things are just outright lies though, on a Trumpian scale.

 

It's like if I started insisting I was taller than Andre the Giant.

 

When we were in the same room.

 

To his face

Sounds like confronting skylon or rubber face ?????? ehhhh they do make me laugh over there. 

[et tu brute]

7 minutes ago, John tolan said:

Sounds like confronting skylon or rubber face ?????? ehhhh they do make me laugh over there. 

Gipetto and dangernonce also

[Wandy]

For the those who can’t access the NUFC thread on Parsnip, be afraid…be very afraid. Exile has vowed to ramp up his one-man Twitter campaign. 

[Danh1]

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/we-are-the-best-supported-club-in-the-championship.1598196/
 

Another thread sucking each other off for going to watch the match. They’ll tell you we are obsessed with attendances though. 

[Superior Acuña]

12 hours ago, HawK said:

I was born in Grays, Thurrock and grew up near Chelmsford in Essex. I've since lived all over the country and spent a few years in Dublin, living near Leeds now for the past 10 years. None of my family were into football, but my friends were. With no 'big' local clubs around, the closest being Southend United, who no-one supported because it was a 'rival town', most kids supported a mix of teams. A few supported West Ham, some Spurs, an Arsenal and a Liverpool fan, loads of Man Utd fans. No-one supported a club that wasn't in the top couple of divisions.

 

I started supporting Newcastle United when I was 8 years old when I got my first sticker album around 92, 93. I read the info pages on that sticker album of all the clubs and decided I wanted to pick one. I liked being the antagonist in my circle of friends, and realised no-one supported Newcastle United. I also liked the picture of the tower on the badge and the black and white stripes. From that day on I became a die-hard Newcastle United fan. I was on Ceefax every day looking at the table, the news and the top scorers. A presiding memory of my childhoost is going on to the Ceefax page 324 and seeing us 3rd in the table. 323 showed Andy Cole at the top of the top scorers charts.

 

It's hard to describe what it's like being a football fan from that part of the country. You don't get absorbed into a local club, and with no football-following family members you just sort of pick one. You don't get the affinity for the city that comes with supporting a club that you were born and raised in the proximity of. I may fit the definition of a 'plastic mag' or whatever the makems call supporters like me, but I've supported how I could in my own way - as a kid with having Newcastle Utd wallpaper, a desk lamp and duvet set. Getting my parents to buy me a new top every year. I'd sit my 10 year old arse on my sofa to watch us play on Sky, decked out in my full kit, scarf, shin pads and boots as well (had to put newspaper down on the carpet or my mum would go nuts).

 

I think proximity to a club makes it almost obligatory to support them. I don't see why the viewpoint that you're only a 'proper supporter' if you're from the area holds so much weight. You're born into it, it requires not much effort to participate. Your family has a high chance of introducing it to you from a young age. The door's been opened and you can choose to go that way or not be interested. Supporters that have to choose a club have it much harder from fans of other clubs. The banter is fun, but it feels like you have to try harder than most to prove your 'worthiness' of supporting such a club and not being seen to be a 'glory-hunter'.

 

Nowadays more than ever, clubs are global. Fans and supporters can be from all over the world. Fans from other countries are lauded on most forums for having 'picked their team' to support. Yet fans from other parts of the country are still often derrided.

 

 

 

 

Watching the match with shin pads on 

 

I think the thing that gets me wound up with a large section of supporters not from an area (whether they're domestic or international) is when, say we lose to Chelsea and a non-local post-Abramovic-purchase fan is giving it the big ones (haha we beat you), I'm thinking, well *of course* 'your' team fucking won, you picked them largely because they're good, you don't get to do that - it's not chance that you support them rather than say, Ipswich (or us post 90s). 

(The Chelsea example is because I've sat with an international Chelsea supporting friend of mine pumping his fists as they beat us again...)

 

However I do feel like I should wind my neck in a bit when I read the sorts of stories in these threads - even if a team was picked largely because they're good, this is often to do with those teams being shown on tv more in other countries etc., and the dedication is often very genuine.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 2023 by Inferior Acuña

[Lazarus]

14 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/we-are-the-best-supported-club-in-the-championship.1598196/
 

Another thread sucking each other off for going to watch the match. They’ll tell you we are obsessed with attendances though. 

 

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Our smallest gate of 34,000 is still 3,500 higher than the next teams highest gate of the season

 

[et tu brute]

1 minute ago, Wolfcastle said:

"Villa averaged 36,027.
Leeds averaged 35,321
We are currently on 38,308
Mags last time in this League 51,106

Worth pointing put that the 3 other clubs with huge attendances were all promoted."

 

Don't think that was known ahead of time like

 

You can run a bus through any of their arguments. The fact that they have weekly attendance threads, when their official crowds are clearly nowhere near the actual figure sums them up. 

[Chris_R]

53 minutes ago, Wandy said:

For the those who can’t access the NUFC thread on Parsnip, be afraid…be very afraid. Exile has vowed to ramp up his one-man Twitter campaign. 

He'd have a larger audience if instead he just went downstairs and told his mum.

[BlueStar]

1 hour ago, Wandy said:

For the those who can’t access the NUFC thread on Parsnip, be afraid…be very afraid. Exile has vowed to ramp up his one-man Twitter campaign. 

 

Presumably he's also targeting Ronaldo on Twitter?  

[GWN]

8 hours ago, Wandy said:

For the those who can’t access the NUFC thread on Parsnip, be afraid…be very afraid. Exile has vowed to ramp up his one-man Twitter campaign. 

 

Yeah cos he’s getting no notice on RTG , putting it in Parsnip has killed him stone dead  he’s raging inside 

[et tu brute]

1 hour ago, GWN said:

 

Yeah cos he’s getting no notice on RTG , putting it in Parsnip has killed him stone dead  he’s raging inside 

Aye the obsessed fucker never posts on any other threads. I'm still convinced he's not actually a Sunderland fan and only posts about us on there as he's got a ready made audience. You don't post on only one thread on another team if you're an actual supporter. 

[John tolan]

11 hours ago, et tu brute said:

Gipetto and dangernonce also

Beware dangernonce mind, he's the bollox man !  Gippeto?  Just mind blowing that kid

 

[Chris_R]

2 hours ago, et tu brute said:

Aye the obsessed fucker never posts on any other threads. I'm still convinced he's not actually a Sunderland fan and only posts about us on there as he's got a ready made audience. You don't post on only one thread on another team if you're an actual supporter. 

 

There's definitely some bitterness in him which transcends football, there's some serious traumatic event in his past which has caused him to be like this. Probably walked in on his wife getting backscuttled by his neighbour whilst they were both wearing matching toon tops or something.

 

[Paully]

I'm gutted that I can't see their complete bitterness on our thread anymore mind!

 

Heaven help the ferkers if we even get to the Final never mind win it!

[Wandy]

5 minutes ago, Paully said:

I'm gutted that I can't see their complete bitterness on our thread anymore mind!

 

Heaven help the ferkers if we even get to the Final never mind win it!

 

Your not missing anything. The thread has gone dead, which is why Exile is so rattled. Taking the thread to Parsnip has resulted in exactly what he didnt want to happen....because any discussion about NUFC on the main board is now simply about the football.

 

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Wandy

[Abacus]

I see there's a new thread, worrying that in February there's a Newcastle game being televised at the same time as Sunderland.

 

He excitedly speculates that there might be 'bother' in pubs in 'mixed' areas (a rare admission that everywhere outside The Strawberry isn't actually 99% Sunderland then).

 

Very much looking forward to their Mag In The Pub tales if it happens.

[Scoot]

14 minutes ago, Abacus said:

I see there's a new thread, worrying that in February there's a Newcastle game being televised at the same time as Sunderland.

 

He excitedly speculates that there might be 'bother' in pubs in 'mixed' areas (a rare admission that everywhere outside The Strawberry isn't actually 99% Sunderland then).

 

Very much looking forward to their Mag In The Pub tales if it happens.

 

Most pubs have dodgy firesticks these days, I know my local does. They show us on 1 telly and the mackems on the other if we both kick off at 3pm. There's never been any bother.

[Paully]

33 minutes ago, Wandy said:

 

Your not missing anything. The thread has gone dead, which is why Exile is so rattled. Taking the thread to Parsnip has resulted in exactly what he didnt want to happen....because any discussion about NUFC on the main board is now simply about the football.

 

 

 

 

What was the reason behind it going to that forum?  It was by far the most popular thread on there?!

[Groundhog63]

2 minutes ago, Paully said:

 

What was the reason behind it going to that forum?  It was by far the most popular thread on there?!

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