Match Atmosphere

[Benwell Lad]

Blaydon Races sang properly is great but in the old Leazes End, by far the loudest and greatest singing section we've ever had, You'll never walk alone was probably the most popular song, it was brilliant and of course back then the scousers hadn't retrospectively copyrighted it and decided to be offended by anyone else singing it.

My personal favourite was "In Newcastle's fair city" sung to the tune of Molly Malone with the unforgettable line "as she wheels her wheel barrow from Walker to Jarrow".

Best days ever and best place ever to be a Newcastle fan the old Leazes End.

[TheBrownBottle]

2 hours ago, TheGuv said:

I cut this together a few years back. I’ve been banging on about it for a good few years it seems…

 

I’d say you can start to hear it speeding up a bit by the early 90s but still wayyyyy better than the early 00s when I started going. 
 

 

I think that’s from the FA Cup match at Anfield in ‘84

[TheBrownBottle]

1 hour ago, Benwell Lad said:

Blaydon Races sang properly is great but in the old Leazes End, by far the loudest and greatest singing section we've ever had, You'll never walk alone was probably the most popular song, it was brilliant and of course back then the scousers hadn't retrospectively copyrighted it and decided to be offended by anyone else singing it.

My personal favourite was "In Newcastle's fair city" sung to the tune of Molly Malone with the unforgettable line "as she wheels her wheel barrow from Walker to Jarrow".

Best days ever and best place ever to be a Newcastle fan the old Leazes End.

The scousers are quite odd about it all.  It’s from a famous American musical, it’s hardly a local folk tune. 

[et tu brute]

I miss the little white bull, used to be class with the bloke in his butcher jacket standing on the terraces in the gallowgate (used to know his name but lost in my memory over time - Tommy is in the back of my mind)

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by et tu brute

[gotham town]

7 hours ago, et tu brute said:

I miss the little white bull, used to be class with the bloke in his butcher jacket standing on the terraces in the gallowgate (used to know his name but lost in my memory over time - Tommy is in the back of my mind)

 

 

 

 

Tommy Crane.

Sadly departed 2016 aged 70.

[TwoForJoy]

I did my first away of the season on Wednesday night. I was genuinely shocked by how bad the support was. The lads in front of us kept turning round in bewilderment when we were starting songs off. Not a peep out of them for 90 mins. As soon as the team came over at full time they came alive and it was all scarf waving and "who's that team we call United" Bizarre.

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by TwoForJoy

[TheGuv]

10 hours ago, Benwell Lad said:

Blaydon Races sang properly is great but in the old Leazes End, by far the loudest and greatest singing section we've ever had, You'll never walk alone was probably the most popular song, it was brilliant and of course back then the scousers hadn't retrospectively copyrighted it and decided to be offended by anyone else singing it.

My personal favourite was "In Newcastle's fair city" sung to the tune of Molly Malone with the unforgettable line "as she wheels her wheel barrow from Walker to Jarrow".

Best days ever and best place ever to be a Newcastle fan the old Leazes End.

What’s the lyrics to the Molly Malone version? Never heard of that but know Molly Malone well (more of an Irish rugby song generally)

[Lush Vlad]

13 hours ago, TheGuv said:

I cut this together a few years back. I’ve been banging on about it for a good few years it seems…

 

I’d say you can start to hear it speeding up a bit by the early 90s but still wayyyyy better than the early 00s when I started going. 
 

 

 

Still seems like 'ganning along the Scotswood road' is still being sung twice.  So that goes all the way back to the 80's?!

[jack j]

Just now, Lush Vlad said:

 

Still seems like 'ganning along the Scotswood road' is still being sung twice.  So that goes all the way back to the 80's?!

I've been going since about 2004 properly and it's always been sang that way since then (wrong)

[Dancing Brave]

 

[Paully]

Class! 
 

the old ones need brought back as has been mentioned - ‘Magpie Ranger’ used to be a good one! 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I don't understand how away crowds could be getting worse though, the same people have access to those tickets as they have for 20 years. Haven't they?

[Sima]

18 minutes ago, Dancing Brave said:

 

 

Just searched out the season review on YouTube on the back of this.

Never forget...

[Whitley mag]

Not sure what’s gone wrong but seems a lot of regular away day fans had their fill on Wednesday night it was so bad.

 

Sad times could understand if we’d been like City won trophies and been overrun with tourists, not sure that is the case but we’ve lost our passion and identity completely.

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Whitley mag

[bobbydazzla]

41 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I don't understand how away crowds could be getting worse though, the same people have access to those tickets as they have for 20 years. Haven't they?

 

I know plenty of very vocal away day lads who live outside of the NE, don't have ST's and rarely watched us at home but via the blackmarket network they'd get to loads of aways and had done for years

 

Lads like that are now are absent, unless the original ticket owner wants to risk being busted in a check

 

Was it fair they were getting blackmarket tickets ? Probably not

Have they been replaced by people who are just as vocal ? Sounds like they probably haven't

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[Boo Boy]

1 hour ago, Paully said:

Class! 
 

the old ones need brought back as has been mentioned - ‘Magpie Ranger’ used to be a good one! 

I raise you 'Geordie Aloeta'

[Paully]

35 minutes ago, Boo Boy said:

I raise you 'Geordie Aloeta'

 A wobbly tits!

[mattypnufc]

51 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

 

I know plenty of very vocal away day lads who live outside of the NE, don't have ST's and rarely watched us at home but via the blackmarket network they'd get to loads of aways and had done for years

 

Lads like that are now are absent, unless the original ticket owner wants to risk being busted in a check

 

Was it fair they were getting blackmarket tickets ? Probably not

Have they been replaced by people who are just as vocal ? Sounds like they probably haven't

 

 

 

 

Aye loads of lads (and a few lasses) used to go on the coaches and the coach organiser used to have a load of tickets for them, regardless of if they had ST's or not.  Shit building points up, but without them, our away ends would've been half empty during the the last decade before the takeover.   Those busses had some of the best radgies going, who were definitely more vocal than those who seem to attend certain games now thats for sure. 

[SteV]

3 minutes ago, mattypnufc said:

Aye loads of lads (and a few lasses) used to go on the coaches and the coach organiser used to have a load of tickets for them, regardless of if they had ST's or not.  Shit building points up, but without them, our away ends would've been half empty during the the last decade before the takeover.   Those busses had some of the best radgies going, who were definitely more vocal than those who seem to attend certain games now thats for sure. 

Which leads to the question, would people rather go back to those running the buses controlling a portion of the away allocation and effectively pushing points thresholds back up, in favour of perceived better atmospheres?

[Sima]

Yes.

 

Make away games great again.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Sima

[Groundhog63]

I must be missing something? Last time I looked, Eddie Howe and all the players were constantly praising our support. Both home and away. 

Daft cunts must be imagining the noise. 

[Paully]

10 minutes ago, mattypnufc said:

Aye loads of lads (and a few lasses) used to go on the coaches and the coach organiser used to have a load of tickets for them, regardless of if they had ST's or not.  Shit building points up, but without them, our away ends would've been half empty during the the last decade before the takeover.   Those busses had some of the best radgies going, who were definitely more vocal than those who seem to attend certain games now thats for sure. 

 

10000% this!

 

 

[mattypnufc]

1 minute ago, SteV said:

Which leads to the question, would people rather go back to those running the buses controlling a portion of the away allocation and effectively pushing points thresholds back up, in favour of perceived better atmospheres?

Another debate which has been done to death and can see both sides of the coin, however most who seemed to kick up a stink about it, irrc, were those who felt they were locked out of the big games (aka didn't want to do the hard miles when we were shit).  I do agree a portion of it should be 'random' mind to help those.  Or a bit like I mentioned in the members section around 'points' based on criteria - aka Wimbledon A on a weekday in the League Cup would score you more.  

[bobbydazzla]

15 minutes ago, mattypnufc said:

Aye loads of lads (and a few lasses) used to go on the coaches and the coach organiser used to have a load of tickets for them, regardless of if they had ST's or not.  Shit building points up, but without them, our away ends would've been half empty during the the last decade before the takeover.   Those busses had some of the best radgies going, who were definitely more vocal than those who seem to attend certain games now thats for sure. 

 

I've been on those buses and used those tickets, including a very lairy trip to Villa when @Paully was the ringleader of some peeve related carnage 

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by bobbydazzla

[Paully]

Just now, bobbydazzla said:

 

I've been on those buses, including a very lairy trip to Villa when @Paully was the ringleader in some peeve related carnage 

 

Guilty, your honour