Newcastle fans

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Fans of most clubs will have dark days, I bet Man U fans thought that they were going through dark days since Fergie retired. Newcastle have won one trophy in my lifetime and the validity of that one trophy is being debated on here. In that time and before you were bought out you won six as far as I’m aware. I'm aware you've had tough times and I have always defended your club and your fans.

Mick, it’s not ‘Fergie’, it’s GPC.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Can we give this arrest please.

Do Newcastle play in red NO, that`s one of the reasons I don’t hate them. Sometimes when they get together they can be gobby but so can any clubs fans, ours included.

 

[Mick_]

This is our point. In the season before that (1990-91) your average attendance was 16,879, you even had only 9,175 against Crewe that year. I think you have a fantastic support but unlike Manchester City you live in a one club city and your attendance drop when the going gets tough.

Our two lowest attendances were both against Wrexham during the same season. Both games were played in torrential rain and the first one was abandoned. https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Seasons/1978-79/ClubResults/1978-79.NewcastleUnited.html#:~:text=* The Newcastle v Wrexham Second,League crowd at the ground.

This is our ground at the time, both covered ends held about 6,000 between them because both paddocks were open to the elemants.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Fans of most clubs will have dark days, I bet Man U fans thought that they were going through dark days since Fergie retired. Newcastle have won one trophy in my lifetime and the validity of that one trophy is being debated on here. In that time and before you were bought out you won six as far as I’m aware. I'm aware you've had tough times and I have always defended your club and your fans.

Fair points, however most rags fans have no idea what dark days are, compared to what us City fans & you Geordies have been through.
Not getting into the CL is their understanding of 'dark days' and nothing like going down into the 3rd division. Or in your case, just escaping that fate. In my lifetime the only 'dark days' the rags have had were when they were relegated in 1974. Even then they bounced back straight away with Docherty's young exciting team. That's why many Blues of my generation cherish every moment of success we are getting right now and nothing is taken for granted.

 

[Mick_]

Fair points, however most rags fans have no idea what dark days are, compared to what us City fans & you Geordies have been through.
Not getting into the CL is their understanding of 'dark days' and nothing like going down into the 3rd division. Or in your case, just escaping that fate. In my lifetime the only 'dark days' the rags have had were when they were relegated in 1974. Even then they bounced back straight away with Docherty's young exciting team. That's why many Blues of my generation cherish every moment of success we are getting right now and nothing is taken for granted.

I don't remember much of their time in the second division other than seeing their fans on TV and in papers climbing on to roofs of some stands when they attended away games.

 

[TinFoilHat]

The things people do for likes.

 

[Indaparkside]

The things people do for likes.

They locked two lads up for setting off flares you prick not for nothing

 

[M18CTID]

Your last couple of lines aint great mate. Ashley was great compared to peter swales, we didnt stop going though.

No he wasn't. They were both shit. And let's be fair here - our attendances did drop off a fair bit in the period between the late 70s and early 80s so there were people out there who did stop going, as there are at every single club in the land when a team falls on hard times. That said, our league crowds never dropped below 15k even during some of the dark days in the 80s whereas Newcastle saw theirs drop to 10k for one game against Oxford in 1991.

 

[Bluesince1979]

No he wasn't. They were both shit. And let's be fair here - our attendances did drop off a fair bit in the period between the late 70s and early 80s so there were people out there who did stop going, as there are at every single club in the land when a team falls on hard times. That said, our league crowds never dropped below 15k even during some of the dark days in the 80s whereas Newcastle saw theirs drop to 10k for one game against Oxford in 1991.

Our crowds dropped in line with the decline of national football crowds. Unemployment and hooliganism had a huge impact.

We were 4th biggest supported club with crowds of 25,000.
Arsenal and spurs getting lower some years. Oh and we were in the 2nd div for large chunks of that period.

So yeah we did stop going, but only in line with the whole country

 

[M18CTID]

Our crowds dropped in line with the decline of national football crowds. Unemployment and hooliganism had a huge impact.

We were 4th biggest supported club with crowds of 25,000.
Arsenal and spurs getting lower some years. Oh and we were in the 2nd div for large chunks of that period.

So yeah we did stop going, but only in line with the whole country

I get that but I'm talking of the drop-off from a 40,000+ average to something like 27,000 in the space of 2-3 seasons

Either way, many Newcastle fans who were there on Saturday weren't even born when they were getting those low crowds in the 80s and early 90s so you can't exactly hold them responsible for not turning up back then