We are a 'small club'

What you are describing are successful clubs. Big clubs are not necessarily successful clubs. Think venn diagrams on this one. You are talking about the bit in the middle where the circles overlap.

 

Not really. There is no set definition of what a big club is. People use allsorts of different measurement tools for it, therefore I think the whole thing is absolutely pointless. Success is one angle. I could also pick out a number of clubs with a good stadium. I could pick out others with a successful youth system. I could pick out others with great infrastructure. There are others who have great financial backing.

I could not care less what people view Newcastle as, what matters to me is that I enjoy going to watch my team. I can't say that has been the case in recent years but things look a little more hopeful now.

I just cannot have us down as a big club in this country. I think there are 6 and that's it. They have all the pieces of the jigsaw. We have some of them but are missing quite a few. There are a number of clubs exactly like Newcastle in that regard. Until you are performing at the top end of the top table consistently - all the other stuff is nice to have, but it doesn't make you big. Don't get me wrong you need the other stuff too, but generally that comes along with it anyway. With performance comes the prestige that the rest of the football community recognise. As I say though that is just an opinion, as no one holds the right to say they know exactly what a "big club" is.

 

Not sure what difference it makes, but I think we are a big club. What we're not is elite.

That said if there's only two classifications of club (big and not big), then we're not big.

 

I think you're a big club, who doesn't ?

 

theres loads of things that denote a big club, its a non winnable argument really, theres been some good points, who would come to your club is another
I mean, a rich tea is a big biscuit compared to a gingersnap but compared to a wagon wheel no way
Cue biscuit argument

 

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.

 

You're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels

 

Biscuits and gravy ?

How unlucky surely he could at the very least be on a gravy train with pies for wheels

 

There will be no rail services today because some fat knacka ate the gravy train (biscuit wheels and all).

 

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Those crazy yanks eh, that isn't gravy.

 

I don't think anyone outside the most retarded of Sunderland fans would say we're a small club, however I don't think we're a big club, so can't we just have a fairly large category in the range ?

It appears there's only big clubs and at the other end of the spectrum small clubs with only dark matter in between in football for some reason I cannot understand.

 

Gravy on toast is lovely

 

It looks like cats vomit

 

Or Jizzwith diced Chorizo

 

You had that served up much?

 

Too salty