Is it just us?

[Gil T Azell]

C'est, although your post was spot on I started looking for a noose I was that depressed

MrRAW, thanks for putting things in perspective.

 

[Nordic]

Judging success is entirely relative. As so many of you have said, its not about winning every week, or winning trophies, its about having a team you can be proud of and who you feel deserve your respect.

I've been a Toon fan all my life, I'm only 24, but have witnessed amazing highs (Beating Barca, Manure 5:0, CL runs, Cup runs and finishing as high as 2nd and 3rd in the league) along with some really depressing lows (Relegation, stupid managerial changes, blowing millions of mercenaries). The Championship season was probably one of the most feel good season's I've had. I was living in Belfast and had to struggle to find streams or radio links most of the time, and on the rare occassions we were on in the pub, I'd be one of a handful, if not the only Toon fan in there. But I didn't care, I was proud of the shirt I was wearing and the players wearing it too.

Being a football fan is illogical, its ridiculous and its painful. Whilst some people are lucky, and are born in the true 'catchment area' of the top teams - a stones throw from Old Trafford for example - most never get to taste the true feeling of unity and success when your team, your local team, defy the odds to win something of worth.

Fair play to Swansea, they did it after staring their own demise in the face 10 years ago, and did it in a style any football fan would be proud of. All I can hope for, is that I get to witness the same for myself...I'd hate to think I never see Newcastle lift a cup or win a league in my time, but even if they don't, I don't see that it'll be a true waste, 'cause few things have ever made me feel as genuinely ecstatic as that bastard club!

Sorry mate, but this did make me laugh..."some really depressing lows...............blowing millions of mercenaries"

I would imagine that would be pretty ****ing depressing.

 

[Big Bad Wesley Brown]

I agree Sunderland seem to be one of those "cursed" teams to support, but you have to remember it's all relative. Just like it boils my piss when I hear Chelsea fans going on about how miserable they are under Benitez, when they've got a Champions League trophy in their cabinet, my mate who supports Portsmouth can't stand it when I go on about us losing again to some average PL team when he's not even sure if he'll have a team to support in a month's time, and like my mate who supports Rangers and has to watch their massive club playing part-timers in the third division. Things could always be worse, even if it doesn't seem like that now.

 

[MrRAWhite]

I agree Sunderland seem to be one of those "cursed" teams to support, but you have to remember it's all relative. Just like it boils my piss when I hear Chelsea fans going on about how miserable they are under Benitez, when they've got a Champions League trophy in their cabinet, my mate who supports Portsmouth can't stand it when I go on about us losing again to some average PL team when he's not even sure if he'll have a team to support in a month's time, and like my mate who supports Rangers and has to watch their massive club playing part-timers in the third division. Things could always be worse, even if it doesn't seem like that now.

This is exactly my point..When we were a struggling 2nd tier team, I bet many of our teams would have said they would have been delighted to support our team in the top flight...However, just like Oliver Twist, our fans always seem to want more, and never seem to be satisfied...

 

[flandersmackem]

I pretty much feel the same as Cest....no matter what we do, what players we get in..what manager we appoint, at the end of the day..we are Sunderland AFC. So, its bound to go wrong.
My first game was back in 1968 and over the years I have witnessed so much ****e. To be honest, when I kick the bucket, I will find the cloud my dad is on, and kick the living **** out of him for introducing me to lifetime of this gut wrenching pain that is supporting this football club.
But you know what lads, thats what its about for me. No matter what happens to this football club, no matter what players we buy...I will ALWAYS support my team. I know MoN is not flavour of the month at the moment, but I still believe that this guy is the best manager we have had at the club in my lifetime. Hard to back that right now, but given enough time (which I doubt he will get) he will turn it around.

 

[Big Bad Wesley Brown]

This is exactly my point..When we were a struggling 2nd tier team, I bet many of our teams would have said they would have been delighted to support our team in the top flight...However, just like Oliver Twist, our fans always seem to want more, and never seem to be satisfied...

Exactly mate, despite this having been a ****e season we still have twice as many points as the 15 point team, so this is certainly not the nadir of our recent history like some people seem to be making out. Don't get me wrong though, it is still horribly depressing.