Is this the lowest we've felt as NUFC fans?

It is for me. We are god awful and I dread match days like I dread tinned tuna round my nan's.

 

Not for me.

1979/80 Top of the table and miles clear, favourites for promotion at Christmas, then got knocked out of the FA Cup at home to Chester and barely won another game all season to finish mid table. Bill McGarry as manager and St James without a roof, half empty and barely any atmosphere.

 

Before Keegan was ****e

 

I've seen worse.

 

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I was 12 at the time and this was a bleak period for the club. The political machinations of Gordon Lee ripped the was so destructive and things fell apart so quickly from 1977 - from 5th in the First Division and a club whose history was second to none, to a mid-table Second Division team with average attendances of a little over 16,000. Unemployment and inflation was sky high and the club had never been at a lower ebb. On the pitch, the only bright sparks I can think of were the ephemeral partnership of Peter Withe and Alan Shoulder, John Brownlie and the return of Terry Hibbitt. Desperate times until KK arrived.

 

I loved John Brownlie. He always used to chat with the crowd during the game

 

T.

Also the season Keegan took over but just before he arrived. That was desperate.

 

Was a very young Ian Rush playing for Chester that day?

 

For a couple of years the best player here until he had an awful injury and his career at the club was all but over.

 

He was!!

 

Civil war orchestrated by The Chronicle and their benefactor, Hall.

 

That's a hard one, but after five relegations, crowds as low as 8,000, I suspect I've seen a lot worse.

 

No, but it's going to reach new levels when we get relegated and don't come back up.. Ashley will restructure the club to run on championship money

 

So you’re to blame, is this what you’re saying?

 

No cos I don’t really feel anything for Ashley’s club, it’s just an inconvenience I occasionally look at with a small sense of loss and large dose of amusement.

 

I take full responsibility, I dont mind.
What's another relegation, take it on the chin and get back up.
When you think about it, we tend to get relegated at least once per decade, so we may as well get this one done and dusted early.

 

Sadly this.

It's easy to look back at the Keagan era as the best we've played in my life (and it was) but it was also the most pain I've felt as missing out.

Now I feel almost nothing. I guess I'm in a very good place, if we did well I could get enjoyment out of it but I'm emotionally braced for relegation and obscurity and the real sadness is that it doesn't even come close to making me sad.

 

I am the same but can't work out if it is an age thing or just having all enthusiasm bled out of us by the way the club is run. Maybe we just see things in better perspective as we get older? I know my dad was the same. When I was little a defeat used to ruin his week, but as he got older it never had the same impact.

 

I'm 25, I couldn't give a **** when previously a misplaced pass used to make me angry, I don't even bother watching the full game if I think we're gonna lose.

After we conceded against Utd, I knew simply by our reaction the game would end 3-1, just turned it off.

It's not my club lol, I used to be fanatical. Now I reckon I could quite happily start supporting City, Chelsea or some other glory hunting club. Who cares.

It's how it's ran, he's absolutely decimated the fanbase, I don't even feel like we have any fans now. The place was emptying before COVID, ffs.

 

I could never switch allegiance. I'm not as fanatical as I used to be, but whatever support I have will always go to Newcastle.