Where yer from ? East Durham...isn't that one of our colonies, why yer can't even support your local team yer sad little fecka. What did yer do..start jumpin on the bandwagon when Supa Kev signed...lol
Oh and that extra 4 makes ALL the difference!! Attendance banter - well Tyneside has a population 3 times that of Wearside and yet your average attendance last season wasn't 3 times our average attendance and was also over 3000 less than your capacity - how's that possible?
Well it does actually because it's 47 fans more than Sunderland who have watched their club play in Europe. Let's us tell you because you obviously don't know due to never having the opportunity to travel to competitive European away matches, it's costs quite a penny. As for Tyneside being 3x larger in population, that all depends on which source you use to get your statistics as the Census includes Washington, Houghton-le-Spring and others within Tyneside's boundaries which I'm sure the vast majoirty of the residing population would strongly disagree. It also doesn't include as part of Wearside, Seaham and other surrounding settlements. A true reflection shows Wearside to be larger in area but as much as makes no difference, less populated. But if you want to use your statistics I'm happy because Tyneside therefore is larger than Wearside which by proper population statistics Tyneside has less population per square mile. More people will reside in larger areas of land. What all of this has to do with peoples willingness to attend football matches, I do not know! I'm sure like most football fans, colours run in the family and just because I don't reside on Tyneside doesn't mean I don't have family connections.
Ah I see so we didn't play in the cup winners cup in 1973/74 did we??? By the way - The CWC in 73/74 was MUCH MORE competitive than the game you played on Thursday evening
Making a tit of yourself Toontastic, your original comments stated that the 47 fans were 47 more than Sunderland have ever had, yet this comment states that we've played 2 away games in European competition (and this was also as a 2nd division side) so yopur 47 fans more than Sunderland have EVER had watching us in european competition away from home is bollocks - particularluy as my Dad went to both of our away games in 73/74 season in a coach, part of a 5 coach party, each with over 45 people on them - learn your facts before posting your ****e
Leave Toontastic alone lads.........you know he's a tit! He will start to cry (like he did on another post) if you ridicule him and will tell his mammy
Aye well, you've trumpted me there like.....lol. I can't believe I forgot you won the FA Cup in '73. I mean it's all you lot bang on about....
I sense the sarcasm so I'm assuming you mean the 1 club per city ruling....lol We might have got in the back door but we walked out the front....
Anyway, we've both got hardly anything to boast about in recent history. Football is very much a money making business. Trophies are meaningless nowadays. It's all about money, winning money and expanding revenue streams via European ventures. Of course a trophy would be lovely but give me regular top 6 finishes all day long. There's no better feeling but yet again you don't know what that feels like either.
I actually feel a slightly sorry for Newcastle fans, and anyone else who has qualified for the Europa Cup in recent years..The powers that be have made a mockery of this in recent years, resulting in lots of games involving teams that would struggle in our lower leagues..They then have the failures from the Champions League (Champions: that's a bloody joke as well) dropping into the Europa at a later date, which in my opinion has helped to degrade the Europa even further to a second rate competition.. I think that the best solution would be to return to the three competitions with a Champions League and Cup Winners Cup for teams who have actually won domestic trophies, and a Europa Cup for the nearly men: eg, the runners up and in England's case, the League Cup winners as well. I'm sure that many people will disagree with this, but there you go eh!
So toontastic you'd rather finish 6th than finish 8th or 9th and win the FA Cup??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Yes, like I said a trophy would be nice but football is about progression and you don't get progression by winning a cup. See Boro, Pompey, Birmingham etc. Progression = Money = Success and so on
There were 800 tickets on sale here yesterday (which is very unusual) and the word was that they were returns from Sunderland. We will be able to tell on Saturday as we always allocate 2000 seats to away fans in the Prem. I wasn't having a pop at Sunderland because you are one of the best supported Clubs in the country
You could always remind us about your last trophy win in FA Cup? Any pictures though would be in grainy black and white images. We can still do our in colour.
