Sgt Pepper
Striker
This. The Colliery is more Mags though. It's full of the scruffy plastic twats. I used to gan out with a lass there years ago (no and she was rough but dorty) and I remember being in a pub watching an SAFC match on Sky (McCarthy era in Championship). Think it might have been Wheatsheaf? Anyway, opposition scored and a load of plastic Mag twats celebrated only for one mental nutter from Hylton Castle (I'd been sitting near him) to stand up and crack one of the gobby Mags with a class hook. Made my day at the time.![]()
Wheatsheaf is more of a Sunderland pub isn't it? I've saw a picture of a Sunderland flag up in there and it's just over the hill from Downhill. Can't really speak for the Colliery as I don't know that area well.
Can that 'statto' pull up figures where Sunderland have higher average attendances than us for the majority of our collective existences?
No? Thought not.
All this talk of 'plastic mags' and 'they never go' doesn't bear fruit in our respective attendance figures, does it?
You've got more supporters as there's more bigger and populated areas that are Newcastle strongholds in the North East than there is Sunderland due to traditional catchment areas, so your % of "plastics" or casual fans will also be higher as a result. Outside of Sunderland and East Durham there aren't really any other SAFC strongholds I can think of, whereas Newcastle has got Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland and most parts of West Durham. Areas in the middle like South Tyneside, Washington and centre Durham tend to be split down the middle near enough.