I see you've been in this morning so why are you lurking daily but haven't posted in over a week in here? Are you waiting until your safe and we don't go up?
Given I've shown the Mags were a nothing team prior to 1992 regarding league position (
LINK), let's go back to 10th April 1991. This is just before the 'Keegan' era and the big money was spent creating the '92er plastic Mag fan which are partially the reason why they are seen as deluded by other fans. Can you guess the attendance for this Division 2 (basically the Championship) game? A clue is that it wasn't even a 3rd of the capacity at the time. Yet you were going on about attendances when our times are crap? Someone hoyed the Jack Charlton video up yesterday and I saw this thumbnail and noticed the crowd looked packed!
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As you see, it was 10,004 so nearly 20,000 missing fans

If you'd gone down that season then there's no doubt you would have had some sub 10,000 crowds in Div 3. Our lowest attendance in Div 3 back in 87/88 was 11,379. Your average for 1990-91 was 16,879 when times were shite after your 1990 fail and we were in Div 1 that season so we can't compare. The season before 89/90 we averaged 17,777 and in 91/92 it was 18,390 so not as low as 16,879 you got in the season between.
If we had done anything like what you did in the 90's in the 2000's then the SOL would have been expanded to 60 odd thousand without doubt and probably full most games if we were up at the top challenging. Yet if you'd gone down in 1992 so Hall didn't bring in Keegan and didn't spend big then the term Geordie Nation probably wouldn't have appeared. Even after finishing 3rd in 89/90, within 1 bad seasons you were deserting a sinking ship given the average of just 16,879 in 90/91 and certainly showing you wouldn't have
supported the club through thick and thin
If you get relegated this season and don't come straight back up then expect crowds to be in the 20,000's and 30,000 empty seats if you aren't up the top challenging. Even being in the Premier League you had to give away 10,000 free tickets after getting 42 thousand against Southampton in Dec 2019. I would think twice before you talk about supporting the club through thick and thin. The mags would desert the lop sided tip faster than anything seen before if they got anything remotely similar to the seasons we've had over the years




:edit: thanks for the like Wolfbeard