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Could we lose a generation of supporters to the Mags?

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To anyone with strong safc links through their parents or anyone living in Sunderland definitely not. The kids born in the various outposts of County Durham with ambivalent parents 100%. If you grow up liking football and have a choice of a local team would you choose the premier league team with loads of cash or the league one team getting humped off pub teams.
 
Paxton said:
The next 5 years will be a huge period of transformation for both clubs.

As things stand:

1) Newcastle are a club that appear to be on the rise. If they manage to stay up this season (which is now looking likely) they will be a spent force, throwing endless amounts of money at the hope of silverware. They will sadly become a big player in English football if the barbaric Saudis have their way. I can't see how this plays out badly for them; they have an endless pot of cash.

2) Sunderland are a club on the decline. We are breaking new records for all the wrong reasons, and reaching new 'lows' as the weeks go by. It looks like we will spend another season in the third tier, with most of our better players surely departing for pastures of new. Right now we find ourselves in a pretty precarious situation, and I don't see where it ends. The worst could be yet to come!

The sad and disconcerting point to consider is this - over the next 5 years or so do we risk losing a generation of younger fans to the Mags? Unfortunately I would say this is a real possibility.
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Perfect storm happening I reckon
 
There's some in marginal areas with no strong parental bias one way or the other who will definitely gravitate towards the more successful local team.
 
It'll be like the early to mid nineties all over again except probably worse, kids in black and white tops all over the city like herds of gravy stained zebra
 
Oli Wagkz said:
If you’re from Shiney Row and support the mags you need a slap
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Same as the Washington ones.

I know a handful personally who were actually born in Sunderland, have lived in Washington all their lives (late 20s/30s now) and support Newcastle. Absolute sad ******s.

Get riled up whenever you politely mention that Washington is within the City of Sunderland.

Shiney mind is unforgivable, same as the Durham ones but you could berate them weird ******s all day.
 
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Paxton said:
The next 5 years will be a huge period of transformation for both clubs.

As things stand:

1) Newcastle are a club that appear to be on the rise. If they manage to stay up this season (which is now looking likely) they will be a spent force, throwing endless amounts of money at the hope of silverware. They will sadly become a big player in English football if the barbaric Saudis have their way. I can't see how this plays out badly for them; they have an endless pot of cash.

2) Sunderland are a club on the decline. We are breaking new records for all the wrong reasons, and reaching new 'lows' as the weeks go by. It looks like we will spend another season in the third tier, with most of our better players surely departing for pastures of new. Right now we find ourselves in a pretty precarious situation, and I don't see where it ends. The worst could be yet to come!

The sad and disconcerting point to consider is this - over the next 5 years or so do we risk losing a generation of younger fans to the Mags? Unfortunately I would say this is a real possibility.
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Yes I raised this a while ago and depending on how South Shields do under Kevin Phillips we may lose some support to a non league outfit.
 
I think we will from the outskirts. We already have.

Sunderland will become a club like boro where very little support comes from elsewhere. Only ourselves to blame by being completely stupid
 
When we were in the old division 3 for a year in the late 80s, the majority of Sunderland supporting kids I went to school with also had a Division 1 team they preferred. It was normal to support Villa, Everton or Tottenham and SAFC.

Some went on to support their favoured division 1 team in adult life and turn their back on SAFC altogether. That's after only 1 year in this division. Kids from Sunderland now will have spent their entire formative years with their home town club in the lower leagues.

Its going to happen again unfortunately.
 
Definitely we lost out big time when John Hall took over hoyed money at it, and appointed KK.We Never recovered imho Number of knuckle draggers getting on the train at Durham station on a match day says it all
 
Aye we will. Realistically which youngun wants to go and watch Sunderland v Cheltenham Town / Gillingham / AFC Wimbledon when they could go and watch mags v man utd / city / Chelsea.

Basically the same as supporting Sundelrand over Hartlepool a few years back.
 
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I took my son to the SOL just after he was born and was surprised to find myself wondering why I would invite such a crushing source of disappointment into his young life. As he grew up I took him to matches with my dad, but he never developed any interest or enjoyment from the experience.

At the age of 5 or 6 he once tried to wind me up by cheering an NUFC win on the radio. Following a very rapid lesson-in-life, he's never done it since and is now aged 18 mercifully free from the curse of NE football. Its all about parenting...😉
 
Mule said:
I took my son to the SOL just after he was born and was surprised to find myself wondering why I would invite such a crushing source of disappointment into his young life. As he grew up I took him to matches with my dad, but he never developed any interest or enjoyment from the experience.

At the age of 5 or 6 he once tried to wind me up by cheering an NUFC win on the radio. Following a very rapid lesson-in-life, he's never done it since and is now aged 18 mercifully free from the curse of NE football. Its all about parenting...😉
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Lucky bassa.
 
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