Where were NUFC fans before 1992?


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You'll know the answer. Tell me why I think I have been in an 8000 crowd for a league game.fairly certain Atkinson was playing for a clue to era. also think it was against Plymouth.

It was a night game raining heavily and it was Brian Atkinsons debut IIRC.He also had the ball in the net at one point but it was ruled out for some reason.
For some reason I remember this.
 
Loads will have been like that and it is what it is, I have no real problem with it I just find it ridiculous this whole 92er shite when we were guilty of the same upsurge if not more due to the new stadium. Whatever attracts more through the turnstiles can only be a good thing really.
Exactly mate & 23 years later these fans are still "plastic" apparently!
 
Genuine question. Were they people just not that interested in football before Sky and Keegan sexed it up for them, or were there loads of traitors from around the North East that defected?

They've always had a bigger following than us, bar the odd year.

So, pointless thread.

I know a shit load of people who weren't interested in SAFC during the late '80s, early '90s who became season ticket holders at some point round the Reid years.

I know loads of lads from Shiney who turned in 92 I went to the the FA cup semi final with with two lads a year later were going to Newcastle and there were loads of lads who used to on the coach my grandad used to run who turned as well

Must be some strange f***ing place that, mate.

I don't know anyone who started following Newcastle, but I do know people who never went to SAFC mid '80s to mid '90s who started showing an interest under Reid.

You wanna move out of that f***ing place mate, sounds like an idiots paradise.
 
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They've always had a bigger following than us, bar the odd year.

So, pointless thread.

I know a shit load of people who weren't interested in SAFC during the late '80s, early '90s who became season ticket holders at some point round the Reid years.



Must be some strange f***ing place that, mate.

I don't know anyone who started following Newcastle, but I do know people who never went to SAFC mid '80s to mid '90s who started showing an interest under Reid.

You wanna move out of that f***ing place mate, sounds like an idiots paradise.

Weren't all from Shiney but there was loads that done it I moved out of Shiney about 15 year ago I also know people who had no interest in football all of a sudden they were black and white hardcore
 
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Facts are in my signature fellas. 15 years either side of the 'watershed moment' in the uplift (our formation vs your stadium move)

f***ing 1997ers.

You've gone to the trouble of comparing relative attendances then putting them in your signature as some sort of attempt at saying Sunderland fans after 1997 are glory hunters or something?

You sad bastard.
 
You'll know the answer. Tell me why I think I have been in an 8000 crowd for a league game.fairly certain Atkinson was playing for a clue to era. also think it was against Plymouth.
88-89 in a very windy game by any chance ?
 
Old age definitely creeping in. Hardly missed a game from the sixties till the mid nineties when I worked away. Missed two at the SOL
Can I hell remember them with as much detail as others can.
Remember getting beat in the freezing cold, or sometimes soaked to the skin at a few night matches but still turning up the following game but that's about it
Man City 73, the greatest game I have ever witnessed at Roker park and the Gatesy, Gabbidini goals at St James Prk are vivid.
 
Genuine question. Were they people just not that interested in football before Sky and Keegan sexed it up for them, or were there loads of traitors from around the North East that defected?
They were people who had either little interest in football or people who had a mild interest in other teams (ie Liverpool, Sunderland, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Boro etc).

I grew up in a mixed village that literally exploded with Nufc fans from 1992 onwards. All lads whose fathers had little to no interest in football, all the Sunderland fans had it passed on through generations.
 
It was a night game raining heavily and it was Brian Atkinsons debut IIRC.He also had the ball in the net at one point but it was ruled out for some reason.
For some reason I remember this.
If this is the one im thinking of it was lashing down and at half time those in the Roker End went in the Clockstand seats out of the rain. Sure it was the lowest crowd for a League game ever?
 
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Couldn't sell out Roker Park in a 22000 capacity stadium in the Premier League and then we were getting 35,000-40,000 a lot of games the season after.
Ha ha it literally took only a few posts before one of our own came along to deride our own support :lol:

Beyond belief this place:rolleyes:
 
Durham mags.

Remember when Hall moved the training regime to Maiden Castle ? All part of his scheme to make scum barca of the north

:p
Ha ha it literally took only a few posts before one of our own came along to deride our own support :lol:

Beyond belief this place:rolleyes:

So its ok to slag the mags for doing exactly what we did ?? Fkn hell, I despise them as much as most, but to try and take the moral high ground is just embarrassing.

First season I started going to Roker was 69-70, we had the third lowest average crowd in the division - 21,790. Only Ipswich & Burnley had less. The Mags were up at 37,500.
You picked a great season to start - relegated for the second time:rolleyes:
 
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I'm just commenting on how our upsurge in numbers through the turnstiles coincided with a nice new stadium.

Aye because you could fit 45k into Roker Park in the 80s & 90s couldn't you :rolleyes:

What a **** you've been on this thread.

Only on here could a new thread be created mocking the mags [laughable] pre1992 support, and within a few posts turn into 5 pages of online self mutilation - unreal.

I'm just commenting on how our upsurge in numbers through the turnstiles coincided with a nice new stadium.

Aye because you could fit 45k into Roker Park in the 80s & 90s couldn't you :rolleyes:

What a **** you've been on this thread.

Only on here could a new thread be created mocking the mags [laughable] pre1992 support, and within a few posts turn into 5 pages of online self mutilation - unreal.

It's true though. Not selling out Roker that year was poor.
We did sell out some games? Why are we so keen and desperate on here to bash our own levels of support? Its weird as fuck. You never hear of mags drawing attention to their pre 1992 gates or their shit cup numbers.

But on here people thrive on it like they have some kind of morbid self loathing complex.
 
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Aye because you could fit 45k into Roker Park in the 80s & 90s couldn't you :rolleyes:

What a **** you've been on this thread.

Only on here could a new thread be created mocking the mags [laughable] pre1992 support, and within a few posts turn into 5 pages of online self mutilation - unreal.



Aye because you could fit 45k into Roker Park in the 80s & 90s couldn't you :rolleyes:

What a **** you've been on this thread.

Only on here could a new thread be created mocking the mags [laughable] pre1992 support, and within a few posts turn into 5 pages of online self mutilation - unreal.


We did sell out some games? Why are we so keen and desperate on here to bash our own levels of support? Its weird as fuck. You never hear of mags drawing attention to their pre 1992 gates or their shit cup numbers.

But on here people thrive on it like they have some kind of morbid self loathing complex.

We sold out four or five of the games iirc. Unless you're living in some sort of North Korean mindset where everything is mint those gates were poor by our standards. And I was at every one before you call me a Mag....
 
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