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    Blackburn v Newcastle

    8,000 away fans there. Bout a 300 mile round trip on a cold Tuesday evening against a lower league club.
    Got to hand it to the Geordies. They do travel .

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    Aw c’mon, it’s the Shearer Derby

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Treseder View Post
    8,000 away fans there. Bout a 300 mile round trip on a cold Tuesday evening against a lower league club.
    Got to hand it to the Geordies. They do travel .
    Newcastle , Sunderland

    Football cities

    Absolutely obsessed with their club

    And it's all from up there, not like the plastic scousers and mancs from Surrey

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Newcastle , Sunderland

    Football cities

    Absolutely obsessed with their club

    And it's all from up there, not like the plastic scousers and mancs from Surrey
    I suspect if Newcastle had won the vast amount of trophies that Manchester United and Liverpool have done, they'd have the exact same sort of fanbase.

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    dull game

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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Kaiser View Post
    I suspect if Newcastle had won the vast amount of trophies that Manchester United and Liverpool have done, they'd have the exact same sort of fanbase.
    They would have an even bigger fanbase than they already have, obviously

    They are starved of success and still take thousands away

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    They would have an even bigger fanbase than they already have, obviously

    They are starved of success and still take thousands away
    True, but United have had average attendances over 50k and Liverpool over 40k as far back as the 1940s... I'm not sure the 'glory hunter' trend was really a thing then. So with or without glory hunters they'd have a huge following. So your initial point is a bit irrelevant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Kaiser View Post
    True, but United have had average attendances over 50k and Liverpool over 40k as far back as the 1940s... I'm not sure the 'glory hunter' trend was really a thing then. So with or without glory hunters they'd have a huge following. So your initial point is a bit irrelevant.
    The fact that Newcastle and Sunderland have had scant success compared to Liverpool and Man U makes their attendances more impressive, wouldn’t you say ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Treseder View Post
    The fact that Newcastle and Sunderland have had scant success compared to Liverpool and Man U makes their attendances more impressive, wouldn’t you say ?
    Or perhaps relfects on others things like the lack of other things to do, the need to do at least 1 fun thing and the rivalry that exists between the cities way beyond football that has been handed down trough generations and football giving it a vent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Treseder View Post
    The fact that Newcastle and Sunderland have had scant success compared to Liverpool and Man U makes their attendances more impressive, wouldn’t you say ?
    That's what I would say

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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Kaiser View Post
    True, but United have had average attendances over 50k and Liverpool over 40k as far back as the 1940s... I'm not sure the 'glory hunter' trend was really a thing then. So with or without glory hunters they'd have a huge following. So your initial point is a bit irrelevant.
    They had SOME attendances over 50 and 40 k

    But so did Newcastle

    They are an enormous football club given their relative lack of success and their geographical position

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    They had SOME attendances over 50 and 40 k

    But so did Newcastle

    They are an enormous football club given their relative lack of success and their geographical position
    Is this the enormous football club that twice lost around 20% of its crowd after relegation to Division 2 in the 80s/90s? In fact, from 1976 to 1981 crowds halved as Newcastle went from 5th in the top division to bottom half in Div 2.

    However their crowds since the early 90s have been phenomenal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    Is this the enormous football club that twice lost around 20% of its crowd after relegation to Division 2 in the 80s/90s? In fact, from 1976 to 1981 crowds halved as Newcastle went from 5th in the top division to bottom half in Div 2.

    However their crowds since the early 90s have been phenomenal.
    Keegan (twice) certainly had a hand in their crowd revival. Their crowds certainly dipped in the Keeganless years between his time as a player, then manager. 16,000 average in 90/91.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    Is this the enormous football club that twice lost around 20% of its crowd after relegation to Division 2 in the 80s/90s? In fact, from 1976 to 1981 crowds halved as Newcastle went from 5th in the top division to bottom half in Div 2.

    However their crowds since the early 90s have been phenomenal.
    Well as you know crowds before italia 90 were poor

    Our crowds in the late eighties and some of the 1990s were sometimes around 2500

    Newcastle even with crowds of 18000 absolutely dwarfed us

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Well as you know crowds before italia 90 were poor

    Our crowds in the late eighties and some of the 1990s were sometimes around 2500

    Newcastle even with crowds of 18000 absolutely dwarfed us
    Their first Premier League season their average was 33,000 and they sold out once. We were floundering then and can hardly be compared.

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    Their first Premier League season their average was 33,000 and they sold out once. We were floundering then and can hardly be compared.
    The Premier league took several years to get going

    Newcastle are a massive club by anyone's standards

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    I’ve a soft spot for Sunderland.
    “The Mags” have always seemed to be very entitled to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Newcastle , Sunderland

    Football cities

    Absolutely obsessed with their club

    And it's all from up there, not like the plastic scousers and mancs from Surrey
    Oh Jesus. This Again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Oh Jesus. This Again?
    Like Groundhog Day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Newcastle , Sunderland

    Football cities

    Absolutely obsessed with their club

    And it's all from up there, not like the plastic scousers and mancs from Surrey
    3 people I grew up with supported Newcastle from childhood, another lad I was in school with has supported Sunderland since he was a nipper, there's a couple of Wolves fans known in the area. Not very glory hunting mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Oh Jesus. This Again?
    It never stops.

    Self appointed bastion of football fandom criticising others for not supporting their local club.

    His local football league club would be the Jacks mind.

    Apologies Sludgey.

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    Idiot that I am, I clicked on this thread expecting to find out who won

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    Well if they are taffies then that's odd and they deserve stick , not praise

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jordi Culé View Post
    It never stops.

    Self appointed bastion of football fandom criticising others for not supporting their local club.

    His local football league club would be the Jacks mind.

    Apologies Sludgey.
    That's stretching it beyond reasonable geographical boundaries

    I mean Liverpool and Manchester are 200 miles from South Wales , its fantasy armchair football

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    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    Idiot that I am, I clicked on this thread expecting to find out who won
    I thought the game was a bit boring but match of the day were having kittens

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