Newcastle United attendances !

Fuck me, you Sunderland fans need to get a grip! Why is it all you's go on about? Just support your team, and leave Newcastle to Newcastle fans ffs

This makes for intersting reading........

mackems
This is what we've unearthed on this lot so far. If you've got anything more,
give us a shout at attendances@nufc.com.

The year they won the First Division makes interesting reading:

mackems v Portsmouth
Division One 12/09/95
Attendance: 12,282

mackems v Crystal Palace
Division One 3/12/1995
Attendance: 12,777
(They went 2nd with a 1-0 win in this game)

mackems v Southend
Division One 9/9/1995
Attendance: 13,805

Of the 22 attendances in their promotion year, 17 of them were sub 20,000.

From a reader:

"In addition to the free tickets they need to fob off in the Metro, my mother who is a secretary at an Ovingham school, receives 10 free tickets every week to Sunderland FC (registered charity 546365756863452) matches. Nobody ever wants them so she just sends them straight back."

"When I was studying in York 2 years ago, they were trying to recruit mercenary fans by advertising on the side of buses there."

Their Hall of Shame....

League

mackems v Plymouth
Division Two 4/4/1989
Attendance: 8,003

mackems v Sheffield United
Division Two 11/04/1987
Attendance: 8,544

mackems v Shrewsbury
Division Two 22/4/1989
Attendance: 9,427

mackems v Plymouth
Division Two 14/03/1987
Attendance: 10,062

mackems v Oldham
Division Two 21/03/1987
Attendance: 10,250

mackems v Huddersfield
Division Two 24/01/1987
Attendance: 10,486

mackems v Millwall
Division Two 06/12/1986
Attendance: 10,665

mackems v Birmingham
Division Two 1/4/1989
Attendance: 10,969

mackems v Bristol C.
Division Two 17/12/1994
Attendance: 11,661

mackems v Tranmere
Division Two 5/3/1995
Attendance: 12,043

mackems v Leeds
Division Two 4/10/1988
Attendance: 12,671
Other

mackems v Barnsley
Full Members Cup 16/09/1986
Attendance: 6,904

mackems v Port Vale
Zenith Data 14/11/1989
Attendance: 7,035

mackems v Preston
Coca Cola Cup 23/08/1995
Attendance: 7,407

mackems v York City
Littlewoods Cup 26/08/1986
Attendance: 9,162

mackems v Millwall
Littlewoods Cup 4/10/1994
Attendance: 9,698




General

One of the unwashed wrote in to point out this:
"Try: 78,000 as the highest ever attendance in the north east at...ROKER PARK!!"

First off, that's just wrong. But it was good of him to point out that despite having a bigger ground they still had worse attendances....

- Newcastle United have been the better supported club over the last century. Barring the war years (ten) Newcastle have been the better supported club no fewer than 76 times, which is 56 more than Sunderland's 20.

- Newcastle's aggregate League attendance at St James' Park totals 58,500,000. Approaching TEN MILLION more than Sunderland's aggregate attendance.

- It is interesting to note that when Sunderland won the League Championship in 1901/02 and 1912/13, Newcastle had the higher average gates. In the latter case United only finished 14th yet their average gates were 7,000 higher than Sunderland's.

- Newcastle have finished as the Football League's best supported club on no fewer than 10 occasions, whereas Sunderland have never finished as the League's best supported club:

Man Utd 34;
Everton 13;
Arsenal 12;
Newcastle/Chelsea 10;
Aston Villa/Liverpool 7;
Spurs 6;
Man City 3.

- Between 1895 and 1934, a total of 39 years, Newcastle were the better supported club, compared to Sunderland's best sequence of 5 years between 1961 and 1966.

From a reader: "Premier League AFTER the footy boom 96-97. Could they fill 22,500 capacity Roker? Could they sh*te. New ground new fans. [They had five sub-20,000 league attendances that season. The previous season when they won the First Division 17 of the 22 attendances were sub 20,000.]. Oh, and some of the 86-87 season gates are well worth a look." [See above]

......a letter from an edition of True Faith: "I've long taken the piss out of an SMB I work with on account of the Mackems giving away thousands of tickets for their games. Now I have definite proof. The Metro's free paper (17/8/00) carried a competition for 2 free tickets. Because the papers are free I blagged 10 copies of them and the Mags at work all filled in the competition (dead hard question - who did the SMB sign from Everton in the close season?) Guess what? The very next day we ALL got phone calls from some bint at the SoS telling us we'd won tickets. The Mackem I work with (who has always denied the free ticket crap) was gutted. Top dogs, eh? Mebbee not. Frankie, Chester-le-Street."

These figures are from the Sunday Sun 1993-94

Best ever season
Newcastle 56,299 47/48
mackems 47,785 49/50
smoggies 36,123 50/51

Worst
Newcastle 16,835 90/91
mackems 13,600 86/87
smoggies 5,135 84/85

Post war average
Newcastle 33,133
mackems 28,357
smoggies 19,672

Top flight average
Newcastle 35,574
mackems 32,891
smoggies 25,165

Second flight average
Newcastle 28,252
mackems 23,701
smoggies 16,555

Ohh dear..

What next comeback ??

hahaha nd spurs fans are always singing give me a break, shite club, shite fans

harper your a fool, newcastle have more supporters sitting in one stand than sunderland have in their whole stadium

Bigger stadium perhaps?

And Sunderland do deals on tickets because they have to.

Re: Newcastle United attendances !

And all these are @ st james park ... ? i fuckin doubt it

Re: Re: Newcastle United attendances !

yes they all are! shite attendances arent they!

Just goes to show as soon as you's were doing well and got promoted your attendances shot up, just like Sunderlands did. So if you went down all the glory boys, which they are a lot of on this board, would stop going.

Simple!

Re: Re: Re: Newcastle United attendances !

Prove it ... whats your source ... ?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Newcastle United attendances !

http://tennis.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=0893&p=2&stid=8308545

THERE YOU GO JIMMY !

I have been 3 times i think, I go to lots of away games and went to most london games when i lived in Cambridge

This is RIDICULOUS!!!!!

Fact of the matter is, NUFC are ONLY getting this kind of support cos they have been etsblished in the top flight for a number of years now, have been in europe etc etc....

If they were in the 1st division and achievng none of this...it WOULD be a different matter.

Why can you accept this?!?!

Just like SAFC are getting poor (arguable maybe by todays 1st division standards) attendances in the 1st division, so would NUFC.

yes, they cant even handle losing a cup final, they go smashing there own city up !

Imagine if they got relegated fookin hell !

we have as good an away support as any in the league. We constantly sell out our allocations - last week we sold out 5000 for a Sunday cup game on TV - the furthest game we have to travel for. We outsing home fans at every ground.
At home we have sold out every game bar 1 this season - despite sitting in midtable for the last 10 years.

Will admit you raway suport was good at st james, better than most london clubs... Im just trying to get a bite from quick fix

Thats true for any club tho. :spangled:

yes including Newcastle thats our point, you grief Sunderland cos of there drop in attendances when you know fine well if wot has happened to Sunderland happened to Newcastle your attendances would be the same if not worse.

I know!!!

I said that further back up in this thread, or another...

A lot of Newcastle fans seem to think these 50,000+ crowds have always been the case, just trying to make em see sense....if they were in same situation as us (i.e. 1st division) those crowds would be a thing of the past.

THE BOTTOM LINE ...


Q: why do the mackems always moan about the toon ... ?

A: they wanna be as good as us & where we are ... SIMPLE AS

Conclusion: they wont so get over it ...

moan?

i think the word your looking for is SLATE !