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« Reply #60 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 15:24:25 » |
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One for Pullen here...is Newcastle v Plymouth, the longest journey in the league structure?
I'll be doing Newcastle Resident to Exeter City (Swindon fan) this coming season. That's far enough! |
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« Reply #61 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 15:51:52 » |
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Plymouth to Newcastle = 409 miles
Brighton to Carlisle = 362 miles
Torquay to Darlington = 352 miles
Gillingham to Carlisle = 348 miles
Exeter to Carlisle = 346 miles
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« Reply #62 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 16:38:42 » |
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Plymouth to Newcastle = 409 miles
Brighton to Carlisle = 362 miles
Torquay to Darlington = 352 miles
Gillingham to Carlisle = 348 miles
Exeter to Carlisle = 346 miles
What's Plymouth to Carlisle...must be the other possibility, my instinct tells me that they're both on the west side of the country, so it must be Plymuff/Newcastle. |
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« Reply #63 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 16:40:56 » |
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What's Plymouth to Carlisle 390 miles. |
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« Reply #64 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 16:43:27 » |
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This is the water.
And this is the well.
Drink full and descend.
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
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« Reply #65 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 16:49:23 » |
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390 miles.
Cheers, so it'll be interesting to see how many of the self styled "best fans in the world" make the journey on a Wednesday night in Feb. |
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« Reply #66 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 17:45:13 » |
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Villa fans had a banner "Who's your next messiah then - Ant or Dec?"  [url width=586 height=390]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6892/newcastlesrelegationasth.jpg[/url] |
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« Reply #67 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 17:55:07 » |
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They did win the league that season, the previous season they averaged 21,000 in a modest season in the second tier...not bad, twice as many as us, but less than both Sheffield clubs, Forest and West Ham.
In other words Newcastle fans are no different to the fans of all clubs.
Interesting. As an aside, how many were Man United averaging before Cantona turned up? |
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« Reply #68 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 18:15:56 » |
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TBF ManUre have been consistently the best supported side in terms of numbers, for many years. Take as an example 89/90, pre Cantona, but with Ferguson in charge, Liverpool won the league with ManUre well down the table. Liverpool averaged 36000 ManUre 39000..next best Arsenal 33000.
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« Reply #69 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 18:47:26 » |
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TBF ManUre have been consistently the best supported side in terms of numbers, for many years. Take as an example 89/90, pre Cantona, but with Ferguson in charge, Liverpool won the league with ManUre well down the table. Liverpool averaged 36000 ManUre 39000..next best Arsenal 33000.
Didn't they also have the biggest average home attendance in the season they spent in Div 2 in the 70's? |
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« Reply #70 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 20:07:51 » |
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Freddie Sheppard reckoned the Football League was shite and the Premier League was the place to be.
Not so fucking clever now you cunt!
I dont know. He could probably buy them back for a fraction of what he sold it for. |
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« Reply #71 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 20:12:29 » |
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One thing to bear in mind when comparing attendances is the ground capacities for the big clubs over the years. Old Trafford holds a lot more than it did in the early 90's, same for Arsenal (new ground), Newcastle and quite a few others. So a lot of clubs would have had higher attendances if their grounds were bigger.
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« Reply #72 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 20:20:25 » |
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One thing to bear in mind when comparing attendances is the ground capacities for the big clubs over the years. Old Trafford holds a lot more than it did in the early 90's, same for Arsenal (new ground), Newcastle and quite a few others. So a lot of clubs would have had higher attendances if their grounds were bigger.
That only really applies in the early-mid 90's though. Post Taylor report. Those 89-90 attendances were well under their respective grounds capacities. |
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« Reply #73 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 20:30:39 » |
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Partly because the 80's was one of the worst in English football for crowds (or best if you prescribe to the wisdom that it is a halcion period for atmosphere). Thousands of people stopped going and were not replaced for over a decade. Grounds were rotting, fences made some people feel like they were at the zoo, fans were beyond jovial taunting and in full out war with each other. Our crowds, which did coincide with a bit of a bad period at the start of the 80's were extremely low and once back out of the bottom flight we seem to be one of the clubs not quite able to bring them back in significant numbers.
Oddly, this was the time I began watching and I loved being there, but I can see why it was such a low point for crowds on the whole.
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« Reply #74 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 20:31:20 » |
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That only really applies in the early-mid 90's though. Post Taylor report.
Those 89-90 attendances were well under their respective grounds capacities.
Correct the season ManUre had 39,000 the capacity was 52,000 |
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