Plastic Clubs

[toptoon]

Any action man doll who is a football fan, is a plastic.
Any Cindy or Barbie doll who likes football can also be known as a plastic.


Plastic can be fantastic and stretch like elastic when heated up.

Don´t forget Stretch Armstrong.

[ex_pat_magpie]

This is worth a look at for historical attendances.

https://www.nufc.com/html/where-general.html

[Kingstonbob1]

funny how we went from 18 k to sell out in a few weeks

Howay Pboro that’s completely wrong. I remember standing in the corner (right side of the metal fences they put half way down the middle). Stood with lads from Newbiggin Hall and Low Fell. We played Charlton (3-4 Watson og right at the end after leading 3-1 HT) 15663 gate (prior to that Bristol R 19329) before Keegans first game v Bristol C which was 29263 and it dropped away to about 23500 average for the other 7 home games incl Mackems 30k. That’s from NUFC ultimate record. I can give exact attendances for Tranmere, Brighton at home etc if it helps.

We were all feckn furious at all the newbies taking our space on the terrace and having to queue for 90 mins rather than 2/3 mins to get in.

[ASHLEY OUT]

Course we can call them plastic. If you read through its not about clubs being rich it's about the club's who lack history but have just had money thrown at them. You say we have decent football you are certainly not watching the same games as me. You also say we have decent spends, in this day and age we really have the opposite for a club our size. And who's saying we want the sort of takeover man city have had? All we want is to be taken over by somebody with an inclin of ambition, somebody who can give an actual Fu(k about the club and it's fans, somebody who will actually try and sign a couple of desperately needed players Rafa has been crying out for since he got here.

Great post, i wouldnt want a man city type owner i just want a owner that has alot more ambition than ashley which isnt hard seeing as he doesnt have one bit of ambition.

[trinitoon]

By this definition, I'd be happy for Newcastle to be draped in plastic.

This is a bit of a nonsense definition, if I'm honest. "Plastic" = money. All clubs have long-term devoted fans. And there are many "plastic" fans, who are more numerous with money and/or success.

Look at it the other way: our minimal plastic fan count is symptomatic of our near-irrelevance in recent football as our "real" fans cling to memories of yesteryear and try to obscure the view to our empty trophy cabinet from the last 50 years... ...save of course an Intertoto.

All the clubs listed have genuine fans too so not sure what is the problem with having tons of fans who just tag along for the ride.

[ASHLEY OUT]

By this definition, I'd be happy for Newcastle to be draped in plastic.

This is a bit of a nonsense definition, if I'm honest. "Plastic" = money. All clubs have long-term devoted fans. And there are many "plastic" fans, who are more numerous with money and/or success.

Look at it the other way: our minimal plastic fan count is symptomatic of our near-irrelevance in recent football as our "real" fans cling to memories of yesteryear and try to obscure the view to our empty trophy cabinet from the last 50 years... ...save of course an Intertoto.

All the clubs listed have genuine fans too so not sure what is the problem with having tons of fans who just tag along for the ride.

Its the likes of chelsea man city and psg, who have accumulated alot if fans since the take over, but if one of them went back to where they were before the take over, the fans wouldn't last 2 mins and would switch to another club. I seen a post on some website months ago was an American who used to support ac milan but now supports man city.... Thats the kind of fans those 3 clubs have.

[Stanleymag]

By this definition, I'd be happy for Newcastle to be draped in plastic.

This is a bit of a nonsense definition, if I'm honest. "Plastic" = money. All clubs have long-term devoted fans. And there are many "plastic" fans, who are more numerous with money and/or success.

Look at it the other way: our minimal plastic fan count is symptomatic of our near-irrelevance in recent football as our "real" fans cling to memories of yesteryear and try to obscure the view to our empty trophy cabinet from the last 50 years... ...save of course an Intertoto.

All the clubs listed have genuine fans too so not sure what is the problem with having tons of fans who just tag along for the ride.

So, let's use Sunderland as an example, when they were in our league.

48,000 capacity, circa 37,000 turning up.

We land and suddenly the other 8,000 turn up.

But they support Sunderland none the less. Are the 8,000 plastics.

[ghostrider]

Don´t forget Stretch Armstrong.

He's more a rubber supporter.