Quote Originally Posted by toptoon View Post
I think that’ it. Decades of receiving our supporters in your own ground once a season. Seeing and hearing them and thinking ‘Why TF are they so loud, they’re sh*t and won f*ck all ever?’
Some admit it is the best support in the country but most won’t bring themselves to and so resent it instead.
The epitome of real fans; genuine fans.

We have suffered; in my life time of 40 yrs, I have seen us win nothing. I have enjoyed the entertainers; my first match (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaeiOlYdd4o - just found the highlights) a 4-0 thrashing at Southend.

My grandad reassured me that it wouldn't get any worse. There were equally sh!tty performances haha.

I wasn't bothered, the language, the chants, the humour of the travelling fans had me hooked.

I've sat in the old stands before the Hall/Sheppard regeneration getting lashed with Hail stones whilst watching us taking a drubbing, clogging it about on a SJP quagmire.

I have loved every minute, the freezing toes, the old boy chain smoking roll-ups in front of me, travelling hours and hours, cancelled trains, motorway delays, european nights, laughing so hard beer shot out my nose, sing and shouting until I lost my voice.

What it means to be a Geordie, what it means to be born of this tribe.

Geordie-Saud when two tribes combine to go to war with the rest of the world!