Plastic Clubs

[ghostrider]

Newcastle United have real fans. You can't be anything else because nobody is bandwagon jumping in terms of success hunters.
When you fill out a stadium under the way we perform and win nothing of honours, then you're as real as they come.

However, if this club ever gets in an owner who bankrolls it to such a degree where we have players earning 100/150/200/250 grand a week and we started to sit and flirt around the top 4 spots, you find that the genuine fans get edged out of the better seats to cater for the prawn sandwich brigade...or to put it more simpler....the success bandwagon crowd, leaving the real fans having to fork out a hefty sum for the less glamorous seats/areas.

This is when expectation rears it's ugly head when 5th is deemed failure, then 4th is deemed not trying if champions league qualification is quickly snuffed out early doors.

Basically the plastics demand more and more up high.... very high.... and will settle for nothing less than those highs and yet even flirting around them you would find the ground would not be full over time.

Once you're given steak and lobster meals with the trimmings, you're going to be hard pushed to accept gruel like most clubs have to accept due to the elites taking over the trophy hunting spots and the (almost) guarantee of success between them.

It would be nice to see Man City type football but if we all want it we cannot go and call other clubs plastic..and if we don't simply want that as a rule and just want decent football with decent spends, then we literally do have that...it's just finding a manager to actually implement it so we can be entertained and still play among the other also ran clubs outside of that elite or plastics or whatever name anyone wants to bestow upon them.