Right. We are the Geordies..the loyalest football supporters, the world has ever seen. We'll support them ever more. Agreed? However, this is a great and proud football club and when this is what a Villa fan says about us: "The mood was lifted partly through watching a Newcastle so terrible that TST claimed to have seen better football from the away terraces at Forest Green. Dyer must be the whole team, because the rest of them were plain bad. I don't think that two passes in a row connected the whole game, and the shooting was causing the linesmen more trouble than James". I am sorry, but that smarts. I know they are a load of pointless part-timers who deserve to win bugger all but really....

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2001

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dougal

who cares what anyone else says about us?

It's about us. As a people. As a club. As fans. End of story.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

the Geordies..the loyalest football supporters, the world has ever seen

fair play to the ones who turned out on Wednesday...but where was the rest of the herd?....you even had to get in fans from Port Vale....lol

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

There were 3500 of us there. The largest away support Villa have had all season. Where were your herd at Fulham? Min - I care that we are a laughing stock despite the gates we get.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

WRONG Dougal......I saw what allocation you had on the telly.....the corner of Doug Ellis and Witton Lane was empty... BTW...Fulham?....5000+ Reds.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Were you there when Morecambe beat Forest Green?

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Morecambe?...I only lived there...never been a fan.

Anyway...I don't wanna get into this...Douggie valiantly defends the barcodes which is a good thing...even if she's wrong:-)

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

LR, I am right - we had a very good turnout. It was Villa who want to look closely at themselves. Anywhere, where the Mancs at Fulham?

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

How do you know what was allocated to us? We had 3500 there. No way were there 5000 Mancs there - you could see the barriers on the telly. About 2500 if that.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

The thing here is that we don't need band wagon jumpers as fans, it's so easy to support a side while it's on top, it takes big balls to support a side that was near extinction not 10 years ago and has won naught in many a season. Funny as it is though, LR constantly seems like he has to justify the facts on our BBS as if he's in direct competition with us. We know black and white is the lifeblood that bleeds within our souls, and we need not justify ourselves to any other supporter on our own turf.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Ok Dougal...U tell me where all our tickets went then?.....cos we sold out.

Naaaaa...you may have been offered that many briefs but you certainly didn't take 'em.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

But Sparxx...history shows that certain teams seem to lose a large percentage of their fans when times do indeed get hard....yours being one of them....so explain to me the bit about balls again....lol

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

But LR, when have you had a board that in the space of about 5 years sold players of the calibre of Waddle, Pedro and Gazza and replaced them with nowt? Look at NUFC.COM for a bit on this - we are second only to you for support since the beginning of Association Football. When we wouldn't sell Pedro to you in the late 80s, Alex Ferguson remarked that he couldn't believe we still had ANY fans so badly had we been abused by successive boards. Learn your facts, eh?

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Dougal....you can't be saying "learn your facts"...and using Fergie's comments as an example when I have not brought them into this discussion. What has the selling of good players got to do with your claims that (a)..U had 3,500 at Villa when it was plainlt obvious that this is incorrect, and (b) we had 2,500 at Fulham when we SOLD 5000+ tickets? :-)

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

oh LR.... your fickle fans are the model of what true fans should be? Certainly any team loses some of the fluff... but when it comes to being a real fan....well let's put it this way, you lot wrote the book on fluff.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

LR - we did have 3500 there. I know we did. My boyfriend supports Villa and asked their box office about how many tickets we sold. I also know you didn't have that many at Fulham - you could see the barriers ffs. I went to watch them play tranmere in the cup last year on the very same terrace and there were more tranmere. How many 50K+ crowds did you get when it 40 years since your last domestic trophy?

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Douggie...please don't goad me into an argument that you can not possibly win.

Boxing day we took our full allocation to Villa...and we were packed in....that corner I talked about was FULL....the other night it was empty. You didn't even have the whole of the Witton Lane end from what I could tell.

Fulham...yer wrong.....I don't know where you get your cheek from :-)

To answer yer question, we have had lots of 50K+ crowds...and this is PRIOR to the Golden 90's.

Some have it...others just tell the world they have :-)

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

>>>>>Douggie...please don't goad me into an argument

They can dish it out Dougal but they can't take it. :-)

Dougal, lets return to your first points and ignore the interruptions of an uncouth ignoramus. I would draw your attention to the remarks made by my Right Honourable Friend, the member for New Zealand in the answer he gave a few postings ago.

You should have been able to put your Villa mate down with consumate ease really. I mean, if we're SO bad, how come they could only scrape a 1-0 win with home advantage and the goal was a miskick?
>>>>Dyer must be the whole team
Erm, Dyer, Shearer, Nobby, Cort, Speed - that's HALF a team and they are all certain starters in our best XI. You'll have to learn to defend yourself pet - I guess watching the lads isn't the best training for that eh? :-)

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

LR, you're talking crap. Firstly, you never went 40 years without winning anything, secondly you have had only the rarest of visits to the lower divisions and thirdly, Manchester is a much bigger city than Newcastle. And you now carry 47000 more than turned up for Wimbledon in 1989. We have 40000 more than turned up for Oxford at home in that famous game that clueless Mancs always quote. In the meantime, you have won everything going. We have won nothing and show no immediate propsect of winning anything.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

Manchester has TWO teams....and anyway...we ain't from Manchester...R we?

lol

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2001