The Mags Must dislike Us more than the Deck chairs
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Boro_Interlinked
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were you stood too near with your back to the Shire horses ?
clay
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clay
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And they double-down on it by saying that everyone else would do the same in their position.
I can honestly say that if Steve Gibson was a child killer who assassinated journalists, I'd stop supporting Boro. Controversial, I know, but then I'm a bit of a woke liberal snowflake.
Norman_Conquest
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Sadly, not all football fans are like minded and are very fickle when it comes to their football club. I wonder how many of our fans would look the other way and jump on the bandwagon.
Like you, I know I would struggle to support us.
atypical_boro
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Well at absolute worst surely all fans would say “I support the club not the chairman”, but they don’t even say that. Majority of them are lapping this regime up like they’re the kings of the universe, purely because they spend more on the team than Mike Ashley did.
Thing is , despite some of their vocal supporters and Sunderland’s going out of their way to tell us they don’t care about us, their actions suggest otherwise . You get the **** taken out of you if they find you’re a smog in the Tyne and Wear area (along with Durham) and no harm in a bit of banter . Not that it really matters anyway , at the end of the F***ing day I just want boro back in the premier league where we belong and doing well .
Which is why I find it perplexing some of our fans focus on Leeds so much . A club that genuinely doesn’t care about us and has all the Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs to focus on . Most Leeds fans down here look on boro white favourably
To me , the rivals have always been Newcastle and Sunderland and them alone. They obviously focus on each other in the main , but there is definitely a spicy vibe to them when we play them . I mean you can hear mackem fans chanting “we hate boro “ even when we’re not F***ing playing them
Which is why I find it perplexing some of our fans focus on Leeds so much . A club that genuinely doesn’t care about us and has all the Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs to focus on . Most Leeds fans down here look on boro white favourably
To me , the rivals have always been Newcastle and Sunderland and them alone. They obviously focus on each other in the main , but there is definitely a spicy vibe to them when we play them . I mean you can hear mackem fans chanting “we hate boro “ even when we’re not F***ing playing them
GazBoro
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Next time you see a skunk walking around wearing their kit, tell him his shirt is covered in blood.
GazBoro
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Yep, and let them never forget that over 100,000 of them signed a petition to put pressure on the government to allow the Saudi take over.
parmoboy
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Yeah, it could be an age thing but I'm honestly not that bothered about Leeds.
Always a tasty atmosphere whenever we play them but I think that's down to their fans' reputation above anything else. Think there's probably near enough a tasty atmosphere regardless of who they play.
Sunderland have always been different. I always look out for their result and love it when they lose. The fact some of their fans try to play down the rivalry just makes me dislike them even more. They can say we're desperate to create a rivarly all they like but I do genuinely dislike them intensely.
I felt the same about Newcastle at one time but have felt that less over the years. It's probably because it's been that long since we've played them but I'd imagine that will change if we start playing them again.
Rofesleg
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I don't think that's correct.
We played Leeds 6 times in the top flight in the 70s with an average crowd of 29.0k.
We played Newcastle 4 times with an average of 30.7k.
We only played Sunderland once in the top flight (1976/77), with a crowd of 28.3k.
The game against Leeds that season had a crowd of 24.6k.
The Newcastle crowd was 26.0k.
On a tangent, when checking this I realised that we haven't played Leeds in a cup competition since 1963.
| SEASON | DIV | AV | HIGH | OPP | LOW | OPP |
| 1970/71 | 2 (7) | 18534 | 30682 | LEIC 09.01 | 12802 | BIRM 27.04 |
| 1971/72 | 2 (9) | 17942 | 34446 | SLAND 22.01 | 9539 | HULL 29.04 |
| 1972/73 | 2 (4) | 10417 | 24145 | SLAND 12.08 | 6816 | BRIG 07.04 |
| 1973/74 | 2 (1) | 22264 | 37030 | SLAND 26.12 | 14742 | VILLA 15.09 |
| 1974/75 | 1 (7) | 28604 | 39500 | LEEDS 22.02 | 21478 | LUTON 24.08 |
| 1975/76 | 1 (13) | 23223 | 32959 | LEEDS 15.11 | 14764 | IPSW 03.04 |
| 1976/77 | 1 (9) | 21481 | 31451 | VILLA 27.12 | 14500 | QPR 16.04 |
| 1977/78 | 1 (14) | 19873 | 30805 | LPOOL 20.08 | 13247 | WHAM 25.04 |
| 1978/79 | 1 (12) | 18459 | 32214 | LPOOL 11.05 | 12822 | QPR 16.09 |
| 1979/80 | 1 (9) | 18739 | 30587 | MANU 12.01 | 11789 | BOLT 21.12 |
newyddion
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Surely that is the correct greeting between any north east teams.. regardless of age gender or profession.
HOY MAYTE..
NorthumberlandBoro
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Bear in mind Leeds brought far less fans than Newcastle/Sunderland back then.
When we played them the second time under big Jack you could have driven a bus around in the Clive road corner(and not hit any Leeds fans).
Rofesleg
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What?