JezThePoolie wrote:
Shame really, as big of a joke it is when we go to their ground and outnumber the home fans, they’ve generally been a club that plays good football and punch above their weight. Victim of being trapped in between the two biggest fan bases in the North East, poor ownership, and just being plain unlucky with the stadium incident a couple of years ago which prevented them from participating in the playoffs.
With that being said, if they do go under I wouldn’t mind trying to pick up the hometown lad Harry Chapman
there are north east clubs with less history who get much bigger gates than they do. they just have not got that local fanbase factor clubs like shields have. pack up and re allocate to NW London and play on a glorified parks pitch with the same number of fans they get now something good will happen to change there fortunes.