Journal launches latest NUFC fan survey
Mar 26 2009 By Matt McKenzie, The Journal
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The Journal has launched its latest Newcastle United fans' survey as the club battles against relegation.
The latest survey gives supporters the chance to say who they blame for the season – and whether they will come back to St James’s Park if Championship football is on show.
United are currently sitting third from bottom in the Premier League, inside the relegation zone.
Journal editor Brian Aitken said: "The previous surveys we have done on Newcastle United have provoked a huge response and I expect this will do the same.
"The club’s situation at the moment is causing a lot of anxiety and we want to build up a picture of the way fans are feeling.
"This is a massive couple of months for Newcastle United – some fans will be positive and others less so – but nobody can deny the strength of feeling among the supporters. It will be interesting to find out how they are looking at the situation."
The first online football survey of this kind carried out by The Journal was in September last year. More than 3,500 supporters responded to the poll, with almost half of the fans surveyed telling owner Mike Ashley he could only redeem himself in their eyes if he sold the club.
A huge number of fans – 2,492 (85.3%) - said Sunderland were better run than Newcastle and 93% (2,744) of Newcastle fans thought the club was a "laughing stock".
Almost 90% of fans said they were happy when Ashley took over the running of the club.
But 68.1% of the supporters thought Newcastle were in a “worse”, or “much worse” state than when he took over.
The Journal’s head of multimedia Matt McKenzie said: "We’ve had a great response from the fans in the past.
"I know from taking part in regular web-chats with our Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards and the supporters that there are genuine fears that Newcastle could go down this year.
"We'd like to see if fans are thinking the worst or are still quite hopeful. Hopefully we can get a big response to the survey and piece together how people are feeling."
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