We ask NUFC followers, are you lacking out on the Newcastle v Sunderland derbies?

Would you like them again?

The final of the Newcastle v Sunderland derbies was on 20 March 2016, with a late aim from Aleksandar Mitrovic giving the ultimate rating 1–1 at St James’ Park.

Newcastle United have been relegated and Sunderland stayed up, simply barely.

The Mackems weren’t laughed for lengthy, nevertheless, as they have been handed by Geordie a yr later when Sunderland swapped locations.

A lot of enjoyable on Tyneside since then, Sunderland accomplished the outstanding feat of ending backside within the 2016/17 Premier League season AND hitting all-time low within the 2017/18 Championship season.

Sunderland followers can rightly boast that Newcastle United have by no means achieved something as dramatic as leaping out of a airplane and not using a parachute.

With their eventual return to the second tier, this present season at the least made it mathematically attainable that 2023/24 might see the return of the Newcastle v Sunderland derbies on the high tier.

But as flattering as it’s sometimes to cheat, the Mackems have by no means seen themselves as severe promotion contenders.

Zero likelihood of computerized promotion spots and truly minimal likelihood of sneaking into the play-offs.

The Newcastle vs Sunderland derby-less hole within the Premier League now appears assured to stretch at the least eight years, with no likelihood within the 2023/24 season.

Sunderland took the lead on Wednesday evening however Sheffield United got here again to win 2-1 at Wearside, making it 4 defeats in 5 video games for the Mackems, who additionally misplaced to Rotherham, Coventry and Stoke final month.

That is what the Championship draw now appears like on Saturday morning:

Sunderland 31 factors from up and down in no man’s land twelfth, eight factors out of the play-offs with simply 9 video games to play, plus a number of golf equipment between them and a spot within the high six.

Wanting on the file books, it’s important to return to a interval that included World Struggle II, to discover a longer hole with out the Newcastle vs Sunderland derbies.

That hole lasted from March 1934 to October 1948, a full fourteen years.

I’m wondering if that file shall be surpassed within the subsequent few years…?

So the query we have been asking NUFC followers was.

Newcastle v Sunderland derbies: now there shall be a niche of at the least eight years… Would you like them to return to the Premier League as quickly as attainable, through the promotion of the Mackems?

The vote was precisely three to 1:

25% Sure, get Sunderland promoted ASAP

75% No, maintain them there longer / endlessly

Our because of everybody who took the time to vote.