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James to the bench??
Are you serious?I think Donny means James back to RB which is why Byrne is benched.
Jones
James
Kipre
Dunkley
NaismithEvans
MorsyPilkington
Windass
JacobsClarke
Subs:
Walton
Byrne
Olsson
Powell
Beni
Massey
GarnerShame the cup game with Liverpool is tomorrow when the 1st team play, but anyone with a dodgy box that records it is live on LFC TV or repeated at 11.30
Being in the second tier of the football league pyramid are bad times?
Some on here need a reality check.[/quote]
If someone jumped on the PJ bandwagon and has only seen success then I can understand them thinking we should be pushing for promotion, but when you vet guys who watched us in the non league days or at Springy coming out with “worst player ever” “worst side ever” it’s baffling.
The bigger picture always helps understand where we are and why we are there but sadly most of our fans don’t look at that and live off knee jerk reactions and the belief that we should be challenging for the Champions League because we once won the FA Cup. Garswood is pretty much spot on with his analysis though.
Martinez wanted to play a similar style to Guardiola. They were both educated at the Barcelona academy and it is the style they 100% believe in. Unfortunately he had 1% of the transfer budget that Pep has and was trying to do it with players that weren’t quite up to it. He has taken Belgium to a World Cup semi final playing said style and it is what kept us up in 2012.
Cook tries to play attacking football and did so last season to great effect but this season he lost all of his attacking players at once and doesn’t have the budget to ensure he has 4 or 5 replacements capable of playing at this level. Last season we probably would have still won most games minus Jacobs, Massey, Grigg and Powell.
We are struggling at Championship level but financially we probably shouldn’t even be here highlighted by selling a prized asset to a side a league below who managed to up his wages on top of spending money we could only dream of spending. Then there are vultures from above that take our best players whenever they feel like it because money talks and as the books showed…..we have none.
If we survive this season it will be a massive achievement regardless of the style of football we play to do it. We have had better squads than this fail at this level. Should we stay up we can then try to build on that and move up the table. The losses will be that bit smaller and that will perhaps allow for a bigger transfer kitty. Baby steps are what we need as opposed to going all out for promotion and the bubble well and truly bursting and leaving us in a hole that will take a while to climb out of (see the Rosler/Mackay/Caldwell season) especially without any PL money to prop us up.
The tactics from Rotherham of just hitting anything and everything into our box lends itself to that type of defending though. We were never able to get ourselves on the front foot.
If we survive this year then I think we will see a different mentality next year from the owners and from Cook.
They are just a club with a huge drawing population and area with no competition for support. That is what makes them a big club.
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They are just down the road from us so have the same pull away that we have – United, City, even Warriors.[/quote]EH?
Never really understood what makes Sunderland a big club. Is it the big stadium that is usually half empty? Is it the fact that they get about 10% of their population watching them? It certainly isn’t their honours list is it?
I can fully understand you not understanding it Egg.[/quote]
Come on. Explain it to me. What makes Sunderland, who last won a trophy in 1973, a big club?[/quote]
They won the ‘BBC Team Personality of the Year’ award in 1973 :ohmy:[/quote]
In that case I take it back. MASSIVE.
Never really understood what makes Sunderland a big club. Is it the big stadium that is usually half empty? Is it the fact that they get about 10% of their population watching them? It certainly isn’t their honours list is it?
I can fully understand you not understanding it Egg, but you may want to check out Sunderland’s full honours list before you make a statement like that.
2 FA Cups and 6 league titles (your last one in 1936) doesn’t make you a big club in 2019.
On that basis, PNE would be one of the biggest clubs in the land.
Never really understood what makes Sunderland a big club. Is it the big stadium that is usually half empty? Is it the fact that they get about 10% of their population watching them? It certainly isn’t their honours list is it?
I can fully understand you not understanding it Egg.[/quote]
Come on. Explain it to me. What makes Sunderland, who last won a trophy in 1973, a big club?
Never really understood what makes Sunderland a big club. Is it the big stadium that is usually half empty? Is it the fact that they get about 10% of their population watching them? It certainly isn’t their honours list is it?
Mutty’s No.3 reeks of delusions of grandeur!
To be fair to him, we had that ourselves to a certain degree when we were in League One because of our Premier League history and being recent FA Cup winners.
We managed the pressure okay, it remains to be seen whether Sunderland can cope.[/quote]Ours was justified but theirs????[/quote]
Good piece of fishing
