Not really, why would anyone need to pray for Sunderland to concede?
You've kept three home clean sheets this year, and it's November
Yes, that's the
key point, it's only November (I'm referring to the overall season not our lack of clean sheets stat you've found) Still plenty of time for us to turn it around and I believe we will. Now, as you'll probably confirm, I've conceded from day 1 that we're in a terrible mess (much to your delight, such is your obsession with Sunderland, no offence mate) but we'll turn it around I'm praying. We've had 2 of the worst British managers in our recent history in David Moyes and simple Simon. Then, add to the mix our crippling debt, horrific scouting assignments, then our incompetent owners, is it really a surprise we're in such a bad place?
The fans will come back, soon as they see a fundamental change on and off the pitch. I'm hoping, Short has learnt from his awful decisions and will pick our next manager carefully, someone to get the fans back on side. The only saving grace to our embarrassing start, is that I'd rather it happened as early as it did, then January-May when it could be too late. We literally, can't play any worse than we are now, we're bottom, the only way is up - I think we'll improve under a manager who can make us harder to beat.
Luckily, Burton,Bolton and Birmingham don't appear to me making much ground on us either, so we're still in touching distance and a couple of back-to-back wins, under a new manager, will bring back the atmosphere and give us a platform to re-start our season. Before we start plotting consecutive wins, we've got to be brave and drop some of the 'experienced' lot like O'Shea, Gibson, Cattermole etc and persevere with younger, fresher players with more desire and less of an ego.
I've watched every minute of every game and there's so much to sort out, but I honestly think with the right manager, we can get out of this mess.
You seemed adamant we'd go bust a few weeks ago and I told you that you were being silly. Unlike you, I'll not come back here and gloat in May if we do survive, as celebrating that would be tragically pathetic. It's shambolic how we've ended up in this mess.
We've been in worse situations like this and survived, we'll do it again. We desperately need that win to give us a kick of life, if we can beat Millwall and end this rotten home record we have, we'll hopefully make the SOL a hard place to come to again, instead of gift wrapping teams victories.