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Thank you mate. I'm just going to ignore him like you say.

Regarding yesterdays result - it went exactly as I thought. We started okay, then we conceded the first goal and our already-low confidence just went to pieces. Cattermole and Gibson simply can't start the same match, they both play the same role (not very effective I must add) and simply don't have the legs to get around the pitch. This league, is all about pace & power and we're desperately slow in the middle of the pitch. There's no real urgency in our play, no desire to bust a gut and gamble to get in the box. I think, the back of the players mind is "I can't commit forward as we'll be done on the counter" so we're playing cautiously, to the point of when we get in the final third, we don't bust a gut to get players forward, which means our forward is isolated. It's very frustrating to watch, seeing the problem in front of you happening week-in-week-out but not being addressed.

McGeady was poor yesterday, but he's probably being on best player so far this season so you can forgive him for inconsistency (Which has been a problem with him for years) but Cattermole & Gibson simply must be dropped, they won't be, but they should. They offer us nothing, just play easy sideways passing and refuse to play a risky forward pass to get us up the pitch.

The real annoying thing about yesterday was 'Boro were there for the taking, 100%. They didn't play at all well, they didn't need to, we didn't test their keeper once in that entire second half, that is fundamentally unacceptable.

Incredibly, I wasn't even that bothered yesterday. I'm past the point of caring and letting it ruin my day, I simply went to the pub, had a few beers and forgot about it. That's not like me, normally, it takes me a week to get over a bad result. I'm losing my desire to support this lot as I can't relate to them.

Millwall next.....
Missing the millwall game as I'm away.:dance:
 
Ndong at least can pick his head up and pick out a pass. Like you say, he's able to get around the pitch but the poor sod is having to work twice as hard to cover Cattermole/Gibson who at times appear to have pavement slabs attached to their boots. I was honestly worried about Gibson yesterday, he was so out of breath 'chasing' (If you can call it that) one of their young kids for 40 yards he looked like he was about to keel over at the end!

I'm not sure where or next win will come from, January, will be the most important transfer window in Sunderland's entire history. Might be a bit of a controversial statement, but I think it is that important. Buy right - We'll hopefully grind a few results out with new players, if we buy wrong - we're heading for league 1.

Our funds are dire, but we need to utilize the loan market and buy sensibly.

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Is that you in the picture? Glued to the Sunderland match, praying to the almighty that we concede? lol

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
 
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.
 

From a Villa fan? There's 3 miles between the grounds and you all drink the same water which causes the accent (scientific fakt). Yet both sets of fans merrily call each other all manner of nasty things. Same difference to anyone looking in!
I'm not from brum, so don't drink that water which you say causes the accent(scientific fakt). As I said awful club with horrible fans.
 

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