David Icke - Son of God

Has anyone else got a letter saying they've been a naughty boy and "will be monitored at the next match"? Orwell would be proud of this shower. http://i56.tinypic.com/dm5kie.jpg

Has it been mentioned that Cabaye is now on Twitter? Confirmed by the club. http://twitter.com/yocabs

How many doctors do we have on this forum, by the way?

McNally claims he's out for a month but then McNally seems to just sit at home slagging everyone off nowadays

Aye, you'd think no one but us picked up injuries

No, he played in the reserves with Santon against Norwich.

I like how the quotes (His knee looked a bit unhealthy, sending him for a scan etc.) are in complete contrast to the doomsday attitude of most of our fans

The genius of Twitter. Ryder announces he's off for a scan on his knee, 30 seconds later someone tweets his out for three months with a knee injury

He was always going to come back a few clem heavier when the decision was made to send Derek Wright out there to train with him. Aye, 'Should I really be eating this much Dekka?' 'Why not Cheick, look at me, it's done me no harm at all.' "Shall we go out and do some shuttle runs?" "Fuck that Cheick, I brought my X Box. Do they have a Burger King in this part of the world?"

So gangsta he only wears one espadrille.

Heard the same. He was off his box telling all and sundry he doesn't like Sunderland and wanted to sign for Newcastle but we didn't bid for him

He was always going to come back a few clem heavier when the decision was made to send Derek Wright out there to train with him.

It's pretty difficult to play your usual passing game when the ball is sailing over your head almost all match.

I still think it's just down to lack of game time preseason/new personnel/QPR not allowing any of our players time on the ball. He was much improved against Fulham compared to his previous performances, another game or two at that pace would've allowed him to get his eye back in. I fancy him to be much better against Villa and Blackburn. His passing is a worry mind. He barely misplaced any last season but this year he's played the ball into thin air quite a few times.

I don't think we can play much worse than that, so one point feels like three at the moment. We were poor in every area and just couldn't cope with the way they hassled us from the first minute until the last. We need to start playing the ball out from the back because we're instantly putting ourselves under pressure by aimlessly hoofing it up the pitch. We've got some decent footballers in that area of the pitch so why not use them instead of punting it towards Shola and then watching it come straight back at us?

That would be Steven Taylor. Taylor was the better player like but the defence as a whole was at 6s and 7s for large periods this evening.

Is the 'g' soft? No, their heads are.

They already used "Geordie Mafia" when blaming the fact their town is a shithole on the nasty Novocastrians stealing everything from them. They had to come up with something.

They believe there's a conspiracy to focus all the attention on us and ignore them.

Why? I'm sure one of our other players can fulfill the difficult task of running at pace into a member of the opposition.

He manages to be pathetic, scary and laughable all at the same time.

My guess is Greg Halford. Keane had an argument with a few Reading directors after he signed for Sunderland because they moved him on when he failed a drugs test without informing that lot down the road.

It isn't an incredible deal in full context. You've certainly got a outlandish fee, but lost an iconic figurehead of your team a few weeks into an already choppy season. The timing makes it a bad deal imo. Not much that £6m can do to help right now, is there? No he wasn't. He had scored 1 goal since Febuary. Of course, it doesn't help us till January till we can go and get someone else but now we are almost certainly going to recoup all of the £13m we paid for him and possibly even make a profit on him. Quinn has took Al Ain's eyes out. Aye, I bet the multi-billionaire Arabs will be facepalming when they realise they've spent marginally more than Gyan's actually worth on securing his services That'll really ruin their day. I think the Gyan deal, when looked at alongside the deal for Jones and Bent, highlights the issue Sunderland will always have - anyone with a modicum of genuine talent doesn't want to stay around the place any longer than they really have to. They're an unfashionable club who have, thanks to financial doping, managed to reach the giddy heights of Premier League midtable mediocrity (and NETD). How long before the man who was going to tear us apart Stephane Sessegnon decides he wants to trade Pallion and Hendon for somewhere a bit more picturesque? It's still hurting you I see. I don't know how I cope some days.

It isn't an incredible deal in full context. You've certainly got a outlandish fee, but lost an iconic figurehead of your team a few weeks into an already choppy season. The timing makes it a bad deal imo. Not much that £6m can do to help right now, is there? No he wasn't. He had scored 1 goal since Febuary. Of course, it doesn't help us till January till we can go and get someone else but now we are almost certainly going to recoup all of the £13m we paid for him and possibly even make a profit on him. Quinn has took Al Ain's eyes out. Aye, I bet the multi-billionaire Arabs will be facepalming when they realise they've spent marginally more than Gyan's actually worth on securing his services That'll really ruin their day. I think the Gyan deal, when looked at alongside the deal for Jones and Bent, highlights the issue Sunderland will always have - anyone with a modicum of genuine talent doesn't want to stay around the place any longer than they really have to. They're an unfashionable club who have, thanks to financial doping, managed to reach the giddy heights of Premier League midtable mediocrity (and NETD). How long before the man who was going to tear us apart Stephane Sessegnon decides he wants to trade Pallion and Hendon for somewhere a bit more picturesque?

Money doesn't score goals. We found that out last season.