Benwell Lad

Especially when Bardsley is their top scorer at Christmas.

before that tackle I thought they would struggle with a busy schedule. Not sure many of thier new players will have experienced so many hard cold games together- add losing brown to that and things are looking shitty. They're fucked, mate. Pooyet was whinging about having to play over Christmas last week too. Hardly inspiring stuff when they're in a dog fight at the bottom.

there will be a fresh- points from the next 10 games thread, on monday, as the last one failed at the first game.

Just seen Pooyet's post match interview, totally negative depressing stuff. They're fucked and it looks like he knows it.

Amazing that they have four forwards on their books who cost the thick end of 40 million quid and tonight some fans are suggesting they play Bardsley up front. Could a club be more fucked up ?

HBA just about to go arse over tit but still managing to provide a perfect lay off which almost resulted in a goal.

Sorry just can't get my nut around this macum logic that the fixture list gave them a difficult first half of the season. They've played 17 out of 19 teams and have 10 points. They've been shite against the top sides and they've been shite against the bottom sides. They're woeful and don't create anything. They may stay up, but as things stand they look relegation certainties with no apparent sign of anything that could change that.

Festive spirit in full swing down on Wearside. http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/christmas-can-fuck-off.851064/

14 summer signings, 3 manager and 2 caretakers in a year and this is what they've come to http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/put-bardsley-up-front.851043/

"We could have signed Frank Bruno on a free and got the same contribution and skill set"

BBC commentator just said red card was justified for a really bad challenge. He also said that the Norwich player was going nowhere and it didn't need to be made. Is Brown one of their famous drinking clique? Maybe fancies Christmas on the lash - never been one for wanting to play too many games.

Was og playing today? Suspended?

RTG has a very particular way of dealing with predictions, and if you in any way disagree then you are inevitably a mag.... Pundit 'X' tips safc to win/stay up: "Always liked him, a great pundit", "One of the few who knows what he's talking about", "Good to see an actual expert on these things for once" Pundit 'Y' tips safc to lose/go down "Typical, he's never liked us", "A sh*t player and an even worse pundit", "looks like (Y) is back on the booze again", "what an absolute ars*hole that man is", "Well known Mag sympathiser" Ad infinitum. :lol: So fucking true man.

Aye you're probably right. Though in fairness it appeared that we fought hard to keep Enrique and the other two (although I didn't agree) were probably deemed surplus to requirements and not worth making further investment in. Didnt we give Barton a free? Pretty shit selling club attitude that I'd imagine the freeing up of his salary was the upside for them on that one, not to mention ridding themselves of a loose cannon they seemed increasingly incapable of dealing with

Aye, a fluky extra time win against a Chelsea reserve team who should have been out of sight during the 90 minutes and the last year of dross is all forgotten. Them being 4 points adrift at the bottom of the league and having the worst goal difference is not a true reflection and the old guard of Cattermole, Larsson, O'Shit, Bardsley etc are suddenly great players again. Reality will be back along shortly.

Aye you're probably right. Though in fairness it appeared that we fought hard to keep Enrique and the other two (although I didn't agree) were probably deemed surplus to requirements and not worth making further investment in.

The gloom army constantly bang on about us selling our best players, encouraging clubs to bid for them etc etc and then it becomes accepted as fact by some. Isn't the reality somewhat different ? Unless I'm forgetting someone, we've sold two players who were amongst our "best" in the last few years. Demba Ba who we could do nowt about and Andy Carroll in what was, with hindsight, the best piece of business we've ever done. How does that compare with other top flight clubs ? Do we stand out as some sort of "selling club" ? If anything we're less of a selling club than we've ever been. Of course players will move on - it's part and parcel of football - but over the last few years our transfer policy has been largely effective and positive. We're probably in the best shape we've been in for ten years or so and that's without being a benevolent pension fund for superstar has-beens.

They really are strange aren't they ? Despite many tickets costing a fiver barely 16,000 of them bother turning out for a cup quarter final against a top side, but 24 hours later it's become the biggest thing in world football

The league cup has history of small clubs beating bigger clubs who have played weakened sides, indeed the macums beat teams in the last two rounds who played shadow sides, but it would be a huge surprise if a team as bad as Sunderland beat even an "ordinary" Man U over the two legs.

Lose both legs convincingly, relegated by Easter and then, just as the realisation begins to dawn, slide gently but inexorably into the North Sea, to join their many deceased non-attending brethren.....and never to return. Aye but i'd miss derby day like. Me too. Except I wouldn't miss the derby.

£39 + £1 booking fee. In fairness that was 40 quid more than the cheapest ticket for home fans, so by that logic we should be charging them 80 quid or whatever.

So am I right in thinking that despite Ashley being regularly castigated for his part in reducing commercial turnover, someone is now using our profitability as a stick to beat him with ? Sometimes I just don't geddit. Our profitability is based on us selling players for higher than we buy them for, rather than attempting to actually increase turnover and invest in the squad. It'll work whilst we can flog an Andy Carroll here or there, maybe Cabaye next, but it's unsustainable over a longer period and will weaken the team. Thanks for that. For now I'll just enjoy it while it appears to be doing exactly the opposite.

I predict that this time next year Shola Ameobi will still have played 12 more European matches than Sunderland AFC and will also have scored more European goals than the total scored by anyone ever wearing a Sunderland shirt.

So am I right in thinking that despite Ashley being regularly castigated for his part in reducing commercial turnover, someone is now using our profitability as a stick to beat him with ? Sometimes I just don't geddit.

I just don't get that one little bit! Not referring to this article in particular, but The Mag could do itself a favour by insisting on would be bloggers having a GCSE in English and perhaps just an iota of common sense before it lets them loose on their site. It really is a regular pile of shite.