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Get in! Brilliant performance.

I think it's also about how Howe likes to take time to integrate a new player into the team and getting a player on loan without the purchase option means wasting half the loan period whilst the player learns the system.

Yup. The time to sign Kluivert was when he cost ~€10m rather than now when he'll cost 5x that.

Willock only have 2 modes of play - brilliant or utter garbage. There's been far too much of the latter recently.

Dreadful performance, not helped by some rank refereeing. We have a real problem with complacency against mid-table teams.

There was a post on Reddit last week that showed the points per game of promoted teams since 2000 that shows a definite downward trend. The Championship is getting worse every season and the promoted teams are getting fewer points. For some teams with money and ambition it might be possible to throw a huge amount of money on transfers and gamble on survival but if the owners don't have the means or ambition their teams will struggle massively.

Nice win

Brilliant stuff

Beautifully taken goal

Is must be an utter clown part of the co-commentator job description? Spends 5 minutes discussing exactly why the clear foul shouldn't be a penalty, reviewing multiple replays that show the foul clear as day and then acts surprised when the referee gives the penalty.

Absolutely woeful performance all around. No one played well. Everyone gave really sloppy balls away. We have THE in form striker in Europe and he's barely given anything to work with. Absolutely embarrassing stuff.

Some very sloppy play and the really weak refereeing hasn't been helping.

A nice win. Wolves remind me so much of us under Bruce. Play a really low block to keep the goals out and then, when you're 3 goals down and have nothing left to lose, start attacking.

I don't hate him. I just believe that we could, and should, be looking at better players. They want a lot of money for someone who is a decent Premiership player but I'd really hope that with some decent scouts we'd be able to find someone as good or better for less money.

If they don't get back into the Premiership soon they face a real prospect that younger fans will never become Sunderland followers at all. So many kids away from the big clubs simply follow the teams that their favourite players play for, what happens when those kids start following Isak, Bruno or Gordon? You can give away tickets to as many schools as you like but when the kids have the option of watching a top team play with their favourite players participating or watching a mid-table Championship game against Plymouth or Stoke you cannot be that surprised when no one turns up. Look at Bolton or Wigan. Two teams that had a greater impact on the Premiership than Sunderland ever had who have much bigger teams on their doorsteps, both teams languishing in League One. That's the future Sunderland face, they've got an owner with no connection to the club who could sell up at any time, dwindling attendances and uninspiring players. Promotion and weekly humiliation in the Premiership or lower league oblivion. Couldn't happen to a nicer team.