Heron

"You could have Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger but without money they'd be useless without money." You could have Rafa Beneathus and no money...

ahahaha, just started and this is class them not knowing they were down Aye like the presenter keeps talking about the probability of them staying up...well...it's probably 0% I'd guess like, by normal sporting means. EDIT: LMFAO just heard the bit "Sorry, just realised, they are actually down. Sunderland are down." :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: sounds like you're a minute or two behind me, why wasn't i listening to this last night? Probably mate. That first caller. "We need someone regimental, someone respected like a Keane or a Poyet" The response by me in the kitchen as I listen " you've already had them", and sure enough the response on the radio was exactly the same. I don't know how they can pinso much at Coleman's feet myself. It's been a failing of the board due to mismanagement from the top and the players on the pitch just aren't good enough. Loved how he said he hadn't been cause he was poorly too. Aye, reet pal.

Paul Dummett

ahahaha, just started and this is class them not knowing they were down Aye like the presenter keeps talking about the probability of them staying up...well...it's probably 0% I'd guess like, by normal sporting means. EDIT: LMFAO just heard the bit "Sorry, just realised, they are actually down. Sunderland are down." :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Even the presenter doesn't realise they're down last night. Surely someone should have told them?

I genuinely don't think I'll give a fuck about them next season at all. It's only been this last 2/3 weeks or so that I've started laughing at them because I was more bothered about what we were doing. After the win vs Huddersfield it kinda changed cause I knew we'd be safe.

I don't know about you's like lads (and lasses) but I'm fucking sick of those 2013ers. Weren't even from Sunderland they were from Durham and were from Toon families until they started winning derbies. Fucking turncoat scum. #SMB

Class.

WTF is going on - all of their "football friends" are absolutely beasting them on social media.

Everything about Sunderland is just a comedy of errors at present. That video of the keeper warming up tells you all you need to know about their frame of mind prior to yesterdays fixture. Absolutely laughable. Sunderland have been consistently shit for many a year now, even in the Premier League. It's not like their demise started last season. Despite this, they're not alone and actually Sunderland are probably the iconic team associated with everything that's wrong with football in it's present day form. The Premier League has been consistently filled up with "fillers" for a good 10-15 years rather than people actually willing to compete and climb the table and yet, Newcastle fans are universally stereotyped and ridiculed as delusional for expecting "above their station" in terms of achievement. Sport is about winning. Whether you win 4-3, 3-0 or 1-0 from a scrappy own goal is almost irrelevant. Sports teams and individuals should want to be the best in their chosen field. Doing that in an entertaining form is obviously beneficial both financially and cosmetically (?) for love of a better term but winning is your bread and butter. You look at the Premier League and the 3 teams going down this season: West Brom - hiring someone like Pardew in their time of need. They've been in the Premier League for around 7 years (?) and what for? They've done nowt but tried to stay in the division. Stoke are similar, after being in the division for like 9 years. It's understandable that as a business model, staying on the gravy train is imperative, but as a sporting model they (Sunderland) have epically failed. The final club (who I think will be down) are Southampton. They've had countless amounts of top drawer players and instead of keeping onto them and building around them they've cashed in, time after time, and slowly the tap of talent has all but dried up and they've fallen. If Southampton kept their players and built around them, they'd have probably see cup wins and / or European football. Instead the status quo of big 4/5/6 teams is maintained and clubs like Southampton drop. (Granted, Southampton are in a cup semi final today but will no doubt be beaten.) Sunderland are the kings in this department. In the Premier League for 9 consecutive seasons and the most points they've gained is 47 points. A points total that Newcastle look capable of hitting this season despite having an owner like Mike Ashley. Just for reference across the 9 seasons this is the points they've got: 36 44 47 45 39 38 38 39 24 That's a mean average of 39 points and that's rounded up. In other words, they've not reached that elusive 40 points two-thirds of the time, which for most would have meant relegation, more than once. They've teetered on the edge of relegation for so long and their Ellis Short-termism with regards to their managers has proven to be their down fall, amongst numerous other terrible sporting (and business) decisions. They've never allowed to let a manager settle, or build, or rebuild, but they've thrown money at every new manager they've had. Subsequently, in their desperate attempts to comfortably stay in the league, the money has dried up and they've turned to loan signings, any player worth their salt has been sold on to clubs that aspire to be more. Asset stripped on the pitch, they've become asset stripped in terms of support. Free tickets dished out wherever possible in a desperate attempt to make Sunderland "a family club" when the reality was far different. Their relatively loyal support has dwindled because they've been shit and have aspired to be nothing more than a "filler" for years. For what it's worth, I'd fucking hate the likes of Rodwell if I was inbred. He's getting paid an absolute fortune for fuck all, probably creating a bad atmosphere at the club (intentionally or not), he's a millionaire and he hasn't done the decent thing and just fucked off. But then, why would or should he. Besides he'd have a normal amount of fingers and toes. Thank fuck I'm not a mutant. The combination of high playing and coaching staff turnover and high wages for mediocre players has crippled them and they're paying for that to this day. Their ground is a shit hole and the litter and pink seats are just two examples of that. To be fair to them, litter aside, our ground isn't much better. It's the most obvious sign of where our respective business owners' priorities lie. It's no wonder really, that having gone down with record low points on more than occasion (?) & being utterly dog shit for 10 seasons their supporters only had one thing to cheer about and that was an 18 points total against their local and fiercest rivals. But of course the 20 odd years of never beating us on home turf that proceeded that never happened (I don't think I made that up). Not sure if they've always been this way, but in my adult life they've become disillusioned and delusional. They're obsessive about us because actually, they don't aspire to be anything other than safe and better than us. If Newcastle United is another clubs unit of measure then you're really not running your organisation well, it's probably as simple as that. Beaten, bust and completely broken. Karma's a bitch...ay?

They really are pathetic like. Claiming we're obsessed when they have endless amounts of comments and threads about what we think about them. If we went down to League One the last thing that would concern me is what those fucking 12 fingered, dog nonces thought. I'd be more concerned about what was going on with my club and how we go about fixing it. They don't want to protest for fear of looking like "mags". They claim the greatest moment in our history is this situation that they're in and that we'll have still won fuck all next time we meet. We've won more than they have throughout history and a European Cup. They're terrified of the notion of Yewrup so much so they all risked high(er) level unemployment by voting Brexit and risking Nissan fucking off from the region. They can dish it out but cannot take it. It really is that simple. Next season I doubt many will give a shit what Sunderland are doing anymore. We'll let Gateshead worry about them and Blyth.

Oh by the way, at the start of next season not only will Gateshead be Sunderland's closest geographical rivals they'll be the closest footballing rivals also. Savour that thought.

They'll be in the Johnstones Paint trophy or something won't they...

Its the way it works for them, they beat us in the play offs, it kind of leads on to the Keegan era. They stayvup and win to send us down and within the blink of a sleepy eye we are seemingly comfortable ( only ever seemingly while Ashley is there) and they.....well they are probably as low as they have ever been given the differences between the third level and the last time they were there. It’s like they are damned. Cursed even. Everything about them is just plain fucking hilarious Stadium of light rhymes with stadium of shite. They are sponsored by O’Briens a rubbish recycling company and whose namesake are cult heroes here for scoring against them. Every match da rubbish swirls around their ground. Pink faded seats. Road to their ground Newcastle Road. Nonces, racists. Famous for Newcastle as one of my fave comedians said in a parody of Danny Dyer. Everything about them is mental. I look at them, their city, they as people and everything about them and league of Gentleman and Royston Vassey just springs to mind. I know no-one that considers them important or even relevant. Shit hole of a city, inbred racist backward people living in the 70s. Flat pack stadium built on waste land. Legends in the form of fucking Gary Bennet. Just such a comedy of errors and cringe. I actually feel sorry for League One having them lot representing it. This would be like the perfect response to when them daft cunts on the radio said about "Sting, Ant and Dec, etc etc you're boys took one hell of a beating tonight"

I'm gonna go with Oxford if you're taking Luton. I reckon there'll be some sort of University linked bullshit made up.

They are getting ridiculed quite a lot on Twitter by various betting sites, etc. from what I've seen. It really has been a case of people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I get that they had to take the piss out of us but they should have had the foresight to realise how dreadful they were and had been for all those years prior to last years relegation. They're all complaining about Short and he has been a bit of a failure to say the least, but he's tried his best and thrown plenty at them. You cannot really blame someone if they're trying but are just simply shite. That being said, you shouldn't buy businesses that you have no clue about and if you do you should surround yourself with people who do have a clue. It's been a case of bad business basically. For their last two games they should play their kids and they should fuck off all the shit they've persisted with. They need a clear out of epic proportions and to go back to the drawing board as a club. But they won't be back for a while I think. Don't think they'll get out of League One next season, I think it'll be the year after soonest. Nevertheless, it's been an absolute treat to see how this has all unfolded. Karma's a bitch eh?

Unlucky for some.

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Looking at the fixtures the scum might only be 3 behind this weekend. Perfectly poised for Mitro...

The latter does a mean/casual (delete as prefer) loafer around the dish move. Stings like a bastard. I figured he'd be the intelligent one who knew where to be and when. Providing a lookout for the other two who'd be bastardising everyone

Mitro, Lascelles and Ayoze Perez

Rafa. What a guy. What a fucking guy.

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