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Chris Wilder's head is a bit too big for his body.

What does a Technical Director do like? How do you know is above and not along side as part of a team?

Howe would be good for now. The manager we appoint now only needs to get us a 2 or 3 places up the league with 28 games to go and a will surely have a significant pot of cash to spend in January. Any players bought for that short term goal can be recycled out in due course, as can the manager. The bigger picture is the CEO and DOF needed before the wholesale reorganisation of the organisation and redevelopment of the dilapidated infrastructure takes place. Any elite manager would want to see what they were getting into before joining us right now. I'm not really surprised we can't attract any of those, notwithstanding Rafa who clearly gave up on us. I'm sure Howe could do that short term job and could eventually walk away with the kudos of keeping us up and the profile it will bring. We will certainly be one of the highest profile clubs going forwards. He's got nothing to lose if he joins us, and if he turns out to better than many seem to think he is, then that's a bonus. Personally I think we are 3 managers away (and a billion £ overhaul) from winning anything significant.

Mad strike that like

Something inappropriate about Lee Ryder.

Charlie Methven has resigned as director at #SAFC Retains his stake in the club Nothing news TBH

Has this been posted yet? I can't be arsed to check: http://www.crispian.net/Myths/biscuits.html

When I read "Accrington Stanley" I can only ever think of as said by that kid in the 1980's milk advert with Ian Rush.

Maybe

Oof, that Times article is a proper condemnation of Ashley.

I didn't renew my season ticket in 2013 after the second coming of Joe Kinnear. I'd had a season ticket since 1981 at that point. It was obvious at that point the whole thing was a joke / merchandising outlet for Ashley. He's not had a penny of my money since. I looks for NUFC news every day (like an idiot), hoping for change. It's not coming. Nothing is going to change. Until someone rocks up with enough cash to make him happy, it will be like this. Every time some gonk pulls on a pair of dirty cheap Lonsdale tracky bottoms, he wins. They do that partly because he exploits NUFC as an advertising vehicle, partly because his whole manufacturing and distribution chain is based on exploitation. Walk away.

I think Shelvey could have done a job in that midfield. Yes/no?

My 9 year old daughter put her witchy finger hex on Bacca. She claims she was responsible for the penalty shoot out win. Was nothing to do with Pickford. Apparently.

That's an amazing call to arms, incredible delusions of grandeur. Whoever wrote that has totally missed the fact that the vast majority of 3rd division level players are earn between £60K and £130K per year. That's a decent salary by most standards but chances are they are only going to see that level of income for somewhere between 8 and 12 years of their working life. After that, who knows? Possibly a job in lower league coaching, sports/fitness, maybe physiotherapy, whatever, but on ordinary wages for the rest of their lives. If I was a some journeyman striker in the third division the only things I would be concerned with would be a) am I playing for a professional, stable club and b) how much could I earn in the period of my contract. "That is why you should sign for Sunderland. Only that. So, come and be that man and feel the tender embrace of our love for the next 50 years of your life. Learn something new. Do something different. Convince yourself you have no limits. Welcome to Sunderland." Err, no.

This comment: https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/114992722 On this article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/apr/22/sunderland-feckless-relegation-has-been-coming-at-least-we-now-have-a-parrot?CMP=share_btn_link Is awesome! Blimey, I didn't fully comprehend how devastating the effects of relegation were on the denizens of Wearside........and your budgie dying.......dearie me, oh dear oh dear.....dreadful, awful....horrifying. I feel really bad and broken up inside, I feel like crying. But now for a slightly different angle on this 'bantering' club of good old lads and lasses. Known paedophile player, hidden and protected by at least one club officer and their manager, merely to help prevent a relegation, two seasons earlier. The paedophile's goal celebration, mocking the death of innocent air passengers, does not bear any kind of scutiny. Margaret Byrne got a good bung though, which is nice..... Poznans Planes with banners Banners inflaming hatred suspended from closest rival's iconic bridge Bedshheet slogans e.g. 'Rafa beneath us' (admittedly witty), 'Wank Mags' (so, so) 'Fuck off Mag scum' (not so much) Fascist saluting manager Team captain and fellow "player", smashing up cars to the tune of £4000+ in Stowell Street Newcastle, after a bout of recuperative drinking in The Toon Same player/captain (Cattermole) universally banned from every pub and club in Yarm (inability to hold his beer, mouth, temper) Happpy fans 'banter' about Demba Ba's "exploding" lips, NUFC's "Coon Army", Liam Jones, a nice lad from Hendon, "Monkey Dancing" at Romelu Lukaku, after he scores a goal at the stadium of shite. Chairman Bob Murray 'glassed by a sunderland fan whilst having dinner with his wife in a restaurant. Smearing faeces on the walls of the toilets in St. James' Park and on the wlls of the metro trains and stations, behaviour, not out of the ordinary for travelling sunderland fans (esp. for derbies). Coins, batteries and bottles of piss raining down onto Newcastle fans in the Family Enclosures at St. James' fathers, mothers and children). Titus Bramble and brother Niklaus Bendtner Djibrill Cisse John Oster....... their loveliness goes on and on... I fully expect the makems to fall out of the football leagues, go into liquidation and cease to exist. Leeds United, Portsmouth and other disasters were merely the support acts for this one. Sunderland are DOOMED. Still, the old "six in a row"* should cheer you a bit, up as you plummet towards obscurity and wait for Nissan to change their minds, eh? *"six in a row" refers to the number of fans per row of seating, at the stadium of shite, this season. Goodbye

Sends 3 of them for the newspaper. Get in.

Ignore that, it only worked for a few minutes and back to being stuck...

Can someone try this to see if it works for Tapatalk on Android for them? I searched for "Tap..." in a file manager and found a folder called "com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity". Delete that and all it's contents. Restart Tapatalk and it recreates everything it needs to, after that the forums seem to come back. Might just be me but possibly the app is leaving something behind even when you un/reinstall.

The unread post feed works OK but the individual forums still won't load. Don't much care now I've figured out the mobile theme. How does tapatalk work? Is it just reading the site via the app or is it processed elsewhere somehow?

Ambivalent about this.

Rob Elliot in Monkseaton at teatime today, so he isn't in Spain. I nearly ran over his foot when hopped out of his car.

Never mind, found it. That'll do.

How do you use the mobile theme?

Properly as in no long load times on individual boards and the search function? If so I might do that again. It was for a few minutes. Then it broke again...