Andy84

Almost full strength, no?

Game vs a potential promotion rival (although have had a poor start), big crowd, on TV feel like this is a game Rafa will have us absolutely bang on. Think we will nick it

Loves a premature dramtic tweet, was 2-0 about 10 mins later. 7 wins in 8

Lowes gets right on my tits, can't listen to the fat f***

Weird that forum like totally unrepresentative of most of Sunderlands support i reckon. Well dressed man, FFS.

Sides who would be in and around them like Palace, Watford, Bourenmouth have much more quality

Football Sounded like Wolves thoroughly deserved their win so fair play. As for us it's just so frustrating why we gave this kind of performance, not even being able to do the basics right FFS. The more Rafa learns about this group and quickly the better though

Would like to see Mitrovic and Gayle but think Diame will play, not a bad thing like. Mbemba for Clark and no other changes

That video is amazing Gives you a better idea of the utter fisting we gave them

I think they'll scrape survival yet again

Still find the league hard to gage, are QPR play off contenders or mid to lower table? Either way it's fantastic to see us click offensively. It's great how we can perform a certain way at a place like Derby then blow a side above them in the table away on their own patch.

Always going to be good having someone like him who we can stick on and can run at the heart of a tiring defence who have probably had to have been concentrating like f*** for 70+ minutes.

These look all over the place, and the form we are in makes for NUFC 1-2 Wolves

They have had 2 very poor recent home results, with this league though it feels like anything can happen.

He's been a virtual spectator in our last few games, from little snippets he is looking more solid

Apparently Gouffran has an injury, we've got some good options there with Atsu and Lazaar. Think Yedlin and Lazaar might both start, I don't think he'll change the CB's

Don't think there is a huge gulf between our squad and a good few PL sides

Way to go on creating a toxic atmosphere around the club. Villa should have won and they will probably be top 6 with their squad. Shows how clueless he is

We are just doing enough to win matches. I'm confident that we will get better and I think we'll dish out some absolute batterings this season.

Think we'll try our tactic of getting a goal in the first half hour then be very compact. Should be good enough to pinch another one on the counter

The ref for this is James Linnington. We've had some s*** refs so far but this bloke could be the worst. If you don't know who he is have a read of this, from Waffle down - http://www.nufc.com/html/2009-10html/2010-01-23westbrom-a.html

PFM Pearson

Too much focus on tactics? Love Rafa me

International breaks, f*** right off man

Solid 8/10, a bit of extra Gayle/Ritchie level quality late in the window would have been canny. But how we function as a team is far more important than looking at individual names. I was convinced at the start of the season we are going to have the best defensive record in the league, we'll see lots of 1-0, 2-0 wins imo. The Brighton performance was a good insight on how we are going to control games this season and we should get much better at doing it.