Coffee_Johnny

*Not when you’re signing a young player for the future. Might be a Kuol, Harrison, Minteh who actually plays for us!

But often hard to tell the difference.

Sing Yohanna, sing Yohanna, sing Yohanna to the king of kids. 🤷‍♂️(Biblical!)

Love a bit of ‘Foxy’… (except the Fulham-supporting bit, too soon!)

🎵 Anthony, Gordon! Running down the wing, Gordon! Hear the Geordies sing, Gordon! Now we’re supporting Real Madrid 🎵 Not really. Gan canny young Ant. Thanks for destroying Arsenal.

Thanks @Magpie great fun. Congratulations @Froggy 👏

Really? Absurd underperformance? I understand and share your disappointment but a bit of perspective is needed. Our average position in the PL (30 seasons) is 11th. We finished 12th. Lots of context to that, which we're all well aware of.

Welcome back, my man! We've missed you.

To be fair SAFC are nailing the whole peaks and troughs thing! They have come a long way in ten years, but still third best NE team on average.

Yes, must be terrifying seeing them equal their highest ever finish.

Higher bar needed. Much higher bar (says someone from Felling).

Lovely to read a reasoned, rational summary and some proportionate disappointment. I’m all out of words at the moment. Fair play that man 👏.

Unless he is somewhere out of the ordinary surely he’ll be able to find it in some bar? (Bribery may be required if other fan groups are there).

Of course not. Best team (in his/their opinion) to win the match, as per usual. And as per usual no guarantees.

Just had a look at league positions since 1992-93 (all leagues included, so if in PL 1-20, if Championship 21-45 etc). I’ve included mean (average) and median, as latter is less effected by odd outlying seasons. It is prior to this year, but that won’t really make a difference. NUFC’s performance is: mean 11th, median 11th. Best is 2nd (twice), top six 10 times. Season’s outside top flight: 3/33. Sunderland’s performance is: mean 25th, median 21st, top six 0 times. Season’s outside top flight: 17. Middlesbrough’s performance is: mean 22nd, median 22nd, top six 0 times. Season’s outside top flight: 19.