TheBrownBottle

Yep - the only two positions where the role hasn’t changed for most formations since the introduction of numbers are 9 and 11 - and no-one uses ‘number 11’ as a synonym for a left winger. Even though full backs were 2 & 3 in a 2-3-5 formation, it wasn’t the same as the full back in a 4-4-2

I can’t ever picture a ‘6’ being anything but a left-sided centre half, given that it was the old left-half number when the numbering first came in in the late ‘30s. Not sure when everyone decided on describing positions as numbers, but it doesn’t make a lick of sense to do so - football formations and positions aren’t rigid, so describing a position by a number isn’t a great idea.

Sometimes reading football positions as numbers feels like playing bingo, but Bruno isn’t a deep lying forward nor is he a second striker at all in my view - he absolutely isn’t a ‘10’. If by ‘8’ we’re talking an attacking centre mid, then he’s already shown that he absolutely can play there.

Longstaff’s heed mid-‘tackle’:

He’s a WUM mate. Not worth bothering with - he’s been on NUFC Twitter for a while, with his spectacularly shit takes

Nope

Yep, delewdid. I posted somewhere further back that Potter’s full remuneration package at Chelsea was the equivalent of a massive chunk of Sunderland’s current turnover - something crazy like his base being 50% of their income. They’re blissfully unaware of their status and position (including when they’re a top flight club). Which eats them up inside - because when they give it the ‘delewdid jawdees think they’re massive’ shite, it is deep down projection - it is what they think of themselves, but they try not to vocalise it too loud because everyone would simply laugh at them.

Who exactly did they think they were going to get FFS? I thought we were the ‘delewdid’ ones. NB I thought Beale was going a decent job at QPR before he went to the other Rangers, but he also comes across as an arrogant arse.

The fitness requirements for the sport these last couple of decades have increased hugely - the strain put on the body must be incredible (even for super-fit athletes)

97/98 is the only season since the PL breakaway where all three promoted clubs went down. But none of those sides were close to being as bad as this lot - Bolton and Barnsley were decent (Barnsley played good football, too), and even Palace weren’t completely shite and had some good players.

Cue both being MIA for seven months

They’re broken. Just utterly fucking broken. Whatever happens in January, we know we’ve absolutely broken the mad, paranoid clowns.

Fuck it, I can feel my confidence returning. A breezy 4-2 win

I always assumed WideopenMag was from Wideopen

Yep. Lost on me why they’d spend their time at the match videoing yourself and your mates. Put the camera phone down and watch the game, ffs

.com is still used pretty much daily by me too.

good lad

Tbf Ashworth’s summer signings haven’t worked out that well so far …

I thought they’d love the SOS being 85% Mackem to 15% Mag. They love Mag-Mackem ratios, and that ratio must be the highest in the north east.

Honestly, I think the lass is joking with this one

Have to admit, I thought this one was funny

I remember him doing that - which would usually get a comment from my dad or uncle about ‘dodgy European keepers flapping instead of catching’. Like you, I was impressed that a keeper could start a counter attack in a split second.

I think what’s getting lost on this one is that it wasn’t a display of all-out attacking football; it was just unintelligent football. Schar and Burn were repeatedly further forward than Bruno and Joelinton. Who is more likely to cause damage? Schar gets caught upfield - but our completely disjointed midfield were behind him and had opportunities to stop the attack. We didn’t concede because of some heroic display of Keegan-style attacking football. We conceded because we were stupid and naive. Howe’s comments, for once, were not impressive on this one.

He gives nowt away, does he? I love that he doesn’t - and still find it a little annoying that we don’t get those titbits. He’s absolutely right not to, nonetheless.

How the fuck do we keep attracting weird, posh Tories though? Grimes is a far right cunt, but it’s understandable that he supports us. Andrews and Hancock? Fuck me.