Zippity Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I really enjoyed the Championship season. We were winning regularly and well, the crowd was up for it and there wasn't as much diving around and playacting as in the Premiership. (there just wasn't). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Aye, we had Harper, Krul Simpson, R.Taylor Enrique, van Aanholt/Kadar Coloccini, S.Taylor Williamson, Hall/Khizanishvili Routledge, Pancrate Jonas Barton, Nolan, Guthrie Carroll, Lovenkrands, Ranger, Ameobi, Best in the Championship, even after selling off a fair few. I doubt Sunderland's squad will look like that after players leave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 A serious question for all you Newcastle fans. I know lots of you will laugh when we go down, and I actually don't mind that as that's what football rivalry is partly about, but do you think relegation is such a bad thing ? I've got to be honest and say I'd rather stay up, but I look at your team now, and compare them to the tarts who took you down, and it's like chalk and cheese. Relegation certainly done no harm to Newcastle in the longer term, and I've read many posts on this forum from fans who enjoyed the Championship. Wouldn't say I particularly enjoyed the Championship. There were some decent away trips but at home most of our opponents just rolled over for us, a lot of games were won before half time and in general I found the overall quality of the league to be very poor and I was glad we only spent one season down there. Probably the best thing about it all was the way the fans stuck by the club and our 44,000 average that season was astonishing. Things will be different if Sunderland go down. I don't think you'll keep the nucleus of your team like we did and the fans certainly won't stick with the club in the way we did and I can't imagine it being very enjoyable watching your team at home to Bournemouth on a freezing January night in a stadium not even half full which will be the case. However I still don't think Sunderland will go down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Aye, we had Harper, Krul Simpson, R.Taylor Enrique, van Aanholt/Kadar Coloccini, S.Taylor Williamson, Hall/Khizanishvili Routledge, Pancrate Jonas Barton, Nolan, Guthrie Carroll, Lovenkrands, Ranger, Ameobi, Best in the Championship, even after selling off a fair few. I doubt Sunderland's squad will look like that after players leave. ---------------------------- Harper ---------------------------- Simpson ----------- Willo ------ Colo ------------- Enrique Routledge ------ Guthrie ----- Nolan -------------- Jonas -------------------- Carroll ------ Lovenkrands ------------- We were always gonna absolutely piss it, like. We were coasting until January, then we mugged QPR for Routledge and hall - allowing Guthrie to move central. It was plain sailing weather after that. Think our last defeat, at Derby, was around February? After that, paha. Thoroughly enjoyed that season. Had a ST n'all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 i was looking at sunderlands squad the other day man, fucking hell i actually said to the bloke next to they need to get relegated or they're going to just spend a fortune again trying to stay up...in all honesty the best thing for them* would be for them to go down and start fresh *best for us too obviously Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. It was the Palace away win, about three games in, I was like "oh, so we're going to absolutely walk this, then?" I can remember being fearful of the task before the season started. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. Yeah, the September/October time wasn't run when we were losing to Blackpool, Scunthorpe and Forest wasn't fun, nor sending a team of kids to Peterborough in the Carling Cup. Turning point was Doncaster at home when it was 1-1 with 5 minutes left, going down to 10-men, then winning it in injury-time. Never looked back after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Aye, if you've got an awful team and manager, like Sunderland, it ain't going to be fun. Doncaster on a Wednesday night. Fucking disgusting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. Yeah, the September/October time wasn't run when we were losing to Blackpool, Scunthorpe and Forest wasn't fun, nor sending a team of kids to Peterborough in the Carling Cup. Turning point was Doncaster at home when it was 1-1 with 5 minutes left, going down to 10-men, then winning it in injury-time. Never looked back after that. Aye true that, actually. Can remember my arse clenching when Doncaster went 1 up in that game. Didn't Doncaster miss a penalty before Nolan's winner, too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. It was the Palace away win, about three games in, I was like "oh, so we're going to absolutely walk this, then?" I can remember being fearful of the task before the season started. I remember the Boro v Sheff Utd game, the Friday night before we played WBA away. Think those 4 were the bookies favourites for the league. The Boro-Sheff Utd game was that low quality, any thoughts of us not competing for promotion at the least were wiped away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Championships only fun if you're winning otherwise it's a horrible, low quality league. Yeah, the September/October time wasn't run when we were losing to Blackpool, Scunthorpe and Forest wasn't fun, nor sending a team of kids to Peterborough in the Carling Cup. Turning point was Doncaster at home when it was 1-1 with 5 minutes left, going down to 10-men, then winning it in injury-time. Never looked back after that. Aye true that, actually. Can remember my arse clenching when Doncaster went 1 up in that game. Didn't Doncaster miss a penalty before Nolan's winner, too? Yeah, that ex-mackem Woods blazed it well over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Loved the championship season tbh. Winning every game and actually being shocked if we weren't winning a game, mint. After the shit fest of villa park, I was gutted but it was a great season IMO. Carroll, Nolan that PVA lad we had for a bit. Random. "Yeah yeah, Carroll & Nolan got 20 goals each but after that the kid we had on loan for 7 games is my outstanding memory" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Colo/Enrique, Jonas and Carroll on the left side of the field, man. It's a wonder how we didn't win literally every game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Enrique and Jonas in our own corner winning the ball back, and a one-two later and one or the other was half way inside the other team's half. That and the Pancrate/R.Taylor double subs. Memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 From August to January if everyone was fit we had like a set 10 who would play then you didn't know if Hughton was going to drop the Geremi bomb or play Lovenkrands on the wing to make up the 11. The squad was basically selotaped together with stop gaps on loan like big Marlon who everybody hated for a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Pancrate Who even was that lad? Scored a lovely goal against Watford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The Geremi bomb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Pancrate Who even was that lad? Scored a lovely goal against Watford. He's still palying in Ligue 1, remarkably Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Pancrate. Such a random player but I'm certain I'll remember him in 20 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Overall they have a good chance of coming back up, the only issue I can really see is getting nothing in return of losing about 10 players or so. We managed to bring in good money for a few, even if they sold Fletcher, Johnson, Cattermole, Altidore, giaccherini, o'shea they'd still get less than what we got for bassong & martins. Not sure how much money they'll have to play with. We didn't need a rebuild on the scale they do, however there are still plenty positives they can take from relegation, whether they do or just add to their problems remains to be seen. Keeping hold of Poyet might be a task in itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/omgcw.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 As others have said, I really don't think Sunderland have the players for relegation. Doesn't help they have practically signed a whole new squad in the last 12/18 months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I smashed my pint glass off the floor of the pub when West Brom scored in the last minute of our first game, before it got disallowed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Didnt Duff score our goal as well then he fucked off not long after Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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