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Despite the strange fawning love they always seem to have for managers, chairmen, owners, no matter how bad they are (party with Marty, Paolo's revolution etc, etc) even they must be starting to realise that in their predicament Tony "the charver" Pulis would have been a better choice than the egotistical Gus "the poo" Poyet  ?

 

Sunderland - like Newcastle are a difficult team to manage. Place & Pulis are a great fit. Palace would be delighted to have 5 consecutive years in the Premiership playing hoofball - despite producing some very talented footballers.

 

Sunderland on the other hand..... make otherwise decent managers (based on previous jobs and current jobs MON & Bruce are decent) look terrible.

 

Agree with all of that except that Bruce and MoN are good managers. O'Neills Villa were shocking to watch with their one dimensional football, and Bruce's myth is only perpetuated by his media muckers.

 

We'll get beat off West Ham tomorrow, and that'll be us gone. To be honest I'll be relieved when it's over, then we can start clearing out the utter s**** that's been infesting our club for the last 5 years. If we have to suffer more than one season in the Championship, then so be it. 

 

You have signed a s*** load of players the last two windows haven't you? How many do you think will stay?

 

Can they keep Virgini? Please.

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Despite the strange fawning love they always seem to have for managers, chairmen, owners, no matter how bad they are (party with Marty, Paolo's revolution etc, etc) even they must be starting to realise that in their predicament Tony "the charver" Pulis would have been a better choice than the egotistical Gus "the poo" Poyet  ?

 

Sunderland - like Newcastle are a difficult team to manage. Place & Pulis are a great fit. Palace would be delighted to have 5 consecutive years in the Premiership playing hoofball - despite producing some very talented footballers.

 

Sunderland on the other hand..... make otherwise decent managers (based on previous jobs and current jobs MON & Bruce are decent) look terrible.

 

MON isn't otherwise decent at all. Villa are still paying for his stint there. Ask brummie about how decent O'Neill is.

Won trophies with Leicester had them comfortably Midtable. Took Celtic to UEFA Cup final and had some good runs in Europe with them.  Had Villa challenging for top 4. Had some poor signings and wasted money but he had some successful signings.

 

Prior to Sunderland he was never a manager who get involved in relegation scraps. He had his ceiling in the Premiership but never a bad manager. Until he joined Sunderland.

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I dunno Brummie was quite damning of his Villa days, got the feeling of a manager who'd passed his sell by date. Agree a lot of the problem at Sunderland is players not up to the task but don't think MON can escape the blame entirely. Paolo was always going to be a disaster, I think Gus has at times (especially against us, mind we couldn't have rolled over more for them) made them look solid but is working with terrible players, not sure he's great but I don't think he's done much wrong with them, the players just aren't very good and he's had to inherit them.

 

Their transfer policy has got them in this mess imo.

 

Bruce seems to be doing well with Hull tbh, I've liked them when they're playing well, granted they are very inconsistent.

 

I'm not sure Sunderland would stay down forever even if they don't bounce back up, I suspect they will clear out the deadwood and be ok. I think we would have imploded way worse if we'd stayed down another season.

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I like this, not sure how accurate it can be mind, would have thought Norwich would have less chance of going down than WBA. Maybe that's where opinion comes in, mine or theirs.

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Think the difference will be due to Norwich's horrible run in - think their last 4 games are the top 4.

 

 

could be significant, depends on the order, season could be over by the last two games tho.

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Think the difference will be due to Norwich's horrible run in - think their last 4 games are the top 4.

 

 

could be significant, depends on the order, season could be over by the last two games tho.

 

 

last game arsenal- who could be out of the title by then, and thinking about an Fa cup final?

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Think the difference will be due to Norwich's horrible run in - think their last 4 games are the top 4.

 

 

could be significant, depends on the order, season could be over by the last two games tho.

 

 

last game arsenal- who could be out of the title by then, and thinking about an Fa cup final?

That's yourself your talking too there you know.
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Think the difference will be due to Norwich's horrible run in - think their last 4 games are the top 4.

 

 

could be significant, depends on the order, season could be over by the last two games tho.

 

 

last game arsenal- who could be out of the title by then, and thinking about an Fa cup final?

That's yourself your talking too there you know.

 

:lol:

 

Everton will probably push Arsenal all the way for 4th like. They'll need to keep winning in the league till/if Everton drop off.

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Despite the strange fawning love they always seem to have for managers, chairmen, owners, no matter how bad they are (party with Marty, Paolo's revolution etc, etc) even they must be starting to realise that in their predicament Tony "the charver" Pulis would have been a better choice than the egotistical Gus "the poo" Poyet  ?

 

Sunderland - like Newcastle are a difficult team to manage. Place & Pulis are a great fit. Palace would be delighted to have 5 consecutive years in the Premiership playing hoofball - despite producing some very talented footballers.

 

Sunderland on the other hand..... make otherwise decent managers (based on previous jobs and current jobs MON & Bruce are decent) look terrible.

 

Agree with all of that except that Bruce and MoN are good managers. O'Neills Villa were shocking to watch with their one dimensional football, and Bruce's myth is only perpetuated by his media muckers.

 

We'll get beat off West Ham tomorrow, and that'll be us gone. To be honest I'll be relieved when it's over, then we can start clearing out the utter s**** that's been infesting our club for the last 5 years. If we have to suffer more than one season in the Championship, then so be it. 

 

You have signed a s*** load of players the last two windows haven't you? How many do you think will stay?

 

If everyone leaves who I'd expect to leave I reckon we're taking on the Champo with a squad of

 

Mannone (Hopefully)

 

Laing

Brown/Egan

O'Shea

Roberge

 

Bridcutt

Cattermole

Ba

 

Wickham/Karlsson

Graham

Scocco/Watmore

 

Plus whoever we can bring in. I imagine we'll probably get Buckley from Brighton. Looking at that we'd still need two full backs, a centre half, a couple of midfielders at least one of which knows that league and a reserve keeper. And thats with me being optimistic and hoping a few kids can step up.

 

If we go down careful planning is needed. Keeping Poyet is crucial, as is allowing him to build his own side from the ground up.

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