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...
Optimistic Nut 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...
Optimistic Nut 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...
The College Dropout Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The Championship was all the more satisfying for all the media talk pre-season. "The Championship is the toughest league to get out of. I fancy them to struggle. It will be a shock to the Newcastle players." Aye, a shock it was so fucking easy. Didn't Smith play a load of games? At some point wasn't Guthrie/Nolan a dominant midfield partnership? Neither of them can fucking run ffs. We where fortunate in the sense.. half the side where much better players than they had shown the previous year. Geremi/Lovenkrands/Guthrie/Smith aside.. the nucleus of the side are still Premiership players and a couple earned "big" moves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The Championship was all the more satisfying for all the media talk pre-season. "The Championship is the toughest league to get out of. I fancy them to struggle. It will be a shock to the Newcastle players." Chris Kamara tipping us for relegation and Peterborough to go up being the highlight of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 TBH nobody could've known Enrique, Colo, Jonas, Carroll would be so good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Think we started the home game against Leicester with Barton, Smith, Nolan, Butt and Geremi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Geremi wasnt in the side. Our second half of the season side that dominated was. Harper Simpson Williamson Coloccini Enrique Routledge Guthrie Nolan Jonas Lovenkrands Carroll Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Geremi wasnt in the side. Our second half of the season side that dominated was. Harper Simpson Williamson Coloccini Enrique Routledge Guthrie Nolan Jonas Lovenkrands Carroll Dat English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 The Championship was all the more satisfying for all the media talk pre-season. "The Championship is the toughest league to get out of. I fancy them to struggle. It will be a shock to the Newcastle players." Chris Kamara tipping us for relegation and Peterborough to go up being the highlight of that. Wait what Seriously? That's ridiculous Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Shola scored pretty much every game he played, Fitz Hall was class, Routledge was practically Bale and Harewood was brilliant. The Championship Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I usually just laugh in the face of my mates who support Championship clubs and say its a difficult division. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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