Match Day Thread Sunderland v Burnley - Saturday 7th January KO 15:00 FA Cup 3rd Round

He plays not to get beat, mate.

I can't believe he didn't throw our young forwards on and instead brought on O'Shea.

 

Exactly - why not give a few of the young-uns a run out for the last 30 minutes at least.

 

Drives me mad that. We've even lost a few games because he shat himself and tried to play for the draw rather than push for a winner.

 

Did Moyes think we were getting a point from that game or something? Bafflingly negative management.

 

It's why he has probably got the worst record in the premier league against the big clubs.

He ****es himself and shuts up shop in the hope of squeezing a draw. He even done it at Man Utd the useless ****.

 

Diabolical that. We may as well have had a bench of 1.

I`m not sure he had any intention of getting the kids on unless for an injury

 

This has pissed me off as well.

The most boring substitution in the history of football.

For ****S sake Dave, this was the best possible opportunity to give a couple of younguns a chance, literally a win-win situation. If they **** it up who cares, no more cup distraction. If they smash it we're in the next round haooy days, a nice little morale boost, and may even discover a hidden gem who could help us out amidst this massive i jury crisis.

But nah dave **** it, go ahead and put john o ****ing shea on and play for the bore draw you stupid ****.

 

Totally agree.

He's just give our ravaged squad more games to contend with, as well

 

Sounds like all this business of bringing on the youths was so much claptrap. The only 2 in the team is Watmore who was already playing and Pickford which was forced on him by injury to Mannone.

Bloody annoying me now this like. Getting a strop on.

 

Don't worry about it Burnley are probably **** at home.

 

What happened in the second half ?, there was a chance for the young players to come on but the jock wanted us to get beat by bringing o Shea on, so that's my last cup game under Short. Barton was a twat as well. Another turning over to look forward to for the reserve team he puts out. we better beat Stoke next week now.

 

Post match email


"It was a disappointing game all round. I thought we played some good football at times in the first half but we dropped off in the second half.

Whether that was a follow on from the game earlier in the week against Liverpool, I’m not sure, but we didn’t really get up to speed today.

The game was always going to be like that, the game at Burnley the other week was just like that, except we conceded goals.

We’ll take a positive that we didn’t concede any goals today and we got a clean sheet.

I thought we passed the ball well, but from that play we didn’t create any clear-cut chances, I think we missed Victor [Anichebe], we needed a target man who would hold the ball up for us.

I thought Jack [Rodwell] did really well, it’s more minutes for him and I was happy with his performance. He’s started to show us the type of player he can be.

We were at home today and we wanted to win, the replay comes in the middle of two important games for us, but so be it, things happen for a reason, you never know what’s best. We go again and let’s hope we can get to the next round."

 

One thing I agree with there is Rodwell. Personally thought for an hour he looked decent. Was our most likely goal threat and when he ran out of steam the last half an hour the whole team seemed to. I thought he did well against Liverpool as well to be fair to him. Hopefully he can stay fit and continue to put in some decent performances and he will be like a new signing for us.

 

Moysy out the scottish c*nt. That was f*cking disgraceful and if I was a youngun I'd be asking for a transfer out of the club. He obviously has no confidence in them. We now have another game we can do without.

Denayer easily our man of the match. Bodgy was good and so was Rodders. Bit embarrassing playing Burnley at home, no disrespect, but they were our best players. Not one forward.

 

It must be very disappointing for them. They must have been expecting at least a couple of them to set foot on the pitch.

I thought Moyes was very lucky not to have another injury or two to cope with. It could have been a lot worse. I wonder what his excuse would have been then.

 

Dont really want Moysy out but I'm seething with that today. Watched it without having a gargle first. Never ever again.

 

Yes, a few glasses of anaesthetic does help.

 

Poor tactics, poor result, nothing learned, a golden opportunity wasted with nothing really to loose, whats wrong with this guy.

 

The match highlights are on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38474794