It's been emotional these past two days.
Never in my life have I been so confident of a result against them lot. But as I sat watching a dodgy feed of the game that old familiar feeling inevitably swept across me. "Oh ****. Here we go again". We all felt it. Didn't we?
We finally have a squad that if they were wearing any other colours other than Sunderland would surly slaughter Newcastle. Unfortunately we are Sunderland. We want to beat them so much that defeat is almost unbearable.
I'm sure the players felt it. I'm positive Bruce was aware of it and I'm certain it didn't help our performance.
Yesterday has split our support down the middle. Some are at the end of their tether. Not because of Saturday, it's the years of utter, utter tripe we have had to suffer. Who can honestly blame them?
For me however, I can see improvement going on. Obviously not in our derby record, that is shockingly bad. Improvement in league position, improvement in squad, improvement in our standing in the game. Most neutrals expected us to walk yesterdays match. That's a complete turn around from the days of Keegan and the very funny twelve point lead fiasco.
IMO we are still a club very much on the up. Despite the odd blip.
To the doubters I say give Bruce till Xmas. Then if we are anywhere near bottom seven. Crucify him. Until then. Let's try and back him and Quinny to the hilt
After all, we all want the same thing at the end of the day.
Never in my life have I been so confident of a result against them lot. But as I sat watching a dodgy feed of the game that old familiar feeling inevitably swept across me. "Oh ****. Here we go again". We all felt it. Didn't we?
We finally have a squad that if they were wearing any other colours other than Sunderland would surly slaughter Newcastle. Unfortunately we are Sunderland. We want to beat them so much that defeat is almost unbearable.
I'm sure the players felt it. I'm positive Bruce was aware of it and I'm certain it didn't help our performance.
Yesterday has split our support down the middle. Some are at the end of their tether. Not because of Saturday, it's the years of utter, utter tripe we have had to suffer. Who can honestly blame them?
For me however, I can see improvement going on. Obviously not in our derby record, that is shockingly bad. Improvement in league position, improvement in squad, improvement in our standing in the game. Most neutrals expected us to walk yesterdays match. That's a complete turn around from the days of Keegan and the very funny twelve point lead fiasco.
IMO we are still a club very much on the up. Despite the odd blip.
To the doubters I say give Bruce till Xmas. Then if we are anywhere near bottom seven. Crucify him. Until then. Let's try and back him and Quinny to the hilt
After all, we all want the same thing at the end of the day.
