And I do actually have a lot of time for you as the super-mod mate on this board, which is why I thought the recipe thing was bang out of order. I didn't cry (well much anyway lol) but was disappointed. BTW - as will all of this, should we sign 2 top class forwards/wingers and then go on a fantastic 10 match unbeaten run or something, I will happily look the prize tit for you all. That said, I truly dont expect to look like a tit at anytime soon. PS - can you have a look at an earlier post I was supposed to have made which one of the obsessed bell ends posted about me craving attention and love? I didn't post that but it is under my user name? Have a look Syd will you, with your computer boffins who run the site, as surely user security and integrity is a key word with you all.
One press report suggests Ellis Short is bringing a couple more Americans on board which will "weaken" NQs position at the club...hope this is true like!...
George Gillette and Bill Hicks do for you Tiz. Good to see you out of the asylum Cest, shame he has stopped taking the medication. I'm giving Bruce till Christmas or 3 consecutive defeats. Remember, its not how you start its how you finish, ask Blackpool, Birmingham etc, We are making chances galore - not the sign of a bad team, we need a striker or an existing striker to hit form, badly.
We are also conceding chances galore though. I find it hard to take that Gyan who is supposed to be our number 1 striker looks bit over weight compared to last season and imo he will score no more than 10 goals all season. As we all saw against Swansea he could have set up other players but couldn't even be arsed to look up and pick the SIMPLE pass out. He dosn't look like he cares. As for Gillette and Hicks...no thanks but if Short brings more money men on board and they happen to be from the north pole that will do me. NQ's untouchable position at the SOL looks not so untouchable at the minute and it's about time Short started making life a bit more uncomfortable for Bruce AND NQ imo like...
we have conceded two goals Tiz despite conceding possession - but thats always going to happen, - it only becomes a real concern when a goal is conceded as a result - but I hear what your saying. Its the stupid free kicks around the box that do my head in!! I was expecting the sucker punch yesterday I really was. Totally agree about Gyan, a real disappointment for him to return so unfit - and I reckon he is yet to get fully focused on the job in hand either. As long as the yanks bring their wallets then I don't mind - but money is tight in the USA - but not the Hicks/Gillette types is all I'm saying.
I'm sure that was you in the next bed then kidda? Ask yourself this question then. WHY are we not winning games of we are so creative and positive? WHY have we scored 1 goal in 4 games? The answer may lie in the fact we dont have a goal scorer at the club. Ask then who sold our best one for years and did not replace him ( 8 months and almost a transfer window and a half later) and you may find the answer. Now we are panicking like **** to try and rectify a gross error on the manager and the boards behalf. A striker and a left sided midfield player were priorities at the end of a disappointing finish to the 2010/11 season. I dont think there is a supporter who thought differently for the past 4 months and yet here we are, 3 days away from a very worrying development in not scoring goals and still no striker. Call that good effective professional way to run a club? I beg to differ.
No it isnt too much to ask and there are alot of your comments I agree with. However, we don't know what is really going on behind the scenes and never will. Everyone has their own opinions and rightly so but sometimes these opinions are so off the wall that I wonder where they come from. We don't know that we have not been in the market for a top class striker but have so far been unsuccessful. Everyone wants a striker who can score goals however some are not keen to move to the NE as we know. I am a half full person and prefer to base my opinions on fact and not supposition.
I'm fairly sure Bruce had little option than to sell Bent, it was made clear every player had his price and that what we also saw with Henderson. Yes, I'm sure all Sunderland fans would end up in an asylum when asked why do you support this club. We could end up with Steve McLaren, I'm telling you!
please log in to view this image Cest you're a ****ing pussy, crawling back with your tail between your legs! That's for the any of the condescending Mackem members of the intelligentsia who thinks you are my hero. I actually lied responding to that jibe, I said my last hero was John Lennon, it was actually Bill Hicks! Welcome back mate, like I said, I don't always agree with you, but you're always a damn fine read. When I do agree with you, shouldn't make me an arse licker either, it should just mean we agree. We agree on Bruce. Isn't it odd we are in the wrong for questioning Bruce's ability? Yet the same ones having a go at us, feel it is fine to have a go at GYAN! What the difference is I have no idea, must just be in their worlds it is allowed. I personally thought Gyan drew a couple of good saves from their keeper. (Who I was mighty impressed with over the whole game, very commanding.) And both times there were defenders in the way of the square pass. Opinions eh? It seems the Bruce out Brigade is now "mine" for some strange reason! As all I have ever done, is question Bruce's managerial skills, I do find this baffling. As I have said on numerous occasions I'm not a member of any brigade. I am a SUNDERLAND SUPPORTER voicing an opinion, MY opinion! Some of the pro Bruce supporters cross the line and abuse fellow Mackem's for not towing their line. Totally out of order IMHO, congratulations to the majority of the so called BOB's for showing respect to fellow Sunderland fans and not responding in kind! When it would have been more than warranted. Right I'm off to be condescended to by Mackemman.
In fairness if a player wants to leave I think he should be allowed to as long as we get top dollar for him...which we just about did. It's no good having a player on the pitch if his heart isn't in it and Bent was rubbish for the preceeding few months anyway to prove my point. We didn't really have time to replace him in that window but should have done it in this one. We were promised a top quality replacement and that we were keeping the money till the summer to do so...now they pretend Sessagnon is a striker and is the replacement in effect. Bollocks!...
is it this one? Originally Posted by Cestriamackem I crave on attention. Please love me people!. If it is its easy to answer, when you reply to a comment the comment shows and you can edit it, its a flaw in the system to me, I have edited yours for example, changed the words in red
Scatty, in these days of 24/7 Sky Sports reporting, players using twitter, face book interaction, Internet gossip and journalistic probing etc, then if we had been in for a striker (ANY striker) it would have been picked up on or leaked. The days of everything being done behind closed doors is long gone. I genuinely believe that Bruce convinced Quinny and Short that he could save some money (and get back into the good books at the same time) by using Gyan and Sessegnon to spearhead out attack this season, with Wickham (a huge investment) and Won kept in the reserve for the first campaign. That has been severely derailed by 2 draws and 2 defeats (a derby and cup game) and only 1 goal in 4 games. Bruce now finds himself totally buggered and scratching around looking for a striker that he should have sourced, earmarked to come (he has had 8 months to do this BTW) and then signed at the beginning of August immediately. PS - before anyone comes along and asks for names etc of players we should have signed, I'm not the manager as I am constantly told and Brcue apprently is far, far more wordly wise in terms of footballing intelligence than I evcer will be so its down to his call not mine. PPS - Shane Long is one I would have bought for a start. £6m or £7m and the deal would have been done already. there are quite a few others too.
That will be it then Syd. Nee bother. Its flattering I suppose that on an Internet forum where no-one knows each other, a bunch of knuckle dragging ****wits would go to so much bother to have a pop at me. I find it savagely amusing and a touch sad on their behalf. Rock on and FTM
