I'm a big believer in confidence and our season fixtures ensured ours teams confidence was shot to **** before we got a run of winning games... now we've failed to win enough of them and the cycle repeats
No takeover and it really doesn't matter. Rafa will leave, our best players will leave and we''ll be playing Sunderland again but not in the Checkatrade cup.
Yes, but not this year. Next season it will be different and before we know it there'll be a series of North East derbies between Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Darlington. Middlesbrough will be the flagship club of the area. In the First Division.
You're right we're done for. If only the Premiership went beyond January we would have the chance to drag ourselves back up the table by playing games against the other weak clubs too.
No we won't. Fortunately there are at least three worse sides than us on paper. If we went down the manager would have to shoulder the blame as a job done poorly. I can't see that happen as Rafa is competent and has the tools at his disposal to avoid it. I also think his style of football is very suited to the modern day relegation fight.
