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Match Day Thread Bolton Wanderers v Sunderland - Saturday 21st September KO 15:00

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Sep 19, 2019.

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Your prediction

Poll closed Sep 21, 2019.
  1. Home win

    9.1%
  2. Away win

    54.5%
  3. 1-1

    24.2%
  4. 1-3

    12.1%
  1. Nads

    Nads Well-Known Member

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    Pretty much my exact thoughts on how we should be playing.

    About the only combo he hasn’t tried and very much the one that could have saved his arse for me.
     
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  2. The Norton Cat

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    And here's my answer again:
    "I'm confident that Ross has the ability get SAFC promoted. But to say that a manager can take any given group of players and achieve drastically different results is too simplistic."
    I've stated, repeatedly, that I think it's a more complicated than boiling it down to the level of can he or can't he. Why is that so difficult to grasp? Or is it just that you feel the need to be able to say you've "won" an argument?
     
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  3. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    That's the only question that actually matters.

    Irrelevent anyway, there are people at the club today deciding his future.

    Hopefully they'll answer the question ....
     
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  4. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    It would be much more straightforward if you just answered the (simple) question, mind :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  5. Nads

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    That will never with Gee.
     
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  6. Dorset

    Dorset Well-Known Member

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    My answer to the question is no.

    Cheerio!
     
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  7. The Norton Cat

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    Yeah, I've been saying it's a simple question
    Maybe they will. What I'm more interested in is why can't he? If they answer that question then maybe the club will move forward, either with him or without him.
     
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  8. Nads

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    Theres 31 games worth of evidence to suggest he can’t mate. Just saying.
     
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  9. The Norton Cat

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    Yeah, I agree with that. And there's all the stuff about his **** selections and weird line ups. I realise everyone is probably bored of this bullshit now but I'll just say that I don't think managers start losing games and doing weird things for no reason and that's what interests me (I realise that not everyone else is) and why I'm not in the 'out' camp.
     
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  10. Nads

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    I get that mate, and I go back to one of the worries for me all along.

    It doesn’t look like he’s ‘lost the players’, it looks like he doesn’t know what to tell them to do.

    That’s a major, major issue.
     
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  11. Smug in Boots

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    Playing O'Nien in 3 totally different positions, in 3 consecutive games, is ludicrous by any standards.

    No wonder they look permanently baffled and lost.

    It's only when they totally abandoned Ross's 'plan' yesterday, in the last 15 minutes, that we looked like scoring <doh>
     
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  12. The Norton Cat

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    It is definitely a major issue. But its also really strange. Usually it's the other way around isn't it?. Maybe they've lost him, if you see what I mean, or they can't do what he asks them to and so he's at a loss as to what to do.
     
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  13. Nads

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    Maybe.

    End result is the same. End result is it ain’t happening and it is critical that it starts to.
     
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  14. The Norton Cat

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    True. Looks like he might not get the chance now anyway.
     
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    I take it that a strand of opinion reckons the players and manager have lost their mojo? (If they ever had one to lose)

    Some doubt they will ever find it, unless the ex manure manager maureen takes over?
     
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  16. Nads

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    Peaky Blinders was immense by the way.

    Not strictly on topic, I appreciate.
     
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    Incidentally Ozturk had a minor hamstring strain from the Rotherham game which is why he didn't start.
     
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  19. gelders pie

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    Love it when things don’t go the obvious way (as like game of thrones ). Can’t wait for next series - another year to wait ?
     
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  20. Nads

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    Aye, what a bastard.

    I knew it was gonna end like that cos that Moseley character is based on a real person, just, as always, didn’t know how they were gonna make it so.

    Such a good show.
     
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