Yeah roll on the mighty MK dons. Given the stick Donald has got over last month or so it’s fair to say our fans are no longer new fangled with this so called ‘proper football’ anymore either.
It's much more complicated than we'd like to believe. The scenes when we scored the winner at Doncaster were better than many of the goal celebrations I've seen in the PL. How can that be, but it be. The thing is, it's all relative isn't it .... ... sometimes it just all feels bloody great for no particular reason. We've sold 3000 tickets for Saturday, people are planning pubs and meet ups with lads they've been going with for decades plus some they've never met before. It doesn't matter but it means the world. It's our whole life, the most important thing in the world and worth all the time, money and effort ... .... but only on the day because we're not obsessed lunatics who put it before our lives and families. It lifts us out of real life, which is the whole point, you either get it or you don't.
I know the matches I enjoyed being at in the last 40 years and none of them were in the premiership but I would probably change my mind if we were in the top six
Isn't that the whole point about real football, celebrating with strangers when we score, the joy when we nick a last minute winner. The summer when quinn took over was great, arranging with mates to go the Southend and making a weekend of it, the game was ****e, we lost but I saw Arnau play and after the game we went out on this piss and it was soon forgotten.
That’s all well and good but apathy is spreading and the longer we spend in this god awful division the more it will spread and the numbers dwindle. The football served up over this last season and a half has been appalling. I’ve gone from season ticket holder last season to going to 3 games this as it’s just too painful to watch. The takeover seems no further forward and despite putting us up for sale nobody seems to want us. Make no mistake another season in 3rd tier will see numbers drop further and potentially losing fans from the next generation.
What, I'd say this is the best we've felt since we dropped into this league. Everyone I'm meeting on Saturday are absolutely buzzing and can't wait. If you think easily hammering the league leaders 4-0 is painful I'm lost for words tbh.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...otball-for-the-future-stars-who-never-made-it Good story on him, seems like a lovely bloke.
The weekend down Wembley was best we felt imo. It was almost as if we were merely on loan to this level and this was just an adventure to make most of as it wouldn’t happen again. At the minute we are always 1 defeat away Parkinson our, sack the board etc. The SOL has been a pretty miserable place to be when I’ve been there this season. That could of course be due to my presence
As Smug said, we're all feeling much better, even excited . . . . are you deliberately trying to spoil the recent feel good factor to dampen the mood again (or are you just too scared to get excited again)
I think I've seen that before but thanks for posting. Yeah, he does seem like a nice bloke. I really thought we'd found a superstar after that first game at Southend. I wish it had worked out for him with us.
I still believe if someone can harness the potential at safc then the sky is the limit, a team playing attacking football, closing down all the time and giving their all (like the Reid days) would see crowds shoot up. I don't honestly think we expect to much as fans, just a team to be proud of, that wear the shirt with pride and give their all. Trophies would obviously be nice, but to give the real big boys a game, to make them think about playing us rather than sitting back hoping to frustrate them would have the SoL full and the crowd bouncing. It's been said before (often as a complaint) that we cheer a full blown tackle as much as a goal, but that to me is SAFC, it's what I expect from the players, total commitment to the shirt, to leave everything on the pitch. It might not win us lots of games amongst the elite but if I saw that I would cheer and clap every last one of them till it hurt
Hmmm really (Leicester City being the exception which hopefully we can emulate at some point in the future) unless the owners have a huge fortune that can be whittled away year after year. It is hard to be successful without the best players and manager. Unless the PLs FFP rules have some bite, as with Saracens, the richest clubs are the ones most likely to succeed. For the likes of Sunderland, success becomes staying in the PL and perhaps winning one of the cups. In order to break even, we would need to sell either an academy product for a lot of money, or a player that we bought cheap and sell on for a large profit.
"Easy to gloat and point the finger." That's true actually, I should be ashamed ... .... there's only me would do something like that
