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Match Day Thread Sunderland v Doncaster Rovers – Saturday 5th February 2022 - KO 15:00

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Feb 2, 2022.

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Your prediction

Poll closed Feb 5, 2022.
  1. Home win

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  1. John Wick

    John Wick Well-Known Member

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    Ball over the line but ref misses it. Their keeper pulls off at least 2 quality saves. Gooch ****ed up at one good chance in the second half as we have a packed box and he ballsed it up pissing about and loosing the ball. Any other week we probably win that.Confidence is low all around, not helped by people that came today for the first time in seasons expecting to watch a team that got twatted 6-0 last week booing like f#*k at the first available opportunity. We're managerless for a reason. Players clearly using Johnsons tactics as no one has really had a chance to work with them. massive improvement needed otherwise its another year down in leauge 1.
     
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  2. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Haven't had a captain since Kevin Ball tbh.
     
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  3. young2077

    young2077 Well-Known Member

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    This for me. Neil and Embelton need a rest. Easy gig for a caretaker just take training for the week play same team and tactics as last week and see what happens.

    Changes needed to be made after last week, I'd we don't get someone in we will see the same on Tuesday.
     
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  4. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    100 % this but the excuses for the windbag will surely follow and the players will be blamed; for the total inability of the coach to pick a decent team or manage a game from the touchline. As far as I am concerned this result will not determine our season, if we get a coach in who knows what he is doing, we should end this season in triumph even now if we get organised.
     
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  5. FellTop

    FellTop Well-Known Member

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    That is automatic done for. These players need so stand up. Too many too comfortable. Maybe I should shut my gob and let Keane get stuck into them. I fear most of them will crumble further. You cant coach character and mentality unfortunately. We dont have enough who want to do it when we dont have the ball.
     
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  6. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Gooch played in three different positions and was still better than Neil and Embleton who are the golden boys.

    Yes he's frustrating but at least he stops looking in the mirror long enough to eat his Trill.
     
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  7. Charley Farley

    Charley Farley Well-Known Member

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    Who is our manager, Is it Ken Dodds?

    I think Hoffman isn’t as good as a lot of people think.

    We have, in my opinion, the best squad in the league but we are so disorganised.
    Keane would be my answer.
     
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  8. monty987

    monty987 Well-Known Member

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    ****ing ****e, end of season this, lazy twats them 2 defenders were a disgrace another humiliation, they are abject.
     
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  9. OldNewtown

    OldNewtown Well-Known Member

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    The beauty of the DoF system is that you can dispose of the head coach and things continue
    Well I think today confirms that this is definitely the case
    Teams get promoted by not conceding soft goals keeping clean sheets and imposing themselves on the opposition. We seem to have forgotten that.
    Need to get back to basics and stop trying to be clever
     
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  10. Essayyeffcee

    Essayyeffcee Well-Known Member

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    Exactly! We need someone to take charge of the players, someone who would scare the **** out of them! I met Bally once at a talk in and I was apprehensive just saying hello!
     
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  11. TopClub

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    Abject
     
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  12. FellTop

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    We dont have any unfortunately. All far too passive. We knew we needed that in Jan, but instead we signed more young wingers with a career to rescue, only to not play them because we are overloaded in those positions.
     
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  13. young2077

    young2077 Well-Known Member

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    I only saw about last 50 - 55 mins and Gooch does give it his all that's never in doubt. He stands out either way for me, if we are playing ****e he is one of the ones who never gets his head down and keeps going but when we are good he is one of the ones who doesn't often make the best of the ball.
     
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  14. The Norton Cat

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    People will continue to blame coaches though. If Johnson was getting it so wrong, the lads in charge today had the chance to show that and cement their places within the club.
     
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  15. Prehab26

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    Worst I have seen Dan Neil today too.
     
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  16. FellTop

    FellTop Well-Known Member

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    Maybe the problem is the person in the DoF role.
     
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  17. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    I said a month ago Burge needs to come back in ...

    ... didn't know his problem at the time.
     
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  18. John Wick

    John Wick Well-Known Member

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    That was just an example of a couple of situations. I'm not a fan of players like Gooch that are seen as "versatile", the are a master of none but are expected to be.3 positions in one game is a joke.
     
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  19. Daz

    Daz Well-Known Member

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    Really don’t think him and Embleton can play together.
     
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  20. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    We haven't got any , its a worry granted, but we might be getting one off the pitch in the next day or two, and we might just see the end of the Johnson blueprint.
     
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