Match Day Thread West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland AFC – Sunday 23rd April 2023 - KO 12:00

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Southern A said:
If spurs have anything about them and the £6m buyback on Cirkin is true, they should be cashing in on that as well. Whether he’d want to go back is another question and I’d hope not having watched his interview.
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Just hope it's not triggered to then sell on.

Some play. 6m is absolutely nowt.
 
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I'd have been gutted to lose that, thought they were really poor and resorted to claiming for anything and everything because we dominated the ball in large spells. They came out high tempo with the crowd behind them as you'd expect a home side to in that scenario. Once we got through the first 15-20 mins we started to get on the ball and had a few opportunities, the Gelhardt deflected one, the good save from the Clarke cut inside and the dipping Diallo effort that went wide. I liked us on the ball, Gelhardt dropped deep and they struggled with him turning, four or five times he was chopped down. They'd largely offered nowt. Right on HT they get a pen. I mean Swift has ****ing cheated. O'nien swings his leg and okay, yes, he misses the ball but he completely misses Swift too. He goes down rolling about like hes been shot and the lino buys it given the crowd all jump on it too. Utter con. The Robson Kanu in the studio at HT has the nerve to justify the decision as well, tosspot.

Second half the come out and use that momentum to get at us early, that spell of blocks in the box was sensational defending. You love to see the lads putting their bodies in the way of it. The equaliser is such good play from Lyndon Gooch. Doubled up on and the chance to cross seemingly gone after he cut back onto his left, but the quick switch right and the cross is a peach, met expertly by Cirkin. Nice to see a team capable of scoring a goal by avoiding attempting to con the officials.

They tried to respond but we largely restricted them. A good stop from a corner from Patto and then much the same pattern of shouting for absolutely anything trying to win freekicks and pens.

The winner is class and sums how we've gone about the season. Patient and tidy on the ball and then the change of tempo and some neat interplay in a tight area. Cirkin prods at it and then slight deflection takes it into the roof of the net away from the keeper. Thought that flattened them as we saw the game out soundly!
 
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what an absolutely fantastic performance from a young side....these kids have something about them....a load...experienced of sides would have collapsed loosing the players we have.....i hope these kids make the playoffs for the experience...they deserve it...but this is sunderland...im expecting fxck all straight forward....what a ride this season has been...TO DATE...& to be continued:emoticon-0160-movie
 
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Southern A said:
Ironically we’d almost certainly be lower half midtable if Alex Neil had stayed, IMO. We would have likely been satisfied enough with that not knowing what the alternative was
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I agree. Neil is a decent championship manager who has spent almost all of his career in England where he is at now, the bottom half of it. With no centre forwards and such a young team every week, it is impossible to think he would have handled the problems as well as TM.
 
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Draig said:
Cracking game.

It is unbelievable to see such a young team display such resilience and such prowess.

It is mad that 09 is one of the old men in the squad!
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Yep, something to watch.

What I've thought is that when the young lads get it going, they present problems other teams just aren't used to. Every attack can and often is different, with players flying everywhere with the ball sticking to their feet. Defenders like a header to win and a tackle to crunch into, and often these lads have them unbalanced and looking a bit desperate.

Bloody great season no matter what happens.
 
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John Wick said:
Watched the first 30 at home and the rest of the 1st half on the radio, both sets of commentary teams had West Brom Penciled in to win so they'll be absolutely foaming.
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The commentary in the studio, then at the match, was shameful tbh.

They excused the WBA cheating and failed to acknowledge how good we were, the only team playing football.

And they kept going on and fu*king on about the 'intimidating atmosphere' when we made most of the noise ffs <laugh>
 
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rowley said:
I agree. Neil is a decent championship manager who has spent almost all of his career in England where he is at now, the bottom half of it. With no centre forwards and such a young team every week, it is impossible to think he would have handled the problems as well as TM.
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He'd have spat his dummy out big style,no doubt about it, Mowbray does mention it in passing but he uses it in a positive way. Challenges the players to respond. Love it.
 
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