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Glad somebody else said it and put it more eloquently than I would have.

We as Sunderland fans in general do have an inflated view of how important being a "big club" is. Most of the footballers playing today have only been alive during a period where we've mostly been the butt of jokes. Its only recently we are being seen as having a plan and being an attractive proposition.

As an example, when Jobe was born (let alone started following football), Anthony Le Tallec was a Sunderland player. His entire personal memory of Sunderland has been since then.

 

And on that entirely unrelated note - Kieran Richardson and Craig Gordon was a sunderland player when Chris Rigg was just born. Crikey that makes me feel old.

 

Vauxie is a ****ing idiot

 

Played his best football under Mowbray

 

I know where you're coming from there, and I'm proud of the history of the club too, but unless you're about 100, or from the local area, then us being Sunderland just isn't all that. If you look at the last 5 years, we've been mainly a third tier club ourselves.

 

Chris Rigg is 3 months older than my son. THAT makes me feel old

 

If that’s who the team what, that’s who I want.

 

I can see both sides. We havent been much to write home about for a while on the pitch. That said if you look at what we could be then we can dream.

We have an unbelievable support. Home and Away. That counts and can make results easier to come by. We are a 1 club city with a massive catchment. Helps both support and academy players. On the academy Cat1 status is huge for us and will set us above other clubs with a 'similar model' but without that crown jewel to feed it. The AOL is a hell of a facility as well. That is all the ingredients you need to make a club a prospect for major success. The challenge is now creating the playing success. Massive upward trajectory in the last 2 season. If we do get ptomoted in the next couple of years then I suspect KLD and family and friends have the wealth to add that last bit of something to take us above the likes of Brentford. So I do see where people come from when we want Sunderland to be seen as having major potential. It might be 3 to 5 years away, but the ambition should be there for us all.

 

Burnley are trying to do things on the cheap again i see ..

Burnley have had a £9m+extras bid rejected by Southampton for Nathan Tella.

Tella wants to play in the Premier League with Burnley after enjoying his spell here last season, but Southampton are holding out for between £15m & £20m

[Alan Nixon]

 

They’re not even being tight, they’re being down right cheeky.

 

Aye. The vast majority of our transfer business has been good since KLD came in. They have my trust

 

Read an article a while back about how a french club revolutionised the way they did transfer targeting using data aiming to develop and make profits further down the line while growing their club. It might have been Lyon???
20 odd years ago - anyway the position they had least success with was centre forward for some reason. Overall highly successful though.

 

Bradley Dack, who some are writing off as too old is 3 years younger than my youngest child.....now that makes me feel really old TC

 

I hope nobody writes him off because of his age mind. We have done well with signing young players no doubt. But I would argue probably one of our best 2 or 3 signings has been Danny Baath. Pritch as well has had a huge impact. Dont get me wrong, I love watching the younguns do their stuff but the odd older lad, show what standards look like etc, go a long way to developing the young lads. I have a feeling we will enjoy Dack, fingers crossed.

 

i keep thinking of dack (no, not 'that' way) and i know i struggle with names these days but i seem to remember either him or someone remarkably similar looking being a complete pain in the @rse against us...if it his him i remember then i hope he has completey recovered from his injuries.

 

Couple of lovely Friday scarf pics would be nice.

 

I don't think you'd have to be Alan Nixon to come to that conclusion! David Nixon Maybe

 

I think its a gamble but if he stays injury free then we have got a real bargain. Like you say Pritch has been a revelation and just remember he was run out of Hudderfield they though he was ****e. No argument a fit Bradley Dack is a very good addition to the squad.