Summer window

I wouldnt be surprised if a team gets into the playoffs with 69 points this season. Its so competitive that there will be loads of teams only seperated by a few points so wouldnt surprise me if a team gets in with 69 points. I reckon therell be around 16 teams that will fancy getting into the playoffs

I cant wait for it to start this weekend, love the championship

 

Well said marra

 

Any ideas who the striker is that's close to signing? Cannon still not went to Preston yet, so maybe him?

 

You also said “support the team FFS”, just because some people moan and groan on a forum, which to be fair if we all agreed would be a pretty **** messageboard, it doesn’t mean that they don’t support the team when it matters. I can moan and gripe about performances all I want on here, it sometimes is a good way to vent, but when the time comes, I’m there hoping and cheering for the best. We had a pretty **** home record last season and I can honestly say I never booed them off once. I’m not saying I haven’t in the past mind, but those ****ers who capitulated at the thought of playing in the championship, thoroughly deserved it.

 

This squad is better than last season. You add 2 or 3 top loans and it becomes very strong and competitive

 

Correct, there has to be year on year improvement, which with our younger lads should be the case

Agree mate, our away form got us into the playoffs.... positive is surely our home form cant be any worse, which in my mind was heavily effected by RS injury & no replacement, i get the nervousness around not having enough strikers, im sure club , inc KS will be aware & looks like being addressed ref TMs comments.

Adding to my last post, we currently have 3 strikers, plus Dack & Jewi who are not ideal but can play there....we didnt have that last season, we brought in Gelhart, Jewi was year younger then injured

 

We need someone with a bit of experience imho

 

Well pointed out....im presuming by this were targeting the higher end loan players

 

Thats why i think cannon would be good, hes played in the league before so knows what its like

Theres no obvious striker that has loads of championship experience thats worth signing imo

 

Agree,imo he's the best prospect we've been linked with. Would calm some nerves if we could get him.

 

And there's your answer.

 

Top post marra

 

The Hartlepool result has no influence on my thinking. That’s just players getting to know each other without a spine. Do I think we have signed good promising exciting players? Yes. Does our future look good? Yes. Am I over all unhappy no. Do I think the current squad is a genuine promotion candidate ? No - because we have to have more players than we currently have able to finish

 

I think it’s unrealistic to expect a 19 year old to maintain form in a new country for a whole season. I think it’s a good buy it’s just not enough. With regards to Stewart I think he needs genuine competition so we sign that, if he leaves we replace him. We need three who can play up top over a season. If we want to go up that is. I’m not sure we do I think we’re still building for the future but every year we fail to go up we will lose some quality players. Only way to stop that is promotion.

 

That's why I liked his post, saved me from the awful experience

 

Lawrence Shankland would be decent. Experienced. Goals.

 

The composition of the squad isn't finished, nor would I expect it to be with the thick end of a month to go before the window closes. As someone touched on earlier we haven't even begun to look at loans yet which we'll inevitably bring some in.

We have seven players in, many of them address the height issue and pretty much all fit the model. If we're sitting here having this discussion and its September 5th then I think the criticism is more than valid, but I think they've earned some patience on the recruitment front.

 

Abline
Rusyn
Sydney van hooijdonk

All 3 have been linked. Could well be someone completely unknown like

 

It's inevitable someone comes in from Man U

 

That why I do all the pain work on twitter and our FB @Sunderlandafc11