Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Watford FC – Wednesday 4th October 2023 - KO 19:45

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A very professional performance in my opinion. Did what we had to do to get the 3 points. Not an exciting performance compared to some but plenty of good play and good defending when needed. Pleased for huggins and Ba who are taking their chance at starting games with both hands. It's great when you have quality in depth throughout the team. That said i think we will need to be better again on Saturday against an inform boro side. I'm sure the gaffer will have them up for that one. Looking forward to it. On we go.
 
Over the moon for Huggins, he has had a tough start to his time here with injuries and the look of joy when he lashed it home was great to see, I think we have the best fullbacks in many years now and would hate to be the man who has to pick from them when they are all fit.
Burstow is starting to settle in and get the feel for how we play all he needs is a goal and he will be flying, he is just a young kid who has been training with some of the best players in world football at Chelsea, lets give the kid a chance to flourish he could be ours next season !
It was a real calm and assured performance and just what we need at home, I thought we played with the Cardiff game in mind and tried to right the wrongs of that performance, I reckon the entertaining footy is best suited to away games when the home team comes at us and we just pick them off with our quick forward play.
Our lass thinks I am a bit mental though because I sat and watched the recording of the game when I got home last night, she was shaking her head when I strapped my armchair to my back and pressed play on the recording, I am that happy with the way the club is heading that I like watching the same game twice in 4 hours :emoticon-0137-clapp
 
I find comments like this confusing - we are a possession based team and we invite the press, with the intention of passing through it hence the sideways passing.
Are you one of the lot who were shouting "get it forward man"? Probably the same who then groan if we play it long and lose possession
There’s a lot around me like that, they need to condition themselves because gone are the days when we shoot the ball forward with little hope of penetration.

It took me a while at first but now I’m chill with it
 
There’s a lot around me like that, they need to condition themselves because gone are the days when we shoot the ball forward with little hope of penetration.

It took me a while at first but now I’m chill with it
Few groans in the crowd yesterday when we gave the ball away, or passed it backwards. People need to remember where we were a couple of years ago when Parkinson was our manager and Joel Lynch, Josh Scowen and Kyle ****ing Lafferty were our players
 
Played bad and won. The Boro game the big one now, but these refs better start booking players or we will lose more to injury.

Thats a load of ****e that mind! Maybe not the best they have played but not having that it was bad.

Watford never looked like scoring we scored two could have been three or four. All while really not needing to step it up a gear.
 
Dont mind last night - singing in the rain - professional performance - Huggins - wow that was some goal.

O9 did well, Jobe looks a good player - I really like the look of Adil. 30 seconds of Chris Rigg- he really should be in bed at that time!!

One thing I would like Ba to do is just sometimes look at where the ball is landing he sometimes runs with his head down - awareness will come mind. Mind you he leaps like a young salmon
 
Dont mind last night - singing in the rain - professional performance - Huggins - wow that was some goal.

O9 did well, Jobe looks a good player - I really like the look of Adil. 30 seconds of Chris Rigg- he really should be in bed at that time!!

One thing I would like Ba to do is just sometimes look at where the ball is landing he sometimes runs with his head down - awareness will come mind. Mind you he leaps like a young salmon


And Dan Neil looking like a drowned rat was quite funny towards the end - well me and daughter 2 found it funny as were wet too
 
There’s a lot around me like that, they need to condition themselves because gone are the days when we shoot the ball forward with little hope of penetration.

It took me a while at first but now I’m chill with it

Old fella in front of me groans literally every time we pass the ball backwards, even if there is absolutely nothing available in front :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
Old fella in front of me groans literally every time we pass the ball backwards, even if there is absolutely nothing available in front :emoticon-0102-bigsm
Me dads the same. It’s hard, especially when all our free kicks and throws which aren’t in deep areas are fed back to recycle properly.

love watching us at the moment
 
Me dads the same. It’s hard, especially when all our free kicks and throws which aren’t in deep areas are fed back to recycle properly.

love watching us at the moment

Aye people are so conditioned to the old styles it’s hard to break the desire to hoof the ball up front. Like you say it’s class watching us at the minute.
 
Me dads the same. It’s hard, especially when all our free kicks and throws which aren’t in deep areas are fed back to recycle properly.

love watching us at the moment
Aye. My Dad shouts "COME ON GET IT FORWARD" when we are passing it across the back line. I've tried to explain the method of playing through the press, but he just shrugs and shouts again

Old people man
 
Aye. My Dad shouts "COME ON GET IT FORWARD" when we are passing it across the back line. I've tried to explain the method of playing through the press, but he just shrugs and shouts again

Old people man
I chuckle at the shouts of shoot everytime it comes to a player outside the box. Takes me back to whenever players like John Kay, who never scored, and we jokingly shouted shoot whenever he crossed the half way line.

Last night for our second it came to Neil and up went the shouts, but he played the better option to Burstow for thr cross and we scored.

Dont get me wrong, I still appreciate a great long ball, or a thunderous tackle. And sometimes a shot from distance lifts everybody. It is nice we can mix it up now and keep the ball or be quite direct with our running.
 
I chuckle at the shouts of shoot everytime it comes to a player outside the box. Takes me back to whenever players like John Kay, who never scored, and we jokingly shouted shoot whenever he crossed the half way line.

Last night for our second it came to Neil and up went the shouts, but he played the better option to Burstow for thr cross and we scored.

Dont get me wrong, I still appreciate a great long ball, or a thunderous tackle. And sometimes a shot from distance lifts everybody. It is nice we can mix it up now and keep the ball or be quite direct with our running.
Definitely think we need to mix it up. Against Cardiff we were guilty of trying to score the perfect goal - as much as I enjoy our style of play, there is no harm in an early cross, or a long diag behind their defence. We can be quite predictable at times