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Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Coventry City FC – Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 15:00

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Dec 20, 2023.

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Your Prediction:

Poll closed Dec 23, 2023.
  1. Home win

    85.3%
  2. Away win

    1.5%
  3. Draw

    13.2%
  1. RTB

    RTB Well-Known Member

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    He's probably at fault for the first goal for bringing down their player Wright with a judo throw.
    Still had a few players to beat from there though

     
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  2. marcusblackcat

    marcusblackcat SAFC Sheriff Forum Moderator

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    So true. I mean that golden chance he put over the bar at 0-0 and the defensive and goalkeeping errors. All his fault
     
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  3. Nacho

    Nacho Well-Known Member

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    If that's what he's getting the flak for it's harsh, he's got two men to deal with. Plenty of chances for his teammates to prevent the goal.
     
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  4. marcusblackcat

    marcusblackcat SAFC Sheriff Forum Moderator

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    You realise we’re talking about O’Nien? Even if an own goal goes in off the keeper and O’Nien is on the bench, it’s still his fault
     
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  5. Nacho

    Nacho Well-Known Member

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    Yeah it's a joke, or it would be if it was funny. Every player makes mistakes but you'd think he was the only one and he adds nothing positive.
     
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  6. Pure River Slut

    Pure River Slut Well-Known Member

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    Amad and Stewart and we score 3 today. Evans and we reduce up the breaks leading to goals. Personally I’m more bothered about last summers recruitment which left us short of quality in two significant areas of the field. If Speakman gets hammered of us it’s that. Mowbray was right on that and i bet Beale is saying the same. I’m less worried about Beale than the right personnel in the side. You think Evans would have challenged like Ekwah did in the box?
     
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  7. Pure River Slut

    Pure River Slut Well-Known Member

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    Beale described huge gaps and that’s what I see but you wouldn’t believe he’d called out the actual problem reading RTG.
     
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  8. Mackem-Tiz

    Mackem-Tiz Well-Known Member

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    Hopefully we get a few quid for him. He was fantastic towards the end of last season but this season he seems to be way to slow on the ball.
    There was a moment in the game where he was literally stood still with the ball and was dispossessed...I honestly thought the game had stopped for some reason. Very poor imo.
     
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  9. flandersmackem

    flandersmackem Well-Known Member

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    i'm not judging Beale on this performance as I firmly believe Dodds was at the heart of the selection for this one.
    I think the game against Hull will tell a little more about Beale.
    Also, have a gut feeling, we will sell a few of our players in Jan to make way for Beales selections..I have a feeling the squad will look a lot different at the beginning of Feb than it does right now.
     
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  10. Billy Batts

    Billy Batts Well-Known Member

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    I worry that we'll get a right tonking at Hull who are good at home and will be right up for it. Think we need to go back to the formation we played against Leeds for this one. Trouble is who replaces Huggins.
     
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  11. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    Short turnaround to the Hull Game, going to be hard to pick the lads up.

    Having slept on it, the lack of action from the bench until it was too late was frustrating. 09 was limping badly for the last 10 minutes yet not even a flicker of a sub coming on.

    With the games coming fast this next few days, patience is going to be needed and probably tested
     
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  12. alcoauth

    alcoauth Well-Known Member

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    If Aji is fit it's likely him, otherwise expect Seelt at RB and Hume at LB.
     
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  13. TonyG

    TonyG Well-Known Member

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    There isn’t any patience unfortunately. The team and club is on a hiding to nothing over this period.

    I just hope we can bring it back and give a good performance against Hull
     
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  14. Southern A

    Southern A Well-Known Member

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    Remember Doddsy saying that they have games mapped out 3 or so in advance? I reckon Beale has come in and just gone with what’s planned to minimise disruption.

    My hope is that this result changes that and we see some sort of difference for Hull
     
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  15. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    Hoping there is some good news about Huggins but fear it's going to be really.bad news
     
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  16. Prehab26

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    Don't see it personally. Hope you're right though.

    His post match presser was poor. Corporate speak, more of the ball blah blah. Won't wash with most.
     
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  17. Southern A

    Southern A Well-Known Member

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    yeh you might be right but I see no reason to not support him and hope it comes good. He’s here and will be here for a while so might as well try to create some support around him
     
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  18. Southern A

    Southern A Well-Known Member

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    Can’t see it not being a season ender.

    Hopefully Pembele or Alese are ready to start.

    Alternatively it could force us into a back three with Seelt coming in, which might end up improving our fortunes
     
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  19. Prehab26

    Prehab26 Well-Known Member

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    That will come if he is competent at his job.

    Playing Ba as a centre forward for much longer will burn any support.
     
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  20. alcoauth

    alcoauth Well-Known Member

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    He will be judged on if he can win games, due to circumstances out of his control he has entered a powder keg situation, if he has can string a couple of wins together he will start to currie favour. It's as simple as that.
     
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