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Match Day Thread Norwich City FC v Sunderland AFC – Tuesday 8th April 2025 - KO 19:45

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Apr 6, 2025.

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Your Prediction:

Poll closed Apr 8, 2025.
  1. Home win

    7.9%
  2. Away win (safc)

    73.0%
  3. Draw

    19.0%
  1. Hudson92

    Hudson92 Well-Known Member

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    Perfect game to rotate a few anyway for me, drop Browne back into the middle, Leo at left back and maybes even hoy aleksic on the left, or dare I say start Watson
     
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  2. LD19SAFC

    LD19SAFC Well-Known Member

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    Massively agree other than Watson. Hope he doesn’t kick another ball for the club
     
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  3. Hudson92

    Hudson92 Well-Known Member

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    Horses for courses mate if he’s willing to give 100% he’s worth giving some minutes too, that being said I would rather we invested the time into aleksic seeing as hes going to be here long term our focus should really be on him
     
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  4. Hudson92

    Hudson92 Well-Known Member

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    Pretty sure if we win tonight the lowest we can finish is 4th too
     
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  5. LD19SAFC

    LD19SAFC Well-Known Member

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    Less than 45 minutes of league football for Aleksic since December. I’d like to see him get more of a chance but he’s clearly not fancied yet

    I wouldn’t be surprised to see minimal changes tonight tbh. We know Le Bris by now.
     
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  6. TopCat.

    TopCat. Well-Known Member

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    That's too short-sighted an opinion. He's our player, let's use him.
     
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  7. Bucky1989

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    the stupid thing is,

    we win and results go our way, again. the top 2 becomes reachable again

    this bloody club.

    whats the film quote- "just when i was out they pull me back in"
     
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  8. BRMC

    BRMC Well-Known Member

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    3-1

    Patterson
    Hume
    Mephem
    O9
    Hjelde

    Neil
    Brown
    Aleksic

    Mayenda
    Isidor
    Watson
     
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  9. TonyG

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    We need to be unemotional with Watson, play him and if he doesn’t give the 100 percent he gets dropped to the development team.
     
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  10. Bucky1989

    Bucky1989 Well-Known Member

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    dont we win the "friendship" cup or something tonight if we win the game
     
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  11. Hudson92

    Hudson92 Well-Known Member

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    I’m trying to not let that enter my head again I’ve just about accepted 4th :emoticon-0102-bigsm

    dare to dream and all that though….
     
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  12. Hudson92

    Hudson92 Well-Known Member

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    This for me too we can’t question his attitude if we don’t see him play, give him minutes tonight then we will know where he stands imo
     
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  13. C19RK73

    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    Haaaaaaaaaawaaaaaaaaaay!
     
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  14. RTB

    RTB Well-Known Member

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    :bandit:

     
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  15. MadMackem77

    MadMackem77 Well-Known Member

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    Jobe took a knock against WBA but played through.

    don’t think he’ll be risked tonight
     
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  16. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Browne in his place, Hjelde at left back and Hume in place for his hat trick ...

    ... Aleksic and Le Fée on in the second half.

    That would suit me.
     
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  17. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Daft but wtf ...

    ... if this happened things would suddenly look very different.

    Tuesday 8th April

    Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday
    Bristol City 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
    Derby County 1-1 Burnley
    Norwich City 0-2 Sunderland

    Preston North End 0-1 Cardiff City
    Sheffield United 1-1 Millwall
    Stoke City 2-0 Luton Town
    Watford 0-1 Hull City
    Middlesbrough 1-0 Leeds United

    And, as a bonus, Luton would be in serious bother <whistle>
     
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  18. Southern A

    Southern A Well-Known Member

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    I hope Jobe needing a rest doesn't mean they're tempted to rush ELF back. I'd go for what Smug suggests above.
     
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  19. clockstander

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    I am opposed to T.W ever getting on the pitch again for us at any level, it hurts to say but its how I feel about him, gardening leave for me.
    I would prefer to see players who want to play for SAFC given time , and play in a 4/4/2 formation with Wilson and Mayenda uu front and an attacking player in a diamond just behind, Roberts an ELF increasing his game time graduallty Alecsic , Rigg or Jones could also provide all the cover we need in this position, while playing deeper if Jobe or Dan need a rest leading up to the play-offs. OaU
    Many many thanks for another great MDT, RTB , you are my MoM every game. <applause>
     
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  20. Pure River Slut

    Pure River Slut Well-Known Member

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    Desperately trying not to hope too much, but looked at the league table 5 minutes before I saw this and imagined us winning and others losing.
     
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