Match Day Thread Fulham FC v Sunderland AFC - Saturday 22nd November 2025 - KO 15:00

This game and the next we are preparing to take 6 points. By god we can do it , and I hope we execute the plan in a marvelous fashion.

if we don’t, a draw would be acceptable. Buts let’s have a proper ****ing go . 3-1 to the lads, **** it.

 

I think anything less than a win would be worrying, moreso due to upcoming games, but I also appreciate that most wins have been fine margins, and I don't think Fulham are that bad, especially at home.

 

They lost 3-1 to Villa, 3-1 to Bournemouth, 2-0 to Everton, 2-0 to Chelsea ...

... so their defeats can be fully deserved and not just by the odd goal.

If we can't expect to beat a team in such clear relegation form I just don't know which away wins we can honestly hope for.

 

Disagree, you definitely don’t start to worry with just a draw at Fulham.

 

I'm my opinion expectation grows with confidence and I think we are really at the start of something special at our club. The scars of the past have left the fan base jaded and wary of having high expectations when in truth we should be showing loftier ambitions.
I think the time in league 2 has made fans hesitant to believe when in truth over the last 25 years all the signs that we could be and should be better are there if you look hard enough and have an optimistic outlook.
It is having the right mindset, the right mentality, and the right application of both that will move the team forwards.
Sounds like I am talking about the players but I actually am talking about the fans. We can't just believe when it's good we have to believe at all times, granted this mindset comes with some lows especially if we are beaten but what is this game without the highs and emotional lows.
I expect us to beat Fulham and will be surprised if we don't, that is what I expect from my team and from my club.
If the manager and players believe why can the fans not???

 

this team is doing it, 25 years ago i was let down but this team will do it big time the F A cup is coming i know it is 7th th in the table is as well and Jan there will be an amazing signing Regis is our new Bob Stokoe i tell you arsene wenger ? though no not yet.

 

What a shocker, Chris Sutton has us down to lose, again, as down the complete utter twonkhead sh1tfaced krabby knackers who cant sing and is just a annoying tw*t of person Olly Murs has too

 

To be honest 2 opinions I could care less about. I think @Smug in Boots dissection of Fulham and their home form is more balanced than what those two have seen in the local paper. Sutton says what he says to be controversial and is the Peirs Morgan of football punditry. Olly Murs is a likeable character with little talent for singing and limited knowledge of football beyond Essex.

 

TBH I’ve not looked at Sutton’s predictions for ages but your comments prompted me, laughable and peurile aren’t they.

“The sensible thing to do would be to back the Black Cats here, because they are clearly capable of roughing Fulham up too and, the last time they were in west London, they beat Chelsea at the end of October.

But I am not going to do that. Instead, I really need to carry on going against Sunderland with my predictions. I am taking a lot of credit for their good results because they clearly love to prove me wrong.”

So he carries on the current punditry dismissal of Sunderland as ugly football merchants ‘capable of roughing Fulham up’. And even though he admits it’s logical to expect a Sunderland result he's using ‘reverse psychology’ against a team who won’t take any notice of him.

Why on earth would Sunderland ‘love to prove him wrong’

 

I'm a worrier

 

Now I'm less worried

 

Who the **** have we roughed up?

Aren't a dirty team in the slightest! The lads defend well, are well organised and failed to roll over against two fo the top teams in Europe! But there was no roughing up! Not at all!

Sunderland beat Chelsea and drew with Arsenal? They must have roughed them up!.

Personally I love to read them getting it all wrong! We watch it and see why this team gets results so its always worth a laugh reading bullshit!

 

I love him!!

“Have you got a plan in mind about players leaving for Afcon?”

seriously what sort of question is tha?. “Nah pet, we’re just gonna play a random selection of players and rotate them every twenty minutes in the game!”

I wish he’d just said “yes. Next question “

 

I don’t think anyone disagrees with your first line. But an away point is a good point for most teams. Arsenal were happy with a point at ours, Arteta certainly was.

But approaching the game like we did Burnley and, to a slightly lesser extent, Man Utd, would be a massive error. These are good at home. Think they’ve only lost one and that was to arsenal!

 

He’ll become a constantly used gif used by teenagers on the internet wanting to show a look of extreme condescension …

… I fully expect him to answer Barnes like this

noun

1. an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.
   "a tone of condescension"

 

Hadaway man, they were seething …

… their fans are still whining about it

 

Can I retract my previous like of Marcus's post?! That one contentious part doesn't take away from the sense in the rest of the post. Fulham are no mugs, and we would be bad to go there as fans and players with overconfidence. Belief and confidence in ourselves, yes. Many thought we would give Burnley a hiding with how well we were playing before that game. Fulham are on a par with them or better. It's a tough game like they all are.

 

Don't think it would be worrying!

 

Sutton is best mates with Shearer and is biased accordingly.