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Mid-table is no bad thing for Sunderland – Gary Rowell


Published on Tuesday 1 May 2012 12:23

I was joking with friends at the weekend that this ‘mid-table-mediocrity’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!

I think that we as Sunderland fans have got so used to adrenalin-filled ends to the season over the years – at either ends of the table – that it seems a little flat having little to play for and being becalmed in mid-table.

We should thank heaven for small mercies.

Martin O’Neill said after the Bolton game: “If there’s a bit of flatness about the place then, well, I’ll take that, compared to what the alternative might have been!”

And he’s exactly right too.

We’re in a fortunate position to be able to grumble about having not much to play for.

We shouldn’t forget how horrible those relegation battles have been over the years – they’ve aged us all!

And it’s nice not to be in the position that all our last three opponents have been in of being haunted by the drop. It’s a horrible time for the fans of those clubs involved, the stress, the worry and potentially the pain of relegation at the end of it.

Given the choice or relegation-battle or mid-table mediocrity, it’s mid-table every time for me.

READ the full Gary Rowell column in Tuesday’s Echo

 

But if they had managed to carry on that brilliant form they were in, rather than falling flat on their arses in seasons final months, we would have been in for a spectacular season finale. Shame the lack of quality in the squad was exposed....

 

More fun to be had on the top of a table though Syd

 

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