Sunderland are happier away than they are on Wearside admits defender

I'm with raw all day on this, 99% united away from home, bunch of misery guts at home ready to jump on the first wayward pass with the groan of a ****ing grinch!

He misses the point below but to me thats why we are better away from home, the backing of the fans, no arsehole shouting what we should be doing (he's just a gobshite) the misery guts who thrive on being a negative twat, coz he's a misery and cant get wood!

The real '****ing ha'way the lads, sunlan till i die' mob will always be there losing there voiceboxes each and every week come hail, rain or highwater!

The sol should have a disgruntled miserable ****er section and put a cage on it with pig swill and bags of hay

Anyway this below is why i've ranted

IT has been the away days rather than home comforts keeping Sunderland’s survival fight alive and Wes Brown senses there is a difference in the way the team play outside the Stadium of Light.

The Black Cats head to Carrow Road this Saturday looking for the victory which could take them level on points with the two sides sitting just outside the relegation zone.

And the run of results over the last few months suggests Sunderland are more likely to get a result on their travels than they actually are if they were playing in front of a 40,000-strong home crowd.

Despite losing the last Premier League trip to Arsenal, Gustavo Poyet’s side had gone unbeaten in their six previous away games.

Such a run would have seen them climb out of the bottom three had they not struggled to improve on a run of just one win from their last eight Premier League home matches, including last weekend’s 0-0 draw with fellow strugglers Crystal Palace.

Sunderland’s decent away run has included wins at Newcastle, Fulham and Everton and the aim is to follow those up with another at Norwich City – and there is a confidence from within the dressing room that they can deliver.


Brown said: “I'm not absolutely sure why we seem to play better away from home but we have been. We have managed to score goals away and it has been totally different at home.

“Maybe some of the pressure is off, I don't know away from home. Maybe the home fans that we face are getting in to their team and we are just playing, we can concentrate on our own game.

“Hopefully we can take that in to the game at Norwich as well because they are not clear of the bottom three either. The fans are great away from home for us and they do help us.”

Norwich’s fans have hardly enjoyed this season, with Chris Hughton’s side sitting just four points above third from bottom Sunderland.

If Poyet can get his players to start positively then the Canaries’ support could soon turn if things are not going their way. Sunderland will be aware of that, although Norwich have performed better at Carrow Road than away in recent months.

Norwich will head in to the game without a defeat in their last six games on Norfolk turf, but a typically strong following from Wearside could silence the crowd and the men in yellow shirts if another strong away display can be achieved.

Brown said: “I remember the Fulham game, when all of the fans travelled down, and they were brilliant. Believe me it helps to know there is such a strong crowd behind us.

“We just need to start getting points on the board for them now. We are going to keep on trying, just as hard as the fans are to get us going because they stuck with us again against Crystal Palace.

“We are trying to play the best football we can. The fans have been great for us this season so we have to start winning for them. We tried our best and I hope they saw that. We just need to get points.”

Sunderland midfielder Lee Cattermole is hoping to play a big part in the relegation run-in after being left out of the team to face Palace.

Cattermole, who is competing with January buy Liam Bridcutt, was on the verge of a Stoke City move on deadline day only for Poyet to block the move at the last minute.

Now the 25-year-old said: “Obviously there was an interest there at the time. It had been talked about for several weeks, though I’d heard nothing.

“It all felt a bit rushed to me and I had a good chat to the manager – he told me he didn’t want me to go and I told him I didn’t want to go.

“Then it was only going to be a case of whether those higher up wanted it to happen. It was out of our hands if the chairman (Ellis Short) decided he wanted the move to happen. The manager had the backing of the chairman to keep me at Sunderland.

“Now I just want to concentrate on a massive seven, seven and a half weeks for the club, concentrate on keeping us up so we can start a fresh next season and it right.”

 

Its that bad at home that I despair when I hear there might be a big crowd at home because im convinced we have 10,000 fans that just come to take their frustration out on the players because they hate their wives.

Nearly every game this season the away fans have done a mocking shhhh as our crowd has been so quiet.

 

Thats the difference mate, in the south and sw we hear it, chanting our hearts out for the lads, then groooooooooaaaaaaan!

These twats should stay at home, it doesnt help the cause, i understand the elderly remaining quiet, but the fookin know it alls do my sweed

We need unity at home, no-where near a 12th man, its like having a man sent off at times

 

Other teams will come to the SoL knowing they can easily disrupt sections of the crowd and get them on our players backs

I was at Cardiff when we drew 2-2, I can say with 100% confidence we wouldn't have come back to draw if we were at home.

It shouldn't even be a problem, why would people want to watch the team they support then give them no ****ing support?!

 

Also I'd prefer a dead silent stadium than a stadium that erupts into groans when someone misplaces a pass

 

Answered your own question there perhaps.

 

I have to disagree. Nobody goes to see us fail, but nobody wants to see us flounder. It hurts to see us play so badly. Generations of SAFC fans were brought up on good, passing football. Not in my time. All I have ever known (in the top flight) is survival. Forget the two 7th seasons. That was the time to kick on but as a club we weren't up for it. We are not even bridesmaids. We are bit players. 40,000+ crowds of dafties expecting honest to goodness graft, fair play and honesty. We always end up 17th at best. We pay top dollar and get no loyalty.

Moan over? I don't know.

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It's fine if some only go to watch, it's the people who just moan for 90 mins, they do themselves no good and they certainly don't help the team

 

People pay their money and are entitled to their opinion

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Of course they are, but what good is it going to do voicing those opinions during the game? If they don't like it then they don't have to go, or then can voice their opinion after the game.

But during the game is the time to give the lads your full backing

 

As most will be aware, this is a subject I've been banging on about for yonks..It is my opinion that we will never move forward while the fans are so negative at home, and hopefully once more fans realise it is a big problem, both for the team and the club, then we might get round to addressing it..

 

But during the game is the time to give the lads your full backing. Simples

 

too right, its even worse on cup days, when methedone man gets a freebie

 

half the time they dont though mate, they get a freebie through the school or another means, 2 for a tenner and take the bairn thinking they could manage england to a world cup

expecting to watch the brazil of sunderland

 

spot on I have a SC and there are a lot of the school cheapies sit round by me in the east stand - the kids are ok but some of the parents ffs. there was one f**ker turned up with his bairn and the bairn sat and watched the game while the father (who I am sure still had his jarmie bottoms on) twisted the whole game. It really grips my s**t - its so counter productive its no wonder they play better away

 

I'm with WMS and RAW on this.

I was back with my bairn for the Cardiff (away) and Villa (home) games. Near the end of the Villa game the linesman's flag seemed to go up every five seconds, and I shouted a couple of "**** offs" towards the linesman (hey, he was probably right, but the whole point of a fan is to be biased and passionate).

Some misery guts told me to **** off and not to criticise the officials and that the team was ****e, etc., etc. I would have had a real go back but kept my trap shut so as not to ruin the day for my bairn.

All the moaning about Jozy in particular is way out of order. Yes, he isn't good enough. But he busts a gut and is trying his best, moaning isn't going to make him better. I could understand booing some lazy ****er, but the only person/people to have a go at about Jozy is who decided to bring him to the Club.

 

The problem with the fans at Sunderland is we got to many old farts, to many women who haven't got a clue about football & to many kids going. the type of people going to football now is different from the time I started going.

 

Name me a stadium what doesn't erupt into groans when someone misplaces a pass? all stadiums are the same mate.

 

Plus there is loads of teams what play better away from home like Villa & Spurs. it's just the way it is & I would love to hear the excuses when us got beat on Saturday. I think us away fans will get the blame

 

Been saying this all season, the side looks more relaxed away from the sol,and us travelling fans are there to support the team 100% and not travelled miles to moan and groan the majority of the time is spent making as much noise as we can, theres no time to grumble .
Comments on forums like this afterwards is a different matter its all about opinions