The bus seems to have a slow puncture, hopefully the driver has a repair kit, and knows how to fix it.
I don't think it's a slow puncture mate. He needs to fit a new wheel, change the oil top up on fuel, add a turbo charger and stop driving with the handbrake on.
I'm still on the gus bus but like always the majority will hound him out. We have a manager who wants to play football and we are hard to beat the fa cup could be ours this year. Can you remember the years we always went out at the 3rd
Yep I remember them. And when we never got past the second or occasionally third round of the league cup! Hated it... Gus in
tbh the fa cup is a side show issue ,the fact is one game won at home since october ,ok many draws as well but the alarm bells are being tested if not being rung once again ,of course he wants us to play football and yesterdays performance was typical of how its going at home for us at the moment ,yesterdays selection never looked like doing its threat going forward ,maybe it was just one of those days perhaps, even so it was very poor ,getting back to the cup i will take survival every time over anything else,just my opinion of course. As for the hard to beat issue it did not look to hard yesterday a 0-3 loss couldnt be complained about here,
I was saying Sunderland boss Gus Poyet criticised the consistency of referee Craig Pawson in the club's 1-0 defeat at home to Liverpool on Saturday. Poyet saw Liam Bridcutt sent off for two bookable offences early in the second half, with Sunderland playing with ten men for around the last 40 minutes. And while Poyet accepts that Bridcutt may have done enough to be dismissed, the Uruguayan called for the referee to dish out the same punishment to other players who have committed similar offences. Speaking of Bridcutt's dismissal to Sky Sports, Poyet said: "The foul stopped an attack and if I'm being honest it could have been a yellow card. But by the same rule Coutinho should also have had two yellow cards. You cannot pick and choose - you either referee by the rules or by common sense. "I think the referee picked when he was going to referee by the rules and when by common sense, and that is not acceptable." Poyet was also disappointed that his side were unable to force themselves on the game any more than they did, after a languid first half performance saw Liverpool dominate. He continued: "We are trying and I think they [the fans] need to accept reality - I think they should look at what has been going on for four or five years and I think they should be a little more patient now. "It's true that we don't give them too much and it's unfair to ask the fans for anything - we have to make sure we give them a few wins at home so they can enjoy them. "We need to be positive. I think we lost the first 45 minutes of a very important game and when you do that against a team like Liverpool, normally you get punished - then we tried and played better when we were down to 10 men. "But on the day it was not enough so it is a good way of learning that you cannot give too much away in a game like this." COMMENTS:
At the back end of last season, when all seemed more or less lost, we went to Manchester City, Chelsea & Manchester United in quick succession, games in which we were expected to be soundly beaten, but in which we actually played out of our skins & took seven points, well-earned it has to be said, which ultimately helped us retain our status. So how is it then, that more or less the same group of players, have fallen "flat on their faces" in the last two home games v fellow strugglers Hull & an average-at-best Liverpool side, suffering defeats without so much as a whimper? Surely the mentality/aim of any side, in any game, whether its v Blyth Spartans or Barcelona, is to go out and win, and to at least put in 100% effort from first kick to the very last, and if you do eventually suffer defeat to a better side, then no complaints, so long as the team has given it's very best. But - can our players honestly say they've given their very best in every game, and not just on a "random" basis, ie v The Mags last month at Sid James Arena?
Im still on the bus but i really want Gus to stop moaning, get meeting with the transfer team instead and fill some of the gaps we have. I cant believe we cant get players that cannot get into our team from all the european leagues. We may not have the finances of some of the big boys in the Premiership but we still have 10 times the spending power of most leagues in Europe.
The inconsistency is a worry, its still here from last season, that semi v hull was attrotious, boxing day v hull horrid, 1st half yesterday, vile, the book stops with gaffer on this like, btw gus has gone from 12-1 to 5/1 next for the chop, wont happen like but still
People wanting him gone on twitter. I think talk of replacing Poyet is premature. The next 5 games are huge. Burnley Qpr and Wba at home with Spurs and Swansea away thrown in the mix
