Maybe Gus is right. Maybe we are too much for highly paid professionals who have played for Man united, inter MIlan, Juventus etc. Perhaps we should ooh and aaah more at the football on offer? Ban chanting and only allow polite applause. How about we all don't turn up against West Brom. Play the game behind closed doors maybe. If the players win 4-0 we will know it was our own fault all along. Gus can be vindicated and we can go on next season to will the Premier league. Maybe Gus was trying to deflect the attention from his inept players performances and put the pressure onto himself with his comments. I say the SOLShould be empty for at least the first 20 minutes of the match to give our lads a chance.
Be better if people who have already written his obituary don't turn up. The stadium is either lifeless or poisonous. Pretty sure the players are scared to play there. This happens on a regular cycle until the board give in to the pressure, sack the manager and the whole thing starts again. It doesn't work. Give the man time to change things. So we have to 'put up with' a lower half premier league team who do well in the cups for a few years until the changes are embedded. Poor us.
The fans actually got behind the team in the 2nd half really well for only the 2nd time this season; the Chelsea game being the other one. The rest of the games we may as well have being playing behind closed doors for what noise out crowd has made,..
The Sunderland crowd are as patient as it gets. Compare us to Newcastle ffs ........ sit ins, walk outs, banners, red cards, Pardew out cards, Cockney Mafia protests etc etc etc. Poisonous? FFS, Poyet should be praising the 40,000 for the support we give. 4,000 at Fulham and 2,000, including me, at Swansea. THAT is fkn top support so **** off with all the comments about the SOL and poison. FFS ..........
Personally thought the atmosphere was better on Tuesday. Thing is if the team played their part as well it would be better. Nearly 40000 on a cold Tuesday night is phenomenal support and the chanting/singing would hit a crescendo if we could finally start playing before we are one or two nil down. The WBA crowd will depend on this Sunday's result. If we win or even draw we will get 40000+ yet again.
Missing the point smug, I'm well aware the numbers we get are incredible. I, you, all of us shell out plenty of cash to follow them. Our away supporters are fantastic. The home crowd not so. The atmosphere last night and in the second half v Hull was poisonous, threatening and completely counter productive. Howling at a misplaced pass is not going to make that player or any others play better. He's going to go into his shell and take the careful option. The opponents sense it and it makes them feel ten feet tall.
Booing while the game is played doesn't help but to lay the blame with it is preposterous. He picked the wrong team against QPR and allowed us to be bullied and tactically failed to deal with the threat down that right side leaving poor PVA to the ****ing dogs. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Proof is in the pudding, Gus lost us that game in the first half, I wouldn't mind if he held his hands up but his denial and blaming everyone but himself is scary.
Sorry but I just can't agree with that ............. people are just groaning at the terrible football and surrender tactics imo. The vast majority of the crowd want nothing more than to cheer a team trying their best and attacking at home. The crowd isn't poisonous, just demoralised.
Definitely better atmosphere second half on Tuesday, but the first half it was toxic which was perhaps largely down to the fact that we played so bloody awful, were wide open down our left flank and were second to every ball. I can never understand all these who bugger off on 80 minutes though...It is like someone had pressed an evacuation button..
Yeah that's just it they're groaning because they think they know better than Gus. The players hear it and feel the tension, they are human beings. I don't think Gus is perfect but I'm a million miles from thinking sacking him is the answer. Just wish people would support, not get on players backs. Gus must have felt he had no choice but to sun Gomez off (who was having a poor game I know) cos he was being crucified by the team's supporters. That can't be right
Got to agree with smug here the fans don't turn up to boo. If the team play **** and the manager cant see it rhen the fans vent there frustration in an attempt to force the manager into a change. We got beat off a team that had zero points away from home all season Poyet is lucky there wasnt a ****ing riot.
It was obvious, after 10 minutes, that we'd surrendered at home to QP fkn R ....... the players created that atmosphere, not the crowd.
It was obvious they were destroying our left flank after 5 minutes ........ the crowd knew where the QPR goals would come from. Poyet just sat there and watched us taken apart then watched it happen again and again. What should the crowd do, just keep applauding while they watch their team humiliated?
First half was mind blowingly bad, and you have to put it down to Poyet's team selection and tactics...Let's hope he can learn from those mistakes..
Approximately how many of the crowd have the qualifications/experience to manage a professional football team? Everyone thinks they know better, they don't. It's not as easy as we sometimes think it is. He's doing ok and I find the way people have turned against him bang out of order
So are you saying we're wrong to have expected more protection for PVA and that Gus was correct to leave the lad exposed two on one for 45 mintues?
