January priorities

McClaren is going nowhere and rightly so. He's had 6 games and other than Watford they've all been tough based on recent finishing positions in the League.

It'll take time, it's horrible to write off two months of a season but for us our season starts in October. By the end of September we'll have played 8 league games with six of them against Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City, Swansea, Chelsea and Southampton. It doesn't get any tougher than that. We were never going to have the chance to get any consistency going until October.

I also fully expect Cisse to be dropped when Mitro is back, McLaren seems to have realised Perez needs to be in the team after four games, next it'll be De Jong. It's a learning process and changes are being made, just slowly and subtly.

We'll stay up comfortably with a 12th/13thmplace finish. It'll all start to form shape come October.

 

Nah mate, he had a shocker granted but then apart from 4 players they all did!
Would like to see how he progresses between now and Christmas - though we be helpful if Colo supported him, the winger supported him and the CM supporting him!

 

I think this is what many are having to hope though the time it is taking an experienced manager to work out which of the current players he needs to select on form and suitability to his tactics, I can't deny I find that disturbing and worrying. Hopefully McClaren is just having a brain fart of a start. We were linked with centre backs and left back prior to the window closing which would suggest the football board is well aware of our two major issues. Either that or it is just so blatantly obvious the media are putting 2 and 2 together, getting 4, but our football board think it makes 7.

We do need more as we need a proven PL striker to help Mitrovic/Perez with the load, and we lack that creator in the middle, though I'm pretty sure they see Gini as that man. Personally I think he may grow into the role once he gets up to speed with the game here.

Patience is required. However we also need to be realistic. Its all very well looking at fixtures saying "its a tough run". Personally I think this is foolhardy and fatal. To be honest this has been a trait of Sunderland over the last few years, and a recipe for perpetual relegation battles once your confidence is sapped. You have to get stuck in now and pick up points like we did last year after a poor start. Between mid October and early December we picked up 20 points from 9 games with 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. We beat the likes of Spurs (a), Liverpool, Chelsea (h) to get those points. In order to survive you can't rely on the so called winnable games as Watford showed us. These teams are good sides, at least as good as us. They have new managers, new players, they are not making excuses about it taking time. Their managers know if you do, you have the wrong mindset.

The PL does not give you time. You have to get out and take the points instead of feeling sorry for yourselves. We have pretty much guaranteed a tough season barring a similar turnaround to last season. What the management team achieved in that period was akin to what was achieved in Sunderland's run to survival under Poyet. Caution - it doesn't happen very often!

 

Sorry man but this doesn't make any sense,Christmas can be too late(Sheff Weds just won),December might be too late and no offense to Watford or Shef.Weds but when the Toon can't beat those teams at home well we are seriously in trouble,just saying

 

I think them binoculars need a good clean. No actually new lenses. Or maybe a brolly.

 

Haidara didn't play last night!! So what has the result last night to do with his progression as a player? Just saying.

 

Need some Steel in CM, Colback and Anita are too lightweight.

Get in some monster of a man to play there.

The Defense needs some real protection from the Midfield

 

Bloody January. Just the mention of it boils my pi$$. We're 3 weeks after the close of a window when every man, woman and child knew for a goddam fact we were AT LEAST a centre back, striker and full back light. Not to mention the lack of DM, because we have Tiote clogging up a space, or lack of Cabaye replacement. We mis-spent, wildly miscalculated and it was/is all so utterly, dreadfully predictable. If I was half as bad at my job as Charnley, not only would I be sacked, I'd be unable to find work within my industry again. At Newcastle, your moronic boss simply applauds the balance sheet. I'll never get my head around Ashley's tenure, assuming it ends one day. January is much too late. We will be looking at zero wins come November, and no club in the history of the Premier League has ever survived such a start. Given the other facts - the manager won't be sacked, he's on the fcking board for chrissakes - and no decent new players will fancy it, let alone the idiots we've already got, we're getting relegated at EXACTLY the wrong moment. Just as Sky sit with a cheque worth 70% more, Ashley entrusts his club to Lee fcking Charnley. As I've said, Ashley/Charnley will get precisely what they deserve - relegation - the players will disperse back to top-flights around Europe, and the only ones who actually suffer, who are left picking up the pieces, will be the fans!

It's astonishing that it's simply allowed to happen.

 

Yes it does. But we also need a defence rather than the sub par rabble we have at present. No amount of additional protection is gong to help Colo and Haidara. They don't have the ability to play at this level on a regular basis.

 

Haidara should be herding goats in Switzerland. He's that ****ing ****. Coloccini. It is absolutely boiling my piss that THAT useless, curly haired, cowardly **** was awarded a new contract AND kept the captaincy. He is ****ing ****. An absolute ****ing useless turd.