Brown out for me, thought he had a bit of a nightmare last night. Kirchoff in (if fit) or Coates. Apart from that no changes for me providing no other injuries or knocks.
A grade A bellend. Thought he had a poor game in the Toon vs Man Utd match the other night. Always seems to me that he wants to be the centre of attention, like he makes the game about himself. Cock.
I'd put Pickford in. Thought Mannone was poor. Also Watmore for AJ and put Lens in the middle. Agree Kirchhoff (providing he's ready) in for Wes also.
Wes surely can't play 2 matches in the short time frame anyway. Agree on dropping Manone too. Thought Lens looked good, I would go like this: ..............Pants............ Jones..JOS..Kirchhoff..PVA ..........Catts.....Mvilla........... Watmore..............Lens....... ..........Defoe...............Borini Attacking Borini makes it 2 up top and Lens lets PVA overlap, defending Borini drops into the LW and Lens goes centre.
Sunderland won an "enormous, enormous, enormous" three points as they overcame fellow relegation strugglers Swansea, according to manager Sam Allardyce. (BBC Football) Enormous, enormous, enormous head, Sam! Anyways, ah divvnae want te disturb yee lads, leik , but Ah thowt Aa'd drop bi te wish yee aal the best of luck fre the weekend. Tha Spurs are a canny good team, leik , an they hev some really talented players, whee can cause aal kinds of trouble. Let's herp tha Git big Sam can be as prepared fre this game as he wez the last. Thanks, lads, an here's te a feather in yer (flat) caps, leik . (Please forgive me if I have misunderstood your language, lads)
Watmore should be used as an impact sub. Wes will probably be knackered but Kirchoff isn't yet ready so Coatsy should come in. Mannone, dodgy. Is Pants fit? Is Pickford ready? Of the 3, I don't know which one to pick. Otherwise, same as against Swansea.
Sunderland Echo are suggesting we should rest M'villa, its sounds mad but he looks a bit jaded and the reasoning is to have him fresh for the all important clash with Bournemouth. This might be an option for the points against Bournemouth will be more important than those against Spurs in the long run. Its a tough call but a few changes could be on the cards.
He's played a lot of football. I'd sooner rest him against spurs like. Rodwell needs some game time. I think Spurs will be too strong for us anyway so we need to use our noggin.
He's just done it against Liverpool and Villa, he was one of our best players in both games, I thought.
Strongest team for me against Spurs, and that includes M'Vila. We get a full week before Bournemouth, after the Spurs game we can let them have Sunday and Monday off. What else do they want, they are getting 50k a week for ****s sake.
