As much as relegation stings and the fact that it is the unwashed that has effectively sealed our fate you cant knock the mackems. They reacted at board level and made the change at managerial level before it was too late to have any effect. They brought in a proven goal scorer, who will have very little resale value, but......................... how much is Defoe worth to them now..................... oh, about 100 million quid!! And more importantly the team have shown some real fight when it mattered. Pretty football or not. Its PL football that they will be playing next year. Ashley, Charnley, Carr and McClaren............ hang your heads in ****ing shame gentlemen. Hang your heads in shame.
Meh, it's all relative. Mackems in ecstasy right now....took them 37 games to find it. Lest anyone forget they spent 35 games watching turgid garbage; they've only really looked half decent against Chelsea and Everton. Similarly, fans of both those clubs haven't even been filling their grounds; their discontent has been clear for months, they end the season not delighted to be safe and 12th, but utterly disheartened to have watched a nonsense season of underachievement. Both wanted managers gone, Chelsea got their wish, Everton will get theirs. Fans of Man U have had to watch the worst football I've ever seen from a big club, Man City have stagnated awaiting Pep's arrival, Arsenal fans hate - in part - one of the greatest managers of all time, it's like turning on Fergie!! Southampton flattered to deceive, Villa have had it worst of all. We've had a bad season, but we all expected it. Ashley pays peanuts, gets monkeys and they, in turn, act as such. No fan will be crying, this carries none of the heartbreak of 8 years ago. Next year let's watch Leicester struggle and see the "thanks, but time to go, Claudio" banners.As JPF has said ad infinitum, the Premier League is NOT all of football. So in truth I won't be watching Leicester, or anyone else, and now I get an extra 8 matches for my money and some really interesting away days. In a way, looking forward to it......well, until Ashley & Charnley manage to fck it all up once more this Summer. Wonder if the fat one will be on Sky's camera's this weekend?! Probably not, at least we're spared the dismal excitement of relegation Sunday.
No matter how full of PR that Ashley interview a year ago was, he's been made to look like a complete prat by Lee Charnley. Forget his disinterest in the club - for that alone I'd have Charnley strung up.
commiserations chaps! I for one am sorry to see you relegated, the North East really needs both clubs in the PL - hope you bounce back up straight away -good luck for next season!
This basically highlights the difference between appointing a tough battling manager with a reputation for survival, and getting a walking disaster on the cheap who's failed at just about every job he's had and giving him way too much time. Much as I hate Allardyce, and find him a massively overrated bore, he has been very pragmatic - ie he immediately recognised their weakness was defence, and in particular Brown and O'Shea and brought in 2 strong defensive players in Jan in Kirchoff and Kone, these 2 have made a massive difference, and Sunderland looked like a completely transformed team after that. We on the other hand had defensive and attach problems and spent a fortune on 2 bloody midfielders in Jan! Plus Sunderland have played like a team that genuinely wants to stay up, whereas we've gone through the motions all season, only Villa looked worse that us....well the table doesn't like now!
The Mackems did accumulate points employing a nonce and knowingly playing him though (chief exec). In addition to our annual points gift they had to stoop a bit lower this year. Good luck to them though.
The point that I find hard is the money you spent and wasted. You just like us needed to sort your defence out...you did not need lots of midfielders and non-scoring forwards
Can't argue with the op. Bottom line is Sunderland were better than us. Not just this season either. It hurts and I hate to see the club in this state (I think it will be a long time before we recover from this ). But can't take anything away from Sunderland. When it mattered they stepped up. Good luck to them.
You are forgetting that we work within 'The Structure' and that dictates that regardless of where our weaknesses are on the pitch we will buy players because they have a potential sell on value or because they are cheap or because we are panicking but haven't actually got a ****ing clue what we are doing. God bless 'The Structure'
