We can all relax now lads, the jobs taken https://www.si.com/soccer/sunderlan...-im-good-enough-for-permanent-sunderland-role
Good for him, at his age he should be ambitious. I can't see it happening but it's exactly the right message for the players to see on a match day. If he came out and said he didn't fancy the job people would still be moaning tbh. And if he did to Leicester and Southampton, what he did to Leeds and West Brom, he might start to have a case ... let's hope so.
I see no issue with him saying this. Everyone involved in football should be constantly trying to prove themselves good enough whether thats the head coach, players or the kitchen staff at the training ground. I don't want none ambitious people at the club. Now is he good enough to be the head coach long term? More than likely no but that shouldn't stop him striving to prove he can be.
I don't honestly think you can compare both sets of players. Only Stewart is comparable and he had first team experience. Clarke and Roberts remind me of Newcastle's unknown French internationals as they were well known prospects before we signed them. Tottenham paid £10m for Clarke and Man City paid £12m for Roberts. Roberts had 131 first team appearances and was capped at England U16, U17, U18, U19, U20 level Ballard was Arsenal reserves, 57 first team appearances for Swindon, Blackpool and Millwall with 17 full caps for Northern Ireland Players with that kind of pedigree cost more, be it higher sell-on fees, wages, or one off payments They're going to be sold for big money and replaced with kids unless KLD buys more players
They are hypothetical players tbh, I doubt Speakman brought in a load of younguns to sit about and be released when their contracts expire. Seelt, Mundle, Hjelde, Ruslyn are the replacements and the kids (Bishop, Mayenda, Triantis, Semedo, Pembele etc) will make up the difference. To me that's less than what they brought in 2-3 years ago
I love your positivity Smug. Wish I could be like that at times. I can see where the club are coming from but it's so bloody frustrating to be so close but yet so far away
No less frustrating for me mate. Just because I don't threaten to burn my season ticket and lucky underpants, when we have a setback, it doesn't mean I'm not desperate for success. But look at this forum, the other forum, Twitter, Facebook and everything else. Every supporter has a different masterplan, team selection, tactics, manager choice, etc, and all think they're right. I just hope we beat Leicester tonight, by whatever means, and go to Southampton with some confidence. I don't get the torment some people put themselves through agonising about every decision. If football could be totally planned and everything worked out in advance it wouldn't be the exciting game it is. I support my club no matter what because I'm not a 'pick n mix' supporter who's only a fan when the club are doing what I thinks' best. It's alright basking in the atmosphere of the Wycombe Wembley final but means nothing if you threw the towel in after the Bolton 6-0.
If Dodds wants it, he has an 11 game interview. If he gets the job, we've ended very well. Can't see it though personally.
West Ham are on another planet. I remember them moaning that Big Sam wasn't playing the , "West Ham way", his response in a press conference was "Whats the West ham way? Getting beat every week". lol
I think Speakman may have thrown his mate into the lions den. He needs taken out of the firing line before he is completely shot. It just isn’t right that he has to somehow guide these through a few more games, I actually feel for the bloke.
It's not great like. What's that now, 2 wins and 6 defeats whilst being the man. Awful record, either way it's span.
Alese had 0 appearances for West Ham Cirkin had 0 appearances for Spurs Huggins had 1 appearance for Leeds Hume had 17 appearances in the Irish League
Not sure you can include the League 1 games before Neil was appointed. By his own admission, he didn't even know most of that squad's names. Pathetic from the club (Speakman) to drop him in there when Neil was available immediately. Agree with the wider point though, Dodds in charge for the rest of the season is a big ask - I get Ricky Sbragia vibes right now
Dodds seems to have a strange habit of seemingly knowing how we should be set up, because he switches to it after 20 minutes when we've started terribly and conceded in the setup he actually used. Fair play to him for not sitting on his hands and waiting for half time but if he wants to win games he needs to get it right from the start. Picking the same side (apart from suspensions) as the second half against Leicester would make sense.
