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Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Sheffield Wednesday - Sunday 18th August 2024 - KO 12:00

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Aug 16, 2024.

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Your Prediction:

Poll closed Aug 18, 2024.
  1. Home win

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  2. Away win

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  3. Draw

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  1. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    Another solid game from Alese at centre half today.

    Going to be some player, mind you could say that about all of them, Jobe, Rigg and Neil dominated the midfield
     
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  2. Culinary

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    Cirkin has just credited Proctor with the set pieces…
     
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  3. Nonsense Potter

    Nonsense Potter Well-Known Member

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    A rare natural talent. Dan Neil exactly the same, doesn't even look like they're trying. Playing football is like breathing for them... The sky is the limit!
     
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  4. Frazier the Lion

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    Weirdly, today reinforced for me that we should be trying to keep Ekwah around if we can. Every single one of that starting midfield are playing PL footy in 25/26. Hopefully for SAFC of course!
     
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  5. Frazier the Lion

    Frazier the Lion Well-Known Member

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    Needs to be as far away from the first team as possible, man!:emoticon-0121-angry:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  6. marcusblackcat

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    Ha’waaaaaaayy
    daud exactly that to my son at the match today. He’s going to be fantastic. Wish it was with us but I think he’s destined for much bigger.
     
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  7. Whittylad

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    Great result great performance from all of the players today. Some lovely football played from the middle to the wingers . Good to see Roberts getting back to his best. Very difficult to pick a mom everyone played so well but for me jobe just pinched off Chris's Rigg but we have 2 talents there that just ooze quality. Taking nothing away from Neil cirkin onien mayenda Roberts Clarke just a Fantastic team performance. <applause>:1980_boogie_down:
     
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  8. Montysoptician

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    Just got home from the game, we were class. We bossed them all over the pitch, our press was excellent, we kept our shape out of possession and the triangles we played got us through their lines easily. Bannan was forced deep to protect their back four. Their two centre backs were poor, they looked a bit better when they went to a back 3, but they were 4-0 down by then.

    Hard to pick a MotM after such a great team performance. Rigg and Bellingham just pipped by O’Nien for me, he had Jamal Lowe in his back pocket for 69 minutes and still managed to score.

    Nearly forgot, a brace from our centre forward, how good is that, crisis what crisis:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  9. safcfansofaraway

    safcfansofaraway Well-Known Member

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    Couldn’t get to the game today but watched on Sky, brilliant from start to finish, 11 MOTM performances today, possibly not Paterson as he basically had nothing to do.
    Fantastic that Mayenda got his brace, should boost his confidence massively.
    Hard to pick out any one player really, but our 17 year old, (only just) what a player Rigg is now and he will only get better.
    The crowd were great early on but possibly were overawed into silence by the performance of the lads?
    A quick mention for the pitch, it looked fantastic and allowed our talent to perform at its best.
    Also the new sound system, I could hear the March of the Knights here in Cornwall !
     
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  10. DH4

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    Well if that's the case they obviously weren't listening to him last season :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  11. Scout73

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    Makes a difference having a leader in, sounds like thats exactly what RLB is

    Last yr we just didnt have that at all, got a real good feeling about him but def not getting carried away after 2 games
     
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  12. spirit of 73

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    Agree with everyone on here(I seem to be missing the detractors, hiding are they?)
    The end 25 to 30 minutes was a master class in game control, two parallel lines of 4 moving in unison front two addressing the 3 centre backs. They didn't have an answer and Patto doesn't need his strip washing for next week. RLB not only coaching the team but developing the coaches in best practice what an appointment.
    Looking forward to next week to see how we set up against probably the best team in the league.
    OAU.
     
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  13. DH4

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    A rudderless ship
     
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  14. Prehab26

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    Just back in. Great day. The lad rinsed me of a ton in the club shop. Great game. We looked very strong and professional.

    Shame my brother couldn't sit next to us, the qr code was a nightmare and his ticket locked. Ticket office had hundreds of people with the same issue. They put them all in the PC.

    Small hiccup. I thought the early goals really made the difference. Rigg was my MOTM, moved the ball at pace and really dictated the tempo.

    Great day all round.
     
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  15. Nig

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    Great day.
    Buzzing. But I expected the result :emoticon-0148-yes: <laugh>

    Having a few beers <cheers>


     
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  16. RTB

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  20. monty987

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    Mendy as good as Drogba !
     
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