Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Sheffield United – Championship Play-off Final - Saturday 24th May 2025 - KO 15:00

Don't know if this has been posted previously. Clinton Morrison calling it.
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Aye watched that, actually class.

Many don’t like him due to him being a bit dense, I like him more for it.

Lad loves the game straight up. Was a good striker as well.

Always speaks well of us to boot.

 

He definitely enjoyed Watson's goal Nads

 

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Big Man goal with ‘Nessun Dorma’

Wonderful.

 

Enzo demands the ball by his presence alone and releases it into a place where Roberts has little option but to move it on ...

... yet the Coventry and Sheffield supporters can't see why we rate him so highly.

In their eyes, if you're not muscular and aggressive you're not worth the shirt.

In my opinion we're blessed to have seen these lads produce moments of sheer magic throughout the whole season.

I don't think I've even witnessed anything like this is over fifty years.

 

Brilliant

 

After watching the highlights loads of times every night since it's stood out to me that Mayenda hardly celebrates. It's like it's half the job done for him. The rest yet to do.

This evening for a change I went back to the semi-final highlights. I have nothing against Sheffield United. Nothing at all.

But I ****ing hate Coventry. With a vengeance. Much, much more than I hate the Mags. In fact I want the Mags to lose as they are our local rivals but I don't really "hate" them. But I do hate Coventry. Revenge for 1977 was so sweet!

 

I think it has come about because of the statement made by Methven trying to paint himself as a saviour of our club.

 

??? where has this piece of **** said this? horrible bastard that he is

 

It was in an article about Charlton I read it about a week ago

 

I went to a function, at SOL, I had a girlfriend there with me, she thought he spoke well, he got up and spoke, he made me shudder, slimy bastard, it was just dripping off him

 

I’ve saw that mate.

He was saying, after Wembley, that his promises were kept and his plan delivered …

… it’s like me taking credit for defeating Hitler cos my dad fought in WW2

 

Just boils my piss that he can try and spin his time here like that.

 

He’s best ignored mate, utter gobshite who is attached to nothing positive in regards to safc

 

I understand that mate which is why I never posted what he said. Lets just call it a mental break on my part as he has tried to claim some credit for our return to the prem and I felt the need to vent somewhere

 

Haha no worries mate his name makes my blood boil everytime I see it too

 

Bellends, no wonder I left the ****hole years ago.

 

From over the road about Methven. Sorry if it offended anyone….honestly!! I’ll happily remove it if I can if that’s the concensus

Where to start, a week on from the tumultuous play-offs weekend of the EFL? Probably the most professionally satisfying weekend of my career. Not because I was there lifting trophies - I was not, being here in Jamaica watching on the TV - but because promises had been kept; plans had come good.
When I met with Ellis Short in April 2018 prior to taking the club over a few weeks later, it is hard to overstate just how broken Sunderland AFC was. £180 million in debt (much of it to aggressive money-lenders at exorbitant interest rates), and losing £27 million per annum on an operational basis, the club had just finished bottom of the Championship, four points behind Burton Albion. The average crowd that season at the SoL had been a paltry (by SAFC standards) 27,000. We inherited players on multi-season multi-million £ contracts who were quite open about not wanting to play for the club (indeed, several failed to report for pre-season training)
Now is not the time to recount the whole rollercoaster ride (losing twice in the play-offs and making a notorious failed signing!) but certain recollections merit re-visiting, as seminal moments in the re-birth.
Sat alongside Stewart Donald at a Wearside desk, with our red pens systematically chopping out the waste that had brought the club low; Luke O'Nien driving up from L2 Wycombe Wanderers, with his worldly possessions packed in the back of his battered old VW; interviewing (Sporting Director) Kristjaan Speakman on Zoom during the pandemic and seeing his IQ as something rarely encountered in football; being told not to let (head of recruitment) Stuart Harvey get into his car without signing him up, after his interview; travelling to the Italian Lakes in late 2020 to persuade Kyril Dreyfus that he was the guy that could take the club to the next level. From the co-owners to the Sporting Director, the head of recruitment and the club captain, Stewart and I brought them all to the club, believing that they could continue and complete what we had started. Seven years from disaster and possible extinction back to the Promised Land is not bad going, though it is a year or two more than I originally predicted!

Charlton was a different kettle of fish. Much of the club was healthy (not least its Academy and Community Trust), and its fanbase resilient.
However, the business operation and the First Team environment were muddled. The culture (unlike SAFC's) was not toxic but weak. Learning from Sunderland, where we were slow to get the executive team right, strong appointments were made early. In amidst all the deserved praise for others this week, a word for Andy Scott, who left the club in January, but who signed Kayne Ramsay, Thierry Small, Conor Coventry, Greg Docherty, Macualey Gillesphey and Matt Godden for a combined £450,000. Nathan Jones was always Andy's first choice manager, but we eventually got him in Jan '24... and the rest is history. A hugely gratifying 2 year turnaround for a club I'll always love.

 

Jesus Christ. I'm genuinely lost for words here

 

I always thought KLD recruited Speakman and imposed him on Methven and Donald whilst the DD was taking place.