... than football supporters and they'd be right, but it's close. This club has been totally transformed in the last few years and become a source of pride. Yet there's a determined group of people who latch onto anything they decree is negative. Sunderland dared to lose a Premier League game at Man Utd but some people simply have to whinge at the club. Just demonstrates, in a backhanded way, just how much the club has progressed despite what the doom mongers will insist.
Yesterday’s loss was nothing in the grand scheme of things. Same as the loss to Burnley. Someone had asked me would you have taken this start seven games in I would have snapped their hands off. Unbelievable start and to me heading for an unbelievable season where come the end of season we will be well above the bottom three. Just look back to the last five league games last season where I think we lost all and where we are now. Not on board with bitch and moaners. Till the end…HTL!!!
I didn’t even bother coming on yesterday so I’ve not seen the comments here but I saw a few on social media. I was talking to a bloke in the gym who’s a black and white who expected us to get something and he was shocked when I told him I think we’ll get beat 3 or 4 nil. I said this back in August when people were saying we should be happy with a point off the Brentford and Burnley matches and I said those are the games we HAVE to target… you don’t look at the fixture list and think you’re getting 3 points from United away. Established teams shouldn’t even be thinking that never mind newly promoted clubs, they’ve just been in an europa league final for **** sake. To think that we should be taking points there and we’re suddenly at that level is a massive overshoot. They brought on about £200m of subs never mind the value of their starting Xl. Beat Wolves in two weeks time that’ll be 8 points from the 5 matches since Brentford and that’s a very good return. I would’ve happy been with the 5 points we’ve already banked.
That's how it all works unfortunately, optimists stay away from forums while others just shout louder. That's why the whingers will always take the upper hand when things don't go so well, they feel empowered. Forums, like this, will always attract losers who can't cope with actual reality so create a 'reality' of their own. The clue is that they never have any stories about matches they go to, daft stuff that happens or scrapes they get into ... ... it's always just about things they've 'witnessed' on the telly
I'm going to watch the match again in full tomorrow, then go through the match thread... I watched the game with family so couldn't really get immersed in the game.
The progress, given that it has been made on all fronts at the same time, eclipses any that I can think of anywhere in my time. It's just over three and a half years since we were getting battered 6-0 away to Bolton. Now we are where we are, with the entire club transformed from top to bottom and more to come. It is mind altering to see the change and the pace of it. We have lost two games out of seven. If we only lose say, another fourteen, we'll probably finish in the top seventeen, which will be job done. Amazing.
I was at that game with @Whittylad who passed me leaving the car park at 4-0 ... ... he called his lass by full time and asked her to put his tea on Six years ago I was at Lincoln and watched us lose with McGeouch, McLaughlin, De Bock, Lynch, Willis and other players you might never have heard of, I wish I hadn't!. I'd started the day battering some Lincoln hooligans who'd come into our pub to cause trouble and tear our flags down ... ... I ended the day wondering how our club sunk so far.
Those were grim times. It was impressive how many fans stuck by the club, believing our luck would change at some point. And didn't it just.
