Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Saturday 18th October 2025 - KO 15:00

And we are a threat from set pieces. It's absolutely terrifying for some people

 

Blows my mind just thinking about it. It's one hell of a magic carpet this time.

 

I think he'll need calling in sick tonight, we won and those lot lost

 

No doubt he’ll miss it as the mags lost

 

The bloke that sits directly behind us spent most of the game trying to work out the names of our new players, when we made the substitutions, that completely blew his mind.

 

I can understand that

 

I might have previously said to my son "why can't we sign players with names that I can pronounce?"

 

Aye another team,panic stations every time big Dan entered the box

 

Massive massive win, we certainly know how to dig in when needed,doing this without reinildo and Diarro is great testament to the team and management,definitely missing Reinildo for the team balance,loved the way Xhaka was in the referees ear all match and giving it back to the Wolves players all game,these little things we’ve been missing for years

 

And we want that to be hard wired into the club from now on.

 

We’re a different beast now marra

 

Tired of hearing about our easy start and the expectation of the wheels falling off later. Yes it has been kind, but weve won 4 of them. Games that would have been earmarked as matches of which we would have hoped to pick up points. Job done so far. We can expect things to get tougher from here, but any unexpected sneaky points against the top half teams will be a bonus. And im sure we look capable of pulling off an occassional shock.

 

Do we know the running order for MOTD

 

Aye Shearer’s left first

 

I honestly hope we are last. The longer we fly under the radar the better.

 

I actually think im falling in love with Ballard. What a player, man and warrior

 

Thought the back 5 along with Xhaka and Sadiki were immense today. Such a great battling performance gave them nothing apart from a couple of half chances which were more due to the bounce of the ball than anything else.

These are the kind of scrappy games I always remember us losing but never once after we took the lead did I feel we would concede.

The spirit and fight we have is absolutely brilliant to see and all the more remarkable considering the amount of new players we brought in over the summer. A lot is often said about signing the right characters but by God we seem to have done so this summer.

If I was one of the back 4 I'd have given Rigg and Le Fee a bloody good rollicking mind they both tried a couple of stupid little flicks in dangerous areas which gave the ball away. They did however graft their arses off helping out defensively so maybe they deserve a pass but a firm don't **** about again.

14 points from 8 games is a phenomenal start for a team promoted through the playoffs. We've already beaten the points total of the last team who came up that way and we've still got 30 games to play absolute madness and beyond our wildest dreams when we walked out of Wembley at the end of May.