Alternative view maybe that it must have been pretty hard for the players to get motivated in a near empty silent stadium..
The early rounds of the FA cup have lost their pulling power for most fans these days, myself included. Based on tonight, I feel midly vindicated in deciding to stay warm and avoid a potentially tricky drive home. I'm definately going next season because I believe that by then, MON will have stamped his edge on the squad and will be selecting a team who are going to give it a real go and it will be worth the effort.
I appreciate he was out of position (like a few others), but am I the only one who thought Colback was utter bollocks? Clearing across goal more than once, casual when he was last man (and loosing it on the 18 yard box), not clearing far enough (and to the opposition more than a few times), caught drifting several times and losing his mark, and his predictability of going backwards without looking first (Vaughan has now picked up this illness). I keep hearing how good this lad is, and I haven't seen as many games this season as I'd like, but his actual footballing skills last night were shocking - schoolboy mostly. The less said about his involvement in both goals the better. Bolton clearly targeted him as a weak link in the second half (all goal kicks toward him) and the Bardo/Gardner shuffle should have happened way before it did, but his actual performance as a player was criminal. Overall, Sunderland were static and didn't seem to be clicking with each other. Poorest performance I've seen since, well, Liverpool the other week. It's like the Man City game was all a dream...
