I am certain that Gus will turn it around,but,when you look at the facts,we have played four teams out of the bottom eight,and they've all beaten us!Is it still a worrying-time??Thoughts,lads and lasses,please!
Of course we're in trouble, we always were, at least the initial panic is over as folk realise the season doesn't end tomorrow.
I genuinely think we'll be ok under Gus. Fulham, we were ****, plain & simple, Palace we were down to 10, 9 v Hull and 10 again yesterday. With 11, we'd likely have drawn at Palace (1-1 at 82 mins), Hull were poor we could have nicked something, and even 1 down yesterday we were playing nice stuff, we'd again have nicked something in my eyes. That would have been not 3, but 9 points gained as teams around us drop 2 each. I'd say minimum of 6, I accept Hull we didn't look like scoring.
We're going to be worrying for the rest of the season mate, but now is not the time to be panicking. Despite the officials doing thier best to **** us up, we're actually looking like a team again and we're playing decent football as well. Key players like Brown and Fletcher have regained fitness and the new lads are bedding in nicely and i'm confident we can play our way out of this.
We're not winning these games and we have to. Simple as that. Until we do, we're screwed. It's no use doing well enough to get something, we need to win and we need to do it now. Three points off Villa is now a must.
I've seen enough relegations to know that the key is home games. We still have home games against EIGHT of our relegation rivals ............ Palace, West Ham, Hull, Norwich, Villa, Stoke, West Brom & Cardiff. We also have other winnable home games like Swansea. Besides, surely we've used up our bad luck for the entire season by now.
The media were all getting excited that Man City are only 6 points off top and are genuine title contenders, so you're right. When I look at teams like Fulham, West Ham, Hull etc they seem to have very little heart. Perhaps we have a bit too much, at the moment, but Poyet is working hard and obviously having an effect. Brown and Cattermole will be back next week and we'll have a good side out against Villa .......... my first match since the derby.
It's going to be an arse clencher all season. Unless we put a 6 or 7 game run together with 5 wins and 2 draws we are 2 steps forward and 1 back all the way to May now. I back Gus totally to get us clear by the end of the season buts it's going to be a painful progress thus campaign.
I know it put us bottom but in the long run palace beating Hull could be a goof things. Just look at our remaining home fixtures. They are key
I was hoping for a Palace win as Hull are very poor and worse than Sunderland in my opinion. They now have a dreadful run of games, Bruce playing people out of position and making excuses about the players being distracted by the supporters. We've heard and seen it all before from Bruce, he'll blame anyone but himself.
Off the top of me heed I reckon we have the 'easiest' home ties of any of our 8 relegation rivals. Hull have a terrible set of games involving most of the top half. We've played most of our bad ones including the derby.
We still have Janurary and I hope we can bring in one or two improvements. The most important thing is to support the lads. In times like this we do not need the idiots who stand up in the isles and abuse the players (what may happen if we lose a couple of the above mentioned games) Support the lads, even if everything does not go to plan. Its only a disaster, if the players start to get afraid of trying.
If you assume our form over the last 5 games in indicative for the rest of the season now Poyet is in control, then work your way up from the bottom of the table, we have a better record over those 5 games than everyone all the way up to Swansea. There are probably 11 clubs fighting to stay out of the bottom 3. Poyet, I believe, will ensure Sunderland are one of the 8 that make it. I'm not trying to put a positive spin on this, I'm an engineer, therefore, the glass is neither half full or half empty just twice as big as it should be!
Well put ......... we had two winnable games at Hull and Stoke and had nothing but rotten luck, as well as other problems. I believe Poyet will sort out the problems, as he has been slowly doing, and surely our luck will change. Dossena totally deserved to go but Cattermole was the victim of his reputation and Brown was the victim of a poor referee guessing.
