How low can these defenders get ?, never a 6-2 score with the way we attacked, but a shambles AGAIN and a laughing stock AGAIN, so where do we go from here ?, we should have went down last season to save this. Luckily I stopped watching at 2-0. By the way Big funk that is funnier than the Sunderland defence.
We've lost 2 captains early on in the last 2 games, are without our best defender O'Shea and Kaboul, our second best. We didn't defend well with a player coming off a long injury and looking rusty. I expect that's why Allardyce knew we'd have to take a chance and score goals today.
We got lucky at the end of last season by securing 6 points from goals that were deflected in OUR favour and saved us from relegation. This season, so far, I have ran out of how many times we have hit the woodwork and how many times shots have been deflected leaving Pantilimon stranded. Duncan Watmore is a wonderful piece of work in progress and will be a force to be reckoned with by the end of the season. This sort of bad luck simply cannot last so surely it can only get better from here on in. I do hope so.
People keep saying we were lucky when the midfield won the ball, Defoe dissected the Newcastle defence and got Fletcher one on one with the keeper
As I have said before mate, I went to my first football match (Hull City v Lincoln) in 1946. I went to my first Sunderland match in 1960 when I moved there. I rarely missed a game at Roker Park and have been an avid Sunderland supporter for the past 55 years. Obviously I 'follow' my "Home Town" team and when the Hull Message boards went into free-fall (I had been a member of all of them) I joined the not606 boards. I didn't realize (at the time) that I could view two clubs at once but when I came into the Sunderland threads I found that I could not alter my signature so left it as is. I am also a member of the "Pure Football/RTG Sunderland Message Boards too and joined them before I joined here. Hope that clears that up. When I moved to Sunderland I lived in a suburb called Hendon and didn't realize until years later that I was living in the same street as Hull City's Messiah (and Sunderland's ex Captain) Horatio (Raich) Stratton Carter was born. I loved Sunderland, the people and the beer and had some very happy times there.
You have to forgive me as i am a right nosey twat and love stuff like this. So your dad was in the great war?
Must have been. Like ive said i love this kind of stuff. All the old stuff really interests me. Hence i kept out of the relic debate thingy. We never stop learning and i personally love the oldies and the knowledge they bring
I know mate it was just a minor clash at the time. But he and the likes of Nostalgic and now Roo have do much to offer. Bloody war babies. None of us can begin to imagine. I want stories.
I migrated with my (then) wife and 3 kids but although she talked me into going she hated it from day one. Too 'macho' for her. We split up and she returned to England with the kids. * years later I met the love of my life who was 19 years of age at the time (I was 42). Nobody thought it would last but here we are some 35 years later (married for the past 26) and I always refer to her as "The Child Bride". She was quite emphatic about not having kids and when I took her back on numerous occasions to the UK my Mam and Dad absolutely adored her. Our first date 35 years ago (lecherous old sod aren't I): please log in to view this image
Sorry mate, I got carried away maybe the moderator can swap it over. We haven't changed a bit by the way - taken this years: please log in to view this image
