Long may it continue !Parkinson home league form is good. P2 W2 F6 A0......
I've just hoyed this up on RTG so thought I'd share it here as it was in reply to Grumpy Old Man made about Shrewsbury and us winning 9 times out of 10 normally.I was just reading the Roker Repot article about how long we persevere with him.
https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/20...-phil-parkinson-or-have-you-made-up-your-mind
I agree he should be given a little longer to see how we do in the league, but I appreciate others disagree.
For those who think we need a new manager now, we’ve seen the candidates - who do you want?


Good to know for what it's worth. A couple of fully functioning strikers and an attacking midfielder could save the season.I've just hoyed this up on RTG so thought I'd share it here as it was in reply to Grumpy Old Man made about Shrewsbury and us winning 9 times out of 10 normally.
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Against Shrewsbury we didn't convert the chances as we had plenty but the goal was as small as a 5 aside goal given the amount actually on target! The graph at the top shows which team had play during that time and normally like you say we'd have won that game. Apologies if images are big on a phone.
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A few of the chances are shown here.
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Shrewsbury were no easy pushover as they played Wycombe the week after and dominated the stats in a same way we did against them but also couldn't find the net. That defeat is currently their only loss in their last 10 games, 6 being in league.
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We've had 1 game in the league since Shrewsbury against Southend but it was the same old story, we couldn't convert!
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The 4 cup games since Southend need to be forgotten about given the chopping and changing of the team as now it's league games all the way to the end of season. One positive for me is that we've created over 60 chances in the least 4 league games away to Wycombe/Shrewsbury and home to Tranmere/Southend with Parkinson in charge, so over 15 per game. The problem is, getting them on target sometimes isn't great and then our conversion rate is poor when we do. It's all meaningless stats to the final score but at least it's better than creating nowt at all and not dominating games! If improve our conversion rate then at least we'll be creating enough chances to increase how any we score.
We're also missing a 1 goal in at most 3 apps striker as Grigg needs to gets some goals these next 2 games. His 1 in 15 return this season is ****ing shocking and if not that's it, play someone else even if it's a kid if McNulty isn't fit! If we had a 1 in 3 striker like most teams at the top then we'd have some extra goals and as Maja showed last season, these are goals that often help towards getting points from a game. Now we're out of the cups, the big test comes tomorrow and Tuesday and 2 good wins would change the mood of the players dramatically!
I got the stats from here
https://www.sofascore.com/team/football/sunderland/41
You can also look at the match center here for more stats/chalkboard/heatmaps etc here also so I won't bore you even more but it's not as bad as some like to make out or being distracted by the meaningless cup games and writing the season off already!
https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/16/Fixtures/England-Sunderland
Good to know for what it's worth. A couple of fully functioning strikers and an attacking midfielder could save the season.
Grigg
Grigg is baffling, surely it's not that hard to put the ball in the net
Well I think it’s actually the hardest think in football to do
Ross had a very good side last season. People seem to be wiping that from history and starting a clean slate from this one in his defence.Two of the reasons I wasn't calling for Ross's head was A, the main problem for me was our players simply weren't good enough rather than a piss poor underperforming manager and B, we'd end up appointing someone like Parkinson and end up going backwards.
It seems clear that there's a split in the group from what Leadbitter said and going off the form of the players you mention it's logical to think it could be them with the problem.
One thing Parkinson has is experience and he should know how to deal with it as in giving them the boot from the team. If he doesn't deal with it and keeps on playing them because they're the best on paper he's a fool. We shall see.
Think what I read was that he wanted Grigg but not at the price as he thought there was better value elsewhere (Remember when David Moyes said that about Yann M'Vila!!!) - as you say, depends on what you believe
When you look from the outside, we are 4 points behind 3rd place with 2 games in hand on almost everyone between us and there (Coverntry are third!)
Win the games in hand and we are in a good position. We are capable of winning - I watched us against Tranmere and thought we played lovely football and controlled them very well. And we didn;t play 4-4-2!!
It's that eternal optimist in me that keeps on thinking these things though!! Even afer 38 years of watching SAFC, I've still not lost it
Of course and we get no credit at all fir scoring 5! Typical of a large number of our fansThe result against Tranmere was because they were hopeless im afraid.
We played well that night. But 2 wins in 10 suggests it was a fluke. He wont se the season outOf course and we get no credit at all fir scoring 5! Typical of a large number of our fans