Just a thought, or two, but is it time we started to get the positive back? Relegation is possible mathamaticly but highly unlikely, I would say a non starter. We started the season saying a top ten finish would be a great season, far more likely than the drop, so come on boys and girls. We have had a bad few results and some very poor performances, we all know that. We have also had some tough games, we seem to forget that. In January we all enjoyed the odd orgasm or two with the news about Sess and Muntari, they now seem to be looked upon as complete failures, have we really made them that bad? Gyan was our wonder buy, now in some eyes he is a failure and Welbeck, remember him, the player most did not want because we had Wagghorn, well he is now our star man. I may sound like Iââ¬â¢m having a go at you but no, Iââ¬â¢m having a go at me and all the passionate Sunderland fans like me, itââ¬â¢s hard to not get wrapped up in the emotion of following our team. Hard not to think that we will be in a dog fight, thatââ¬â¢s what we do at Sunderland. Hard to believe that we are indeed an established premier team, but we are. The hope I have are in the words of one Ellis Short, relegation is not an option, easy to say but when I heard him say it I believed him, whatââ¬â¢s more I think Bruce will have believed him. I expect these two weeks will have been spent getting the players heads ready mentally for the remaining games and I truly expect to see a good run in with a team fighting all the way for that top ten finish. Lets start looking up and not down and lets start enjoying again.
We are Sunlun and we also like to cast our villains as heroes of the day Bardsley, Ferdinand, Turner - yes Welbeck too - all castigated and lampooned earlier in the season, now saviours. It seems our attitudes change with the wind.
Fans have to remember it is Sunderland who we support so long periods of awful performances are standard its just part of life of being a SAFC fan.
You're not wrong mate....... however our expectations have been raised….. five year plan….. investment…… don’t we have a right to aspire to something better?
Yes we have to aspire and I believe we have under Short/Quinn/Bruce as if it was not for these guys we would be mixing it with Wolves/Wigan/Brum etc. Hopefully with a top ten finish this season and promise of further investment in the summer we will once again kick on from this season as we have improved every season since we have been promoted so far so why wont that improvement continue next season. Injuries have hampered our progress as well this season and the Bent saga.
Alright syd, did you go to the Niall quinn road show last night at Rainton? any news. Im going to the SOL shortly & cant wait but i have a early flight to Benidorm the next day so im unfortuantly going to be missing the WBA game but this may be a good thing as the last 2 home games i have misssed we have won both games Man City 1-0 this season (missed due to the beatles festival) & Blackburn last season won 3-1 (missed due to V Festival).
Syd, and others. This is THE enduring love of our lives. Similar to the girls/women we have loved, but disimilar in the fact that we can get them out of our lives and heads - some of us are quite adept by now at this - but with SAFC that 100% raw love/passion/emotion still burns no matter how much hurt comes from them. Been in love since I was 7, seperated many times and close to a break up occasionally, but I keep coming back for more. KTF
Sorry, but optimism service will resume when performance does. After all, they're getting paid to sort it, I'm not.
And you have every right to feel that way mate, just gets me down a bit when I feel gloomy so decided to get my positive head back on.
Well far be it for me to want to cheer up a mackem (kicking them when they're down is far more fun) but you lot should be pretty pleased with your season. The chances are you will finish in the top 10 with some very winnable games in your run in. If I had offered you a top 10 finish at the start of the season, many fans would have grabbed it. The problem was that when Europe became a very real possibility, it raised the fans expectations, and now, after that tough run of fixtures has put Europe realistically out of reach, many fans are feeling flat. We are seeing the same thing at our club. Most of us right minded fans would have been happy with 17th place and to be 4 points off the drop with 8 games left, I am pretty happy. But after doing so well earlier in the season, many of our fans are now panicking about relegation. But back to you lot. If Bruce is given enough money and makes a few schrewd buys in the summer, you could actually make a realistic and sustained bid for Europe next year. Much depends on what happens with the loan signings as they make up quite a large part of your squad. The only worry I think that you should have is this fuss Quinn made about filling the ground. Why make such a fuss? Is he under pressure from Short? or am I getting the situation completely wrong?
