morning! a bit restless her too. been up a while, cleaning/checking the mtb. i've vas'd me gnads, and got me stretches in. just havin a coffee with me 606 then i'm off for a few hours riding. enjoy your day, everyone....
You too, cup of tea made Wise men say, only fools rush in, but i cant help falling in love with you, sunderland! Sunderland!
That`s true. ^ I can`t remember any change as radical this though. The evidence is there. It had to be done. Optimism mixed with concern for me. No other way to put it really.
After what can only be described as an amazing summer recruitment by the club, the time for speculation, deliberation and discussion is at an end. The Paolo Revolution is here. In a little less than 7 hours the show begins for real and even Fulham have provided a pantomime villain as well? I can't wait and I am as giddy as star struck school kid. PDC speaks well, has acted well and his time to deliver well is here now. Great day for all Sunderland fans everywhere and a brand new era. Forza Paolo.
All the media and pundits will be waiting in the wings with their `dream turns to nightmare` captions at the ready. Enough success to prove them all wrong would do for me. If that happens I have every intention of being extremely smug. In fact, I will be unbearable.
differences aside cest hears to the season ahead, god bless all who sail in her whhheeeeee here we go on the safc roller coaster
There is a definite anti Sunderland and anti PDC bias in the national press and some pundits but I get the feeling PDC isn't bothered in the slightest. Neither am I anymore and I'm happy to let our players do our talking. FTM and KTF
Just a reminder that if anyone is travelling by car, there is loads of roadworks in the centre of Sunderland at present, and police are advising fans to give themselves plenty of time to get there..
Excited ? I am and then I heard this on the radio first thing this morning and it put me right in a great mood....lol ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juJpyUkHPCA
PAOLO Di Canio says he wants his side to play exciting, attacking football this season and he believes a 4-2-4 formation will provide it. The head coach has overseen a revolution in both personnel and mentality at the Stadium of Light this summer and although he hopes for two or three more signings to complete the transformation before the transfer window closes, he believes he now has the basics in place to take the club forward in the 2013-14 campaign. The arrivals of left-winger Emanuele Giaccherini and powerful striker Jozy Altidore in particular have given the head coach more latitude to pursue an attack-minded game. And he says the key now is finding a creative play-maker to help everyone else tick. He told the Echo: âWe want to attack, we want to entertain and we want to score goals and the players we have brought in will make us much more able to do that. âWhen we have the ball, I want us to be 4-2-4 with the wingers, pushing forward to join the attack and the full-backs moving up. âIâm excited about the new season because I have confidence in my players and I know that the way we are going to play, we will never give up in games. âAnd I hope too that the fans will enjoy coming to watch us play because we want to give them a team they can be proud of.â Di Canio does feel though that if the club can secure a physical play-maker in the centre of the park, they can go on to be even more effective going forward. âWe have the players to do well but that type of player is vital to us, simply because we do want to play 4-2-4,â he explained. âWe have had talks about it but the idea of getting in a midfielder who could be part of a midfield three is not what I am after. âI want only two in central midfield and because of that, that signing has to be someone who is physical and confident but who can also pass the ball very, very well and help start attacks. âIn my own mind, I have a very, very clear idea of how I want to play and it will be an attacking style. âWe have brought in players with a view to playing that way and any more players we bring in will also be bought with a view to playing to that strategy. âI want more players but I am happy with the players we have brought in and happy with the intelligence they have shown in learning how we want to play next season. âIt might take a bit of time to get all the new signings to settle in but this is something we had to do if we were going to improve the club and I believe things are in place now for us to go on and have a successful season.â
4-2-4 is new to me, I would guess it's a fluid formation with 4-5-1 when we are on the back foot. Trust in Paolo
