You can see in the still images, before Coloccini even catches up to Fletcher, Elliott has 2 hands on the ball. Not sure if there was even much contact between Colo and Fletcher.
FFS, aren't you one of the posters who complains about people always taking things too seriously? Of course Elliott never had the ball haha. How's your confidence in Sunderland staying up? I'd take you on a charity bet over that...
Full Sunderland Echo interview: Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce admits the lack of "understanding and discipline" from his side is a major concern after going down 6-2 to Everton. Sunderland, sporting a new 5-3-2 formation, started brightly but were pegged back by Gerard Deulofeu's soft goal before Arouna Kone smashed home a fine effort just past the half-hour mark. Jermain Defoe got one back before the break, with Steven Fletcher equalising five minutes into the re-start. It then went badly downhill, very quickly, for Sunderland, with the Black Cats conceding three goals in seven minutes on their way to a 6-2 defeat. Allardyce said: "I'm obviously concerned about the lack of understanding in certain periods of the game and the team. "Particularly when we got back to 2-2, nothing wrong with what we had been doing up to then, apart from we gave away a very soft first goal away. "That could easily have been avoided. The second was a bit of a cracker from Kone. "But the goal just before half-time and the chances we created first half gave me some encouragement to say if we get the second, then we keep it tight lads, and play the game out and frustrate them. "When we got the second, we attacked, attacked, attacked for the third and didn't get it and within seven minutes had tossed the game away. "We allowed Everton to score three very silly, sloppy goals from counter-attacks they didn't have to work very hard for. "That lack of discipline and understanding in seven minutes has really concerned me, on the basis that we should have been satisfied with the 2-2. "We should have frustrated Everton and then maybe we would have got on the end of a counter attack and scored another. They were on the back foot when we got to 2-2. "That sums it up for me, a lack of understanding at certain points of the game. What to do, how to do it, when to do it. "We did it the wrong way today and gave them the opportunity to play on the counter attack and breeze through us and score three goals in seven minutes." ----------------------------- So Chris Young has guven the mags some fuel by posting a tiny portion of an interview (where the only reference to it is Chris young tweet notably without a full stop indicating that Sam didn't stop talking at that point. Or even finish the sentence) and the above basically confirms everything I thought was meant by my assumptions was correct.
"You can see in the still images, before Coloccini even catches up to Fletcher, Elliott has 2 hands on the ball." please log in to view this image
It's clear what he meant when you take the rest of what he said into concideration. He meant we should have tightened up and protected the point and it would have felt like win confidance wise for getting something out of the game having been 2-0 down. If you read further the sentiment is supported as he highlights how we shouldn't have gone for the third and 7 minutes later We had 'tossed the game away' Twitter can only tell a person so much in one sentence, you need the full quote to understand the true context of it. Something twitter can't deliver.
Got to be 15 love though (although that doesn`t sound quite right somehow) I say 15 but seeing as how you`re a regular, to you.............6
Utter ****. You going to the Stoke match? I demand compensation..... Six pints ought to do it (from each poster!)
I knew I recognised you from somewhere!!! You wouldn't leave me alone. I thought you were some crap groupie at first!
I'm intrigued by the fact you think I have tried to be funny here on this thread..... That being said, there was a reason I only ever performed in York
I can go along with Sam's analysis as we were dreadfully frail at the back especially when we lost Catts and our defence were strangers to each other. Rodwell had the opportunity to show his qualities but forgot that defending was one of them. Showed me the value of JOS as no-one seemed capable of organising us at the back or stopping us from getting over-excited thinking we could win the game by going all-out.
