Oh what a change

[Evil Jimmy Krankie]

Talks utter nonsense all the time, would love to see how he would run a club - just sign players he's heard of

Didn’t work for David Moyes did it!!

 

[Nonsense Potter]

Love the 'model' that we are implementing, for yrs I've been wanting us to be that club that young exciting players want to come too

We will have bumps in the road (last season for example) but I really do believe this is the way we will be succesful in the long term

I'm enjoying this season so far, still not getting carried away as there will be so many twists n turns to go but so proud of this team n club

I love every single player, they're all mint! Young players will have off days, so do older players for that matter though, but I can't remember having a squad like this, ever! The bench is quality, we have good players not even getting on the bench!

As you say, not getting carried away, the championship is a savage league to get out of and its a long old slog, but I feel I'll be going in to every game this year thinking if we play to even 70% of what we're capable of, with reggies guidance, we have a really good chance of getting the points!

 

[Monkey69]

Mickey Gray doesn’t think the clubs current transfer strategy is the right one apparently. Now, I’ll be the first to say that I always liked him as a player. He was living the dream we all had. But I reckon that he is living in the past and football has moved on in certain respects.
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...er-kyril-louis-dreyfus-transfer-model-4791532

I have met Micky Gray on more than one occasion and TBF he is a pretty odious man and I personally do not like him. Others may have their own opinion but that is mine.

 

[TheBronzeBummer]

it still amazes me how many sit totally quiet, not one posting from them about how good it currently is yet as soon as the next transfer window is nearing the close they all appear together putting the club and regime down as one collective voice...then retire to quietness once they are proven wrong again.

i am enjoying this at the minute but i am under no illusion that we are going to romp this league and storm the premier next season, there is a long long way to go and the squad are still learning what RTB needs out of them, the celebrations in the dressing room for riggy show the team spirit and, for me, that is the best thing about it all.

So quick to be pessimistic, they are. They wait for people to get carried away then if a player has a **** game, there's hell on.

Mind, I don't know if there's many on here that do this, but I've seen it OTR.

 

[Brainy Dose]

Mickey Gray doesn’t think the clubs current transfer strategy is the right one apparently. Now, I’ll be the first to say that I always liked him as a player. He was living the dream we all had. But I reckon that he is living in the past and football has moved on in certain respects.
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...er-kyril-louis-dreyfus-transfer-model-4791532

Mickey's got that wrong, the evidence just doesn't support what he's saying. He'd be best advised to leave his current involvement in the game at commentating for Talksport.

 

[Culinary]

So quick to be pessimistic, they are. They wait for people to get carried away then if a player has a **** game, there's hell on.

Mind, I don't know if there's many on here that do this, but I've seen it OTR.

There's definitely a few...

 

[Brainy Dose]

So quick to be pessimistic, they are. They wait for people to get carried away then if a player has a **** game, there's hell on.

Mind, I don't know if there's many on here that do this, but I've seen it OTR.

Over the road is full of them mate. There are one or two on here,but not that many in comparison. I hardly ever bother with going over there these days. I hate the repetitive negativity and the almost constant expression of impending doom.

 

[Yorkie]

If we’d have sold Neil, Rigg, Jobe, Cirkin, Hume and Roberts, Mickey Gray would have a point. What we’ve done is sold 2 players who were very good for us over a period of time and both sales have proved to be very shrewd moves. The level of ignorance is astounding.

 

[CR17]

The atmosphere has been unreal every home game so far, this press RLB has implemented has us off our seats a lot cheering us on. Even when we sat off against boro when we eventually did press it was getting everybody up for it. Also, Chris Rigg must have been on cloud 9, the whole stadium was singing his name for a solid 2-3 minutes. Must be unreal for him

 

[SourPatch2]

If we’d have sold Neil, Rigg, Jobe, Cirkin, Hume and Roberts, Mickey Gray would have a point. What we’ve done is sold 2 players who were very good for us over a period of time and both sales have proved to be very shrewd moves. The level of ignorance is astounding.

A viewpoint i've had for a while now is that a lot of ex professionals really have no clue on how the sport works. It's as if they don't understand the financial rules that are in place and they just ignore precedent that has been set by clubs throughout the world.

You have to sell to reinvest. It's as simple as that. If Gray doesn't understand that, he shouldn't be speaking on the subject.

 

[clockstander]

I have met Micky Gray on more than one occasion and TBF he is a pretty odious man and I personally do not like him. Others may have their own opinion but that is mine.

And mine, a second rate wrong un , and a very lucky one at that. He would do well to keep his mouth shut imo.