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Match Day Thread Rotherham United FC v Sunderland AFC – Friday 29th December 2023 - KO 19:45

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by RTB, Dec 27, 2023.

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Your Prediction:

Poll closed Dec 29, 2023.
  1. Home win

    2.8%
  2. Away win (safc)

    84.5%
  3. Draw

    12.7%
  1. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    Quite possibly your right, we have all said and I think Beale did say it just needs tweaks not major surgery.

    I do think confidence is low within the group, but again that may be due to the mental and physical fatigue of a crazy schedule
     
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  2. Saf

    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Beale didn’t say it was a good point, though.

    He said at the end of the season we might look back on it as a good point.
     
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  3. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    Thats the very formation we should be playing it would fit our squad and this league better than any other I have been saying it all season.
     
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  4. 123Daveyboy

    123Daveyboy Well-Known Member

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    And they have lost less. at home than we have, is it difficult for you so accept that.
     
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  5. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Bob, I've never known a poster so confusing tbh.

    On one hand you post that you get on with KLD and KS very well ...

    ... then say the most insulting things behind their backs.

    You're saying KLD has betrayed the fans for greed and Speakman sacks a manager on the word of a grass. And you regularly insult KLD regarding pocket money from his mam.

    I just don't get it Bob, did you ask KLD why he betrayed the supporters and took it up the arse from Newcastle?

    Just wondering .....
     
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  6. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    I suggest he could start by watching a few videos of games we have won and gams we have lost lost. <ok>
     
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  7. Prehab26

    Prehab26 Well-Known Member

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    Just see them as a very poor side who will go down, one we should be winning. Not having our keeper MOTM
     
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  8. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    Just a radical thought as I'm bored. Could this line up work

    ...........................Patto

    ...............Seelt.....Ballard...09

    Hume/Pembele.............Neil................Clarke

    ........................Adil/Pritch

    ....Mayander......Hemir......Rusyn
     
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  9. Gil T Azell

    Gil T Azell Well-Known Member

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    That is ridiculously sensible. Admin get him banned for a while <laugh>.
     
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  10. Gil T Azell

    Gil T Azell Well-Known Member

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    Not sure they will go upfront with 3 but I agree with you. We concede too many soft goals at the back so lets just go all out attack.
     
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  11. Saf

    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Hemir would struggle to get into Gateshead’s team, atm. Genuinely.

    I like the idea of the formation but Clarke is massively important to us. Leave him where he’s doing all the damage.

    I’d put Rusyn in the centre even though I think he’ll end up on the left when/if Clarke goes. Push Clarke further up the pitch. Pembele RWB, Cirkin/Hume/Alese LWB.
     
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  12. Coastal Dolphins

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    It's 2024 in a few days time. surely a super coach has access to all the games this season.
    He maybe could have watched a few of them before the first game.

    I fear he's a bluffer who's not a very good manager and we are going backwards.
     
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  13. Smug in Boots

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    It's all relative mate.

    Before the game people were saying 'these are no mugs' and that it would be a much tougher game than some thought ...

    ... after the game they were saying 'we should be beating teams like this'.

    Sheff Wed have lost two more games than any other team yet went to a promotion chasing side and won the game. That doesn't excuse our performance, we looked jaded and too many players were second best to the ball.

    TBH I'd rather beat Hull and draw with Rotherham than the other way round.
     
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  14. Culinary

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    I can’t be arsed with the Old Firm so I’ve no idea but I’ve read from others that he played with no width at Rangers, is that not the case?
     
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  15. clockstander

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    Formation just the job , just but a bit too too much emphasis on all out attack for me atm, So I would be swapping Hume and O/9's around, with O/9 in the middle of a fluid midfield five , with licence to use the flanks as and when to support two narrower quick front runners playing on the shoulder up front as we did against Leeds, that was a perfect display the only one of the season for me as it made the most of our squads strengths, hopes have been dashed slightly since that game to say the least
     
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  16. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    The front 3 is how they line up for u21's it's different and would allow Hemir to hold it up and some long balls over the top.

    Just thoughts on something different
     
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  17. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    And they were right on both accounts imo. as you are in your last comment, most would have gladly accepted 4 points from the last 6 but it was in the end very disappointing that it was not all six, OaU.
     
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  18. Prehab26

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    I don't believe so. The complaints were that it went wide and nowt was in the middle.
     
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  19. clockstander

    clockstander Well-Known Member

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    Its a chuck up mate, between optimism and pessimism is football, there's no happy medium especially watching SAFC, and as we both have said Hemir is looking very good in recent games, He has a football brain and is probably going to develop into some player and I hope its here for us, only time will tell, but a side with Dan, Rigg, Jobe and Hemir in it by the end of the season would be very tasty one indeed. OaU
     
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  20. Chunksafc

    Chunksafc Well-Known Member

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    We are just so close to having a great squad and team, just some tweaks and we will be flying again I'm sure
     
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