Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Watford FC – Saturday 29th April 2023 - KO 15:00

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Gil T Azell said:
Here we are in a position we really have no right to be in. Promoted, loads of injuries and yet still in our own destiny. Lets get to the promised land ready or not.

Cheers RTB. Hopefully 4 more of these for this season and then you can have a well earned rest.

PS. 3-1 to the cuddlies.
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This is becoming like the Cup we won at Wembley against Tranmere ...

... none of us were that bothered about the competition but we all leapt up when Gooch cracked in the winner!

I think reality will soon set in and we'll be desperate to win all the games and go up.
 
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Whittylad said:
Great thread again RTB. Thanks for your efforts. I'm in the Highlands for a week for this one but Mrs W has said it would be daft to miss this one and to get myself away. 5 hour drive . Oh well thanks love ill be a good lad the rest of the week honest. The match could be a difficult one a team with nowt to play for relaxed and able to attack. I'm hoping like me there on holiday already. Come on boys one big last push. Hopefully 3 points and move on. Keep the faith lads and lasses.
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Which manager left us and said his new team were relaxed and it was end of season and his team would play their hearts out at Man unt to help keep us up, got beat 4-1 and we were relegated <laugh><laugh><laugh>
 
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I can’t wait for tomorrow, a full house and the charged atmosphere that goes with it, I'm like a kid in a sweetie shop. In my opinion, this season has been the most enjoyable I can remember in my 60 years of supporting Sunderland, probably because the previous five seasons have been my least enjoyable.

The drop through the Championship and the four seasons in league 1 were a nightmare for me because I expected to win every game and when we didn’t, I came away from the ground in a hell of a fettle and it buggered my week.

This season my expectations were sighted lower, hoping for mid table but what this young team and manager have achieved is nothing short of incredible and irrespective of where we finish up I look forward to next season with anticipation.

I reckon the ride will shred my nerves to bits but I am better prepared for it after this brilliant season.
 
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TopCat_ said:
Not sure about that team @RTB - reckon Michut and Pritch might come back into the team.

If only there was a way to fit Clarke, Roberts, Amad, Pritch and Gelhardt into the team without leaving Neil stranded in CM

FWIW I'd go:

Patterson
Hume O'Nien Cirkin
Gooch Neil Michut Clarke
Amad Roberts
Gelhardt​
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Another great thread RTB, <applause> and I hope Tony will give some thought to this line up posted earlier by TopCat <ok>, I am looking forward to another good show by "The Lads" whoever he picks tbh , it wont be easy, but we do have a forum, team and manager to be proud of, what more can we ask? 3 points please. OaU
 
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Another brilliant thread RTB. Only another 4 to go!

Watford have nowt to lose, so I doubt they'll revert to ****housery and it will be an open game, which will play right into our hands. I hope the crowd doesn't get anxious and continues to sing their hearts out, like our away support does.

I wasn't confident about this game a few weeks ago, but I am now. Their season is effectively over, ours is reaching boiling point and I expect us to come out on top. Win this and then see what we need at Preston. Millwall losing tonight would be a great start to the weekend, but our future is in our hands now. Let's do the business!

3-1 to the Lads and a step closer to Wembley.
 
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Sunderland welcome Watford to the Stadium of Light in the Championship.
Last time out Sunderland beat West Brom and Watford lost at Hull.
Dennis Cirkin scored his first brace for Sunderland as the Black Cats moved into the play off positions with a 2-1 win at West Brom.
With no new injury concerns and Dan Ballard still out, Mowbray is set to stick with the same back line that played in last weekend's win at West Brom, with Trai Hume, Luke O'Nien, and Dennis Cirkin making up the back three with Lynden Gooch dropping in to make a back four when Sunderland are defending.
Watford are in 13th place with 59 points, but are currently bottom of the form table with one win and a draw from their last six games. The Hornets are bottom of the form table and have little or no chance of making the play-offs now, having lost at home to Cardiff and away at Hull.
Tony Mowbray:
"Luke wasn't with us at dinner last night, he was up first thing I think to get down and have breakfast with the team so he could have the first night with the new baby in the house."
"He's such an impressive human being and someone I never have any worries about - whatever he chooses to do in his life he will be a success at because he's a driven guy."
"We've had some great away days this season - and this was another one.
"We were brave on the ball. It's nice to see so many of our young lads trying to play football the right way.
"We controlled the game for long periods. And you can see they're enjoying it.
"This is a good football team with real talent. If you preach the right messages to them, then they get it."
Chris Wilder:
"It was a typical Championship game. In the first half there was not a lot in it, but they punished our mistakes. I thought our players gave it a right go and deserved something from the game.
"It is disappointing. I have watched a lot of games in the Championship and that's a typical one, judged and decided by fine moments and unfortunately we have not taken the big chances that we had.
"We have just got to go into these last two games and see what we can get out of them."

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Match Appointments:
Referee: GAVIN WARD
Assistant Referees: Mark Dwyer and Adam Crysell
Fourth Official: Thomas Parsons

Team Lineups:
Sunderland AFC: (4-2-3-1) Patterson, Cirkin, O’Nien, Hume, Gooch, Neil, Ekwah, Ba, Clarke, Amad, Gelhardt.
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Subs: Bass, Anderson,Taylor, Pritchard, Michut, Lihadji, Roberts
Injured: Embleton, Stewart, Evans, Ballard, Alese, Batth, Bennette, Huggins, Rigg

Watford (4-1-4-1) Bachmann, Andrews, Porteous, Kabasele, Kamara, Bacuna, Sarr, Louza, Koné, Sema, João Pedro
Subs:Ngakia, Davis, Cathcart, Asprilla, Hamer, Morris, Hoedt
Injured: Assombalonga, Cleverly, Sierralta, Dele-Bashiru, Kayembe, Hause, Gosling.

Betting Odds:
Sunderland 10/11 Watford 3/1 Draw 5/2

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Prutton Predicts: tbc

My two pence:
An excellent team performance at the Hawthorns and a great result considering that West Brom were unbeaten at home, we had a weakened defence and fielded the youngest side in the Championship this season (average 22yrs & 178 days)
With Sarr and João Pedro, Watford have some very dangerous players up front but hey, they're no Blissett and Barnes.
I’m going to this one and I’m hoping to see a comfortable 3-0 home win

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Ha’way the Lads
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Are you driving up mate?
 
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