Match Day Thread Sunderland v Lincoln City – Saturday 20th March - KO 15:00

Not unhappy with a point at all. Especially when you look at the results of the day. Expected hull and Peterborough to win and they drew. Players looked knackered at the end. But (and I’m glad about this) they looked unhappy with a decent point.

is there an international break for us? The site says next game is next week. But we’ve got a week to get back so that’s good, then almost another week before the next game on good Friday. Hopefuget players back. Give big chase a rest fir a but

 

He only does it to get the attention - he never replies either

 

Not there yet. If we got the winner today I would agree. It's who holds their nerve in the top 3 fixture roundabout that will decide it.

 

I agree 100%, happy days imo. Recharge for the run in and get the lads back fit who are out injured.

 

only McLaughlin called up I believe so we should be playing unless the teams we are due to play have call ups

 

Glad we haven't got a midweek game. Looked very leggy out there today.

 

I understand this but not sure I agree. Posh and Hull are dropping points against pretty much anybody. The games between us all will clearly be very important but I don’t think they’ll decide it in the way you’d normally expect.

 

Bad day for Pboro

 

I'm not being cocky m8 but I'm sure we'll do it. The stars are aligning.
Hull had 1 shot on target against Shrewsbury.

 

Peterborough only 1 win in the last 5 games, and were gifted a point today. The bloke was heading out of the box and going nowhere when he was brought down.

Hopefully Hume, Wright, AOB and Jones back in contention for next week. Strangely enough, I'm not worried about the games against Hull and Posh. I think we'll take care of them both. Blackpool (twice) bothers me more, as they are on a good run too.

 

Peterborough conceding 3 goals in 1 half against Rochdale gives me real hope...

 

It's a case of holding the nerves when the pressure is on. Today was always going to be the tricky game both sides of the Wembley game. We've come thru unscathed.

 

Definitely. 2-0 up and nearly lost it. We had a tough game today, and Hull were playing the last team to beat us, so they will be happy with a point too.

 

Lee Johnson:
2 days off for the lads and then a behind closed doors game on Tuesday / Wednesday - probably for Hume / O'Brien or maybe Jones.

 

I don't agree that we stole a point, it was a fair result which could have went either way. We had chances to win, McGeady's free kick, Leadbitter's shot, Wyke should/could have had a penalty, they could have been a man down after 5 minutes when the last man fouled Winchester preventing a goal scoring opportunity, 14 shots with 6 on target to their 10 shots with 4 on target, 58% possession to their 42%.
It's all about opinions but we gave a lead away and didn't steal anything.

 

So hes a ****ing soft cock as well then?

 

Meh, bad day at the office, ref was ****e, Poor choice to start Leadbitter when we needed pace to match their counter attack. Still, with the other results we haven't lost out so dust us down and move on to the next game.

 

Good call.

Hume and Jones back in this team absolutely equals promotion IMO

 

I watched the second half against portsmouth and peterborough were woeful - properly hanging on against a shot to bits portsmouth side - i said at the time if they play like that against us we'll murder them and i stand by that - conceeding 3 against a poor rochdale side gives me hope they wont last the title race. We've got 2 games in hand on Hull who are also wobbling at the minute - yes we've looked leggy but we've also got some good players to come back in who WILL make us a lot stronger.

Its in our hands imo and we have **** all to fear against anyone in this league at all.

 

Really big missed opportunity, can’t be to critical but a bit of a kick j The gonads that.

I know we can say we didn’t lose any ground but there won’t be loads of slips this stage of season.

Might do us good to have the reset, like I said half time we’ve been winning without performing massively so a mild wake up might be good.