Sunderland's "Downturn"

Not surprising, he is a Geordie after all

 

Shhhh they might get the right idea

 

And that hits the nail on the head. Our guys all work as a team and for each other.

 

No danger, Bruce is their manager! lol

 

Jones put in 1 good performance in 6, and just didnt look interested most of the time, he isnt exactly setting the Stoke team alight either.

Welbeck we were never going to get, one of those that if he plays well, he goes back, if he doesnt, we dont want him. (would have been nice though)

Whickams injury isnt as bad as first thought, so hopefully only out for a month or so, not all season (touch wood).

Henderson just isnt very good, thanks Liverpool for the cash. (worth about 5 million i would say)

Malbranque we sold for 2 million, he retired 2 months later, perfect timing if you ask me.

Gardner should be doing better, but i didnt see the fuss when we bought him.

Zendon wanted 1st team football, we couldnt give him it.

Vaughan has been one of our best players this season. (i know that doesnt say much but he has lol)

Mensah was great first season, crap 2nd, got injured far too much.

Brown has been superb, couple of **** ups, but has shored up our defence no end (we havnt been turned over yet)

O`Shea, never seen it, never have, jack of all trades but master of none for me.

Bramble, really dont want to go there until after his court case.

Onuaha. his mam has cancer and he wont move from the North West, no ones fault that.

Ferdinand left at 10:50pm on deadline day, not a lot of time to get a replacement, but we did have Bramble till he ****ed it.

We are playing OK, we havnt been turned over yet like a lot of clubs (Bolton for example), we just are not scoring enough either, but we are playing with great resilliance, is is good to see (2 down against WBA coming back to 2-2 and probably should have won it).

You lot are doing fantastic, well done, but i really dont think we are too far away from putting a half decent run together ourselves, if we do Bruce is safe, if not, then he is out of a job, pretty much that simple.

 

Totally agree, one season wonder!

 

Bruce seems to like playing players out of position

Ji- Forward - Played Left Wing
Bardsley- RB - Played LB
Sessegnon - LW - Played CAM
Colback - CM - Heard Bruce played him RM

If you dont have a player to fill in wouldnt it be better to bring a reserve or youth through look at us. We struggled but found Shane.

If Bramble is locked up why not Bardsley, O'Shea, Brown, Must be a young LB

 

Sessengnon is an attacking midfielder and Bardsley has done well at Lb

 

I thought he scored most of his goals from LW

 

I'd play:

Westwood

O'Shea - Turner - Brown - Bardsley

Larsson - Gardener - Vaughan - Richardson

Sessegnon

Bendtner



Admittedly, i dont know that much about certain players/positions, however:

Richardson looks ****e at LB, but good going forward (hence, play him LW)
Larsson on the right (should be a no-brainer eh Bruce)
Gardener and Vaughn - best of a mediocre bunch
Sessegnon off a decent target man i.e. Bendtner. because you need someone in the middle to create something.
mooched the back 4 off whoever posted their lineup, but from what i understand their fullbacks are ****e, and i wont be hoying Bramble in the center, not even for a laugh.
Westwood, well he's going to be the only one fit for a few months (or ever in the case of Gordon), dont know much about him, but gave a very good account of himself at the weekend

 

Wonder who will get the chop first Titus or Nile

 

Nile, Titus has already been fined for bringing the clubs name into disrupte.

 

is that it he could face jail time. Or are they waiting

 

Who knows this is Sunderland we are talking about.

 

Lets just hope they show common sense.

 

Seriously?

I for one don't know what these Blackburn fans are crying about. They've played very well in their last 4-5 games and were very unlucky to lose at home to Spurs and Chelsea , two games where they were equal to or even better than their opponent. Blackburn have an OK team and certainly not one that will get relegated in my opinion.

I think Kean will turn it around soon as the owners are giving him the time to do so.

 

I think they are doomed tbh. Predicted they were gonners at start of season and stick by that

 

We'll have to wait and see.

Their next 6 games :

Wigan (A)

Stoke (A)

Swansea (H)

mackems (A)

West Brom (H)

Bolton (H)

This will make or break their season.

Wigan - Blackburn is a HUGE game. If we weren't playing at the same time as them I would be watching that one.

 

I think they will beat Wigan like as their defence is awful

 

I agree. Kean inherited a woeful Allardyce team (second time he's been sacked before his team went down...) and hasn't had the time or money to improve it. He's got Samba and Hoilett, and that's it, but they've actually been playing well. Supposedly there's some moans about how he got the job (echoes of the Hughton situation) but other than that there's not much to complain about. Regardless its not going to help anything, who in their right mind would take a job to play in front of those fans for that board now? Wor Alan would have to have had a skinfull to agree to that one!