I was down the pub the other night with my mate and fellow sunderland fan,discussing all things to do with the club. when he posed me an interesting question. Would you rather stay up this season comfortably? or win the league cup and have to win the last game of the season, to know if you were gonna escape relegation. In the end I opted with staying up, Knowing that our last game is away to United. I know this is all hypothetical but it did really hit home how important it is to stay in the EPL. I would just like to know your thoughts on the matter. On one hand a cup success at Wembley would a day most fans would never forget but how much would relegation hurt us as a club?
I want the win the League Cup, FA Cup and Stay up with time to spare. Sorry, Sick of hypothetical questions. Been so many threads. Good to see the choices are more positive though, rather then the basic Win the cup and go down or go out and stay up. Now we get the opportunity to stay up and win the cup in the hypothetical world.
Stay up...all day long. ask Boro, Blackburn, Both Sheffields, Coventry about slipping out of this league
To win the cup would be fantastic. To get relegated could set us way back. So for me its 100% avoid the drop
Yea I know anything could happen from now until the end of the season. I wonder though if this was 10 years ago how many people would opt for cup success. It just seems as though the premiership is a must because of all the financial implications, which is sad really.
Avoid relegation 100%, going down could set us back 5 years and do some real financial damage to the club. In reality, I reckon we can do both, we're starting to look like a team again and are putting in some great performances, confidence is back up so why not eh? 3 points off Southampton will do for starters then we go to united to finish the job there.
Win the cup and have to win the last game personally. Home to Swansea on the final day of the season - the Man U game is the week before that. Everything in our own hands and not having to rely on anyone else. Cup wins don't come around very often so to have that and our own destiny to confirm staying up would be fine by me. However - I have a lot more faith in the last month - 6 weeks or so that survival will be probable rather than simply being distantly possible.
United don't play you lot last game of the season. We play Southampton. You play Swansea at home. You could beat Swansea, surely you take the cup. Not that you're incapable of beating United.
We could beat your lot as well terry (The inconsistency you've shown this season!) I agree with you completely though - Cup and have to win against Swansea. If it was a choice between cup or PL it'd be PL but it isn;t. In this case I'd rather win the cup and worry about the league afterwards
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Id go for winning the cup, then taking our chances I do understand the financial implications on relegation, but as a fan you have to sometimes wonder what is the point of being a mid table side, being satisfied with just survival.
Top and bottom for me fella is I never seen us win anything, I'll be dead three times over waiting for us to win the Premiership. The cup is my only chance of seeing us win anything. If it's at the expense of our league status so be it. I love a good promotion season anyway.
I'm starting to forget what they're like. There's nothing like watching an Soccer Saturday when they're playing away at Rotherham or somewhere equally obscure and that is the eound of games that can can secure promotion.
The last one was amazing. Some of the goals we scored were fantastic. Carlos Edwards had a belting season.
If Man Utd were to relegate us their supporters would Poznan themselves to the point of exhaustion Personally I'd take a risk on winning the cup and beating Swansea in the last game.
You are only going to win the league if you are an established title challenger, or a mega rich oil barron buys your club. We aren't/won't be either. The cups represent our only chance to win anything. Its difficult enough for your Arsenals and Liverpools. Everyone saying the league- have we been winning trophies consistently of the past 60 years or so? Thought not. Imagine the bragging rights, imagine.
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