Dave Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Darren Bent of all people scored today that sends Chris Coleman managing against Accrington Stanley next season. Jack Rodwell will be on £70,000 a week in League One! I imagine Ellis Short to come under more scrutiny now given he's had an easier ride than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 I was hoping that Sunderland would still have a chance of survival next week to at least attempt to win the game. Oh well. Not surprising really. Sunderland are an utter shambles at present and need looking at from top to bottom. A season in League One could do the trick, though with the debt they have and average players on big wages, it needs a hell of a shake up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 12 minutes ago, The Palace Fan said: Darren Bent of all people scored today that sends Chris Coleman managing against Accrington Stanley next season. Jack Rodwell will be on £70,000 a week in League One! I imagine Ellis Short to come under more scrutiny now given he's had an easier ride than most. I think he's got a mandatory reduction built into his contract that will take it down to just over £40k. Poor guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 8 minutes ago, Kitchen Sales said: They're not relegated yet. Mitrovic can officially relegate them on Friday night though. Burton still have to play Bolton which makes it impossible for them to stay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Just like us they got out of the Championship at the first time of asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted April 21, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted April 21, 2018 I am amazed how much Ellis Short has got away with this so far. It's an absolute disgrace what's happened to that club. I genuinely said in the summer I wouldn't rule out another relegation and sure enough it's happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 4 hours ago, Kitchen Sales said: Just like us they got out of the Championship at the first time of asking. That bought me back to a time when our captain left us on a free transfer to join Charlton in what he described as 'the ultimate ticket to getting out The Championship'. They finished bottom that season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Can't find where but I predicted they'd go down at the beginning of the season, don't normally get predictions right so Im happy with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted April 22, 2018 Administrator Share Posted April 22, 2018 gotta get out of League One at first time of asking now. Needs to be a change of ownership and possibly management. Get rid of all the deadwood. Basically do what we did and they're winning the Premier League in 8 years time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Sunderland could play Newcastle U23's in the Checkatrade Trophy next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Didn't have enough fans in the stand to hold the banner up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roversgirl Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 10 hours ago, Stan said: gotta get out of League One at first time of asking now. Needs to be a change of ownership and possibly management. Get rid of all the deadwood. This. Being relegated last season was tough to take but it has given us a chance to rebuild and have players in the squad who actually want to be here and are determined to get the club back to where it belongs. If Sunderland can get rid of the deadwood, give the youngsters a chance and buy/loan some experienced league one players/best talent in league one then there is no reason they can't bounce back first time like us too (hopefully). Also, the support they will take to away games will be fantastic and this has really helped our players this season. At home though it will be every team's big day out so they need to be careful their home form doesn't suffer as every opposition players performance will go up 10% just because they are playing at the stadium of light. So it could be a blessing in disguise in the long term IF their finances are stable enough to cope and they can get some stability in the club/start planning now with Coleman in charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted April 22, 2018 Administrator Share Posted April 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, roversgirl said: This. Being relegated last season was tough to take but it has given us a chance to rebuild and have players in the squad who actually want to be here and are determined to get the club back to where it belongs. If Sunderland can get rid of the deadwood, give the youngsters a chance and buy/loan some experienced league one players/best talent in league one then there is no reason they can't bounce back first time like us too (hopefully). Also, the support they will take to away games will be fantastic and this has really helped our players this season. At home though it will be every team's big day out so they need to be careful their home form doesn't suffer as every opposition players performance will go up 10% just because they are playing at the stadium of light. So it could be a blessing in disguise in the long term IF their finances are stable enough to cope and they can get some stability in the club/start planning now with Coleman in charge. yeah we utilised the loan system very well. We had players like Jack Hobbs, Tom Cleverley, David Stockdale in our League One season. They were still learning the game and first-team experience not only helped them, but helped us too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 These were all things that were said of Sunderland getting relegated from the Premier League to the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Beneathus Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Good riddance, hopefully we never play the cunts again unless it's our kids playing their first team in the Johnstone's Paint Cup or whatever it's called these days. Sums them up really, some spasticated cunt Mackem whinging on Twitter saying real football fans won't be taking the piss and that relegation is bad for every club. Yet 2 years ago wanking himself daft about us going down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted April 23, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted April 23, 2018 15 hours ago, Kitchen Sales said: Sunderland could play Newcastle U23's in the Checkatrade Trophy next season Aren't they the first club to have had both their first team and U23's in this tournament? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoRoss Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 They have huge debts, players on massive wages and their owner can't give the club away. Relegation is far closer to a death sentence to them rather than a chance to rebuild. The amount they are paying Jack Rodwell is going to be the same as an entire budget for a lot of clubs in that division. It could take them years to recover and until all the high earning mediocre players eventually leave (as they aren't exactly going to be queueing up to leave their contracts behind). Chris Coleman must be kicking himself for accepting the job. If he had waited a few more months he'd probably have gotten an EPL job and at least been in the Championship next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig on the Wing Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 11 hours ago, Dan said: Aren't they the first club to have had both their first team and U23's in this tournament? I might be wrong, but wasn't that Blackburn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted April 23, 2018 Subscriber Share Posted April 23, 2018 4 hours ago, StefBWFC said: I might be wrong, but wasn't that Blackburn? Not sure how Blackburn could've had their U23 involved. Are there Championship sides with reserve sides in it? I thought it was only Premier League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 33 minutes ago, Dan said: Not sure how Blackburn could've had their U23 involved. Are there Championship sides with reserve sides in it? I thought it was only Premier League. Reading were in it this year. It's anyone who is in the reserve Premier league that is eligible. Blackburn U23's were in it last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig on the Wing Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 As someone so highly disenchanted with the sport, I'm delighted that I still have some modicum of (pretty useless) knowledge left. Point as proof, I didn't even know Aaron Lennon was at Burnley until this weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 Sunderland CEO Martin Bain sounds pretty confident of a sale happening this summer. Given they have a couple of good players coming through (Honeymon, Gooch, Asoro, Waghorn), and they have some performers they should be able to keep (McNair, Jones etc) they should be looking at Blackburn and thinking "if they can do it, why can't we?". Obviously they need some form of investment, but it doesn't need a lot. The biggest task is shaking off this losing mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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