Sunderland Banter Archive February 09 2013

09 Feb 2013 17:15:43
Thought the team were brill today.

Everyone worked hard, and I think we have a 50/50 chance of staying up.

Thank goodness we have MON.

I do not want to imagine where we would be without him.

Jeez.

Your joking aren't you?

You have to remember we were playing Arsenal.

Mon deserves more credit than he gets.

Jeez.

Jeez you are having a laugh mate. We were garbage for 75 mins only tried last 15 mins. We are in same shape now as we were under bruce. Clueless no plan be without mon we would be higher up the table. Too old fashioned stubborn and pig headed for his own good. We need a manager who admits when he gets it wrongband is prepared to try something new

Under MON we have produced some of the worst football we have played for years. He is utterly clueless- has no tactics, overly defensive, totally uninspiring and has had much stronger support than his pathetic organisation of the team has deserved. The team has many weaknesses, but O'Neill himself is a major weakness. Of course he might do better if he had the Arsenal squad to manage, but he never will have, so stop telling us he would be better if the squad was. In fact many of them have performed better under other managers than they do for him- they are poor because his management is poor.

Not my post. Someone using my name.
As I said earlier, can't believe situation with strikers. One striker in, three out.
Losing faith in Mon tactics or lack of.
When Arsenal went down to ten men Graham should have come on straight away, not 10 mins later. It was Arsenal so not all doom and gloom, but I am concerned that MON is the man we hoped he would be.

JIZZzzzzzz.

I am the real Jeez.

Someone pretending to me using the name Jizz.

Must be a disgruntled Mag.

You know I am the real Jeez because I always support MON.

C'mon the Sunderland.

All I can say is some fans on here think MON is the messiah!. can't belive the naivity!. we are lucky to be in 13th position with the negative one up front football. sheer luck will keep us up this season. not MONS ability if you call it that. as a manager!

Dont know whether to be pleased or p*ssed off that someone is using my name. Just shows that I am getting up some pathetic Mags nose.
Disgruntled is a big word for a Mag. I am really concerned about this one as he can actually write words of more than four letters, obviously better educated than most of them. Probably not a schoolboy, just childish.
It should make us all aware of Mags appearing on our site trying their best to wind us up. isn't that right Kay?

JIZZzzzzzz.

Who is JIZZzzzzzz? and why is he pretending to be me?

Anyways, let's get behind Sunderland & MON.

Forget about the Skunks trying to hijack our page.

Jeez.

09 Feb 2013 14:25:53
Just watching Spurs v Mags. There is no doubt that the Mags have better players than we do in many areas, are better organised and have a much more positive attitude. And they picked up most of these players for less than we threw at Graham, because they have an intelligent transfer policy. They might well get nothing from today's game, but they went to one of the strongest clubs in the league and competed, they did not just string the team across the pitch and hope for a crumb on the break. I can't remember when we showed that kind of confidence and enterprise against a good side- setting the team up not to concede against the like of Bolton seems to be the best we can manage. That is why O'Neill has to go- he does not know what football looks like, and and can't seem to put any confidence into the players either.

Agree with those comments ! you can't compete in the Premiership with just passion graft and running around like a headless chicken!. you need skill. paticular in midfield where we are far short of creative skillfull players. otherwise eventually your luck will run out!

I know the saying one man doesn't make a team but it does at spurs if bale moves on then spurs would be mediocre

They still lost and scored a lucky deflection goal, well done spurs but we were terrible against arsenal

If they are a better team with better players that are more organised. how come they are below us in the league? These comments are nonsensical, like most of the posts complaining against MON on here.
We couldn't play 2 up front against Arsenal, their midfield is world class - fact!
How many teams in the PL play with two strikers . none! fact!
Talk about Swansea and how good they are, that team has been nurtured for years. MON inherited championship players, give the man a chance ffs!

Newcastle are only below sunderland because they made a mistake in the summer for not adding to their squad. Europa league made more players tired and they had about 11 players out injured, imagine if everton had like fellaini, pienaar, jagielka, baines etc. out injured! Newcastle are playing with confidence because we are becoming a top 7 side and have good quality. You can't just give the tactic to sunderland's players and expect them to play good attacking football. Pardew has developed a side to do that. Players like bramble, bardsley, gardner, colback, kilgallon won't fit into a stylish attacking side, hence why we had simpson williamson, because they didn't have the confidence and started playing hoofball!

09 Feb 2013 09:14:49
I would play like this today i'm in all favour of attacking football 4-3-1-2 I must admit i'd feel a lot more comfertable in this formation if cattermole was in instead of N'Diaye but let's give it a try especially on a day where Arsenal's defence is no where near its best with both of there best centre backs out.

Mignolet

Gardner O'Shea Bramble Rose

Johnson N'Diaye Vaughan

Sessegnon

Fletcher Graham

Id have: -

Migs
Gardner Mangane Bramble Rose
Johnson Catts Ndiaye Sess
Fletcher Graham

Not you're being silly.

We need to play 5-4-1 to havea chance of taking at least a point.

We need to sit back and soak up the pressure.

If it is still 0-0 after 60 minutes, take Fletcher off and play 6 at the back and 5 in midfield, no point having someone chasing shadows up front.

A draw would be great, but tbh I would be happy if it just does not end up being a silly scoreline.

Keep the faith.

Jeez.