Sunderland Banter Archive September 15 2013

15 Sep 2013 16:21:21
We're 20th, I expected us to be in the relegation zone in the first couple of games, due to the players needing to gel, but in the next few weeks we will start to see the best of the players

We have a very strong line up, we just need a CDM in beside Ki, instead of Vaughan

Just watched Southampton v West Ham. Surely we are better than that. I do think that an extra midfielder should be in the team. Surely we can beat West Brom. Go for win- not a draw.

Yeah, look at Man U and Fergie, his time with them didn't start well and almost got the sack, but they stuck with him and luck at everything they have become now

I'm certainly not comparing Sunderland to Man UTD or Di Canio to Fergie, but things do take time, on that 2nd half display we will become a very solid team and big teams will find it hard to beat us
KEEP THE FAITH

Not once during the pre season didn't anybody on here say they expected Sunderland to be in the relegation zone. You have had a pretty good opening fixture list and with all the so called world class players playing under a supposed world class manager you would you would be living up to the so called dark horse comment that has been made many times. Instead you have found what we told you lot from the start you have signed a lot of average players with no PL experience and you will struggle.

{Ed024's Note - Certain no one claimed PDC was a World Class Manager, and many many fans stated it would take time for the team to gel. Dark horses ......dark horses for what ??? No one thought we'd win the league, we have struggled so far but the season is only 4 games old.}

I'm pretty sure I did

Iv said it at least 5 times now but I really must stress this point, everything Di Canio has said about what he will do and what will happen about the team has been 100% accurate, now he has said the fans will start to see the best out of the team in the next week or two and after that second half performance I believe him, he is a very intelligent man and amazingly dedicated, he gets up at the crack of dawn and gets home at midnight, fantastic worker, not so much family man

Nice to see that Lawrenson and Savage share the same opinion with us on the Arsenal game

A CDM? one man fits the job
LEE CATTERMOLE

I am not sure why you think you should be dispatching West Brom.

Here are a few reasons why.

Ben Foster
Scott Sinclair
Shane Long
Jonas Olsson
Anichebe (Beast)
Mulumbu
Sess
Anelka
Amafiltano (Good potential there)
Ridgewell (Proper solid English defender)

West Brom have the core of a good squad there, can you honestly say the Sunderland squad can compete with that? They have match winners and some good solid players to sweep up around the back.

Why bring west brom into the post as no one has mentioned them mate

Dark horse? haha like it

2nd Post, ' surely we can beat West Brom' 'Mate'

15 Sep 2013 12:10:02
Said in the summer we should have signed Ramsey!

Still, saw enough yesterday to make me think we'll be OK? Just got to try and hang in there until we really find our feet.

You are not hanging in there. You are trailing behind with a gap opening up with you and the rest of the relegation candidates. Teams that start the season dragging at the bottom of the table normally stay there. The psychological factor of playing catch up is very difficult, and if you are not catching or even dragging further behind, the worse it gets.

Yeah you know

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That HUGE gap of 1 point, we're Doomed!!


What about Everton, they used to always have a poor start and ended up well in the top 10
Liverpool, d'ya really think they are going to win the league

14 Sep 2013 23:57:33
Altidore really is a poor mans Ameobi. You lot really need a fully fit Fletcher. Altidore won't get dbl figures this year.

Wow, proves my theory of geordies being clueless is right. Safc93

I would say cisse was a poor mans ameobi.
Liono74

Oh god, they are such persons, he's a beast and could have had a couple yesterday

Whereas Cisse just constantly gets bullied off the ball so easily and most of the time doesn't look interested

Altidore is 100 times better than ameobi and he will prove he is better than cisse and remy put together

Altidore the new heskey!

LOL you lot, altidore will prove he is better than cisse and remy put together? He's not even better than cisse who's out of form!

Im the mag that posted this, I was trying to be helpful. Cisse is having a shocking start but we saw last season what he can do when he finds form. Altidore hasn't shown anything in the EPL yet for you or Hull. You should play fletch up top and push Johnson and idk Karlsson to make an front 3. Altidore is strong but so is Shola and Anichebe and quite frankly I wouldn't want them at my team.

Altidore is a beast lol. The only thing he beasts is the ball into the stands.

Btw: Heskey is much better than Altidore could ever be. Remember Heskey scored more than 100 Premier League goals.

Cisse's career record is around a goal every 2 games, and when he scores them does he ever score them. Cisse will no doubt win at least 1 goal of the month over the season, and will do double figures. Cisse has broken double figures in both seasons with us, and he did not even have a full season when he first arrived.

How can you criticise Altidore when you don't watch the games, or are you secretly a Sunderland Fan

As a fan who has seen every game so far, he is very very good
He is fantastic at holding the ball up and playing the wingers into the game, he has a class shot as well, out of nothing yesterday had blasted the ball from miles out and the goalie to well to stop it, Sagna had two yards on him yesterday, got beside him, Sagna had his arms wrapped round his neck, brushed him aside and put the ball in the net from a tight angle, he does all that so he is sh*t
But Cisse on the other hand is great, I mean come on he is not interested in the game, he will just tiptoe away from the ball and when he does get the ball he just gets brushed off it like a kid

OHHHH double figures, fletcher did that by Christmas but got injured
Altidore (apparently sh*t) got over bloody 30, before you say out, Bony played in the same league and you we desperate to sign him

I support Newcastle and I can settle this dispute. Both Altidore and Cisse are terrible

I'm a fan of both Newcastle and Sunderland because I like to see all teams in my local area succeed and I will settle this dispute FAIRLY

Both are good,
Altidore,
He's an amazing work horse, super strong, great at holding the ball up, aggressive, a team player, can score and can surprisingly pass, but I thought it would be a risk bringing him back to the big time with his past with Hull, would he need an extra 2 years away but what iv seen of him so far I was wrong, he wants to be involved and knows where the goal is

Cisse
A fantastic poacher, can score from different angles and distances, in the right place at the right time, not afraid to shoot (plenty of goals for Newcastle so far), so an all round goalscorer, but for me he doesn't have the desire, he doesn't sprint after the ball when it's a poor pass, if he loses it he doesn't try to get it back, and is easily pushed off the ball

I'd give them both a solid 7. 5/10

However, Stephen Fletcher is the best out of the 3,

Good and fair post Newcastle fan