Sunderland Banter Archive January 19 2013

19 Jan 2013 21:47:46
we were class first half, n'diaye is quality and looked like he could be the one to control the midfield for us, as for the toontanic saying forever in our shadows they're too far behind us to be in ours haha. safc93

Well said, really should have been 1-4 (twice).
So, here we sit, 6 points off our best ever Premiership finish, with 15 games and 45 points to play for, 12 days of the transfer window still open and a chairman who shares his managers ambition.
Any Martin O'Neill knockers care to comment ? {Ed024's Note - Not sure if I follow your argument - an extra 6 points today would put Sunderland 9th, our best Prem League finish is 7th. That said, your other points are well made.}

I think you must be confused. Best finish was 7th with 58 points in 99/00. In fact, after 23 games last year we were 8th with 30 points, so actually we are doing less well so far than last year.
It is not knocking O'Neill to point out that thus far he has made no progress on last season, it is simply stating the facts. Of course we might hope for more than 17 points from the remaining 15 games, so some progress remains a possibility, but this is a hope rather than an achievement at the moment.

Your're quite right ed, soz, a little ambiguous i agree.
my point is we are only 6 points off 7th place, our best ever premier league finish with just under half a season to go.
it is this that i offer up tp the mon knockers for comment.

To Statto:
How interesting. And if we chalked off Fletcher's goals we'd be third bottom blah blah blah.
Momentum suggests that 17 points from 15 games is entirely possible - here's to progress eh !
Sir Alex and Man U
Season '86-'87 11th
Season '87-'88 2nd
Season '88-'89 11th
Season '89-'90 13th
'Lets sack him'
Blah blah blah

To the sheep
I think you the phrase you are looking for is Baah baah baah But we would need to pick up 31 points from the remaining games to beat the highest points total- so not much chance there- and I don't think anyone would say Reid was a better manager than O'Neill, whatever his limitations. The point is that while stats don't tell the whole story, you can't claim we are riding high when all the evidence suggests that we are just reaching the peaks of ordinary.

To the Black & White sheep :

Whoever claimed we were riding high ?

MONK (noun) A person who practices religious learning, living either alone or with any other number of monks.
alt.
MONK (acronym) A Martin O'Neill knocker. A person who constantly practices undermining mild mannered, learned, ambitious Norhern Irish football managers, living either alone or with any other number of monks. Techniques include writings which contain narrow time frame statistical analysis, as uninteresting as they are irrelevent being based on a 13 month period spread over two seasons.
The style of such writings can often be found on the back sports page of a Newcastle based morning daily usually in a tall, narrow column on the right hand side due glaring editorial bias.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !

If we win every game between now and May we will still have seen some of the most clueless performances in red and white this season. We all want to see the team and O'Neill do well, but some of us don't think that a couple of wins compensates for the tripe served up so frequently over the past year, and notice that we have often looked better when he has not been able to pick the side he prefers, which suggests he still does not know what his best team is. So grow up, not everyone who has been critical of the performance so far is a Newcastle supporter- or cares at all how they are doing. If you want to defend O'Neill's record, do it by looking at that record, not into your navel.

19 Jan 2013 19:07:32
I think we should go for Adam le fondre

Aww yeah is that the guy who a year ago was playing in leauge two and scored recently the name definetly rings a bell

Aww yeah is that the guy who a year ago was playing in leauge two and scored recently the name definetly rings a bell

19 Jan 2013 17:07:46
HOPE THEY ARE READING THIS THE TOONTANIC HAS SET SAIL! RELEGATION PARTY COME ON!

Apparently Remy did not need reading lessons That is why he went to QPR

Paul merson just said on tvnews that danny graham could play for arsenal he's that good ? is he's still on the drink !

19 Jan 2013 12:28:07
got us to win today 3 1 in me super 6 com on.

19 Jan 2013 12:07:09
Pleased MON says he has 'several irons in the fire' for upfront, not just Graham, but am equally if not more concerned about defence. Bards not the same since injury, Rose likely to return after loan and left with several old crocks at centre half. Is it enough for rest of season? Surely there is monumental rebuilding needed.

19 Jan 2013 10:28:36
Team to play Wigan today what does everyone think
Gk.mignolet
RB.elmo
CB.o Shea
CB. Killgalon
LB. Bardsley
LM. McLean
Cm. Vaughan
Cm. larsson
Rm. Johnson
Cam. Sessegnon
St. Fletcher

Migs
Gardner rb
Oshae ch
Mangane ch
Rose lb
Johnson lw
Ndaiye cm
Sess cm
Larsson rw
Wickham
Fletcher

To the post above mangane is to low on fitness oneil has said that